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"But then, couldn't you argue that any Linux user that ever had a Caldera/SCO OpenLinux CD is a SCO Linux user?"
Whoo-hoo! I'm free and clear!
I bought Caldera OpenLinux for Dummies a few years ago now. 2.2 kernel, kde 1.0... Those were the days.
Of course I wouldn't touch it now, but I suppose I could un-rpm the kernel source and run the patches all the way up to 2.5.73, thereby absolving myself from sin...:)
I have the image of Ben Affleck's head exploding from the end of the film Dogma*. I get the feeling that this is the start of the end, plus I like to see Ben Affleck's head explode.
*You see, because God is all powerful no mortal can hear God's voice without their head exploding which is why the Metatron is the "voice of God" so mortals can hear what is God saying without their heads exploding...
"one ounce or two of Sambuca to get a taste for this medical research."
Of course to some of us, Sambuca already tastes like medicine and doesn't need any caffiene to make it a wonder drug.
Liberal application increases desirability towards other subjects of the female pursuasion and generates an empowering feeling that the subject's self-choreography technique is beyond reproach.
And don't forget that he was called in when they were already shooting. The original actor was cast "too young". Which if my calculations are correct, Aragorn is supposed to be at least in his 50s - going on the basis of the Story of Arwen and Aragorn (in the appendix). After being in NZ for two days he had to shoot Weathertop.
The originally cast actor (I refuse to name him - he appeared in Queen of the Damned if you must know) has said in an interview that Wellington is the arsehole of the world (No Karma for guessing where I am), but he says he's "not bitter."
For those who haven't bought/watched the appendencies of the extended version: after talking on the phone to PJ, he wasn't sure about whether to do it or not, but his son Henry said something like "OMG, they want you to be Aragorn, and you're thinking about it???". Henry was also responsible for checking that Thror Oakenshield's map is still around for Gandalf to look at.
1. Hollywood wants DRM and wants the US.gov to add some laws to make it mandatory. 2. MS is saying that for DRM to work, everyone needs to have the latest version of Windows. 3. DoJ (a subsidary of US.gov) has proved in a court of law that MS is a monopoly and that is a no-no.
Conclusion: The US.gov has said that MS is not allowed to be a monopoly, yet is being paid by Hollywood to make sure that it becomes even more of a monopoly.
I can see the.gov agents buying their bus tickets and carrying their buckets of water...
I've read in an article down here in NZ that the trailer/preview will be at the end of the movie, but before the credits.
Getting /.ed here's the article in full
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Windows XP is Listening
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Daily News 'Phantom Menace' typing just a Microsoft speech feature By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes. March 12, 2002
Random words and characters mysteriously appearing on the screens of some Windows XP and Office XP users are not the work of phantom hackers or a sign that users' systems are possessed by demons. It's just Microsoft's voice recognition system running slightly amok, the company said.
In recent weeks, several XP users have posted messages to Internet discussion lists and newsgroups reporting that text is automatically appearing in Internet Explorer's address bar or in Outlook e-mail messages or Word documents as users compose them.
In a posting entitled "My Remote Keyboard is Possessed in XP," for example, one Microsoft customer reported "very strange behavior" that included letters appearing in input areas of the screen while browsing and writing e-mails.
"I'm afraid Holy Water would short it out so someone please help me," wrote the XP user.
Another Microsoft customer separately reported that "a ghost" appeared to be taking over his computer. In the message, entitled "Phantom Menace XP," the user said something was causing toolbars and options to pop up without his input.
In response to user inquiries, in January Microsoft published a handful of articles in the Support section of its Web site about the problem.
According to Microsoft, after installing Microsoft's Speech application programming interface, "random words or characters may be displayed in Office XP documents or in the Internet Explorer Address bar."
The company said the behavior occurs because "the speech recognition tool is 'listening' to your voice through you computer's microphone and is attempting to recognize what you are saying."
Microsoft said its speech recognition engine, a program file named Sapisvr.exe, is turned on at installation by some computer manufacturers. The engine is also included with Microsoft Office XP and other speech-enabled products.
To resolve the problem, Microsoft said XP users should disable the Dictation and the Voice Command features on the operating system's Language bar. Alternately, users can turn off speech recognition completely from the Regional and Language Options tool on XP's Control Panel.
Merely unplugging or turning off the computer's microphone does not correct the random-character problem, according to several user reports.
Microsoft's article about random characters in Office XP is at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;Q315765.
Microsoft's article on configuring speech recognition in Windows XP is at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;Q306537.
Microsoft's.NET Speech homepage is http://www.microsoft.com/speech/.
Our nearest celestial neighbour is Alpha Centauri which is 4.5 light years away. This means if it went supernova, we wouldn't know about it for 4.5 years.
Do people actually rent DVD's? Because of the higher cost of renting them, I've found that it's usually best just to buy the movie outright.
Down here in NZ, the two shops I rent from (one a national chain which has a local near my house, the other an independent but a bit farther away) rent at the same price as VHS.
Both of them get RC1's in as well, but the national one might not get them in anymore as the local branch of the big studios has recently clamped down on an importer who used to sell to the chains. The independent will probably still get them through DVDExpress and the like...
When a story submission is rejected, it would be nice to be given a reason. I mean, look at this:
2001-10-02 18:29:08 StarOffice 6.0 Beta released (articles,sun) (rejected)
Talk about being impersonal. Sure I can see the reason was that 753 other people had the same idea as me, but at the time I'm thinking "What, because it's a competing product to KOffice?"
Down here in New Zealand, a paper I did in 3rd year had it's main assessment from a team based project. We joined into groups of about 8, elected team leaders, and organised everything from defining the requirements to giving a 'sales-pitch' presentation at the end of the year.
Part of the assessment of this project was from us as individuals assessing our team members, and their contribution. Another part of the assessment was from the presentation where the other teams gave us marks.
As an aside, the top 3 teams (my team was one) redid their presentations in front of the Chief of Sun Microsystems NZ, but while his assessments weren't towards our final marks, it did help one of the guys in our class to score a job with Sun and become the first Java programmer in NZ.
If you copyright your encrypted communications, then wouldn't having the backdoor mean that it's a circumvention device and therefore illegal under the DMCA?
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"But then, couldn't you argue that any Linux user that ever had a Caldera/SCO OpenLinux CD is a SCO Linux user?"
:)
Whoo-hoo! I'm free and clear!
I bought Caldera OpenLinux for Dummies a few years ago now. 2.2 kernel, kde 1.0... Those were the days.
Of course I wouldn't touch it now, but I suppose I could un-rpm the kernel source and run the patches all the way up to 2.5.73, thereby absolving myself from sin...
Knowing that Ben Affleck's head explodes shouldn't preclude you from seeing it. In fact, it should encourage you... :)
Then comes the throat-clearing....
I have the image of Ben Affleck's head exploding from the end of the film Dogma*. I get the feeling that this is the start of the end, plus I like to see Ben Affleck's head explode.
*You see, because God is all powerful no mortal can hear God's voice without their head exploding which is why the Metatron is the "voice of God" so mortals can hear what is God saying without their heads exploding...
Of course to some of us, Sambuca already tastes like medicine and doesn't need any caffiene to make it a wonder drug.
Liberal application increases desirability towards other subjects of the female pursuasion and generates an empowering feeling that the subject's self-choreography technique is beyond reproach.
while slashdot has hidden it's equivalent karma system (and most regulars have topped out anyway)
There is a fix. All you need to do is get into the mysql console (should be simple enough - someone here must work at the colo) and execute:
UPDATE vars SET value='1000000' WHERE name='maxkarma';
UPDATE vars SET value='1' WHERE name='karma_obfuscate';
The result: Plenty of Karma to attain, and you'll be able to see the values again.
Check out the db values from the CVS.
You mean like this one? I know it's not on her desk, but it's in her hands.
Taken from this article in Feb's Wired magazine.
Actors of colour? I hardly think that a species where an entire gender is missing doesn't classify as being "of colour".
Or do you have something against the Ents?
But if you're being serious, there's Irish representation here. And the Irish are pretty colourful.
Where's the mod for "Hook, Line, and Sinker"?
And don't forget that he was called in when they were already shooting. The original actor was cast "too young". Which if my calculations are correct, Aragorn is supposed to be at least in his 50s - going on the basis of the Story of Arwen and Aragorn (in the appendix). After being in NZ for two days he had to shoot Weathertop.
The originally cast actor (I refuse to name him - he appeared in Queen of the Damned if you must know) has said in an interview that Wellington is the arsehole of the world (No Karma for guessing where I am), but he says he's "not bitter."
For those who haven't bought/watched the appendencies of the extended version: after talking on the phone to PJ, he wasn't sure about whether to do it or not, but his son Henry said something like "OMG, they want you to be Aragorn, and you're thinking about it???". Henry was also responsible for checking that Thror Oakenshield's map is still around for Gandalf to look at.
So what you're saying is:
.gov agents buying their bus tickets and carrying their buckets of water...
1. Hollywood wants DRM and wants the US.gov to add some laws to make it mandatory.
2. MS is saying that for DRM to work, everyone needs to have the latest version of Windows.
3. DoJ (a subsidary of US.gov) has proved in a court of law that MS is a monopoly and that is a no-no.
Conclusion: The US.gov has said that MS is not allowed to be a monopoly, yet is being paid by Hollywood to make sure that it becomes even more of a monopoly.
I can see the
There is no text here. That's what the [nt] means. The filter obviously doesn't like it though.
Being from NZ an' all...
Wal-mart won't sell a computer game because of a little bit of nudity, yet it continues to sell guns.
Is there anyone _inside_ the US that doesn't find that just a tad strange?
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput. :)
I've read in an article down here in NZ that the trailer/preview will be at the end of the movie, but before the credits.
Daily News
; en-us;Q315765.
; en-us;Q306537.
.NET Speech homepage is http://www.microsoft.com/speech/.
'Phantom Menace' typing just a Microsoft speech feature
By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes.
March 12, 2002
Random words and characters mysteriously appearing on the screens of some Windows XP and Office XP users are not the work of phantom hackers or a sign that users' systems are possessed by demons. It's just Microsoft's voice recognition system running slightly amok, the company said.
In recent weeks, several XP users have posted messages to Internet discussion lists and newsgroups reporting that text is automatically appearing in Internet Explorer's address bar or in Outlook e-mail messages or Word documents as users compose them.
In a posting entitled "My Remote Keyboard is Possessed in XP," for example, one Microsoft customer reported "very strange behavior" that included letters appearing in input areas of the screen while browsing and writing e-mails.
"I'm afraid Holy Water would short it out so someone please help me," wrote the XP user.
Another Microsoft customer separately reported that "a ghost" appeared to be taking over his computer. In the message, entitled "Phantom Menace XP," the user said something was causing toolbars and options to pop up without his input.
In response to user inquiries, in January Microsoft published a handful of articles in the Support section of its Web site about the problem.
According to Microsoft, after installing Microsoft's Speech application programming interface, "random words or characters may be displayed in Office XP documents or in the Internet Explorer Address bar."
The company said the behavior occurs because "the speech recognition tool is 'listening' to your voice through you computer's microphone and is attempting to recognize what you are saying."
Microsoft said its speech recognition engine, a program file named Sapisvr.exe, is turned on at installation by some computer manufacturers. The engine is also included with Microsoft Office XP and other speech-enabled products.
To resolve the problem, Microsoft said XP users should disable the Dictation and the Voice Command features on the operating system's Language bar. Alternately, users can turn off speech recognition completely from the Regional and Language Options tool on XP's Control Panel.
Merely unplugging or turning off the computer's microphone does not correct the random-character problem, according to several user reports.
Microsoft's article about random characters in Office XP is at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
Microsoft's article on configuring speech recognition in Windows XP is at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
Microsoft's
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com.
Try thousands, if not millions of years ago.
Our nearest celestial neighbour is Alpha Centauri which is 4.5 light years away. This means if it went supernova, we wouldn't know about it for 4.5 years.
Do people actually rent DVD's? Because of the higher cost of renting them, I've found that it's usually best just to buy the movie outright.
Down here in NZ, the two shops I rent from (one a national chain which has a local near my house, the other an independent but a bit farther away) rent at the same price as VHS.
Both of them get RC1's in as well, but the national one might not get them in anymore as the local branch of the big studios has recently clamped down on an importer who used to sell to the chains. The independent will probably still get them through DVDExpress and the like...
I didn't know that there's such a following by Hollywood actors of alternative Operating Systems.
Maybe the last big movie he was in should have been called "There's Something About BSD".
When a story submission is rejected, it would be nice to be given a reason. I mean, look at this:
2001-10-02 18:29:08 StarOffice 6.0 Beta released (articles,sun) (rejected)
Talk about being impersonal. Sure I can see the reason was that 753 other people had the same idea as me, but at the time I'm thinking "What, because it's a competing product to KOffice?"
Down here in New Zealand, a paper I did in 3rd year had it's main assessment from a team based project. We joined into groups of about 8, elected team leaders, and organised everything from defining the requirements to giving a 'sales-pitch' presentation at the end of the year.
Part of the assessment of this project was from us as individuals assessing our team members, and their contribution. Another part of the assessment was from the presentation where the other teams gave us marks.
As an aside, the top 3 teams (my team was one) redid their presentations in front of the Chief of Sun Microsystems NZ, but while his assessments weren't towards our final marks, it did help one of the guys in our class to score a job with Sun and become the first Java programmer in NZ.
I teleported home one night,
With Ron and Sid and Meg,
Ron stole Meg's heart away,
And I got Sidney's leg.
If you copyright your encrypted communications, then wouldn't having the backdoor mean that it's a circumvention device and therefore illegal under the DMCA?
They could get away with an older keyboard if they've already scanned the room with a video camera and bodged up a replacement keyboard.
They did it with the desk lamp in the opener of Season 3 of The Soprano's and I believe everything I see on TV...