ECMAScript is the non-trademark name for standardized JavaScript. SMIL doesn't appear to be supported by Mozilla yet, and I think most of what it can do can be done in ECMAScript + those other technologies (except changeing the volume on sound clips)
no, sir, I'm afraid we don't have anything to compete with Macromedia Flash... yet...
hmmm... this has me thinking...
XHTML + CSS + SVG + PNG + DOM + ECMAScript + XML Islands + XMLHTTPRequest (sorry, this one's not a standard, but it is useable in MSIE 6 and Mozilla 1.3 (ver?))...
What's missing? sound... if we had a scriptable representation for sound that could be embedded or attached to XHTML, we'd be there.
Dark Angel was an awesome show, I watched it enthusiastically...
In the show, nobody knew who set off the EMP, and it affecte most of the world. It was a very high altitude Hydrogen Bomb, which implies that it was a world power that has both H-Bombs and ICBMs (I only know of two). Everyone just assumed that it was middle-eastern islamic fundamentalists, which is why
The entire US became a police state, and many other countries didn't fair much better.
The few middle-eastern looking people in the show were either in flashbacks (mostly being attacked by angry mobs), or refugees in the underground fleeing to Canada or the Carribean.
Some of the conspiracy theorists on the show thought it was set off by fascist elements withing the US government.
The show was set in Seattle, Washington.
I find it interesting that the show was cancelled right after Sept 11, 2001. Perhaps it struck a little too close to home.
in case 1000 SCO files a continuance pending the outcome of 999,
in case 999 SCO files a continuance pending the outcome of 998,
in case 998 SCO files a continuance pending the outcome of 997,
...
in case 1 SCO files a continuance pending the outcome of SCO vs IBM
MSFT, RBC, Power Corp, Haliburton, et al pump up SCO's warchest to insane numbers
SCO wins SCO vs IBM
The other cases fall like dominoes
The way is paved for Carnivore, TIA, Echelon, DRM, backdoors in Cryptography, "Remote Shutdown" of freenet nodes, etc
IBM, SGI, HP, The FSF, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Hans Reiser, and thousands of other contributors to Linux and the GNU toolchain etc form a class & file a class action suit against SCO. The class can afford far more legal expenses than each individual rights holder due to donations from non rights-holding users of software libre.
4) Increased helpdesk workload as the bookkeeper keeps calling the helpdesk with vague descriptions about "my computer says everything I do is being watched" == direct financial damages
5) Increased power bill due to all those stolen transistor state-changes. == direct financial damages
6) Increased equipment failures as all those infested Laptop HDDs spin up and down every 30 seconds == direct financial damages
7) Increased Labour costs researching how to really remove gator and all it's components == direct financial damages
If someone starts a class action that I'm in the class of (Canadian, technician for a company that had an infestation, but my own computer (*NIX) was never infested) I'll join.
Embrace the wu-wei Do not un-BIND your RH 6.2, Leave it it it's natural state for it is in acting through inactio... what's this letter from my ISP about a bank in Bolivia?
Every time someone suggests Ballot Receipts, I wonder whether they don't understand the concept of "free and fair elections", or just don't want them to happen. Here's a hint: "secret ballot". It's one of the key concepts of democracy.
...I can't very well ditch Windows in my Enterprise environment without a comparable solution to do what we need...
Does anybody realistically see that changing anytime soon?
This is one of the greatest strengths of Open Source; it's all about what you need. Why not collaborate with other businesses in your field to create the open source tools you need?
There are a great many insurance agencies around the world. This is an imense talent pool. Perhaps not all are technically skilled, but they at least have an intimate knowledge of the problem domain. Work together. Don't wait for someone to ride in on a white horse and sell it to you!
Hmm...
Or they could just walk into any office and pick up an computer off the desk with windows already installed and plunk it down on the set and not have to pay either the license fee or the cost of the computer
Maybe they might decide to put a particular OS on screen because
The computer they happened to pick up in the office has that particular OS.
Some company (usually Apple or MS, but concieveably SGI, Sun, or even RedHat or SuSE) has paid them for product placement
There is some plot consistancy or believeability reason to have that OS ie the user/s is/are
A graphic Designer or Video Editor
A developer, network admin, security consultant, etc
a n00b/scriptkiddie
it looks cooler
With computers lying around all over the place, I doubt it has anything to do with licensing costs.
I'm slowly working on one... I hope to have it semi-workable by late march.
It's a 2 cd set... you put one CD in one computer on a lan (the server) and it allocates a bunch of free space on whatever filesysyem it finds (for spooling).
Then you put the other CD in each of the workstations one by one... and it does a raw image of whatever writeable block devices it finds, and sends them to the server to be compressed and written to DVD-Rs
Restoring is the opposite process, so it restores an exact copy of the system state except for the clock.
The intended use is for backing up donated computers at election campaign offices so they may have uniform software installed (probably Linux) but be returned in the exact state they came in.
Quick, off the top of your head and with only one command, how do you install a service on a Debian box to share a directory with an old PowerMac 6100 running MacOS 8.6?
Don't know how to do it, do you? So you must be ignorant! Or maybe it's just not your field of expertise.
My favourite one of these has to be "Our spider found broken links on www.example.com, send us money and we'll tell you where they are"
There are lots of broken links on the site they're referring to, starting with index.php,/images/*,/stylesheets/*, etc. Sometimes the multi-year domain registration deal is not nescesary.
That's what H.323->POTS gateways are for.
Nasty thing is, though, that H.323 and NAT don't play nice together. You have to trick your NAT'd H323 endpoint (IP Phone, GnomeMeeting, NetMeeting, etc) into lying about it's IP address, and port-forward a lot of ports on the firewall (or use a H.323->H.323 gateway on the firewall).
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I think it's clear that the voting machines are working exactly as the designers intended...
so much more reliably when you replace "printer" with "pen" and "scantron" with "cardboard box".
Really, why do you need anything else?
They never have before! They've been electing hardline rightwing warmongers.
I'd really like to see a moderate get elected in a G7 country these days.
ECMAScript is the non-trademark name for standardized JavaScript. SMIL doesn't appear to be supported by Mozilla yet, and I think most of what it can do can be done in ECMAScript + those other technologies (except changeing the volume on sound clips)
object tag.
hmmm... this has me thinking...
XHTML + CSS + SVG + PNG + DOM + ECMAScript + XML Islands + XMLHTTPRequest (sorry, this one's not a standard, but it is useable in MSIE 6 and Mozilla 1.3 (ver?)) ...
What's missing? sound... if we had a scriptable representation for sound that could be embedded or attached to XHTML, we'd be there.
There's a ton of bad closed source software too. For the most part it ends up in the $4.99 bin, if it ever gets into stores at all.
Dark Angel was an awesome show, I watched it enthusiastically...
In the show, nobody knew who set off the EMP, and it affecte most of the world. It was a very high altitude Hydrogen Bomb, which implies that it was a world power that has both H-Bombs and ICBMs (I only know of two). Everyone just assumed that it was middle-eastern islamic fundamentalists, which is why
The show was set in Seattle, Washington.
I find it interesting that the show was cancelled right after Sept 11, 2001. Perhaps it struck a little too close to home.
Here's two Scenarios:
4) Increased helpdesk workload as the bookkeeper keeps calling the helpdesk with vague descriptions about "my computer says everything I do is being watched" == direct financial damages
5) Increased power bill due to all those stolen transistor state-changes. == direct financial damages
6) Increased equipment failures as all those infested Laptop HDDs spin up and down every 30 seconds == direct financial damages
7) Increased Labour costs researching how to really remove gator and all it's components == direct financial damages
If someone starts a class action that I'm in the class of (Canadian, technician for a company that had an infestation, but my own computer (*NIX) was never infested) I'll join.
Embrace the wu-wei
Do not un-BIND your RH 6.2,
Leave it it it's natural state
for it is in acting through inactio...
what's this letter from my ISP about a bank in Bolivia?
Vote Buying.
Every time someone suggests Ballot Receipts, I wonder whether they don't understand the concept of "free and fair elections", or just don't want them to happen.
Here's a hint: "secret ballot". It's one of the key concepts of democracy.
These computers mostly seem to be built under the assumption that you actually need a HDD, FDD, and CDRW/DVD on every desk.
Apparently, it already has. I was searching FreshMeat for accounting software today when I stumbled upon this project. Their website says
.All else being equal:
- Company A is one of an ever-shrinking number of customers of a proprietary software company.
- Company B colaborates with hundreds of other companies in the field to create the software it needs
- Company C creates all of it's software in-house and keeps it secret.
Which company has the best long-term results?You mean like Sun, SGI, and IBM all contributing to the Linux kernel?
This is one of the greatest strengths of Open Source; it's all about what you need. Why not collaborate with other businesses in your field to create the open source tools you need?
There are a great many insurance agencies around the world. This is an imense talent pool. Perhaps not all are technically skilled, but they at least have an intimate knowledge of the problem domain. Work together. Don't wait for someone to ride in on a white horse and sell it to you!
Hmm...
Or they could just walk into any office and pick up an computer off the desk with windows already installed and plunk it down on the set and not have to pay either the license fee or the cost of the computer
Maybe they might decide to put a particular OS on screen because
With computers lying around all over the place, I doubt it has anything to do with licensing costs.
WINE too!
I'm slowly working on one... I hope to have it semi-workable by late march.
It's a 2 cd set... you put one CD in one computer on a lan (the server) and it allocates a bunch of free space on whatever filesysyem it finds (for spooling).
Then you put the other CD in each of the workstations one by one... and it does a raw image of whatever writeable block devices it finds, and sends them to the server to be compressed and written to DVD-Rs
Restoring is the opposite process, so it restores an exact copy of the system state except for the clock.
The intended use is for backing up donated computers at election campaign offices so they may have uniform software installed (probably Linux) but be returned in the exact state they came in.
apt-get install netatalk
apache is a weberver, not a fileserver.
Quick, off the top of your head and with only one command, how do you install a service on a Debian box to share a directory with an old PowerMac 6100 running MacOS 8.6?
Don't know how to do it, do you? So you must be ignorant! Or maybe it's just not your field of expertise.
My favourite one of these has to be "Our spider found broken links on www.example.com, send us money and we'll tell you where they are"
There are lots of broken links on the site they're referring to, starting with index.php, /images/*, /stylesheets/*, etc. Sometimes the multi-year domain registration deal is not nescesary.
That's what H.323->POTS gateways are for. Nasty thing is, though, that H.323 and NAT don't play nice together. You have to trick your NAT'd H323 endpoint (IP Phone, GnomeMeeting, NetMeeting, etc) into lying about it's IP address, and port-forward a lot of ports on the firewall (or use a H.323->H.323 gateway on the firewall).
good joke, though.