...in something that's been known about and documented over the last 20 odd years.
Not really. The widespread diagnosis of RSI is a fairly recent phenomenon, and then it applies, outside of industrial or factory environments, mostly to office workers using keyboards, and not to those who pounded their days away on Underwoods or, if they were lucky, IBM Selectrics.
Enbroidery requires you to be very accurate, and you re-learn the use of the individual nerves.
Sounds interesting, but I'd wager that learning to type does the same. By that I mean learning correct posture and arm and wrist position/angle, etc. before you start the process of learning to hit keys.
Alternatively, I suppose, one could use a "natural" keyboard, in the same way one can learn to slouch in a comfy chair and watch TV "comfortably". Or make up for one's lousy posture and bad habits by getting an occasional massage or visiting a chiropracter, despite the fact that both are the blowjob equivalents of pain relief and do little to make up for what's causing problems in the first place.
Me, I took typing in high school (to meet girls) and walked away from the experience knowing how to type properly. Embroidery might just do the same, but either way, there's no way anyone can spend spend their days at a keyboard effectively without learning how to do it properly.
That's a roundabout way of underscoring what we both agree on, and that is that there's nothing "natural" about typing, just like there's nothing natural about playing a piano, guitar or anything else that requires dexterity and movement. The only thing that's a natural is that doing it wrong causes you problems that are fixed by going back to square one and unlearning everything you think you know.
Most of what you're describing has more to do with Microsoft's attempts to maintain backward compatability over 25 years than anything else.
Well, that's a fair assumption, and indeed that's what the marketing brochures tell us. The problem is that assertion bumps up against the much-touted "New and Improved" or "Completely Redesigned" we've heard since time immemorial, which culminated into a "We mean it this time." when 2000 was released, shouted with a vengeance with 2003, but evolving again into a "No, we REALLY we mean it this time!" with Vista, and a sheepish "Sorry, we lied about Windows ME." thrown into the mix.
The truth of the matter is probably somewhere in between. Regardless, the trivial examples I pointed out (there's lots more, of course) indicates that a company that distinguishes itself by reinventing itself and its products every few years does have tons of old code as part of the mix, code that's used daily on very modern hardware in very modern environments, and both advertised and sold to people who have no need for backwards anything.
You can argue whether the above is laziness, deliberate, the result of unfortunate realities, or a similarly unfortunate mindset, but the fact remains it still smells like DOS. In fact, given the continuing reliance on Ghost, etc., I'd suggest that DOS is alive and well and very much part of the "Windows experience". You don't really think that DOS file attributes (archive, system, readonly) on NTFS file systems are there just for backwards compatibility, do you? Or that.INI files are a thing of the past? Hell, we're still stuck with writing crappy.BAT files!
Now the above may meet the definition of "ironic", but the smell of DOS (something that was fun for a while, but should have been put out of its misery and buried years ago) renders it somewhere between laughable and embarassing.
Technically true, but it doesn't take a genius to see the similarities that both 2000 and XP/2003 have with all the DOS-based versions that preceeded them. Put another way, it still smells like DOS.
If the continuing abundance of 16bit icons on XP didn't raise any eyebrows, the 8.3 all-uppercase style names on the installation CD (and just about everywhere else) should, or knowing that your NTFS file system generates and stores (by default) 8.3 version names in addition to the typically pathologically Windows-style names that we've come to use and love. I suppose anything different would conflict with that certain je ne sais quoi of NETBIOS naming standards.
For fun, open a cmd.exe window and type help. Given the output, it's unsurprising it's still referred to as a "DOS prompt". Same old same old, but new and improved, right?
Seems to me it would be easier and cheaper to find test software that did not require IE.
My guess is that, while an obvious choice, runs into hurdles that arise within the context of school administration (i.e., all software requires committee approval, public meetings, budget approval, etc.).
If there's an upside to this sad state of affairs, it's that we have a new Slashdot meme:
Thing is, the most eco friendly option is not always what people would guess... sometimes it's quite counter intuitive.
Perhaps, but I think the core of your argument mostly relates on energy usage in the context of manufacturing.
Plastic cups, hell, plastic anything is nasty, all the way from getting the oil out of the ground to the disposed of product living out its days in our environment. There's next to nothing you can do to change any of that, save for what are, at best, superficial feel-good mitigation schemes (use less, recycle to the limited extent it can be recycled, mix with other less nasty materials, try to keep it out storm drains to avoid danger to wildlife, etc.).
By contrast, the issues associated with a ceramic cup (from birth to death), can be mitigated, or eliminated altogether in some cases. The fact that you can bury the thing in your garden and have life go on just fine shouldn't go unnoticed, or that the regular use of a ceramic cup encourages the exact opposite of everything a disposable culture encourages, awareness, re-usability and thrift, among them.
Personally, I think we should all refrain from offering any arguments in favor of plastic. That may sound absurd, but the effect of all the "plastic cups don't require soap and water" type of arguments is that people invariably take them as license to stop feeling guilty and continue doing what they were already doing. Which is what got us into the mess where we are now.
Nine times out of ten, it's faster than using my mouse.
Assuming those nine programs are in your path, which typically they're not.
What I do is create a directory that I add to my path that's populated with nothing but symlinks (I use Cygwin, but ordinary Windows shortcuts should do) to every program,.cpl or.msc file I could possibly want to run. Renaming and lower-casing everything also goes a long way to a saner environment, and helps with the typing as well.
I can't help but comment on how much of a frigging nice change it is to actually read an article that doesn't consist of a 5-sentence blog, or something on a shovel-ware tech site (Information Week, Computerword, CNET, etc) that offers over-filled, over-designed, and over-sized pages, but similarly little content.
This is, I believe, is the first Slashdot article from AP. Dunno if Google's deal with AP is making either of them money, but I do know I'm not alone when saying that Google's clean and minimalist approach to things is both welcome and appreciated.
"Who's the bigger fool? The Fool or the fool that follows the fool.
Reading that I can't decide whether I feel better about having abandoned word processors when Word killed WordPerfect years ago, or smug that I've been happily using LaTeX ever since.
I'd settle for smug, but then I'd be the fool if I didn't recognise that it's what happens in the corporate world (at least in the area of office software) that sets the rules and standards the rest of us are obliged to follow.
In this context (legal action against a website which has a multinational presence), it is becoming more and more apparent that governments don't care where the website comes from.
While that may be the real issue here, and worthy of prolonged discussion, Lou Dobbs jokes are infinitely easier.;-)
Strange that, I do think the tendency for westerners to tell people how to live is a far more virulent disease.
If by "westerners" you're referring to the marketing and distribution juggernauts of the food industry, then yes, I agree.
When it comes to food, there's only one rule to follow, and that's to eat and drink according to what you desire. Ask any dog (or, for that matter, any animal) and you'll hear the same answer.
If you can't tell that peaches are yummiest when it's blazing hot outside and they're ready to be picked, or that when there's snow on the ground, stews and root vegetables are preferrable to peaches, I can't help you. The same goes if all you know is bananas and more bananas, or that your taste buds are so jaded that everything has to taste a certain way or have that certain je ne sais quoi of corn syrup to be edible.
Or does it take a medical school degree to see the relationship between seasonal tastes and desires to seasonal nutritional needs?
Then again, maybe the ideas of fresh-picked, or supporting your local farmer, are too quaint a notion in a world where agribusiness and one-stop shopping is the norm. If it is, then why the hell am I forced to support the billion dollar California avocado industry that drains water from the Colorado river, instead of just buying them from Mexico, where they've been growing them longer than anyone remembers?
Be sure to email Lou Dobbs in case he didn't get the memo.
While you're at it, be sure to mention that you've found the solution to end all wars, territorial disputes, and cure the rising tide of nationalism in Russia, China, Kossovo and... well, just about everywhere, and that fans attending football matches the world over can now settle down and share a quiet cup of tea.
And most of them would taste a lot better than the crap that's so widely available elsewhere!
I've done the same and I'll wholeheartedly agree. The only saving grace, at least for me, is that one can typically find plantain available in most supermarkets. Let them ripen (until black) in a paper bag, fry them, and add to a plate of black beans and rice with some Cuban-style coffee on the side, and Bob's (or maybe Fidel) yer uncle.
As a side note, I do think the tendency for westerners to buy bananas out of habit is a disease. People have written essays and even books on why fruits and vetegables should be bought local, and then, only when in season. The idea of eating summer fruits when there's snow on the ground might be novel, but hardly appropriate, or interesting. Conversely, seeing a California supermarket in the middle of summer selling bananas (and their customers lining up to buy them) when just about every type of fruit is ripe for the picking is, well, no less than absurd.
Me, I typically shop at farmer's markets, but that doesn't preclude me from noticing that the increasing reliance by the general public on cheap third-world produce (Walmart for the dinner table!) can and does have unfortunate side effects.
Gosh, is there anyone who can't be bothered to run XP in a virtual machine?
Sure. Me. The vitualisation options for BSD users are limited, but that limitation is offset with the nifty implementation of jails and the ability to run Linux software if needed. Apples and oranges, perhaps. That said, how does running a VMWare instance of XP on Ubuntu, for example, help in the context of video?
I don't know much about video in general, but my guess would be that video playback on a virtualised OS would be pretty awful. A workaround might be to stream from the XP box, but if you're going to be streaming video, why would you be using XP to do it?
Reattributing something you conquer or inherit as your own creation has been a quite common tool in ancient times for kings to justify their claim of the throne. Ramses II was notorious for it.
A tool for kings? Perhaps, but my dog does the same with every tree he passes. Lacks the requisite pomp, of course, but no less effective.
...one might expect, given the ubiquity of computers, that everyone (not just science majors) have some basic understanding of programming, even if it's just -- err --- BASIC.
One might, but they'd be wrong. And if from what I typically read on Slashdot is any indication, people like it that way.
I think the questioner's statement that "Excel can do many things at the cartoon level we care about scientifically. But I'm not interested in giving students toys rather than tools." accurately (and depressingly) sums up that part of my professional career administering Windows systems -- a cartoon playing with toys in a cartoon world.
I'll go even further and suggest that this isn't appropriate for college, but would fit nicely into 6th and 7th grade algebra.
I fully agree. But given that's about the same level where basic literacy is taught, why is it then that so many colleges and universities are faced with the prospect of offering remedial classes for their new students? Or are math and science the easy subjects?
I'd agree, but to be fair, the FCC is required to mandate "decency" standards on the public airwaves, so extending that mandate/philosophy to a proposed public wireless system sounds like a reasonable argument.
The difficulty is that the internet, at least for the forseeable future, isn't at all similar to broadcast television or radio.
I'll check them for you, free of charge... what did you say their IPs were?:)
My guess is that most of his servers are in the 10/8 or 192.168/16 ranges. Run an nmap scan on those netblocks and I'll bet you'll find something. While you're at it, be sure to check out 127.0.0.1 for any "hidden" servers.
The numeric keyboard is a life-saver (somehow it's just not possible to touch-type the numbers above the keyboard)...
Admittedly, learning to type is hard, and few today seem to think it's of any value, but typing numbers is no more difficult than typing anything else. Even the F keys in the top row are easy to type (as evidenced by the years of WP popularity and dominance).
On the other hand, if you are doing nothing but typing numbers for hours at end (data entry and accounting people traditionally do this), then, yes, the numeric side of the keyboard can be faster and more efficient. The requirements for speed and accuracy are the mostly the same, however: that you've learned to touch-type, and learned to touch-type using one hand in the same manner as you would do on a calculator.
The most useful class I ever took in 5 years of high school was typing. Seriously. The odd thing, though, when I see how poorly people type today (the over-reliance on spell-checkers to correct poor typing accuracy, the widespread complaints of RSI, the slow speeds, uncessary tension and stress, complaints about number keys, etc.) suggests to me that either no one learns to type, or that learning to type on a manual typewriter, despite being obsoleted, remains ideal.
Which brings us back to why so many prefer old-fashioned IBM keyboards.;-)
yet another light-weight desktop. fluxbox, xfce, ratpoison, etc etc. why so many? herewith my theory of the cycle of lightweight software.
A better theory may be that people are simply looking for different feature sets. This ain't Windows, so you can do things any which way you please.
To use your example of fluxbox, xfce and ratpoison, I doubt you'd find anyone who would say any of them is even remotely similar to the other, other than to characterise all of them as "lightweight", and that's only in the context of Gnome and KDE. Similarly, I doubt you'd find anyone using ratpoison, for example, who would even consider xfce.
Me, I use fluxbox. It looks and behaves exactly like I want. That's not to say I wouldn't drop it in a heartbeat if someone wrote Yet Another Lightweight Window Manager that was similar to fluxbox, but offered some trivial features that fluxbox lacks but are found elsewhere.
There's merit to the "cycle of lightweight software" argument, but I really don't see it being very meaningful or useful here.
When they used to say that the time it took a Windows computer to go from the first boot time to an infected state was about five minutes.
Coincidence?
The real coincidence was that it's same amount of time you have to wait for everything in the background to finish loading to get a fully functioning machine.
But a domain name was never meant to be private. Insisting upon privacy for what should be public information is a mis-use of the resource.
And I'm still moaning that email was never meant to be anything but text.;-)
The purpose of the legislation is to address the continuing increase in personal domain registrations. It's entirely conceivable that one day, everyone will be required or will otherwise want to register in some form. That leaves us in a difficult position where the traditional approach of making everything public must be balanced with the privacy needs of millions of new registrations by ordinary individuals.
Resolving that conflict by admitting no one anticipated this state of affairs, or saying this isn't how things are supposed to work, is hardly satisfactory. And when you mix in the changing interests or requirements of all the parties involved, ranging from the various internet authorities, to law enforcement, ISPs, network administrators, all the way down to Dick and Jane, I can't see how anyone could say let's just leave it alone.
Hell, it wasn't too long ago that ATT would routinely publish whois info for their fixed IP accounts. Makes perfect sense, until you realise it doesn't.
One approach, or workaround, would be to advise (require) everyone to hire a personal lawyer to handle everything; the registration info would be public, but the personal information would remain personal. Another would be what the Canadian government is doing. Personally, I expect all this will work itself out in time, but I worry that we'll find ourselves in a very different world than when we first started.
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...in something that's been known about and documented over the last 20 odd years.
Not really. The widespread diagnosis of RSI is a fairly recent phenomenon, and then it applies, outside of industrial or factory environments, mostly to office workers using keyboards, and not to those who pounded their days away on Underwoods or, if they were lucky, IBM Selectrics.
Enbroidery requires you to be very accurate, and you re-learn the use of the individual nerves.
Sounds interesting, but I'd wager that learning to type does the same. By that I mean learning correct posture and arm and wrist position/angle, etc. before you start the process of learning to hit keys.
Alternatively, I suppose, one could use a "natural" keyboard, in the same way one can learn to slouch in a comfy chair and watch TV "comfortably". Or make up for one's lousy posture and bad habits by getting an occasional massage or visiting a chiropracter, despite the fact that both are the blowjob equivalents of pain relief and do little to make up for what's causing problems in the first place.
Me, I took typing in high school (to meet girls) and walked away from the experience knowing how to type properly. Embroidery might just do the same, but either way, there's no way anyone can spend spend their days at a keyboard effectively without learning how to do it properly.
That's a roundabout way of underscoring what we both agree on, and that is that there's nothing "natural" about typing, just like there's nothing natural about playing a piano, guitar or anything else that requires dexterity and movement. The only thing that's a natural is that doing it wrong causes you problems that are fixed by going back to square one and unlearning everything you think you know.
Most of what you're describing has more to do with Microsoft's attempts to maintain backward compatability over 25 years than anything else.
.INI files are a thing of the past? Hell, we're still stuck with writing crappy .BAT files!
Well, that's a fair assumption, and indeed that's what the marketing brochures tell us. The problem is that assertion bumps up against the much-touted "New and Improved" or "Completely Redesigned" we've heard since time immemorial, which culminated into a "We mean it this time." when 2000 was released, shouted with a vengeance with 2003, but evolving again into a "No, we REALLY we mean it this time!" with Vista, and a sheepish "Sorry, we lied about Windows ME." thrown into the mix.
The truth of the matter is probably somewhere in between. Regardless, the trivial examples I pointed out (there's lots more, of course) indicates that a company that distinguishes itself by reinventing itself and its products every few years does have tons of old code as part of the mix, code that's used daily on very modern hardware in very modern environments, and both advertised and sold to people who have no need for backwards anything.
You can argue whether the above is laziness, deliberate, the result of unfortunate realities, or a similarly unfortunate mindset, but the fact remains it still smells like DOS. In fact, given the continuing reliance on Ghost, etc., I'd suggest that DOS is alive and well and very much part of the "Windows experience". You don't really think that DOS file attributes (archive, system, readonly) on NTFS file systems are there just for backwards compatibility, do you? Or that
Now the above may meet the definition of "ironic", but the smell of DOS (something that was fun for a while, but should have been put out of its misery and buried years ago) renders it somewhere between laughable and embarassing.
ME was the last DOS based OS
Technically true, but it doesn't take a genius to see the similarities that both 2000 and XP/2003 have with all the DOS-based versions that preceeded them. Put another way, it still smells like DOS.
If the continuing abundance of 16bit icons on XP didn't raise any eyebrows, the 8.3 all-uppercase style names on the installation CD (and just about everywhere else) should, or knowing that your NTFS file system generates and stores (by default) 8.3 version names in addition to the typically pathologically Windows-style names that we've come to use and love. I suppose anything different would conflict with that certain je ne sais quoi of NETBIOS naming standards.
For fun, open a cmd.exe window and type help. Given the output, it's unsurprising it's still referred to as a "DOS prompt". Same old same old, but new and improved, right?
Seems to me it would be easier and cheaper to find test software that did not require IE.
My guess is that, while an obvious choice, runs into hurdles that arise within the context of school administration (i.e., all software requires committee approval, public meetings, budget approval, etc.).
If there's an upside to this sad state of affairs, it's that we have a new Slashdot meme:
Vista -- please won't someone think of the kids?
Thing is, the most eco friendly option is not always what people would guess ... sometimes it's quite counter intuitive.
Perhaps, but I think the core of your argument mostly relates on energy usage in the context of manufacturing.
Plastic cups, hell, plastic anything is nasty, all the way from getting the oil out of the ground to the disposed of product living out its days in our environment. There's next to nothing you can do to change any of that, save for what are, at best, superficial feel-good mitigation schemes (use less, recycle to the limited extent it can be recycled, mix with other less nasty materials, try to keep it out storm drains to avoid danger to wildlife, etc.).
By contrast, the issues associated with a ceramic cup (from birth to death), can be mitigated, or eliminated altogether in some cases. The fact that you can bury the thing in your garden and have life go on just fine shouldn't go unnoticed, or that the regular use of a ceramic cup encourages the exact opposite of everything a disposable culture encourages, awareness, re-usability and thrift, among them.
Personally, I think we should all refrain from offering any arguments in favor of plastic. That may sound absurd, but the effect of all the "plastic cups don't require soap and water" type of arguments is that people invariably take them as license to stop feeling guilty and continue doing what they were already doing. Which is what got us into the mess where we are now.
Nine times out of ten, it's faster than using my mouse.
.cpl or .msc file I could possibly want to run. Renaming and lower-casing everything also goes a long way to a saner environment, and helps with the typing as well.
Assuming those nine programs are in your path, which typically they're not.
What I do is create a directory that I add to my path that's populated with nothing but symlinks (I use Cygwin, but ordinary Windows shortcuts should do) to every program,
I could dig though my closet to find my emate to double check, but I really don't feel like it.
LOL. Normally I'd try and write something pithy as a response to that gem, but fuck it. I don't feel like it either.
Come to think of it, I think I'll go home early today.
I can't help but comment on how much of a frigging nice change it is to actually read an article that doesn't consist of a 5-sentence blog, or something on a shovel-ware tech site (Information Week, Computerword, CNET, etc) that offers over-filled, over-designed, and over-sized pages, but similarly little content.
This is, I believe, is the first Slashdot article from AP. Dunno if Google's deal with AP is making either of them money, but I do know I'm not alone when saying that Google's clean and minimalist approach to things is both welcome and appreciated.
"Who's the bigger fool? The Fool or the fool that follows the fool.
Reading that I can't decide whether I feel better about having abandoned word processors when Word killed WordPerfect years ago, or smug that I've been happily using LaTeX ever since.
I'd settle for smug, but then I'd be the fool if I didn't recognise that it's what happens in the corporate world (at least in the area of office software) that sets the rules and standards the rest of us are obliged to follow.
In this context (legal action against a website which has a multinational presence), it is becoming more and more apparent that governments don't care where the website comes from.
;-)
While that may be the real issue here, and worthy of prolonged discussion, Lou Dobbs jokes are infinitely easier.
Strange that, I do think the tendency for westerners to tell people how to live is a far more virulent disease.
If by "westerners" you're referring to the marketing and distribution juggernauts of the food industry, then yes, I agree.
When it comes to food, there's only one rule to follow, and that's to eat and drink according to what you desire. Ask any dog (or, for that matter, any animal) and you'll hear the same answer.
If you can't tell that peaches are yummiest when it's blazing hot outside and they're ready to be picked, or that when there's snow on the ground, stews and root vegetables are preferrable to peaches, I can't help you. The same goes if all you know is bananas and more bananas, or that your taste buds are so jaded that everything has to taste a certain way or have that certain je ne sais quoi of corn syrup to be edible.
Or does it take a medical school degree to see the relationship between seasonal tastes and desires to seasonal nutritional needs?
Then again, maybe the ideas of fresh-picked, or supporting your local farmer, are too quaint a notion in a world where agribusiness and one-stop shopping is the norm. If it is, then why the hell am I forced to support the billion dollar California avocado industry that drains water from the Colorado river, instead of just buying them from Mexico, where they've been growing them longer than anyone remembers?
Borders are a thing of the past.
... well, just about everywhere, and that fans attending football matches the world over can now settle down and share a quiet cup of tea.
LOL.
Be sure to email Lou Dobbs in case he didn't get the memo.
While you're at it, be sure to mention that you've found the solution to end all wars, territorial disputes, and cure the rising tide of nationalism in Russia, China, Kossovo and
And most of them would taste a lot better than the crap that's so widely available elsewhere!
I've done the same and I'll wholeheartedly agree. The only saving grace, at least for me, is that one can typically find plantain available in most supermarkets. Let them ripen (until black) in a paper bag, fry them, and add to a plate of black beans and rice with some Cuban-style coffee on the side, and Bob's (or maybe Fidel) yer uncle.
As a side note, I do think the tendency for westerners to buy bananas out of habit is a disease. People have written essays and even books on why fruits and vetegables should be bought local, and then, only when in season. The idea of eating summer fruits when there's snow on the ground might be novel, but hardly appropriate, or interesting. Conversely, seeing a California supermarket in the middle of summer selling bananas (and their customers lining up to buy them) when just about every type of fruit is ripe for the picking is, well, no less than absurd.
Me, I typically shop at farmer's markets, but that doesn't preclude me from noticing that the increasing reliance by the general public on cheap third-world produce (Walmart for the dinner table!) can and does have unfortunate side effects.
Gosh, is there anyone who can't be bothered to run XP in a virtual machine?
Sure. Me. The vitualisation options for BSD users are limited, but that limitation is offset with the nifty implementation of jails and the ability to run Linux software if needed. Apples and oranges, perhaps. That said, how does running a VMWare instance of XP on Ubuntu, for example, help in the context of video?
I don't know much about video in general, but my guess would be that video playback on a virtualised OS would be pretty awful. A workaround might be to stream from the XP box, but if you're going to be streaming video, why would you be using XP to do it?
Reattributing something you conquer or inherit as your own creation has been a quite common tool in ancient times for kings to justify their claim of the throne. Ramses II was notorious for it.
A tool for kings? Perhaps, but my dog does the same with every tree he passes. Lacks the requisite pomp, of course, but no less effective.
...one might expect, given the ubiquity of computers, that everyone (not just science majors) have some basic understanding of programming, even if it's just -- err --- BASIC.
One might, but they'd be wrong. And if from what I typically read on Slashdot is any indication, people like it that way.
I think the questioner's statement that "Excel can do many things at the cartoon level we care about scientifically. But I'm not interested in giving students toys rather than tools." accurately (and depressingly) sums up that part of my professional career administering Windows systems -- a cartoon playing with toys in a cartoon world.
I'll go even further and suggest that this isn't appropriate for college, but would fit nicely into 6th and 7th grade algebra.
I fully agree. But given that's about the same level where basic literacy is taught, why is it then that so many colleges and universities are faced with the prospect of offering remedial classes for their new students? Or are math and science the easy subjects?
to place restrictions on private industry
I'd agree, but to be fair, the FCC is required to mandate "decency" standards on the public airwaves, so extending that mandate/philosophy to a proposed public wireless system sounds like a reasonable argument.
The difficulty is that the internet, at least for the forseeable future, isn't at all similar to broadcast television or radio.
THEINTERNETS (Reuters)- ...
Brilliant! Dunno if this is original, but it certainly qualifies for meme status.
I'll check them for you, free of charge... what did you say their IPs were? :)
My guess is that most of his servers are in the 10/8 or 192.168/16 ranges. Run an nmap scan on those netblocks and I'll bet you'll find something. While you're at it, be sure to check out 127.0.0.1 for any "hidden" servers.
The numeric keyboard is a life-saver (somehow it's just not possible to touch-type the numbers above the keyboard)...
;-)
Admittedly, learning to type is hard, and few today seem to think it's of any value, but typing numbers is no more difficult than typing anything else. Even the F keys in the top row are easy to type (as evidenced by the years of WP popularity and dominance).
On the other hand, if you are doing nothing but typing numbers for hours at end (data entry and accounting people traditionally do this), then, yes, the numeric side of the keyboard can be faster and more efficient. The requirements for speed and accuracy are the mostly the same, however: that you've learned to touch-type, and learned to touch-type using one hand in the same manner as you would do on a calculator.
The most useful class I ever took in 5 years of high school was typing. Seriously. The odd thing, though, when I see how poorly people type today (the over-reliance on spell-checkers to correct poor typing accuracy, the widespread complaints of RSI, the slow speeds, uncessary tension and stress, complaints about number keys, etc.) suggests to me that either no one learns to type, or that learning to type on a manual typewriter, despite being obsoleted, remains ideal.
Which brings us back to why so many prefer old-fashioned IBM keyboards.
Drink methanol, and the optic nerve gets permanently polymerized by the by-products such as formic acid, which renders a person permanently blind.
From the "If You're Going to Put It Like That" Department:
I'm reminded why Obama did so poorly with the common folk living in rural West Virginia.
yet another light-weight desktop. fluxbox, xfce, ratpoison, etc etc. why so many?
herewith my theory of the cycle of lightweight software.
A better theory may be that people are simply looking for different feature sets. This ain't Windows, so you can do things any which way you please.
To use your example of fluxbox, xfce and ratpoison, I doubt you'd find anyone who would say any of them is even remotely similar to the other, other than to characterise all of them as "lightweight", and that's only in the context of Gnome and KDE. Similarly, I doubt you'd find anyone using ratpoison, for example, who would even consider xfce.
Me, I use fluxbox. It looks and behaves exactly like I want. That's not to say I wouldn't drop it in a heartbeat if someone wrote Yet Another Lightweight Window Manager that was similar to fluxbox, but offered some trivial features that fluxbox lacks but are found elsewhere.
There's merit to the "cycle of lightweight software" argument, but I really don't see it being very meaningful or useful here.
When they used to say that the time it took a Windows computer to go from the first boot time to an infected state was about five minutes.
Coincidence?
The real coincidence was that it's same amount of time you have to wait for everything in the background to finish loading to get a fully functioning machine.
But a domain name was never meant to be private. Insisting upon privacy for what should be public information is a mis-use of the resource.
;-)
And I'm still moaning that email was never meant to be anything but text.
The purpose of the legislation is to address the continuing increase in personal domain registrations. It's entirely conceivable that one day, everyone will be required or will otherwise want to register in some form. That leaves us in a difficult position where the traditional approach of making everything public must be balanced with the privacy needs of millions of new registrations by ordinary individuals.
Resolving that conflict by admitting no one anticipated this state of affairs, or saying this isn't how things are supposed to work, is hardly satisfactory. And when you mix in the changing interests or requirements of all the parties involved, ranging from the various internet authorities, to law enforcement, ISPs, network administrators, all the way down to Dick and Jane, I can't see how anyone could say let's just leave it alone.
Hell, it wasn't too long ago that ATT would routinely publish whois info for their fixed IP accounts. Makes perfect sense, until you realise it doesn't.
One approach, or workaround, would be to advise (require) everyone to hire a personal lawyer to handle everything; the registration info would be public, but the personal information would remain personal. Another would be what the Canadian government is doing. Personally, I expect all this will work itself out in time, but I worry that we'll find ourselves in a very different world than when we first started.