Shells in X always feel clunky to me because of the lack of an `open' command. On NeXT systems and on OS X, you can simply say `open {filename}' and have it opened in the default application. One really nice thing about this is that you can say `open.' to have the current directory open in the default file manager (useful if you want to do something to multiple files that can't easily be specified by a regex).
What, "vi file" is too hard for you? You have to type two extra letters in order for it to be easy enough for you to use?
If you want to use an editor called "oh_my_god_this_is_an_extremely_long_editor_name", then ln -s it to/usr/bin/open and there you go.
The need for a side channel to serve the voice challenged population presents a (possibly huge) problem. If somebody who legitimately cannot speak can activate a credit card without speaking, then so can the bad guys. That side channel will also need to be secure.
MAYBE this is stupid question, but isn't that the way it is now?
Just continue on doing what you are doing, shredding documents with sensitive information. Dumpster diving wouldn't be as prominent if everyone had a voice recognition credit card.
Not only does "supporting the creator until he dies" create LACK of interest in creating more works (I'm set for life, time to sit on my ass and retire early), but it's completely irrelevant to how copyright is currently used.
Copyright doesn't really affect single people anymore. Companies/Corporations hire workers (at a wage, salary, whatever) to create these works, and the company gets the money. The REAL creator (the employee) is going to keep his job, and not be "forced back" into non-creative work, as you put it.
If that family can't support itself because the copyright holder dies, then there are other programs out there, such as welfare, that are more fitting for the situation.
I know it's not necessarily easy living, but why should we help a family that is "used" to being treated like kings STAY treated like kings when there are single mothers out there working their asses off barely supporting their children?
Even if the death plus N argument is valid, WHY do you need to support your family for 80 or 90+ years? Your wife/husband would be DEAD by then, and your children grown up and supporting themselves, married, with children!
Copyright might have worked 150 years ago, but not today, and it's been bastardized by the big corporations like Disney.
I can't believe how google managed to take a good system like email and enhance it in sooooooo many ways.
The UI is not just good for nerds, either.
I gave one of my GMail invites to an aunt of mine that isn't very computer literate, and she's thanked me so many times for it because she likes it much better than her work email or Yahoo.
Soon, it will handle spreadsheets and presentations and then someone will make a distro that has mysql/apache/php and boots to firefox and microsoft will shrink down to Borland size and sell only development tools no one sane will use.
Go looking for XBox and PS2 game torrents, and you'll find them by the hundreds. You'll be able to count the number of Gamecube torrents on your fingers.
I can also count the number of total games for the Gamecube on my fingers. (okay okay, only the decent ones)
Last I went to Best Buy, they had blank DVD minidisc thingies there. Not the CDs, but the bigger DVD equivalent, like Gamecube uses.
I was hoping for a similar thing for this/next generation. I was hoping that they could produce a system like the PSP, but not only is that the controller for the system, but that IS the system (full console, same size). It has a port for connecting to TV when you are at home, and you can bring the games with you when you are away. This would make it so you don't have to buy the same game twice for portable and home, along with an extra system, and you have the same save games, etc.
What do you mean it isn't a monopoly. Can I get a powermac clone which is fully compatible with Apple's powermac? No. Apple is a completely closed monopoly, in many ways even worse than Microsoft.
I don't think you understand the definition of "monopoly". A monopoly controls an industry, the industry MS controls being operating systems. PowerMacs aren't an industry, they are a brand of computer.
That's how password brute force tools like John the Ripper work. You give it an/etc/secret file, which is full of hashes. It then keeps hashing test strings until it gets a hash that matches one of them. You then know you found the password.
$ cat/etc/secret cat:/etc/secret: No such file or directory
You don't just call in sick and not patch it just because its war-time. Heck its war-time right now and I am seeing Microsoft release patches left and right.
On the other hand if you are imaginging an situation like world war, and you are worried about your stupid windows having no patches, then here is a tip - get a life, find a bunker.
I don't think you got the point of his post...
I think what he was trying to say was, since the military has a team of hackers, will the US restrict security patches during war time so that the enemy can't have secure computers, and make it easy for the military to attack them electronically.
Yeah, it's sad that a lot of gamers concentrate too much on graphics. I'd take Civilization 2/3 over most FPS games out there (1 is pushing it:). I actually like the simple graphics and windowed mode.
Not all gamers like only one of the above, you know. I like the gameplay and graphics of Doom3, but LOVE the strategy and gameplay (with even simpler graphics than Civ), of Warlords 2. I just don't like the gameplay of Civ, though...
Not a single sysadmin who actually deserves the title is going to run a db out of system memory.
There is a way (haven't done this myself) to send out the update/insert/delete to the harddisk immediately after it applies to the RAM, but the application responds to the webserver or whatever is calling it immediately after it applies to RAM. This creates a lightning fast database, with storage on a hard drive as well in case of a server crash.
Thank you!!! It worked. I just hope I am not using a server for some porn site in the USSR. lol. Or maybe this is one of those times to not ask why it works.
No, the grandparent was correct. 4.2.2.0/24 is Verizon's DNS servers, I have Verizon DSL, so I know:)
But he said Omniture doesn't do this. The reason, he said, is that client companies don't authorize Omniture to do it.
Yes they *can*, but do they? *no*
So if they steal some of those SS#s, it's okay, because they weren't authorized to do it. Since they weren't authorized, that data can't be used for identify theft or anything.
They have access to all of the information, and with the company being called "Utah marketing giant Omniture", that's not very encouraging. ONE rogue employee is all it takes for SS#s to get compromised.
Let's all put our trust into a big corporation. Since that place is run by regular people, just look at the people in your office, school, neighborhood, whatever. Would you want any of them to have access to your SS#?
And would send people running for their aluminium foil rolls so they can start making their hats.
No it wouldn't, regular people don't know what foil hats do. Only crazy people, crazy people doctors (they hear it all the time), and geeks. Well, okay, I know the last one is a subset of the first, but still, you get my point...
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Shells in X always feel clunky to me because of the lack of an `open' command. On NeXT systems and on OS X, you can simply say `open {filename}' and have it opened in the default application. One really nice thing about this is that you can say `open .' to have the current directory open in the default file manager (useful if you want to do something to multiple files that can't easily be specified by a regex).
, then ln -s it to /usr/bin/open and there you go.
What, "vi file" is too hard for you? You have to type two extra letters in order for it to be easy enough for you to use?
If you want to use an editor called "oh_my_god_this_is_an_extremely_long_editor_name"
Probably: s/rxvt/shell/
rxvt is a terminal emulator.
I was trying to convey the point by using X applications. We were talking about X, not a terminal, and rxvt fit in better.
SSA is static single assignment. It means that each variable in the program is assigned in only one place
Oooo... I can see it now *shudders*
Just wait until people start confusing this with constants, and people are using SSA variables to store the number "5" and such.
I'm sure peoples' opinions are a dime a dozen and most are immediatly filed promptly into /dev/null.
What are you talking about? Senators can't afford to use an operating system other than Windows, they'll be shot!
Spatial Nautilus is the only file manager avaiable that works the way I want a file manager to work.
The way I want a file manager to work in X is illustrated beatifully through rxvt.
It already supports POP3, but not IMAP unless they've changed it lately.
No, I mean retreiving email.
It loads your email at blah@popemail.com or blah@imapemail into GMail through the web interface.
And no, that's not "Pope Mail", that's "POP Email".
The need for a side channel to serve the voice challenged population presents a (possibly huge) problem. If somebody who legitimately cannot speak can activate a credit card without speaking, then so can the bad guys. That side channel will also need to be secure.
MAYBE this is stupid question, but isn't that the way it is now?
Just continue on doing what you are doing, shredding documents with sensitive information. Dumpster diving wouldn't be as prominent if everyone had a voice recognition credit card.
Not only does "supporting the creator until he dies" create LACK of interest in creating more works (I'm set for life, time to sit on my ass and retire early), but it's completely irrelevant to how copyright is currently used.
Copyright doesn't really affect single people anymore. Companies/Corporations hire workers (at a wage, salary, whatever) to create these works, and the company gets the money. The REAL creator (the employee) is going to keep his job, and not be "forced back" into non-creative work, as you put it.
If that family can't support itself because the copyright holder dies, then there are other programs out there, such as welfare, that are more fitting for the situation.
I know it's not necessarily easy living, but why should we help a family that is "used" to being treated like kings STAY treated like kings when there are single mothers out there working their asses off barely supporting their children?
Even if the death plus N argument is valid, WHY do you need to support your family for 80 or 90+ years? Your wife/husband would be DEAD by then, and your children grown up and supporting themselves, married, with children!
Copyright might have worked 150 years ago, but not today, and it's been bastardized by the big corporations like Disney.
I can't believe how google managed to take a good system like email and enhance it in sooooooo many ways.
The UI is not just good for nerds, either.
I gave one of my GMail invites to an aunt of mine that isn't very computer literate, and she's thanked me so many times for it because she likes it much better than her work email or Yahoo.
What if GMail supported retrieving POP and IMAP email as well?
That would be my only client, then.
Soon, it will handle spreadsheets and presentations and then someone will make a distro that has mysql/apache/php and boots to firefox and microsoft will shrink down to Borland size and sell only development tools no one sane will use.
So THAT'S how they are making Google OS...
Go looking for XBox and PS2 game torrents, and you'll find them by the hundreds. You'll be able to count the number of Gamecube torrents on your fingers.
I can also count the number of total games for the Gamecube on my fingers. (okay okay, only the decent ones)
Last I went to Best Buy, they had blank DVD minidisc thingies there. Not the CDs, but the bigger DVD equivalent, like Gamecube uses.
So, basically the Nintendo DS IS the controller.
I was hoping for a similar thing for this/next generation. I was hoping that they could produce a system like the PSP, but not only is that the controller for the system, but that IS the system (full console, same size). It has a port for connecting to TV when you are at home, and you can bring the games with you when you are away. This would make it so you don't have to buy the same game twice for portable and home, along with an extra system, and you have the same save games, etc.
That's what I want.
iPods Valuable in the College Classroom?
Uhh, yeah. iPods are about $300, and they don't lose their value when they go into college classrooms...
What do you mean it isn't a monopoly. Can I get a powermac clone which is fully compatible with Apple's powermac? No. Apple is a completely closed monopoly, in many ways even worse than Microsoft.
I don't think you understand the definition of "monopoly". A monopoly controls an industry, the industry MS controls being operating systems. PowerMacs aren't an industry, they are a brand of computer.
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW -m owner --uid-owner NON_ROOT_ACCOUNT --cmd-owner httpd -j ACCEPT
Given all other "new" packets are dropped afterwards.
Someone stole my secret file!
How do you attack an adversary that relies on donkeys and handwritten notes for communication?
Well...
You don't just call in sick and not patch it just because its war-time. Heck its war-time right now and I am seeing Microsoft release patches left and right.
On the other hand if you are imaginging an situation like world war, and you are worried about your stupid windows having no patches, then here is a tip - get a life, find a bunker.
I don't think you got the point of his post...
I think what he was trying to say was, since the military has a team of hackers, will the US restrict security patches during war time so that the enemy can't have secure computers, and make it easy for the military to attack them electronically.
DOSBox supports Colonization 100%. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?showID =79&letter=C
Yeah, it's sad that a lot of gamers concentrate too much on graphics. I'd take Civilization 2/3 over most FPS games out there (1 is pushing it :). I actually like the simple graphics and windowed mode.
Not all gamers like only one of the above, you know. I like the gameplay and graphics of Doom3, but LOVE the strategy and gameplay (with even simpler graphics than Civ), of Warlords 2. I just don't like the gameplay of Civ, though...
Not a single sysadmin who actually deserves the title is going to run a db out of system memory.
There is a way (haven't done this myself) to send out the update/insert/delete to the harddisk immediately after it applies to the RAM, but the application responds to the webserver or whatever is calling it immediately after it applies to RAM. This creates a lightning fast database, with storage on a hard drive as well in case of a server crash.
Thank you!!! It worked. I just hope I am not using a server for some porn site in the USSR. lol. Or maybe this is one of those times to not ask why it works.
:)
No, the grandparent was correct. 4.2.2.0/24 is Verizon's DNS servers, I have Verizon DSL, so I know
But he said Omniture doesn't do this. The reason, he said, is that client companies don't authorize Omniture to do it.
Yes they *can*, but do they? *no*
So if they steal some of those SS#s, it's okay, because they weren't authorized to do it. Since they weren't authorized, that data can't be used for identify theft or anything.
They have access to all of the information, and with the company being called "Utah marketing giant Omniture", that's not very encouraging. ONE rogue employee is all it takes for SS#s to get compromised.
Let's all put our trust into a big corporation. Since that place is run by regular people, just look at the people in your office, school, neighborhood, whatever. Would you want any of them to have access to your SS#?
And would send people running for their aluminium foil rolls so they can start making their hats.
No it wouldn't, regular people don't know what foil hats do. Only crazy people, crazy people doctors (they hear it all the time), and geeks. Well, okay, I know the last one is a subset of the first, but still, you get my point...