I'm pleased to report that it works quite well! I converted a QEMU qcow image to vmdk with "qemu-img convert debian-unstable.img -O vmdk debian-unstable.vmdk", then I took the VMX file from the Browser-Application.zip (you could also use one from Google), edited the VMX to point to the vmdk as an IDE device, opened the VMX with vmplayer, and it's booting just fine. Thanks, VMware!:)
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought the point of Muzak was that it came over a satellite or other connection. If all it is is CDs that you put into a player, how is that an advantage over mix CDs in a normal player?
I've tried that, and was told (by the site) that it was not a valid address. I'm guessing that some sites, who really want to spam you, have already programmed filters for this kind of email address.
More likely is that the programmer of the site didn't think about "+" characters being in e-mail addresses, so when he wrote his function to check for invalid addresses, he didn't include it in the list of valid characters. An easy mistake to make, really, without doing something like looking up the RFC for the official list of valid chars.
I highly recommend them. Great prices, great value for all the features and low-level control you get, auto-renew, whois privacy protection, and the site isn't plastered with confusing ads. Their tech support isn't bad either. YMMV, but I switched all three of my domains to them, and it's been great so far.
Ok, maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought that journalism was supposed to be reporting the facts, including opinions and statements from parties on both sides of the story, and presenting it in an objective manner that allows the reader to draw their own conclusions. I thought that the editorial page was where the journalist was supposed to explain which side of the story they think is more accurate and explain their judgements on the issue.
Far too many "news" media don't even try to distinguish between reporting and editorializing anymore.
Ok, I haven't looked through Gallery's code, but I've done some PHP coding myself, and once I discovered this technique, I used it on everything. It's so simple, and works so well. Just include it and forget it, and do a user_error() when you need to.
// Write error to log if (getcwd()) $prevWorkingDir = getcwd(); chdir(dirname(__FILE__)); $fp = fopen('script_error_log.txt', 'a'); fputs($fp, $error, strlen($error)); fclose($fp); if ($prevWorkingDir) chdir($prevWorkingDir);
// Print an error message, (send an email too if you want, just add mail()), then exit echo '<div class="errorMessage">An error has occurred and has been logged. Please contact <a href="mailto:webmaster@h...com">webmaster@...com</ a> if this problem persists.</div>';
if (!mail('webmaster@...com', 'Script Error Logged', "An error has occured in the scripts. Here is the error that was logged:\n\n".$error)) { echo "Error e-mail not sent. Please contact the webmaster."; }
exit; }
set_error_handler('errorHandler'); // Set error handler to my handler
// Put everything above this line into your standard include
if (!do_something()) user_error("Something didn't work. This will log the error, mail it, print a friendly message, and stop."); ?>
Yes. I mean, I doubt any half-sane person would ever give in to a *AA demand for control of the Net itself, but that is what it boils down to. You can shut down Napster, but Kazaa lives on. You can shut down Kazaa, but ed2k lives on. You can shut down ed2k servers, and get ISPs to filter ed2k traffic, but people will use BT. You can filter BT traffic, but people will use encrypted networks. You can filter unlicensed encrypted traffic (making up a future scenario here), but people will use underground, unencrypted networks. You can hunt those down, but people will use disguised data streams to transfer files. You can shut down the Internet, but people will use nextgen WiFi to make their own (maybe; that's still a little farfetched; to make a real Internet with such low-power radios would take too many). You can outlaw that, but people will just swap CDs. You can outlaw that, but you can't have a *AA marshal following every human to make sure they don't do it.
So the bottom line is, of course, it can't be stopped. But if they want to make it harder, the only thing they can really do is take control of the entire Internet (the ISPs, anyway).
Say I have a couple of widgets that display continuously updated information from the Net. Say one's a weather app, and another is a news or stock ticker. Now let's say that I'm on a laptop that's on a slow modem connection (or a fast connection accessing a busy, laggy server). When I bring up the Dashboard, I want those widgets to be displayed instantly with up-to-date information. If it's been 30 minutes since I last looked at them, I don't want to wait 5 seconds or however long it takes to update those widgets. I want them to be updated regularly so that when I activate the Dashboard, they are already up-to-date.
This applies for many, many things, like weather apps, stock tickers, news tickers, flight trackers, buddy lists...just about anything that gets info from the Net.
It's a very basic concept. Geez, how much CPU time does it take to download some XML data file, process it, and update a widget off-screen? Run it with a low priority and it will slow nothing down. Write the widget well and it won't waste CPU time in some continuous "do I need to update myself now?" loop.
Get real. Impersonating a government official like that is not legal. Anyone trying to do so would be quickly tracked down by law enforcement and/or the attorney general and hauled into court and/or jail, WHETHER THE WHOIS INFORMATION WAS OBSCURED OR NOT.
* So, in order to have a more permanent e-mail address and Web site address, I have to give my real name, address, and phone number to every person in the world? How absurd! * In the case of libelous or illegal material, the real contact information would be immediately given to law enforcement as soon as it was requested. That is always mentioned in Terms of Service agreements, and a subpoena is a subpoena. * Having contact information kept out of plain sight is no barrier to law enforcement activities. That should be obvious to anyone.
There is absolutely NO REASON for this decision to have been made. It should be reversed immediately, and whoever authorized it, and did so while blatantly refusing to hear arguments against it, should be fired from their job, and fined for violating the interests of American citizens, which the government is supposed to be protecting and upholding, not demolishing.
I'm sorry you had so much trouble with SuSE and FC3. I tried Mandrake and FC3 and Ubuntu before settling on "plain" Debian testing. I used Windows for years until a few months ago. I knew I'd switch to Linux someday, but didn't realize it would happen so soon. I couldn't be happier. GNOME works wonderfully for me, and so does KDE. I can't recall the last crash that wasn't caused by a 3D game failing to get its sound device that was already used by another program, neither of which are made for ALSA (though I solved that in 15 minutes by looking at a log file and checking a forum post).
I recommend you try Ubuntu or Mepis or Kanotix, and if those don't do it for you, try Debian itself. RC3 of the Sarge installer was just released; download the netinst ISO and give it a try. On a decent connection, you'll have it installed and up-to-date in less than two hours. For the most part, with apt, everything just works, and if you need to configure something manually, you can find the info you need in the man page or/usr/share/doc/packagename.
Sure, if I could afford a PowerBook, I'd probably get one too. Though, the single-button touchpad doesn't encourage me, so I would seriously consider a good IBM laptop (while they're still good) that has good Linux support.
I used to run Windows 2000. Athlon XP/1700+, 512MB RAM, 7200 RPM/8MB cache hard disks. Been using Firefox since 0.6. I'm almost convinced that Windows is programmed to swap it out ASAP and to take ALAP to swap it back in. I could minimize Firefox, restore Thunderbird, check a few RSS feeds or e-mails, then try to restore Firefox, and wait a long time, indeed sometimes 30 seconds, for it to be completely restored so that I could actually use it again.
No, I had no spyware or viruses; I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 with Auto-Protect on, ran Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy regularly with updated definitions, and used IE never. I've been using Windows since 3.11, so I know my way around; it was a clean installation with no extra junk running in the background. The paging file was a fixed 1024 MB file on its own partition. The registry was defragged and compacted with RegClean and NTREGOPT. Yet even with 100 MB of free physical memory, Firefox would get swapped out and take a LONG TIME to swap back in. FOR NO REASON. While, on the same installation of Windows, IE would not get swapped out like that.
Solution: a different OS. I'm now running Debian with 2.6.10 on the same hardware, using Firefox and Thunderbird as before, and things are 200% better.
Arguably, that would be one way to do it. But I have serious doubts about MS's ability to make a search as good as Google, and to integrate it into Windows in a way that's actually useful and simple (just look at the horrible "Search" and "Find" entries in the Start Menus of Windows over the years).
Slashdot Mirror
http://tinyurl.com/cgle2
:)
Made it with QEMU, actually; so you can do it yourself too.
http://tinyurl.com/cgle2
:)
Heh, you're right, it's quite tiny: 320 KB raw, 1 KB zipped.
Actually, you can install QEMU on Windows and make your own blank images. But this is so tiny, might as well upload it.
I'm *assuming* that VMware can grow the image as needed; if not, 320 KB would probably be a bit cramped for an entire disk.
Good luck.
I'm pleased to report that it works quite well! I converted a QEMU qcow image to vmdk with "qemu-img convert debian-unstable.img -O vmdk debian-unstable.vmdk", then I took the VMX file from the Browser-Application.zip (you could also use one from Google), edited the VMX to point to the vmdk as an IDE device, opened the VMX with vmplayer, and it's booting just fine. Thanks, VMware! :)
So just install QEMU >= 0.7.1, and use qemu-img to make the image. "man qemu-img" for details.
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought the point of Muzak was that it came over a satellite or other connection. If all it is is CDs that you put into a player, how is that an advantage over mix CDs in a normal player?
What I just said.
Yeah it should be more like, you could sell your computer to buy some CDs, just hope that your wife doesn't sell your CDs to buy you a computer...
Nice comeback. :)
More likely is that the programmer of the site didn't think about "+" characters being in e-mail addresses, so when he wrote his function to check for invalid addresses, he didn't include it in the list of valid characters. An easy mistake to make, really, without doing something like looking up the RFC for the official list of valid chars.
Uh...IE is not open-source. IE patches' source aren't available to reverse-engineer.
There is a reason MS doesn't like to patch holes that haven't been exploited.
Uh...could you explain what that reason is?
If you read the link, the installer was infected. Most of the time that's going to be run as root.
I highly recommend them. Great prices, great value for all the features and low-level control you get, auto-renew, whois privacy protection, and the site isn't plastered with confusing ads. Their tech support isn't bad either. YMMV, but I switched all three of my domains to them, and it's been great so far.
Ok, maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought that journalism was supposed to be reporting the facts, including opinions and statements from parties on both sides of the story, and presenting it in an objective manner that allows the reader to draw their own conclusions. I thought that the editorial page was where the journalist was supposed to explain which side of the story they think is more accurate and explain their judgements on the issue.
Far too many "news" media don't even try to distinguish between reporting and editorializing anymore.
Ok, I haven't looked through Gallery's code, but I've done some PHP coding myself, and once I discovered this technique, I used it on everything. It's so simple, and works so well. Just include it and forget it, and do a user_error() when you need to.
// If it's an E_NOTICE error, don't do anything
// Gather data
// Construct error message .= $date."\n".$remoteHost."\n"; .= $url."\n"; .= $scriptFilename."\nLine ".$lineNumber."\n"; .= $errorCode.': '.$errorDescription."\n";
// Write error to log
// Print an error message, (send an email too if you want, just add mail()), then exit/ a> if this problem persists.</div>';
// Set error handler to my handler
<?
error_reporting(E_WARNING | E_ERROR | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE);
function errorHandler ($errorCode, $errorDescription, $scriptFilename, $lineNumber, $context)
{
if ($errorCode == 8) return;
$date = date('Y/m/d H:i:s');
$remoteHost = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$error = "\n";
$error
$error
$error
$error
if (getcwd()) $prevWorkingDir = getcwd();
chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
$fp = fopen('script_error_log.txt', 'a');
fputs($fp, $error, strlen($error));
fclose($fp);
if ($prevWorkingDir) chdir($prevWorkingDir);
echo '<div class="errorMessage">An error has occurred and has been logged. Please contact <a href="mailto:webmaster@h...com">webmaster@...com<
if (!mail('webmaster@...com', 'Script Error Logged', "An error has occured in the scripts. Here is the error that was logged:\n\n".$error)) {
echo "Error e-mail not sent. Please contact the webmaster.";
}
exit;
}
set_error_handler('errorHandler');
// Put everything above this line into your standard include
if (!do_something()) user_error("Something didn't work. This will log the error, mail it, print a friendly message, and stop.");
?>
Well, mod me down, but by golly, you're right!
Mod me down, but I think they broke the stupid detector too.
Well, mod me down, but exactly how large a rock have you been living under? :)
...that's not very encouraging.
Yes. I mean, I doubt any half-sane person would ever give in to a *AA demand for control of the Net itself, but that is what it boils down to. You can shut down Napster, but Kazaa lives on. You can shut down Kazaa, but ed2k lives on. You can shut down ed2k servers, and get ISPs to filter ed2k traffic, but people will use BT. You can filter BT traffic, but people will use encrypted networks. You can filter unlicensed encrypted traffic (making up a future scenario here), but people will use underground, unencrypted networks. You can hunt those down, but people will use disguised data streams to transfer files. You can shut down the Internet, but people will use nextgen WiFi to make their own (maybe; that's still a little farfetched; to make a real Internet with such low-power radios would take too many). You can outlaw that, but people will just swap CDs. You can outlaw that, but you can't have a *AA marshal following every human to make sure they don't do it.
So the bottom line is, of course, it can't be stopped. But if they want to make it harder, the only thing they can really do is take control of the entire Internet (the ISPs, anyway).
Say I have a couple of widgets that display continuously updated information from the Net. Say one's a weather app, and another is a news or stock ticker. Now let's say that I'm on a laptop that's on a slow modem connection (or a fast connection accessing a busy, laggy server). When I bring up the Dashboard, I want those widgets to be displayed instantly with up-to-date information. If it's been 30 minutes since I last looked at them, I don't want to wait 5 seconds or however long it takes to update those widgets. I want them to be updated regularly so that when I activate the Dashboard, they are already up-to-date.
This applies for many, many things, like weather apps, stock tickers, news tickers, flight trackers, buddy lists...just about anything that gets info from the Net.
It's a very basic concept. Geez, how much CPU time does it take to download some XML data file, process it, and update a widget off-screen? Run it with a low priority and it will slow nothing down. Write the widget well and it won't waste CPU time in some continuous "do I need to update myself now?" loop.
Get real. Impersonating a government official like that is not legal. Anyone trying to do so would be quickly tracked down by law enforcement and/or the attorney general and hauled into court and/or jail, WHETHER THE WHOIS INFORMATION WAS OBSCURED OR NOT.
What a foolish attitude.
* So, in order to have a more permanent e-mail address and Web site address, I have to give my real name, address, and phone number to every person in the world? How absurd!
* In the case of libelous or illegal material, the real contact information would be immediately given to law enforcement as soon as it was requested. That is always mentioned in Terms of Service agreements, and a subpoena is a subpoena.
* Having contact information kept out of plain sight is no barrier to law enforcement activities. That should be obvious to anyone.
There is absolutely NO REASON for this decision to have been made. It should be reversed immediately, and whoever authorized it, and did so while blatantly refusing to hear arguments against it, should be fired from their job, and fined for violating the interests of American citizens, which the government is supposed to be protecting and upholding, not demolishing.
I'm sorry you had so much trouble with SuSE and FC3. I tried Mandrake and FC3 and Ubuntu before settling on "plain" Debian testing. I used Windows for years until a few months ago. I knew I'd switch to Linux someday, but didn't realize it would happen so soon. I couldn't be happier. GNOME works wonderfully for me, and so does KDE. I can't recall the last crash that wasn't caused by a 3D game failing to get its sound device that was already used by another program, neither of which are made for ALSA (though I solved that in 15 minutes by looking at a log file and checking a forum post).
/usr/share/doc/packagename.
I recommend you try Ubuntu or Mepis or Kanotix, and if those don't do it for you, try Debian itself. RC3 of the Sarge installer was just released; download the netinst ISO and give it a try. On a decent connection, you'll have it installed and up-to-date in less than two hours. For the most part, with apt, everything just works, and if you need to configure something manually, you can find the info you need in the man page or
Sure, if I could afford a PowerBook, I'd probably get one too. Though, the single-button touchpad doesn't encourage me, so I would seriously consider a good IBM laptop (while they're still good) that has good Linux support.
It's
I used to run Windows 2000. Athlon XP/1700+, 512MB RAM, 7200 RPM/8MB cache hard disks. Been using Firefox since 0.6. I'm almost convinced that Windows is programmed to swap it out ASAP and to take ALAP to swap it back in. I could minimize Firefox, restore Thunderbird, check a few RSS feeds or e-mails, then try to restore Firefox, and wait a long time, indeed sometimes 30 seconds, for it to be completely restored so that I could actually use it again.
No, I had no spyware or viruses; I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 with Auto-Protect on, ran Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy regularly with updated definitions, and used IE never. I've been using Windows since 3.11, so I know my way around; it was a clean installation with no extra junk running in the background. The paging file was a fixed 1024 MB file on its own partition. The registry was defragged and compacted with RegClean and NTREGOPT. Yet even with 100 MB of free physical memory, Firefox would get swapped out and take a LONG TIME to swap back in. FOR NO REASON. While, on the same installation of Windows, IE would not get swapped out like that.
Solution: a different OS. I'm now running Debian with 2.6.10 on the same hardware, using Firefox and Thunderbird as before, and things are 200% better.
Windows: Just Say No.
Arguably, that would be one way to do it. But I have serious doubts about MS's ability to make a search as good as Google, and to integrate it into Windows in a way that's actually useful and simple (just look at the horrible "Search" and "Find" entries in the Start Menus of Windows over the years).