Why use PuTTY when you don't have to? I mean, until Linux is fully working on my HTC Universal I have to use it on there, and when I'm dual booting WinXP I can either use that or fanny around with Cygwin, so I DO use PuTTY, I'm not maligning it in any way. But Linux has all the tools (except PuTTYgen) that you ever need already there.
I switched to openSuSE about the same time as he did and to be honest I prefer installing from source.
I use Bon Echo, I made the ATI graffix drivers, John the ripper, kernels (2.6.18.8-0.5 and -0.7, would use a later one but for some reason SuSE kernels aren't the same as the vanilla ones), htop, fuse, nmap, Domino... All from source tarballs. The pleasure of not having to wait for someone to update the RPMs by two (or more) versions is much more than having something with bugs that require workarounds
I haven't had to use WinXP for anything other than Photoshop and NTFS (ntfs-3g gives me IO errors) since I switched.
I would imagine that it has something to do with a massive default registry, and the size of a default installation.
Imagine if your install (from scratch) was ~10GB because of drivers for things like the GoatLighter(tm) that you (might) never have heard of? Wouldn't you be pissed that your precious HDD space was taken up by such a niche driver? Better to keep it hidden away in a.CAB file for later use.
Even on Linux you have the complication of plugging a device into a different PCI/PCMCIA slot and having a new address for the same hardware in a different place. Having just fiddled about with WiFi and the naming conventions of openSuSE's detection of hardware and having moved my BlueTooth dongle from the front of the machine to the back of the machine on Windows, they both have to ascertain exactly what it is that has been plugged in again, and if it has been, they handle it differently. On Linux the module is given new parameters, on Windows the driver is reloaded from scratch.
I'm glad nobody suggested walking round Heathrow with a microwave transmitter, those blow the RFID chips up and the USA won't allow you to enter the country without the RFID. How many people have to get turned away on one flight before they let everyone through? Still, tha... hang on, door...
I hope you got the latest version of gcc to compile that, we just had a crit.vuln(trojan) that puts an extra 50 bytes on the.exe file for all programs that are less than 10 lines...
Oh god, did you ever use the godawful Windows version?
XTG under DOS was the killer app of it's day, but never actually made it to usability on Windows.
A close contender these days is Resco Explorer for the PDA, which does everything you could ask for.
To bring this post back on topic, the killer app for me on the PocketPC is Pocket Informant. If this will sync up to Chandler then us PDA users can drop the horrendous ActiveSync/Outlook combination that is the only way to manage PIM data between mobile and desktop.
In true innovative style, Google is now using the Uncertainty Principle in results.
Due to this drug not actually being real yet, the cat is sometimes alive, sometimes dead.
Another theory is that the CIA just made this feelgood story up because they are going to stop giving AIDS to poor nations and the leak to Google hasn't propogated throughout their servers yet...
Take yer pick, the tinfoil is in the second drawer down.
Actually, you read a much more high-brow dictionary than most of/., hence the confusion.
Fucknut:
Rude insult; a despised or despicable person.
Thanks for the trivia though, might come in handy one day...
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This is pretty much the accepted standard for Adblock rules, Filterset.G.
The latest version is 2005-12-11a.txt, download it (Right click - Save link as). Open up Adblock (CTRL-SHIFT-P), go to Adblock Options, click Import Filters and browse to the file that you just downloaded and load it in. Appending the list is probably a better idea if you have added items to the block list.
I used to post a lot to a community board over on Delphi Forums and the big thing then was signature art.
Hundreds of women with nothing better to do (and a few guys) would sit around chopping up copyrighted artwork (for the most part) and putting usernames on them.
Then came the effects, glitter, sparkling, gold, fades, weaving and glass... you get the idea.
Most of these people did a google for "glass text" or something similar and came back with tutorials up the wazoo for using a $600 software package to create detritus to fill externally linkable webservers with.
Another way to learn the package is to search your favourite BitTorrent server for a "Photoshop ebook".
At the end of the day trial and error is the way that us geeks learn, but some people have to have their hands held firmly until they are sure they can't break something by clicking a widget they never tried before.
If you're just starting out and will never need the power of a $600 package you can always give PaintShop Pro a try, nearly all the features that amateurs will use in a $99 package.
If you think you will outgrow PSP, don't waste your time learning it, just go right along to Adobe PS. Retraining after using PSP is so much hassle that many people never bother going beyond its limits.
Not to mention that if you use FlashBlock with Kerio firewall (Windows free firewall) the flash won't play at all, even if you click the play button.
FlashBlock claim this is some sort of HTML rewrite that Kerio does to the page.
Torrent is good and all but you probably will get better speed with the direct downloads
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm still sharing it on BT.
It was a great movie and I have recommended it to a few friends since getting it when Slashdot told me it was out.
If you don't like the way the site is run, make your own.
This isn't as blase as it would appear, I'm being serious.
If your way of looking at the world is so different from the way the Editors and posters here view it then maybe you could start your own site that caters for people just like you, after all, you can't be one of a kind, there has got to be others like you that would love to read and reply to things that matter to you.
This is what the internet is about, blogs, forums, wikis, you have them all at your disposal, hell, I'd even host it on my server if nobody else would. You have something to say, say it. If it is interesting to enough people slap some banners on it and OSDN might buy it.
Don't live by other people's rules, if they don't suit you go create your own.
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Sorry, was not clear on what I meant.
Why use PuTTY when you don't have to? I mean, until Linux is fully working on my HTC Universal I have to use it on there, and when I'm dual booting WinXP I can either use that or fanny around with Cygwin, so I DO use PuTTY, I'm not maligning it in any way. But Linux has all the tools (except PuTTYgen) that you ever need already there.
I use Bon Echo, I made the ATI graffix drivers, John the ripper, kernels (2.6.18.8-0.5 and -0.7, would use a later one but for some reason SuSE kernels aren't the same as the vanilla ones), htop, fuse, nmap, Domino ... All from source tarballs. The pleasure of not having to wait for someone to update the RPMs by two (or more) versions is much more than having something with bugs that require workarounds
I haven't had to use WinXP for anything other than Photoshop and NTFS (ntfs-3g gives me IO errors) since I switched.
Imagine if your install (from scratch) was ~10GB because of drivers for things like the GoatLighter(tm) that you (might) never have heard of? Wouldn't you be pissed that your precious HDD space was taken up by such a niche driver? .CAB file for later use.
Better to keep it hidden away in a
Even on Linux you have the complication of plugging a device into a different PCI/PCMCIA slot and having a new address for the same hardware in a different place. Having just fiddled about with WiFi and the naming conventions of openSuSE's detection of hardware and having moved my BlueTooth dongle from the front of the machine to the back of the machine on Windows, they both have to ascertain exactly what it is that has been plugged in again, and if it has been, they handle it differently. On Linux the module is given new parameters, on Windows the driver is reloaded from scratch.
I'm glad nobody suggested walking round Heathrow with a microwave transmitter, those blow the RFID chips up and the USA won't allow you to enter the country without the RFID. ... hang on, door ...
How many people have to get turned away on one flight before they let everyone through?
Still, tha
I hope you got the latest version of gcc to compile that, we just had a crit.vuln(trojan) that puts an extra 50 bytes on the .exe file for all programs that are less than 10 lines ...
Sucked like a Dyson on steroids.
Here is a review of XTGWin, and here are the XTG Fanpages.
XTG under DOS was the killer app of it's day, but never actually made it to usability on Windows.
A close contender these days is Resco Explorer for the PDA, which does everything you could ask for.
To bring this post back on topic, the killer app for me on the PocketPC is Pocket Informant. If this will sync up to Chandler then us PDA users can drop the horrendous ActiveSync/Outlook combination that is the only way to manage PIM data between mobile and desktop.
Would be a great link except that Niclas has decided that Slashbots aren't vlauable potential customers.
Copy and paste the link to avoid the referrer check.
The HTC Star Trek might be the phone you mean?
If it is, according to The Register, May 10th.
Assuming also that you're on this side of the pond =/
You're thinking of BlueSnarfing, not BlueJacking.
One is harmless, one is similar to the Paris Hilton scenario.
Odd behavior. Bug?
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No, this is a feature of Google now.
In true innovative style, Google is now using the Uncertainty Principle in results.
Due to this drug not actually being real yet, the cat is sometimes alive, sometimes dead.
Another theory is that the CIA just made this feelgood story up because they are going to stop giving AIDS to poor nations and the leak to Google hasn't propogated throughout their servers yet
Take yer pick, the tinfoil is in the second drawer down.
Hardly hideous, most of us are soothed by it.
I for one have long enjoyed our old green overlords.
Actually, you read a much more high-brow dictionary than most of /., hence the confusion.
...
Fucknut:
Rude insult; a despised or despicable person.
Thanks for the trivia though, might come in handy one day
This is pretty much the accepted standard for Adblock rules, Filterset.G.
The latest version is 2005-12-11a.txt, download it (Right click - Save link as). Open up Adblock (CTRL-SHIFT-P), go to Adblock Options, click Import Filters and browse to the file that you just downloaded and load it in. Appending the list is probably a better idea if you have added items to the block list.
Just wait 'til the story is duped tomorrow, the extra traffic will totally melt the server =)
I used to post a lot to a community board over on Delphi Forums and the big thing then was signature art.
... you get the idea.
Hundreds of women with nothing better to do (and a few guys) would sit around chopping up copyrighted artwork (for the most part) and putting usernames on them.
Then came the effects, glitter, sparkling, gold, fades, weaving and glass
Most of these people did a google for "glass text" or something similar and came back with tutorials up the wazoo for using a $600 software package to create detritus to fill externally linkable webservers with.
Another way to learn the package is to search your favourite BitTorrent server for a "Photoshop ebook".
At the end of the day trial and error is the way that us geeks learn, but some people have to have their hands held firmly until they are sure they can't break something by clicking a widget they never tried before.
If you're just starting out and will never need the power of a $600 package you can always give PaintShop Pro a try, nearly all the features that amateurs will use in a $99 package.
If you think you will outgrow PSP, don't waste your time learning it, just go right along to Adobe PS. Retraining after using PSP is so much hassle that many people never bother going beyond its limits.
Not to mention that if you use FlashBlock with Kerio firewall (Windows free firewall) the flash won't play at all, even if you click the play button.
FlashBlock claim this is some sort of HTML rewrite that Kerio does to the page.
This should have been fixed eons ago =/
Will the terrorist sign a peace treaty or cease fire or is it only when our dear leaders tell us that the war has ended?
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No, but they will adjust all the books to say that we were never at war with them and that we have been at war with someone else forever
And to make that even easier Wikipedia will have a backdoor for FBI to edit locked pages and the Wayback Machine will be on CIA servers.
Pass me a foil hat, I think the conspiracy theorists are frying my brain with mind control rays.
Interconnected actually.
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Torrent is good and all but you probably will get better speed with the direct downloads
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm still sharing it on BT.
It was a great movie and I have recommended it to a few friends since getting it when Slashdot told me it was out.
Wouldn't it be nice if we all wrote to Bill and told him that we are running pirate copies too? He might stop selling it over here!
If you don't like the way the site is run, make your own.
This isn't as blase as it would appear, I'm being serious.
If your way of looking at the world is so different from the way the Editors and posters here view it then maybe you could start your own site that caters for people just like you, after all, you can't be one of a kind, there has got to be others like you that would love to read and reply to things that matter to you.
This is what the internet is about, blogs, forums, wikis, you have them all at your disposal, hell, I'd even host it on my server if nobody else would. You have something to say, say it. If it is interesting to enough people slap some banners on it and OSDN might buy it.
Don't live by other people's rules, if they don't suit you go create your own.
How many on a multifunction device?
If you assign a hardware button to the media player, one button, one screen tap.
If you already had the player running before you shut the device down, just one.
I wouldn't recommend getting a phonecall while you have WMP running though.