We're not the only country with legal porn and prostitutes I suppose.. although the world famous 'window shopping' in Amsterdam might be rather unique. And for Amstel, well that should be illegal. There's much better beer than that, both in The Netherlands and Belgium.
On a different subject, Karin Spaink was mentioned to belong to the anti-spam group. She is also the one who won the lawsuit that Scientology started against her for publishing excerpts of their trade secrets on the web.
I don't think so. The obvious controversial thing that's somewhat legal (actually, illegal but not actively hunted down) is posession and use of a small amount of cannabis as well as growing some plants for your own use. There have also been (and probably still are) experiments in treating hard drug addicts by supplying them with the drugs in a somewhat controlled way.
And if done carefully, you may publish some of the "Church" of Scientology's trade secrets...
On the other hand, it is actually illegal to kill people even if they are convicted criminals, and carrying guns is quite restricted too.
Actually, I think we (the Dutch) have quite a good legal system even though there's always something to complain about:-)
That's buffer overflow. A buffer is some storage in memory with limited space. Overflow occurs when the program (is forced to) write data after the actual buffer. An integer is a number, and in computers numbers are represented by a limited amount of space (e.g. a byte, or a few bytes) so they can also overflow and underflow. Say the highest possible number is 65535, then adding one more will get you back to 0. Similarly, subtracting one from 0 will then get you 65535.
Most MS-Windows users won't even know where "My Documents" is located on the hard disk, they just use the shortcuts on the desktop or from the drop-down list in dialogs. Besides, the actual location changes between MS-Windows versions. I don't think a clueless KDE/Gnome user needs to know where ~user is located either. If you get stuck on either Operating Systems, you need someone with a little experience (or a good book) anyway.
Right-click on My Computer, left-click Properties, Hardware, Device manager.
I have the Desktop toolbar enabled on that taskbar thing next to the start button to get to it more easily. I also make it twice the normal height. I really prefer it over KDE's panel set up this way. What I still miss though is to have a kind of start menu when I (right-)click on the desktop.
Electrical screwdrivers used in factories to assemble PCs are not cordless (at least not when I looked). I can imagine running around a server room with an electrical screwdriver attached to 220V (or 110V;-) is not much fun.
It looks nice, but I wonder how useful it is.
Apparently it is very slow and memory-ineffective when you enter notes on the Rex itself in stead of
on the PC and sync it. My Palm IIIx is fast enough
to be smooth and a Casio PocketPC I tried was even
better at that. But at least this Rex PDA is
really easy to take with you. Maybe even too easy:)
The problem is that the BIOS will never know to shut it down because the measuring of the temperature will happen too slowly once the complete heat sink including the fan drops off of the CPU. When only the fan fails (stops moving) but the large metal piece on top of the CPU (the heatsink) is still there, the PC has plenty of time to shut down the PC before the CPU kills itself. This was mentioned in the original article that created all the fuzz.
Win XP hasn't been released yet (even though 'final' versions are available through warez channels) and although it has many drivers inside, lots of hardware isn't supported yet.
- People can't use the web site (properly, depends on grade of defacement).
- Man hours necessary to clean up, sometimes requiring external help.
- Depending on what the defacement says, it might damage the site owner's good name.
Still hardly a terrorist act, but can be worse than spraying over a shop window. I agree with one poster who said there must be reasonable Real Life analogies that you can judge on.
Probably millions of American dollars do go into bombing Palestinians and while I'm no expert at what's happening there, I do think that Israel often goes way to far in its retaliations on civilians and those actions are actively backed up by the US. While it is true that neither side is clean and peaceful, I think a country like Israel could do better than that. I also oppose random bombing of Afghan civilians if that's what the US is heading for. And yes, we DO appreciate the huge support we got from the US (and Canada) in the second world war. Somehow funding the Taliban with millions of dollars then declaring the war on them doesn't seem very logical. People do make mistakes, but Bush (or the 'Bush administration') seems to make a lot of them.
Oh, and us Dutch (not German=Deutsch) did some pretty bad things in the past too and it could be put more clearly in our own history books as well.
More recently we sent troops to Yougoslavia and now Eritrea, but we are careful and critical of ourselves there, I hope the US is too.
Well, right now the 98SE machine at home doesn't crash when it runs Linux (although I do get Konquerer to segfault but the system seems to run happily after KDE kills it) but it crashes a lot in Win98. It also crashes everytime I shutdown, this problem has gone away for two weeks but now it's back. Time to reinstall Win98 I guess, onless someone knows a magical fix for Win98?
The source code is only distributed along the binary packages in order for really brave people to be able to see what it does and maybe even improve it:) No really, I have only one program that arrived as source (PINE) and it compiled and installed without ever looking at the source, I just needed to follow some simple command-line instructions from a README file.
dselect, dpkg and apt-get do a very good job at installing and uninstalling things for me. I update the list of available software from the net, select the software I want, it checks if that's okay and if I require any other software for it to run, I hit install and it fetches the software for me, after downloading asks a few questions and the software is set up. Much better than Windows, where I will have to find how to download the.zip or.exe (huge because it includes all the libraries I already have), need to run the installer and HOPE that it will work after a reboot. Often it is a gamble if there will be any stability problems and sometimes the installer even doesn't get that far. Then how do I find out which files I have just installed into my system and where to get the original files that were copied over? On my Linux system I type dpkg -r and it either tells me some other program needs the file so I can't remove it unless I remove the other one as well, or it goes along and removes it without killing any other program.
The Debian install/uninstall system may be different than the Windows 'system', but it's easy to learn for someone who could also manage Windows and does a much better job at it.
There are graphical installers for RPMs and DEBs but personally I prefer the command line/text menu way.
If your mom knows as much of computers that you can tell her 'go to download.com, find the program, download it to c:\windows\temp, run it, answer all the questions, then reboot' and 'go to control panel, add/remove software, click on the program and answer all the questions' you may as well tell her 'run dselect, update, select the package, type +, install, answer all the questions' and 'run dselect, select the package, type -, install, answer all the questions'.
> 1. Recompiling the kernel to get a sound card
> or network card working that didn't come w/the
> distro.
What network and sound drivers don't come with the distribution (Debian, in my case) these days? I got my cheap PCI NE-2000 clone and my SoundBlaster PCI64 working by just using modconf.
If you're a lucky Windows user you got the cd with the card, and have it handy the first time Windows sees you have a new piece of hardware, otherwise you're bound to get into just as much (or more) trouble than with Linux.
> 2. Getting 3D-accell video working so you can
> play quake 3.
I don't play Quake, but I wished that I could run Motorhead on Linux.
> 3. Setting up internet sharing on anything but
> Linux Mandrake.
Never got it to work in Windows (98SE). I believe you need a commercial program called WinGate for that? I tried Internet Connection Sharing but couldn't get it to work. It was quite easy to set up using the isdnutils package where I needed to add (actually, uncomment did most of the job) a few lines to the configuration.
Right now, I think setting up and using a new Windows version is relatively easy when you have prior Windows experience, but in my experience when you get stuck in Windows you truely get stuck and even though sometimes the online Windows Knowledge Base helps, most of the times you either forget about what you wanted to do or reinstall Windows and try again. When I first used Linux (a very old Slackware version) this was the same, I had to completely reinstall a few times in order to get it working like I wanted. But I've seen colleagues installing RedHat 7 in one simple attempt when they didn't have any experience with Linux at all. I think it's getting easier. Still, having to edit a file in/etc or changing XF86Config isn't truly user-friendly. But Windows isn't either.
There's a comment elsewhere that explains the cross-server scripting process. Basically, you send data to a script like in a form, and the web site displays that data (e.g. for comment preview) but it contains HTML (Javascript, whatever) and the site just copies that HTML into its own page so it gets run from that site.
A similar thing gets tried a lot in guestbooks as well.
I suppose this person thought HotMail already filters out a lot of those codes so they don't get run. in PHP, you filter using htmlspecialchars()
Big difference between cars and CPUs. People don't choose a BMW 320 (around 2000cc) over a Mercedes 190 because of the engine size, but because the BMW is a totally different machine overal. A iNTEL Pentium IV is not much different from an AMD Athlon, it's just one of those things in a PC that allow you to run the software you like.
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Actually, I got 2.6.0-test2 from unstable a few days ago, and it works nicely. If you want the latest, you can get it with Debian.
We're not the only country with legal porn and prostitutes I suppose.. although the world famous 'window shopping' in Amsterdam might be rather unique. And for Amstel, well that should be illegal. There's much better beer than that, both in The Netherlands and Belgium.
On a different subject, Karin Spaink was mentioned to belong to the anti-spam group. She is also the one who won the lawsuit that Scientology started against her for publishing excerpts of their trade secrets on the web.
I don't think so. The obvious controversial thing that's somewhat legal (actually, illegal but not actively hunted down) is posession and use of a small amount of cannabis as well as growing some plants for your own use. There have also been (and probably still are) experiments in treating hard drug addicts by supplying them with the drugs in a somewhat controlled way.
:-)
And if done carefully, you may publish some of the "Church" of Scientology's trade secrets...
On the other hand, it is actually illegal to kill people even if they are convicted criminals, and carrying guns is quite restricted too.
Actually, I think we (the Dutch) have quite a good legal system even though there's always something to complain about
mountains. lots of them.
That's buffer overflow. A buffer is some storage in memory with limited space. Overflow occurs when the program (is forced to) write data after the actual buffer. An integer is a number, and in computers numbers are represented by a limited amount of space (e.g. a byte, or a few bytes) so they can also overflow and underflow. Say the highest possible number is 65535, then adding one more will get you back to 0. Similarly, subtracting one from 0 will then get you 65535.
Belasting Toegevoegde Waarde
or was it Bundesverband der Deutschen Tourismuswirtschaft?
By The Way, the first one is in Dutch or Nederlands(.nl) and the second one in German or Deutsch (.de).
well you could print on transparency sheets (overhead projector film) although I don't think the result would feel like currency :)
Most MS-Windows users won't even know where "My Documents" is located on the hard disk, they just use the shortcuts on the desktop or from the drop-down list in dialogs. Besides, the actual location changes between MS-Windows versions. I don't think a clueless KDE/Gnome user needs to know where ~user is located either. If you get stuck on either Operating Systems, you need someone with a little experience (or a good book) anyway.
Hey, they only kept the rock solid parts you know...
Right-click on My Computer, left-click Properties, Hardware, Device manager.
I have the Desktop toolbar enabled on that taskbar thing next to the start button to get to it more easily. I also make it twice the normal height. I really prefer it over KDE's panel set up this way. What I still miss though is to have a kind of start menu when I (right-)click on the desktop.
Actually I prefer the Topper table:2 :-)
http://www.tafelvoetbal.nl/gallery/album0
any table that has slippery plastic balls sucks
Electrical screwdrivers used in factories to assemble PCs are not cordless (at least not when I looked). I can imagine running around a server room with an electrical screwdriver attached to 220V (or 110V ;-) is not much fun.
It looks nice, but I wonder how useful it is. :)
Apparently it is very slow and memory-ineffective when you enter notes on the Rex itself in stead of
on the PC and sync it. My Palm IIIx is fast enough
to be smooth and a Casio PocketPC I tried was even
better at that. But at least this Rex PDA is
really easy to take with you. Maybe even too easy
The problem is that the BIOS will never know to shut it down because the measuring of the temperature will happen too slowly once the complete heat sink including the fan drops off of the CPU. When only the fan fails (stops moving) but the large metal piece on top of the CPU (the heatsink) is still there, the PC has plenty of time to shut down the PC before the CPU kills itself. This was mentioned in the original article that created all the fuzz.
Win XP hasn't been released yet (even though 'final' versions are available through warez channels) and although it has many drivers inside, lots of hardware isn't supported yet.
- People can't use the web site (properly, depends on grade of defacement).
- Man hours necessary to clean up, sometimes requiring external help.
- Depending on what the defacement says, it might damage the site owner's good name.
Still hardly a terrorist act, but can be worse than spraying over a shop window. I agree with one poster who said there must be reasonable Real Life analogies that you can judge on.
Probably millions of American dollars do go into bombing Palestinians and while I'm no expert at what's happening there, I do think that Israel often goes way to far in its retaliations on civilians and those actions are actively backed up by the US. While it is true that neither side is clean and peaceful, I think a country like Israel could do better than that. I also oppose random bombing of Afghan civilians if that's what the US is heading for. And yes, we DO appreciate the huge support we got from the US (and Canada) in the second world war. Somehow funding the Taliban with millions of dollars then declaring the war on them doesn't seem very logical. People do make mistakes, but Bush (or the 'Bush administration') seems to make a lot of them.
Oh, and us Dutch (not German=Deutsch) did some pretty bad things in the past too and it could be put more clearly in our own history books as well.
More recently we sent troops to Yougoslavia and now Eritrea, but we are careful and critical of ourselves there, I hope the US is too.
Well, right now the 98SE machine at home doesn't crash when it runs Linux (although I do get Konquerer to segfault but the system seems to run happily after KDE kills it) but it crashes a lot in Win98. It also crashes everytime I shutdown, this problem has gone away for two weeks but now it's back. Time to reinstall Win98 I guess, onless someone knows a magical fix for Win98?
Yep, and a friend of mine uses 'R:' for his CD-ROM and 'W:' for his CDRW. Works nicely. Then again, remembering /dev/cdrom isn't too hard either.
The source code is only distributed along the binary packages in order for really brave people to be able to see what it does and maybe even improve it :) No really, I have only one program that arrived as source (PINE) and it compiled and installed without ever looking at the source, I just needed to follow some simple command-line instructions from a README file.
.zip or .exe (huge because it includes all the libraries I already have), need to run the installer and HOPE that it will work after a reboot. Often it is a gamble if there will be any stability problems and sometimes the installer even doesn't get that far. Then how do I find out which files I have just installed into my system and where to get the original files that were copied over? On my Linux system I type dpkg -r and it either tells me some other program needs the file so I can't remove it unless I remove the other one as well, or it goes along and removes it without killing any other program.
dselect, dpkg and apt-get do a very good job at installing and uninstalling things for me. I update the list of available software from the net, select the software I want, it checks if that's okay and if I require any other software for it to run, I hit install and it fetches the software for me, after downloading asks a few questions and the software is set up. Much better than Windows, where I will have to find how to download the
The Debian install/uninstall system may be different than the Windows 'system', but it's easy to learn for someone who could also manage Windows and does a much better job at it.
There are graphical installers for RPMs and DEBs but personally I prefer the command line/text menu way.
If your mom knows as much of computers that you can tell her 'go to download.com, find the program, download it to c:\windows\temp, run it, answer all the questions, then reboot' and 'go to control panel, add/remove software, click on the program and answer all the questions' you may as well tell her 'run dselect, update, select the package, type +, install, answer all the questions' and 'run dselect, select the package, type -, install, answer all the questions'.
> 1. Recompiling the kernel to get a sound card
/etc or changing XF86Config isn't truly user-friendly. But Windows isn't either.
> or network card working that didn't come w/the
> distro.
What network and sound drivers don't come with the distribution (Debian, in my case) these days? I got my cheap PCI NE-2000 clone and my SoundBlaster PCI64 working by just using modconf.
If you're a lucky Windows user you got the cd with the card, and have it handy the first time Windows sees you have a new piece of hardware, otherwise you're bound to get into just as much (or more) trouble than with Linux.
> 2. Getting 3D-accell video working so you can
> play quake 3.
I don't play Quake, but I wished that I could run Motorhead on Linux.
> 3. Setting up internet sharing on anything but
> Linux Mandrake.
Never got it to work in Windows (98SE). I believe you need a commercial program called WinGate for that? I tried Internet Connection Sharing but couldn't get it to work. It was quite easy to set up using the isdnutils package where I needed to add (actually, uncomment did most of the job) a few lines to the configuration.
Right now, I think setting up and using a new Windows version is relatively easy when you have prior Windows experience, but in my experience when you get stuck in Windows you truely get stuck and even though sometimes the online Windows Knowledge Base helps, most of the times you either forget about what you wanted to do or reinstall Windows and try again. When I first used Linux (a very old Slackware version) this was the same, I had to completely reinstall a few times in order to get it working like I wanted. But I've seen colleagues installing RedHat 7 in one simple attempt when they didn't have any experience with Linux at all. I think it's getting easier. Still, having to edit a file in
There's a comment elsewhere that explains the cross-server scripting process. Basically, you send data to a script like in a form, and the web site displays that data (e.g. for comment preview) but it contains HTML (Javascript, whatever) and the site just copies that HTML into its own page so it gets run from that site.
A similar thing gets tried a lot in guestbooks as well.
I suppose this person thought HotMail already filters out a lot of those codes so they don't get run. in PHP, you filter using htmlspecialchars()
Big difference between cars and CPUs. People don't choose a BMW 320 (around 2000cc) over a Mercedes 190 because of the engine size, but because the BMW is a totally different machine overal. A iNTEL Pentium IV is not much different from an AMD Athlon, it's just one of those things in a PC that allow you to run the software you like.
tr.v. worded, wording, words
To express in words: worded the petition carefully.
Or just order a cd, for example from CheapBytes