Here's what we'll do. We fetch Mozilla himself back from wherever he is - probably fighting with Moth-Ra or a giant octopus or something. Then we get him to lay waste to Redmond and bite off Bill Gates' head live on CNN. See if people dare to use IE then!:-)
I rather like the birds. They have the advantage of being exactly the same bar the hue, so are both unifying and recognisable (once people have seen them a bit - you can't expect anything to be recognisable to people who've never seen it before). Plus, when composer finally starts working again we could give it a yellow bird and call it Sunbird, which would be cool. Then all we need is a music / media player (like xine meets xmms but somehow ends up not sucking) and it can be Songbird.
Try a Netgear MA-311 (PCI) or MA-401 (PC Card) adapter. Both tend to be autodetected (as prism2 chipsets) by anything modern (Mandrake 9.1, gentoo, knoppix 3.3), and work fine, certainly more trouble-free than with windows.
Having said that, in my experience they work even better with the linux-wlan-ng code.
I've found it far more of a pain in Windows, especially when using WEP. In Linux I just type my WEP code into a file in/etc; it stays there, doesn't get "lost" etc. In Windows all the adapters I've ever used come with a really stupid utility without which the card doesn't work in various ways but which interferes with the "other" (built-in) bit of Windows' wlan support and screws things up.
All the adapters I've tried have been auto-detected under Mandrake 9.2, knoppix 3.3 and gentoo, except the ADMtek-based card which requires a binary driver not shipped with distributions. But hey, the hardware-compatibility HOWTO is your friend.
Note that the final release of SuSE 9.2 will contain a 2.6 kernel for testing. I think 2.6 supports read/write to NTFS volumes, maybe they're just setting up the desktop ready.
That may be true, but you can bet if I were to ask my ISP for three "extra" IPv6 addresses they'd whack up my monthly bill. With NAT they never have to know.
At Oxford it was unheard of for a prof to require their own textbook; they generally provided a reading list of about 30 or so books for their courses, most of which could be found in the college libraries or the Radcliffe Science library. Occasionally they listed their own books, but again these were readily available in the libraries. And for the rare cases where books were either so hard to find in the libraries or so useful that every student pretty much needed one there was a thriving second-hand market in textbooks organised both on college notice boards and by the book shops in town.
The practices I'm reading about here sound just about as dishonest and immoral as the ones Feynman wrote about in "Surely you're joking?"
While I have no concerns about the safety of the plant, and with a bit of will it is possible to get rid of the waste properly, I'm not convinced by the motto "small is beautiful" as applied to nuclear power stations. It seems to me that a small nuclear power station would just be easier for a terrorist organisation to hit. While it might not have enough fuel, or suitable fuel, for a proper nuke, the radioactive material would certainly be suitable for a dirty bomb, especially towards the end of the plant's life. What's wrong with a few giant power stations?
On the subject of "bathroom books"
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Learning Microsoft Visual C++ is a great "bathroom book"... Ideal for when you run out of paper.
In related news, stone tools are rapidly becoming obsolete due to recent advances in metalworking, and scientists Ug and Thag Gr'onk are said to have made significant process in controlling fire.
Not yet but I'm planning to get one soon, possibly within the next 6 months and certainly within the next 2 years. Why? Although they're rather more expensive now there are lower running costs, generally better build quality, better print quality and durability. Actually I can't think of any downsides give or take a few hundred pounds' initial investment, and after a few replacement inkjet cartridges that'll be a moot point.
While you may be unable to touch type on a keyboard this small I still prefer qwerty on a real keyboard (letters more evenly distributed between the hands, at least for English words) and I am used to the layout. I can hunt-and-peck for letters on a too-small qwerty keyboard far, far faster than I can on a too-small abcdef keyboard.
Only a friend of mine (a philosophy postgrad) AFAIK, and he uses it without attribution. I could ask him if he's quoting someone but I'll probably have changed the sig before I see him again in any case.
Even better: google could screen French IP addresses for a while. I bet there are quite a few users in France who would have something to say to their government when they discovered what was going on:-)
This isn't really relevant here, but someone has to say it somewhere: is it just me, or has reading slashdot become like swimming through tar in the last few weeks? It frequently seems extremely slow - can it be that slashdot is finally being slashdotted? I think an upgrade is called for.
It hasn't been the EC for some time, it's the EU (European Union) now. Before that it was the EC, further back the EEC and probably something else even further back.
IANAL either, but I'm sure the DMCA specifically refers to copyright circumvention schemes. So, while you could in theory use it against an email crafted to get past spam filters, deliver a worm and use that worm to send your copyrighted data from/home/user to some.evil.host (just possibly copyright circumvention within the scope of the DMCA) I'm afraid that it wouldn't work against normal spammers.
Whatever the evils of their trade you can't reasonably claim they're breaking your copyright.
Bah, your email may be filled with HTML. I have a spamblocker.
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A friend of mine with a mac recently had to replace a stolen phone; his new one had bluetooth. The interoperability with MacOSX was so transparent that the first he knew was when his phone, placed somewhere near the computer, rang and up popped a call management program allowing him to answer the phone, make it take a message or block the call. Pretty cool!
Hmm, while I'm happily replying to myself here I made a fairly pleasant icon for Thunderbird. At 64x64 it's designed for my WindowMaker dock but should work for other uses.
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Here's what we'll do. We fetch Mozilla himself back from wherever he is - probably fighting with Moth-Ra or a giant octopus or something. Then we get him to lay waste to Redmond and bite off Bill Gates' head live on CNN. See if people dare to use IE then! :-)
Virgin, Ferrari, Red Rock, Red Stripe, etc. etc.
The penguin is simple enough (the original one, that is, not the variants). The simplest of the mozilla-family logos are the magic birds.
I rather like the birds. They have the advantage of being exactly the same bar the hue, so are both unifying and recognisable (once people have seen them a bit - you can't expect anything to be recognisable to people who've never seen it before). Plus, when composer finally starts working again we could give it a yellow bird and call it Sunbird, which would be cool. Then all we need is a music / media player (like xine meets xmms but somehow ends up not sucking) and it can be Songbird.
Try a Netgear MA-311 (PCI) or MA-401 (PC Card) adapter. Both tend to be autodetected (as prism2 chipsets) by anything modern (Mandrake 9.1, gentoo, knoppix 3.3), and work fine, certainly more trouble-free than with windows.
Having said that, in my experience they work even better with the linux-wlan-ng code.
I've found it far more of a pain in Windows, especially when using WEP. In Linux I just type my WEP code into a file in /etc; it stays there, doesn't get "lost" etc. In Windows all the adapters I've ever used come with a really stupid utility without which the card doesn't work in various ways but which interferes with the "other" (built-in) bit of Windows' wlan support and screws things up.
All the adapters I've tried have been auto-detected under Mandrake 9.2, knoppix 3.3 and gentoo, except the ADMtek-based card which requires a binary driver not shipped with distributions. But hey, the hardware-compatibility HOWTO is your friend.
Note that the final release of SuSE 9.2 will contain a 2.6 kernel for testing. I think 2.6 supports read/write to NTFS volumes, maybe they're just setting up the desktop ready.
That may be true, but you can bet if I were to ask my ISP for three "extra" IPv6 addresses they'd whack up my monthly bill. With NAT they never have to know.
It's more acceptable than leaving the rest of my family's windows machines on a permanent connection for all to see.
At Oxford it was unheard of for a prof to require their own textbook; they generally provided a reading list of about 30 or so books for their courses, most of which could be found in the college libraries or the Radcliffe Science library. Occasionally they listed their own books, but again these were readily available in the libraries. And for the rare cases where books were either so hard to find in the libraries or so useful that every student pretty much needed one there was a thriving second-hand market in textbooks organised both on college notice boards and by the book shops in town.
The practices I'm reading about here sound just about as dishonest and immoral as the ones Feynman wrote about in "Surely you're joking?"
While I have no concerns about the safety of the plant, and with a bit of will it is possible to get rid of the waste properly, I'm not convinced by the motto "small is beautiful" as applied to nuclear power stations. It seems to me that a small nuclear power station would just be easier for a terrorist organisation to hit. While it might not have enough fuel, or suitable fuel, for a proper nuke, the radioactive material would certainly be suitable for a dirty bomb, especially towards the end of the plant's life. What's wrong with a few giant power stations?
Learning Microsoft Visual C++ is a great "bathroom book"... Ideal for when you run out of paper.
In related news, stone tools are rapidly becoming obsolete due to recent advances in metalworking, and scientists Ug and Thag Gr'onk are said to have made significant process in controlling fire.
Not yet but I'm planning to get one soon, possibly within the next 6 months and certainly within the next 2 years. Why? Although they're rather more expensive now there are lower running costs, generally better build quality, better print quality and durability. Actually I can't think of any downsides give or take a few hundred pounds' initial investment, and after a few replacement inkjet cartridges that'll be a moot point.
While you may be unable to touch type on a keyboard this small I still prefer qwerty on a real keyboard (letters more evenly distributed between the hands, at least for English words) and I am used to the layout. I can hunt-and-peck for letters on a too-small qwerty keyboard far, far faster than I can on a too-small abcdef keyboard.
Only a friend of mine (a philosophy postgrad) AFAIK, and he uses it without attribution. I could ask him if he's quoting someone but I'll probably have changed the sig before I see him again in any case.
Even better: google could screen French IP addresses for a while. I bet there are quite a few users in France who would have something to say to their government when they discovered what was going on :-)
This isn't really relevant here, but someone has to say it somewhere: is it just me, or has reading slashdot become like swimming through tar in the last few weeks? It frequently seems extremely slow - can it be that slashdot is finally being slashdotted? I think an upgrade is called for.
It hasn't been the EC for some time, it's the EU (European Union) now. Before that it was the EC, further back the EEC and probably something else even further back.
IANAL either, but I'm sure the DMCA specifically refers to copyright circumvention schemes. So, while you could in theory use it against an email crafted to get past spam filters, deliver a worm and use that worm to send your copyrighted data from /home/user to some.evil.host (just possibly copyright circumvention within the scope of the DMCA) I'm afraid that it wouldn't work against normal spammers.
Whatever the evils of their trade you can't reasonably claim they're breaking your copyright.
So the DMCA still sucks, 100%.
"So the judge ruled that life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all present." -Douglas Adams.
Bah, your email may be filled with HTML. I have a spamblocker.
A friend of mine with a mac recently had to replace a stolen phone; his new one had bluetooth. The interoperability with MacOSX was so transparent that the first he knew was when his phone, placed somewhere near the computer, rang and up popped a call management program allowing him to answer the phone, make it take a message or block the call. Pretty cool!
Hmm, while I'm happily replying to myself here I made a fairly pleasant icon for Thunderbird. At 64x64 it's designed for my WindowMaker dock but should work for other uses.
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