I have a Nvidia Geforce 4 which has sort of spotty Linux support. Under redhat 9, I tried the open source nv drivers but I couldn't get them to work. I downloaded the nvidia binary driver from nvidia. It compiled into my kernal just fine and I was happy.
With Fedora, I couldn't get the nvidia driver hooks to compile into my kernal so I tried nv again. It works much better with the exception of the limited resolutions. Luckily, the higher resolutions seem to work just fine once I put them into the config file.
They just changed the name and stopped offering telephone support. Given this, I downloaded the ISOs, burned them, and upgraded my Redhat 9 box to Fedora.
I have to say it looks great. It took a bit of prodding to get it running. I had a bunch of "3rdParty" software (3rd party to redhat that is) that I had to reinstall (Java, jhead, openmoz, openfb) etc.
I also had to tweak my XFree86 config file to add some higher resolutions (I don't know why 800x600 was the biggest by default).
Then I had to switch back from sawfish to metacity window manager. Sawfish just doesn't seem to work with the gnome desktop switcher panel. Metacity is much better now, it allows me to define the keyboard shortcuts that kept me on sawfish for redhat 9.
The best part about Fedora is no more filling out a survey every time I want to download patches using up2date. Now it just lets me on. No subscription or anything. It is now officially a better product to me just because of that.
I just throw then in a box. Once a year, I search down for anything more than a couple years old and throw away anything beneath it. Other than a tax audit, I can't imagine I would ever need to look at them after they have been paid. Same thing for receipts and invoices, they go in the box.
If you want to track money, having the paper is not nearly as useful as entering the data into a financial program. Try GnuCash or something of that ilk.
Delivery menus are different story. I keep them under a magnet on the fridge. If you get a nice rare earth magnet that can hold a half inch stack of menus, that problem is easy to solve (get at least the half inch cubes).
Any solution that requires every document to be scanned is not going to work for you if you can't even file the documents. what are the chances you are going to get around to that stack of stuff to be scanned?
Invest in a magnet, a big box, and a good paper shredder.
Google seems to be having problems with domains that change ownership. When a domain name expires and somebody else picks it up, it no longer should have the authority of links that existed to it before the ownership changed.
For example Google search for "perl foreach". The first result is from perltoys.com. perltoys at one point had magnetic perl poetry magnets that slashdot and millions of other sites linked to. As a result they have very high page rank. Now the domain has been bought by somebody else and it offers keyword stuffed pages of sponsored links.
I tried some of the mouse gestures on that page and they conflict with other things for which I use the mouse. For example, try selecting a paragraph of text on the page. It activates one of the mouse gestures causing the page to scoll.
oops. I didn't have enough characters per line for the slashdot filter so I did a replace of http with World Wide Web. Forgot that would break the links...
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Remember when MS made Intenet Explorer and Windows Explorer into a single program? They then claimed that the web browser was an intergral part of the OS and could not be removed.
Typing a url into the address bar of Windows Explorer will get you to a website, it's no suprise that a search term in that box behaves the same way that IE does.
The author of the article has no clue how MSN search actually works. MSN search returns only sponsored results first. There are 16 sponsored results and then if you go to the next page you see:
Results 16-30 of about 8782246 containing "linux windows"
Their non-sponsored links don't seem to be so evil:
Wine Development HQ
Linux Online
freshmeat.net
WinLinux 2003
Red Hat
Linux.com
XChat
NeTraverse
Opera Software
Cygwin
Microsoft Linux
Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
Linux + Windows 95 mini-HOWTO
Download Opera
The list looks like a pretty good list of top sites.
The fact that MSN Search is willing to whore their entire first page of search results to the top bidder is another matter altogether. It makes their search hard to use, it confuses people, it is dihonest, and I'm sure glad that there are other alternatives. They get people to use MSN search because it is the default search engine for the Internet Explorer browser. Many people use it becasue they don't know about the alternatives. Sound like their other anti-competative behavior?
way too much!!!!!
Your regular expression finds any line that contains a } not just any line that is a }.
Try this, it is any line that is just a break; or a } except for leading and trailing white space:
$ grep -rE '^[ \t]*(break;|})[ \t]*$' "/usr/src/linux" | wc -l
109614
That finds about 3 times fewer instances, but still a good chunk of change.
Nothing microsoft or any other programer can do is going to be able to stop me if I grab pair of mac-10s and just go after their physical computer
Your thinking is one of the reasons that security is often breached. It is not possible to think about computer security without securing the computer physically. The security process requires holistic thinking. You cannot just dismiss ways to bybass security with a "well, of course somebody could do that". A cracker may find it easiest to get in via the wire, but a determined cracker won't stop at that. Unless you are thinking of every way to break in, just like an attacker would, you have vulnerabilities.
There are other ways around the wire as well. What if your mother (child, significant other, friend, employee) were using your computer (you let them while you aren't home), and somebody calls you and impersonate you or claims to be a friend calling on your behalf. The attacker has her go to a website, download a program, and run it. The program reads your private data and sends it. Do you expect Microsoft to prevent this type of attack? There are some things you can do to lock a system down so users can't install and run software, or upload to the internet, but it is a hard problem to solve.
Your data and software are useless unplugged, but they still aren't secure.
How about physical security? What if somebody broke in and plugged your computer back in so that they get to your data, run your software, and use your resources. What if it was just simply stolen?
Next you are going to say that if you destroyed your data it would be secure. Despite the fact that that would be a silly thing to do because your data is valuable, it still might be able to be recovered by the wrong people.
There is no such thing as being secure.
There is no such thing as software without bugs.
There is no such thing as an operating system without vulnerabilities.
No scan will find all the holes.
No firewall will protect you from all attacks.
No patch will fix all your systems.
No intrusion detection system will catch all breakins.
No employee screening process will weed out all the criminals.
No employee training program will eliminate all employee mistakes.
Security cannot be purchased.
Security cannot be achieved.
The security process is a checklist of items that should be evaluated and expanded periodically.
Continuously and actively search for vulnerabilities. If the cracker knows about the hole before you do, you have a problem. Run scanners, hire people to test your security.
Read security advisories, keep systems up to date with the latest patches, consult others who also try try to keep their security bar high.
Take preventative measures: install a firewall, train employees to use secure practices, implement stricter checks and balances.
Detect problems with intrusion detection systems. Put up honeypots and tripwires. Enable logging.
A new command line for Windows will be great for anybody that wants to do a bit of scripting on Windows.
The problem is that.msh files will be exectuted by default from the mail reader, the web browser, and the media player. Virus writers will be the first people adopt the scripts, and be the only ones to use them because Microsoft won't advertise, support, document, or otherwise promote the technology. As a result, administrators will have to find a way to turn of.msh scripting and nobody will be able to use it anyway.
I actually started this as an email to daddypants@slashdot.org saying "How could you write something so misleading?", but then I figured it would do more good as a commment.
It does not appear that Google is seriously considering merging into Microsoft. Here are some links to stories (no registration required) and some quotes.
The Ledger (NY Times business section) - Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals?
'Microsoft - desperate to capture a slice of the popular and ad-generating search business - approached Google within the last two months to discuss options, including the possibility of a takeover.'
Financial Times (business section) - Google approached by Microsoft for takeover
'The approach "gained little traction" , according to the report, with Google indicating that it preferred to pursue an initial public offering.'
CNN Money - Microsoft courting Google
'Microsoft may still be interested in pursuing the Web search company at a later date' (The page title is 'Mr. Softee Courting Google' despite the article heading.)
It appears that Microsoft is trying to threaten Google with "If you don't merge with us, we'll make MSN search built into Longhorn, and everybody will use it instead of you because they won't know any better." To Google's credit, they think they can do a better job, find new and interesting areas to innovate, and generally tell Microsoft to suck it. The real question remains: Will Google be as good once they are a public company?
Now that comes 6 billion pounds or only one per person.
Use Mozilla convert HTML to PDF
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Using Mozilla you can print a page to a postscript file and then use the command line program ps2pdf to convert it to a pdf. It isn't exactly a generic PDF library like was asked for, but it is pretty kewl. It works great for creating a quick mirror of a page including images.
It is actually hard to find a CGI contact form that hides email addresses. I ended up writing my own: Stephen Ostermiller's Contact Form. You can download and use it yourself if you wish, it requires a web server, perl, and sendmail. I researched other forms that hide email addresses and was only able to find a few others.
The trick that I use when I need to obfuscate an email address is to leave instructions to amputate the address. Then I will write the address like JoeLeg@YahooArm.com. A computer won't know that amputate means to remove the arm and the leg, but a human will.
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Documentation is for wusses. Much better to just do it.
With Fedora, I couldn't get the nvidia driver hooks to compile into my kernal so I tried nv again. It works much better with the exception of the limited resolutions. Luckily, the higher resolutions seem to work just fine once I put them into the config file.
I have to say it looks great. It took a bit of prodding to get it running. I had a bunch of "3rdParty" software (3rd party to redhat that is) that I had to reinstall (Java, jhead, openmoz, openfb) etc.
I also had to tweak my XFree86 config file to add some higher resolutions (I don't know why 800x600 was the biggest by default).
Then I had to switch back from sawfish to metacity window manager. Sawfish just doesn't seem to work with the gnome desktop switcher panel. Metacity is much better now, it allows me to define the keyboard shortcuts that kept me on sawfish for redhat 9.
The best part about Fedora is no more filling out a survey every time I want to download patches using up2date. Now it just lets me on. No subscription or anything. It is now officially a better product to me just because of that.
If you want to track money, having the paper is not nearly as useful as entering the data into a financial program. Try GnuCash or something of that ilk.
Delivery menus are different story. I keep them under a magnet on the fridge. If you get a nice rare earth magnet that can hold a half inch stack of menus, that problem is easy to solve (get at least the half inch cubes).
Any solution that requires every document to be scanned is not going to work for you if you can't even file the documents. what are the chances you are going to get around to that stack of stuff to be scanned?
Invest in a magnet, a big box, and a good paper shredder.
For example Google search for "perl foreach". The first result is from perltoys.com. perltoys at one point had magnetic perl poetry magnets that slashdot and millions of other sites linked to. As a result they have very high page rank. Now the domain has been bought by somebody else and it offers keyword stuffed pages of sponsored links.
Really annoying.
oops. I didn't have enough characters per line for the slashdot filter so I did a replace of http with World Wide Web. Forgot that would break the links...
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Typing a url into the address bar of Windows Explorer will get you to a website, it's no suprise that a search term in that box behaves the same way that IE does.
Google search for: linux windows - Results 1 - 30 of about 8,140,000. Search took 0.15 seconds.
MSN search for: linux windows - Results 1-15 of about 16 containing "linux windows"
MSN search for: linux windows (page 2) - Results 16-30 of about 8898820 containing "linux windows"
- Wine Development HQ
- Linux Online
- freshmeat.net
- WinLinux 2003
- Red Hat
- Linux.com
- XChat
- NeTraverse
- Opera Software
- Cygwin
- Microsoft Linux
- Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
- Linux + Windows 95 mini-HOWTO
- Download Opera
The list looks like a pretty good list of top sites.The fact that MSN Search is willing to whore their entire first page of search results to the top bidder is another matter altogether. It makes their search hard to use, it confuses people, it is dihonest, and I'm sure glad that there are other alternatives. They get people to use MSN search because it is the default search engine for the Internet Explorer browser. Many people use it becasue they don't know about the alternatives. Sound like their other anti-competative behavior?
Your regular expression finds any line that contains a } not just any line that is a }.
Try this, it is any line that is just a break; or a } except for leading and trailing white space:
$ grep -rE '^[ \t]*(break;|})[ \t]*$' "/usr/src/linux" | wc -l
109614
That finds about 3 times fewer instances, but still a good chunk of change.
Your thinking is one of the reasons that security is often breached. It is not possible to think about computer security without securing the computer physically. The security process requires holistic thinking. You cannot just dismiss ways to bybass security with a "well, of course somebody could do that". A cracker may find it easiest to get in via the wire, but a determined cracker won't stop at that. Unless you are thinking of every way to break in, just like an attacker would, you have vulnerabilities.
There are other ways around the wire as well. What if your mother (child, significant other, friend, employee) were using your computer (you let them while you aren't home), and somebody calls you and impersonate you or claims to be a friend calling on your behalf. The attacker has her go to a website, download a program, and run it. The program reads your private data and sends it. Do you expect Microsoft to prevent this type of attack? There are some things you can do to lock a system down so users can't install and run software, or upload to the internet, but it is a hard problem to solve.
How about physical security? What if somebody broke in and plugged your computer back in so that they get to your data, run your software, and use your resources. What if it was just simply stolen?
Next you are going to say that if you destroyed your data it would be secure. Despite the fact that that would be a silly thing to do because your data is valuable, it still might be able to be recovered by the wrong people.
Now stop trolling.
There is no such thing as software without bugs.
There is no such thing as an operating system without vulnerabilities.
No scan will find all the holes.
No firewall will protect you from all attacks.
No patch will fix all your systems.
No intrusion detection system will catch all breakins.
No employee screening process will weed out all the criminals.
No employee training program will eliminate all employee mistakes.
Security cannot be purchased.
Security cannot be achieved.
The security process is a checklist of items that should be evaluated and expanded periodically.
Continuously and actively search for vulnerabilities. If the cracker knows about the hole before you do, you have a problem. Run scanners, hire people to test your security.
Read security advisories, keep systems up to date with the latest patches, consult others who also try try to keep their security bar high.
Take preventative measures: install a firewall, train employees to use secure practices, implement stricter checks and balances.
Detect problems with intrusion detection systems. Put up honeypots and tripwires. Enable logging.
It scares me, but Microsoft is right.
The problem is that .msh files will be exectuted by default from the mail reader, the web browser, and the media player. Virus writers will be the first people adopt the scripts, and be the only ones to use them because Microsoft won't advertise, support, document, or otherwise promote the technology. As a result, administrators will have to find a way to turn of .msh scripting and nobody will be able to use it anyway.
I actually started this as an email to daddypants@slashdot.org saying "How could you write something so misleading?", but then I figured it would do more good as a commment.
More bandwidth, processing power, and resources. I hope this goes through ASAP.
I hate to disagree, but ff Microsoft were to buy Google and start running it, wouldn't it go through ASP?
The Ledger (NY Times business section) - Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals?
'Microsoft - desperate to capture a slice of the popular and ad-generating search business - approached Google within the last two months to discuss options, including the possibility of a takeover.'
Financial Times (business section) - Google approached by Microsoft for takeover
'The approach "gained little traction" , according to the report, with Google indicating that it preferred to pursue an initial public offering.'
CNN Money - Microsoft courting Google
'Microsoft may still be interested in pursuing the Web search company at a later date' (The page title is 'Mr. Softee Courting Google' despite the article heading.)
It appears that Microsoft is trying to threaten Google with "If you don't merge with us, we'll make MSN search built into Longhorn, and everybody will use it instead of you because they won't know any better." To Google's credit, they think they can do a better job, find new and interesting areas to innovate, and generally tell Microsoft to suck it. The real question remains: Will Google be as good once they are a public company?
Read it as "Mars Attacked Us, 65 Years Ago Today".
(1200*1200)bits/in^2 * (11in*8.5in/side) * byte/8 bits * KB/1024 bytes MB/1024 kb = 16 MB/side
If we were printing on both sides of 20lb paper we get about 800 MB/pound of paper:
16MB/side * 2 sides/page * 500pages/20pounds = 800 MB/pound
Now that comes 6 billion pounds or only one per person.
Using Mozilla you can print a page to a postscript file and then use the command line program ps2pdf to convert it to a pdf. It isn't exactly a generic PDF library like was asked for, but it is pretty kewl. It works great for creating a quick mirror of a page including images.
The trick that I use when I need to obfuscate an email address is to leave instructions to amputate the address. Then I will write the address like JoeLeg@YahooArm.com. A computer won't know that amputate means to remove the arm and the leg, but a human will.
Did anybody else rearrange that and get "fart"?
Sorry about that, my bad. The keys are right next to each other on my dvorak keybord.