Heck, I have RoadRunner (which is an AOL property), and I can't even send mail to other RoadRunner users because as a RoadRunner user I'm probably sending spam!
I was a RoadRunner customer for two years (until two months ago) and I regularly email other RoadRunner customers (my mother, for example). Next?
(in this case, it was a user setting to bounce mail with attachments, but shame on AOL for not realizing what a PGP signature was and allowing/endorsing it)
An attachment is an attachment is an attachment. It doesn't matter what it contains. If the user had their account set to block attachments, your email WITH PGP ATTACHMENT should have been blocked.
As for AOL "bullying people around" - guess what - they own their bandwidth. You want to use it after generating bad traffic that interrupts their mail server's ability to process legitimate mail, you have to call them. Sounds somewhat draconian, but reasonable. After all, it's THEIR bandwidth and THEIR servers.
Hell, if I ran an ISP and you did that, you're damned right you'd be begging me to let you back in. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Knock it off with the "stick it to the man" ideals. If you were really against AOL, you wouldn't be a RoadRunner customer, would you?
Our legislative branch seems to have forgotten this also. I read an article about 2 (?) weeks ago about the Senate passing a law that says the federal courts cannot hear any cases related to the Pledge of Allegiance challenges.
Judicial review and the checks and balances exist to protect everyone from the tyranny of the majority.
Don't even get me started on the Federal Marriage Amendment crap. If you don't support gay marriage, don't marry a member of the same sex, but you have NO RIGHT to tell me who I can and cannot marry.
I have a Samsung HLN567W. It has a regular VHF tuner, but no ATSC/QAM tuner. I have a Samsung SIR-TS360 plugged into it to get my HD off DirecTV or OTA. Lots of plasma screens are just monitors without tuners also.
Anyhow, I'm guessing the regular VHF tuners are so incredibly cheap to manufacture today, they might as well keep including them. 2006 is when the HDTV mandate kicks in - in the meantime, don't buy a non-HDTV! The screens are getting as cheap as their SD counterparts were 3-4 years ago, so there's no compelling reason not to buy a digital set if you're going to replace yours.
Long gone are the days of hours of downloading,...
Now, I don't know about you, but I still seem to spend hours downloading things, except now they're in the several gigabyte range as opposed to what I would get after 3 hours on my 1200 baud modem:)
I was just mentioning to my partner the other day how the BBS scene worked. I was a big BBSer, and was really into the whole scene. I grew up in Bakersfield, CA (anyone remember Wildcat! BBS? Yeah, it was from Bakersfield) and we had tons of BBSes. I'd spend way too much of my free time on them.:)
I've noticed that now it's all over, I'm less likely to do any hobbyist programming. Maybe that's because I'm older and I do it for 10+ hours a day at work, but I also feel like there's nothing really new for me to write that I can't already download.
Well, I guess I do care, but not enough to watch a 7 hour documentary.:)
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I prefer writing it myself in small scale projects. For large scale projects, maintaining a bunch of different SELECT statements is just too time consuming.
Show me the GUI for all of that, and how to apply those changes without restarting X, and I'll happily eat crow.
I fully understand it's all a work in progress, but it's not there yet. Until Linux is up to par with Windows for things like this, it can't be expected to overtake the desktop. Period.
With my mother, that's not an issue. But, that's beside the point.
The same idea applies for plugging in a random USB device, however. I'm betting most people's parents would be likely to plug in a new digital camera via USB to download their images...
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Try having four dual proc Intel Nocona (3.2ghz) machines right next to you all day long. Let's talk about heat generation.
When I bought a new video card for my PC, I put the card in, inserted the CD and booted my machine. Windows installed a driver and told me to reboot. Upon reboot, everything was fine.
As a Linux user, I have to tweak configuration files. Yeah, that's fine for me because I'm a geek. Try to get your mother to do that.
Why should you have to put your videoram in your X config anyhow? It can figure it out from the card!
Right, they support amd64 machines but not Intel EM64T machines. Intel implemented all of the x86_64 specifications except for two instructions (prefetch and prefetchnw, IIRC). Those two instructions are 3DNow! specific, and not supported on Intel. If you try to call them (which Sun's amd64 binaries do), you immediately crash with a SIGILL (illegal instruction).
Please, please, please, please make the amd64 JVM work on Intel EM64T boxes in Linux!
It's been filed on Sun's bug parade more than once and never resolved. The JVM throws a SIGILL immediately because it's calling the 3DNow! Prefetch instructions. Doesn't do this on Windows, just on Linux.
Come on, I'm willing to bet most people with EM64T and Opteron/AMD64 machines are running Linux, NOT Windows!
I'm an avid Java developer. Hell, I'm even certified, but this bug just annoys me to no end.
I reported (as did other people) that the amd64 binaries of JDK 1.5.0 crash on Intel EM64T machines. SIGILL. They're using the 3DNow! prefetch instructions. It's really easy to disable those in gcc. Of course, did they fix the bug?
(Disclaimer: I'm a Sirius customer and shareholder)
I would hope that XM uses higher quality streams than Sirius. I tried to use Sirius's streams from work, but since I'm confined to a set of headphones, it sounds absolutely atrocious.
XM has to do something now that they've axed the XMPCR!
This article covers what the CPU can be used for and there are plans for a LinuxSkin that'll allow access to the busybox shell running on the phone. Doesn't say when, it just says the plan exists.
I know one of the developers of this phone up in the Seattle area. Great work, guys!
I absolutely agree with you. I was self-employed and worked from home for almost a year. There were some fantastic perks (I'm a night owl. I enjoy coding at 2 am.) but there were some dramatic downsides.
In my current job, I share an office with two other people. This leads to some annoyances, but also some great collaborative efforts. We bounce design ideas off each other, for example.
You really do start to miss human interaction after a while. I think it's also harder to evolve your skills when you're by yourself. It's always interesting to hear a peer's viewpoint on an emerging technology, etc etc.
I would go back to working from home a few days a week, if possible, but not full time. I'd lose my mind.
I have one of these in my 2004 Solara. It's an interesting setup. They shipped me a Toyota-to-Sony CD changer adapter, and the ICELINK emulates a Sony CD changer.
IMHO, it's not KDE alone or GNOME alone that are the problem. It's when you have to start mixing them. Some apps use Control-Q to exit, some are Control-X, etc etc. Font rendering is different. Apps generally "feel" different. Firefox looks different from both KDE and GNOME apps, etc etc. Eclipse/GTK is slower than hell, which makes my development experience in Linux abysmal.
The user interface in Windows is consistent! That's the difference!
Does this mean I can find some Euro releases of stuff from here in the US?
There are quite a few European bands that I really, really like, but I mostly end up waiting on a US release of their albums, or paying the exorbitant import fees at the record store.
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Heck, I have RoadRunner (which is an AOL property), and I can't even send mail to other RoadRunner users because as a RoadRunner user I'm probably sending spam!
I was a RoadRunner customer for two years (until two months ago) and I regularly email other RoadRunner customers (my mother, for example). Next?
(in this case, it was a user setting to bounce mail with attachments, but shame on AOL for not realizing what a PGP signature was and allowing/endorsing it)
An attachment is an attachment is an attachment. It doesn't matter what it contains. If the user had their account set to block attachments, your email WITH PGP ATTACHMENT should have been blocked.
As for AOL "bullying people around" - guess what - they own their bandwidth. You want to use it after generating bad traffic that interrupts their mail server's ability to process legitimate mail, you have to call them. Sounds somewhat draconian, but reasonable. After all, it's THEIR bandwidth and THEIR servers.
Hell, if I ran an ISP and you did that, you're damned right you'd be begging me to let you back in. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Knock it off with the "stick it to the man" ideals. If you were really against AOL, you wouldn't be a RoadRunner customer, would you?
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Our legislative branch seems to have forgotten this also. I read an article about 2 (?) weeks ago about the Senate passing a law that says the federal courts cannot hear any cases related to the Pledge of Allegiance challenges.
Judicial review and the checks and balances exist to protect everyone from the tyranny of the majority.
Don't even get me started on the Federal Marriage Amendment crap. If you don't support gay marriage, don't marry a member of the same sex, but you have NO RIGHT to tell me who I can and cannot marry.
They do sell TVs like that. :)
I have a Samsung HLN567W. It has a regular VHF tuner, but no ATSC/QAM tuner. I have a Samsung SIR-TS360 plugged into it to get my HD off DirecTV or OTA. Lots of plasma screens are just monitors without tuners also.
Anyhow, I'm guessing the regular VHF tuners are so incredibly cheap to manufacture today, they might as well keep including them. 2006 is when the HDTV mandate kicks in - in the meantime, don't buy a non-HDTV! The screens are getting as cheap as their SD counterparts were 3-4 years ago, so there's no compelling reason not to buy a digital set if you're going to replace yours.
Long gone are the days of hours of downloading, ...
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Now, I don't know about you, but I still seem to spend hours downloading things, except now they're in the several gigabyte range as opposed to what I would get after 3 hours on my 1200 baud modem
I was just mentioning to my partner the other day how the BBS scene worked. I was a big BBSer, and was really into the whole scene. I grew up in Bakersfield, CA (anyone remember Wildcat! BBS? Yeah, it was from Bakersfield) and we had tons of BBSes. I'd spend way too much of my free time on them.
I've noticed that now it's all over, I'm less likely to do any hobbyist programming. Maybe that's because I'm older and I do it for 10+ hours a day at work, but I also feel like there's nothing really new for me to write that I can't already download.
Well, I guess I do care, but not enough to watch a 7 hour documentary.
I prefer writing it myself in small scale projects. For large scale projects, maintaining a bunch of different SELECT statements is just too time consuming.
Actually, the porn companies do crack down on file sharers.
:) http://www.grammy.com/news/artswatch/2004/0120scre ener.aspx has a paragraph where they briefly mention Titan's feelings on this stuff.
Titan Men, a large gay porn video company, is doing serious crackdowns on file sharers and illegal copying of their works.
I would love to post some links to show you, but I'm at work.
All of their videos start with a message like, "THANK YOU FOR NOT ALLOWING THIS TITAN FEATURE TO BE ILLEGALLY DUPLICATED", etc.
I certainly know about them.
Changing to init level 3, logging in as root, installing the nvidia driver, running sax -n 0 nvidia, changing to init level 5 is not intuitive.
And yes, I still end up tweaking configuration files because of things like this:
Option "TwinView"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Show me the GUI for all of that, and how to apply those changes without restarting X, and I'll happily eat crow.
I fully understand it's all a work in progress, but it's not there yet. Until Linux is up to par with Windows for things like this, it can't be expected to overtake the desktop. Period.
And that almost works reliabily in SuSE. And yes, I am speaking from experience.
Funny, your ego almost pulled through there, but not quite.
If you were going to flame me on that, you should have verified which distro does that first.
With my mother, that's not an issue. But, that's beside the point.
The same idea applies for plugging in a random USB device, however. I'm betting most people's parents would be likely to plug in a new digital camera via USB to download their images...
Try having four dual proc Intel Nocona (3.2ghz) machines right next to you all day long. Let's talk about heat generation.
When I bought a new video card for my PC, I put the card in, inserted the CD and booted my machine. Windows installed a driver and told me to reboot. Upon reboot, everything was fine.
As a Linux user, I have to tweak configuration files. Yeah, that's fine for me because I'm a geek. Try to get your mother to do that.
Why should you have to put your videoram in your X config anyhow? It can figure it out from the card!
Right, they support amd64 machines but not Intel EM64T machines. Intel implemented all of the x86_64 specifications except for two instructions (prefetch and prefetchnw, IIRC). Those two instructions are 3DNow! specific, and not supported on Intel. If you try to call them (which Sun's amd64 binaries do), you immediately crash with a SIGILL (illegal instruction).
Please, please, please, please make the amd64 JVM work on Intel EM64T boxes in Linux!
It's been filed on Sun's bug parade more than once and never resolved. The JVM throws a SIGILL immediately because it's calling the 3DNow! Prefetch instructions. Doesn't do this on Windows, just on Linux.
Come on, I'm willing to bet most people with EM64T and Opteron/AMD64 machines are running Linux, NOT Windows!
My bug was marked as a duplicate of your bug and closed. I can't even find my bug in there anymore.
:(
Their FAQ says: Some bugs are not included in the Bug Database for security reasons.
Umm, what security reasons? I posted about this on one of the blogs on java.net yesterday. Chances are it'll be ignored also.
I'm an avid Java developer. Hell, I'm even certified, but this bug just annoys me to no end.
I reported (as did other people) that the amd64 binaries of JDK 1.5.0 crash on Intel EM64T machines. SIGILL. They're using the 3DNow! prefetch instructions. It's really easy to disable those in gcc. Of course, did they fix the bug?
Nope.
(Disclaimer: I'm a Sirius customer and shareholder)
I would hope that XM uses higher quality streams than Sirius. I tried to use Sirius's streams from work, but since I'm confined to a set of headphones, it sounds absolutely atrocious.
XM has to do something now that they've axed the XMPCR!
This article covers what the CPU can be used for and there are plans for a LinuxSkin that'll allow access to the busybox shell running on the phone. Doesn't say when, it just says the plan exists.
I know one of the developers of this phone up in the Seattle area. Great work, guys!
I absolutely agree with you. I was self-employed and worked from home for almost a year. There were some fantastic perks (I'm a night owl. I enjoy coding at 2 am.) but there were some dramatic downsides.
In my current job, I share an office with two other people. This leads to some annoyances, but also some great collaborative efforts. We bounce design ideas off each other, for example.
You really do start to miss human interaction after a while. I think it's also harder to evolve your skills when you're by yourself. It's always interesting to hear a peer's viewpoint on an emerging technology, etc etc.
I would go back to working from home a few days a week, if possible, but not full time. I'd lose my mind.
Funny, IBM, Hitatchi, Western Digital and Micropolis never made me submit a receipt.
I get this error now when my user cookie is set, no matter what time of the day. Quite irritating.
OTA HD reception is ATSC based, while cable based HD is QAM - a different type of tuner.
This site has some more useful information about the differences.
I have one of these in my 2004 Solara. It's an interesting setup. They shipped me a Toyota-to-Sony CD changer adapter, and the ICELINK emulates a Sony CD changer.
If my firewall had a sound card, I'd want it to sound like the game Missle Command :)
IMHO, it's not KDE alone or GNOME alone that are the problem. It's when you have to start mixing them. Some apps use Control-Q to exit, some are Control-X, etc etc. Font rendering is different. Apps generally "feel" different. Firefox looks different from both KDE and GNOME apps, etc etc. Eclipse/GTK is slower than hell, which makes my development experience in Linux abysmal.
The user interface in Windows is consistent! That's the difference!
Does this mean I can find some Euro releases of stuff from here in the US?
There are quite a few European bands that I really, really like, but I mostly end up waiting on a US release of their albums, or paying the exorbitant import fees at the record store.