I've now downloaded it twice. Once while still at work, and one at home. Both times, from Saskatchewan, and very fast, although I'm not in the "outback";-)
It's become a geeky tradition to celebrate the release of a blockbuster movie, or software by downloading advance copies from the web. Strangely this time, a P2P program isn't required to get this advance content, although it is still an option once a torrent is set up.
How are your extensions holding up though? I have about 8 extensions, and I'm concerned that things will stop working when I go to 1.5 unless I give the writers a few weeks to make new versions that work out any bugs. I'm running 1.07 right now.
"Firefox 1.5 is out, you can download it right here."
A fitting tribute would be to slashdot the mozilla site into obscurity for at least the first 24 hours. I'm sure Microsoft will try even if the general public doesn't manage to do it;-) Everyone knows the most popular stuff on the Internet can't be seen in a speed faster than dialup in the outback of Saskatchewan, due to the heavy demand. Spybot's update servers are a good indicator of this effect.
"if it fails to disclose the code behind its voting machines as required by law. In response, Diebold has threatened to pull out of North Carolina."
I fail to see the downside of this? All states should start requiring voting machines to be open source, and when Diebold doesn't comply because it's rigged, they can be banned without discriminating against the company specificly. Well done SC. Has SC ever been the leader in a good way for laws before?
Additionally, all electronic voting must come with a paper ballot that goes into the backup ballot box, and should be visible to the voter before it goes in. You might need to have the voter hand shove their paper stub - but printing ballots on site might introduce other problems.
"You take the number of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure "
Given that the number of faulty CDs = 100%, it's not hard to see why Sony held off on pulling their trash back from stores and consumers. Especially since they put the trash in there on purpose. [Tin foil hat on: Why it's almost like Microsoft putting bugs in IE so you get infected with GAIN spyware...]
It's a good thing you're taking those classes, because you've got a lot to learn about science. The given age of the earth is in the neighbourhood of 4.5 Billion years. Since plate technoics has probably taken care of any direct evidence from the first few billion years as to what type of creatures there were, we can only go by fossils from the last few billion, or hundreds of millions. What's highly unlikely is that evolution doesn't exist, and that an unknowable massive creature called God, is tweaking your life as you read this, while doing everything else too.
The longest time a human can experience is about 100 years. 100 years is about four human generations, but evolution takes place over many hundreds of generations for a dominant trait to spread through the entire species, or a good section of it. If you do simple math, you can see why it's not surprising that humans don't see "evolution" since the time of their memorable or historically recorded ancestors. 25 years is a long time to a human, but it's a blip in regard to a Billion years, or even 100,000.
I thought they meant single letter Top Level Domains. This is much worse, they only have 26 letters to sell unless they throw in Greek or other characters.
I call dibs on i.com , which I can then sell to Apple for millions. MUHAHAHAHA!
What I don't understand is why some people think it's a huge deal in the sense that it creates a problem for the rest of us. It's a link, and the only "payment" an author receives for writing for Slashdot. If it were a link to something illegal or disgusting I can see how people would be upset, but links are easily ignored if they hold no interest, and I don't begrudge authors their 15 clicks of fame.
I have firefox with session saver and other extensions, with 15 tabs, and Mozilla Composer open all day. The only time my computer hangs up is when I window swich to Composer after not using it for several minutes, and it takes about 20 seconds for it to let me type in real-time and behave normally again. Firefox nearly never crashes, lathough I do close it now and then, and am sometimes dismayed by Session Saver not actually saving my session for when I reopen it. But I've had Firefox crash about 6 times ever on my computer in a year, and IE in the years I've used it at least 30. On average, about the same stability I guess.
My experience from a front page posting, is that the author link brings as little as 80 hits, not the flood that some might expect Slashdot to bring. Then again, my username has been around for years now and nearly everyone who would have visited it will have seen it by now...
I sure got a chuckle at the thought that the USA hasn't elected a president with higher brain activity since Carter:-D
I've been experimenting with DSLinux since about version 0.4.
About.7 it got much easier to use, and add programs to using the/options folder or.dsl files or whatever is used to extend it. I contributed some money to the project too, since it's one of the few modern software programs that keeps older hardware in mind while developing a new package of goods.
If they move away from their small and fast roots, I know I won't be sticking with them, but for now DSL is the coolest distro out there. It's always worked to some extent on my Compaq Armada 1500series laptop with 48MB RAM, and might work a lot more if I tinkered with drivers and things like that.
I was going to suggest that too. Sure there will be some collateral damage, but casulties are to be expected in a war. I have a feeling that porn is in its last throes now.
It's starting to appear as if there was a block in the blog queue. There are a pile of stories up now, with old time stamps that were supposed to be posted hours ago. Is there a Site News page where Taco gives us system status reports?
The VLC site was down earlier today when I tried downloading it. Has anyone made a torrent of this release? Mirrors?
I figured out how to take a screen capture the other day in.82, you have to specificly set a directory to save the capture to, otherwise the option on the menu would say it was capturing but never gave an error to say it had no place to save it to.
The volume control is also less accurate than other programs' I've used. But I've had better luck playing more files with VLC than Media Player Classic.
They were watching the Grey Cup pre-game show on CBC, then the best Grey Cup in recent memory after that. That accounts for a lot of the time there was no new news anyway.
For a while, I thought both Slashdot and Fark were cached and I was getting stale Internet until I checked Digg to see new stuff.
The link is already getting slow so here's the info: Peter Quinn has served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since September of 2002 and Director of the Commonwealth's Information Technology Division (ITD). Mr. Quinn is also Founding Chair of the Government Open Code Collaborative (GOCC). As ITD Director and CIO, under the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Mr. Quinn is responsible for setting information technology standards in the Commonwealth. Mr. Quinn came to public service following a successful career in private sector IT, most recently as the CIO for Boston Financial Data Services
"You can't seriously believe that the Earth won't be able to support life within your children's lifetime."
It's certainly plausible in some regions. If enough simultaneous disasters happen, there won't be anyone around to rebuild some places. It will take a few generations to get back to "normal". And there's already plenty of places that have apparently changed enough since our grandparents' childhood, that some rivers no longer are there, or can't support fish, and plenty of species have died off in the last 100 years. It will almost always support some kind of life, but supporting human life in a comfortable way like we're used to now???, don't count on it.
Sask. has been saying they want more skilled immigrants, and will sponsor skilled individuals on their federal application for immigration. With our declining population of 1 Million, we can use all the skilled immigrants we can get, as the thousands a year we do get aren't turning the tide in our population loss.
Some industries where there is enormous potential in IT is the mining industry, including uranium mining, and the film industry is really taking off in Regina with the successes of "Corner Gas" on weekly TV and "Just Friends" in the theatres.
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I've now downloaded it twice. Once while still at work, and one at home. Both times, from Saskatchewan, and very fast, although I'm not in the "outback" ;-)
It's become a geeky tradition to celebrate the release of a blockbuster movie, or software by downloading advance copies from the web. Strangely this time, a P2P program isn't required to get this advance content, although it is still an option once a torrent is set up.
How are your extensions holding up though? I have about 8 extensions, and I'm concerned that things will stop working when I go to 1.5 unless I give the writers a few weeks to make new versions that work out any bugs. I'm running 1.07 right now.
"Firefox 1.5 is out, you can download it right here."
;-) Everyone knows the most popular stuff on the Internet can't be seen in a speed faster than dialup in the outback of Saskatchewan, due to the heavy demand. Spybot's update servers are a good indicator of this effect.
A fitting tribute would be to slashdot the mozilla site into obscurity for at least the first 24 hours. I'm sure Microsoft will try even if the general public doesn't manage to do it
"if it fails to disclose the code behind its voting machines as required by law. In response, Diebold has threatened to pull out of North Carolina."
I fail to see the downside of this?
All states should start requiring voting machines to be open source, and when Diebold doesn't comply because it's rigged, they can be banned without discriminating against the company specificly. Well done SC. Has SC ever been the leader in a good way for laws before?
Additionally, all electronic voting must come with a paper ballot that goes into the backup ballot box, and should be visible to the voter before it goes in. You might need to have the voter hand shove their paper stub - but printing ballots on site might introduce other problems.
I'd like to see domain names to be much cheaper, so that neophytes can get a domain name for $1US/year.
What pays for the DNS system anyway, and why aren't domain names sold directly to the public instead of through registr[ars][ants?]?
"You take the number of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure "
Given that the number of faulty CDs = 100%, it's not hard to see why Sony held off on pulling their trash back from stores and consumers. Especially since they put the trash in there on purpose. [Tin foil hat on: Why it's almost like Microsoft putting bugs in IE so you get infected with GAIN spyware...]
It's a good thing you're taking those classes, because you've got a lot to learn about science. The given age of the earth is in the neighbourhood of 4.5 Billion years. Since plate technoics has probably taken care of any direct evidence from the first few billion years as to what type of creatures there were, we can only go by fossils from the last few billion, or hundreds of millions. What's highly unlikely is that evolution doesn't exist, and that an unknowable massive creature called God, is tweaking your life as you read this, while doing everything else too.
The longest time a human can experience is about 100 years. 100 years is about four human generations, but evolution takes place over many hundreds of generations for a dominant trait to spread through the entire species, or a good section of it. If you do simple math, you can see why it's not surprising that humans don't see "evolution" since the time of their memorable or historically recorded ancestors. 25 years is a long time to a human, but it's a blip in regard to a Billion years, or even 100,000.
I thought they meant single letter Top Level Domains. This is much worse, they only have 26 letters to sell unless they throw in Greek or other characters.
I call dibs on i.com , which I can then sell to Apple for millions. MUHAHAHAHA!
how.r.u ?
.b confusing, .a?
This could
What I don't understand is why some people think it's a huge deal in the sense that it creates a problem for the rest of us. It's a link, and the only "payment" an author receives for writing for Slashdot. If it were a link to something illegal or disgusting I can see how people would be upset, but links are easily ignored if they hold no interest, and I don't begrudge authors their 15 clicks of fame.
I have firefox with session saver and other extensions, with 15 tabs, and Mozilla Composer open all day. The only time my computer hangs up is when I window swich to Composer after not using it for several minutes, and it takes about 20 seconds for it to let me type in real-time and behave normally again. Firefox nearly never crashes, lathough I do close it now and then, and am sometimes dismayed by Session Saver not actually saving my session for when I reopen it. But I've had Firefox crash about 6 times ever on my computer in a year, and IE in the years I've used it at least 30. On average, about the same stability I guess.
My experience from a front page posting, is that the author link brings as little as 80 hits, not the flood that some might expect Slashdot to bring. Then again, my username has been around for years now and nearly everyone who would have visited it will have seen it by now...
:-D
I sure got a chuckle at the thought that the USA hasn't elected a president with higher brain activity since Carter
I've been experimenting with DSLinux since about version 0.4.
.7 it got much easier to use, and add programs to using the /options folder or .dsl files or whatever is used to extend it. I contributed some money to the project too, since it's one of the few modern software programs that keeps older hardware in mind while developing a new package of goods.
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If they move away from their small and fast roots, I know I won't be sticking with them, but for now DSL is the coolest distro out there. It's always worked to some extent on my Compaq Armada 1500series laptop with 48MB RAM, and might work a lot more if I tinkered with drivers and things like that.
I was going to suggest that too. Sure there will be some collateral damage, but casulties are to be expected in a war. I have a feeling that porn is in its last throes now.
- Dick C.
It's starting to appear as if there was a block in the blog queue. There are a pile of stories up now, with old time stamps that were supposed to be posted hours ago. Is there a Site News page where Taco gives us system status reports?
The VLC site was down earlier today when I tried downloading it. Has anyone made a torrent of this release? Mirrors?
.82, you have to specificly set a directory to save the capture to, otherwise the option on the menu would say it was capturing but never gave an error to say it had no place to save it to.
I figured out how to take a screen capture the other day in
The volume control is also less accurate than other programs' I've used. But I've had better luck playing more files with VLC than Media Player Classic.
They were watching the Grey Cup pre-game show on CBC, then the best Grey Cup in recent memory after that. That accounts for a lot of the time there was no new news anyway.
For a while, I thought both Slashdot and Fark were cached and I was getting stale Internet until I checked Digg to see new stuff.
"I don't think I can take another microsoft advert in my life, let alone two in a row, but if I see another today I'm going to shoot myself."
Ever think that's Microsoft's plan? Kill off the Linux users through bad journalism induced suicide?
Sorry, but this is the IT publshing company, not our friend Bill O'Idiot of Fox News.
http://weblogs.oreilly.com/
The link is already getting slow so here's the info:
u item.2231afa58be831c14db4a11030468a0c/?pageID=itdu tilities&L=1&sid=Aitd&U=quinn_bio_publicsite
Peter Quinn has served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since September of 2002 and Director of the Commonwealth's Information Technology Division (ITD). Mr. Quinn is also Founding Chair of the Government Open Code Collaborative (GOCC). As ITD Director and CIO, under the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Mr. Quinn is responsible for setting information technology standards in the Commonwealth. Mr. Quinn came to public service following a successful career in private sector IT, most recently as the CIO for Boston Financial Data Services
http://www.mass.gov/portal/site/massgovportal/men
Average Joe doesn't treat our planet with the same respect, why should he be treated equally? Being treated differently doesn't mean unfairly.
"You can't seriously believe that the Earth won't be able to support life within your children's lifetime."
It's certainly plausible in some regions. If enough simultaneous disasters happen, there won't be anyone around to rebuild some places. It will take a few generations to get back to "normal". And there's already plenty of places that have apparently changed enough since our grandparents' childhood, that some rivers no longer are there, or can't support fish, and plenty of species have died off in the last 100 years. It will almost always support some kind of life, but supporting human life in a comfortable way like we're used to now???, don't count on it.
http://www.immigrationsask.gov.sk.ca/
Sask. has been saying they want more skilled immigrants, and will sponsor skilled individuals on their federal application for immigration. With our declining population of 1 Million, we can use all the skilled immigrants we can get, as the thousands a year we do get aren't turning the tide in our population loss.
Some industries where there is enormous potential in IT is the mining industry, including uranium mining, and the film industry is really taking off in Regina with the successes of "Corner Gas" on weekly TV and "Just Friends" in the theatres.
People would undeniably be healthier if they didn't smoke.
Our environment would be more pristine if we didn't pollute it as much.
They are simple statements of fact, and if you want to dicker over facts, then the rest of your assertions are going to seem highly suspect.