Captive RW ntfs. Absolutely brilliant. And, as long as you mount your ntfs partition first using your distribution of choice's read-only ntfs driver, installation is a snip.
It's funny you should make that point, because Microsoft are actually starting to move down that road. Industry spies have indicated that MS are currently working on a project that has been codenamed Framework for Realtime E-Deployment of Internet. Expect the competition to be very fierce when the product is launched in 2006 - something along the lines of...
From memory, it's still just around the corner in Bouverie St. Which means that the person responsible was probably spending too much time with their feet up drinking cold pots in PAs...;)
The key for my car - Citroen BX - has opened the door for every other BX I've come across and had the permission of the owner to try. This is also common amongst a lot of Australian and Japanese built Fords from the 70s and 80s.
I recall once giving my keyring to my then girlfriend to get something out of my car. Later on that day when we went to drive somewhere, I realised that my car key wasn't actually on my keyring, and was floating loose in my pocket. I asked her, incredulously, how she'd managed to get into the car without my car key, to which she replied "oh, I just used that silver one and it worked".
I realise you're taking the piss, to a certain extent, and as well as that I am definitely not a lawyer (and had most of what I know about patent law told to me by Richard Stallman), but I wouldn't have thought that it would really be in the interests of the Mozilla people to patent tabbed browsing. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason that they would want to patent the idea would be to have currency to trade with other companies (a la IBM) to increase their strength against other patent hoarders, or to use the patent to force other browser manufacturers to leave out tabbed browsing.
If they can prove that they were the first to implement the concept of tabbed browsing (which, if memory serves me right, was actually Opera, not Mozilla), then they could defeat a potential software idea patent by any other browser manufacturer (or at least defeat any attempt for another manufacturer to try and use such a patent against them).
I can't imagine that the Mozilla folk would advocate using such standover tactics - in fact, I would wager that they would be more likely to have both feet in the "abolition of software idea patents" camp, as most OSS coders seem to have.
My beef with HP scanners isn't to do with their Linux compatibility; rather, as you mentioned, their suckiness. I'm yet to see Linux stumped by a scanner (although I don't doubt that it can be done).
Having said that, I recently used a particular HP scanner that worked out of the box in Linux, but caused all sorts of hell under Windows (2k) - two hours and lots of frustrating driver-searching later, the thing was up and running. Can't see Grandma even getting past the first step on that one. Granted, seems there's some OSX evangelism taking place here, rendering Linux - Windows comparisons fairly reduntant; as I haven't had that much experience with OSX I can't really make that comparison.
As far as printers go, well... I don't know the current state of the Blessed List, however I would wager that it would take a pretty damn obscure device to trip it up. But... I could be wrong.
While I have nothing in particular against Wilco per se, I posit that Supergrass are the coolest band to have graced this planet over the past ten years.
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Captive RW ntfs. Absolutely brilliant. And, as long as you mount your ntfs partition first using your distribution of choice's read-only ntfs driver, installation is a snip.
There's a Windows guy and a Mac guy in a bar talking up the merits of their favourite operating systems.
Win guy: "OSX is hopeless! Nobody supports it, nobody writes applications for it. You can't get any decent software on the Mac."
Mac guy: "Yeah, well at least we don't get viruses!!"
Win guy: "You see!? Not even the virus writers support Macs!!"
It's funny you should make that point, because Microsoft are actually starting to move down that road. Industry spies have indicated that MS are currently working on a project that has been codenamed Framework for Realtime E-Deployment of Internet. Expect the competition to be very fierce when the product is launched in 2006 - something along the lines of...
wait for it...
FREDI vs JSON.
No, just wait for AOL to send it to you in the post...
They have porn in #asp now? What is this world coming to?!
(actually, sounds like all those weeks spent trawling for porn in #python were wasted...)
The only time when one should actually drink Fosters is when the only other beer available is Tooheys. QED.
From memory, it's still just around the corner in Bouverie St. Which means that the person responsible was probably spending too much time with their feet up drinking cold pots in PAs... ;)
Looks like it could be time to reprise Triumph vs Star Wars...
It wouldn't have been so bad, had it been a good Pink Floyd album.
I think they need to print and distribute more copies of that great bumper sticker - "Physicists do it in 10 dimensions".
Or something like that.
The key for my car - Citroen BX - has opened the door for every other BX I've come across and had the permission of the owner to try. This is also common amongst a lot of Australian and Japanese built Fords from the 70s and 80s.
I recall once giving my keyring to my then girlfriend to get something out of my car. Later on that day when we went to drive somewhere, I realised that my car key wasn't actually on my keyring, and was floating loose in my pocket. I asked her, incredulously, how she'd managed to get into the car without my car key, to which she replied "oh, I just used that silver one and it worked".
My house key.
It actually abbreviates to "Belkin offering pr-0N".
Expect take-up rates to be fairly good...
What about Dimebag Darr.....
Oh crap.
Gee. It couldn't have happened to a nicer company...
I could always tell you to get a life... if you weren't an anonymous coward... ;)
http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/
Last release 26/03/04. I wouldn't call it dead just yet.
That's funny, I thought they stopped making the DS in 1975...
You might want to keep an eye on the ipodlinux project page. If ogg support is going to hit ipod-ville, this is most likely where it'll show up first.
You'll want to have a bit of linux experience under your belt before you go hosing your ipod with it, though (and it doesn't yet support 4G ipods...)
How soon until all IM conversations are monitored by Big Brother?
You mean they're not already?! Then what the hell did I download gaim-encryption for...?
Bible code!!!
I realise you're taking the piss, to a certain extent, and as well as that I am definitely not a lawyer (and had most of what I know about patent law told to me by Richard Stallman), but I wouldn't have thought that it would really be in the interests of the Mozilla people to patent tabbed browsing. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason that they would want to patent the idea would be to have currency to trade with other companies (a la IBM) to increase their strength against other patent hoarders, or to use the patent to force other browser manufacturers to leave out tabbed browsing.
;)
If they can prove that they were the first to implement the concept of tabbed browsing (which, if memory serves me right, was actually Opera, not Mozilla), then they could defeat a potential software idea patent by any other browser manufacturer (or at least defeat any attempt for another manufacturer to try and use such a patent against them).
I can't imagine that the Mozilla folk would advocate using such standover tactics - in fact, I would wager that they would be more likely to have both feet in the "abolition of software idea patents" camp, as most OSS coders seem to have.
But yeah, as I said, what do I know?
I wonder who was buying blank VHS tapes a dozen at a time at WallMart?
Small-time west coast porn studios.
Heh... he said "doodle".... *snicker*
My beef with HP scanners isn't to do with their Linux compatibility; rather, as you mentioned, their suckiness. I'm yet to see Linux stumped by a scanner (although I don't doubt that it can be done).
Having said that, I recently used a particular HP scanner that worked out of the box in Linux, but caused all sorts of hell under Windows (2k) - two hours and lots of frustrating driver-searching later, the thing was up and running. Can't see Grandma even getting past the first step on that one. Granted, seems there's some OSX evangelism taking place here, rendering Linux - Windows comparisons fairly reduntant; as I haven't had that much experience with OSX I can't really make that comparison.
As far as printers go, well... I don't know the current state of the Blessed List, however I would wager that it would take a pretty damn obscure device to trip it up. But... I could be wrong.
Heh, priceless.
While I have nothing in particular against Wilco per se, I posit that Supergrass are the coolest band to have graced this planet over the past ten years.
I've frequently been referred to as an insightful troll.