These are the same switches used in the old Northgate Omnikey keyboards. They last forever, and they feel fucking great. A little noisy, similar to the old IBM PC keyboards, but you really do type better when you have auditory feedback.
You can use these with a PC as well. If you've got a KVM to switch between PC and Mac, now's the time to finally use a Mac keyboard instead of a PC one.:)
More than half the guys list their positions as "technical evangelist."
If you want to reach more folks: Can we instead talk to a developer who wants to talk about the best way of doing things, rather than someone whose job is to come up with problems where MS is the solution?
Real is indeed its own worst enemy. The technology behind the product is great! But: [...] The annoying "messages" that cannot be turned off
It prompts to ask if you want these messages at install time now. The only messages it will then do are notices about software updates. You can go into the preferences and turn off the software update notifications and then (for Windows at least), it doesn't even run its scheduler task anymore, so it's absolutely not running until you launch it.
It also doesn't have the crap dialog anymore where it has a scroll list of 12 email advertisement types to sign up for, and the first four (of four visible) are all unchecked, so you don't know you're selecting the other 8 which ARE checked. That was *total* slimy bullshit.
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It's not so bad as it used to be. The free download page used to be one more page removed, and then you still had to wrestle with a double negative.
I don't even know what fuel cell batteries are, but old sci-fi fans always bring them up whenever power is mentioned at conventions. I haven't seen anyone with a UNIX beard post "fuel cells!" yet, so I can only surmise that they're sleeping off their Big Mac benders. That's got to be rough, having to order three meals instead of two, ever since Micky D dropped the super sizing.
Korean Ebay is IE6 only, Korean banks offer internet banking only to IE6 users, Many Korean government websites don't function properly with anything but IE6, etc. etc
That's the USA three or four years ago. Write to webmasters. Make yourself heard. Vote with your pocketbook. That's all it took here.
How did you prove his argument invalid? You just said you were afraid to run PHP in a shared hosting environment. Sounds to me like you actually proved his point. (And mine.)
You gotta be kidding, right? I mean this isn't even a concern if you aren't running in a shared hosting environment. Seems a bit premature to toss out an entire programming language that could potentially be beneficial because you don't agree with how it's implemented in one particular situation.
I would venture to guess, and I doubt I'd be far off, that this "one particular situation" represents >90% of all potential php servers. It is absolutely insane to ignore this.
I can't take PHP seriously for one reason alone: No built in suid
mechanism.
If you enable PHP on your apache server, all PHP runs as the same
user. That means any files writable by one PHP script are writable by
all PHP scripts. There's no such thing as a secure apache PHP
installation unless you run in feature limited mode which breaks
virtually all PHP scripts and makes it unusable for most tasks.
Until PHP adds suid so PHP runs as the user owning the script, it's
a no-go. Run in high security mode it's usable as a toy at best, or
run in default mode, it's a security nightmare.
I've spoken with the PHP developers about this at several
conferences. Their solution is that you have each user run their own
copy of apache or have each user create their own PHP installation and
run everything as CGI, launching the local PHP copy. I'm sorry, but
that's insane.
I don't give a lick about new features if you can't get the
foundation fixed. Take care of the wet sand base before you up the
supported database count or make grand announcements about clever new
scripting keywords.
I meant zero copy protection -- no mechanical means of twarting duplication. Yes, there is copyright protection, as in someone owns and doubtlessly enforces the copyright.
I'd like to pimp TaxAct. It's pretty much a clone of TurboTax with a much sexier & cleaner UI and a cool tax reference book attached.
I love it because the developers are accessible and willing to listen and respond to feature requests, it runs under wine, and for straightforward taxes, it imports the previous year's data, asks if you've done any of a few major things this year, takes your W2 data, and completes the current year in no time flat.
You can buy and download the thing online, and there's zero copyright protection. They even encourage you to do multiple returns with it, so you can split the cost with a few coworkers without really breaking the rules.
If you've got one of those vending machines at the office which lets you put cash in to open a door and take the food from inside, don't forget that you can put food in as well.
I'll probably stick a few empty beer cans in there this year.
This year, I am going to get one of those cans that says "peanuts" and has the coiled spring snakes inside, I'm going to go around offering it to people, and instead of a snake it's going to have real peanuts inside.
The guys who always try and ruin things are going to look like asses. "HA HA! You won't fool ME! Hey, everyone! Look at Darl and his can of... oh. Peanuts."
Plus I'll go around telling the
GMTBers that their blogs' CSS doesn't render right in Safari and watch the precious
panic.
A: The short answer is "Gay Movable Type Blogger." This does not quite paint the full picture, however.
A GMTB uses a Mac. A GMTB is excited about "wireless hot spots" and "cafes." The prototypical GMTB can be found at a Starbucks with a 15" PowerBook. He will be wearing a black turtleneck and will go on at length about the wonder years where web designers were paid like programmers.
The GMTB will blog about you. Do not be alarmed. In order to make sense of their fast moving and confusing world, GMTBers need to write at length about even the most trivial encounter. They will likely Google you and turn even the most minor conversation into an exploratory experience. Every experience is like that of the newborn boy who finds touching himself over and over to be a pleasurable experience.
Do not make the GMTB angry. The GMTB has natural defenses known as "Google juice." With the application of this "Google juice," the GMTB will sour any future searches on your name. While there is no physical harm to be done, they can make any attempt at finding relevant and useful information about you a linkfest of armchair philosophy, ill-formed opinions, and broad and insanely overblown reactions to everyday occurrences.
Should you find yourself confronted by a GMTB and wish to escape, one need only mention that their "CSS" is broken. The GMTB invariably considers the CSS "correctness" and "portability" to be a craft, and the output thereof to be an "art." By pointing out that the page renders poorly on the most esoteric browser you can imagine, you will be assured a quick and uneventful escape.
Fastest-talking salesmen in my experience. I can't talk to an Apple sales droid (counting the evangelists and the paid salesmen alike) without getting some crap about how the G5 can emulate a PC faster than the fastest PC runs natively, or how every last application runs faster than its PC cousin.
I'm up for space exploration and all, but I suppose that a trillion bucks would go a long way towards solving AIDS, cancer, hunger and poverty...
I'm all for sending people up to space after we can send our citizenry through school at a 12th grade math and reading level.
Did you know they're revising policies so kids can't get held back for being behind in math or science anymore, and so kids are automatically promoted ahead a grade if they've already been held back in the past? Let's fix this crap back home before setting foot elsewhere.
HP is supporting Novell in their current Linux initiative. That's mentioned in the linked article.
20 years after their big mistake, IBM are well aware of what happens to them when one OS becomes powerful enough to control the hardware market, so they may be hesitant to play favorites. At the very least, you won't see them getting too cozy with whoever is top dog at the time if they can't have an exclusive deal.
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Not only can, but has threatened to. In the past, some antivirus products have targeted this muck and backed off when threatened.
You can use these with a PC as well. If you've got a KVM to switch between PC and Mac, now's the time to finally use a Mac keyboard instead of a PC one. :)
If you want to reach more folks: Can we instead talk to a developer who wants to talk about the best way of doing things, rather than someone whose job is to come up with problems where MS is the solution?
It also doesn't have the crap dialog anymore where it has a scroll list of 12 email advertisement types to sign up for, and the first four (of four visible) are all unchecked, so you don't know you're selecting the other 8 which ARE checked. That was *total* slimy bullshit.
It's not so bad as it used to be. The free download page used to be one more page removed, and then you still had to wrestle with a double negative.
I don't even know what fuel cell batteries are, but old sci-fi fans always bring them up whenever power is mentioned at conventions. I haven't seen anyone with a UNIX beard post "fuel cells!" yet, so I can only surmise that they're sleeping off their Big Mac benders. That's got to be rough, having to order three meals instead of two, ever since Micky D dropped the super sizing.
Now if only the train to Chicago didn't run 1/3 as fast as the train to New York and leave 2 hours earlier.
I think you've confused the GMTBers with the Blogcyclists or the Fatvegans.
Pigeons perform much better if you give them proper attention.
How did you prove his argument invalid? You just said you were afraid to run PHP in a shared hosting environment. Sounds to me like you actually proved his point. (And mine.)
If you enable PHP on your apache server, all PHP runs as the same user. That means any files writable by one PHP script are writable by all PHP scripts. There's no such thing as a secure apache PHP installation unless you run in feature limited mode which breaks virtually all PHP scripts and makes it unusable for most tasks.
Until PHP adds suid so PHP runs as the user owning the script, it's a no-go. Run in high security mode it's usable as a toy at best, or run in default mode, it's a security nightmare.
I've spoken with the PHP developers about this at several conferences. Their solution is that you have each user run their own copy of apache or have each user create their own PHP installation and run everything as CGI, launching the local PHP copy. I'm sorry, but that's insane.
I don't give a lick about new features if you can't get the foundation fixed. Take care of the wet sand base before you up the supported database count or make grand announcements about clever new scripting keywords.
I meant zero copy protection -- no mechanical means of twarting duplication. Yes, there is copyright protection, as in someone owns and doubtlessly enforces the copyright.
I love it because the developers are accessible and willing to listen and respond to feature requests, it runs under wine, and for straightforward taxes, it imports the previous year's data, asks if you've done any of a few major things this year, takes your W2 data, and completes the current year in no time flat.
You can buy and download the thing online, and there's zero copyright protection. They even encourage you to do multiple returns with it, so you can split the cost with a few coworkers without really breaking the rules.
I'll probably stick a few empty beer cans in there this year.
I'll give you a hint: I've been setting you all up for it since March of last year!
See you at Linux Refund Day.
~Darl
The guys who always try and ruin things are going to look like asses. "HA HA! You won't fool ME! Hey, everyone! Look at Darl and his can of... oh. Peanuts."
Plus I'll go around telling the GMTBers that their blogs' CSS doesn't render right in Safari and watch the precious panic.
A: The short answer is "Gay Movable Type Blogger." This does not quite paint the full picture, however.
A GMTB uses a Mac. A GMTB is excited about "wireless hot spots" and "cafes." The prototypical GMTB can be found at a Starbucks with a 15" PowerBook. He will be wearing a black turtleneck and will go on at length about the wonder years where web designers were paid like programmers.
The GMTB will blog about you. Do not be alarmed. In order to make sense of their fast moving and confusing world, GMTBers need to write at length about even the most trivial encounter. They will likely Google you and turn even the most minor conversation into an exploratory experience. Every experience is like that of the newborn boy who finds touching himself over and over to be a pleasurable experience.
Do not make the GMTB angry. The GMTB has natural defenses known as "Google juice." With the application of this "Google juice," the GMTB will sour any future searches on your name. While there is no physical harm to be done, they can make any attempt at finding relevant and useful information about you a linkfest of armchair philosophy, ill-formed opinions, and broad and insanely overblown reactions to everyday occurrences.
Should you find yourself confronted by a GMTB and wish to escape, one need only mention that their "CSS" is broken. The GMTB invariably considers the CSS "correctness" and "portability" to be a craft, and the output thereof to be an "art." By pointing out that the page renders poorly on the most esoteric browser you can imagine, you will be assured a quick and uneventful escape.
Fastest-talking salesmen in my experience. I can't talk to an Apple sales droid (counting the evangelists and the paid salesmen alike) without getting some crap about how the G5 can emulate a PC faster than the fastest PC runs natively, or how every last application runs faster than its PC cousin.
Once again, this just goes to show that the guys who never tire of talking are the ones who have the least to say.
Did you know they're revising policies so kids can't get held back for being behind in math or science anymore, and so kids are automatically promoted ahead a grade if they've already been held back in the past? Let's fix this crap back home before setting foot elsewhere.
20 years after their big mistake, IBM are well aware of what happens to them when one OS becomes powerful enough to control the hardware market, so they may be hesitant to play favorites. At the very least, you won't see them getting too cozy with whoever is top dog at the time if they can't have an exclusive deal.