You can get broadband for the same price as dialup access when you consider the cost of an extra phone line.
The problem, at least here in Melbourne, is high installation costs. I'm renting, and I'm hardly about to pay for cable/adsl installation to a house I don't own and get myself tied to a 12 or 18 month contract.... when I can just plug in my dial-up modem and away I go.
I did. I (obviously) read the story here on Slashdot, then I read the letter museumtour.com received, and the text of the patent. The patent is written in a very obfuscated manner, and from what I could tell, it referred to using frames for navigation. The Slashdot story also mentioned frames, so quite naturally, I assumed that was what this is all about.
Of course HTML 2.0 predates the patent, I mentioned 4.0 because that was the first version to include support for frames, and I said that it predated the patent because I assumed the big date at the top of the patent would be the date it was filed. Evidently, I need to read US patents more.
In any case, I am sure that there would be at least a couple of sites out there using persistent menus or whatever the hell the patent covers before the patent was filed in 1996.
It's worth noting that the cited patent is dated 3rd August, 1999, nearly two years after the 1997 release of the W3C HTML 4 specification, which added, among other things, support for frames in HTML.
You'd think someone who would make a page with more than 1Mb of images (according to Opera) could include height and width information in the IMG tags so it would render faster...
...those that, like me, still think that OSS should find its way to every desktop computer.
Chances are, nearly every desktop computer already has some OSS installed. Doesn't Windows use the BSD TCP/IP stack? Not to mention Darwin and OS X, et cetera...
I think most people would regard the telecoms industry as separate to the IT hardware industry actually.
Perhaps, but it's worth noting that in the country in question, Australia, the two industries are handled by the same Commonwealth government department. Then again, this department is run by the same id10t who thinks broadband is only good for pr0n and warez.
So I guess it comes down to where the line should be drawn between companies that are too similar to share a name, and those that differ enough for it not to be a problem...
Actually, Debian security updates are usually also added to the proposed-updates section, which means that they are available on nearly all Debian mirrors worldwide.
Something like deb ftp://ftp.XX.debian.org/pub/debian/ proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.XX.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ proposed-updates/non-US main contrib non-free
(replace XX with your ISO country code) in your/etc/apt/sources.list should work well.
I for one am quite happy for Internet Explorer to never implement tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, or anything else which it currently lacks. It makes it much easier to convince people to switch browsers (if they don't care about security), and the fact that since 90% (or whatever the exact stat is) of the world uses IE and sees the pop-up ads means that advertisers aren't rushing about trying to circumvent the pop-up blocking.
In short, Microsoft is the open-source movement's greatest asset:-).
From what I've read a lot of people seem to think that Australia is about to slide into fascism because we don't have a bill of rights, the government is controlling our internet access, and so on.
What good are constitutional rights if they are not enforced? For all the talk about America being a free country, there are still several people being held indefinitely without charge in Guantanamo Bay, Australians and other foreigners among them.
Australia has NOT banned guns, only automatic and semi-automatic weapons, the government does not decide what we can see on the internet, and if you RTFA you will see that no definite decision has been made. I'd be very surprised if the government did turn around and block anything, because for all their talk of it so far nothing has happened.
Well, I guess it all depends upon your choice of juice. The stuff that's really only about 30% juice + sugar/water probably isn't that good, still store-bought but 100% juice is probably somewhat better, and then you can go for juicing your own fruit, and still better by using organic fruit.
Then again, I'm not in any way even remotely qualified in this area, it's just speculation.
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By the time this is working most of what I'd like to read should be public domain anyway....
What good is the best content in the world if it's difficult to navigate your way through it?
In real life communication people are able to get much non-verbal information from the speaker, giving hints as to whether they are passionate about their topic of conversation, or even whether they really believe it or not.
While ultimately the content itself is paramount, having a well-designed site will show visitors that you at least care enough about it to put some effort it.
True, but then again Qmail has offered a USD $500 security guarantee since 1997, which so far remains unclaimed. Sendmail does not, and since then they've had a number of security issues to deal with.
As for its usage, Qmail at one stage included Hotmail among its users, so it has had a reasonable amount of testing and use.
Debian has also released ports for m68k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips, hppa, s390, and ia64, in addition to the upcoming hurd, bsd, sparc64 and sh ports.
Debian ports page
Yes, but 95% of the marketshare doesn't have to install in textmode or otherwise.
They just go to wherever and purchase a system with Windows pre-installed, and should it become necessary to re-install, they'll take it back there, or get someone they know (like me. *groan*) to do it for them.
A full 100% GUI installer that works would be most beneficial.
Slashdot Mirror
You can get broadband for the same price as dialup access when you consider the cost of an extra phone line.
The problem, at least here in Melbourne, is high installation costs. I'm renting, and I'm hardly about to pay for cable/adsl installation to a house I don't own and get myself tied to a 12 or 18 month contract.... when I can just plug in my dial-up modem and away I go.
I see no frames on www.museumtour.com, do you?
Read the Article!
I did. I (obviously) read the story here on Slashdot, then I read the letter museumtour.com received, and the text of the patent. The patent is written in a very obfuscated manner, and from what I could tell, it referred to using frames for navigation. The Slashdot story also mentioned frames, so quite naturally, I assumed that was what this is all about.
Of course HTML 2.0 predates the patent, I mentioned 4.0 because that was the first version to include support for frames, and I said that it predated the patent because I assumed the big date at the top of the patent would be the date it was filed. Evidently, I need to read US patents more.
In any case, I am sure that there would be at least a couple of sites out there using persistent menus or whatever the hell the patent covers before the patent was filed in 1996.
It's worth noting that the cited patent is dated 3rd August, 1999, nearly two years after the 1997 release of the W3C HTML 4 specification, which added, among other things, support for frames in HTML.
You'd think someone who would make a page with more than 1Mb of images (according to Opera) could include height and width information in the IMG tags so it would render faster...
:-)
All these toys were before my time anyway.
Except that there needs to be a catagory entry.
Easy: Install the aptitude front-end (apt-get install aptitude) and select New Categorical Browser from the Views menu.
Chances are, nearly every desktop computer already has some OSS installed. Doesn't Windows use the BSD TCP/IP stack? Not to mention Darwin and OS X, et cetera...
The funniest 'security' ad I ever saw told me that if I clicked on it, it would show me what 'hackers' could access from my computer.
And the link? file://c:/
I guess there really is one born every minute...
I think most people would regard the telecoms industry as separate to the IT hardware industry actually.
Perhaps, but it's worth noting that in the country in question, Australia, the two industries are handled by the same Commonwealth government department. Then again, this department is run by the same id10t who thinks broadband is only good for pr0n and warez.
So I guess it comes down to where the line should be drawn between companies that are too similar to share a name, and those that differ enough for it not to be a problem...
worldlingo.com has one.
Actually, Debian security updates are usually also added to the proposed-updates section, which means that they are available on nearly all Debian mirrors worldwide.
Something like /etc/apt/sources.list should work well.
deb ftp://ftp.XX.debian.org/pub/debian/ proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.XX.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/ proposed-updates/non-US main contrib non-free
(replace XX with your ISO country code) in your
You can find mirrors on Debian's website.
I for one am quite happy for Internet Explorer to never implement tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, or anything else which it currently lacks. It makes it much easier to convince people to switch browsers (if they don't care about security), and the fact that since 90% (or whatever the exact stat is) of the world uses IE and sees the pop-up ads means that advertisers aren't rushing about trying to circumvent the pop-up blocking.
In short, Microsoft is the open-source movement's greatest asset :-).
From what I've read a lot of people seem to think that Australia is about to slide into fascism because we don't have a bill of rights, the government is controlling our internet access, and so on.
What good are constitutional rights if they are not enforced?
For all the talk about America being a free country, there are still several people being held indefinitely without charge in Guantanamo Bay, Australians and other foreigners among them.
Australia has NOT banned guns, only automatic and semi-automatic weapons, the government does not decide what we can see on the internet, and if you RTFA you will see that no definite decision has been made. I'd be very surprised if the government did turn around and block anything, because for all their talk of it so far nothing has happened.
Well, I guess it all depends upon your choice of juice. The stuff that's really only about 30% juice + sugar/water probably isn't that good, still store-bought but 100% juice is probably somewhat better, and then you can go for juicing your own fruit, and still better by using organic fruit.
Then again, I'm not in any way even remotely qualified in this area, it's just speculation.
Here's mine:
return 0;By the time this is working most of what I'd like to read should be public domain anyway....
>put some effort it.
Make that put some effort in to it. Oops.
What good is the best content in the world if it's difficult to navigate your way through it?
In real life communication people are able to get much non-verbal information from the speaker, giving hints as to whether they are passionate about their topic of conversation, or even whether they really believe it or not.
While ultimately the content itself is paramount, having a well-designed site will show visitors that you at least care enough about it to put some effort it.
Any patents, books, or marketable products even remotely related to what the company makes became the property of the computer,
You know there's trouble when computers start owning your property :-)
For $500, I'd sure send in my claim if I had one :-)
True, but then again Qmail has offered a USD $500 security guarantee since 1997, which so far remains unclaimed. Sendmail does not, and since then they've had a number of security issues to deal with.
As for its usage, Qmail at one stage included Hotmail among its users, so it has had a reasonable amount of testing and use.
Debian has also released ports for m68k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips, hppa, s390, and ia64, in addition to the upcoming hurd, bsd, sparc64 and sh ports.
Debian ports page
Yes, but 95% of the marketshare doesn't have to install in textmode or otherwise.
They just go to wherever and purchase a system with Windows pre-installed, and should it become necessary to re-install, they'll take it back there, or get someone they know (like me. *groan*) to do it for them.
A full 100% GUI installer that works would be most beneficial.