One simple solution to all of this: Whenever someone is researched by a third party like this, why can't it be mandatory that the researcher be positively identified, and the target of research must be notified of the research within 1-2 months unless a court decides that there's criminal activity worthy of suppressing these details?
Having acknowledged that EB now knew the goods were stolen, EB was over a barrel. She should have refused to purchase, leaving EB knowing that it was holding stolen goods.
They couldn't then turn around and sell the goods, as knowingly selling stolen goods is a crime in and of itself.
The girl's a screwball for purchasing the stuff back.
Actually, the page has the correct weight at the top, and the incorrect (and ZD-quoted) weight at the bottom. I pointed to an ambiguous page on purpose, because I loooove Slashdot comedy. And I'm a troll.
Check out the related models in the same family, which are all seven pounders. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that somebody confused pounds and kilograms.
If this were in the old PC Convertible family, that would be something different!
The whole fact that SCO was willing to settle so easily, and give up their rights to bitching, proves that they know they don't have a leg to stand on.
No, it demonstrates that we don't wish to fight a battle on more fronts than we have to. The cost of starting up in the German courts would be prohibitive right now. Accepting being silenced today does not stop us from resuming once we have the weight of the US court decision behind us.
Also, Chris is afraid of dealing with Austrian and German authorities after seeing the end of The Sound of Music.
Slashdot offers an RSS feed, but there's still no feed containing all the stories. Anything that's not front-paged isn't available through the RSS feed. That means about 1/4 of Slashdot's content is unavailable without visiting the site and either browsing sections or turning on all stories in user preferences.
I'm glad to see that Midway is finally making kiddie games again. I really enjoyed Bubbles as well. They must have been on all kinds of drugs when they made that one.
I wish I could get girls like Romero to notice me in study hall.
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Yes. I have already taken the microdrive out of mine -- I use it in my PocketPC running Linux, so I can listen to Apple's audio formats as well as Ogg and MPC. I'll add that if you want to do similar, you would do well to get the new iPaq models which have a better output circuit than even the full-price iPod.
To do this, I first copied the Apple native partition at the start of the drive, and still had about 480 megs (real megs, not marketing-megs) left for music on the 512 meg card. The fun bit was I was able to turn around and sell the iPod mini for more than I paid for that and the CF card together. I explained that what I had done would offer substantially longer play times (I let it play for 14 hours before going to bed, and it finally gave up sometime overnight) and no skipping, and ended up with two friends arguing over who would pay more.
Also, I have made al of this up. Don't ask stupid questions until at least a few people have had time to really try this out. Some post on a blog isn't enough to go on if you're worried at all about whether this will work.
I see a lot of complaining about the Gimp using multiple windows for everything, where people want an MDI interface with just one parent window instead.
To that, I'll remind you that your Linux window manager probably has multiple desktops. It sounds incredibly stupid for its simplicity, but once you realize it, there's absolutely no problem with the interface.
I'll also encourage you to use 0x808080 or something similarly neutral for the background on that desktop. You'd be surprised how much the surrounding noise can affect the way you work. I even go to the extent of making all my window decorations a soft grey when I'm drawing up stock schemes or otherwise doodling.
You don't need to admin your desktop in order to admin the ISP.
Keep in mind that there's a good chance that there's a reason behind what they're doing. The ISP who bought them may have an existing suite of software they want in place to run the ISP, and it may be Windows-based. We don't know both sides of the story here.
It may also be a labor issue. Point-and-click Windows admins are a dime a dozen. Unix folks are more expensive. Granted, the average Unix admin can run rings around the average Windows admin productivity-wise, but that's only guaranteed if managed by someone who understands Unix as well. The new management may be Windows-only.
Apple are offering MP3 because you pretty much have to offer that in a portable player or people won't buy it. Past that, Apple are pushing their secure digital standard, and would like for you to pretty please use that everywhere. It doesn't benefit Apple to do anything to back Microsoft's standard, or anyone else's for that matter. This is the same reason you don't see a plenitude of other BSD-type licensed CODECs in iTunes. They could add Ogg support in a day if they wanted.
This is no different than Microsoft wanting to push their own formats above all others.
Most of those have already been patched in other Unices. I've never seen it stated as policy, but Apple seems to bundle local exploit fixes for scheduled updates, saving remote exploits for the surprise updates.
Alright. This doesn't really seem to be going the way we wanted. I mean, you said no to $690 a seat.
You aren't willing to assign future Linux refinements to me and my posse. You wouldn't even read the
brochure I worked so hard on, or cry uncle when I surprised you with a titty twister. And now you say
you've called the police, and that's kind of harshing my mellow. I mean, that's a fine how-do-you-do
for your good friend Darl!
Listen, I mean - maybe we can still settle this. I want what we're due... you want what's fair... look: I'm
taking one... two... see? Two big handfuls of mints from the nice bowl on the reception desk... all
good? Okay so far? Excellent. And I'm keeping my visitor's
name tag, and I want on your Christmas mailing list. No? Okay... just the mints and the tag? Just the
mints? Excellent.
Hey, look -- Jesus at the copier!!
CHRIS! Grab another handful of mints! Let's bolt!@!!1
Sir, I said there was no option to cancel. I did not say that it forces you to reboot promptly.
You are a casual Mac user who cannot accept that after only one week, Darl knows the Mac better than you do. I am only glad you've found safety and warmth at the teat of Stevejob.
are security updates being made for Apple's 1997 OS? (honest question because i don't know)
Apple's product lifecycles are a bit shorter than Microsoft's -- they're really more of a hardware company than a software company, even if the software they use to sell machines is really nice.
Read what you quoted. "When the update applies itself and wants a reboot."
With Windows, you can say "reboot later" and run for weeks and weeks without the update having actually done anything yet. Once you apply the update on the Mac, there is no cancel option.
Glad I could teach you something about the Mac. I've been using mine almost a week now!
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One simple solution to all of this: Whenever someone is researched by a third party like this, why can't it be mandatory that the researcher be positively identified, and the target of research must be notified of the research within 1-2 months unless a court decides that there's criminal activity worthy of suppressing these details?
They couldn't then turn around and sell the goods, as knowingly selling stolen goods is a crime in and of itself.
The girl's a screwball for purchasing the stuff back.
Hey, essdodson! Heeeeeeeey, essdodson! Want to see a monkey? Do you want to see a funny funny monkey? Want to see the funnnnnnny funny monkey monkey?
*holds up a mirror*
essdodson: *delighted squeal*
~Darl
Trust me, that's not a 16lb notebook. I'm a dirty dirty troll, but I also have common sense.
Check out the related models in the same family, which are all seven pounders. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that somebody confused pounds and kilograms.
If this were in the old PC Convertible family, that would be something different!
And at 1280x1024, it's a real non-story. This laptop's a yawner.
Tiny Timmy gets paid for this??? Fuck that!
I would like to take this moment to point out that the brown acid is just fine. Those hippies do not know of what they speak.
~Darl
Also, Chris is afraid of dealing with Austrian and German authorities after seeing the end of The Sound of Music.
Slashdot offers an RSS feed, but there's still no feed containing all the stories. Anything that's not front-paged isn't available through the RSS feed. That means about 1/4 of Slashdot's content is unavailable without visiting the site and either browsing sections or turning on all stories in user preferences.
I'm glad to see that Midway is finally making kiddie games again. I really enjoyed Bubbles as well. They must have been on all kinds of drugs when they made that one.
I wish I could get girls like Romero to notice me in study hall.
To do this, I first copied the Apple native partition at the start of the drive, and still had about 480 megs (real megs, not marketing-megs) left for music on the 512 meg card. The fun bit was I was able to turn around and sell the iPod mini for more than I paid for that and the CF card together. I explained that what I had done would offer substantially longer play times (I let it play for 14 hours before going to bed, and it finally gave up sometime overnight) and no skipping, and ended up with two friends arguing over who would pay more.
Also, I have made al of this up. Don't ask stupid questions until at least a few people have had time to really try this out. Some post on a blog isn't enough to go on if you're worried at all about whether this will work.
To that, I'll remind you that your Linux window manager probably has multiple desktops. It sounds incredibly stupid for its simplicity, but once you realize it, there's absolutely no problem with the interface.
I'll also encourage you to use 0x808080 or something similarly neutral for the background on that desktop. You'd be surprised how much the surrounding noise can affect the way you work. I even go to the extent of making all my window decorations a soft grey when I'm drawing up stock schemes or otherwise doodling.
Keep in mind that there's a good chance that there's a reason behind what they're doing. The ISP who bought them may have an existing suite of software they want in place to run the ISP, and it may be Windows-based. We don't know both sides of the story here.
It may also be a labor issue. Point-and-click Windows admins are a dime a dozen. Unix folks are more expensive. Granted, the average Unix admin can run rings around the average Windows admin productivity-wise, but that's only guaranteed if managed by someone who understands Unix as well. The new management may be Windows-only.
And as a plus, it also runs MAME and Unixware.
This is no different than Microsoft wanting to push their own formats above all others.
Mac OS X is quite secure. Please stop trolling.
Most of those have already been patched in other Unices. I've never seen it stated as policy, but Apple seems to bundle local exploit fixes for scheduled updates, saving remote exploits for the surprise updates.
We don't have to be right in order to tie you up in court, you know. And we have very little to lose right now.
~Darl
Listen, I mean - maybe we can still settle this. I want what we're due... you want what's fair... look: I'm taking one... two... see? Two big handfuls of mints from the nice bowl on the reception desk... all good? Okay so far? Excellent. And I'm keeping my visitor's name tag, and I want on your Christmas mailing list. No? Okay... just the mints and the tag? Just the mints? Excellent.
Hey, look -- Jesus at the copier!!
CHRIS! Grab another handful of mints! Let's bolt!@!!1
~Darl
You are a casual Mac user who cannot accept that after only one week, Darl knows the Mac better than you do. I am only glad you've found safety and warmth at the teat of Stevejob.
Apple's product lifecycles are a bit shorter than Microsoft's -- they're really more of a hardware company than a software company, even if the software they use to sell machines is really nice.
Try SCO instead.
With Windows, you can say "reboot later" and run for weeks and weeks without the update having actually done anything yet. Once you apply the update on the Mac, there is no cancel option.
Glad I could teach you something about the Mac. I've been using mine almost a week now!