That's okay, because REAL men don't need not stinkin directions.
Actually, a lot of -projects- do have roadmaps. Do they want a grand unified roadmap of everyone? I'd rather hope not, since that'd restrict the flexibility of the OSS community in general. For one thing, a roadmap would prevent code fork offs, which even though I don't like them, they can be good. (A lot of the time a significant portion of the code comes back to the other/original branches)
BTW, using either technique, it pays to run a web server at the address you're shunting the ad hosts/domains/URLs to. Some web sites completely hang if they can't connect to a web server at the ad's URL. But they don't seem to have any problem if they find a server that returns a "404 page not found" error.
I used to noticed that, since occasionally burstnet would apparently disappear (not that I notice anymore). I pretty much just redirected everything at myself like the example host file, and I run apache on my box, so everything is pretty happy:P
The nice thing about Google is that their ads aren't really distracting in anyway - not blocking up the page or flashing like on Yahoo or ZDnet or MSN.
Burstnet (they provide ads for a lot of sites) has started doing ads in flash. It's annoying, especially because it looks like opera, or the flush plugin has a bug, and sometimes flash will cause opera to eat up all the cpu usage it can get at. After figuring out what the problem was, I effectively made it so I can't access burstnet anymore.:P (And I've had problems with their ads not loading and causing trouble)
Apparently other people don't like that sort of stuff too. Look at someone's host file that I found.
But Microsoft is now turning its considerable might toward catching up. It's a move that puts Microsoft head to head with Google, the world's most popular Web surfing vehicle, and Yahoo, the Internet's most popular destination, in what many see as an important, growing and lucrative market. (Boldification mine)
Heh. Most popular? Nice to see that on Yahoo! News. (Although, being on yahoo may or may not have nothing to do with it since apparently it was written by an AP Business Writer)
Or maybe Yahoo! is the Internet's most popular destination, but I never knew that before.:P
I'll rub the slashdot crowd the wrong way, but I EXPECT my OS to have rich multimedia abilities these days, and I wouldn't like to have Real on it just because Real decides they can force themselves upon me.
And -Microsoft- decided -they- can force WMP on you. You may not want Real, while someone else may not want WMP.
In my opinion what MS offered them was reasonable - they offered to include competing media players alongside with WMP. For some reason that wasn't enough, and EC decided to screw the innocent consumer by robbing him of convenience of having the best media player on the planet come for free with his Windows purchase, and go through the chores of installing it from the internet.
Free? With purchase? No, I'd rather imagine it's included in the cost of the rest of Windows. The software has to come from somewhere, which means you have to pay people, which means you have to charge for it somehow. However, you don't see the cost of it because it's bundled with having to pay for the rest of windows.
except that it takes as much as a month to get a laptop shipped from Dell, but nice try...
On some occasions even longer... A friend of mine's family ordered a Dell, and Dell kept pushing the shipping date further back from the original week. After about 3 months of waiting, and still no Dell, they canceled the order and got a computer from someone else, who shipped them a computer in a few days (which wasn't problemless either, but that's another somewhat happier story).
Granted however, it wasn't a laptop, but sometimes it can take absurdly long for a computer to get to you.
Yahoo is getting better, too, and adding more and more useful services all the time. You've just got to love capitalist competition! Thank you, Adam Smith...
One thing I've disliked about yahoo is there is so much stuff on the main page. Most services may be useful, but it adds too much noise. The fact that google has a more simple main page is one of the reasons I prefer it.
Yet another modern OS feature is being added to *BSD, which have many features not even found in the best of commercial operating systems. *BSD isn't dying, it's setting the standard for other operating systems to follow.
Odd it's been taking them this long. Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have had SMP for a while.
Someone want to forward this to the guys at SF? I'd like to know what became of their, "we'll add subversion once it matures enough" claim.
Sourceforge seems to have been having some serious growing pains. I'd hope they fix their current problems first before adding more things that could break.
They would have a techincal problem. I believe there is no current standard for elvish characters in unicode. But it seems that the inclusion has been considered for a while (in the Miscellaneous section)
In the books, plain old ascii characters were commonly used, so it would be quite possible to do it that way.
If you don't want people to profit from your work, don't release it as BSD.
That's not the issue. The issue is they didn't follow the terms of his license, which has nothing to do with profit (the GPL's terms have nothing to with profit also for that matter).
If you are so vain that you are willing to spend thousands of dollars to sue to have your name placed on something, have fun.
He wrote it in the first place, so why shouldn't he deserve some recognition?
CD-RWs are hardly cost efficient, especially if we are dealing with something where we only rarely make changes.
True, but a red herring. With a system which costs >$100, it doesn't matter if you boot off a $0.15 disk or a $0.50 disk. A CD-RW has one major advantage: When you need to re-image, you've got a disk available at hand. The last thing you want to do when updating systems for security fixes is worry about if you've got enough CDRs or if you need to drive off to the store to buy another spindle.
In my experience, CD-RWs are very unreliable, so for me it seems like it's hardly worth paying for CD-RWs when I expect them to fail consistantly (thus forcing me to buy more anyway). Also, it seems like a good idea to have older versions of your cds handy just in case (like the fix is worse than the problem and you can live with the problem until you have a better fix) . Also, CD-RWs take longer to burn (although, admittably, driving to the store usually takes longer).
If there's a remote root exploit, rebooting is merely going to make an attacker wait five minutes and then re-run the exploit. A better solution is a CD-RW disk in a CD-ROM drive -- you can always reboot into a clean system, but if there are security issues, you can remove the disk, fix the necessary bits, and then reboot.
CD-RWs are hardly cost efficient, especially if we are dealing with something where we only rarely make changes.
He's given up his right to claim newbie ignorance right there. Aunt Tillie couldn't even conceive printing through a network.
Indeed. I've had trouble with people using windows not understanding what was going on with windows, and the target audience of windows is just that sort of person. If you are going to make it understandable to Auntie Tillie you usually are going to have to set it up yourself.
The entire nation considers your written and spoken rants both condescending and highly obnoxious.
I refuse to read anything he has written, because that would be documentation....And I don't believe in documentation (but then again, neither does he apparently).
Re. your question--I think it's simple. ICANN is the lesser of two evils. Being swayed by corporate interests is bad, but not as bad as when the corporate interest is yourself (as is the case with Verisign).
ICANN is also swayed somewhat by public outcry. Because there was such a fierce outcry from technically-minded people in general, the ICANN did something. Otherwise I don't think ICANN would have really cared.
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Now even Microsoft is in on the tired^H^H^H^H^Hclassic "^H" joke!
The " joke? I don't get it.
I heard it is also possible to let it randomly generate a new name everytime you start Firefox, quite funny :)
Indeed. Right now I'm using Mozilla Lightningunicorn.
That's okay, because REAL men don't need not stinkin directions.
Actually, a lot of -projects- do have roadmaps. Do they want a grand unified roadmap of everyone? I'd rather hope not, since that'd restrict the flexibility of the OSS community in general. For one thing, a roadmap would prevent code fork offs, which even though I don't like them, they can be good. (A lot of the time a significant portion of the code comes back to the other/original branches)
Some trollbot posted a whole bunch of messages about the GNAA (gay nigger something something).
BTW, using either technique, it pays to run a web server at the address you're shunting the ad hosts/domains/URLs to. Some web sites completely hang if they can't connect to a web server at the ad's URL. But they don't seem to have any problem if they find a server that returns a "404 page not found" error.
I used to noticed that, since occasionally burstnet would apparently disappear (not that I notice anymore). I pretty much just redirected everything at myself like the example host file, and I run apache on my box, so everything is pretty happy :P
The nice thing about Google is that their ads aren't really distracting in anyway - not blocking up the page or flashing like on Yahoo or ZDnet or MSN.
Burstnet (they provide ads for a lot of sites) has started doing ads in flash. It's annoying, especially because it looks like opera, or the flush plugin has a bug, and sometimes flash will cause opera to eat up all the cpu usage it can get at. After figuring out what the problem was, I effectively made it so I can't access burstnet anymore. :P (And I've had problems with their ads not loading and causing trouble)
Apparently other people don't like that sort of stuff too. Look at someone's host file that I found.
But Microsoft is now turning its considerable might toward catching up. It's a move that puts Microsoft head to head with Google, the world's most popular Web surfing vehicle, and Yahoo, the Internet's most popular destination, in what many see as an important, growing and lucrative market. (Boldification mine)
Heh. Most popular? Nice to see that on Yahoo! News. (Although, being on yahoo may or may not have nothing to do with it since apparently it was written by an AP Business Writer)
Or maybe Yahoo! is the Internet's most popular destination, but I never knew that before. :P
I'll rub the slashdot crowd the wrong way, but I EXPECT my OS to have rich multimedia abilities these days, and I wouldn't like to have Real on it just because Real decides they can force themselves upon me.
And -Microsoft- decided -they- can force WMP on you. You may not want Real, while someone else may not want WMP.
In my opinion what MS offered them was reasonable - they offered to include competing media players alongside with WMP. For some reason that wasn't enough, and EC decided to screw the innocent consumer by robbing him of convenience of having the best media player on the planet come for free with his Windows purchase, and go through the chores of installing it from the internet.
Free? With purchase? No, I'd rather imagine it's included in the cost of the rest of Windows. The software has to come from somewhere, which means you have to pay people, which means you have to charge for it somehow. However, you don't see the cost of it because it's bundled with having to pay for the rest of windows.
except that it takes as much as a month to get a laptop shipped from Dell, but nice try...
On some occasions even longer... A friend of mine's family ordered a Dell, and Dell kept pushing the shipping date further back from the original week. After about 3 months of waiting, and still no Dell, they canceled the order and got a computer from someone else, who shipped them a computer in a few days (which wasn't problemless either, but that's another somewhat happier story).
Granted however, it wasn't a laptop, but sometimes it can take absurdly long for a computer to get to you.
Then why don't you try this?
Because I never knew it existed. :P
Yahoo is getting better, too, and adding more and more useful services all the time. You've just got to love capitalist competition! Thank you, Adam Smith...
One thing I've disliked about yahoo is there is so much stuff on the main page. Most services may be useful, but it adds too much noise. The fact that google has a more simple main page is one of the reasons I prefer it.
I run Mozilla on Linux so I'm safe from all that flash and shockwave stuff, right?
Not entirely. However, if you switch to lynx, you should be fine.
Yet another modern OS feature is being added to *BSD, which have many features not even found in the best of commercial operating systems. *BSD isn't dying, it's setting the standard for other operating systems to follow.
Odd it's been taking them this long. Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have had SMP for a while.
Maybe throw in a warning that the whole disk will be wiped out, but how much user interaction does an installer really need?
Which disk? (I know! the wrong one!)
Someone want to forward this to the guys at SF? I'd like to know what became of their, "we'll add subversion once it matures enough" claim.
Sourceforge seems to have been having some serious growing pains. I'd hope they fix their current problems first before adding more things that could break.
Why doesn't AOL just settle with Ellison, maybe offer him like 5,000 free hours instead of the normal 2,500?
* Hours must be used within the 45 day trial period.
(Hint: how many hours in 45 days?)
They would have a techincal problem. I believe there is no current standard for elvish characters in unicode. But it seems that the inclusion has been considered for a while (in the Miscellaneous section)
In the books, plain old ascii characters were commonly used, so it would be quite possible to do it that way.
If you don't want people to profit from your work, don't release it as BSD.
That's not the issue. The issue is they didn't follow the terms of his license, which has nothing to do with profit (the GPL's terms have nothing to with profit also for that matter).
If you are so vain that you are willing to spend thousands of dollars to sue to have your name placed on something, have fun.
He wrote it in the first place, so why shouldn't he deserve some recognition?
True, but a red herring. With a system which costs >$100, it doesn't matter if you boot off a $0.15 disk or a $0.50 disk. A CD-RW has one major advantage: When you need to re-image, you've got a disk available at hand. The last thing you want to do when updating systems for security fixes is worry about if you've got enough CDRs or if you need to drive off to the store to buy another spindle.
In my experience, CD-RWs are very unreliable, so for me it seems like it's hardly worth paying for CD-RWs when I expect them to fail consistantly (thus forcing me to buy more anyway). Also, it seems like a good idea to have older versions of your cds handy just in case (like the fix is worse than the problem and you can live with the problem until you have a better fix) . Also, CD-RWs take longer to burn (although, admittably, driving to the store usually takes longer).
If there's a remote root exploit, rebooting is merely going to make an attacker wait five minutes and then re-run the exploit. A better solution is a CD-RW disk in a CD-ROM drive -- you can always reboot into a clean system, but if there are security issues, you can remove the disk, fix the necessary bits, and then reboot.
CD-RWs are hardly cost efficient, especially if we are dealing with something where we only rarely make changes.
He's given up his right to claim newbie ignorance right there. Aunt Tillie couldn't even conceive printing through a network.
Indeed. I've had trouble with people using windows not understanding what was going on with windows, and the target audience of windows is just that sort of person. If you are going to make it understandable to Auntie Tillie you usually are going to have to set it up yourself.
The entire nation considers your written and spoken rants both condescending and highly obnoxious.
I refuse to read anything he has written, because that would be documentation. ...And I don't believe in documentation (but then again, neither does he apparently).
3. The requirement that end-users read documentation is a sign of UI design failure.
I consider anything you have to read to be documentation.
...I guess that means we'll have to label all our buttons and menus with smiley faces and funny tree symbols now?
ever heard of "scripting"? with bash, perl or whatever? aren't the "macros" a pale shadow of scripting anyways???
Hey, I was going to suggest a C pre-processor, but I guess in the windows world macro == script
Re. your question--I think it's simple. ICANN is the lesser of two evils. Being swayed by corporate interests is bad, but not as bad as when the corporate interest is yourself (as is the case with Verisign).
ICANN is also swayed somewhat by public outcry. Because there was such a fierce outcry from technically-minded people in general, the ICANN did something. Otherwise I don't think ICANN would have really cared.