Stephen Walderr (probably spelt that wrong:)) created a fork of IJB 2.whatever which used blank GIFs in place of the broken icon or IJB logo. Then his project grew and continued. Everyone reported ads to the communal blocklist, which could be easily synchronized with a cron job. It was the best ever.
Then his site seemed to stop updating, and many people wondered what had happened:-(
But soon, the software was brought back by some great efforts by other people. It has many features I like. However, there are still bugs keeping it from 3.0:
* It stops responding after a few days unless you HUP it.
* It doesn't re-gzip data after it's been deziped and filtered.
* The re_filterfile code sometimes doesn't work (I use it to filter Google's link-wrapping, which I feel is a big of a cheater's way of looking at what I go to)
* Some minor HTTP 1.1 unhappyness.
All in all, a good piece of software -- just not complete (yet).
A reasonable amount of packages, all arranged by disk set so you can skip what you don't need (A, AP, N, X, GTK+ make you a Gnome workstation with all network tools, but no development, kernel, games, etc).
Plus it uses Matthew Dillon's cron, something which has never, ever had a vulnerability appear on Bugtraq in the years I've been reading it.
"Basically this makes one time pad encryption a whole lot more secure"
No, it doesn't. The OTPs aren't anymore secure (how do you make unbreakable more secure? That's like saying more dead, or more off).
This is also vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Nothing stops people from re-transmitting whatever they want. If they know the message, the can always re-encrypt. You still need a secure back channel.
It sounds like you think that the BSD licence allows someone to "relicence" it under any licence. That's not true. The licence merely has no restrictions on code which may be linked to it.
By extension, the GPL doesn't "relicence" code it's linked to. It's merely illegal to link it (GPL, not LGPL) with code which is not under a licence where the source is available and distribute that binary.
So if MS has a licence which forbids the distribution of source with binaries, that is not compatible with the GPL clause that says you MUST provide source.
"Because google gets paid not by the number of people that see the ad but by the number of people that follow it, their concern is with getting people to click the ad."
Using click-throughs as a metric has been debunked over and over and over and over. It's not about having people click links, it's about getting a message across to your target audience. When I see a Pesi commercial on TV, I don't run out to buy more. But I might think, "yea -- Pepsi is good" (depending on the content -- I don't like Britney:p).
Click throughs ignore people who see an ad and check into it later, people who feel better about consuming what the ad is promoting and will also consume more later, and much more.
Don't push clickthroughs as a metric. That dilutes your ad promotion power to first time and curious people. Those people aren't a solid return customer metric upon which to base any sort of business.
Just because you don't like something, doesn't make it "wrong" for others to like it.
The new XP look is nicer than the old Windows look, just like I prefer the "metal2" icewm theme to "warp4." Does that make me a "most vomitous" person?
Never underestimate the superficiality of some people who think that just because someone's taste in what looks good is different, they're stupid.
What's a motherboard to you? A RAM bank, CPU slot, anda PS/2 port so you can enter the programs to be run?
You've just ranted about how you love 1993 motherboards. So, here's a tip: enjoy your 486. Nowadays, people can integrate extra functionality into a motherboard easily because the manufacturing process is so great. Granted, this has some bad effects (active cooling on the northbridge, usually by way of a cheap fan which fails after a couple months of serwice), but it's better overall for everyone.
Business and most home users don't have to buy expensive cards with features they'll never use to get audio beyond the stupid PC speaker (do you not like how the PC speaker is on every system as well?). USB is a standard, and it's a well implemented standard which lets me easily swap devices around while going between my main work computer and whatever other computer's on the bench without an expensive KVM. Do that with PS/2 without frying some ports. Oops, PS/2's not hotplugable by design! Hov about firewire? Do you have having high speed tranfers? Do you prefer the slow and limited lpt ports instead? Or are those too "damned useless" and shouldn't also be integrated?
Have you looked into a 1993 PC? A mess of cables from all the parts and port headers. A minimum of 4 expansion cards (NIC, sound, video, lpt/serial), and a cost more than any integrated board.
USB is great. Firewire is great. Everything should be hotpluggable on a PC, like it is on a mainframe. It's easier to manage, and easier to fix. Open, large cases with well laid out boards and no nest of wires everywhere. It's a joy to work on.
PS/2 ports just take up backplane space, ditto for the other legacy ports. Except for my main PC, I don't want to spend another 200$ to add sound when I can get a low-cost, general purpose, industry standard sound output from it with an onboard chip.
If the market for such boards wasn't great, I'm sure that they wouldn't be out.
Summary: "Drop-down menus are often more trouble than they are worth and can be confusing because Web designers use them for several different purposes. Also, scrolling menus reduce usability when they prevent users from seeing all their options in a single glance."
And I really agree with them. Don't use menus at all. Save your end users' valuable time (and time is money) by just hiring someone sane to develop a simple page. Like Google's page -- everyone can use it:)
"Today's KDE3 release candidate takes eight hours on an Athlon running at 1.2 gHz with 768 megs of RAM. And when it is compiled, it runs just about as quickly as KDE-1.x did on that P-133."
So if KDE 3 runs "just as quickly" as KDE 1 did on the same P133, where's the problem?
K5's HTML is slowly being grown towards XHTML 1 strict. This requires that there are stronger Scoop comment filters, as well as rewriting large portions of hard-coded style code. This is not easy to do.
rusty really likes his font tags, and was developing on NS4 BITD, but now he's using Galeon... so things should improve.
"Sony has announced their PS2 modem, complete with specs, price, games, and other non-vaporous things. It will be available in AUGUST"
3.5 years after Dreamcasts came standard with modems. Sony's had no reason not to release them earlier than now. Lots of great DC games had online features which made them so much more fun to play, but we won't see those same features (especially the number of games supporting it) on other consoles for another couple of years still.
" The reason they made it so slow in the beginning is back then most motherboards were using a 8250 UART, which was limited to 14.4 speeds."
Are you sure? My 1995 computer (Compaq Presario CDS 750) had 2 16550 UARTs on the serial ports. Anything more modern than 1993 and which wasn't totally cheap did.
Why did this -1 user go and bid hundreds more than it is worth? This person seems involved in a few Sega Dreamcast Broadband auctions. The device itself was ~59$ USD on sega.com when they sold them, now they usually sell for 100 - 130$ USD -- NOT 405$ USD!
See also: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ewItem& item=1273489939
A few months back, I was watching auctions for Dreamcast broadband adaptors. One auction caught my eye because the seller was in the same city as I was. I thought it was great, because I could potentially save shipping.
Then I watched the people who bid on it. Some guy bid the BBA up to 400$ USD. There are many actions where the BBA is 120$ or so... and the original winner who had it for 120$ dutifully followed that account in up-bidding it. The end result? A very suspicious transaction which I reported.
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Stephen Walderr (probably spelt that wrong :)) created a fork of IJB 2.whatever which used blank GIFs in place of the broken icon or IJB logo. Then his project grew and continued. Everyone reported ads to the communal blocklist, which could be easily synchronized with a cron job. It was the best ever.
:-(
Then his site seemed to stop updating, and many people wondered what had happened
But soon, the software was brought back by some great efforts by other people. It has many features I like. However, there are still bugs keeping it from 3.0:
* It stops responding after a few days unless you HUP it.
* It doesn't re-gzip data after it's been deziped and filtered.
* The re_filterfile code sometimes doesn't work (I use it to filter Google's link-wrapping, which I feel is a big of a cheater's way of looking at what I go to)
* Some minor HTTP 1.1 unhappyness.
All in all, a good piece of software -- just not complete (yet).
A reasonable amount of packages, all arranged by disk set so you can skip what you don't need (A, AP, N, X, GTK+ make you a Gnome workstation with all network tools, but no development, kernel, games, etc).
Plus it uses Matthew Dillon's cron, something which has never, ever had a vulnerability appear on Bugtraq in the years I've been reading it.
"Linux' inferior TCP/IP stack"
Zero copy networking not good enough for you? You want networking that somehow zips packets along without even touching them except by telepathy?
Back under your bridge, troll.
"Basically this makes one time pad encryption a whole lot more secure"
No, it doesn't. The OTPs aren't anymore secure (how do you make unbreakable more secure? That's like saying more dead, or more off).
This is also vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Nothing stops people from re-transmitting whatever they want. If they know the message, the can always re-encrypt. You still need a secure back channel.
It sounds like you think that the BSD licence allows someone to "relicence" it under any licence. That's not true. The licence merely has no restrictions on code which may be linked to it.
By extension, the GPL doesn't "relicence" code it's linked to. It's merely illegal to link it (GPL, not LGPL) with code which is not under a licence where the source is available and distribute that binary.
So if MS has a licence which forbids the distribution of source with binaries, that is not compatible with the GPL clause that says you MUST provide source.
"Because google gets paid not by the number of people that see the ad but by the number of people that follow it, their concern is with getting people to click the ad."
:p).
Using click-throughs as a metric has been debunked over and over and over and over. It's not about having people click links, it's about getting a message across to your target audience. When I see a Pesi commercial on TV, I don't run out to buy more. But I might think, "yea -- Pepsi is good" (depending on the content -- I don't like Britney
Click throughs ignore people who see an ad and check into it later, people who feel better about consuming what the ad is promoting and will also consume more later, and much more.
Don't push clickthroughs as a metric. That dilutes your ad promotion power to first time and curious people. Those people aren't a solid return customer metric upon which to base any sort of business.
Eh?
Just because you don't like something, doesn't make it "wrong" for others to like it.
The new XP look is nicer than the old Windows look, just like I prefer the "metal2" icewm theme to "warp4." Does that make me a "most vomitous" person?
Never underestimate the superficiality of some people who think that just because someone's taste in what looks good is different, they're stupid.
What's a motherboard to you? A RAM bank, CPU slot, anda PS/2 port so you can enter the programs to be run?
You've just ranted about how you love 1993 motherboards. So, here's a tip: enjoy your 486. Nowadays, people can integrate extra functionality into a motherboard easily because the manufacturing process is so great. Granted, this has some bad effects (active cooling on the northbridge, usually by way of a cheap fan which fails after a couple months of serwice), but it's better overall for everyone.
Business and most home users don't have to buy expensive cards with features they'll never use to get audio beyond the stupid PC speaker (do you not like how the PC speaker is on every system as well?). USB is a standard, and it's a well implemented standard which lets me easily swap devices around while going between my main work computer and whatever other computer's on the bench without an expensive KVM. Do that with PS/2 without frying some ports. Oops, PS/2's not hotplugable by design! Hov about firewire? Do you have having high speed tranfers? Do you prefer the slow and limited lpt ports instead? Or are those too "damned useless" and shouldn't also be integrated?
Have you looked into a 1993 PC? A mess of cables from all the parts and port headers. A minimum of 4 expansion cards (NIC, sound, video, lpt/serial), and a cost more than any integrated board.
USB is great. Firewire is great. Everything should be hotpluggable on a PC, like it is on a mainframe. It's easier to manage, and easier to fix. Open, large cases with well laid out boards and no nest of wires everywhere. It's a joy to work on.
PS/2 ports just take up backplane space, ditto for the other legacy ports. Except for my main PC, I don't want to spend another 200$ to add sound when I can get a low-cost, general purpose, industry standard sound output from it with an onboard chip.
If the market for such boards wasn't great, I'm sure that they wouldn't be out.
"I think that having XF4.1.x in a stable series is a pretty sweet effort"
Slackware's had it in 8.0 since 8.0 was release, way back on the 20th of June, 2001.
Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly
:)
Summary:
"Drop-down menus are often more trouble than they are worth and can be confusing because Web designers use them for several different purposes. Also, scrolling menus reduce usability when they prevent users from seeing all their options in a single glance."
And I really agree with them. Don't use menus at all. Save your end users' valuable time (and time is money) by just hiring someone sane to develop a simple page. Like Google's page -- everyone can use it
Mail over NFS?
Don't do that.
Then I saw someone spell "decision" with a T.
This reminds me of one episode of Red Dwarf where Kryten reminds Lister that, "only you spell Thursday with an F, sir."
"Today's KDE3 release candidate takes eight hours on an Athlon running at 1.2 gHz with 768 megs of RAM. And when it is compiled, it runs just about as quickly as KDE-1.x did on that P-133."
So if KDE 3 runs "just as quickly" as KDE 1 did on the same P133, where's the problem?
Sheesh.
wasn't Mortal Kombat a good movie? I enjoyed it, something I can't say for the other ones you mention..
Maybe you should read the summary...
" is turned on by default by some manufacturers." -- the OEMs are at fault here, not MS.
Do try and read the summary before you mash that reply button.
No remote server hits for mail/news.
That bug requires that someone learn where to hook in a security policy token which is set based un a UI pref.
K5's HTML is slowly being grown towards XHTML 1 strict. This requires that there are stronger Scoop comment filters, as well as rewriting large portions of hard-coded style code. This is not easy to do.
... so things should improve.
rusty really likes his font tags, and was developing on NS4 BITD, but now he's using Galeon
"Sony has announced their PS2 modem, complete with specs, price, games, and other non-vaporous things. It will be available in AUGUST"
3.5 years after Dreamcasts came standard with modems. Sony's had no reason not to release them earlier than now. Lots of great DC games had online features which made them so much more fun to play, but we won't see those same features (especially the number of games supporting it) on other consoles for another couple of years still.
Thanks a lot, Sony.
When was the Itanium released? Where is Windows for the Itanium?
" The reason they made it so slow in the beginning is back then most motherboards were using a 8250 UART, which was limited to 14.4 speeds."
Are you sure? My 1995 computer (Compaq Presario CDS 750) had 2 16550 UARTs on the serial ports. Anything more modern than 1993 and which wasn't totally cheap did.
From the 14th of Sept, 2001:V iewBids &item=1272000907
i ewItem& item=1273489939
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
xxzman11xx (1) $405.01 Sep-12-01 07:04:12 PDT
roxythewolf (-1) $400.01 Sep-13-01 21:35:36 PDT
roxythewolf (-1) $350.04 Sep-13-01 21:34:49 PDT
roxythewolf (-1) $300.01 Sep-13-01 21:34:12 PDT
roxythewolf (-1) $250.02 Sep-13-01 21:33:38 PDT
roxythewolf (-1) $229.01 Sep-13-01 21:32:56 PDT
roxythewolf (-1) $175.01 Sep-13-01 21:32:13 PDT
roxythewolf (-1) $155.01 Sep-13-01 21:31:38 PDT
bergmueller (49) [star] $130.00 Sep-11-01 11:55:58 PDT
Why did this -1 user go and bid hundreds more than it is worth? This person
seems involved in a few Sega Dreamcast Broadband auctions. The device
itself was ~59$ USD on sega.com when they sold them, now they usually sell
for 100 - 130$ USD -- NOT 405$ USD!
See also:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?V
A few months back, I was watching auctions for Dreamcast broadband adaptors. One auction caught my eye because the seller was in the same city as I was. I thought it was great, because I could potentially save shipping.
Then I watched the people who bid on it. Some guy bid the BBA up to 400$ USD. There are many actions where the BBA is 120$ or so... and the original winner who had it for 120$ dutifully followed that account in up-bidding it. The end result? A very suspicious transaction which I reported.
eBay downplayed it.
By one of my favourite authors, Peter F. Hamilton. If you like Star Wars, you'll like this one (much more detail, much more hard-sf).
:)
If I could get a bitek bond with my cats, or a nice set of neural-nanonics, I'd do it
This was the best reply I got :)
Would you like to see a list of homonyms so you don't make an idiot of yourself in public?