If you set it to sleep automatically when you close the lid (impossible under linux right now) and set the backlight to turn off ASAP... I.E. after 5 minutes of no keyboard or mouse activity that will make a HUGE difference.
Impossible? My Sony Vaio does this quite well (under linux).
Cellphone without a camera? Yes, please! Who ever came up with that "Hey, let's add a sucky webcam to every phone model on the market"-conspiracy should definately be obliterated with a chainsaw. Better yet, scissors!
You don't need nntp for that. Use CC: and the "Reply-To-All" feature of your mail client.
Almost any kind of sorting, threading, filtering, moderation or other "control" can be modeled with common mailing-list software and/or an IMAP-server. The nice thing is that all this works with just about any mail client you might be using. Probably even with MS Outlook...
Seems like MS needs yet another lesson in "Don't attempt to fix what ain't broken"...
Now, that's one serious bitchslap for the responsible guys at MS.
Watch out big MS! Today everybody is laughing at you. But when they are done laughing (which, admittedly, could take a while) they will rub their eyes. And, again, see a bit clearer than before.
It think you'd better not rub it into their eyes even further with a lawsuit or something stupid like that.
I might be quite offtopic but does anyone know whether there's a playlist-plugin for XMMS or a stand-alone player (*nix) that does all the fancy indexing stuff (and provides a treeview on your collection) like all these newer windows players seem to do?
I find that a pretty useful feature.
XMMS (still my player of choice, due to lack of alternatives) is nice but the whole playlist/file-management department is really horribly out of date.
Last time I checked even that ridiculous GTK File-Dialog was still in by default. Isn't anyone else annoyed by the total lack of rudimentary playlist-"management" functions (grouping, searching, hierarchy stuff, indexing of removable media)?
I know about snackAmp and it seems to be a good approach but I stopped using it after too many bugs (most annoying: lost playlists) became too much of a hassle. Also the interface isn't quite up to it (way better than xmms, tho).
So, is there anything better out there for us choosers of "the other OS"?
Yup, these very same paragraphs are in the license for their JDK/JRE (Java Developement Kit/Runtime Environment), too and they're the reason why we have stopped considering java for our application developement and everything else (despite it being a nice language and all). One could safely say we have dropped java like a hot potatoe after Sun added this crap to their license upon advent of JDK1.4.
We don't really want our production server to "call home" at all. And we most certainly don't want our production server to be "automatically updated" by a third party.
I have not (yet) seen any reports of misbehaving java VMs fetching updates from the internet or sending unwanted network traffic. But if we interprete the two paragraphs above correctly Sun explicitely reserves the right to add such features to their products at will. Maybe they already have added the functionality and could activate it whenever they feel like it.
No way we'll be using a Sun product before their license has been fixed.
I got news for you Mr."chromatic": There is no such thing as "OSS-developement". Therefor there cannot be any myths about "it".
There are all kinds of flavours of OSS-projects, little toy projects by bored students, beasts like mozilla or OOo, projects that are partially (or fully) backed up by a company and many other constellations you might not even be able to imagine.
So some of the "myths" you claim (most of them sound as if you made them up while taking a break from digging your nose) might apply to some individual OSS-projects. But as someone who publishes articles you should know how the really-old saying goes: Broad generalizations never work well.
And in case you feel like you are the prototype of an OSS-developer and therefor qualify to define "myths we tell ourselves" I've got even more news for ya: you're not.
I use long phrases for my passwords. (20 chars or more) where I can. With spaces, punctation and everything.
I have no problem remembering all these!!1 (oops, now I must change one...)
The easist way to increase password security is to set the minimum length to 20 chars. I think it's a shame that many systems (and websites) instead LIMIT the password to 10 chars or less.
Whenever I have to sign up for something on the web the first password I always try is "Man, registration sucks reallyyy". But usually I have to revert to the much less robust "fuckyou2". What a shame..
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I find this all SO boring...
Production ready, apache 2.*? Give it some more years...
It's more durable than an ipod- i've run over my IFP390t with my fucking bike- it still works.
Holy shit!!
Why did you do that?!
If you set it to sleep automatically when you close the lid (impossible under linux right now) and set the backlight to turn off ASAP
Impossible?
My Sony Vaio does this quite well (under linux).
I was looking for a pub cvs + bug tracker service a while ago and this reminds me.
Are there any alternatives to sf.net and savannah around? I like the feature list of sf but the web-interface is a nightmare, esp. the bugtracker.
Can anyone recommend a good bugtracker (service or software)?
Cellphone without a camera? Yes, please!
Who ever came up with that "Hey, let's add a sucky webcam to every phone model on the market"-conspiracy should definately be obliterated with a chainsaw. Better yet, scissors!
Mod parent up!
Me too.
You don't need nntp for that.
Use CC: and the "Reply-To-All" feature of your mail client.
Almost any kind of sorting, threading, filtering, moderation or other "control" can be modeled with common mailing-list software and/or an IMAP-server. The nice thing is that all this works with just about any mail client you might be using. Probably even with MS Outlook...
Seems like MS needs yet another lesson in "Don't attempt to fix what ain't broken"...
Is that cold fusion voodoo patented, yet?
Well done, nice seed for another distro-flame-thread.
Can we just say both RedHat and Debian are nice and move on?
Ah nevermind, I know we can't...
Now, that's one serious bitchslap for the responsible guys at MS.
Watch out big MS!
Today everybody is laughing at you.
But when they are done laughing (which, admittedly, could take a while) they will rub their eyes. And, again, see a bit clearer than before.
It think you'd better not rub it into their eyes even further with a lawsuit or something stupid like that.
Crying customers are a Bad Thing.
Uhm, why do I get modded flamebait for providing a link to a tool that allows to convert .doc -> .txt? Well, lick my balls Mr.Moderation...
Antiword is your friend.
I might be quite offtopic but does anyone know whether there's a playlist-plugin for XMMS or a stand-alone player (*nix) that does all the fancy indexing stuff (and provides a treeview on your collection) like all these newer windows players seem to do?
I find that a pretty useful feature.
XMMS (still my player of choice, due to lack of alternatives) is nice but the whole playlist/file-management department is really horribly out of date.
Last time I checked even that ridiculous GTK File-Dialog was still in by default.
Isn't anyone else annoyed by the total lack of rudimentary playlist-"management" functions (grouping, searching, hierarchy stuff, indexing of removable media)?
I know about snackAmp and it seems to be a good approach but I stopped using it after too many bugs (most annoying: lost playlists) became too much of a hassle. Also the interface isn't quite up to it (way better than xmms, tho).
So, is there anything better out there for us
choosers of "the other OS"?
Yup, these very same paragraphs are in the license for their JDK/JRE (Java Developement Kit/Runtime Environment), too and they're the reason why we have stopped considering java for our application developement and everything else (despite it being a nice language and all). One could safely say we have dropped java like a hot potatoe after Sun added this crap to their license upon advent of JDK1.4.
We don't really want our production server to "call home" at all. And we most certainly don't want our production server to be "automatically updated" by a third party.
I have not (yet) seen any reports of misbehaving java VMs fetching updates from the internet or sending unwanted network traffic. But if we interprete the two paragraphs above correctly Sun explicitely reserves the right to add such features to their products at will. Maybe they already have added the functionality and could activate it whenever they feel like it.
No way we'll be using a Sun product before their license has been fixed.
That guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
I got news for you Mr."chromatic":
There is no such thing as "OSS-developement". Therefor there cannot be any myths about "it".
There are all kinds of flavours of OSS-projects, little toy projects by bored students, beasts like mozilla or OOo, projects that are partially (or fully) backed up by a company and many other constellations you might not even be able to imagine.
So some of the "myths" you claim (most of them sound as if you made them up while taking a break from digging your nose) might apply to some individual OSS-projects.
But as someone who publishes articles you should know how the really-old saying goes: Broad generalizations never work well.
And in case you feel like you are the prototype of an OSS-developer and therefor qualify to define "myths we tell ourselves" I've got even more news for ya: you're not.
Ah you guys are so boring.
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Don't paste:
bash$
Can't they set up a torrent?
Someone bring me that file, I pay for the 300 DVD-Rs
+ shipping!
No offense but that java app is a bit bloated.
A simple bash script and curl can do the job, too.
I use long phrases for my passwords. (20 chars or more) where I can. With spaces, punctation and everything.
I have no problem remembering all these!!1
(oops, now I must change one...)
The easist way to increase password security is to set the minimum length to 20 chars. I think it's a shame that many systems (and websites) instead LIMIT the password to 10 chars or less.
Whenever I have to sign up for something on the web the first password I always try is "Man, registration sucks reallyyy". But usually I have to revert to the much less robust "fuckyou2".
What a shame..
Stop it arleady!
Favorite Quote: "(Sorry BR62425!)" (On article No.5, very last paragraph)
I love screenshots. Everybody does.
Mod parent up!