I remember a time in OS9 or early OSX when it was totally useless, doing nothing more than telling you to click here and there (all the obvious things you had already done), and carefully NOT explaining anything.
When I used 10.5.x for a few months last year and the year before, I easily found the information I needed, and it tended to be detailed enough.
This is a bit off topic, but you just gave us a great example of what is so terribly wrong with a number of Wikipedia articles. You were referring to some thing called XtUML, and helpfully provided the wikipedia link. Unfortunately, after reading the 1st paragraph, I still don't have the faintest idea of what it is. Here are the 2 first sentences:
Executable UML, often abbreviated to xtUML [1] or xUML [2], is the evolution of the Shlaer-Mellor method[3] to UML. Executable UML graphically specifies a system using a profile of the UML.
Would someone who does know what that means please insert a paragraph for lay people at the beginning of that wikipedia entry?
a quick text search of options where you can type in a small portion of a word(s)
Sounds like an excellent idea. Let's hope that software starts to use that, instead of taking features away to make life easier for lazy ignorant teenagers.
I find OpenOffice to be a badly-designed sluggishly slow and crappy Office suite.
Glad to see someone I can agree with. At least in part:
Different than MS Office, but not better or worse.
I find it not different enough. The reason I was interested in the first place was because I hated MS Word. I was extremely disappointed when I realized that OOo was a sort of would-be clone of it. It was not really different, but still managed to be worse.
Or in short: It needs a revolution. (And I'm on to one, actually.)
Well, I sure hope your revolution will touch on word processing and wish you good luck.
FWIW, I now use TextMaker in Linux after having used it for a few years in Windows (after I had to stop using Ami Pro). It's not free, but it's much better than MS Word or OO Write. (I still don't know what to recommend to Mac users...)
Anyway, I'm still looking for a really great word processor, with excellent and intuitive support for styles and stylesheets, which can natively open and save.doc and odf files, and can cleverly and cleanly edit html with css while still being a word processor and not Dreamweaver.
In Switzerland, authorities don't get information from employers or banks, so they cannot pre-fill the forms.
However, they do offer a free tax program for download, which makes things much easier. It takes care itself of the very complex rules for various deductions, so it makes the forms quite easy to fill. It also shows directly how much you will have to pay, and prints the forms out for sending.
(and it's a Java program with Windows, Mac and Linux installers; only Amiga users have been left behind...).
... windows (even though it crashes constantly)...
This is completely off topic, but you may be interested to know that Win9x/Me is not used anymore. It is now safe for you to come out of your cave again. (Of course, now there is this virus/worm/trojan thing some people are complaining about; the times keep changing)
On my Thinkpad with Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04, the key seems unusable. Whatever combination I try, I only get the "Save Screenshot" dialog.
It is on the same key as "PrtScr", written in blue, so theoretically I should press the blue Fn key and PrtScr to get SysReq.
However, whether I press PrtScr, Fn-PrtScr, Alt-PrtScr or Fn-Alt-PrtScr, all I can do is save a screenshot. (Which is useful, but shouldn't need so many different key combinations for the same effect). So for me, I do have the SysReq key, but apparently no way to use it.
I disagree. On Macs, every time I need to copy a window, I have to search the documentation to find that key combination. On Windows and Linux, i just press Alt-PrtScr and then Ctrl-V to paste wherever I need it.
I read a lot of bad stuff about the new C-200 Popcorn, but mine seems to work fine as a media player. I have many DVD copies (in FILM_TITLE/VIDEO_TS folders; I don't have.iso files). They play fine, including language and subtitle control. The remote control is quite nice. Definitely better than my DVD player's remote, or the A110 remote. Also, the hard drive tray is cool. Just push a bare SATA drive into it, and that's it.
On the other side, there are a few things against it: it's expensive. The Gigabit network port seems slow. There is no real SSH or Telnet access which would have helped tweak the configuration and backing it up. The web server doesn't let you set it up from your browser (you have to use the remote. It is much bigger than the previous A110, so it's not really portable. The Audio player part is unusable because there doesn't seem to be any sort of playlist support.
In the end, it plays the files I want (DVD copies), and even though I can not tweak it as I wished and cannot install an rsync server on it, I can still use rsync by connecting to it's NFS server, and Windows file sharing for the Windows machines.
If you are running amavis, sa-update alone is not enough. You also need to restart amavis so that it picks up the new rules. On a Debian system, that would be something like:
sa-update &&/etc/init.d/amavis restart
The spamassassin daily cron job does sa-update, and reloads spamassassin, but doesn't reload amavis.
Indeed, that was much more readable. And helped writing this Perl version, despite the Python trap (for a Python-illiterate) of "range(0,31)" apparently meaning "from 0 to 30":
I used to store some of my passwords in the NTFS alternate stream of some other file, until I discovered TrueCrypt. (Yes, it was "security through obscurity", so it doesn't really work; but everyone forgets to mention that it is fun)
The data is preserved as long as it stays on NTFS. It is lost when transferred through FTP, copied to another filesystem, zipped, etc. If I remember correctly, it is preserved when copying through a Windows network to another NTFS drive.
The last crashes were that it wouldn't start at all. After a long search, I found the cause to be that it somehow wrote a bad value in it's config file which prevented it from starting (see here).
Another time, it crashed during a big directory sync. over the local network.
Unfortunately I can't remember the other crashes.
I also hate that the mtime sort also sorts directories by their times, instead of leaving them alone. (that is configurable in TC).
It's viewer cannot handle huge files. It also tries too much to show files formatted, and sometimes doesn't let me switch to raw view.
And it FTP abilities are very limited when compared with TC.
Still, Krusader is what I use most, and I'm sure it will improve with some time.
I do use MC daily, but it lacks many features which I also need. Like directory sync. or simple file comparison with meld (diff is unreadable if there are many differences), or a picture viewer (that could probably be configured, but then I would lose it's fine F3 viewer for the raw content).
I switched to Linux 4 months ago, and what I still miss is a file manager as good as Total Commander. Krusader seems to be the closest and most feature rich, but it just isn't as complete and as polished as Total Commander. And it crashes about once every few days. So sometimes, I have to start a WinXP VM, just to have the power and reliability of Total Commander.
In other words, I don't care so much for little details in Nautilus. It doesn't seem any worse than Windows Explorer, and seems better than the Mac Finder (which is the file manager that Nautilus resembles most). I just wish there would be more resources to improve Krusader.
(Midnight Commander is excellent in a console, and should be part of the base install of every distro)
The article you link to for the whole 12MB thing is a scam, sorry.
Why? What do you mean?
I came across that article because I had that exact problem. I needed the/3GB switch for a particular app (Avid), and suddenly I couldn't connect new external hard disks, and eventually couldn't boot the machine in that/3GB mode. Reducing the size of the system hive to under 12 MB. fixed the problem.
When the first part of the authentication is done by a Greasemonkey script, keyloggers don't see that. Or do they?
This may sound like a joke, but in fact I do have one part of the authentication scripted in Greasemonkey. That gets me directly to the next step with some sort of challenge-response system involving a calculator-like gadget with my bank card inserted in it.
Of course, if your bank requires nothing else than an account number and a password which you have in a GM script, I would be glad to borrow your computer...
The systems I know are the ones of the swiss post (pdf) and of UBS (pdf). I do wonder if these can be attacked by such instant keloggers.
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Great link! Thanks.
And to have them all on your USB stick, just cd to it, and do :
wget -cm http://live.sysinternals.com/
How good is Apple documentation?
It has become much better.
I remember a time in OS9 or early OSX when it was totally useless, doing nothing more than telling you to click here and there (all the obvious things you had already done), and carefully NOT explaining anything.
When I used 10.5.x for a few months last year and the year before, I easily found the information I needed, and it tended to be detailed enough.
This is a bit off topic, but you just gave us a great example of what is so terribly wrong with a number of Wikipedia articles. You were referring to some thing called XtUML, and helpfully provided the wikipedia link. Unfortunately, after reading the 1st paragraph, I still don't have the faintest idea of what it is. Here are the 2 first sentences:
Executable UML, often abbreviated to xtUML [1] or xUML [2], is the evolution of the Shlaer-Mellor method[3] to UML. Executable UML graphically specifies a system using a profile of the UML.
Would someone who does know what that means please insert a paragraph for lay people at the beginning of that wikipedia entry?
a quick text search of options where you can type in a small portion of a word(s)
Sounds like an excellent idea. Let's hope that software starts to use that, instead of taking features away to make life easier for lazy ignorant teenagers.
I find OpenOffice to be a badly-designed sluggishly slow and crappy Office suite.
Glad to see someone I can agree with. At least in part:
Different than MS Office, but not better or worse.
I find it not different enough. The reason I was interested in the first place was because I hated MS Word. I was extremely disappointed when I realized that OOo was a sort of would-be clone of it. It was not really different, but still managed to be worse.
Or in short: It needs a revolution. (And I'm on to one, actually.)
Well, I sure hope your revolution will touch on word processing and wish you good luck.
FWIW, I now use TextMaker in Linux after having used it for a few years in Windows (after I had to stop using Ami Pro). It's not free, but it's much better than MS Word or OO Write. (I still don't know what to recommend to Mac users...)
Anyway, I'm still looking for a really great word processor, with excellent and intuitive support for styles and stylesheets, which can natively open and save .doc and odf files, and can cleverly and cleanly edit html with css while still being a word processor and not Dreamweaver.
In Switzerland, authorities don't get information from employers or banks, so they cannot pre-fill the forms.
However, they do offer a free tax program for download, which makes things much easier. It takes care itself of the very complex rules for various deductions, so it makes the forms quite easy to fill. It also shows directly how much you will have to pay, and prints the forms out for sending.
(and it's a Java program with Windows, Mac and Linux installers; only Amiga users have been left behind...).
... windows (even though it crashes constantly) ...
This is completely off topic, but you may be interested to know that Win9x/Me is not used anymore. It is now safe for you to come out of your cave again. (Of course, now there is this virus/worm/trojan thing some people are complaining about; the times keep changing)
On my Thinkpad with Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04, the key seems unusable. Whatever combination I try, I only get the "Save Screenshot" dialog.
It is on the same key as "PrtScr", written in blue, so theoretically I should press the blue Fn key and PrtScr to get SysReq.
However, whether I press PrtScr, Fn-PrtScr, Alt-PrtScr or Fn-Alt-PrtScr, all I can do is save a screenshot. (Which is useful, but shouldn't need so many different key combinations for the same effect). So for me, I do have the SysReq key, but apparently no way to use it.
I disagree. On Macs, every time I need to copy a window, I have to search the documentation to find that key combination. On Windows and Linux, i just press Alt-PrtScr and then Ctrl-V to paste wherever I need it.
I read a lot of bad stuff about the new C-200 Popcorn, but mine seems to work fine as a media player. I have many DVD copies (in FILM_TITLE/VIDEO_TS folders; I don't have .iso files). They play fine, including language and subtitle control. The remote control is quite nice. Definitely better than my DVD player's remote, or the A110 remote. Also, the hard drive tray is cool. Just push a bare SATA drive into it, and that's it.
On the other side, there are a few things against it: it's expensive. The Gigabit network port seems slow. There is no real SSH or Telnet access which would have helped tweak the configuration and backing it up. The web server doesn't let you set it up from your browser (you have to use the remote. It is much bigger than the previous A110, so it's not really portable. The Audio player part is unusable because there doesn't seem to be any sort of playlist support.
In the end, it plays the files I want (DVD copies), and even though I can not tweak it as I wished and cannot install an rsync server on it, I can still use rsync by connecting to it's NFS server, and Windows file sharing for the Windows machines.
If you are running amavis, sa-update alone is not enough. You also need to restart amavis so that it picks up the new rules. On a Debian system, that would be something like:
sa-update && /etc/init.d/amavis restart
The spamassassin daily cron job does sa-update, and reloads spamassassin, but doesn't reload amavis.
And here is the one-liner Perl version, using printf's %b:
$ perl -e 'for (0..30) {printf "%031b %s\n", 2**$_, scalar gmtime(2**$_)} for (reverse 0..29) {printf "%031b %s\n", 2**31-2**$_, scalar gmtime(2**31-2**$_)}'
Beware! The parent's code is the well-known Bash fork bomb.
Indeed, that was much more readable. And helped writing this Perl version, despite the Python trap (for a Python-illiterate) of "range(0,31)" apparently meaning "from 0 to 30":
for (0..30) {
print "0"x(30-$_), 1, "0"x$_, " ", scalar gmtime(2**$_), "\n";
}
for (reverse 0..29) {
print "1"x(31-$_), "0"x$_, " ", scalar gmtime(2**31 - 2**$_), "\n";
}
Now, maybe someone can condense it into a smarter one-liner, with some clever use of printf and/or pack/unpack.
Cool. But would someone please translate this obfuscated Ruby into some readable Perl?
Yes, you can do that with NTFS.
I used to store some of my passwords in the NTFS alternate stream of some other file, until I discovered TrueCrypt. (Yes, it was "security through obscurity", so it doesn't really work; but everyone forgets to mention that it is fun)
The data is preserved as long as it stays on NTFS. It is lost when transferred through FTP, copied to another filesystem, zipped, etc.
If I remember correctly, it is preserved when copying through a Windows network to another NTFS drive.
The last crashes were that it wouldn't start at all. After a long search, I found the cause to be that it somehow wrote a bad value in it's config file which prevented it from starting (see here).
Another time, it crashed during a big directory sync. over the local network.
Unfortunately I can't remember the other crashes.
I also hate that the mtime sort also sorts directories by their times, instead of leaving them alone. (that is configurable in TC).
It's viewer cannot handle huge files. It also tries too much to show files formatted, and sometimes doesn't let me switch to raw view.
And it FTP abilities are very limited when compared with TC.
Still, Krusader is what I use most, and I'm sure it will improve with some time.
I do use MC daily, but it lacks many features which I also need. Like directory sync. or simple file comparison with meld (diff is unreadable if there are many differences), or a picture viewer (that could probably be configured, but then I would lose it's fine F3 viewer for the raw content).
I switched to Linux 4 months ago, and what I still miss is a file manager as good as Total Commander. Krusader seems to be the closest and most feature rich, but it just isn't as complete and as polished as Total Commander. And it crashes about once every few days. So sometimes, I have to start a WinXP VM, just to have the power and reliability of Total Commander.
In other words, I don't care so much for little details in Nautilus. It doesn't seem any worse than Windows Explorer, and seems better than the Mac Finder (which is the file manager that Nautilus resembles most). I just wish there would be more resources to improve Krusader.
(Midnight Commander is excellent in a console, and should be part of the base install of every distro)
The article you link to for the whole 12MB thing is a scam, sorry.
Why? What do you mean?
I came across that article because I had that exact problem. I needed the /3GB switch for a particular app (Avid), and suddenly I couldn't connect new external hard disks, and eventually couldn't boot the machine in that /3GB mode. Reducing the size of the system hive to under 12 MB. fixed the problem.
Even 4GB is too much for 32 bit WinXP. The OS will only let any app. use a maximum of 2 GB.
Unless you enable the /3GB switch in boot.ini, which leads to other problems: your registry system hive must now remain smaller than 12 MB.
There is *NO FUCKING REASON* for a POS cash register to need 64 bit hardware or software.
Well, that may depend on the inflation rate in your country, and the accompanying money devaluation rate.
I've been using computers since the early 80s, and hacking very specifically meant someone doing things that the "authorities" would consider crimes
Well, you're too young, kid.
a hacker is a member of the computer programmer subculture originated in the 1960s in the United States academia, in particular around the [...] (MIT)'s Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Nowadays, this subculture is mainly associated with the free software movement.
You seem to refer to The mainstream media's current usage of the term [which] may be traced back to the early 1980s
Google says it's "someone who plays golf poorly".
When the first part of the authentication is done by a Greasemonkey script, keyloggers don't see that. Or do they?
This may sound like a joke, but in fact I do have one part of the authentication scripted in Greasemonkey. That gets me directly to the next step with some sort of challenge-response system involving a calculator-like gadget with my bank card inserted in it.
Of course, if your bank requires nothing else than an account number and a password which you have in a GM script, I would be glad to borrow your computer...
The systems I know are the ones of the swiss post (pdf) and of UBS (pdf). I do wonder if these can be attacked by such instant keloggers.