Actually Bill Clinton came to Bush's defense saying that for years first hand he saw plenty of intel proving the WMD existed.
Don't you mean he saw plenty of Intel proving that *AMD* existed?
And apologies for straying on-topic, but... you know it's time to move countries when your supposedly liberal (but in reality, only barely left of central) government starts introducing socially conservative policies such as this. Can we please have the Greens in power now? Thanks.
PC user: Macs suck. You can't play games on them, you can't get any good software for them; really, nobody supports Macs.
Mac user: Yeah, but at least we don't get viruses.
PC user: See? Not even virus writers support Macs!
The entire article looks like it was written by a grammatically competent and mildly technically competent twelve-year-old who wanted to push his/ her own reputation through the roof
Except for the last paragraph:
"It's easy to forget that as Lyon worked to save him, Richardson considered paying off the extortionists. Now Richardson has a better option. Pay Lyon $50,000 a year and he's protected. He doesn't have to worry about paying extortionist's protection fees."
...because he's paying as much to Lyon in a year as the extortionists wanted as a one-off payment. Anyone smart enough is going to figure this out for themselves, and suddenly Lyon's model doesn't look that attractive. If it is astroturfing, would they have obviated this point in the article itself?
Lyon may not be carrying out the DDoS attacks (as far as anyone knows...), but he's certainly profiting from someone else's extortion (ie, "you're going to get DDoS'ed sooner or later. Pay us $50k and we'll make sure you're protected" - this skates dangerously close to a protection racket, despite the fact that he's not actually dishing out the grief). Given the options - paying $40/$50k up front, or paying Lyon $50k a year, I wonder whether Richardson still considers he made the right decision...?
Sorry dude, when you can get your back/fwd/reload/etc buttons and your tabs on the same line as your menu, then I'll be impressed (having said that, if it is possible, I'd be quite happy to hear how it's done). Until then, Opera's claim to have the largest browsing area is untrue.
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Opera state on their website that:
"We've cleaned up our front yard. The Opera 8 interface is designed to make the advanced functions easy and effective to use. Menus, toolbars and other elements have undergone our "slim and clean"-routine. The licensed version has the largest browsing area in the industry."
Admittedly I haven't had a chance to try Opera 8 yet (still waiting for the server to settle down), however if they can get the screen real estate you can achieve with the Firefox-based K-Meleon (in which you can have every single item, including menus, on the one line), then I'll be impressed, and probably switch back. I doubt that they'll be able to back the above claim up, however...
The commercial networks in Australia show, pretty much exclusively, US and local content. I could probably count the number of UK shows shown on commercial tv here in a year on one hand.
One of the two government stations shows almost entirely European and Asian content; the other shows mostly BBC & ITV content, along with local content. The combined rating share of these two stations is (off the top of my head) something like 10-15% (and would probably be a hell of a lot lower if it weren't for The Bill).
The mainstream audience in Australia goes for US content, and local reality or lifestyle shows that are for the most part ripoffs of overseas concepts anyway.
It's not just things being 8-12 months (on average) behind, say, the US or UK, it's also the insistence of the commercial networks (specifically Channel 9) to drop series without notice, schedule program episodes in the wrong order, or change the scheduling of episodes at the last minute.
I'm not surprised that people are taking television programming into their own hands in this country...
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No, the original poster was only mentioning it for the fourth time. And they posted it no more than 2 minutes after the original mention of Mythbusters.
I agree with the grandparent - the post really didn't need to be moderated redundant. Some moderators seem to be under the delusion that just because a post is 3/4 of the way down the page that it was posted *after* all the comments above it, and somehow the poster must have submitted despite all the references that already existed.
Read the posting times, and cut the guy some slack.
I was under the impression that this gnome release was to take advantage of the eyecandy made available by xorg 6.8.x by integrating xcompmgr-like behaviour... but I can find no mention of this in the release notes. Did I imagine reading about this, or is it actually in 2.10 and they forgot to mention it?
I can't imagine that they'd use xcompmgr to make their screenshots look non-default. More likely they added the drop-shadow just to make it look pretty... unless of course it really has been integrated into 2.10.
I had a go at editing the table parameters (way back when...), so it might not be that hard to fix. Although admittedly it was to do little more than make the flippers a bit bigger.....
I almost bought a Doctor Who pinball machine at an auction once. Just missed out on it, much to my disappointment...
If you install Virtual Pinball, as well as the VPinMAME ROM emulator, you can play a near perfect reproduction of the Doctor Who machine (which I agree is one of the best pinball machines ever made), as well as many, many other great tables. I last installed this a few years ago, and it's a bit of a pain to get up and running, but it's worth the trouble for the nostalgia value. I believe that these days it's a bit easier to install, and everything you need should either be hosted at the above site, or linked from there.
Slashdot Mirror
for straight summaries, du -cks is crap. instead use:
du -sh
On the topic of humourous command flags, one of my favourites is a directory listing, reverse sorted by creation time:
$ ls -Fart
Or Ctrl-A _ if you're using screen and would prefer a visual notification of the lack of activity in that particular window.
What do you mean you're not constantly running in 80x24...? Aah the good old days of using screen on an IBM 3151...
Actually Bill Clinton came to Bush's defense saying that for years first hand he saw plenty of intel proving the WMD existed.
Don't you mean he saw plenty of Intel proving that *AMD* existed?
And apologies for straying on-topic, but... you know it's time to move countries when your supposedly liberal (but in reality, only barely left of central) government starts introducing socially conservative policies such as this. Can we please have the Greens in power now? Thanks.
Good to see Labor (bless their cotton socks!) turning their attention to the weighty issue of irritable bowel syndrome.
PC user: Macs suck. You can't play games on them, you can't get any good software for them; really, nobody supports Macs. Mac user: Yeah, but at least we don't get viruses. PC user: See? Not even virus writers support Macs!
RMS, which I doubt touch code due to his missionary position
Erm... not an image I needed right before dinner...
Tools? You mean Sysinternals offers something other than the BSOD screensaver??!
Electronic Funds Transfer! Sheesh...
Who'd've thought, 30 year ago, we'd all be sittin' here listenin' to music on pocket sized 40gb hard drives...
Luxury!!
La Bestia nello Spazio?
Borowcyzk would be rolling in his grave. If he was dead.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/kerberos/
Personally, I feel sorry for the good Jack Thompson.
Some from passive smoking!
The entire article looks like it was written by a grammatically competent and mildly technically competent twelve-year-old who wanted to push his/ her own reputation through the roof
...because he's paying as much to Lyon in a year as the extortionists wanted as a one-off payment. Anyone smart enough is going to figure this out for themselves, and suddenly Lyon's model doesn't look that attractive. If it is astroturfing, would they have obviated this point in the article itself?
Except for the last paragraph:
"It's easy to forget that as Lyon worked to save him, Richardson considered paying off the extortionists. Now Richardson has a better option. Pay Lyon $50,000 a year and he's protected. He doesn't have to worry about paying extortionist's protection fees."
Lyon may not be carrying out the DDoS attacks (as far as anyone knows...), but he's certainly profiting from someone else's extortion (ie, "you're going to get DDoS'ed sooner or later. Pay us $50k and we'll make sure you're protected" - this skates dangerously close to a protection racket, despite the fact that he's not actually dishing out the grief). Given the options - paying $40/$50k up front, or paying Lyon $50k a year, I wonder whether Richardson still considers he made the right decision...?
Sorry dude, when you can get your back/fwd/reload/etc buttons and your tabs on the same line as your menu, then I'll be impressed (having said that, if it is possible, I'd be quite happy to hear how it's done). Until then, Opera's claim to have the largest browsing area is untrue.
Opera state on their website that:
"We've cleaned up our front yard. The Opera 8 interface is designed to make the advanced functions easy and effective to use. Menus, toolbars and other elements have undergone our "slim and clean"-routine. The licensed version has the largest browsing area in the industry."
Admittedly I haven't had a chance to try Opera 8 yet (still waiting for the server to settle down), however if they can get the screen real estate you can achieve with the Firefox-based K-Meleon (in which you can have every single item, including menus, on the one line), then I'll be impressed, and probably switch back. I doubt that they'll be able to back the above claim up, however...
The commercial networks in Australia show, pretty much exclusively, US and local content. I could probably count the number of UK shows shown on commercial tv here in a year on one hand.
One of the two government stations shows almost entirely European and Asian content; the other shows mostly BBC & ITV content, along with local content. The combined rating share of these two stations is (off the top of my head) something like 10-15% (and would probably be a hell of a lot lower if it weren't for The Bill).
The mainstream audience in Australia goes for US content, and local reality or lifestyle shows that are for the most part ripoffs of overseas concepts anyway.
It's not just things being 8-12 months (on average) behind, say, the US or UK, it's also the insistence of the commercial networks (specifically Channel 9) to drop series without notice, schedule program episodes in the wrong order, or change the scheduling of episodes at the last minute.
I'm not surprised that people are taking television programming into their own hands in this country...
No, the original poster was only mentioning it for the fourth time. And they posted it no more than 2 minutes after the original mention of Mythbusters.
I agree with the grandparent - the post really didn't need to be moderated redundant. Some moderators seem to be under the delusion that just because a post is 3/4 of the way down the page that it was posted *after* all the comments above it, and somehow the poster must have submitted despite all the references that already existed.
Read the posting times, and cut the guy some slack.
I was under the impression that this gnome release was to take advantage of the eyecandy made available by xorg 6.8.x by integrating xcompmgr-like behaviour... but I can find no mention of this in the release notes. Did I imagine reading about this, or is it actually in 2.10 and they forgot to mention it?
I can't imagine that they'd use xcompmgr to make their screenshots look non-default. More likely they added the drop-shadow just to make it look pretty... unless of course it really has been integrated into 2.10.
I had a go at editing the table parameters (way back when...), so it might not be that hard to fix. Although admittedly it was to do little more than make the flippers a bit bigger..... I almost bought a Doctor Who pinball machine at an auction once. Just missed out on it, much to my disappointment...
If you install Virtual Pinball, as well as the VPinMAME ROM emulator, you can play a near perfect reproduction of the Doctor Who machine (which I agree is one of the best pinball machines ever made), as well as many, many other great tables. I last installed this a few years ago, and it's a bit of a pain to get up and running, but it's worth the trouble for the nostalgia value. I believe that these days it's a bit easier to install, and everything you need should either be hosted at the above site, or linked from there.
*sings*
Rikki don't lose that number...
It's probably just as well you didn't tell him about the GIMP...