Pidgin has a history of this. Sometime about a year ago they made the Escape key have no effect on conversation windows. In all previous versions the Escape key closes the conversation. I don't know why they got rid of it, except that some developer has an ideological opposition to Escape. Personally, I strongly prefer the single-stroke Escape to the hand-cramping Ctrl+w.
You can still get the old Escape binding back by editing ~/.purple/accels to add (gtk_accel_path "/Conversation/Close" "Escape") but this is not a lot easier than just editing the source code.
Actually he's a shitty programmer and a megalomaniac. Anybody who had to endure his prolonged self-aggrandizement at the expense of the readers of the linux-kernel mailing list know that he was long on self-esteem and short on delivery. All that ever came out of his years of talking about how awesom he is were four versions of an unreliable filesystem with bad performance.
I'm looking forward to it. I like to give OpenSolaris a spin because ZFS isn't bad at all. If the default shell isn't shockingly unusable, I'll be happier than I was with Nevada.
You have to have a good product before you can have a community. Linux built its early community based on tinkerers and hackers who found it easy to play with. Early Linux distributions, you may recall, were all inclined to integrate well with DOS. Some of them could even be installed _in_ DOS. You could install Slackware and be up and running with an editor and compiler in half an hour. OpenSolaris doesn't follow this example. Using it is a tremendous pain in the ass. Its installer runs for 2-4 hours on the midrange PCs I've tried to install it upon. Once it's "installed" you still have to grope around trying to find familiar tools, which are maybe under UCB or perhaps under GNU subdirectories. It's hard to download software from the 'net and./configure it. Hardware support is very thin.
To get a hacker community, you have to offer fun. OpenSolaris is simply not fun. It reminds me of work.
2Wire access points also come hard-coded for 56-bit WEP, which can be cracked in seconds. I have a list of hundreds of WEP keys I got just from riding my bicycle around San Francisco with a laptop chugging away in my backpack. These are by far the worst access points ever deployed, and they are, sadly, also the most widely deployed in the USA.
And you assign a liberal or conservative tag to this so-called bias how? You comment reinforces my belief that the fundamental tenet of conservatism is an belief in an idealized utopian America which never existed. Therefore, any article which criticizes anything that happens in the USA is "liberal" because self-criticism is incompatible with the idealized myth.
It's an AFP wire story with completely straight, factual reporting about high school graduation rates in the USA. There is no commentary from the author whatsoever. However Skewz users rate the story as "Liberal", giving it 2.5 out of 5 points on the Liberal scale. I'm having a hard time seeing the logic there. How can a purely factual report on this topic possibly be considered leftist?
You can't copyright a useful physical object. There is not, and has never been, copyright protection for antennas, circuits, or anything like that. The only protection available is patents.
This project has released their drawings and other artifacts under an open license. Unlike useful objects, drawings are automatically copyrighted by their creators, therefore a license is necessary to allow their full use by the community.
Not bad. Unfortunately I couldn't get the webkit nightly to load the page, probably for unrelated reasons. The latest trunk build of Firefox gets 66, which is an improvement from 61 in Firefox 3 Beta 3.
I agree. Pulling out the DIMMs or rebooting the computer are pretty silly attacks. In addition to FireWire you can read directly from memory using the PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot. Using ExpressCard you can probably read the contents of a typical laptop in less than 1 second. Plenty of time to attack the laptop of the guy sitting next to you on the airplane when he gets up to use the lav.
They haven't, because in the Carter years the Reclamation machine came to an abrupt halt. What's your point though? They're still selling the electricity and the water below cost and most of the dams still haven't paid off their capital debts. As I'm sure you know, there aren't any other rivers like the Columbia, so the fact that there aren't any water projects on that scale doesn't seem relevant.
Not from around here, I take it? We have an entire department of uneconomical projects. We call it the Bureau of Reclamation. Their job is to build vast, expensive capital projects and subsequently give the benefits to select landowners for a pittance. For example, the Bureau will build a dam and sell the electricity to nearby farmers well below the market price of electricity, sometimes even below the cost of generation. The Bureau will then also sell the water from the dam to the same farmers at a fixed cost in perpetuity. On top of all that, a typical Bureau farm project grows a needless crop which the federal government subsidizes. You can find plenty of farms in the western USA where the farmers get electricity at $0.05 per kilowatt hour and water at $9 per acre-foot and are growing federally subsidized crops such as cotton. In the vast majority of Bureau of Reclamation projects the initial capital costs have never been paid by the farmers who benefit.
I love following up to myself.
Apple MacBook Pro 2.2GHz 2GB NVidia 128MB 120GB 8x Superdrive 802.11a/b/g/n: $1999
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At Lenovo, you save 32%.
Pretty much everything in your post is wrong. Apple rarely sells "the latest technology." They were 14 months behind everybody else introducing quad core processors in the XServe. They stuck with the obsolete PowerPC G4 until the bitter end. They have never offered the fastest video cards from ATI and NVidia in the Mac Pro. And, in general, their equipment is more expensive than the competition.
Example: XServe Dual Xeon E5440, 4GB, 80GB: $3,999. PowerEdge 1950 III Dual Xeon E5440, 4GB, 80GB: $3,137. You save 22% at Dell.
Not sure what you're getting at with the X series. The X21 was a great computer and so was the X40. I still use an X40 to this day, even though I also have an X61, which is _also_ a great computer. In fact I'd put it up against the Macbook Air any day. It's smaller, lighter, and much more functional than the Macbook Air. That said, I have to agree with you on the X300. What's the point? I've never complained about not having a DVD drive on my Thinkpad X. And I've certainly never caught myself wishing it were wider and heavier.
Sure you can emulate the smart card, but not the data on it, which is the important part. I have a PC just like yours but I don't have all the _data_ that's on your PC, so it's not the same.
Do you talk out of your ass all the time, or only here on Slashdot? If you don't understand the way a smart card works, I would advise not yapping about the "easy way around it" that you just pulled out of your hindquarters.
That's really not the same at all. With a SmartCard your keys and certs are in your physical control. The key or cert never leaves the card, and crypto operations also are done on the card. With VeriSign, VeriSign enslaves your identity. They own it, and you have to use the RSA token readout to get VeriSign to unlock your identity temporarily. These are fundamentally different operating principles.
PostgreSQL 8.2 was released in December 2006. In August of 2007, patches were still being committed to Slony-I to fix problems stemming from changes of the semantics of certain SQL operations between 8.1 and 8.2. The list of semantically meaningful changes in 8.3 runs to 20 printed pages. You'll have to please excuse me if I think that not all the problems between Slony-I and PostgreSQL 8.3 have been ironed out yet.
Judging from history, it will be two years or more before slony is compatible with PostgreSQL 8.3. And the intrusive schema changes required of slony are unacceptable to most every DBA I've asked about it.
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This used to be a standard feature of every GTK+ application, but it's gone away now.
Pidgin has a history of this. Sometime about a year ago they made the Escape key have no effect on conversation windows. In all previous versions the Escape key closes the conversation. I don't know why they got rid of it, except that some developer has an ideological opposition to Escape. Personally, I strongly prefer the single-stroke Escape to the hand-cramping Ctrl+w.
You can still get the old Escape binding back by editing ~/.purple/accels to add (gtk_accel_path "/Conversation/Close" "Escape") but this is not a lot easier than just editing the source code.
Actually he's a shitty programmer and a megalomaniac. Anybody who had to endure his prolonged self-aggrandizement at the expense of the readers of the linux-kernel mailing list know that he was long on self-esteem and short on delivery. All that ever came out of his years of talking about how awesom he is were four versions of an unreliable filesystem with bad performance.
I'm looking forward to it. I like to give OpenSolaris a spin because ZFS isn't bad at all. If the default shell isn't shockingly unusable, I'll be happier than I was with Nevada.
You have to have a good product before you can have a community. Linux built its early community based on tinkerers and hackers who found it easy to play with. Early Linux distributions, you may recall, were all inclined to integrate well with DOS. Some of them could even be installed _in_ DOS. You could install Slackware and be up and running with an editor and compiler in half an hour. OpenSolaris doesn't follow this example. Using it is a tremendous pain in the ass. Its installer runs for 2-4 hours on the midrange PCs I've tried to install it upon. Once it's "installed" you still have to grope around trying to find familiar tools, which are maybe under UCB or perhaps under GNU subdirectories. It's hard to download software from the 'net and ./configure it. Hardware support is very thin.
To get a hacker community, you have to offer fun. OpenSolaris is simply not fun. It reminds me of work.
Well, the 2Wire is the box the telco sends you when you order an ADSL line, so your average ignorant consumerbot has no reason to get anything else.
2Wire access points also come hard-coded for 56-bit WEP, which can be cracked in seconds. I have a list of hundreds of WEP keys I got just from riding my bicycle around San Francisco with a laptop chugging away in my backpack. These are by far the worst access points ever deployed, and they are, sadly, also the most widely deployed in the USA.
AFP publishes a flood of articles every day. How do you intend to evaluate their editorial selection bias?
And you assign a liberal or conservative tag to this so-called bias how? You comment reinforces my belief that the fundamental tenet of conservatism is an belief in an idealized utopian America which never existed. Therefore, any article which criticizes anything that happens in the USA is "liberal" because self-criticism is incompatible with the idealized myth.
Skews makes no sense. Take this article as an example:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080401184532.kxjxy7xo&show_article=1
It's an AFP wire story with completely straight, factual reporting about high school graduation rates in the USA. There is no commentary from the author whatsoever. However Skewz users rate the story as "Liberal", giving it 2.5 out of 5 points on the Liberal scale. I'm having a hard time seeing the logic there. How can a purely factual report on this topic possibly be considered leftist?
You can't copyright a useful physical object. There is not, and has never been, copyright protection for antennas, circuits, or anything like that. The only protection available is patents.
This project has released their drawings and other artifacts under an open license. Unlike useful objects, drawings are automatically copyrighted by their creators, therefore a license is necessary to allow their full use by the community.
That's interesting. I wonder why the Linux build of Firefox 3 Beta 3 scores 61 while the Windows build scores 58.
Not bad. Unfortunately I couldn't get the webkit nightly to load the page, probably for unrelated reasons. The latest trunk build of Firefox gets 66, which is an improvement from 61 in Firefox 3 Beta 3.
In my experience, everybody leaves their laptops on the seat when they use the head. What do you do? Stuff it in your shoe?
I agree. Pulling out the DIMMs or rebooting the computer are pretty silly attacks. In addition to FireWire you can read directly from memory using the PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot. Using ExpressCard you can probably read the contents of a typical laptop in less than 1 second. Plenty of time to attack the laptop of the guy sitting next to you on the airplane when he gets up to use the lav.
They haven't, because in the Carter years the Reclamation machine came to an abrupt halt. What's your point though? They're still selling the electricity and the water below cost and most of the dams still haven't paid off their capital debts. As I'm sure you know, there aren't any other rivers like the Columbia, so the fact that there aren't any water projects on that scale doesn't seem relevant.
Not from around here, I take it? We have an entire department of uneconomical projects. We call it the Bureau of Reclamation. Their job is to build vast, expensive capital projects and subsequently give the benefits to select landowners for a pittance. For example, the Bureau will build a dam and sell the electricity to nearby farmers well below the market price of electricity, sometimes even below the cost of generation. The Bureau will then also sell the water from the dam to the same farmers at a fixed cost in perpetuity. On top of all that, a typical Bureau farm project grows a needless crop which the federal government subsidizes. You can find plenty of farms in the western USA where the farmers get electricity at $0.05 per kilowatt hour and water at $9 per acre-foot and are growing federally subsidized crops such as cotton. In the vast majority of Bureau of Reclamation projects the initial capital costs have never been paid by the farmers who benefit.
I love following up to myself. Apple MacBook Pro 2.2GHz 2GB NVidia 128MB 120GB 8x Superdrive 802.11a/b/g/n: $1999 ThinkPad T61 2.2GHz 2GB NVidia 128MB 120GB 8x Superdrive 802.11a/b/g/n: $1358 At Lenovo, you save 32%.
Pretty much everything in your post is wrong. Apple rarely sells "the latest technology." They were 14 months behind everybody else introducing quad core processors in the XServe. They stuck with the obsolete PowerPC G4 until the bitter end. They have never offered the fastest video cards from ATI and NVidia in the Mac Pro. And, in general, their equipment is more expensive than the competition.
Example: XServe Dual Xeon E5440, 4GB, 80GB: $3,999. PowerEdge 1950 III Dual Xeon E5440, 4GB, 80GB: $3,137. You save 22% at Dell.
Not sure what you're getting at with the X series. The X21 was a great computer and so was the X40. I still use an X40 to this day, even though I also have an X61, which is _also_ a great computer. In fact I'd put it up against the Macbook Air any day. It's smaller, lighter, and much more functional than the Macbook Air. That said, I have to agree with you on the X300. What's the point? I've never complained about not having a DVD drive on my Thinkpad X. And I've certainly never caught myself wishing it were wider and heavier.
Sure you can emulate the smart card, but not the data on it, which is the important part. I have a PC just like yours but I don't have all the _data_ that's on your PC, so it's not the same.
Do you talk out of your ass all the time, or only here on Slashdot? If you don't understand the way a smart card works, I would advise not yapping about the "easy way around it" that you just pulled out of your hindquarters.
That's really not the same at all. With a SmartCard your keys and certs are in your physical control. The key or cert never leaves the card, and crypto operations also are done on the card. With VeriSign, VeriSign enslaves your identity. They own it, and you have to use the RSA token readout to get VeriSign to unlock your identity temporarily. These are fundamentally different operating principles.
PostgreSQL 8.2 was released in December 2006. In August of 2007, patches were still being committed to Slony-I to fix problems stemming from changes of the semantics of certain SQL operations between 8.1 and 8.2. The list of semantically meaningful changes in 8.3 runs to 20 printed pages. You'll have to please excuse me if I think that not all the problems between Slony-I and PostgreSQL 8.3 have been ironed out yet.
Judging from history, it will be two years or more before slony is compatible with PostgreSQL 8.3. And the intrusive schema changes required of slony are unacceptable to most every DBA I've asked about it.