And how is any of this your old landlords fault? The original poster slammed landlords for not babysitting ex-tennants. Your situation, while not uncommon, and while a PITA for you, has nothing to do with your landlord.
One of the more frightening 'hits' people take is through their good buddies, landlords. They move, believe they have closed their utility/phone/whatever, and the landlord doesn't forward the request for the last bill. The billing companies have no forwarding address.
You are saying that it is a landlord's responsibility to babysit carless renters that dont fulfill their obligations? Give me a break. The problem with this attitude is that you seem to imply that the renters aren't to blame for not paying their bills, for not providing forwarding information to people they owe money to etc. People need to be responsible for their own actions (or lack of action in this case).
It is an (evil) inititave by Intel and Microsoft to somehow make computers easier to use by making them do less than they used to.
http://www.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/
is pretty much what started all of this -- including the death of ISA slots.
I use serial consoles at home on two computers, I use standard serial ports fairly regularly.
I also use floppies since not all computers can boot CD-roms, nor is it as quick and easy to make a bootable cdrom as it is to make a bootable floppy.
usb to serial/ps2/floppy converters are ok but can't yet be relied on for emergency/disaster-recovery yet.
I'll continue to buy computers with ps2 connectors and floppy controllers for the time being. I do expect that in the future I have get used to and come to rely on other things, but for now, nothing is as ubiquitous as the floppy.
Additionally, internal usb connectors are rare for most things -- I dont want crap laying all over my desk with a mess of wires running everywhere -- nice to have it all contained in that case. The external floppy on my laptop is a PITA because I cant use it on my lap -- I have to be at a table or desk and have a bunch of space. USB wont be viable for completely replacing things like floppies till I can have an INTERNAL usb floppy.
Fast? It can be fast -- depends on what kind of wheels and transmission they put in it. Or, what kind of vehicle they put it in. I had a fast 486 the other day -- 75 on the freeway...
"Why is it so susceptible to attack, when the Internet as a whole is touted as being able to withstand nuclear Armageddon?"
Let me ask you - did YOU notice problems with the net on the day of this attack? more than half of the root nameservers were down and the average internet user didn't even notice. Things kept working and the other root nameservers took the load. The DNS system explicitly is NOT susceptible to attack and I think that this attempt at DOS-ing it supports this.
No - By his token, because you buy a copy of the book, you can rip out every 3rd page before you give it to your kids if you want, and then use a sharpie to black out the world 'sophistry' every time you see it. You own the book, you can modify your copy of it how you want.
Wether it is legal to buy the book, take it to my neighbor and pay him $10 to rip our every 3rd page for me and black out 'sophistry', I dont know. IANAL, but it seems like this would be legal too.
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And how is any of this your old landlords fault? The original poster slammed landlords for not babysitting ex-tennants. Your situation, while not uncommon, and while a PITA for you, has nothing to do with your landlord.
GPL - not free as in 'beer' but rather, free as in 'herpes'. :)
You are saying that it is a landlord's responsibility to babysit carless renters that dont fulfill their obligations? Give me a break. The problem with this attitude is that you seem to imply that the renters aren't to blame for not paying their bills, for not providing forwarding information to people they owe money to etc. People need to be responsible for their own actions (or lack of action in this case).
It is an (evil) inititave by Intel and Microsoft to somehow make computers easier to use by making them do less than they used to.
http://www.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/
is pretty much what started all of this -- including the death of ISA slots.
I use serial consoles at home on two computers, I use standard serial ports fairly regularly.
I also use floppies since not all computers can boot CD-roms, nor is it as quick and easy to make a bootable cdrom as it is to make a bootable floppy.
usb to serial/ps2/floppy converters are ok but can't yet be relied on for emergency/disaster-recovery yet.
I'll continue to buy computers with ps2 connectors and floppy controllers for the time being. I do expect that in the future I have get used to and come to rely on other things, but for now, nothing is as ubiquitous as the floppy.
Additionally, internal usb connectors are rare for most things -- I dont want crap laying all over my desk with a mess of wires running everywhere -- nice to have it all contained in that case. The external floppy on my laptop is a PITA because I cant use it on my lap -- I have to be at a table or desk and have a bunch of space. USB wont be viable for completely replacing things like floppies till I can have an INTERNAL usb floppy.
Actually, hardware is about the only good thing Microsoft makes -- their mice are actually quite good, and their keyboards dont suck _too_ bad.
Fast? It can be fast -- depends on what kind of wheels and transmission they put in it. Or, what kind of vehicle they put it in. I had a fast 486 the other day -- 75 on the freeway...
All 4 'cables' in my fiber-optic patch-cord? Not all the world is copper.
Let me ask you - did YOU notice problems with the net on the day of this attack? more than half of the root nameservers were down and the average internet user didn't even notice. Things kept working and the other root nameservers took the load. The DNS system explicitly is NOT susceptible to attack and I think that this attempt at DOS-ing it supports this.
Would anyone really buy a computer just to get the music on it? Buy a CD, or just use one of the many p2p apps out there.... sheesh
... We've got blank stares...
I usually just asked them to put in their own address into the form. I presume that they never did, but I'd still get my point across...
and what is so hard about '$s' in pine to sort by subject? (including intelligent handling of re: foo)
This is more than enough 'threading'. shrug.
The GPL: Not 'free' as in beer, but 'free' as in herpes.
The short answer to your question is: procmail.
I get about 400 email a day -- several mailing lists that I occasionaly browse, personal, work, etc.
procmail puts them all in different inboxes, and pine lets me just check the inboxes that I feel like looking at...
No - By his token, because you buy a copy of the book, you can rip out every 3rd page before you give it to your kids if you want, and then use a sharpie to black out the world 'sophistry' every time you see it. You own the book, you can modify your copy of it how you want.
Wether it is legal to buy the book, take it to my neighbor and pay him $10 to rip our every 3rd page for me and black out 'sophistry', I dont know. IANAL, but it seems like this would be legal too.