It's actually $5.99/month for just the local channels. The cheapest plan you can get (60 channels) is $24.99/month.
And there's a mistake in the article as well: Dish is reimbursing everyone $1 for the "loss" of MTV. But they're also reimbursing the people who lost CBS another dollar. (Source: FAQ on the Dish website)
A dollar for all the Viacom networks on the list is a bit small, but a dollar for losing CBS out of the local programming is entirely reasonable, I think.
But the author reviewed Red Hat last year, which offers lots of choices in which packages and programs you want to install (as well as the partitioning and whatnot).
Xandros and Lindows probably just *give* you a certain subset of packages instead of asking which ones you want, since they're emulating Windows.
i hav a livejurnel, u ens^H^H^H incins^H^H^H^H^H^H meanie!
(Yes, I do have an LJ. It's not any different from anywhere else online in that most of the content sucks, and, like pretty much anywhere online or off, you can generally avoid the suckiness by having intelligent people to talk to/read.)
The authors are relatively well-known, and even if you didn't know them, Google and 2 clicks will show you directly to theirbiograpies.
Personally, I thought most of the points were fairly obvious, but the article'd be very thought-provoking for my friends who aren't as used to thinking about "the Internet" as some sort of entity.
Moz has the certificate management stuff, but it's not all bundled with the browser due to export regulations worries. (See here.)
And regarding the benefits for upgrading from older versions, here's two fairly complete lists (moreso than the changelogs) for 0.7 and 0.8.
It's good stuff.
Disney did have a CGI studio called the Secret Lab (formerly a effects company called Dream Quest that they bought in 98 or 99). They stuck the Secret Lab tag on Dinosaur, although it had been produced by new Disney CGI animators. Former Dream Quest employees ended up doing I think mainly special effects for several of Disney's or its subsidiaries' live action movies.
While looking up stuff about it, I found out that Disney quietly shut it down in 2001 and laid off all the people that were working there, but apparently they've decided to hang onto the name, because I've seen articles mentioning the Secret Lab as recently as last November (accompanied with claims that Disney had reopened it in 2002).
From the 0.4 release notes: "POP Accounts now support aging on the server." At least I'm assuming that's what that refers to. I do know from experience that it is in TB though. Super handy for keeping the mailbox tidy.
The thread view is sorted by thread and then time, at least in 0.4, and I think it always has been....
Also, since the spam filter is Bayesian, it's going to not work properly if you get lots of messages that aren't spam but have spammy titles. I don't know if that's your case or not.
Regarding the other things, I have no idea.;)
So we're throwing P2P clients in our mail programs now?
I mean, I can see that it could work, and it'd solve the problem....use PGP or something of that sort to encrypt it initially and have the client throw out the old list and install the new one whenever it receives a newer one signed by the spamfighters. And then you don't have to worry about DDOSes particularly.
But it seems to be a bit much to ask anyone to do simply to get a blacklist....
I heard about this a couple of days ago, while clicking around through links in a news entry on LJ. Honestly, the people I feel most sorry for are the LJ support team...they're all volunteers, and the link to support is pretty obvious. And a lot of the support requests they get aren't phrased much better than what you jokingly said above. They're probably pretty well swamped.
I've never bought from them personally, but they sound like a bunch of people that really love music...very small record-shop-ish. (See the bonus free CD for returning customers.)
A friend of mine who got something from them a while ago also thought their e-mail confirmation was absolutely hilarious:
"Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, April 17th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM"
Cool and useful as I think this'd be, I can just see tourists going insane trying to get one to work. (Or even just finding where they are in the first place.)
Lost people with no sense of direction + map = Lost people.
Lost people with no sense of direction + map the size of a credit card = Lost people with a crumpled piece of "polymer electronics."
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It's actually $5.99/month for just the local channels. The cheapest plan you can get (60 channels) is $24.99/month. And there's a mistake in the article as well: Dish is reimbursing everyone $1 for the "loss" of MTV. But they're also reimbursing the people who lost CBS another dollar. (Source: FAQ on the Dish website) A dollar for all the Viacom networks on the list is a bit small, but a dollar for losing CBS out of the local programming is entirely reasonable, I think.
But the author reviewed Red Hat last year, which offers lots of choices in which packages and programs you want to install (as well as the partitioning and whatnot).
Xandros and Lindows probably just *give* you a certain subset of packages instead of asking which ones you want, since they're emulating Windows.
i hav a livejurnel, u ens^H^H^H incins^H^H^H^H^H^H meanie!
(Yes, I do have an LJ. It's not any different from anywhere else online in that most of the content sucks, and, like pretty much anywhere online or off, you can generally avoid the suckiness by having intelligent people to talk to/read.)
And if you want an explanation of what all the about:config stuff means, you could just download Preferential and that'd take care of that just fine.
This is an interesting post?
The authors are relatively well-known, and even if you didn't know them, Google and 2 clicks will show you directly to their biograpies.
Personally, I thought most of the points were fairly obvious, but the article'd be very thought-provoking for my friends who aren't as used to thinking about "the Internet" as some sort of entity.
Moz has the certificate management stuff, but it's not all bundled with the browser due to export regulations worries. (See here.)
And regarding the benefits for upgrading from older versions, here's two fairly complete lists (moreso than the changelogs) for 0.7 and 0.8.
It's good stuff.
To elaborate, KSC is also a wildlife preserve...one of the largest in the area, iirc. So keeping things cleaned up is very important.
Disney did have a CGI studio called the Secret Lab (formerly a effects company called Dream Quest that they bought in 98 or 99). They stuck the Secret Lab tag on Dinosaur, although it had been produced by new Disney CGI animators. Former Dream Quest employees ended up doing I think mainly special effects for several of Disney's or its subsidiaries' live action movies.
While looking up stuff about it, I found out that Disney quietly shut it down in 2001 and laid off all the people that were working there, but apparently they've decided to hang onto the name, because I've seen articles mentioning the Secret Lab as recently as last November (accompanied with claims that Disney had reopened it in 2002).
Yup, it's in Thunderbird.
From the 0.4 release notes: "POP Accounts now support aging on the server."
At least I'm assuming that's what that refers to. I do know from experience that it is in TB though. Super handy for keeping the mailbox tidy.
The thread view is sorted by thread and then time, at least in 0.4, and I think it always has been.... ;)
Also, since the spam filter is Bayesian, it's going to not work properly if you get lots of messages that aren't spam but have spammy titles. I don't know if that's your case or not.
Regarding the other things, I have no idea.
I'm waiting for Godwin's Law to come into effect, myself. With the way SCO is acting, it shouldn't be too far off.
You all had my hopes up with that title there....Dragonfly is not the same as Firefly.
;)
Definitely not shiny.
So we're throwing P2P clients in our mail programs now?
I mean, I can see that it could work, and it'd solve the problem....use PGP or something of that sort to encrypt it initially and have the client throw out the old list and install the new one whenever it receives a newer one signed by the spamfighters. And then you don't have to worry about DDOSes particularly.
But it seems to be a bit much to ask anyone to do simply to get a blacklist....
I was extra amused because he mentioned on his journal that he was going to be doing an Ask Slashdot about a couple of weeks ago. <g>
Precisely.
I heard about this a couple of days ago, while clicking around through links in a news entry on LJ. Honestly, the people I feel most sorry for are the LJ support team...they're all volunteers, and the link to support is pretty obvious. And a lot of the support requests they get aren't phrased much better than what you jokingly said above. They're probably pretty well swamped.
Hmm...that reminds me, I need to pay up again.
I've never bought from them personally, but they sound like a bunch of people that really love music...very small record-shop-ish. (See the bonus free CD for returning customers.)
A friend of mine who got something from them a while ago also thought their e-mail confirmation was absolutely hilarious:
"Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, April 17th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year". We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM"
Cool and useful as I think this'd be, I can just see tourists going insane trying to get one to work. (Or even just finding where they are in the first place.) Lost people with no sense of direction + map = Lost people. Lost people with no sense of direction + map the size of a credit card = Lost people with a crumpled piece of "polymer electronics."
Yet another plus to using Mozilla, or Firebird, or Opera, or... Well, another plus to using anything *other* than IE, actually.