Now that I'm browsing at +2, I do avoid a lot of junk, but I sorta miss seeing my own posts
Actually, your own posts are always visible, no matter what your threshold is set to. (Provided that you're logged in while reading. But then, you probably wouldn't be using thresholds, since you'd have to re-set them every time.)
Well, just about any product competing with Microsoft gets a bad review on BetaNews. It's sort of like Slashdot, only the other way around. One of the reasons I stopped visiting.
I think meat contains some chemicals which support one's sense of humor, because you certainly have lost some of yours... Unless you've never actually had it.:)
Is this the same person who owns Lynda.com? Has anyone visited the site? Allow me to summarize it for you:
The layout is resolution-dependent, and the sizes are hard-coded. It will not reflow to adjust to higher resolutions.
The colors really hurt my eyes.
Images are used instead of text, without ALT attributes. The same goes for images that link to stuff.
The page looks like crap in anything besides the two major browsers. Just try it in Netscape 3.x or Opera.
Isn't this exactly what most web design guides advise against? Granted, the other pages look different, but the main page still breaks every design rule I can think of.
And does the logo remind anyone else of an SUV-driving earth-loving vegetarian snob?:)
Only if Cisco will release the new Cisco Router 2000 that will only route packets to and from other Cisco Routers, and will require new cables to work.
It has been said that any argument can be ruined with the introduction of facts. Allow me to introduce some.
The students were allowed to carry their computers downstairs and to connect them to the network with 20ft cables. Instead, they chose to leave their computers upstairs, and connect them to the network with 300ft cables. To the same exact hubs. They were charged with theft.
If you live in the PA/NJ/DE area, you've probably been to a Wawa store. Since one of them is right across the street from where I work, I go there quite often. Recently, I noticed that they installed a new cash register system. Guess what it runs? Linux? Nope. Windows!
Their previous system seemed to be pretty good. It had barcode scanning, and all the other stuff. I see nothing useful in the new system that the old one didn't provide. However, the new system uses a touchscreen for input, and provides feedback with the standard Windows sounds (ding.wav, etc.)
The touchscreen is extremely inconvenient for input, as I was told by a girl who works there. And the sounds... well, I'm sure that you can imagine how it feels to hear that "ding" sound a few thousand times every day.
Anyone know what's going on?
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Yep. For example, Jeff Bezos' father gave little Jeffy $30,000 to "play around with". Does anyone really think that a large company can be started with a $10/mo hosting account and a dedicated person or two?
What I've seen (under Windows, at least) is that the built-in mouse is auto-dropped when an external mouse is plugged in. However, I'm pretty sure that this is handled on the OS level, not on the hardware level. If Windows doesn't recognize the hub as a mouse, then the built-in mouse probably won't be shut off. I don't know about Linux.
But I've got a better idea... why not just build a hub with a built-in mouse? Or vice versa... <g>
I've been using the Altern.org service for quite a while (probably since 1997). Until 1999, all that was required was a login and a pass. Then, a French model sued the Altern.org admin for one of its users posting drawn nude pictures of herself on the Altern.org server.
The French judge ruled that the ISP was responsible for the content its users posted just like a newspaper is responsible for the content it prints. I don't think I even need to comment on the absurdity of that statement. The Altern.org admin was forced to pay a few hundred thousand Francs. Slashdot covered the story.
Altern.org was down for a while. The admin set up a petition webpage. Thanks to Slashdot and the concerned Altern.org users, the site was later put back up, and accepting logins. But now, a name and an email address was required. Later on, this was changed to a verified email address (the usual send-the-unlock-key-in-an-email mechanism.) I'm not sure whether or not Valentin (that's the Altern.org admin) had to pay the money to the model.
Since the service is no longer really anonymous, I don't see what the problem is. When the site went back up, all previous Altern.org users were required to provide an email before their account was reopened.
For some reason, Altern.org is the prime target of all the French anti-freedom legislators. I've yet to hear a story about the other ISP's like Chez or CiteWeb.
Opera 4.0 for Win32 has such features already. You can reject all cookies, ask it to prompt you, or reject all. You can also set it to reject all cookies from a specified server. Not only that, but you can set it to reject all "foreign" cookies - ones that are included with things other than the page, such as images.
It also notifies you of invalid cookies being set and why they're invalid. I tried using Hotmail and Opera reported 4 or 5 invalid cookies.
And if that's not enough, you can always turn to the Internet Junkbuster for the ultimate filtering solution.
Yep. That's the option I used. With Windos, it will boot to DOS with nothing else. With NT5 (Win2k), it will boot to a GUI with the command prompt running on top of the GUI in full-screen mode.
Also included is a boot console interface (for major emergencies).
Try botting to the so-called command-line mode and pressing Alt+Enter. A-ha! So this is how the command-line mode works. They first load the GUI, and then run the command interpreter on top of the GUI!
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Actually, your own posts are always visible, no matter what your threshold is set to. (Provided that you're logged in while reading. But then, you probably wouldn't be using thresholds, since you'd have to re-set them every time.)
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I would say about 99%... (the percentage is rounded off)
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I think meat contains some chemicals which support one's sense of humor, because you certainly have lost some of yours... Unless you've never actually had it. :)
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- The layout is resolution-dependent, and the sizes are hard-coded. It will not reflow to adjust to higher resolutions.
- The colors really hurt my eyes.
- Images are used instead of text, without ALT attributes. The same goes for images that link to stuff.
- The page looks like crap in anything besides the two major browsers. Just try it in Netscape 3.x or Opera.
Isn't this exactly what most web design guides advise against? Granted, the other pages look different, but the main page still breaks every design rule I can think of.And does the logo remind anyone else of an SUV-driving earth-loving vegetarian snob? :)
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BTW, hey Homer. :)
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The students were allowed to carry their computers downstairs and to connect them to the network with 20ft cables. Instead, they chose to leave their computers upstairs, and connect them to the network with 300ft cables. To the same exact hubs. They were charged with theft.
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Their previous system seemed to be pretty good. It had barcode scanning, and all the other stuff. I see nothing useful in the new system that the old one didn't provide. However, the new system uses a touchscreen for input, and provides feedback with the standard Windows sounds (ding.wav, etc.)
The touchscreen is extremely inconvenient for input, as I was told by a girl who works there. And the sounds... well, I'm sure that you can imagine how it feels to hear that "ding" sound a few thousand times every day.
Anyone know what's going on?
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But I've got a better idea... why not just build a hub with a built-in mouse? Or vice versa... <g>
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<nick value="hemos"/>
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<url value="http://slashdot.org/"/>
<title value="slashdot"/>
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The French judge ruled that the ISP was responsible for the content its users posted just like a newspaper is responsible for the content it prints. I don't think I even need to comment on the absurdity of that statement. The Altern.org admin was forced to pay a few hundred thousand Francs. Slashdot covered the story.
Altern.org was down for a while. The admin set up a petition webpage. Thanks to Slashdot and the concerned Altern.org users, the site was later put back up, and accepting logins. But now, a name and an email address was required. Later on, this was changed to a verified email address (the usual send-the-unlock-key-in-an-email mechanism.) I'm not sure whether or not Valentin (that's the Altern.org admin) had to pay the money to the model.
Since the service is no longer really anonymous, I don't see what the problem is. When the site went back up, all previous Altern.org users were required to provide an email before their account was reopened.
For some reason, Altern.org is the prime target of all the French anti-freedom legislators. I've yet to hear a story about the other ISP's like Chez or CiteWeb.
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It also notifies you of invalid cookies being set and why they're invalid. I tried using Hotmail and Opera reported 4 or 5 invalid cookies.
And if that's not enough, you can always turn to the Internet Junkbuster for the ultimate filtering solution.
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Try botting to the so-called command-line mode and pressing Alt+Enter. A-ha! So this is how the command-line mode works. They first load the GUI, and then run the command interpreter on top of the GUI!
No kidding!
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