It had features only accessable from the remote....
My VCR is like that. The Tv/Video button exists only on the remote, which means if the remote ever breaks, the VCR will be entirely useless. There will be no way for me to get picture from the VCR to appear on the TV without that remote.
I'm not sure about traditional mozilla mail, but thunderbird is more than able to set up more than one SMTP server. You just have to click 'advanced' and specify all the ones you need, then go into the server settings for each account and choose the proper smtp server to use.
That's how I do it, and it lets me use my university email address and my ISP's email address, both going through their own respective SMTP servers.
Grow up. This boy was a criminal. He is too young to go to jail in the US, more's the pity.
This statement worries me a lot. Do you believe that the boy should be in prison? Why? Yes, recording a film in a movie theatre is wrong, but it's not so wrong as to warrant jail time. At worst, he should be subject to a small fine.
Set up Fedora 2 on the box, then tweak it such that it automatically logs into a given user, and set that user's windowmanager to be the application that you want to run. Have it automatically restart if it closes (not terribly hard). Then you'd basically have a screenful of that application with no window decorations, you wouln't be able to close it (save for CTRL+ALT+DELETE, which would ideally just restart X and put you back into that application if not disabled entirely).
I think that would be a pretty bullet-proof solution, if you don't mind getting your hands dirty.
Lol, I like your line of reasoning. What makes you think you can take an IP address with you if you can't even hold down a steady IP address when you're not even moving?
People in Thailand can share their copies with their friends and family. But those of us in the rest of the world cannot. It just makes NO sense. We pay MORE for restrictions!!!
It makes perfect sense. The market determines the price; people are willing to pay $300 for a box of windows, so MS charges $300. Other countries can't afford that much, so they reduce the price to help move the product.
The fact that you pay more for more restrictions is just funny; you have alternatives.
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With patents on double clicking, I would more fear an ACTUAL patent infringement claim than a false patent infringement claim. Difference being, we actually are infringing on bogus patents, whereas there is no copyright infringement at all but we're still being harrassed about it.
Find some AMBIENT music from any musician. I would personally recommend Aphex Twin's ambient works, but that's personal taste.
Remember, hold music is meant to just remind the caller that the line has not, in fact, gone dead and that they are still on the line. It should not be anything catchy or particularly enjoyable (because everybody has different tastes and there's no such thing as a song that every person will enjoy).
So just pick something ambient. Preferrably it'll be calming, with no beat.
Whatever you do, please god, don't play popular mainstream music.
Heh, Richard Stallman didn't invent free software either, he just gave it a name.
In fact, software had always been free. Back in the 60's, all software was free. There was no such thing as nonfree software. No programmer thought much about passing software around, it was all shared, with no license (sort of an implicit public domain).
Then Bill Gates came along and invented nonfree software (well, maybe not invented, but he was one of the larger proponents in the early days).
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I think the secret to using emacs comfortably is to map your right alt key (admit it, you've never touched that key in all your life) to be the left control key.
Now I scroll through documents by simply holding down my right alt key and pressing 'n', which is interpreted by Emacs as C-n, which puts you onto the next line of text. C-n is actually very easy to just hold down when it's your right alt key (assuming qwerty layout).
I think it's actually kinda funny with vim using hjkl for movement and emacs using fbnp. f, b, n, and p are MUCH more logical (F for going Forward one character, B for Backward, N for Next line, P for Previous line), it's just that those keys happen to be scattered around the keyboard. Vim just picked wacky letters that have nothing to do with anything, except that they're right next to each other.
I'm actually getting used to Emacs. At first I thought it was inefficient to have to press C-x C-s to save a file, then I realized that it was less keypresses than ESC:wq!. Same with C-x C-c to exit, etc. The pain of holding down two keys at once is easily compensated for by not having to switch modes. Modes in vim always screwed me up; even though I was used to vim commands after years of use, I still found myself trying to type text into command mode or typing commands into insert mode. My brain has been so damaged by vim's modes that you'll often see me typing vim commands into Emacs, it's really embarrassing. "Ok, I want to edit this, press i, oops, delete the i and type what I really wanted..."
Oh, I'll tell you about strange prejudices. My mother has a deep-seated hatred for Mozilla. When I was first trying to get mom to switch to Mozilla, she'd keep saying things like "What's a mozilla? I just want the internet." She HATED mozilla. We were at each other's throats during the time that I was trying to get her to use mozilla.
So I did what any sane geek would do. I renamed the mozilla & mozilla mail icons on her desktop to be "Internet Explorer" and "Outlook Express", and set the icons accordingly. Now my mom's been using mozilla happily for over a year now. It even says 'Mozilla' in the title bar and she's never noticed. She still hates mozilla with a burning passion, she just honestly doesn't know that she's using it. I have no idea what about it she didn't like, but it must have been either the name or the icon, because that's all I changed.
Tried to get her on linux, too, and that was just about equally successful as mozilla (actually less; I wasn't able to satisfactorily disguise linux as windows, mom eventually reverted). I'm just really worried that when I move out, nobody will be here to run ad-aware and virus scanners to make sure there isn't evil spyware stealing her banking info and destroying her life. Feh.
I don't understand what it was that linux couldn't do for her. All she ever does is email & surf anyway (with the occaisional word processing -- primarily just printing off resumes). Linux did all that, I had gnome configured to look like windows with all the same icons in the same place.
I get this bug on slashdot ALL the time (nowhere else, either). The amount of the bleed varies. Sometimes it is 2 pixels, most of the time it is ~15 pixels, sometimes it's so messed up that you can't see the article text anywhere (just the left sidebar takes up the whole page).
For those of you advocating reloading the page, you can do that if you want to waste all your bandwidth. Instead, increase the font size and then shrink it again fixes the alignment for me every time. Slightly less annoying than reloading a handful of times.
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It had features only accessable from the remote....
My VCR is like that. The Tv/Video button exists only on the remote, which means if the remote ever breaks, the VCR will be entirely useless. There will be no way for me to get picture from the VCR to appear on the TV without that remote.
I'm not sure about traditional mozilla mail, but thunderbird is more than able to set up more than one SMTP server. You just have to click 'advanced' and specify all the ones you need, then go into the server settings for each account and choose the proper smtp server to use.
That's how I do it, and it lets me use my university email address and my ISP's email address, both going through their own respective SMTP servers.
So what you're saying is that Apache 2.x is the emacs of web servers? ;)
Grow up. This boy was a criminal. He is too young to go to jail in the US, more's the pity.
This statement worries me a lot. Do you believe that the boy should be in prison? Why? Yes, recording a film in a movie theatre is wrong, but it's not so wrong as to warrant jail time. At worst, he should be subject to a small fine.
I was thinking the same thing. Who the hell uses label making software? Nobody that I know, that's for sure.
Not to say it's a bad program; I just don't see myself ever using it for anything, ever.
This is not a troll.
Set up Fedora 2 on the box, then tweak it such that it automatically logs into a given user, and set that user's windowmanager to be the application that you want to run. Have it automatically restart if it closes (not terribly hard). Then you'd basically have a screenful of that application with no window decorations, you wouln't be able to close it (save for CTRL+ALT+DELETE, which would ideally just restart X and put you back into that application if not disabled entirely).
I think that would be a pretty bullet-proof solution, if you don't mind getting your hands dirty.
Don't forget about your personal PIN identification number!
Lol, I like your line of reasoning. What makes you think you can take an IP address with you if you can't even hold down a steady IP address when you're not even moving?
Judge: "And for remaining to be a monopoly, your reward is..."
I figured 'FS' meant filesystem, but it would have been nice to know what the 'G' meant.
I doubt it's the Google File System. G-Unit File System? Stores all your files in gangsta-rap format!
People in Thailand can share their copies with their friends and family. But those of us in the rest of the world cannot. It just makes NO sense. We pay MORE for restrictions!!!
It makes perfect sense. The market determines the price; people are willing to pay $300 for a box of windows, so MS charges $300. Other countries can't afford that much, so they reduce the price to help move the product.
The fact that you pay more for more restrictions is just funny; you have alternatives.
With patents on double clicking, I would more fear an ACTUAL patent infringement claim than a false patent infringement claim. Difference being, we actually are infringing on bogus patents, whereas there is no copyright infringement at all but we're still being harrassed about it.
What the hell are you talking about? First time I hit next it's the same picture, hit again and I get a (fully clothed) surfer dude.
Perhaps Heliosphan would be more relaxing ;)
Or maybe even Alberto Balsalm.
Find some AMBIENT music from any musician. I would personally recommend Aphex Twin's ambient works, but that's personal taste.
Remember, hold music is meant to just remind the caller that the line has not, in fact, gone dead and that they are still on the line. It should not be anything catchy or particularly enjoyable (because everybody has different tastes and there's no such thing as a song that every person will enjoy).
So just pick something ambient. Preferrably it'll be calming, with no beat.
Whatever you do, please god, don't play popular mainstream music.
Torrent ratio? You can configure that?
Yeah, it's called "closing the torrent when you're satisfied with what the ratio is".
Please leave your torrent open until it's uploaded just slightly more than it's downloaded.
Wow, that's pretty slick... I prefer iCandy Junior, though, because it fits in a little better with the rest of my system.
Oh, it's too true, painfully true...
Heh, Richard Stallman didn't invent free software either, he just gave it a name.
In fact, software had always been free. Back in the 60's, all software was free. There was no such thing as nonfree software. No programmer thought much about passing software around, it was all shared, with no license (sort of an implicit public domain).
Then Bill Gates came along and invented nonfree software (well, maybe not invented, but he was one of the larger proponents in the early days).
I think the secret to using emacs comfortably is to map your right alt key (admit it, you've never touched that key in all your life) to be the left control key.
:wq!. Same with C-x C-c to exit, etc. The pain of holding down two keys at once is easily compensated for by not having to switch modes. Modes in vim always screwed me up; even though I was used to vim commands after years of use, I still found myself trying to type text into command mode or typing commands into insert mode. My brain has been so damaged by vim's modes that you'll often see me typing vim commands into Emacs, it's really embarrassing. "Ok, I want to edit this, press i, oops, delete the i and type what I really wanted..."
Now I scroll through documents by simply holding down my right alt key and pressing 'n', which is interpreted by Emacs as C-n, which puts you onto the next line of text. C-n is actually very easy to just hold down when it's your right alt key (assuming qwerty layout).
I think it's actually kinda funny with vim using hjkl for movement and emacs using fbnp. f, b, n, and p are MUCH more logical (F for going Forward one character, B for Backward, N for Next line, P for Previous line), it's just that those keys happen to be scattered around the keyboard. Vim just picked wacky letters that have nothing to do with anything, except that they're right next to each other.
I'm actually getting used to Emacs. At first I thought it was inefficient to have to press C-x C-s to save a file, then I realized that it was less keypresses than ESC
I sure picked a great time to switch to Emacs.
;)
Oh well, at least I'm enjoying Emacs
Oh, I'll tell you about strange prejudices. My mother has a deep-seated hatred for Mozilla. When I was first trying to get mom to switch to Mozilla, she'd keep saying things like "What's a mozilla? I just want the internet." She HATED mozilla. We were at each other's throats during the time that I was trying to get her to use mozilla.
So I did what any sane geek would do. I renamed the mozilla & mozilla mail icons on her desktop to be "Internet Explorer" and "Outlook Express", and set the icons accordingly. Now my mom's been using mozilla happily for over a year now. It even says 'Mozilla' in the title bar and she's never noticed. She still hates mozilla with a burning passion, she just honestly doesn't know that she's using it. I have no idea what about it she didn't like, but it must have been either the name or the icon, because that's all I changed.
Tried to get her on linux, too, and that was just about equally successful as mozilla (actually less; I wasn't able to satisfactorily disguise linux as windows, mom eventually reverted). I'm just really worried that when I move out, nobody will be here to run ad-aware and virus scanners to make sure there isn't evil spyware stealing her banking info and destroying her life. Feh.
I don't understand what it was that linux couldn't do for her. All she ever does is email & surf anyway (with the occaisional word processing -- primarily just printing off resumes). Linux did all that, I had gnome configured to look like windows with all the same icons in the same place.
I like you, you're on my friends list for that.
;)
And I would like to end this post by saying that Microsoft throws like a girl, and smells of cheese!
I don't remember the last time I loaded up /. and it didn't look like that.
I get this bug on slashdot ALL the time (nowhere else, either). The amount of the bleed varies. Sometimes it is 2 pixels, most of the time it is ~15 pixels, sometimes it's so messed up that you can't see the article text anywhere (just the left sidebar takes up the whole page).
For those of you advocating reloading the page, you can do that if you want to waste all your bandwidth. Instead, increase the font size and then shrink it again fixes the alignment for me every time. Slightly less annoying than reloading a handful of times.