True, I didn't make that sentence very clear. I have two of the 'normal' US versions of the non clicking keyboard. But I have seen a few of the same type in Mexico, but with the annoying Alt-GR key...
True, my Compaq has USB, Firewire, and audio ports on the front. However, Compaq does not support their consumer-grade equipment with Windows 2000, so my newest machine is a home-brew Athlon machine running Linux. Compaq was really a fucker on that deal...
Anybody encountered a buggy bot coming from herring.singingfish.com? My web server log showed thousands of duplicate entries last week for the same file. I traced it through the log, and it was spidering along fine, and then got stuck on a file and re-requested it over 3500 times, each request 9.5k. Really annoying bandwidth sucker.
My favorite keyboard is the rather rare big heavy 101-key IBM PC keyboards that DO NOT click! They really do exist, I am typing on one right now... I have only come across three in my life (I own two of them), well, no, I ran into a few non-clicking 102-key ones in Mexico, but those are two weird to use - "[alt gr]-q" to get an @ symbol... Bizaare.
Anybody else like them or know where to get them? I'd be interested in getting a few more.
Exactly! Thus why we use the term "Orwellian" to describe the scary feeling that something is just not right in the world today and things seem to be only getting scarier! If only we could point to exactly what is causing that!
Actually, it's not stupid, and has great applications as a geographically restricted tree-structure.
As far as for uses with moving locations, we already have a system in place with the.com 'structure'.
As far as uses with multiple locations. You either go with a.com, or you get a.us address for each of your locations, the same as you get a different postal address for each location. It's not so bad.
Think before you wish for the.us to be rebuilt into the same amorphous chaos that.com is in. Use.us if geographics is important (Must be, or you would find no importance in having a.us on the end), use.com if you don't want to deal with the enforced geostructure.
I don't get it... What did it do? You would send in questions and it would (Presumably via AI) respond via the idiosyncracies of a real or imagined person?? Was it real or just bullshit?
What is it with these people that think that the number of bugs reported by BugTraq have anything to do with the quality of an OS? I would take them more seriously if they listed the number of bugs that HAVE NOT been fixed.
So what if there are a large number of bugs reported? Sounds like they have an agenda AGAINST getting bugs found and fixed. Currently, it is used as a bad mark against any OS to have a bug reported. I would rather have the bugs reported so that they can be fixed, than to have them go unreported and unaddressed.
Just think, us with the hacker mentality get our own resynquencers, start hacking the human genome for all kinda GNU (Genome is Not 'uman) mods, then we will end up with a massive DNA code fork and we can then have unending flamewars about which distro of human is best. May even bring new meaning to the Unix/Eunuchs joke!
And now if we could just get Netscape/Mozilla to release JUST a browser. I'd use it. Mozilla people - I highly doubt I will be using your mail client or HTML editor. I have never seen an HTML WYSIWYG editor that lets me have the flexibility of a text editor. They all seem do do strange things to your code. I use UltraEdit, nothing else.
Mozilla: All we want is a fucking usable kick-ass browser. Don't lose your focus!!!
At least right now, AMD has the game. Intel is losing on at least two fronts - CPU and motherboard chipsets.
Just this week, I bought an ASUS K7V with the VIA chipset supporting 200 MHz Front Side Bus and an Athlon 800 (Best price to performance for the nonce). No Intel at all (Maybe some of the smaller chips, but none of the main features.)
If Intel wants to go to sleep, so be it. It's nice that there is competition in both the hardward and OS arena (aka, this box is running Linux, not any sucky overpriced Win2K stuff...)
What happens if you glance at the clock, or look around for a piece of paper, or stare at the hot babe walking by, and then suddenly realize your desktop has rearranged itself in some ridulous way.
Or what if banner ads somehow mess with the attention threshold so that if your eyes focus anywhere within six feet of the screen that it will suddenly act like you clicked on it.
So, what to do about it? Nothing else supports an encrypted login, other than by switching to full SSL/TLS. Basic Authentication blasts your ID & password in clear text across the network. Shitty as hell. Netscape, Opera, all the rest don't support anything but Basic Auth. No wonder people are using IE.
Mozilla and Opera need to shit or get off the pot. You cannot use them for any serious authenticated connections, so they get ignored...
> You can be perfectly safe, more or less, but you'll be living in a police state. > Perhaps we already are. "Perhaps we already are" - that's really scary, putting it that way. How true! Now I lay me down to sleep, to be programmed like mutant sheep...
This is the kind of stuff that should be illegal. Randomly sampling people as they walk by is no better than randomly searching peoples houses.
This is precisely what is described by "Illegal search" (and maybe even seizure, as they are effectively taking pieces of you as you walk by). In a perfect world, I doubt this would stand up in court, as the "due process" required has to be done on an individual basis, not on a broad scope of mostly innocent people.
What kind of people use their engineering talent to make such things? I would refuse. People do not see the long term cyclical nature of government. Everyone should take an Ancient Western Civilization class. Watch how the ancient civilizations grew, became strong, then became oppresive, then were overthrown for the greater good of humanity. This stuff will only prolong the suffering of humanity when the current civilization's time has come, making it difficult for the cycle to advance to the next level. Instead we end up in a totalitarian, invasive sitiuation.
Don't forget the children who have to live in this world we create...
I don't understand your point about CDs and Floppies being a bad idea:
> Some of the things schools have latched onto only make things more difficult. Using CDs in a lab is a bad idea. Using MacOS or Windows 95/98 with a lab can be quite difficult (RevRDist is great, but few schools seem to know about it). Having everyone with their personal floppy disk isn't great either. The technology is very flashy with absolutely no substance, and as a result computers aren't functional. And these are new computers, at that.
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True, I didn't make that sentence very clear. I have two of the 'normal' US versions of the non clicking keyboard. But I have seen a few of the same type in Mexico, but with the annoying Alt-GR key...
What do subatomic particles/quarks have to do with Angels??
True, my Compaq has USB, Firewire, and audio ports on the front. However, Compaq does not support their consumer-grade equipment with Windows 2000, so my newest machine is a home-brew Athlon machine running Linux. Compaq was really a fucker on that deal...
Anybody encountered a buggy bot coming from herring.singingfish.com? My web server log showed thousands of duplicate entries last week for the same file. I traced it through the log, and it was spidering along fine, and then got stuck on a file and re-requested it over 3500 times, each request 9.5k. Really annoying bandwidth sucker.
My favorite keyboard is the rather rare big heavy 101-key IBM PC keyboards that DO NOT click! They really do exist, I am typing on one right now... I have only come across three in my life (I own two of them), well, no, I ran into a few non-clicking 102-key ones in Mexico, but those are two weird to use - "[alt gr]-q" to get an @ symbol... Bizaare. Anybody else like them or know where to get them? I'd be interested in getting a few more.
Christie Brinkley, Elle McPherson, and several others come to mind!
Exactly! Thus why we use the term "Orwellian" to describe the scary feeling that something is just not right in the world today and things seem to be only getting scarier! If only we could point to exactly what is causing that!
Hahaha :) That's how I am going to refer to my Cow Orkers from now on...
As far as for uses with moving locations, we already have a system in place with the .com 'structure'.
As far as uses with multiple locations. You either go with a .com, or you get a .us address for each of your locations, the same as you get a different postal address for each location. It's not so bad.
Think before you wish for the .us to be rebuilt into the same amorphous chaos that .com is in. Use .us if geographics is important (Must be, or you would find no importance in having a .us on the end), use .com if you don't want to deal with the enforced geostructure.
What's this about a more American ZZ Top? I'm curious, I've never heard of it. Anybody got any more info?
I don't get it... What did it do? You would send in questions and it would (Presumably via AI) respond via the idiosyncracies of a real or imagined person?? Was it real or just bullshit?
So what if there are a large number of bugs reported? Sounds like they have an agenda AGAINST getting bugs found and fixed. Currently, it is used as a bad mark against any OS to have a bug reported. I would rather have the bugs reported so that they can be fixed, than to have them go unreported and unaddressed.
It'll be a scary world! :)
Amen brother! :)
Is is only me, or are there other out there who find anti-aliased text to be rather fuzzy and hard on the eyes? Give me anti-aliased any day...
Mozilla: All we want is a fucking usable kick-ass browser. Don't lose your focus!!!
Just this week, I bought an ASUS K7V with the VIA chipset supporting 200 MHz Front Side Bus and an Athlon 800 (Best price to performance for the nonce). No Intel at all (Maybe some of the smaller chips, but none of the main features.)
If Intel wants to go to sleep, so be it. It's nice that there is competition in both the hardward and OS arena (aka, this box is running Linux, not any sucky overpriced Win2K stuff...)
It wasn't quite twice as many, but there were definitely more. See more info at http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ ein.html
Or what if banner ads somehow mess with the attention threshold so that if your eyes focus anywhere within six feet of the screen that it will suddenly act like you clicked on it.
I dunno, sounds pretty hokey to me...
What is an OAP???
Mozilla and Opera need to shit or get off the pot. You cannot use them for any serious authenticated connections, so they get ignored...
> You can be perfectly safe, more or less, but you'll be living in a police state. > Perhaps we already are. "Perhaps we already are" - that's really scary, putting it that way. How true! Now I lay me down to sleep, to be programmed like mutant sheep...
This is precisely what is described by "Illegal search" (and maybe even seizure, as they are effectively taking pieces of you as you walk by). In a perfect world, I doubt this would stand up in court, as the "due process" required has to be done on an individual basis, not on a broad scope of mostly innocent people.
What kind of people use their engineering talent to make such things? I would refuse. People do not see the long term cyclical nature of government. Everyone should take an Ancient Western Civilization class. Watch how the ancient civilizations grew, became strong, then became oppresive, then were overthrown for the greater good of humanity. This stuff will only prolong the suffering of humanity when the current civilization's time has come, making it difficult for the cycle to advance to the next level. Instead we end up in a totalitarian, invasive sitiuation.
Don't forget the children who have to live in this world we create...
> Some of the things schools have latched onto only make things more difficult. Using CDs in a lab is a bad idea. Using MacOS or Windows 95/98 with a lab can be quite difficult (RevRDist is great, but few schools seem to know about it). Having everyone with their personal floppy disk isn't great either. The technology is very flashy with absolutely no substance, and as a result computers aren't functional. And these are new computers, at that.
What exactly is bad about CDs & Floppies??
What do you mean by that?