Right. Dismount the drive every time you need to defrag it properly. I'd suggest that junctions/reparse points are more akin to *nix mounting, but those too have problems, the least of which seems to be the lack of integration and tools.
"Will I be able to automatically migrate from my old copy of Pine?"
I had already finished a relatively brainless and trouble-free "migration" from Outlook to Thunderbird, and because Thunderbird stores mail using standard mbox format, I had little trouble moving from Thunderbird to mutt. If you're using Pine, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to alternate between Pine and Thunderbird as you see fit.
Personally, I don't see what the fuss is about, but if this helps the folks at Thunderbird work out little bugs, great. On the other hand, it's a fair comment that even a nifty GUI client like Thunderbird by design will lack features found in infinitely configurable console programs like pine or mutt. I doubt that's an issue for the average joe, but subscribe to a few high-volume mailing lists (or any advertising-laden mailing list like those found in Yahoo groups), you might find yourself increasingly frustrated using Thunderbird.
Assuming you're still in the mood for "bald zealotry"...
Lambasting the proprietary front, Donofrio [senior vice president, technology and manufacturing, IBM] said, "The forces that cling to proprietary, closed ways of doing things are doing nothing to advance innovation. When you box people in, and create artificial barriers to solving problems, you can't expect creative, innovative solutions to spring forward."
Re-asserting IBM's love for Open Source systems, he explained, "Over the next decade, you'll see the open movement apply itself to all industries and disciplines. That's because it is leveling the playing field. It's telling everyone 'come and contribute to the effort.' The creation - and value - of intellectual property will be dramatically transformed. And that's not a threat, but a profound opportunity for business."
Some have argued that fair use would allow making backups of general content, but since such usage is not educational or for research purposes, and would have commercial impact, it seems like a weak argument to me. In any case, it has never been confirmed in the courts.
So the stronger argument you're presenting is that the legitimacy of backups can be measured only with respect to educational or research purposes?
I'll be sure to tell my broker I want to cancel the personal property coverage on my homeowners insurance because I want to keep people employed and buy my shit all over again.
Maybe if we'd consider the crazy idea that in nature, herbivores don't eat other herbivores, but when fed a regular diet made up of their friends and family, weird shit might happen?
Personally, I think that approach is somewhere between idiotic and annoying, but using
$ cat/etc/h*[Tab][Esc]=
will present you with a list of completions for/etc/h* without interrupting the completion.
Re:Legitimate question.
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The FreedBSD Handbook (which you can download or read here probably contains everything you need, and then some.
Reading more than one book on any subject is always a good idea, but when you're starting off, the original documentation (in this case, excellent and well written) should not to be skipped.
"2) remote controls basically sends a relatively short sequence of bits to an infrared LED when a certain button is pressed. It does not need a 200MHz processor or a 65k colour screen to do this."
Given the sad state of cable television set top boxes, el-cheapo remotes, and next-to-useless on-screen programming information, I'm all for any trend in the direction of adding 200MHz processors and 65K colour screens everywhere they'll fit. In time, people will figure out novel uses for things that the creators never dreamed of.
By way of comparison, though somewhat unrelated, once upon a time we were all happy using monochrome monitors (I secretly pined for the green-hued ones), but these days, high colour support, graphics and/or transparency in combination with a tactile keyboard goes a long way to make typing ed commands a pleasure. Ok, maybe not ed.
You know, the idea sounds goofy but I know you and I aren't the only ones cringing at using large capacity drives where that extra space isn't needed.
Unfortunately, I believe the economic reality is that a manufacturer can ship an 80GB drive for the same price as a 20GB. The capacities keep increasing but the price stays much the same.
Microsoft finally wisened up and started turning features... They've made a lot of steps forward in terms of security.
Could someone elaborate on how making these much heralded "settings changes" can be characterized as "a lot of steps forward." I know an argument can be made with respect to the mitigating widespread problems on the internet, but it seems to me that if I habitually leave my car door unlocked (doncha just love car analogies) and my car is regularly vandalised, how does changing my habits and locking my car imply that my car is secure, or suggest anything other than simply that I'm less of an idiot than I once was.
The folks at Mercedes would readily tell me my car's security mechanisms are inadequate. My girlfriend, I'm sure, would vouch that I'm just as much an idiot as before, but she doesn't notice it as much.
Thus, American television has moved away from expensive sitcoms and on
to cheap thrills. We've gone from... "My Thruto [to] "My Big Fat
Obnoxious Fiance."
Anyone know when "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance" airs?
I didn't walk away from "The Anarchist In the Library" with anything more than yet-another dialectic view that 'the only true alternative to something is its opposite'... Bring on the real intellectuals, the ones who are capable of a little more than just pedantic materialism...
Ok. How's this for starters...
"Broadly speaking, a dialectic is an exchange of propositions (thesis) and counter-propositions (anti-thesis)resulting in a synthesis of the opposing assertions or at least a qualitative transformation of the direction of the dialogue." (link Got it so far? Ok, scrach your head a bit and when you're ready go onto the next paragraph.
Now try contrasting what you just read with this quote from Shaw's Pygamalion: "It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic."
As soon as I can figure WTF pedantic materialism means (if anything), I'll be able to decide which (if either) of the above two words you meant to use. In the meantime, perhaps you want to consider that being able to write...something worth reading can be challenging even for unpublished Slashdot posters and that perhaps we shouldn't be so cavalier about dismissing something with which we may disagree. Or not understand.
Shakespeare said nothing of the sort that we know of. One of the "characters" in one of his "plays" did, however. Fact: he wrote lots of plays. Fact 2: there were lots of characters in all of his plays.
I'd suggest googling for Henry VI, but without having read the play in its entirety, you'll not understand the context (and hence, meaning) of the phrase you quoted.
As for the legal system, I don't know where to start. It might help to remember that suits are filed on matters of law. Justice -- you'll have to look elsewhere for -- judges and juries are too busy applying the law than entertaining philosophical constructs.
a keyboard that's fully customisable? Not sure what it would really consist of, but being able to swap keys around and have the lettering on the key changed (maybe using a decal or physically swapping the keys themselves.
"...they provided the standard and open[1] (but proprietary) base"
Maybe someone can confirm this, but I believe this post distinguishes itself as being the very first on Slashdot to contain an actual footnote. Sorry. Back to whatever you were reading...
[1] A footnote, for those proponents of the "Use lots of caps, bold or otherwise really distracting formating with an inflamatory sig so people will read what you wrote school of writing, is a note" at the foot of the page indicating that the writer is confident enough of his words so as to relegate some of them parenthetical.
It exposes a lot of interface options that are hard to adjust
otherwise.
This reminds of a critique I read in a recent Slashdot story a day or
so ago. The argument went that editing "arcane config files" (not my
quotes) is somehow less superior than neato dialog boxes with
checkboxes. Your comment illustrates the often overlooked fact that
even an average Windows user has probably discovered that most Windows
settings (or name-your-favourite-program's settings) are deliberately
obscured from view or otherwise inaccessible, and short of spending
inordinate amounts of time burying one's nose in the registry and
rebooting, or depending on a utility/shareware program to offer bits and
pieces of what's missing, there's not much one can do.
Yes, plain ascii is accessible as the nose on your face, and is as easy
to edit as a letter to grandma, but more to the point, when considering
"usability" I think it's entirely fair to factor in how much effort is
expended by a user trying to figure WTF the program is doing (or
worrying about what was done or wasn't done to that user's system) given
that the source isn't available, the developer is definitely not available, and the "nice looking" documentation was
written by committee so as to not confuse the user with too much
information. Equally fair, are questions along the line of "Isn't there
something I can type on a command-line that will allow me to skip this
Start Menu and multiple property sheet click-throughs so I can get on
with it?"
Most of would have trouble using up all our fingers trying to count
those applications we consider to be "slick" or "professional". That
said, trading borked or confused menus and odd aesthetic choices on a
program we downloaded for something more slick but strips the user of
control is a false economy. It's also a royal pain in the ass.
Considering that Microsoft is often viewed as the standard bearer, I
wonder what the usability experts hired by them to come up with the
endless procession of such winners as "personalised menus" would say if
confronted in person with the unwashed masses shouting cries of "How do
I turn this sh*t off?!!"
Adobe, I've always believed, can do no wrong when designing their apps.
Yet at the same time, I find myself turning to ImageMagick where
possible to accomplish what I need and saying "No, but thanks!" to their
emininently usable interface. Goes to show you can't please everybody
all the time. Myself included, if that's not obvious enough.
I think the trojan concept is limiting the possibilities of this. Imagine:
1. Your boss's face stares back at you your entire time at work and you can't determine whether the image is live or pre-recorded.
2. You browse a porn site and instead of popup ads, you get a Real Live Operator offering a different sort of popups.
3. You get 0Wn3d but don't feel so threatened after seeing the pimpled face of 14-year old.
4. Instead of visiting a religeous site and using your web browser to submit prayers in a text box, you can have a live confessional with Father John (or if you're a Protestant, you can opt for Charleton Heston with a full beard).
What I wonder, though, is whether the system would implode if the people at both ends held up a mirror to the screen.
Agreed, but this sometime-ignored espresso-drinking-NPR-listening-25-50-year-old has discovered that the compilation CDs on sale by the counter (and played on the speakers) often contain music that I wouldn't necessarily have at the top of my music shopping list, and may even have something I've not heard before.
Mind you, I don't go into Starbucks often (I own my own espresso machine) but when I do, I consider the music a nice bonus. Starbucks also sells newspapers. You can buy the NY Times at any newstand, you can have it delivered for cheaper, but it's a helluvalotnicer to be able to pick up a coffee, paper and hear music all at the same time and be served with a smile.
Last I checked, the iTunes Music Store didn't serve coffee, with or without a smile.
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For less than a $1000 you can get the software you need from MS to this: Windows Server, Exchange with Outlook clients, SQL Server, the whole package.
Err ... at best $1000 might get you a MSDN subscription off eBay that would provide you with developer versions of these packages.
Right. Dismount the drive every time you need to defrag it properly. I'd suggest that junctions/reparse points are more akin to *nix mounting, but those too have problems, the least of which seems to be the lack of integration and tools.
"Will I be able to automatically migrate from my old copy of Pine?"
I had already finished a relatively brainless and trouble-free "migration" from Outlook to Thunderbird, and because Thunderbird stores mail using standard mbox format, I had little trouble moving from Thunderbird to mutt. If you're using Pine, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to alternate between Pine and Thunderbird as you see fit.
Personally, I don't see what the fuss is about, but if this helps the folks at Thunderbird work out little bugs, great. On the other hand, it's a fair comment that even a nifty GUI client like Thunderbird by design will lack features found in infinitely configurable console programs like pine or mutt. I doubt that's an issue for the average joe, but subscribe to a few high-volume mailing lists (or any advertising-laden mailing list like those found in Yahoo groups), you might find yourself increasingly frustrated using Thunderbird.
Assuming you're still in the mood for "bald zealotry" ...
Lambasting the proprietary front, Donofrio [senior vice president, technology and manufacturing, IBM] said, "The forces that cling to proprietary, closed ways of doing things are doing nothing to advance innovation. When you box people in, and create artificial barriers to solving problems, you can't expect creative, innovative solutions to spring forward."
Re-asserting IBM's love for Open Source systems, he explained, "Over the next decade, you'll see the open movement apply itself to all industries and disciplines. That's because it is leveling the playing field. It's telling everyone 'come and contribute to the effort.' The creation - and value - of intellectual property will be dramatically transformed. And that's not a threat, but a profound opportunity for business."
IBM Wont Use Patents Against Linux
Only if the good Doctor is the object of the transitive verb "exterminate."
Some have argued that fair use would allow making backups of general content, but since such usage is not educational or for research purposes, and would have commercial impact, it seems like a weak argument to me. In any case, it has never been confirmed in the courts.
So the stronger argument you're presenting is that the legitimacy of backups can be measured only with respect to educational or research purposes?
I'll be sure to tell my broker I want to cancel the personal property coverage on my homeowners insurance because I want to keep people employed and buy my shit all over again.
Very observant, but your word choices are a bit off.
By "off" I mean the opposite of appropriate, suitable, befitting or apt.
Yep, this is standard practice in the Finnish army. If you break down and say you can't take it anymore, for whatever reason, you can get out.
So, if George Bush had been born elsewhere ...
Maybe if we'd consider the crazy idea that in nature, herbivores don't eat other herbivores, but when fed a regular diet made up of their friends and family, weird shit might happen?
Personally, I think that approach is somewhere between idiotic and annoying, but using
/etc/h*[Tab][Esc]=
/etc/h* without interrupting the completion.
$ cat
will present you with a list of completions for
The FreedBSD Handbook (which you can download or read here probably contains everything you need, and then some.
Reading more than one book on any subject is always a good idea, but when you're starting off, the original documentation (in this case, excellent and well written) should not to be skipped.
"2) remote controls basically sends a relatively short sequence of bits to an infrared LED when a certain button is pressed. It does not need a 200MHz processor or a 65k colour screen to do this."
Given the sad state of cable television set top boxes, el-cheapo remotes, and next-to-useless on-screen programming information, I'm all for any trend in the direction of adding 200MHz processors and 65K colour screens everywhere they'll fit. In time, people will figure out novel uses for things that the creators never dreamed of.
By way of comparison, though somewhat unrelated, once upon a time we were all happy using monochrome monitors (I secretly pined for the green-hued ones), but these days, high colour support, graphics and/or transparency in combination with a tactile keyboard goes a long way to make typing ed commands a pleasure. Ok, maybe not ed.
You know, the idea sounds goofy but I know you and I aren't the only ones cringing at using large capacity drives where that extra space isn't needed.
Unfortunately, I believe the economic reality is that a manufacturer can ship an 80GB drive for the same price as a 20GB. The capacities keep increasing but the price stays much the same.
Microsoft finally wisened up and started turning features ... They've made a lot of steps forward in terms of security.
Could someone elaborate on how making these much heralded "settings changes" can be characterized as "a lot of steps forward." I know an argument can be made with respect to the mitigating widespread problems on the internet, but it seems to me that if I habitually leave my car door unlocked (doncha just love car analogies) and my car is regularly vandalised, how does changing my habits and locking my car imply that my car is secure, or suggest anything other than simply that I'm less of an idiot than I once was.
The folks at Mercedes would readily tell me my car's security mechanisms are inadequate. My girlfriend, I'm sure, would vouch that I'm just as much an idiot as before, but she doesn't notice it as much.
Thus, American television has moved away from expensive sitcoms and on to cheap thrills. We've gone from ... "My Thruto [to] "My Big Fat
Obnoxious Fiance."
Anyone know when "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance" airs?
I didn't walk away from "The Anarchist In the Library" with anything more than yet-another dialectic view that 'the only true alternative to something is its opposite' ... Bring on the real intellectuals, the ones who are capable of a little more than just pedantic materialism...
Ok. How's this for starters ...
"Broadly speaking, a dialectic is an exchange of propositions (thesis) and counter-propositions (anti-thesis)resulting in a synthesis of the opposing assertions or at least a qualitative transformation of the direction of the dialogue." (link Got it so far? Ok, scrach your head a bit and when you're ready go onto the next paragraph.
Now try contrasting what you just read with this quote from Shaw's Pygamalion: "It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic."
As soon as I can figure WTF pedantic materialism means (if anything), I'll be able to decide which (if either) of the above two words you meant to use. In the meantime, perhaps you want to consider that being able to write ...something worth reading can be challenging even for unpublished Slashdot posters and that perhaps we shouldn't be so cavalier about dismissing something with which we may disagree. Or not understand.
Sigh ...
Shakespeare said nothing of the sort that we know of. One of the "characters" in one of his "plays" did, however. Fact: he wrote lots of plays. Fact 2: there were lots of characters in all of his plays.
I'd suggest googling for Henry VI, but without having read the play in its entirety, you'll not understand the context (and hence, meaning) of the phrase you quoted.
As for the legal system, I don't know where to start. It might help to remember that suits are filed on matters of law. Justice -- you'll have to look elsewhere for -- judges and juries are too busy applying the law than entertaining philosophical constructs.
a keyboard that's fully customisable? Not sure what it would really consist of, but being able to swap keys around and have the lettering on the key changed (maybe using a decal or physically swapping the keys themselves.
"...they provided the standard and open[1] (but proprietary) base"
Maybe someone can confirm this, but I believe this post distinguishes itself as being the very first on Slashdot to contain an actual footnote. Sorry. Back to whatever you were reading ...
[1] A footnote, for those proponents of the "Use lots of caps, bold or otherwise really distracting formating with an inflamatory sig so people will read what you wrote school of writing, is a note" at the foot of the page indicating that the writer is confident enough of his words so as to relegate some of them parenthetical.
It exposes a lot of interface options that are hard to adjust otherwise.
This reminds of a critique I read in a recent Slashdot story a day or so ago. The argument went that editing "arcane config files" (not my quotes) is somehow less superior than neato dialog boxes with checkboxes. Your comment illustrates the often overlooked fact that even an average Windows user has probably discovered that most Windows settings (or name-your-favourite-program's settings) are deliberately obscured from view or otherwise inaccessible, and short of spending inordinate amounts of time burying one's nose in the registry and rebooting, or depending on a utility/shareware program to offer bits and pieces of what's missing, there's not much one can do.
Yes, plain ascii is accessible as the nose on your face, and is as easy to edit as a letter to grandma, but more to the point, when considering "usability" I think it's entirely fair to factor in how much effort is expended by a user trying to figure WTF the program is doing (or worrying about what was done or wasn't done to that user's system) given that the source isn't available, the developer is definitely not available, and the "nice looking" documentation was written by committee so as to not confuse the user with too much information. Equally fair, are questions along the line of "Isn't there something I can type on a command-line that will allow me to skip this Start Menu and multiple property sheet click-throughs so I can get on with it?"
Most of would have trouble using up all our fingers trying to count those applications we consider to be "slick" or "professional". That said, trading borked or confused menus and odd aesthetic choices on a program we downloaded for something more slick but strips the user of control is a false economy. It's also a royal pain in the ass. Considering that Microsoft is often viewed as the standard bearer, I wonder what the usability experts hired by them to come up with the endless procession of such winners as "personalised menus" would say if confronted in person with the unwashed masses shouting cries of "How do I turn this sh*t off?!!"
Adobe, I've always believed, can do no wrong when designing their apps. Yet at the same time, I find myself turning to ImageMagick where possible to accomplish what I need and saying "No, but thanks!" to their emininently usable interface. Goes to show you can't please everybody all the time. Myself included, if that's not obvious enough.
I thought Dell said they had nothing to do with the VAR that was loading Linspire and selling the PCs in Europe other than selling them machines?
Maybe Dell is using the old VAR loading Linspire and sell PCs in Europe trick. After 2 stories on Slashdot it's gotta be true.
I think the trojan concept is limiting the possibilities of this. Imagine:
1. Your boss's face stares back at you your entire time at work and you can't determine whether the image is live or pre-recorded.
2. You browse a porn site and instead of popup ads, you get a Real Live Operator offering a different sort of popups.
3. You get 0Wn3d but don't feel so threatened after seeing the pimpled face of 14-year old.
4. Instead of visiting a religeous site and using your web browser to submit prayers in a text box, you can have a live confessional with Father John (or if you're a Protestant, you can opt for Charleton Heston with a full beard).
What I wonder, though, is whether the system would implode if the people at both ends held up a mirror to the screen.
And and and ... you can make popcorn while burning the cdrw!
Real butter, too.
Agreed, but this sometime-ignored espresso-drinking-NPR-listening-25-50-year-old has discovered that the compilation CDs on sale by the counter (and played on the speakers) often contain music that I wouldn't necessarily have at the top of my music shopping list, and may even have something I've not heard before.
Mind you, I don't go into Starbucks often (I own my own espresso machine) but when I do, I consider the music a nice bonus. Starbucks also sells newspapers. You can buy the NY Times at any newstand, you can have it delivered for cheaper, but it's a helluvalotnicer to be able to pick up a coffee, paper and hear music all at the same time and be served with a smile.
Last I checked, the iTunes Music Store didn't serve coffee, with or without a smile.
"Looks like the hair of the guy who runs this site just had their hair turn grey as they were supporting 500,000 Slashdot users."
... well, slashdotted.
Out of curiosity, anyone have figures for how many slashdotters make a slasdhotting?
I'd ask the folks at jazzkeyboard, but they're