so why don't they make a known fact of this and give you a simple batch file kept in the hidden folder to execute to do it for you without the risk of typing errors???
Hooray! I get to be lazy and violate the DMCA just to retreive a file owned and created by the company I work for. The incident only reinforced to everyone here the value of pdf files and that MS Reader is beyond worthless.
and if you'd been daft enough to password protect that pdf file and lost the password??? you would have had to make use of Skylarov's neat little program to crack the pdf... or if the only copy of your data had been in a password protected zip file???
They're books, but on a screen that hurts your eyes! Yay!
Ah yes... but I can change the fontsize and typeface to something I have less trouble with... you can't with a paper book... you're stuck with having to find your title in the large print specialist section... and with having to wait several months or years after the original version came out
Also a paper book is useless for a blind person... whereas an open format e-book can be fed through a text to speech synthesizer
You could find that "driver" installed on you in your next windows update along with auto insert notification being made mandatory for certain CDs... ie the updated ms-windows checks the CD and decides whether it's going to respect the shift key being held down or not depending on the contents of the CD.
after all... you've already agreed to MS installing critical DRM updates on the behalf of content providers when you acepted that update to windows media player... the one that it absolutely HAD to have as it was always going to sulk on you if you didn't install it...
Now I play admin on 110+ machines, and I stay bored. Why? Because I've written a response engine in Expect that handles most of my everyday problems. I call it AGE, Automated Gruntwork Eliminator.
and have you published this tool??? so others can share the and enjoy and possibly improve it for you???
This is probably one of the few times I will ever cheer for Microsoft... as the prior art blows Eolas's case out of the water and sticks one more nail in the coffin of software patents by showing just how stupid they can be when no-one is rigourously checking them in the patent offices.
There were many times when I just wanted to fucking kill myself and get the fucking agony of having to work for a fucking nazi from 7AM to 9PM every day over. NO social life left, nothing.
I have walked out of those sort of jobs long before then... You know you can say "no"... nobody's forcing you to work for them...
Personally I would never take on an offer of employment with a firm that has such expectations from it's workers... I have my pride, and I want my quality time with my children as well.
PS. I am currently unemployed (Project finished)... and I'm enjoying it. All that time for personal projects that I never had time for before... next week, I get to try updating my kernel to 2.6... I've never dared mess with the distro before and now I've got plenty of time and a spare computer to actually do it. And it will all be going into my resume as well...
Oh and I've got plenty of time to fix borked microsoft windows installations as well... It's a nice little earner:)
>Currently, iso's with XFCE4, Gnome2.2, KDE3.1 and a game iso are available for download! Morphix is an Open >Source/Free software project, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix. For more information, check the FAQ
Now had it been Gnome 2.4... that would have been news.:)
not a chance of that... all apps will have to be specially written to take advantage of the screen... it's NOT a magic "use this and everything you've got's 3D" driver...
Well that blows any hope for a Linux port then doesn't it...:(
Games... it's the only reason for me to keep win98SE on one of my boxes. Everything else has got a decent equivalent now... just those damn pesky DirectX based games.
"Microsoft deserves credit for having reduced the proportion of successful on-line hacker attacks perpetrated against Windows servers."
ha ha.... making good of their rapidly shrinking server market share... oh this is classic. Those figures almost exactly match the market shares for Apache and Microsoft
Name a single right that you have lost since Bush took office, you lying asshole. NAME ONE! I dont mean some assumed right that you THINK you should have, name a right that is actually in the Bill of Rights or Constitution that you have lost, asswipe. And dont spend an hour on Google trying to come up with one. Tick tock, you fag
tell them to **** off... Epiphany is a religious festival. They shouldn't have been allowed to trademark it in the first place. And sticking a silly full stop after the first letter doesn't make it any different.
I think you'll find Linux will have it well before MSFT does... and it'll work... and it won't require special hardware either. And you'll be able to double check the source code instead of having to take it on trust...
lucky for them most of us are still too lazy to type/scan in the books we read
It only takes one person to scan, OCR and upload the book to usenet for it to flash around the world... HP5 OOTP was available less than 24 hours after the doors opened in the bookshops... a team of scanners and proofreaders had organised themselves to do a chapter each. A couple of days after the first raw copies had been posted, the fully corrected copies were also available. Some books have been available before they were officially published thanks to reiew copies leaking out to the "scanners"...
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so why don't they make a known fact of this and give you a simple batch file kept in the hidden folder to execute to do it for you without the risk of typing errors???
and if you'd been daft enough to password protect that pdf file and lost the password??? you would have had to make use of Skylarov's neat little program to crack the pdf... or if the only copy of your data had been in a password protected zip file???
Ah yes... but I can change the fontsize and typeface to something I have less trouble with... you can't with a paper book... you're stuck with having to find your title in the large print specialist section... and with having to wait several months or years after the original version came out
Also a paper book is useless for a blind person... whereas an open format e-book can be fed through a text to speech synthesizer
after all... you've already agreed to MS installing critical DRM updates on the behalf of content providers when you acepted that update to windows media player... the one that it absolutely HAD to have as it was always going to sulk on you if you didn't install it...
thank heck the final word wasn't one beginning with "T"....
ROAD TRIP!!!!!!!!!
This is probably one of the few times I will ever cheer for Microsoft... as the prior art blows Eolas's case out of the water and sticks one more nail in the coffin of software patents by showing just how stupid they can be when no-one is rigourously checking them in the patent offices.
I have walked out of those sort of jobs long before then... You know you can say "no"... nobody's forcing you to work for them...
Personally I would never take on an offer of employment with a firm that has such expectations from it's workers... I have my pride, and I want my quality time with my children as well.
PS. I am currently unemployed (Project finished)... and I'm enjoying it. All that time for personal projects that I never had time for before... next week, I get to try updating my kernel to 2.6... I've never dared mess with the distro before and now I've got plenty of time and a spare computer to actually do it. And it will all be going into my resume as well...
Oh and I've got plenty of time to fix borked microsoft windows installations as well... It's a nice little earner :)
you want Morphix... I've already given a link for it. :)
there's plenty now...
GLUE
Knoppix for kids
Freeduc
The list is growing as more people experience the advantages of the Knoppix concept and make their own specialist version.
morphix.sourceforge.net
>Currently, iso's with XFCE4, Gnome2.2, KDE3.1 and a game iso are available for download! Morphix is an Open >Source/Free software project, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix. For more information, check the FAQ
Now had it been Gnome 2.4... that would have been news. :)
you can get that with a phal curry and ten pints of lager... no need to splash out $3000 for this effect... :)
not a chance of that... all apps will have to be specially written to take advantage of the screen... it's NOT a magic "use this and everything you've got's 3D" driver...
Games... it's the only reason for me to keep win98SE on one of my boxes. Everything else has got a decent equivalent now... just those damn pesky DirectX based games.
Do you have a more recent set of figures??? I can't find a link on Netcraft to any form of OS count which is what we want here.
ha ha.... making good of their rapidly shrinking server market share... oh this is classic. Those figures almost exactly match the market shares for Apache and Microsoft
news.netcraft.com
Apache 64.52% ... Microsoft 23.54%...
so just who is trying to kid who with the figures???
PLONK...
no use for me then... I only get around 3 spams a month... :)
If only that were true...
tell them to **** off... Epiphany is a religious festival. They shouldn't have been allowed to trademark it in the first place. And sticking a silly full stop after the first letter doesn't make it any different.
correction... just managed to get into the site... it will require a "Trusted Computing Module" on the motherboard.
I think you'll find Linux will have it well before MSFT does... and it'll work... and it won't require special hardware either. And you'll be able to double check the source code instead of having to take it on trust...
It only takes one person to scan, OCR and upload the book to usenet for it to flash around the world... HP5 OOTP was available less than 24 hours after the doors opened in the bookshops... a team of scanners and proofreaders had organised themselves to do a chapter each. A couple of days after the first raw copies had been posted, the fully corrected copies were also available.
Some books have been available before they were officially published thanks to reiew copies leaking out to the "scanners"...