I think he means they can't boot at all FROM an sata CD drive.
And I think that this was exactly what GP meant.
Boot from a sata CD drive, and when you come to the point where you have the possibility of selecting another kernel - as you have with most live CDs - you select the sata.i kernel.
The whole idea of naming Martian items is because they have scientific importance, or are geographically important. The rovers probably look very closely at some items, so it's convenient to name even tiny items rather than just saying "that rock/plateau/hill over there".
You can do that more efficiently using a numbering scheme. No need for names.
forced updates, i remember that. i've been trying to run the computer as a non-admin account for security and forced updates meant that it popped up a dialog telling me that it was going to reboot soon without a cancel button. forced updates are staying off i guess
I agree. The forced reboot is just braindead. You leave your desk for a cup of coffee, and when you return, the PC is rebooted and all work lost.
However, in XP SP2, the automatic update mechanism is more gentle to your blood pressure. It will wait until you want to turn off the computer, and then it will install the updates prior to closing windows.
(I guess it will still do a forced upgrade and reboot at 3 AM if the computer is awake at that time. My Windows computers are not, so this is not a problem for me.)
This mail warned people against a non-existant virus called Goodtimes which allegedly could infect automatically without user interaction.
But the real virus was the warning mail itself. A little different from later e-mail viruses, this virus somehow infected the user's brain instead of his PC and forced him to manually send it to everyone in his address book.
As far as I know, this virus worked on all systems, including Apple and UNIX.
Strange. Reboots should never be necessary under XP, because you can now delete the files associated with a running program.
Probably the uninstaller program's author hasn't realised this yet and is still doing it the old way on all platforms.
In other words: My point is valid.
The uninstaller is part of the 7-zip package I download. If something is wrong with the uninstaller, something is wrong with 7-zip.
It's basically because Windows' file locking is fsked up. Thankfully, they fixed it in XP.
This is an XP installation. XP Pro SP2 to be exact.
But XP or not - in my opinion, simple compression utilities should not mess with Windows system files in any way. When random programs upgrade parts of the operating system, you loose control over your own PC.
I briefly tried 7-zip 4.23 and ditched it. 3 observations:
1. Right click noise 7-zip adds these items to the right click menu for any file type:
Extract files...
Extract Here
Test archive
Add to archive...
I can understand the last one. Every zip utility has this, and it is nice to have.
But the three first? Why would I want to "Test archive" when right clicking on a shortcut to Mozilla Firefox? Does 7-zip think that my shortcut might be a compressed archive in disguise?
If so, why stop here? Why not have my MP3 player present at least one option in the right click menu for any file type? And (all) my movie player(s) too? And my word processor - after all, that Firefox shortcut could be a Word or OOo document in disguise. And if the right click menu grows too large, I can always buy a screen with better resolution.
I was not even asked if I wanted those extra items in the right click menu.
THIS IS NOT WHAT THE RIGHT CLICK MENU IS FOR. Right click options for compressed files should only be visible when right clicking on compressed files. That is why the menu is also called a CONTEXT menu.
2. All files in an archive are shown organized in folders. This may be ok. Winzip's behaviour of showing all files in a long list is sometimes more confusing, sometimes less. It is a question of taste.
But when files are shown in folders, I would prefer a left pane with a folder tree and a right pane with contents of selected folders. Most compression utilities do this, but I could not find an option in 7-zip. I could find a 2-pane view, but it was more like Norton/Midnight Commander with 2 independent panes.
Again this is a question of taste.
3. Uninstaller want to reboot computer. WHAT? Reboot necessary for this? For God's sake - it is a simple compression utility. How much damage did the installation do to my system since a reboot is necessary to revert to my old setup?
It was not even because of those annoying right click items. They disappeared prior to rebooting.
I'm not aware of the law of my country changing, so do you have any pointers for that?
Which country is your country?
In case your country is another EU country than Denmark:
This law change was not a result of changed EU directives. It was a result of local lobbyism in Denmark. So the laws in other EU countries were unaffected.
In case your country is Denmark:
Go visit Retsinfo on http://retsinfo.dk./ Find "Lov om ophavsret". Read $12 stk. 3 which says: Uanset bestemmelsen i stk. 2, nr. 5, er det ikke tilladt uden ophavsmandens samtykke at fremstille eksemplarer i digital form på grundlag af et eksemplar, der er lånt eller lejet.
This text is new. It was part of a change which was effective from December 12 2003. Until then, it was legal to make digital copies of borrowed CDs.
The "full" history is:
Until May 29 2001 (well, actually a little longer since the law was not made effective from Day 0):
Digital copying of CDs without the copyright holders consent was illegal.
From May 29 2001 to December 13 2003:
Digital copying of original CDs was allowed.
After December 13 2003:
Digital copying of your own original CDs is allowed.
After reading the FA (had to try it), I am still confused.
Is he saying that he from now on will divulge information without a court order?
Or is he merely saying that he will not fight such a court order?
Seems to me that the latter is acceptable. An ISP can not necessarily be expected to use time an money on fighting court orders - though many of us may prefer an ISP who does.
Lowering the TTL to twenty four hours, and making changes and then checking to see when a change was picked up.
To my knowledge, downstream caching nameservers will not check for changes in TTL before the latest cached TTL expires. Consequently, if the TTL is set to one year, then changed to 24h, the changed TTL will go on unnoticed for up to a year.
So I would like to know if the OP did allow the old TTL to expire after changing it, before he carried out the test. If not, the results of the test may be misleading.
Before you (and most of the people who have answered you) started ranting, you should at least have Read Rhe Fabulous Summary.
This article is not about the right to access the Internet from prison. The article is about the right to own a website while being in prison and delivering content to that website - with or without personal access to the Internet.
I might believe that harddisks die in cold murky weather, but the idea that a CD-Rom would work where a disk fails is absurd. It cannot be sealed (as well as a hd)
How does a sealed harddisk behave when the outside pressure drops? Will it suffer damage from the difference between internal and external pressure?
I'm much more encouraged by those views. Let's just hope they translate into actions.
You have no reason for being encouraged by his views. I have heard most of them before - from politicians who actually think that the CIID in its current form is in accordance with those views.
So the question you should be asking him now is:
"Do you think that the CIID in its current form conflicts with your views".
Prepare yourself to be disappointed when you receive his response.
Think about it, in order to use your mouse, you MUST hold your elbow above the desk the whole time.
Actually, no. I always rest my elbow on the table when I use a mouse. If not, my shoulder will be aching (sp?) after a few minutes.
Of course, this is only possible if I can move the mouse with the fingertips without moving the elbow. This is exactly where most "ergonomic" mice fails:
The inventors falsely believe that the hand will be tighly closed around the mouse. But this means that moving the mouse without moving/lifting the elbow is impossible.
Instead, a truely ergonomic mouse should allow as much movement as possible without moving the elbow. This can only be accomplished with a small mouse.
Once again. This time using the preview function prior to posting:
I live in Denmark, just north of Germany, and would really like to see this in danish trains.
Seems that I live in the same Denmark. The one north of Germany, that is.
The Danish railways are planning on having this available from the end of 2005. It will be free when travelling on first class. Otherwise the price will be 10-20 DKK = 1.30-2.60 EUR = 2-4 USD per trip. (Based on the currency exchange rates I remember from the top of my head.)
I live in Denmark, just north of Germany, and would really like to see this in danish trains.
Seems that I live in the same Denmark. The one north of Germany, that is.
The Danish railways are planning on having this available from the end of 2005. It will be free when travelling on first class. Otherwise the price will be 10-20 DKK = 1.30-2.60 EUR = 2-4 USD per trip. (Based on the currency exchange rates I remember from the top of my head.)
additionally, if you didn't know you woudl still be held accountable because ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.
You are confusing "Ignorance of the facts" and "Ignorance of the law". Ignorance of facts can be a very valid defence, depending on whether you ought to have known the facts.
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Please reread my post and you'll see that I did say the original owner was the victim.
No, actually you said the opposite. Please count your negations. This is what you wrote:
you can't deny that the original owner wasn't a victim.
I think he means they can't boot at all FROM an sata CD drive.
And I think that this was exactly what GP meant.
Boot from a sata CD drive, and when you come to the point where you have the possibility of selecting another kernel - as you have with most live CDs - you select the sata.i kernel.
The whole idea of naming Martian items is because they have scientific importance, or are geographically important. The rovers probably look very closely at some items, so it's convenient to name even tiny items rather than just saying "that rock/plateau/hill over there".
You can do that more efficiently using a numbering scheme. No need for names.
I think people would be more familiar with the "web browser" term than the less accurate "internet browser" term.
Actually, most people refer to IE as "the Internet".
forced updates, i remember that. i've been trying to run the computer as a non-admin account for security and forced updates meant that it popped up a dialog telling me that it was going to reboot soon without a cancel button. forced updates are staying off i guess
I agree. The forced reboot is just braindead. You leave your desk for a cup of coffee, and when you return, the PC is rebooted and all work lost.
However, in XP SP2, the automatic update mechanism is more gentle to your blood pressure. It will wait until you want to turn off the computer, and then it will install the updates prior to closing windows.
(I guess it will still do a forced upgrade and reboot at 3 AM if the computer is awake at that time. My Windows computers are not, so this is not a problem for me.)
I'm not even sure that e-mail viruses are a Microsoft original... anybody know?
In my opinion, the first widespread, automatically infecting e-mail virus was the Good Times mail: http://www.cityscope.net/hoax1.html
This mail warned people against a non-existant virus called Goodtimes which allegedly could infect automatically without user interaction.
But the real virus was the warning mail itself. A little different from later e-mail viruses, this virus somehow infected the user's brain instead of his PC and forced him to manually send it to everyone in his address book.
As far as I know, this virus worked on all systems, including Apple and UNIX.
Strange. Reboots should never be necessary under XP, because you can now delete the files associated with a running program. Probably the uninstaller program's author hasn't realised this yet and is still doing it the old way on all platforms.
In other words: My point is valid.
The uninstaller is part of the 7-zip package I download. If something is wrong with the uninstaller, something is wrong with 7-zip.
It's basically because Windows' file locking is fsked up. Thankfully, they fixed it in XP.
This is an XP installation. XP Pro SP2 to be exact.
But XP or not - in my opinion, simple compression utilities should not mess with Windows system files in any way. When random programs upgrade parts of the operating system, you loose control over your own PC.
I briefly tried 7-zip 4.23 and ditched it. 3 observations:
1. Right click noise
7-zip adds these items to the right click menu for any file type:
Extract files...
Extract Here
Test archive
Add to archive...
I can understand the last one. Every zip utility has this, and it is nice to have.
But the three first? Why would I want to "Test archive" when right clicking on a shortcut to Mozilla Firefox? Does 7-zip think that my shortcut might be a compressed archive in disguise?
If so, why stop here? Why not have my MP3 player present at least one option in the right click menu for any file type? And (all) my movie player(s) too? And my word processor - after all, that Firefox shortcut could be a Word or OOo document in disguise. And if the right click menu grows too large, I can always buy a screen with better resolution.
I was not even asked if I wanted those extra items in the right click menu.
THIS IS NOT WHAT THE RIGHT CLICK MENU IS FOR. Right click options for compressed files should only be visible when right clicking on compressed files. That is why the menu is also called a CONTEXT menu.
2. All files in an archive are shown organized in folders.
This may be ok. Winzip's behaviour of showing all files in a long list is sometimes more confusing, sometimes less. It is a question of taste.
But when files are shown in folders, I would prefer a left pane with a folder tree and a right pane with contents of selected folders. Most compression utilities do this, but I could not find an option in 7-zip. I could find a 2-pane view, but it was more like Norton/Midnight Commander with 2 independent panes.
Again this is a question of taste.
3. Uninstaller want to reboot computer.
WHAT? Reboot necessary for this? For God's sake - it is a simple compression utility. How much damage did the installation do to my system since a reboot is necessary to revert to my old setup?
It was not even because of those annoying right click items. They disappeared prior to rebooting.
I'm not aware of the law of my country changing, so do you have any pointers for that?
Which country is your country?
In case your country is another EU country than Denmark:
This law change was not a result of changed EU directives. It was a result of local lobbyism in Denmark. So the laws in other EU countries were unaffected.
In case your country is Denmark:
Go visit Retsinfo on http://retsinfo.dk./ Find "Lov om ophavsret". Read $12 stk. 3 which says:
Uanset bestemmelsen i stk. 2, nr. 5, er det ikke tilladt uden ophavsmandens samtykke at fremstille eksemplarer i digital form på grundlag af et eksemplar, der er lånt eller lejet.
This text is new. It was part of a change which was effective from December 12 2003. Until then, it was legal to make digital copies of borrowed CDs.
The "full" history is:
Until May 29 2001 (well, actually a little longer since the law was not made effective from Day 0):
Digital copying of CDs without the copyright holders consent was illegal.
From May 29 2001 to December 13 2003:
Digital copying of original CDs was allowed.
After December 13 2003:
Digital copying of your own original CDs is allowed.
"a very large large electric field is produced at the end of the tugsten tip"
That must be really large if "very large" does not describe it adequately.
"Tugsten"?
Was your attempt to visit the site somehow related to the work you are supposed to perform at said company?
Honestly I feel like this is complaining about needing a CD player after you buy a CD.
No. This is like complaining about coding a CD in a way which make it illegal to play in a custom built CD player.
Quite a difference.
After reading the FA (had to try it), I am still confused.
Is he saying that he from now on will divulge information without a court order?
Or is he merely saying that he will not fight such a court order?
Seems to me that the latter is acceptable. An ISP can not necessarily be expected to use time an money on fighting court orders - though many of us may prefer an ISP who does.
Lowering the TTL to twenty four hours, and making changes and then checking to see when a change was picked up.
To my knowledge, downstream caching nameservers will not check for changes in TTL before the latest cached TTL expires. Consequently, if the TTL is set to one year, then changed to 24h, the changed TTL will go on unnoticed for up to a year.
So I would like to know if the OP did allow the old TTL to expire after changing it, before he carried out the test. If not, the results of the test may be misleading.
Before you (and most of the people who have answered you) started ranting, you should at least have Read Rhe Fabulous Summary.
This article is not about the right to access the Internet from prison. The article is about the right to own a website while being in prison and delivering content to that website - with or without personal access to the Internet.
Linus Torvald..
Linus Torvalds
>>> IMAP isn't really a word, its an anocrym.
>> acronym - n. A word formed from the initial letters of a name
> thanks for that, i was wondering why it looked wrong when i wrote it
Maybe it was not only the spelling which made it look wrong. The excerpt from the dictionary actually says that an acronym is a word.
I might believe that harddisks die in cold murky weather, but the idea that a CD-Rom would work where a disk fails is absurd. It cannot be sealed (as well as a hd)
: www.computer-chat.com/hardware/Hard_drives_are_her metically_sealed_200576.html+harddisk+ambient-pres sure&hl=da&client=firefox-a
How does a sealed harddisk behave when the outside pressure drops? Will it suffer damage from the difference between internal and external pressure?
This seems to be his main concern.
I do not know whether harddisks are hermetically sealed, though. Google found this discussion with highly contradicting opinions: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:SAGduiPmHLQJ
I'm much more encouraged by those views. Let's just hope they translate into actions.
You have no reason for being encouraged by his views. I have heard most of them before - from politicians who actually think that the CIID in its current form is in accordance with those views.
So the question you should be asking him now is:
"Do you think that the CIID in its current form conflicts with your views".
Prepare yourself to be disappointed when you receive his response.
Think about it, in order to use your mouse, you MUST hold your elbow above the desk the whole time.
Actually, no. I always rest my elbow on the table when I use a mouse. If not, my shoulder will be aching (sp?) after a few minutes.
Of course, this is only possible if I can move the mouse with the fingertips without moving the elbow. This is exactly where most "ergonomic" mice fails:
The inventors falsely believe that the hand will be tighly closed around the mouse. But this means that moving the mouse without moving/lifting the elbow is impossible.
Instead, a truely ergonomic mouse should allow as much movement as possible without moving the elbow. This can only be accomplished with a small mouse.
Once again. This time using the preview function prior to posting:
I live in Denmark, just north of Germany, and would really like to see this in danish trains.
Seems that I live in the same Denmark. The one north of Germany, that is.
The Danish railways are planning on having this available from the end of 2005. It will be free when travelling on first class. Otherwise the price will be 10-20 DKK = 1.30-2.60 EUR = 2-4 USD per trip. (Based on the currency exchange rates I remember from the top of my head.)
I live in Denmark, just north of Germany, and would really like to see this in danish trains.
Seems that I live in the same Denmark. The one north of Germany, that is.
The Danish railways are planning on having this available from the end of 2005. It will be free when travelling on first class. Otherwise the price will be 10-20 DKK = 1.30-2.60 EUR = 2-4 USD per trip. (Based on the currency exchange rates I remember from the top of my head.)
additionally, if you didn't know you woudl still be held accountable because ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.
You are confusing "Ignorance of the facts" and "Ignorance of the law". Ignorance of facts can be a very valid defence, depending on whether you ought to have known the facts.
How about rewarding UDP/IP or ICMP/IP creators?
I don't see why the IP protocol is always referred to as "TCP/IP" when TCP is only one of protocols running under IP.