What I don't understand is why one has to pay $200 for every hard drive they use to store MP3s. I don't know about Canada, but in the U.S., is there not a law that allows you to make backup copies of copyrighted materials (that you have legally acquired, of course)?
If the DJs have already purchased the CDs, and therefore have paid the companies (and, supposedly, the artists) why should they have to pay additional fees just to convert the music into a different format?
Maybe they're only doing this because of the competition? Something makes me think that they wouldn't open the source unless people stopped writing Glide-only games...
(This is only a thought, and it may or may not reflect the truth. I do not claim that it does, it is just a thought.)
I've always wondered what the letters PHP stand for, and I haven't been able to find the answer on the site. Maybe someone here knows the answer... if they stand for anything at all.
I have noticed that most server-side HTTP discussions leave out all mention of Java. I'm not in the position to make informative comments on the topic, but I'm sure that some Slashdot readers are.
These are the little bits I know:
Built-in session management.
Customizeable session swapping (session info is swapped to the hard drive if session is inactive for a specified time period.
Modular.
Cross-platform.
Compiled.
All the features of Java, such as inheritance.
Did I miss anything? Are there any huge drawbacks? The Java Web Server (JWS) home page is here (http://www.sun.com/980310/javawebserver/ - if I used the URL as the link's text, Slashdot filtered out the </a> for some reason).
Most anti-Microsoft people (or at least those that can see through the PR) have been singing and rejoicing due to the FoF decision. However, this is just a milestone, and the final decision has yet to come.
Now, the question: Which do you think is more likely, Microsoft settling or appealing?
Personally, I think that this is great... let's hope iD is keeping up and giving us RealGuts(tm) in Quake 4.
Remember how the cheapo motherboards used to be able to allocate some of the system RAM for video RAM? It would be pretty funny if these cards could do the opposite.
Isn't WordPerfect Office a pretty bad choice for a name? Why not just call it Corel Office? Last time I checked, the word office wasn't trademarked, and many different companies were making products called Office.
The reason I'm asking this is that if I didn't know any better, I'd think that this is just WordPerfect and a few little addons, not an entire package (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, etc.).
I was going to reserve this for Ask Slashdot, but since the question is partially on-topic to this article, I'll post it here.
I am considering buying a palmtop computer, mostly for browsing the web, and maybe, if possible, email and instant messaging.
Anti-Microsoft ideals put aside, the WinCE machines look pretty attractive. I've read some info on the wince version of IE, and it seems like a pretty nice browser. Can anyone tell me how Palm compares to this?
I know that ICQ is available for Palm, is it available for wince? I know that AOL just released a beta of AIM for wince. What about Palm?
What about wireless modems? How do they work with Palm? Wince? (are they even supported?) How much can I expect to pay for wireless net access for these machines?
The one featured in this story runs Linux, but I have seen comments that say it doesn't run X, which means I can't use it for web browsing (unless I use Lynx, which I'm not ready to do). Also, I have seen nothing about wireless modems...
Is there anything else I should know that I haven't mentioned here?
The rumor kitchen reports that the geheimnisumwobene processor prozessorschmiede Transmeta on the first Comdex day, to which 15 November -- as announced by Transmeta coworker Linus Torvalds already - admits now finally the date for the conception of their long expected processor to give wants. But already beforehand the message penetrated for c't editorship that was to be introduced the processor circulating under the name " Crusoe " on 19 January 2000 (by the way one Wednesday, no " Friday "). Crusoe is to direct owing to its very low current consumption primarily at the Notebook market. (as/ c't)
Officially (at least last time I checked) Hotmail charges for these services. I have tried them a few times, with months in between, and found them very unreliable and slow. If you want a free POP3/SMTP account, try HotPop, which even gives you a choice of a few different domains.
It's apparent that you don't get 10 or more spam messages per day, and that you haven't looked at the headers of the spam mails.
Sorthing through the spam is a tedious and annoying process. Almost all of the spam I receive (so far, no exceptions in nearly a month, with 10 to 20 mails a day) does not have my email address in the "To" header. Maybe some Sendmail hackers can explain this to you, as I don't know it well enough to be sure that my ideas are true.
As for accidental deletions, I think I covered that in #2. Usually, if not always, the mailing lists will either come from the same email address, contain a certain string in the "Subject" header, or both.
Again, in the little-more-than-a-month of the filters being in effect, I have had no accidental deletions whatsoever. And I do get a lot of email, including some from mailing lists.
There is one sure-fire way to control spam - the same mechanism that controls paper junk mail. Charge by volume for internet access.
There are a number of reasons this won't work:
Spammers usually use freemail accounts, open gateways, or cracked/stolen ISP accounts.
Charging a few cents for each email will make me pay a few bucks a month, which I wouldn't like. Charging a very small amount per email will not produce effects, as it will only give the spammer a bill of a few hundred dollars (provided that the correct person is billed at all - see #1). Considering the amount of money spam brings in (yes, sadly, this is still true), a few hundred dollars is nothing compared to the profits.
If this was cross-mail-reader than, yeah, it would *not* be another email virus.
Actually, I believe that OE isn't the only email client out there that uses IE for viewing HTML. I can't name any off the top of my head, but given Microsoft's allowing any program to use IE (a very good idea, IMHO - they even give you access to the DHTML object tree) it is very likely that someone has used this.
In fact, I can clearly remember installing such an email client and trying it, but removing it because it was crap. Of course, this isn't evidence of any sort, as I remember a lot of things, and they aren't necessarily true. Can anyone confirm this?
If the web server is older than the browser you are using, those new tags may not be recognised by the web site as valid HTML... and therefore not filtered.
As long as any text is enclosed in '<' and '>', and it isn't one of the tags listed as being allowed, it will be filtered out. Also, I believe that Slashdot filters out any parameters it doesn't know about (like anything besides the href parameter in an anchor tag.)
Spam filtering is easy! Heck... even Outlook can do it!
Create a rule to move all mail that doesn't contain your email address in the "To" header.
Create another rule (with a higher priority than the one above) to skip certain messages that you do need (mailing lists, etc.)
Voila! Enjoy a spam-free life!
If you're afraid that some important email may be accidentally deleted, make the messages go to a temporary "Spam" folder, and check it once in a while.
Actually, my Hotmail accounts are the only ones I didn't do this with, as Hotmail doesn't allow filtering by the "To" header.
If you ever read an emulation group on Usenet, you'll know about this site. It has brought an unending flow of spam to the groups. Just today, I read their spam, disguised as a check-this-out-I-just-found-a-great-site post, in alt.binaries.emulators.gameboy...
I guess this should explain why RealPlayer attempts (and usually, suceeds) with binding itself to every file extension the programmers could remember, even the ones it can't handle.
That's why I removed all traces of it from my machine a long time ago. I guess I was right to do it.:) However, I also removed QuickTime for the same reasons. Why it would bind itself with files it can't handle is beyond me.
The judge in the historic antitrust trial of Microsoft Corp. ruled Friday that the software giant wields monopoly power in personal computer operating systems and used that power to squash potential threats from competitors. [Emphasis is mine.]
Umm... are the Slashdot readers the only ones that realize that this is not a ruling?
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If the DJs have already purchased the CDs, and therefore have paid the companies (and, supposedly, the artists) why should they have to pay additional fees just to convert the music into a different format?
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(This is only a thought, and it may or may not reflect the truth. I do not claim that it does, it is just a thought.)
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These are the little bits I know:
- Built-in session management.
- Customizeable session swapping (session info is swapped to the hard drive if session is inactive for a specified time period.
- Modular.
- Cross-platform.
- Compiled.
- All the features of Java, such as inheritance.
Did I miss anything? Are there any huge drawbacks? The Java Web Server (JWS) home page is here (http://www.sun.com/980310/javawebserver/ - if I used the URL as the link's text, Slashdot filtered out the </a> for some reason).--
Now, the question: Which do you think is more likely, Microsoft settling or appealing?
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- Linux support?
- This is just another trick by Microsoft
- Wow, I'd like to see a Beowulf cluster of these..
Personally, I think that this is great... let's hope iD is keeping up and giving us RealGuts(tm) in Quake 4.Remember how the cheapo motherboards used to be able to allocate some of the system RAM for video RAM? It would be pretty funny if these cards could do the opposite.
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The reason I'm asking this is that if I didn't know any better, I'd think that this is just WordPerfect and a few little addons, not an entire package (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, etc.).
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I am considering buying a palmtop computer, mostly for browsing the web, and maybe, if possible, email and instant messaging.
Anti-Microsoft ideals put aside, the WinCE machines look pretty attractive. I've read some info on the wince version of IE, and it seems like a pretty nice browser. Can anyone tell me how Palm compares to this?
I know that ICQ is available for Palm, is it available for wince? I know that AOL just released a beta of AIM for wince. What about Palm?
What about wireless modems? How do they work with Palm? Wince? (are they even supported?) How much can I expect to pay for wireless net access for these machines?
The one featured in this story runs Linux, but I have seen comments that say it doesn't run X, which means I can't use it for web browsing (unless I use Lynx, which I'm not ready to do). Also, I have seen nothing about wireless modems...
Is there anything else I should know that I haven't mentioned here?
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The rumor kitchen reports that the geheimnisumwobene processor prozessorschmiede Transmeta on the first Comdex day, to which 15 November -- as announced by Transmeta coworker Linus Torvalds already - admits now finally the date for the conception of their long expected processor to give wants. But already beforehand the message penetrated for c't editorship that was to be introduced the processor circulating under the name " Crusoe " on 19 January 2000 (by the way one Wednesday, no " Friday "). Crusoe is to direct owing to its very low current consumption primarily at the Notebook market. (as/ c't)
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Sorthing through the spam is a tedious and annoying process. Almost all of the spam I receive (so far, no exceptions in nearly a month, with 10 to 20 mails a day) does not have my email address in the "To" header. Maybe some Sendmail hackers can explain this to you, as I don't know it well enough to be sure that my ideas are true.
As for accidental deletions, I think I covered that in #2. Usually, if not always, the mailing lists will either come from the same email address, contain a certain string in the "Subject" header, or both.
Again, in the little-more-than-a-month of the filters being in effect, I have had no accidental deletions whatsoever. And I do get a lot of email, including some from mailing lists.
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In fact, I can clearly remember installing such an email client and trying it, but removing it because it was crap. Of course, this isn't evidence of any sort, as I remember a lot of things, and they aren't necessarily true. Can anyone confirm this?
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As long as any text is enclosed in '<' and '>', and it isn't one of the tags listed as being allowed, it will be filtered out. Also, I believe that Slashdot filters out any parameters it doesn't know about (like anything besides the href parameter in an anchor tag.)
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- Create a rule to move all mail that doesn't contain your email address in the "To" header.
- Create another rule (with a higher priority than the one above) to skip certain messages that you do need (mailing lists, etc.)
- Voila! Enjoy a spam-free life!
If you're afraid that some important email may be accidentally deleted, make the messages go to a temporary "Spam" folder, and check it once in a while.Actually, my Hotmail accounts are the only ones I didn't do this with, as Hotmail doesn't allow filtering by the "To" header.
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If you ever read an emulation group on Usenet, you'll know about this site. It has brought an unending flow of spam to the groups. Just today, I read their spam, disguised as a check-this-out-I-just-found-a-great-site post, in alt.binaries.emulators.gameboy...
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That's why I removed all traces of it from my machine a long time ago. I guess I was right to do it. :) However, I also removed QuickTime for the same reasons. Why it would bind itself with files it can't handle is beyond me.
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Umm... are the Slashdot readers the only ones that realize that this is not a ruling?
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