IMO, anyone who relies entirely on their mobile phone without at least having a land line as a backup is a fool. Mobile phones are great, don't get me wrong. They're small, they're convenient.
However, does anyone here remember September 11, 2001, and/or the New York blackout of August 2003? Land lines worked well. However, mobile phones, including mine, did not work at all. If all you had was a mobile phone and you wanted to try to reach a loved one, you were screwed. I, as well as many others, learned from both experiences that it's completely foolhardy to solely rely on a mobile telephone.
Your solution is at hand.
NVU is a multi-platform "spin-off" of Mozilla Composer, based on the Gecko 1.7.5 engine used by the Mozilla Suite and Firefox 1.0.
Honestly, who cares what the world wants? In the arena of American politics, only Americans matter. We don't dictate who should become President of France or Prime Minister of Australia. No one outside of America should have a say in who leads America.
Besides, what may be good for Europe may not be, and most likely isn't, good for America.
BREAKING NEWS: The Genesis Device failed. Investigators believe that the illegal substance, protomatter, was improperly used in creation of the Device, leading to an unstable core. The investigators believe this was the ultimate cause of its failure. Dr. David Marcus, head of the Genesis Project, has gone into hiding.
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Totally incorrect. While the Release Candidate was released on Monday, which is what you linked to, the new 0.7 is the official release two days later as no major problems were found with the Release Candidate.
For more information, see here.
I concur with the recommendations of Settlers of Catan and Chess. In addition, I'd also recommend Trivial Pursuit, which is a good social game as well as an excellent brain tease.
Foremost however, I can't believe my absolute favorite board game has yet to be mentioned. Axis & Allies! Avalon Hill just recently released a Revised edition of the game in celebration of its 20th anniversary. It's a fantastic game for 2-5 players that pits countries (the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union), against each other in the middle of World War II. It's a strategy game that can last for several hours.
Somehow though, I almost always wind up playing Russia...
Programming is a talent. Some people have it, most people don't. Just as I may be able to play the piano, but you may not be able to hope to be able to play "Happy Birthday" on one, it shouldn't be expected for everyone to either learn to nor know how to program.
Your mother may not have the gift of being able to program. You would probably be better off showing her some other things to do on a computer, something she might be able to easier grasp.
On an aside, that's one of the things I hate about Linux zealots. "Blah blah can't blah blah!" "Well, it's open source so go in the source and fix it to blah blah yourself!" While you may be a fantastic programmer, you shouldn't expect anyone else to be one or learn how to program, just as a musician trained in the classics doesn't expect anyone in his audience to be able to belt out a pleasing operatic tune at his or her request.
"How could you teach a course in warp propulsion dynamics, for example?"
I dunno about you, but one good way of explaining the concept of warp propulsion to me would be, "Ted Kennedy - when the pants fell!" Never before in my life would I have run so fast.
Sprock! The only reason I pre-ordered SuSE 9.1 Personal Edition was for the included SuSE Live CD, so I wouldn't have to download and burn it. I haven't even gotten the CD in the mail yet, but when I do, all it will be good for is to be used as a coaster.
Well sprock me. I'm out $40 (including the $10 for shipping & handling), for nothing. I suppose that'll teach me for showing support and buying a live CD. Thanks Novell and SuSE!
Just FYI, you can find a transcript of the local news station's (WPVI's), report here. WPVI even takes credit for informing the local police. If anything, what WPVI did was abuse of journalism, IMO. They in effect created their own story, and effected the operation of a large ISP as a result.
Here is my solution to spam, utilizing a combination of SpamAssassin and Sieve scripting on a FastMail account.
First, I set my account to scan all incoming e-mail for viruses and trojans. Any e-mail with an infected attachment is automatically deleted. Secondly, I set SpamAssassin to mark any spam with the score 4.1 or higher and move it to a "Junk" folder. Any spam with the score 10 or higher that is sent from anyone who doesn't match my address book is automatically deleted. Any e-mail that is HTML only is rejected and sent back to the sender. Since SpamAssassin doesn't scan e-mail above 249 Kb in size, I have it set to automatically let any e-mail above that size into my Inbox, since it's *most likely* not spam. Then, any e-mail that doesn't meet any or all of the above criteria, but doesn't match any address in my address book, is filtered into a "Gray List" folder, which is periodically reviewed every two-three days or so. Only e-mails that don't meet any or all of the above with e-mail addresses that match my address book are let into my Inbox.
It's a rather complicated system, but it works. For anyone else that uses FastMail (it most likely won't work anywhere else due to FastMail's unique headers), here's my Sieve script -
Could that line be any more biased? Exactly how is FairPlay fair use? When the RIAA started cracking down on MP3/digital music sharing, the most common excuse given by those who download and/or share was that it was because CDs were too expensive, and they just wanted one or two songs off of an album that they could download. They even claimed that if they could do this legally for the appropriate price, they would.
Well, Apple (along with others), have granted you your request... tracks off an album you can legally purchase and download without spending $10+ on a CD. But what do some thieves do anyway? They go ahead and download it for free anyway, going around the protections made by the owners and original distributors of the content.
So, what is your excuse now? When it comes down to it, those who are involved in FairPlay and those who use it are nothing more than common thieves, and should be treated appropriately.
What the article fails to mention however that there appears to be a point of contension between Mozilla developers over whether or not the next long-lived stable branch of Mozilla should be 1.7 or 1.8. Many feel that it is too late in 1.7's development cycle to make it the next stable branch after 1.4. For more information, see here. It's a shame that the Mozilla Foundation apparently feels pressured to make decisions based on time frames instead of quality.
"programming error that resulted in 28 Panamanian cancer patients receiving many times an expected lethal dose of radiation"
"Doctor David Banner - physician, scientist; searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have..."
Oh, I'm sorry, '70s relapse. Well, at least in this case, there aren't any shirtless green Lou Ferrignos running around Panama...
Slashdot should add a nasalnaut to its roster. S/he would sniff out the bullshit coming from the editors, and appropriately approve or reject their stories.
Is it just me, or does open source have an incredibly difficult time naming stuff? Red Hat's distribution becomes Fedora Core, Mozilla Phoenix becomes Firebird then Mozilla Firebird and now Firefox, and now this... I know most open source projects are started by people just tinkering for their own ends, but I'd suggest greater care in choosing a name, because all this name changing will result in nothing but confusion for the target audience.
I won the recent Netscape auction for the Jack at netscape dot com e-mail address and a "free" year's worth of dial-up access.
Once I logged into the e-mail account, I noticed it was a little spammy, but that was to be expected. AOL/Netscape was generous though and gave me a one hundred megabyte POP3 e-mail account.
However, yesterday evening, I noticed an influx of about *2,000* e-mails in about a four hour period.
All were related to MyDoom, either with the virus attached or bounces due to forged "from" addresses. Since then, I've been getting an average of 830 e-mails per *hour*. My Netscape e-mail account has reached the 100 megabyte e-mail quota twice so far, with over 13,000 e-mails each time, and after I clean it out, it starts to fill back up again. There's just no end in sight. The e-mail account is completely useless to me now. I should have known bidding on that auction was a bad idea.:( In the meantime, I've had to make the e-mail account white listed, meaning it now only accepts e-mail from known e-mail addresses, until I can figure out an equitable solution.
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Lara doesn't have to win back the hearts of gamers. She'd do well to win back the pants of gamers.
Not saying that that objective is what makes a good game, but it surely fits the target audience of the series...
In addition to World of Warcraft, WoW also stands for World of Waiting.
Waiting to log on... waiting for instances to open up... waiting for Battlegrounds... waiting for patches...
And a good place to buy games on-line (other than Amazon), is...?
Just a correction to the original story, Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.*7* was released today, not 1.7.
IMO, anyone who relies entirely on their mobile phone without at least having a land line as a backup is a fool. Mobile phones are great, don't get me wrong. They're small, they're convenient.
However, does anyone here remember September 11, 2001, and/or the New York blackout of August 2003? Land lines worked well. However, mobile phones, including mine, did not work at all. If all you had was a mobile phone and you wanted to try to reach a loved one, you were screwed. I, as well as many others, learned from both experiences that it's completely foolhardy to solely rely on a mobile telephone.
Your solution is at hand. NVU is a multi-platform "spin-off" of Mozilla Composer, based on the Gecko 1.7.5 engine used by the Mozilla Suite and Firefox 1.0.
Honestly, who cares what the world wants? In the arena of American politics, only Americans matter. We don't dictate who should become President of France or Prime Minister of Australia. No one outside of America should have a say in who leads America.
Besides, what may be good for Europe may not be, and most likely isn't, good for America.
BREAKING NEWS: The Genesis Device failed. Investigators believe that the illegal substance, protomatter, was improperly used in creation of the Device, leading to an unstable core. The investigators believe this was the ultimate cause of its failure. Dr. David Marcus, head of the Genesis Project, has gone into hiding.
The problem with HydraIRC is that it claims to be open source, but in reality is anything but. For instance their developer license states that while the source for HydraIRC is available, you are not allowed to fork it. Plus, the end-user license is odd... it includes provisions forbiding any employees of any government agency from using it.
Totally incorrect. While the Release Candidate was released on Monday, which is what you linked to, the new 0.7 is the official release two days later as no major problems were found with the Release Candidate. For more information, see here.
I concur with the recommendations of Settlers of Catan and Chess. In addition, I'd also recommend Trivial Pursuit, which is a good social game as well as an excellent brain tease.
Foremost however, I can't believe my absolute favorite board game has yet to be mentioned. Axis & Allies! Avalon Hill just recently released a Revised edition of the game in celebration of its 20th anniversary. It's a fantastic game for 2-5 players that pits countries (the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union), against each other in the middle of World War II. It's a strategy game that can last for several hours.
Somehow though, I almost always wind up playing Russia...
Programming is a talent. Some people have it, most people don't. Just as I may be able to play the piano, but you may not be able to hope to be able to play "Happy Birthday" on one, it shouldn't be expected for everyone to either learn to nor know how to program.
Your mother may not have the gift of being able to program. You would probably be better off showing her some other things to do on a computer, something she might be able to easier grasp.
On an aside, that's one of the things I hate about Linux zealots. "Blah blah can't blah blah!" "Well, it's open source so go in the source and fix it to blah blah yourself!" While you may be a fantastic programmer, you shouldn't expect anyone else to be one or learn how to program, just as a musician trained in the classics doesn't expect anyone in his audience to be able to belt out a pleasing operatic tune at his or her request.
"How could you teach a course in warp propulsion dynamics, for example?"
I dunno about you, but one good way of explaining the concept of warp propulsion to me would be, "Ted Kennedy - when the pants fell!" Never before in my life would I have run so fast.
Sprock! The only reason I pre-ordered SuSE 9.1 Personal Edition was for the included SuSE Live CD, so I wouldn't have to download and burn it. I haven't even gotten the CD in the mail yet, but when I do, all it will be good for is to be used as a coaster.
Well sprock me. I'm out $40 (including the $10 for shipping & handling), for nothing. I suppose that'll teach me for showing support and buying a live CD. Thanks Novell and SuSE!
Just FYI, you can find a transcript of the local news station's (WPVI's), report here. WPVI even takes credit for informing the local police. If anything, what WPVI did was abuse of journalism, IMO. They in effect created their own story, and effected the operation of a large ISP as a result.
After installing all the appropriate device drivers, the first ten items on my list would be -
1. Symantec Drive Image 2. OpenOffice.org 3. Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 4. NOD32 Anti-Virus 5. PestPatrol 6. iolo System Mechanic 7. WinRAR 8. Mozilla Firefox 9. UltraEdit 10. Nero Burning ROM
The first provider of free 1 gigabyte of e-mail storage is actually Spymac. Spymac beat both Gmail and this Israeli provider to the punch.
Here is my solution to spam, utilizing a combination of SpamAssassin and Sieve scripting on a FastMail account.
:contains "X-Spam-hits" "MIME_HTML_ONLY" { :contains "subject" "Infected file rejected", header :contains "X-Spam-hits" "FVGT_S_MULTI_OBFU_3", header :contains "X-Spam-hits" "NIGERIAN_BODY", header :contains "X-Spam-hits" "RM_sl_Parens") { :contains ["X-Spam-known-sender"] "yes" { :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["10"] { :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["4"] { :over 249K { :contains "X-Spam-known-sender" "yes" {
First, I set my account to scan all incoming e-mail for viruses and trojans. Any e-mail with an infected attachment is automatically deleted. Secondly, I set SpamAssassin to mark any spam with the score 4.1 or higher and move it to a "Junk" folder. Any spam with the score 10 or higher that is sent from anyone who doesn't match my address book is automatically deleted. Any e-mail that is HTML only is rejected and sent back to the sender. Since SpamAssassin doesn't scan e-mail above 249 Kb in size, I have it set to automatically let any e-mail above that size into my Inbox, since it's *most likely* not spam. Then, any e-mail that doesn't meet any or all of the above criteria, but doesn't match any address in my address book, is filtered into a "Gray List" folder, which is periodically reviewed every two-three days or so. Only e-mails that don't meet any or all of the above with e-mail addresses that match my address book are let into my Inbox.
It's a rather complicated system, but it works. For anyone else that uses FastMail (it most likely won't work anywhere else due to FastMail's unique headers), here's my Sieve script -
require ["envelope", "fileinto", "reject", "vacation", "regex", "relational", "comparator-i;ascii-numeric"];
if header
reject "Message bounced by server content filter";
stop;
}
if anyof( header
discard;
stop;
}
if not header
if header
discard;
stop;
}
if header
fileinto "INBOX.Junk";
stop;
}
}
if size
fileinto "Inbox";
} elsif not header
fileinto "INBOX.Gray List";
}
from the fair-use-foiled-again dept.
Could that line be any more biased? Exactly how is FairPlay fair use? When the RIAA started cracking down on MP3/digital music sharing, the most common excuse given by those who download and/or share was that it was because CDs were too expensive, and they just wanted one or two songs off of an album that they could download. They even claimed that if they could do this legally for the appropriate price, they would.
Well, Apple (along with others), have granted you your request... tracks off an album you can legally purchase and download without spending $10+ on a CD. But what do some thieves do anyway? They go ahead and download it for free anyway, going around the protections made by the owners and original distributors of the content.
So, what is your excuse now? When it comes down to it, those who are involved in FairPlay and those who use it are nothing more than common thieves, and should be treated appropriately.
Yep, now we see, he is dead. In the water that is. When a public figures decide to go on a non-popular crusade, they're dead men walking.
Rather ironic then that he lost a Senate re-election to a dead man, eh?
What the article fails to mention however that there appears to be a point of contension between Mozilla developers over whether or not the next long-lived stable branch of Mozilla should be 1.7 or 1.8. Many feel that it is too late in 1.7's development cycle to make it the next stable branch after 1.4. For more information, see here. It's a shame that the Mozilla Foundation apparently feels pressured to make decisions based on time frames instead of quality.
"programming error that resulted in 28 Panamanian cancer patients receiving many times an expected lethal dose of radiation" "Doctor David Banner - physician, scientist; searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have..." Oh, I'm sorry, '70s relapse. Well, at least in this case, there aren't any shirtless green Lou Ferrignos running around Panama...
Slashdot should add a nasalnaut to its roster. S/he would sniff out the bullshit coming from the editors, and appropriately approve or reject their stories.
Is it just me, or does open source have an incredibly difficult time naming stuff? Red Hat's distribution becomes Fedora Core, Mozilla Phoenix becomes Firebird then Mozilla Firebird and now Firefox, and now this... I know most open source projects are started by people just tinkering for their own ends, but I'd suggest greater care in choosing a name, because all this name changing will result in nothing but confusion for the target audience.
Once I logged into the e-mail account, I noticed it was a little spammy, but that was to be expected. AOL/Netscape was generous though and gave me a one hundred megabyte POP3 e-mail account.
However, yesterday evening, I noticed an influx of about *2,000* e-mails in about a four hour period. All were related to MyDoom, either with the virus attached or bounces due to forged "from" addresses. Since then, I've been getting an average of 830 e-mails per *hour*. My Netscape e-mail account has reached the 100 megabyte e-mail quota twice so far, with over 13,000 e-mails each time, and after I clean it out, it starts to fill back up again. There's just no end in sight. The e-mail account is completely useless to me now. I should have known bidding on that auction was a bad idea. :( In the meantime, I've had to make the e-mail account white listed, meaning it now only accepts e-mail from known e-mail addresses, until I can figure out an equitable solution.