I have a friend that I tried to switch over to GMail, but there were two reasons that she didn't.
Reason one was that she liked the Hotmail domain (WTF?)
Reason two? Hotmail went to 250MB storage. They've also extended the deadlines for checking your account, last I've heard.
(And had I been more upfront that it was Google, she'd have run from me as if I were holding a dead badger... I swear, if she ever finds google-watch, she'll go NUTS... what I don't get, though, is that she doesn't trust Google, yet she trusts MS...)
Slashdot's "crap HTML parser" failed it correctly. <pathetic mode> is taken and compared with the valid tags. "pathetic" isn't a valid tag, so it's rejected (there's a couple VERY good reasons for this - they're called the "script" tag and the "embed" tag).
Even if Slashdot had let it through, though, your browser would have ignored the tags anyway, as "pathetic" isn't a valid tag, last I checked...
(btw - & lt; and & gt; were how I got the < and > (without the spaces between the & and the l or g))
HIS best bet is to go to a thrift store, and get another Model M. Mine was all of $1 - it's not worth anyone's time attempting to repair a Model M.
That said, this is a Model M we're dealing with, and not a Model F (old 84 key). That means that it's hybrid BS/membrane technology. Didn't know that?
The Model F used capacitive switches that the BS mechanism triggered, but the M is at its heart a membrane keyboard, just not a direct membrane. (that's why I say direct membrane or rubber dome when I'm talking about a cheapy non-BS KB)
FWIW, I'd rather use my 08-19-91 1391401 versus my 1993 (don't know the P/N - it's a Lexmark 52G P/N, but I don't have the KB where I can get it). No drainage holes, but better feel...
If there's a utility to adjust FS permissions from the command line in Windows, you oughta have set it up as a service (or a scheduled task, IIRC).
Services run as LocalSystem.
LocalSystem == root. (Administrator level can't actually do everything, LocalSystem can. It's kinda like a forced su policy. LocalSystem can't be logged into, but Administrator level has full control over it.)
I've done that on a WinME system. What's the first thing that a Win9x-class system accesses? That's right, IO.SYS. Then, MSDOS.SYS. KRNL386.EXE is next up, IIRC. Amazingly, it didn't corrupt those. It only started corrupting stuff when it got to IFSHLP.SYS (read: long filename support). KRNL386 froze the system right there, but when it looked up the location of IFSHLP.SYS, it nuked BOTH FATs... and there were no backups of this system with irreplaceable data...
I installed Win2K on another hard drive (the one I was trying to get installed to move the data over to - this was a Dell, and I had to move lots of cables around...), and managed to reconstruct enough of a FAT to get to the files...
However, he wasn't referring to today's processors, anyway. The article he referenced was too new for the job - that refers to K7, whereas this is a K6...
However, the OS would detect the gateway, and nuke the PC. Either that, or it would tell the ISP, and the connection would be shut down. Nice try, though...
However, I think we'd be pushed beyond needing an ISP - if the backbones implement the Trusted Network crap, the Internet will be irrelevant.
Then, we're to a second underground Internet using 802.11g or n (both in the 2.4GHz spectrum, and I doubt that the FCC could jam it easily), or dial-up, but not Internet style - BBS style.
Well, some bloggers may not like the changes. Look at all the Karma: Normals and ACs here that were pissed about the captchas here when Taco rolled them out...
I'm going to enable it on mine, though. I've never had comment spam, but seeing as mine is gaining PageRank, I wouldn't be surprised if I DO get some soon...
As I read it, it was somewhat more nefarious. It was describing something to remove from the public listing all blogs that had content that the public considered objectionable.
That said, Google claims that they'll do nothing to the blog itself, except possibly put a warning that it's got objectionable content, if it's reported as objectionable enough times. They WILL remove it from the public listing, though.
Yes, I know Slash has a JID field. However, what about phpBB, vBulletin, IPB, etc., etc.?
I know there IS the dirty hack of putting the JID in the MSN field (very effective on phpBB, because the MSN button links to the profile) - the reverse of which is often done here on Slashdot...
this could remedy all the 3rd party client-breaking shennanigans that MSN, AIM, or Yahoo messenger is always trying to pull!
That's one of the advantages to using Jabber. Jabber servers can run MSN, AIM, Yahoo, and ICQ connectivity modules. The connectivity modules can be replaced if need be.
Hmm... I've got full IM logs on all of my MSN convos that I've had since I've installed it on this lappy.
Not VERY searchable, but if I know who sent it to me, it's a simple right click contact, "View Message History", click "Search", type what I'm looking for.
Well, I know a few people on MSN, one of which is in Europe...
There have been times where I was going to IM someone, until I saw that they didn't have MSN (and nobody advertises having a Jabber account - I usually run a Jabber client, too).
I do believe that people even sold kits to do that to an IBM Selectric. In fact, I think IBM themselves may have published info on how to connect one to a mainframe for both input and output...
(I can't confirm that, though. However, people HAVE done it for I and O on the Selectric.)
If someone's trained to properly use a manual, that's what they'll prefer. They'll hate the key response of an electric, or a Model M.
Then, us Model M aficionados (wow, I actualy speeled it rite!) like the key response of electrics, and hate the key response of direct membranes and electronics (which usually use direct membrane keyboards).
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Very good point.
I have a friend that I tried to switch over to GMail, but there were two reasons that she didn't.
Reason one was that she liked the Hotmail domain (WTF?)
Reason two? Hotmail went to 250MB storage. They've also extended the deadlines for checking your account, last I've heard.
(And had I been more upfront that it was Google, she'd have run from me as if I were holding a dead badger... I swear, if she ever finds google-watch, she'll go NUTS... what I don't get, though, is that she doesn't trust Google, yet she trusts MS...)
A Customizer 101 42H1292U should be IDENTICAL to a Lexmark-manufactured 42H1292, except for a Unicomp logo instead of a IBM logo.
Same factory, and (as I understand) same staff, so it should be the same keyboard...
Actually...
Slashdot's "crap HTML parser" failed it correctly. <pathetic mode> is taken and compared with the valid tags. "pathetic" isn't a valid tag, so it's rejected (there's a couple VERY good reasons for this - they're called the "script" tag and the "embed" tag).
Even if Slashdot had let it through, though, your browser would have ignored the tags anyway, as "pathetic" isn't a valid tag, last I checked...
(btw - & lt; and & gt; were how I got the < and > (without the spaces between the & and the l or g))
HIS best bet is to go to a thrift store, and get another Model M. Mine was all of $1 - it's not worth anyone's time attempting to repair a Model M.
That said, this is a Model M we're dealing with, and not a Model F (old 84 key). That means that it's hybrid BS/membrane technology. Didn't know that?
The Model F used capacitive switches that the BS mechanism triggered, but the M is at its heart a membrane keyboard, just not a direct membrane. (that's why I say direct membrane or rubber dome when I'm talking about a cheapy non-BS KB)
FWIW, I'd rather use my 08-19-91 1391401 versus my 1993 (don't know the P/N - it's a Lexmark 52G P/N, but I don't have the KB where I can get it). No drainage holes, but better feel...
I'd imagine that the two would be combined.
So, Google Talk('s Jabber client) would integrate all of the Hello features.
Jabber does have file transfer capabilities, after all...
If there's a utility to adjust FS permissions from the command line in Windows, you oughta have set it up as a service (or a scheduled task, IIRC).
Services run as LocalSystem.
LocalSystem == root. (Administrator level can't actually do everything, LocalSystem can. It's kinda like a forced su policy. LocalSystem can't be logged into, but Administrator level has full control over it.)
I've done that on a WinME system. What's the first thing that a Win9x-class system accesses? That's right, IO.SYS. Then, MSDOS.SYS. KRNL386.EXE is next up, IIRC. Amazingly, it didn't corrupt those. It only started corrupting stuff when it got to IFSHLP.SYS (read: long filename support). KRNL386 froze the system right there, but when it looked up the location of IFSHLP.SYS, it nuked BOTH FATs... and there were no backups of this system with irreplaceable data...
I installed Win2K on another hard drive (the one I was trying to get installed to move the data over to - this was a Dell, and I had to move lots of cables around...), and managed to reconstruct enough of a FAT to get to the files...
First, yes, I agree, this is a troll.
However, he wasn't referring to today's processors, anyway. The article he referenced was too new for the job - that refers to K7, whereas this is a K6...
There's some hardware that Win2K is a dog on (*cough*original Pentiums with not much RAM*cough*)
That's what this guy probably wants it for...
Search for a message in an inbox of 1000 messages in an ordinary MUA such as Outlook (IIRC, OE can do it, too).
Then, install Google Desktop Search or Lookout (in Outlook), and do the same.
Which one is faster?
Interesting...
However, the OS would detect the gateway, and nuke the PC. Either that, or it would tell the ISP, and the connection would be shut down. Nice try, though...
You've got points, there...
Dial-up would be the last option for me, FWIW.
However, I think we'd be pushed beyond needing an ISP - if the backbones implement the Trusted Network crap, the Internet will be irrelevant.
Then, we're to a second underground Internet using 802.11g or n (both in the 2.4GHz spectrum, and I doubt that the FCC could jam it easily), or dial-up, but not Internet style - BBS style.
Hmm... the LCD panel HAS to be driven somehow.
The individual pixels HAVE to be driven.
It would be possible to read off the panel controller, as there HAS to be somewhere that it's decrypted, and that's the last possible place.
What about the satellite and dial-up ISPs?
Also, what about things like T1s?
There's more than just cable and DSL, ya know...
Fine, then. I've still got WiFi, and we can drop to a grid-like wireless network.
Hell, this lappy's got a 56K modem. Old-skool BBS time?
Eggs aren't in the vaginal fluids, though...
So, chicks menstruating all around you. (and they'd have to take drugs to menstruate every day...) That's NOT good.
Well, some bloggers may not like the changes. Look at all the Karma: Normals and ACs here that were pissed about the captchas here when Taco rolled them out...
I'm going to enable it on mine, though. I've never had comment spam, but seeing as mine is gaining PageRank, I wouldn't be surprised if I DO get some soon...
As I read it, it was somewhat more nefarious. It was describing something to remove from the public listing all blogs that had content that the public considered objectionable.
That said, Google claims that they'll do nothing to the blog itself, except possibly put a warning that it's got objectionable content, if it's reported as objectionable enough times. They WILL remove it from the public listing, though.
Yes, I know Slash has a JID field. However, what about phpBB, vBulletin, IPB, etc., etc.?
I know there IS the dirty hack of putting the JID in the MSN field (very effective on phpBB, because the MSN button links to the profile) - the reverse of which is often done here on Slashdot...
FWIW, I just updated my JID in my profile here...
this could remedy all the 3rd party client-breaking shennanigans that MSN, AIM, or Yahoo messenger is always trying to pull!
That's one of the advantages to using Jabber. Jabber servers can run MSN, AIM, Yahoo, and ICQ connectivity modules. The connectivity modules can be replaced if need be.
Hmm... I've got full IM logs on all of my MSN convos that I've had since I've installed it on this lappy.
Not VERY searchable, but if I know who sent it to me, it's a simple right click contact, "View Message History", click "Search", type what I'm looking for.
Well, I know a few people on MSN, one of which is in Europe...
There have been times where I was going to IM someone, until I saw that they didn't have MSN (and nobody advertises having a Jabber account - I usually run a Jabber client, too).
Stay on the Model M, then - it teaches you to press LIGHTLY on the keys - at about 2/3 of the stroke, the signal is sent.
A membrane is the absolute worst thing you can do, as it just reinforces keypounding as the method of typing that you should use.
I do believe that people even sold kits to do that to an IBM Selectric. In fact, I think IBM themselves may have published info on how to connect one to a mainframe for both input and output...
(I can't confirm that, though. However, people HAVE done it for I and O on the Selectric.)
If someone's trained to properly use a manual, that's what they'll prefer. They'll hate the key response of an electric, or a Model M.
Then, us Model M aficionados (wow, I actualy speeled it rite!) like the key response of electrics, and hate the key response of direct membranes and electronics (which usually use direct membrane keyboards).