The same guy who is running Lindows.com used to run MP3.com -- which also contributed to ReiserFS. It's interesting to see how Robertson is personally involved in the technical running of his businesses.
Funny... I bought the same printer used the other year, and it worked briefly, but one of the gears had a bald spot on it that got worse, to the point where it would always paper jam. Sigh. Just threw the thing out two weeks ago. Damned heavy beast of a machine. Crappy quality, too, compared to my very low-end HP Deskjets.
Give Mandrake a shot. Their menu organisation for all desktops is beautiful. I've had linux newbs just site down and use it, yet it fit me, a rather advanced user, just fine too.
About the only problem I have is that web designing tools are with the web browsers, not under development or editors, but the associate they used makes sense.
And lastly, I whole-heartedly agree that "personalised" menu are horrible. I can't stand them!!! I want things in the same place every time so that I don't have to search for them.
There's a much easier way to Ray-trace that involves very little processing time: just shoot Ray in the street and the cops will come trace him with chalk.
Charge them a series of escalating handling fees, starting at $5 and moving up to $5000 per message or whatever you feel like (don't be too unreasaonable). Give them one week before you start charging.
Send them written notice by both regular and registered mail. If they accept the registered mail, they cannot claim ignorance of your fees. If they deny the registered mail, then you have done your best to inform them of your rates.
When you send your bills, give them a time limit to pay them. If they do not pay you, take them to small claims court for the total amount they have not paid.
Can anyone mention a program like VirtualDub for linux? I've looked at all the existing software packages, and they were either very featureful and non-intuitive, or quite simple but lacking in basic features (like supporting various codes in avi). What I'm looking for is something reasonably featureful (editing avi and mpeg and conversion, etc) and as easy to use as VirtualDub. Does such software exist?
If you're curious, an average consumer machine today is capable of cracking 3DES passwords less than 7 characters in less than a day with Jack the Ripper.
Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.
If OSS people can fix the bugs in less than half a day, it should be a piece of cake for a giant software company with lots of programmers to do the same. Sure, a days warning would have been nice, but if there isn't a fix by tonight, it only shows badly on Microsoft.
If you have the chance, go to the north in the winter sometime. Perhaps on an Alaskan cruise near the end of the cruise season. You will see them in the continental states, but only when massive flares happen.
If anything, their beauty is worth standing outside in sub-zero weather!
You probably failed to see the lights due to the intense light pollution on the eastern seaboard, which is also the reason why there are no major observatories in the eastern states.
If your content isn't coming out of a database, then your code needs to be designed for easy cut and paste. No, it's not pleasant, but you can do a relatively straightforward template change within a day on sites that have hundreds of pages, if you've done your work correctly.
Or just 1 minute if you did it with server-side includes, or use sed or a text editor that supports running a regular expression replacement through multiple files at once (e.g. UltraEdit on Windows).
What? I've been making hand-launched planes that weigh less than 3 oz, with less than a single foot wing span that flew on their own as far as needed for years -- of course, my teachers hated me.
I think it would be nice to have sound treated just like X treats the display. Instead of a DISPLAY environment variable, use something like AUDIOOUPUT, using the same syntax. The arts project does something like this, but it's not completely there yet:
If I'm using arts on my local machine, and I run an app that uses arts for sound output on a remote machine, and I have audio network transparency enabled, the remote application will have its sound outputted on my local machine. Works great:)
However, if I have a client machine with X setup to query a remote X display manager for its display (which works great), arts programs on the remote machine do not know to redirect their output to the local client machine and instead try to connect to the arts server on the remote machine. If anyone knows a solution to this, I would be highly interested in knowing.
Really though, just like remote displays are at the application level, so should remote sound, and I agree with what you're saying. It just needs to be fully implemented.
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Like Houston, BC's Sharon Smith (NOT SAFE FOR WORK).
The same guy who is running Lindows.com used to run MP3.com -- which also contributed to ReiserFS. It's interesting to see how Robertson is personally involved in the technical running of his businesses.
What? I didn't make it past step #1!
This man has had it bad. I've had to defend his honour in front of many people that have never met him (nor have I, even). I feel for you, Wil.
Funny... I bought the same printer used the other year, and it worked briefly, but one of the gears had a bald spot on it that got worse, to the point where it would always paper jam. Sigh. Just threw the thing out two weeks ago. Damned heavy beast of a machine. Crappy quality, too, compared to my very low-end HP Deskjets.
Give Mandrake a shot. Their menu organisation for all desktops is beautiful. I've had linux newbs just site down and use it, yet it fit me, a rather advanced user, just fine too.
About the only problem I have is that web designing tools are with the web browsers, not under development or editors, but the associate they used makes sense.
And lastly, I whole-heartedly agree that "personalised" menu are horrible. I can't stand them!!! I want things in the same place every time so that I don't have to search for them.
Ahh... I had the two terms mixed up. Thanks!
There's a much easier way to Ray-trace that involves very little processing time: just shoot Ray in the street and the cops will come trace him with chalk.
Charge them a series of escalating handling fees, starting at $5 and moving up to $5000 per message or whatever you feel like (don't be too unreasaonable). Give them one week before you start charging.
Send them written notice by both regular and registered mail. If they accept the registered mail, they cannot claim ignorance of your fees. If they deny the registered mail, then you have done your best to inform them of your rates.
When you send your bills, give them a time limit to pay them. If they do not pay you, take them to small claims court for the total amount they have not paid.
Good luck! (And of course, IANAL)
Can anyone mention a program like VirtualDub for linux? I've looked at all the existing software packages, and they were either very featureful and non-intuitive, or quite simple but lacking in basic features (like supporting various codes in avi). What I'm looking for is something reasonably featureful (editing avi and mpeg and conversion, etc) and as easy to use as VirtualDub. Does such software exist?
If you're curious, an average consumer machine today is capable of cracking 3DES passwords less than 7 characters in less than a day with Jack the Ripper.
On no! It's God@#KJadlkja NO CARRIER
On the other hand, a bug in GCC is hardly a critical security issue, and it makes sense that such bugs are fixed on a more relaxed time scale.
Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.
If OSS people can fix the bugs in less than half a day, it should be a piece of cake for a giant software company with lots of programmers to do the same. Sure, a days warning would have been nice, but if there isn't a fix by tonight, it only shows badly on Microsoft.
If you have the chance, go to the north in the winter sometime. Perhaps on an Alaskan cruise near the end of the cruise season. You will see them in the continental states, but only when massive flares happen.
If anything, their beauty is worth standing outside in sub-zero weather!
Yes, but the difference between IN and the north pole versus FL and the north pole is not that great.
Yes, it did actually make it that far. I have a friend who saw them easily in IN, and FL is hardly much further south.
You can monitor current auroral activity here.
You probably failed to see the lights due to the intense light pollution on the eastern seaboard, which is also the reason why there are no major observatories in the eastern states.
Is this the part where Ed Pegg gets to run through the streets naked?
No, a Shatner response wouldn't be so wordy.
As long as you only want Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Which is not really a problem, because I don't use Windows anyway :D
I don't speak Esperanto, you insensitive clod! lol
What? I've been making hand-launched planes that weigh less than 3 oz, with less than a single foot wing span that flew on their own as far as needed for years -- of course, my teachers hated me.
Why?
I think it would be nice to have sound treated just like X treats the display. Instead of a DISPLAY environment variable, use something like AUDIOOUPUT, using the same syntax. The arts project does something like this, but it's not completely there yet:
Really though, just like remote displays are at the application level, so should remote sound, and I agree with what you're saying. It just needs to be fully implemented.