Ditto. The lovely thing about many of the new TLDs is that it does not cost anything to register them. Guess which TLDs spammers like to create throwaway domains in? I quarantine anything coming from the new TLDs which do not have registration fees.
There are some really busy botnets that exclusively push spam from these new TLDs, either via the sending hostname or links within the message.
Precisely. I would venture to guess that Zuckerberg doesn't look through the white pages for physicians that are self-educated college dropouts. I bet he also does not live in a building that was designed by a self-educated structural engineer, drive a car that was designed and built by a college dropout, or get his prescription medications from "Jimmy, the self-taught child pharmacist."
Our society is built upon the knowledge structure that we've built up. Someone who went to college would probably realize such things.
The video above does it some justice. I was quite a distance away (St. Louis), though it sure looked like it was falling nearby. Bright, traffic-light green body and tail, lasting maybe 5-6 seconds of its descent. When the object disintegrated it burst into a ball of yellow/orange, and looked not unlike the explosive, expanding shells they put off during the 4th of July.
Awesome sight. The trajectory must have been very horizontal for the tail to have been so long, and it must have disintegrated very high up in the atmosphere for it to be viewable over such a large area.
The difference is that even if there is no deity, the majority religions still provide useful and positive services to their members. There are some whackjobs in organized religion to be sure, but most clergy by whatever name they're called, as well as most believers, are good, honest people who try to do right in the world and from time to time succeed.
As soon as religions start getting taxed like every other major entity in the U.S., I'll agree with your sentiments. In their current state they are not providing a net positive effect on society through these 'good works' they're supposedly engaging in.
A recent show on NGC (I think) discussed the three possible scenarios for earth impacts from asteroids/comets. You have:
-One big, solid object -A binary-like object (two or three big chunks) -a pebble ball
Interestingly, the pebble ball is the most difficult one to deal with when it comes to altering its path. Any physical efforts to disrupt it will probably only influence a small portion of the pebble ball, and as the pebble ball continues through space, the gravitational pull of each pebble will eventually cause most of it to reform (which is probably how they formed in the first place.)
OK, let's asuume for the sake of argument that it's possible for "the right thing to do" to be different than "what's good for the people"
That's not what I was arguing, actually...I was saying that one's personal opinions on matters should not be what defines public policy. Imposing your personal will on others is not a hallmark of democratic leadership.
But you seemed to get back on that track later on in your post...
As an example, take the environment. Most people would agree that protecting the environment is the right thing to do.[snip]
A good example. If you were a Green president, you might believe that we should preserve all that is preservable, even if conditions seem to indicate that economy will suffer with too much governmentally-imposed conservation. Yes, this might change your opinion on the matter of conservation, or it might not. In 'normal' matters like this, yes, your opinion is likely to change when faced with real-world evidence that your views are flawed. But many facets of people's worldview aren't based on logic or subject to modification (think religion); in those cases one must endeavour to go the course that is for the betterment of the country, but perhaps runs contrary to your own, or even the majority's, personal/religious opinion on the matter.
If something was truly against your morality and beliefs, then you would therefore not think of it as a movement forward. If you believe something is wrong, then it's not a step forward. The two ideas cannot be meshed.
So a pacifist president could never take our country to war?
A wartime president, who might not have personally believed in racial equality, could not decree that slaves should be free?
Hypocrit or not, I'd prefer to see politicians making decisions based on their own intelligence and what is GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE. I know this concept seems to have been abandoned in America, but I would like to start electing LEADERS instead of...well, hell, I don't even know an appropriate adjective to describe the current candidates. Egoists?
When John Kennedy was running there was much concern that being such so strongly Catholic it would dicate everything that he did as president. Not so, said Kennedy:
"It is my firm belief that there should be separation of church and state as we understand it in the United States -- that is, that both church and state should be free to operate, without interference from each other in their respective areas of jurisdiction. We live in a liberal, democratic society which embraces wide varieties of belief and disbelief. There is no doubt in my mind that the pluralism which has developed under our Constitution, providing as it does a framework within which diverse opinions can exist side by side and by their interaction enrich the whole, is the most ideal system yet devised by man. I cannot conceive of a set of circumstances which would lead me to a different conclusion." -- letter to Glenn L. Archer, 23 February 1959"
I like the root question of this thread, but I'd take it a bit further: "How much will you, as president, use your powers of reasoning and leadership to move the American people forward as a country, even when it means advocating courses of action that run contrary to your personal code of morality, opinions, or religion?"
Let's quit marginalizing America and start acting like the 'United States' again. Let's elect leaders; not denominations.
Ditto here, too. One of our cats has a penchant for chewing on plastic and adhesives. They seem to work as a deterrent for treading (they don't like it on their paws), but I guess the taste, to some dumb cats, is appealing.
Not sure about all cats, but mine also develops an allergic reaction to eating the plastics. The corners of her mouth get ulcers/acne, which has to be treated with a cream from the vet.
So if I were to wrap all my cables in double-sided tape, I'm sure I'd come home to find every one of my cables chewed straight through.
We use quite a few of these printers at work--quick synopsis, if you're considering one:
Phaser340 and ilk: These are the old, old solid-ink tech. Don't consider anything before the 840 series. They really suck--the heat from a photocopier is enough to melt the wax off the page.
Phaser840: Don't buy this printer. Every one was made with a defective clutch, and all the replacement clutches seem to share this design flaw. Don't expect a clutch to last more than 25,000 sheets.
Phaser850: Clutch problems seem to be fixed in about 50% of the cases. 850 and 840 have a defective Appletalk stack in the firmware that causes the printer to drop off Appletalk network after 28 days, requiring a reboot.
Phaser860: First with USB option. For home use, might be a good option as it's got the cheaper USB (860B) model, and seems to be nicer from a power-sucking standpoint (could be my imagination, though.)
Phaser8200: Easily their best so far. Great quality output, faster processor, internals seem solid. Ink has changed--8x0 had 'free black ink for life', meaning that you got free blacks with each color, or you could order free black. The ink shapes changed, AND I'm pretty sure the ink type changed as well, so on the 8200 you don't get any free ink. But, the price of the printer dropped around $500 or so to compensate for this.
So...for home use? They're a little expensive (intial investment), but so are color lasers. But they _definitely_ make up for that cost when you consider the price of consumables. On a laser, you've got toners, imaging units, fusers, transfer rollers, etc. On the Phasers you just have ink and the maintenance cartridge. Expect to not need any parts repairs until ~50,000 sheets.
I'd really discourage getting a used Phaser (hell, any used laser/big printer.) If someone's getting rid of it, it's because it's got problems and you'll probably sink more money into it in repair parts than you paid for it.
I'd get one for home use, but they're out of my budget (and A/C capabilities):(
I was shopping for watches the other day, and saw the 'Kaleido' line of watches from Fossil. They have a colored face that changes from one color to another every couple of seconds. The colors were pretty vibrant, and I couldn't place exactly what material they were using to accomplish the effect. Anyone know how they're doing this? And if this is basically what Apple's shooting for?
Eh, Fossil's link is here:
http://www.fossil.com/Categories/Category.asp?Ti er 1=Mens&Tier2=MW&Dept%5FID=MW&Cat%5FID=MW28&DeptGro up%5FID=4&SalesChannel=Retail
Heh...what a more fitting article to see on Slashdot when I'm waiting on hold with IBM to replace my drive:)
I've had nothing but great reliability and performance from every 75GXP drive that I've purchased...probably 20-30 or so. My most recent purchase, though (75G) just went tits up after three months of service. Same results everyone seems to be having--drive starts a seek-fest, and reports I/O errors and bad sectors. DFT tells you it's time for an RMA.
The tech I just talked to there (who may not have known exactly what he was talking about) claimed I would be receiving a 75GXP to replace my current one. I asked about problems with the 75GXP line, and though he wouldn't _state_ that there was a problem with the drives, he said that there would be a 'code upgrade' (firmware, I assume) coming out soon for the drives, which IBM would send to all customers which had 75GXP drives.
Just food for thought, and might lend credence to the theory that the 'drives are too fast for the electronics.'
I'm personally using webplay at the moment. It's located at:
http://webplay.sourceforge.net/
Like someone else mentioned, the solution you're probably looking for is to NFS mount or SMB mount the drives on the other machines, then have a linux box serve all the files up.
At the heart of them, all your mp3 player apps are going to be just about the same. The compelling feature of webplay, for me, is the ability to stream mp3s to you at any desired bitrate. So on the local net, I just do native bitrate. But when away, I stream at 96kbit, because my pokey DSL upsteam can't handle much more. On-the-fly bitrate changing is handled via Lame on the server.
I don't know about your laptop, but I had similar problems with my K6-2 300 (running @333) desktop machine. It's on a FIC board, and running with 128Meg of SIMMS. For the longest time I could never get a make to finish.
Your problems, though, seem indicative of an overheating CPU--don't you think? You say you run a make and it fails--you try again, it might get a little farther (it's skipping the parts it finished previously), and then dies, right?
That was my problem, too. My CPU had the original heatsink and FAN from AMD mounted on it. Unfortunately, the heatsink is mounted onto the CPU with some really crappy epoxy that will often just lose its contact with the CPU--so I'll have to go over to the machine and push down on the heatsink to make contact with the chip again. I know, I know...I should just replace the damned epoxy before I push too hard and crack the motherboard:)
Just an idear, though--dunno if you've got the same stuff.
Check out the 'L' shaped desk they have on sale at Office Despot (or was it OfficeMax?) for $79 this week. I've owned one of them for a long time, and it's actually a good, basic desk. You can fit up to three machines on it and scoot back and forth between each terminal.
No, it's not fancy or anything--but it's a decent, cheap desk that's sturdy and just the right height.
Feh...yeah, remember when DVDs were going to come out? They were supposed to offer us better quality AND cheaper prices, because it just cost pennies to stamp a DVD. And now what happens? The VHS of a movie is $12, but the DVD is $30? Hunh?
I'm sorry...I'm ignoring all of those 'special features' that we get with the DVD version, like audio commentary by the producer's pet dog. Forgot about all that value added crap.
Same situation for me (er, at work), bought it from CDW. My rep checked, and apparently their policy (Sony's policy?) was to fill the request for a replacement unit. The unit I originally received had two bad pixels--the new one had only one, and it was in the lower right of the display, and hardly noticeable.
So, might as well call whomever you bought it from and tell them there are bad pixels on the display, and that you need a replacement unit. If they tell you that you need X number of bad pixels, just start being an asshole about it, and they'll probably see it your way;)
BTW, I had them ship me a new unit before I sent the old one back. My thought was to just swap the HDDs so I didn't have to re-setup the new machine. BIG mistake. Find some other method of backing up the drive (Ghost it to a fileserver?) before attempting to swap the HDDs. The unit I had (505?) had the HDD nestled deep, deep within the unit.
Every time you pirate a song using Napster you are directly harming the artist that spend days and weeks lovingly crafting a creative piece of work.
Ah, I see...we're not talking about music here, which used to be something akin to art. So you're saying that no music is art? Fine--listen to your $25 Backstreet Boys commodity CD all day, and I'll listen to ARTISTS that I like. If YOU and the music industry want to maintain the idea that the people making this music are creating a commodity, that you CANNOT use the term "artist" anymore. That has an entirely different connotation.
If tools such as Napster and Gnutella hadn't encouraged this kind of rampant piracy then these laws would never have been bought into law in the first place.
Uh...the DCMA was passed two years ago. Napster is about six months old. Cause-effect relationships require cause before effect.
When will we as a community learn to consider the consequences of our actions before blindly following someone elses "manifesto"?
What the hell does this mean?
If you've been 'following' this story on Slashdot for so long, you certainly seem to be missing a hell of a lot of the points.
Hmm...anonymous...sure you're not an RIAA troll? Seems like someone who has been following this thread on Slashdot since the beginning would have set up an account...
but his tone just seems so short and contentious when he writes things sometimes.
Since this is a written medium, it's often hard to detect someone's 'tone' by what they're typing. Ever piss someone off because they misinterptreted something you emailed them? Without all of the vocal intonations, it's easy to have the meaning lost in this medium.
As for his comment, I didn't think he was coming off as being an ass at all--he _was_ responding to the question. He said it was in the FAQ, and then proceeded to answer it--so I'm not sure why you said only Hemos answered the question in a civil manner.. If he really was an ass, wouldn't he have just said 'RTF FAQ'?
Ever been repeatedly asked the same questions over, and over, and over again? If you were tech supporting some luser who called you three times a day asking which mouse button to use, and you taped a BIG sign to his monitor that said "USE THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON", and he still called you, how would you behave?:)
Though definitely not one of the more popular window managers, qvwm would work (relatively) nicely for this application. It's claim to fame (shame?) is that it mirrors, as closely as possible, the Win9x shell. Thus, you could install it and be ready to go if you know all of your Windows keyboard combos.
It also has the ability to make hotkeys, which some of the other window managers support (in varying degrees.) Set up your hotkeys and there's basically nothing you can't do quickly--er, unless it's netscape (I don't think netscape for linux will do the tab+space navigation style that some other browsers do.)
If you're interested, it's at http://www.qvwm.org/ It's pretty simple to install, and doesn't spooge files everywhere.
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Ditto. The lovely thing about many of the new TLDs is that it does not cost anything to register them. Guess which TLDs spammers like to create throwaway domains in? I quarantine anything coming from the new TLDs which do not have registration fees.
There are some really busy botnets that exclusively push spam from these new TLDs, either via the sending hostname or links within the message.
Precisely. I would venture to guess that Zuckerberg doesn't look through the white pages for physicians that are self-educated college dropouts. I bet he also does not live in a building that was designed by a self-educated structural engineer, drive a car that was designed and built by a college dropout, or get his prescription medications from "Jimmy, the self-taught child pharmacist."
Our society is built upon the knowledge structure that we've built up. Someone who went to college would probably realize such things.
The video above does it some justice. I was quite a distance away (St. Louis), though it sure looked like it was falling nearby. Bright, traffic-light green body and tail, lasting maybe 5-6 seconds of its descent. When the object disintegrated it burst into a ball of yellow/orange, and looked not unlike the explosive, expanding shells they put off during the 4th of July.
Awesome sight. The trajectory must have been very horizontal for the tail to have been so long, and it must have disintegrated very high up in the atmosphere for it to be viewable over such a large area.
The difference is that even if there is no deity, the majority religions still provide useful and positive services to their members. There are some whackjobs in organized religion to be sure, but most clergy by whatever name they're called, as well as most believers, are good, honest people who try to do right in the world and from time to time succeed.
As soon as religions start getting taxed like every other major entity in the U.S., I'll agree with your sentiments. In their current state they are not providing a net positive effect on society through these 'good works' they're supposedly engaging in.
A recent show on NGC (I think) discussed the three possible scenarios for earth impacts from asteroids/comets. You have:
-One big, solid object
-A binary-like object (two or three big chunks)
-a pebble ball
Interestingly, the pebble ball is the most difficult one to deal with when it comes to altering its path. Any physical efforts to disrupt it will probably only influence a small portion of the pebble ball, and as the pebble ball continues through space, the gravitational pull of each pebble will eventually cause most of it to reform (which is probably how they formed in the first place.)
OK, let's asuume for the sake of argument that it's possible for "the right thing to do" to be different than "what's good for the people"
That's not what I was arguing, actually...I was saying that one's personal opinions on matters should not be what defines public policy. Imposing your personal will on others is not a hallmark of democratic leadership.
But you seemed to get back on that track later on in your post...
As an example, take the environment. Most people would agree that protecting the environment is the right thing to do.[snip]
A good example. If you were a Green president, you might believe that we should preserve all that is preservable, even if conditions seem to indicate that economy will suffer with too much governmentally-imposed conservation. Yes, this might change your opinion on the matter of conservation, or it might not. In 'normal' matters like this, yes, your opinion is likely to change when faced with real-world evidence that your views are flawed. But many facets of people's worldview aren't based on logic or subject to modification (think religion); in those cases one must endeavour to go the course that is for the betterment of the country, but perhaps runs contrary to your own, or even the majority's, personal/religious opinion on the matter.
If something was truly against your morality and beliefs, then you would therefore not think of it as a movement forward. If you believe something is wrong, then it's not a step forward. The two ideas cannot be meshed.
So a pacifist president could never take our country to war?
A wartime president, who might not have personally believed in racial equality, could not decree that slaves should be free?
Hypocrit or not, I'd prefer to see politicians making decisions based on their own intelligence and what is GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE. I know this concept seems to have been abandoned in America, but I would like to start electing LEADERS instead of...well, hell, I don't even know an appropriate adjective to describe the current candidates. Egoists?
When John Kennedy was running there was much concern that being such so strongly Catholic it would dicate everything that he did as president. Not so, said Kennedy:
"It is my firm belief that there should be separation of church and state as we understand it in the United States -- that is, that both church and state should be free to operate, without interference from each other in their respective areas of jurisdiction. We live in a liberal, democratic society which embraces wide varieties of belief and disbelief. There is no doubt in my mind that the pluralism which has developed under our Constitution, providing as it does a framework within which diverse opinions can exist side by side and by their interaction enrich the whole, is the most ideal system yet devised by man. I cannot conceive of a set of circumstances which would lead me to a different conclusion." -- letter to Glenn L. Archer, 23 February 1959"
I like the root question of this thread, but I'd take it a bit further: "How much will you, as president, use your powers of reasoning and leadership to move the American people forward as a country, even when it means advocating courses of action that run contrary to your personal code of morality, opinions, or religion?"
Let's quit marginalizing America and start acting like the 'United States' again. Let's elect leaders; not denominations.
Ditto here, too. One of our cats has a penchant for chewing on plastic and adhesives. They seem to work as a deterrent for treading (they don't like it on their paws), but I guess the taste, to some dumb cats, is appealing.
Not sure about all cats, but mine also develops an allergic reaction to eating the plastics. The corners of her mouth get ulcers/acne, which has to be treated with a cream from the vet.
So if I were to wrap all my cables in double-sided tape, I'm sure I'd come home to find every one of my cables chewed straight through.
We use quite a few of these printers at work--quick synopsis, if you're considering one:
:(
Phaser340 and ilk: These are the old, old solid-ink tech. Don't consider anything before the 840 series. They really suck--the heat from a photocopier is enough to melt the wax off the page.
Phaser840: Don't buy this printer. Every one was made with a defective clutch, and all the replacement clutches seem to share this design flaw. Don't expect a clutch to last more than 25,000 sheets.
Phaser850: Clutch problems seem to be fixed in about 50% of the cases. 850 and 840 have a defective Appletalk stack in the firmware that causes the printer to drop off Appletalk network after 28 days, requiring a reboot.
Phaser860: First with USB option. For home use, might be a good option as it's got the cheaper USB (860B) model, and seems to be nicer from a power-sucking standpoint (could be my imagination, though.)
Phaser8200: Easily their best so far. Great quality output, faster processor, internals seem solid. Ink has changed--8x0 had 'free black ink for life', meaning that you got free blacks with each color, or you could order free black. The ink shapes changed, AND I'm pretty sure the ink type changed as well, so on the 8200 you don't get any free ink. But, the price of the printer dropped around $500 or so to compensate for this.
So...for home use? They're a little expensive (intial investment), but so are color lasers. But they _definitely_ make up for that cost when you consider the price of consumables. On a laser, you've got toners, imaging units, fusers, transfer rollers, etc. On the Phasers you just have ink and the maintenance cartridge. Expect to not need any parts repairs until ~50,000 sheets.
I'd really discourage getting a used Phaser (hell, any used laser/big printer.) If someone's getting rid of it, it's because it's got problems and you'll probably sink more money into it in repair parts than you paid for it.
I'd get one for home use, but they're out of my budget (and A/C capabilities)
I was shopping for watches the other day, and saw the 'Kaleido' line of watches from Fossil. They have a colored face that changes from one color to another every couple of seconds. The colors were pretty vibrant, and I couldn't place exactly what material they were using to accomplish the effect. Anyone know how they're doing this? And if this is basically what Apple's shooting for?
i er 1=Mens&Tier2=MW&Dept%5FID=MW&Cat%5FID=MW28&DeptGro up%5FID=4&SalesChannel=Retail
Eh, Fossil's link is here:
http://www.fossil.com/Categories/Category.asp?T
Man Taco, that was some pretty decent writing there. I didn't notice any glaring misspellings or improper use of grammar. I'm impressed.
;)
Is that one of the plums that will come to subscribers of the New Slashdot?
Don't forget your old friend, the Drive Dawg:
http://www.hitechcafe.com/eShop/default.asp
It's mostly crap, but it's always a motley assortment.
Heh...what a more fitting article to see on Slashdot when I'm waiting on hold with IBM to replace my drive :)
I've had nothing but great reliability and performance from every 75GXP drive that I've purchased...probably 20-30 or so. My most recent purchase, though (75G) just went tits up after three months of service. Same results everyone seems to be having--drive starts a seek-fest, and reports I/O errors and bad sectors. DFT tells you it's time for an RMA.
The tech I just talked to there (who may not have known exactly what he was talking about) claimed I would be receiving a 75GXP to replace my current one. I asked about problems with the 75GXP line, and though he wouldn't _state_ that there was a problem with the drives, he said that there would be a 'code upgrade' (firmware, I assume) coming out soon for the drives, which IBM would send to all customers which had 75GXP drives.
Just food for thought, and might lend credence to the theory that the 'drives are too fast for the electronics.'
I'm personally using webplay at the moment. It's located at:
http://webplay.sourceforge.net/
Like someone else mentioned, the solution you're probably looking for is to NFS mount or SMB mount the drives on the other machines, then have a linux box serve all the files up.
At the heart of them, all your mp3 player apps are going to be just about the same. The compelling feature of webplay, for me, is the ability to stream mp3s to you at any desired bitrate. So on the local net, I just do native bitrate. But when away, I stream at 96kbit, because my pokey DSL upsteam can't handle much more. On-the-fly bitrate changing is handled via Lame on the server.
I don't know about your laptop, but I had similar problems with my K6-2 300 (running @333) desktop machine. It's on a FIC board, and running with 128Meg of SIMMS. For the longest time I could never get a make to finish.
:)
Your problems, though, seem indicative of an overheating CPU--don't you think? You say you run a make and it fails--you try again, it might get a little farther (it's skipping the parts it finished previously), and then dies, right?
That was my problem, too. My CPU had the original heatsink and FAN from AMD mounted on it. Unfortunately, the heatsink is mounted onto the CPU with some really crappy epoxy that will often just lose its contact with the CPU--so I'll have to go over to the machine and push down on the heatsink to make contact with the chip again. I know, I know...I should just replace the damned epoxy before I push too hard and crack the motherboard
Just an idear, though--dunno if you've got the same stuff.
Check out the 'L' shaped desk they have on sale at Office Despot (or was it OfficeMax?) for $79 this week. I've owned one of them for a long time, and it's actually a good, basic desk. You can fit up to three machines on it and scoot back and forth between each terminal.
No, it's not fancy or anything--but it's a decent, cheap desk that's sturdy and just the right height.
Feh...yeah, remember when DVDs were going to come out? They were supposed to offer us better quality AND cheaper prices, because it just cost pennies to stamp a DVD. And now what happens? The VHS of a movie is $12, but the DVD is $30? Hunh?
I'm sorry...I'm ignoring all of those 'special features' that we get with the DVD version, like audio commentary by the producer's pet dog. Forgot about all that value added crap.
Same situation for me (er, at work), bought it from CDW. My rep checked, and apparently their policy (Sony's policy?) was to fill the request for a replacement unit. The unit I originally received had two bad pixels--the new one had only one, and it was in the lower right of the display, and hardly noticeable.
;)
So, might as well call whomever you bought it from and tell them there are bad pixels on the display, and that you need a replacement unit. If they tell you that you need X number of bad pixels, just start being an asshole about it, and they'll probably see it your way
BTW, I had them ship me a new unit before I sent the old one back. My thought was to just swap the HDDs so I didn't have to re-setup the new machine. BIG mistake. Find some other method of backing up the drive (Ghost it to a fileserver?) before attempting to swap the HDDs. The unit I had (505?) had the HDD nestled deep, deep within the unit.
Every time you pirate a song using Napster you are directly harming the artist that spend days and weeks lovingly crafting a creative piece of work.
Ah, I see...we're not talking about music here, which used to be something akin to art. So you're saying that no music is art? Fine--listen to your $25 Backstreet Boys commodity CD all day, and I'll listen to ARTISTS that I like. If YOU and the music industry want to maintain the idea that the people making this music are creating a commodity, that you CANNOT use the term "artist" anymore. That has an entirely different connotation.
If tools such as Napster and Gnutella hadn't encouraged this kind of rampant piracy then these laws would never have been bought into law in the first place.
Uh...the DCMA was passed two years ago. Napster is about six months old. Cause-effect relationships require cause before effect.
When will we as a community learn to consider the consequences of our actions before blindly following someone elses "manifesto"?
What the hell does this mean?
If you've been 'following' this story on Slashdot for so long, you certainly seem to be missing a hell of a lot of the points.
Hmm...anonymous...sure you're not an RIAA troll? Seems like someone who has been following this thread on Slashdot since the beginning would have set up an account...
Find a place that has many Compaq desktop machines.
Walk up to desktop machines.
Reach behind machine and remove some of the big, honkin' thumbscrews.
Deposit screws in pocket.
Laugh maniacally!
About time those damned scientists took Mr. Clarke's warning about landing there seriously :)
but his tone just seems so short and contentious when he writes things sometimes.
:)
Since this is a written medium, it's often hard to detect someone's 'tone' by what they're typing. Ever piss someone off because they misinterptreted something you emailed them? Without all of the vocal intonations, it's easy to have the meaning lost in this medium.
As for his comment, I didn't think he was coming off as being an ass at all--he _was_ responding to the question. He said it was in the FAQ, and then proceeded to answer it--so I'm not sure why you said only Hemos answered the question in a civil manner.. If he really was an ass, wouldn't he have just said 'RTF FAQ'?
Ever been repeatedly asked the same questions over, and over, and over again? If you were tech supporting some luser who called you three times a day asking which mouse button to use, and you taped a BIG sign to his monitor that said "USE THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON", and he still called you, how would you behave?
Though definitely not one of the more popular window managers, qvwm would work (relatively) nicely for this application. It's claim to fame (shame?) is that it mirrors, as closely as possible, the Win9x shell. Thus, you could install it and be ready to go if you know all of your Windows keyboard combos.
It also has the ability to make hotkeys, which some of the other window managers support (in varying degrees.) Set up your hotkeys and there's basically nothing you can't do quickly--er, unless it's netscape (I don't think netscape for linux will do the tab+space navigation style that some other browsers do.)
If you're interested, it's at http://www.qvwm.org/
It's pretty simple to install, and doesn't spooge files everywhere.
You forgot the most important--pulling Cat5 cable through wicked-tight places (uh, no the Sex kind.)