...which is so large, heavy, and odd-shaped as to be virtually useless to write with. Sidewalk chalk would probably be easier. Semi-ok idea, horrible execution...a scanner gets the job done much better.
While obviously not appropriate for legal/financial docs, I prefer mechanical pencils, in part because, as a left-hander, ink often doesn't dry fast enough(one wonders if this is one reason some asian languages are up-down, not left-right; it's left/right hand neutral!) I used to use a mechanical pencil which was made by a japanese company(I think? Possibly German?) that had a retracting tip; pressing the clip made the entire mechanism retract, protecting your leg/shirt/jacket from the sharp tip. Excellent, simplistic design- and the whole thing could be disassembled for cleaning or unjamming.
There's also mechanical drafting pencils, but that's a little too die-hard for me. Excellent control over line thickness, and very durable however.
Using "free speech" rights to quash the list in America is, in my opinion, an abuse of the constitution. Mind you, it's not the first time it's been mangled and abused for the benefit of some interested party.
You're right, in a sense- the Supreme Court has actually specifically ruled that "free speech" does not mean "freedom to bother you in your home"; you have the right to speech, but not to force it upon someone, and calling them is forcing it on them.
However, the "problem" with the US Consitution is that its values aren't typically very popular, which is what you're saying between the lines. Nazi groups would be a good example; their speech is protected. The concept of free speech applying to everyone, not just those you like, is something few Americans can grasp. I certainly would not expect the English to.
It's also an arrest waiting to happen, assuming you survived. At least in my state, that cannon would qualify not only as an explosive device and (probably) a firearm, but an "infernal device"(as are catapults, 'weapons of mass destruction').
If not for users, how about 'personal responsibility' for admins?
On a mailing list I help run, we turned on Postfix's DNS checks(not RBLs and the like, just "does connecting host have valid forward DNS? Does it match what they claimed?" etc- postfix can do a half dozen DNS-related checks to make sure you're legit. It was ENORMOUSLY successful, virtually killing off all soam overnight, because so much spam has so many fake headers.
We had zero problems with users with funky setups(ie sending work email from home, their own domains, etc). We had ENORMOUS problems with a dozen ISPs whose freaking mail servers often didn't even have FORWARD DNS! Worse, some claimed, when contacted by their users, that it was a problem with OUR dns.
The problem was mostly with clustered outgoing mail servers, where ISPs didn't give a shit enough to set up proper DNS for each cluster member. Do you think they had reverse DNS?:-)
So, we can take personal responsibility by a)refusing to accept connections from servers which have bad/no DNS and b)fixing our own mail server's DNS. That would be a biiiig step...
Great. World's first physical DDoS- if enough linux geeks show up, everyone else will want to leave, either because they'll be obnoxious, or look like something out of a cross between an RMS-lookalike-contest and a anti-globalism protest- and smell like one(take your pick on whether tear gas is a curse or a blessing with that crowd).
Here's an idea everyone- show up at these things impeccably dressed, clean cut, and be a perfect gentleman(or lady); wear only a small linux penguin pin like our lovely "patriots" in the US gov't are so fond of doing these days with the american flag pin. That will impress people far more than a freakshow, no matter how valid your ideas are. Rowdyness, immaturity, and messyness do not impress. They intimidate, scare, and irritate.
Show the world we're serious, because folks- the linux "community",unlike a real community, we have yet to stand up for ourselves, especially those whose work is being whole-heartedly claimed by someone else- writing opinion pieces, open letters, etc is not "standing up". Legal action is what we need, but showing up in person is a step; we need a face, and we need one better looking and more tactful than RMS.
And as a followup to the Fanimatrix story the other day
God damn it. I was half way through a bitter post complaining about inaccuracies in story titles and dupe posts after reading that story title, before I happened to glace at the middle of the blurb.
What, now you expect us to read the whole friggin' blurb? Why can't you use less confusing story titles? First we had to 'read the stories' before we posted, now we've gotta read the blurb too?
That settles it. I'm going over to Curl6fin, this place sucks.
My system works fine on 10.2.8, it seems to be an extremely small (but vocal) minority with problems.
Obviously you don't own an Xserve, a PowerMac G4, or use any Bluetooth devices, for starters. All those pesky iMac/eMac users(hint: educational market) don't matter either, eh?
I use Bluetooth to sync the Address Book to the phone, and as a result of 10.2.8, Bluetooth no longer works properly. Many users with bluetooth keyboards+mice report similar problems with those devices.
It doesn't matter how "minor" the problems are- Apple has no excuse for not doing better QA. Whereas Windows must run on what must number well over a million different combinations of hardware- MacOS doesn't really have a very diverse set of hardware(there are only a limited # of ethernet chipsets/video cards/etc, only 3 current 'major' families of processors, etc). Why can't Apple do a better QA job?
Then again being the state of MA, maybe they thought they could tax the virus to death before it did any harm...
It's actually a very old wive's tale that MA has the highest tax rate- it doesn't. In 2000, it ranked 26th in taxes per $1000 of income(#4 in taxes per capita, perhaps more telling, but still below CT, NY and NJ, all of whom are about $600 more than MA, versus the next lowest from MA, about $200-300). I have no idea what it is currently, but part of the reason probably has to do with having some of the best schools in the nation.
But hey, don't say it too loudly, we like it here just fine:-)
I hear with this magical thing called The Internet, you can download TV shows and give those who want to control viewership, demographics, audience, and timed 'rollouts'(ie, UK now, US 4 months later, or vise-versa) a conniption.
I've been watching the BBC's (unedited, ie, stupidified-and-more-commericals-for-us-market) Spooks, aka MI-5. I watched the start of season 2 while A&E was still running teasers for the previous show.
I've also managed to watch Enterprise about 6 hours before it airs- and I can skip the #$@!ing annoying theme song. They should look on the bright side- with the commercials, I'd loose motivation after the first commercial break.
The Gummint is not preemptively suppressing speech based on content or source, it is telling them to leave us the hell alone when they won't listen to us asking them to do that ourselves.
Popular opinion is not law, nor does it override the constitution- that's explicitly clear right down to the way in which our senate+house are elected- in stages, so that government policy is not radically affected by a sudden change in public opinion. In a way, a slow moving government is a good one; look at the knee-jerk reaction from just -one- terrorist event that killed 1/10th of the # of people killed every year in car collisions(1/100th of the # of people killed every year by heart disease).
However, the supreme court has made it clear that the private citizen has a reasonable expectation of privacy, and free speech does not entitle one to PUSH your speech onto others by ringing their phone; I wish I could find the case history, but IANAL. I wouldn't expect the free-speech argument to last past another appeal or two(if it makes it far enough, the US SC will undoubtably refuse it, pointing to their existing decision).
The Hidden Agenda team reserves the right to build your game for a platform other than the one for whichyou designed your game. We also reserve the right to, or not to distribute and/or sell your game through whatever distribution channel or method we see fit.
Translation:
"We'll give you $25,000 for what would have cost us ten to a hundred times that to produce ourselves. Have fun splitting with your team half of what we would have had to pay just one full time developer for an annual salary. You slave away, we profit."
Nice to see that slashdot editors are still getting suckered into giving people free advertising. It all seems very clever, until you realized just how quickly you figured out The Catch.
Typically in the Windoze NT model in order to add a server to the domain you have to have admin rights. I recall the Samba box added itself to the domain without any authentication necessary.
Your machine may have -appeared- on the network, but it wasn't part of the domain, unless the admin password was blank. You simply -cannot- join the domain without domain admin rights. Period.
I have the HP48GX - it's a great calculator, but slow as molasses.
Buy new(alkaline) batteries for it. I kid you not, it'll speed it up- if you haven't noticed, performance is noticeably dependent upon battery voltage, and the thing crawls when the batteries get low- possibly on purpose, I dunno.
I've had mine since the early 90's, and I never though of it as slow at anything except menus, graphing, and equation solving. For standard math and even running RPN programs, it's pretty quick- I never felt it was a 'hinderance'.
ounds like its power supply inverter is toast. Rip it apart, trace down the IC that is making all the noise (or look for a small IC mounted xformer near on IC) and do some home work. Replace what makes noise and what ic is a PWM if it has one, unless its home brew PWM inversion and learn.
It is, quite frankly, not worth the time. A used(or if still available, new) 48G/GX is superior in almost every single regard. The G was an enormous step up from the S-series units in speed, features, memory handling...
Or, save your bucks for the new unit(the successor to the 49G, which succeeded the 48G/GX).
However, we use full-spectrum bulbs a few places around the house, anywhere we don't have flourescent bulbs. Why? It just looks nicer! My SO and I can't stand the yellowness of regular bulbs, and we prever the whiter light of the full-spectrum guys, especially for reading and similar activities.
Siiigh. Okay, let me put my theatrical lighting designer hat on.
Your brain has a sort of biological "automatic white balance". It gets 'used to' different lighting so you 'see' the same colors.
This is both exploited by, and an annoyance for, lighting designers- if you have a very 'cool' scene, the next that follows will appear much warmer than it would to someone, say, walking in off the street.
The problem here is that you're used to the flourescent bulbs(which have a very high color temperature, ie, they're "cool" light- yes, it's odd). When you walk into a room with a regular incandescent bulb, your brain is 'calibrated' for the floursecent bulb and the light seems very warm. In the theater industry, there are specifically designed correction 'gels'(filters that look like they're plastic, but they're not- plastic would melt) for flourescent, HID and incandescent bulbs to make them 'look' like other light sources, or at least get them to a common baseline to then further color them with another gel.
This effect works in other ways- headlights look yellowish during the day but bright white at night. People driving cars with HID lights see 'normal' headlights as looking very yellowy; we see the HID lights as looking very blue.
If you want to see the effect yourself, find some lightly colored plastic, preferably light blue or light orange. Hold it over one eye, with the other closed, and after a minute or two, remove the plastic and note how the room looks different lighting-wise...
Let's have the names+numbers of those law enforcement officials who didn't feel this was worth tracking down.
Then, let's call/fax/email/write just about anybody who remotely has power over them. State reps, governors, DAs. A few calls to radio stations(NPR might eat this right up), local "consumer reporters"....
Java, n.
The Philosopher's Stone of the alchemists, the Second Coming of Christ, the Maltese Falcon, and the fourth Star Wars movie, all rolled into
one. A technology for developing programs that will run on any platform, and crash in a different way on all of them. A mighty acorn that grew from a tiny Oak. An idea whose time has come, leaving General Magic to sleep on the wet spot.
-Godling's Glossary
Meanwhile, US citizens are barely registering a whimper of protest at the draconian laws passed every day in the name of "patriotism" and "protecting the homeland".
It's pretty sad that people organize "protests" in a fucking -game- but won't stand up for their rights in real life. What is the matter with you people?
As we all know, the standard is whether or not something can "flood a 10BaseT network". Anyone who has read the networking HOWTOs know that Pentium 100's can "do this easily".
So...can it? If not, how much traffic do I have to send it to bring it to a crawl?:-)
Am I the only one who noticed that the woman in the BBC Article's picture (directly above the "The MSBlast worm hit some users hard" Caption text) is using an old mac, and therefore, is not struggling with the MSBlast worm?
That's not nearly as impressive as the girl in the MS ad on the slashdot story itself. She's not even using a computer, but benefitting from Windows! Look at her go!
After about 10 minutes of running any cpu-intensive activity, my PB 17" is typically between 130 degrees and 140- the fan kicks in around 140, shuts off at 130. It's been sitting on my desk all day doing next to nothing(I've occasionally queued up some mp3s) and it's at 110.3 according to Temperature Monitor.
Using it on my lap, say, while on the couch, with any kind of activity, and it'll quickly get rather warm. Playing a movie or AVI file is an excellent way to do this. It gets uncomfortable within a half hour easily.
Oh, and putting a CDROM in and using it for about 5 minutes will cause the OTHER half of the powerbook to get hot and THAT fan to switch on.
Sorry, but anyone who says "my laptop doesn't run hot!" doesn't use their laptop very intensively.
I am a nurse. Cell phones aren't the problem, people are the problem.
Possibly, but what the hell are medical staff doing with cell phones on them in the first place while they're on the job, working with patients? "Hi, sorry, I'm smack in the middle of cracking open someone's ribcage, can I call you back?"
People seem to think they have a god-given right to carry a fucking cell phone with them at work. Everyone in healthcare is always talking about how goddamn busy they are, but they have time to answer their cells? I wish my company would ban them- people set their ringer volumes to max, leave the phone at their desk, and go off to meetings. The polyphonic ring tones are pretty bad, but NOTHING compared to the standard Nokia ring, which makes me want to rip my hair out.
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...which is so large, heavy, and odd-shaped as to be virtually useless to write with. Sidewalk chalk would probably be easier. Semi-ok idea, horrible execution...a scanner gets the job done much better.
While obviously not appropriate for legal/financial docs, I prefer mechanical pencils, in part because, as a left-hander, ink often doesn't dry fast enough(one wonders if this is one reason some asian languages are up-down, not left-right; it's left/right hand neutral!) I used to use a mechanical pencil which was made by a japanese company(I think? Possibly German?) that had a retracting tip; pressing the clip made the entire mechanism retract, protecting your leg/shirt/jacket from the sharp tip. Excellent, simplistic design- and the whole thing could be disassembled for cleaning or unjamming.
There's also mechanical drafting pencils, but that's a little too die-hard for me. Excellent control over line thickness, and very durable however.
You're right, in a sense- the Supreme Court has actually specifically ruled that "free speech" does not mean "freedom to bother you in your home"; you have the right to speech, but not to force it upon someone, and calling them is forcing it on them.
However, the "problem" with the US Consitution is that its values aren't typically very popular, which is what you're saying between the lines. Nazi groups would be a good example; their speech is protected. The concept of free speech applying to everyone, not just those you like, is something few Americans can grasp. I certainly would not expect the English to.
It's also an arrest waiting to happen, assuming you survived. At least in my state, that cannon would qualify not only as an explosive device and (probably) a firearm, but an "infernal device"(as are catapults, 'weapons of mass destruction').
If not for users, how about 'personal responsibility' for admins?
On a mailing list I help run, we turned on Postfix's DNS checks(not RBLs and the like, just "does connecting host have valid forward DNS? Does it match what they claimed?" etc- postfix can do a half dozen DNS-related checks to make sure you're legit. It was ENORMOUSLY successful, virtually killing off all soam overnight, because so much spam has so many fake headers.
We had zero problems with users with funky setups(ie sending work email from home, their own domains, etc). We had ENORMOUS problems with a dozen ISPs whose freaking mail servers often didn't even have FORWARD DNS! Worse, some claimed, when contacted by their users, that it was a problem with OUR dns.
The problem was mostly with clustered outgoing mail servers, where ISPs didn't give a shit enough to set up proper DNS for each cluster member. Do you think they had reverse DNS? :-)
So, we can take personal responsibility by a)refusing to accept connections from servers which have bad/no DNS and b)fixing our own mail server's DNS. That would be a biiiig step...
Never underestimate the power of the free-beer goggles.
Great. World's first physical DDoS- if enough linux geeks show up, everyone else will want to leave, either because they'll be obnoxious, or look like something out of a cross between an RMS-lookalike-contest and a anti-globalism protest- and smell like one(take your pick on whether tear gas is a curse or a blessing with that crowd).
Here's an idea everyone- show up at these things impeccably dressed, clean cut, and be a perfect gentleman(or lady); wear only a small linux penguin pin like our lovely "patriots" in the US gov't are so fond of doing these days with the american flag pin. That will impress people far more than a freakshow, no matter how valid your ideas are. Rowdyness, immaturity, and messyness do not impress. They intimidate, scare, and irritate.
Show the world we're serious, because folks- the linux "community",unlike a real community, we have yet to stand up for ourselves, especially those whose work is being whole-heartedly claimed by someone else- writing opinion pieces, open letters, etc is not "standing up". Legal action is what we need, but showing up in person is a step; we need a face, and we need one better looking and more tactful than RMS.
[...]
And as a followup to the Fanimatrix story the other day
God damn it. I was half way through a bitter post complaining about inaccuracies in story titles and dupe posts after reading that story title, before I happened to glace at the middle of the blurb.
What, now you expect us to read the whole friggin' blurb? Why can't you use less confusing story titles? First we had to 'read the stories' before we posted, now we've gotta read the blurb too?
That settles it. I'm going over to Curl6fin, this place sucks.
Obviously you don't own an Xserve, a PowerMac G4, or use any Bluetooth devices, for starters. All those pesky iMac/eMac users(hint: educational market) don't matter either, eh?
I use Bluetooth to sync the Address Book to the phone, and as a result of 10.2.8, Bluetooth no longer works properly. Many users with bluetooth keyboards+mice report similar problems with those devices.
It doesn't matter how "minor" the problems are- Apple has no excuse for not doing better QA. Whereas Windows must run on what must number well over a million different combinations of hardware- MacOS doesn't really have a very diverse set of hardware(there are only a limited # of ethernet chipsets/video cards/etc, only 3 current 'major' families of processors, etc). Why can't Apple do a better QA job?
It's actually a very old wive's tale that MA has the highest tax rate- it doesn't. In 2000, it ranked 26th in taxes per $1000 of income(#4 in taxes per capita, perhaps more telling, but still below CT, NY and NJ, all of whom are about $600 more than MA, versus the next lowest from MA, about $200-300). I have no idea what it is currently, but part of the reason probably has to do with having some of the best schools in the nation.
But hey, don't say it too loudly, we like it here just fine :-)
I hear with this magical thing called The Internet, you can download TV shows and give those who want to control viewership, demographics, audience, and timed 'rollouts'(ie, UK now, US 4 months later, or vise-versa) a conniption.
I've been watching the BBC's (unedited, ie, stupidified-and-more-commericals-for-us-market) Spooks, aka MI-5. I watched the start of season 2 while A&E was still running teasers for the previous show.
I've also managed to watch Enterprise about 6 hours before it airs- and I can skip the #$@!ing annoying theme song. They should look on the bright side- with the commercials, I'd loose motivation after the first commercial break.
Then again, maybe "FALLEN OVER- CAN'T GET UP" is more apt.
Popular opinion is not law, nor does it override the constitution- that's explicitly clear right down to the way in which our senate+house are elected- in stages, so that government policy is not radically affected by a sudden change in public opinion. In a way, a slow moving government is a good one; look at the knee-jerk reaction from just -one- terrorist event that killed 1/10th of the # of people killed every year in car collisions(1/100th of the # of people killed every year by heart disease).
However, the supreme court has made it clear that the private citizen has a reasonable expectation of privacy, and free speech does not entitle one to PUSH your speech onto others by ringing their phone; I wish I could find the case history, but IANAL. I wouldn't expect the free-speech argument to last past another appeal or two(if it makes it far enough, the US SC will undoubtably refuse it, pointing to their existing decision).
From the "technical requirements" section:
The Hidden Agenda team reserves the right to build your game for a platform other than the one for whichyou designed your game. We also reserve the right to, or not to distribute and/or sell your game through whatever distribution channel or method we see fit.
Translation:
"We'll give you $25,000 for what would have cost us ten to a hundred times that to produce ourselves. Have fun splitting with your team half of what we would have had to pay just one full time developer for an annual salary. You slave away, we profit."
Nice to see that slashdot editors are still getting suckered into giving people free advertising. It all seems very clever, until you realized just how quickly you figured out The Catch.
Your machine may have -appeared- on the network, but it wasn't part of the domain, unless the admin password was blank. You simply -cannot- join the domain without domain admin rights. Period.
Buy new(alkaline) batteries for it. I kid you not, it'll speed it up- if you haven't noticed, performance is noticeably dependent upon battery voltage, and the thing crawls when the batteries get low- possibly on purpose, I dunno.
I've had mine since the early 90's, and I never though of it as slow at anything except menus, graphing, and equation solving. For standard math and even running RPN programs, it's pretty quick- I never felt it was a 'hinderance'.
It is, quite frankly, not worth the time. A used(or if still available, new) 48G/GX is superior in almost every single regard. The G was an enormous step up from the S-series units in speed, features, memory handling...
Or, save your bucks for the new unit(the successor to the 49G, which succeeded the 48G/GX).
Siiigh. Okay, let me put my theatrical lighting designer hat on.
Your brain has a sort of biological "automatic white balance". It gets 'used to' different lighting so you 'see' the same colors.
This is both exploited by, and an annoyance for, lighting designers- if you have a very 'cool' scene, the next that follows will appear much warmer than it would to someone, say, walking in off the street.
The problem here is that you're used to the flourescent bulbs(which have a very high color temperature, ie, they're "cool" light- yes, it's odd). When you walk into a room with a regular incandescent bulb, your brain is 'calibrated' for the floursecent bulb and the light seems very warm. In the theater industry, there are specifically designed correction 'gels'(filters that look like they're plastic, but they're not- plastic would melt) for flourescent, HID and incandescent bulbs to make them 'look' like other light sources, or at least get them to a common baseline to then further color them with another gel.
This effect works in other ways- headlights look yellowish during the day but bright white at night. People driving cars with HID lights see 'normal' headlights as looking very yellowy; we see the HID lights as looking very blue.
If you want to see the effect yourself, find some lightly colored plastic, preferably light blue or light orange. Hold it over one eye, with the other closed, and after a minute or two, remove the plastic and note how the room looks different lighting-wise...
Let's have the names+numbers of those law enforcement officials who didn't feel this was worth tracking down.
Then, let's call/fax/email/write just about anybody who remotely has power over them. State reps, governors, DAs. A few calls to radio stations(NPR might eat this right up), local "consumer reporters"....
Java, n.
The Philosopher's Stone of the alchemists, the Second Coming of Christ, the Maltese Falcon, and the fourth Star Wars movie, all rolled into one. A technology for developing programs that will run on any platform, and crash in a different way on all of them. A mighty acorn that grew from a tiny Oak. An idea whose time has come, leaving General Magic to sleep on the wet spot.
-Godling's Glossary
Meanwhile, US citizens are barely registering a whimper of protest at the draconian laws passed every day in the name of "patriotism" and "protecting the homeland".
It's pretty sad that people organize "protests" in a fucking -game- but won't stand up for their rights in real life. What is the matter with you people?
Given the fact this story was just posted on Slashdot..not for long.
Somewhere, tomorrow morning, some poor satellite dish dealer in East Nowhere is going to be very, very happy and not know why.
As we all know, the standard is whether or not something can "flood a 10BaseT network". Anyone who has read the networking HOWTOs know that Pentium 100's can "do this easily".
So...can it? If not, how much traffic do I have to send it to bring it to a crawl? :-)
That's not nearly as impressive as the girl in the MS ad on the slashdot story itself. She's not even using a computer, but benefitting from Windows! Look at her go!
After about 10 minutes of running any cpu-intensive activity, my PB 17" is typically between 130 degrees and 140- the fan kicks in around 140, shuts off at 130. It's been sitting on my desk all day doing next to nothing(I've occasionally queued up some mp3s) and it's at 110.3 according to Temperature Monitor.
Using it on my lap, say, while on the couch, with any kind of activity, and it'll quickly get rather warm. Playing a movie or AVI file is an excellent way to do this. It gets uncomfortable within a half hour easily.
Oh, and putting a CDROM in and using it for about 5 minutes will cause the OTHER half of the powerbook to get hot and THAT fan to switch on.
Sorry, but anyone who says "my laptop doesn't run hot!" doesn't use their laptop very intensively.
Possibly, but what the hell are medical staff doing with cell phones on them in the first place while they're on the job, working with patients? "Hi, sorry, I'm smack in the middle of cracking open someone's ribcage, can I call you back?"
People seem to think they have a god-given right to carry a fucking cell phone with them at work. Everyone in healthcare is always talking about how goddamn busy they are, but they have time to answer their cells? I wish my company would ban them- people set their ringer volumes to max, leave the phone at their desk, and go off to meetings. The polyphonic ring tones are pretty bad, but NOTHING compared to the standard Nokia ring, which makes me want to rip my hair out.