Of course, the one time I don't preview...oh well!
Ideally, we want to make GNOME perfect, easy, small, intuitive, resource friendly, portable, maintainable, funnier, entertaining, productive, and the ultimate of the ultimates.
The emphasis there should've been on perfect:) ---------------
Ideally, we want to make GNOME perfect, easy, small, intuitive, resource friendly, portable, maintainable, funnier, entertaining, productive, and the ultimate of the ultimates.
Ahh, if only all Software engineers shared this goal, and without getting paid serious money to boot!
I think, with this kind of dedication, Gnome could easily be the force bring Linux to the masses. Keep it up! ---------------
You can however, make a new directory somewhere on your system, maybe under the Napster install directory, and then use that as your mp3 directory. Put nothing in it, and when you get a file, move it out of that directory... ---------------
Being able to use the campus network to surf the internet from your dorm, as well as other benefits, at a university is a privilege. Why then, don't they allow students to use clients such as napster, but make the student pay a nominal fee. If Napster truly were a problem on the level they say it is, the fees would easily pay for a boost in the connectivity, reducing the hit the network takes from Napster users, and fairly distributing the costs of this expansion to those who will actually be using it. ---------------
The Transmeta site is understandably slow now. With not only all of/. going to check it out, but many people reading ZDNet, MSNBC, and others, as well as other people in the know, it seems their server was not ready for the traffic... ---------------
Jon Maddog Hall, executive Director of Linux International. Halls speech, titled From Datacenter to Desktop, focused on applications built for Linux. Hall also held a signing ceremony for his latest book called Red Hat Linux for Dummies.
Wait, is this supposed to be a good thing? I realize that Linux should go more mainstream, but are we really ready right now for the readers of iMac for Dummies?
Local ISP, Internet Access HK Limited was offering a total office automation and Internet package running on Redhat Linux Server OS and bundled with a Compaq ProLiant 400 server. The package comes with Web server, network fax server, file server applications, and on-site technical support.
It's good that the Chinese get it, but why can't we? I wonder how many offices might switch over if an offer like this was available and highly publicized... ---------------
When you go to a library, you don't expect to find back issues of Penthouse sitting in the magazine section, do you? I can clearly understand the need for some sort of surveilence, but I don't think this needs to come in the form of traditional censorware. My school's library has installed a program on the machines that allows the librarian to see a live screen capture of any computer while sitting on her computer in her office. Signs are posted that "You may be observed," and this usually is enough to deter any wrong-doers. Instead of installing software which may prevent access to the NRA website because the AFA does not agree with them, just post a set of rules that clearly spell out what users can and can't do. If you are observed breaking a rule, then your internet privileges will be suspended if not revoked permanently. In addition, the sysadmin can block any violating websites taht are visited.
In order to enforce privileges and/or time restraints, use the bar code or magnetic strip on the library card, and attach the appropriate reader to the computers, so to log on you scan your card, and your 30 mins/day or whatever begins counting down. When you get to 5 minutes and 1 minute left, a warning tells you to hurry up and finish. Then, when you quit or your time expires, the system automatically logs out and the next person can scan their card in. ---------------
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Not really. On the news (most often television) these days, the reporters will show you the facts (picture), interpret the meaning in their speech, then proceed to tell you how to think about it.
"This is clearly a bad thing," etc.
TV news isn't the only culprit, just where I see it the most. ---------------
However, I believe that the majority of credit card #'s that are stolen or taken advantage off w/out the owners knowledge over the internet are taken by kiddies and their credit card # generators. Most sites are secure and are not broken into by hackers. If (the myth that) most sites were broken into was true... someone with a fair amount of brains would have cracked a college application website and got ssn #'s and addresses and other crap and done a whole lot more damage to a person, or cracked an online banking service by now and screwed over thousands.
The intent of the people stealing credit card numbers is usually not to damage people, but is for personal gain. Simply, they want the money. They won't get a free Rio, or whatever else they want by getting someone's address, hunting them down and killing them. As well, college application information is usually not stored online, but rather sent via secure form and stored locally at the college.
Personally, I doubt that this guy did what he says he did. Had he done it, Interpol/Russian Cops would have gotten involved right away and tossed him in the chink - or at least payed the blackmail $.
Apparently, you do not understand much about the current state of Russia. If you, for example, were to send $5 to Russian relatives, it would make it maybe as far as the main post office in Moscow, not sure if they check all the mail before that or after it. The Mob has an amazingly large pull over that country now, and of every $1 that America sends in foreign Aid, I believe the mob gets about 60 cents of it.... They really are in no state to waste their time paying $100,000 dollars to some Hacker, or trying to apprehend him. ---------------
Those acronyms are really that, acronyms for: Hewlett-Packard and International Business Machines. The first one is easy to figure out how they got that name, it's the last names of the two founders. The second one just makes sense, and they were in the "business machine" business right from the start, so they were able to use that name. I think a good rule of thumb based off of yours is that names don't necessarily need to be colorful yet nondescript one word names. Make a descriptive, accurate 2-4 word name, and acronym! ---------------
Check out the link on the left..."submit story." Prcatically all of the news coverage you see is from the readers, and you get credit where it says "yesthatguy writes '...'". The only thing/. does is to go through each of the submissions and weed out off-topic, poorly written, uninteresting, duplicate, or other bad articles, and then just push the ones that pass the test through to you and the rest of the world. ---------------
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2389 661,00.html ZDNet does an article on/. too... Check out some of the comments posted by their readers, especially some of them that are about us... ---------------
however I use some of the tools - e-mail client and composer. btw the e-mail client recognizes the links - it lets me do anything with a link that I can in navigator, e.g. open it in new window, I haven't find out how to do it in inbox (microsoft e-mail client)
"Inbox", better known as Outlook Express, automatically opens links in new windows...it'll probably do everything that Messenger does, plus more. As well, if you would rather use Eudora Pro, or another e-mail program, you can easily configure IE to use a different program.
Seeing as how these chips were originally, and even recently slated for release around this time next year, it makes me wonder what else Intel may already have production-ready but isn't sharing with us so they can soak up more profits. Clearly, they have had this chip/chipset either ready for a while or close enough to ready to be able to launch it by now, but before the release of the Athlon, it wasn't coming out any time soon. Is this just Intel's ploy to soak more money out of people by charging high prices for chips that aren't state-of-the art by not releasing the state-of-the-art chips? Or were they planning on releasing something better, and just rushed this into production? (We see that often in the software world, but you can't 'patch' a CPU...)
And, offtopic... Has/. ben/.'ed? The main page is loading at a slow crawl, and the title apparently is no longer Slashdoot, but simply ':' and none of the images on the main pages are loading correctly. Is this just me or a server problem? ---------------
Is it just me, or does this game look a lot like the next-in-line C&C game? I haven't seen any information on Renegade from Westwood, but there was an extensive preview in the October 1999 edition of PC Gamer that I received yesterday. Any thoughts on this?
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Of course, the one time I don't preview...oh well!
:)
Ideally, we want to make GNOME perfect, easy, small, intuitive,
resource friendly, portable, maintainable, funnier, entertaining,
productive, and the ultimate of the ultimates.
The emphasis there should've been on perfect
---------------
Ideally, we want to make GNOME perfect, easy, small, intuitive,
resource friendly, portable, maintainable, funnier, entertaining,
productive, and the ultimate of the ultimates.
Ahh, if only all Software engineers shared this goal, and without getting paid serious money to boot!
I think, with this kind of dedication, Gnome could easily be the force bring Linux to the masses. Keep it up!
---------------
You can however, make a new directory somewhere on your system, maybe under the Napster install directory, and then use that as your mp3 directory. Put nothing in it, and when you get a file, move it out of that directory...
---------------
Being able to use the campus network to surf the internet from your dorm, as well as other benefits, at a university is a privilege. Why then, don't they allow students to use clients such as napster, but make the student pay a nominal fee. If Napster truly were a problem on the level they say it is, the fees would easily pay for a boost in the connectivity, reducing the hit the network takes from Napster users, and fairly distributing the costs of this expansion to those who will actually be using it.
---------------
The Transmeta site is understandably slow now. With not only all of /. going to check it out, but many people reading ZDNet, MSNBC, and others, as well as other people in the know, it seems their server was not ready for the traffic...
---------------
Free trials of Linux to come? Yummy!
Jon Maddog Hall, executive Director of Linux International. Halls speech, titled From Datacenter to Desktop, focused on applications built for Linux. Hall also held a signing ceremony for his latest book called Red Hat Linux for Dummies.
Wait, is this supposed to be a good thing? I realize that Linux should go more mainstream, but are we really ready right now for the readers of iMac for Dummies?
Local ISP, Internet Access HK Limited was offering a total office automation and Internet package running on Redhat Linux Server OS and bundled with a Compaq ProLiant 400 server. The package comes with Web server, network fax server, file server applications, and on-site technical support.
It's good that the Chinese get it, but why can't we? I wonder how many offices might switch over if an offer like this was available and highly publicized...
---------------
When you go to a library, you don't expect to find back issues of Penthouse sitting in the magazine section, do you? I can clearly understand the need for some sort of surveilence, but I don't think this needs to come in the form of traditional censorware. My school's library has installed a program on the machines that allows the librarian to see a live screen capture of any computer while sitting on her computer in her office. Signs are posted that "You may be observed," and this usually is enough to deter any wrong-doers. Instead of installing software which may prevent access to the NRA website because the AFA does not agree with them, just post a set of rules that clearly spell out what users can and can't do. If you are observed breaking a rule, then your internet privileges will be suspended if not revoked permanently. In addition, the sysadmin can block any violating websites taht are visited.
In order to enforce privileges and/or time restraints, use the bar code or magnetic strip on the library card, and attach the appropriate reader to the computers, so to log on you scan your card, and your 30 mins/day or whatever begins counting down. When you get to 5 minutes and 1 minute left, a warning tells you to hurry up and finish. Then, when you quit or your time expires, the system automatically logs out and the next person can scan their card in.
---------------
Not really. On the news (most often television) these days, the reporters will show you the facts (picture), interpret the meaning in their speech, then proceed to tell you how to think about it.
"This is clearly a bad thing," etc.
TV news isn't the only culprit, just where I see it the most.
---------------
However, I believe that the majority of credit card #'s that are stolen or taken advantage off w/out the owners knowledge over the internet are taken by kiddies and their credit card # generators. Most sites are secure and are not broken into by hackers. If (the myth that) most sites were broken into was true... someone with a fair amount of brains would have cracked a college application website and got ssn #'s and addresses and other crap and done a whole lot more damage to a person, or cracked an online banking service by now and screwed over thousands.
The intent of the people stealing credit card numbers is usually not to damage people, but is for personal gain. Simply, they want the money. They won't get a free Rio, or whatever else they want by getting someone's address, hunting them down and killing them. As well, college application information is usually not stored online, but rather sent via secure form and stored locally at the college.
Personally, I doubt that this guy did what he says he did. Had he done it, Interpol/Russian Cops would have gotten involved right away and tossed him in the chink - or at least payed the blackmail $.
Apparently, you do not understand much about the current state of Russia. If you, for example, were to send $5 to Russian relatives, it would make it maybe as far as the main post office in Moscow, not sure if they check all the mail before that or after it. The Mob has an amazingly large pull over that country now, and of every $1 that America sends in foreign Aid, I believe the mob gets about 60 cents of it.... They really are in no state to waste their time paying $100,000 dollars to some Hacker, or trying to apprehend him.
---------------
Those acronyms are really that, acronyms for:
Hewlett-Packard and International Business Machines. The first one is easy to figure out how they got that name, it's the last names of the two founders. The second one just makes sense, and they were in the "business machine" business right from the start, so they were able to use that name. I think a good rule of thumb based off of yours is that names don't necessarily need to be colorful yet nondescript one word names. Make a descriptive, accurate 2-4 word name, and acronym!
---------------
Check out the link on the left..."submit story." Prcatically all of the news coverage you see is from the readers, and you get credit where it says "yesthatguy writes '...'". /. does is to go through each of the submissions and weed out off-topic, poorly written, uninteresting, duplicate, or other bad articles, and then just push the ones that pass the test through to you and the rest of the world.
The only thing
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Who are they letting in on the IPO? I feel I deserve a shot, since I scoop the darned stuff out of my pond every year...
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http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2389 661,00.html ZDNet does an article on /. too... Check out some of the comments posted by their readers, especially some of them that are about us...
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however I use some of the tools - e-mail client and composer. btw the e-mail client recognizes the links - it lets me do anything with a link that I can in navigator, e.g. open it in new window, I haven't find out how to do it in inbox (microsoft e-mail client)
"Inbox", better known as Outlook Express, automatically opens links in new windows...it'll probably do everything that Messenger does, plus more. As well, if you would rather use Eudora Pro, or another e-mail program, you can easily configure IE to use a different program.
---------------
Seeing as how these chips were originally, and even recently slated for release around this time next year, it makes me wonder what else Intel may already have production-ready but isn't sharing with us so they can soak up more profits. Clearly, they have had this chip/chipset either ready for a while or close enough to ready to be able to launch it by now, but before the release of the Athlon, it wasn't coming out any time soon. Is this just Intel's ploy to soak more money out of people by charging high prices for chips that aren't state-of-the art by not releasing the state-of-the-art chips? Or were they planning on releasing something better, and just rushed this into production? (We see that often in the software world, but you can't 'patch' a CPU...)
/. ben /.'ed? The main page is loading at a slow crawl, and the title apparently is no longer Slashdoot, but simply ':' and none of the images on the main pages are loading correctly. Is this just me or a server problem?
And, offtopic...
Has
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Well, that's ummm...interesting to say the least. At least it has good airflow, lol...and it looks better than the iMacs.
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That's actually a good idea. I was thinking more along the lines of a BigMac carton...lol
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Is it just me, or does this game look a lot like the next-in-line C&C game? I haven't seen any information on Renegade from Westwood, but there was an extensive preview in the October 1999 edition of PC Gamer that I received yesterday. Any thoughts on this?