Perhaps I shouldn't've bothered translating it, becuase you didn't get the joke even in English. Of course the cheese doesn't affect how you rule a country.
And no, you can't come back and say your post was a joke too. It can't be a joke. It's a strong personal attack. Et on a battu le cheval mort way too much for jokes about French inferiority to retain any humor today.
Maybe the French are a nation of pathetic, whiny defeatists, but at least they're pathetic, whiny defeatists with a sense of humor.
FWIW, I've run un-patched Windows2k for years without trouble, largely because I use a hardware NAT (firewall) and avoid Outlook. Even so, I am careful to avoid clicking on the wrong things online
That works well, actually. I've run Windows XP Home for a few years without SP2 nor anti-virus nor personal firewall, and it hasn't slowed to a halt nor given any signs of abnormal activity. The trick? Don't download disreputable software, use Firefox (or Mozilla), and stay behind a firewall/NAT. And run Windows Firewall.
I used to have ZoneAlarm, but I gave up on that because it decided it wanted a dialog box clicked every time I connected via SSH, and the only way I could click it without being there was via unprotected VNC. So I uninstalled it. ZA never caught one real attack attempt from either direction - and not because ZA was poor, but because my setup is strong enough.
Perhaps there is a rootkit, but I haven't noticed even the slightest signs of its activity (such as spurious disk access or Internet connections - noticed from elsewhere, e.g., Ethereal), and I don't even see how it would've gotten installed. I sent it into the DMZ once or twice perhaps (before I figured out how to use the router properly), and the onslaught of Windows Messenger popups convinced me to disable it before a real worm hit.
Oh, and I should mention that my ISP blocks a few ports, such as 135-139, 445, etc. (good) and 25 and 80 (annoying). That keeps me slightly safe even when using the DMZ.
A lot of the time, you're not looking for a true rootkit, but just phone-home malware, which assumes that once your identity/credit card/password has been stolen there's not much you can do about it anyway.
By the way, that's the answer to the original question. netstat -a at a command prompt lists current connections and current listeners. Check the other computers (by googling or whoising them, not by visiting them) to see if they're evil.
And this is different from the display racks in the store how?
Or the advertisemens in magazines (who actually reads the fine print on the next page) or on TV ("more information is available in some magazine you can possibly find at the library")?
Isn't dismissing religion as "knee-jerk zealotry" itself a knee-jerk reaction? I'm all for a fair public discussion, but shutting out the beliefs of the religious seems as short-sighted as shutting out the beliefs of the non-religious.
Yeah, that's what I use. There's a couple of other useful sites (e.g., the NET Bible, a new volunteer translation).
BibleGateway doesn't list all the languages by the search box: the Latin Vulgate (the version written in 405, corrected in the 1500s, and used in Roman Catholicism until the 1960s), for example, is only accessible by going to "Available Versions" on the left. That page also lists some obscure PDF versions (one of which is technically my mother tongue).
Another interesting translation is the "Luther Bibel 1545".
He didn't say the Bible actually said anything about condoms (or even about anything). He said that the so-called religous right will claim that it does - and what's worrisome is that'll be enough for most people.
Martin Luther published one translation of the Bible into German and everyone read it, because the peasants then knew that once they read the Bible for themselves, they would know if the clergy were lying to them. Today we have a bazillion translations of the Bible, many even available online, and we trust the religious right to tell us what it says - to tell us what He says. Is that wise for us, to hand our religion to a political group?
You say "I'm sure it speaks of pre-marital sex." Are you sure because you know for a fact it does, or are you saying "I'm sure" because society has implied that it does, so you think it does? (I know it does because I've seen a few of the passages, but I've heard reasonable arguments that question the translation, and even the passages themselves don't condemn it that strongly IIRC.)
Believe me, the religous right has read the Bible cover to cover, and that's how they know how to wield it. A religious left can as easily read it and use it to their ends too. The Bible doesn't have much to say as far being on the right or on the left (except perhaps Joshua 1:7).
It's nice to see that he has his head screwed on right
Yes, he's completely technically correct - except for that people live(d) in New Orleans and have invested their whole life in the sity. If you could go back to the founding of the city and tell them "hey, this is a bad spot," that would've been awesome. But that's not quite an option now. Even if 40% don't want to return to NO, that means that 60% do.
His head's screwed on but his heart's screwed up.
Put everything on stilts? That'd look nice on bourbon street.
Stilts are acceptable (have you seen many of the older nonplantation houses and buildings in South Louisiana?). I don't know if 6-foot stilts would work, though....
Or you could just build better levees and drainage systems. Or, now that the city's kinda emptyish, bulldoze the parts that are irrevocably ruined, raise the ground level, and rebuild. You don't have to bulldoze most of the city - just some parts.
Or if you've got money to burn you could do what Italy's doing to keep the Leaning Tower from falling - pump soil underground to raise the level of the land. That wouldn't require rebuilding.
How the heck is the fundamentalist right related to anything? I was talking about New Orleans and the ability of Hastert to make sensible statements in public - not who's slanting his statements.
"We have met the enemy and it is us." Well, I have met the enemy, and it is you....
But do you really want Mr. Hastert to say it like it is?
It "doesn't make sense to me" to rebuild a city under sea level, says he. "It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed. You know, we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of earthquake fissures and they rebuild, too. Stubbornness."
I expect similar great insight from this man on his blog. Let NO, SF, and LA be destroyed by the next natural disaster - for a stronger America!
Yeah, they do, and they don't touch the regular telephone network so they're not affected by this clause. Otherwise we'd have to tap everything from AIM to Xbox Live.
And why not? If you want people to do work for free, move to Russia and time travel about half a century back.
And yes, I understand free software and all, but it should be the developer's choice to release the software as free. And most developers who spend at least 40 hours a week working on software aren't willing to work for free.
If you want a Civlike game without paying, freeciv does exist. If you want Civ IV, you'll have to pay.
Inconvenience for the customer is a valid reason for protesting CD requirements. Not wanting to pay isn't.
Go read Atlas Shrugged. You'll probably hate it - and there's nothing wrong with that - but you should at least see her viewpoint.
If this is the same as the California bill in its definition of "violent", it is a good bill. Not all games that involve shooting or killing are necessarily "violent", since this bill's definition of violence involves torture/mental anguish or force beyond what is necessary to kill the enemy. Most fighting games wouldn't then be considered too violent: every strike decreases the opponent's HP (which has a minimum of 0) and does nothing else to them. There's not much gore, and there's nothing that mentally harms the player.
Similarly, Halo single-player has only one part IIRC that would be considered violent: the soldiers sometimes shoot corpses if you're not moving and there are no enemies nearby. Multiplayer isn't that regulable, but it's supposed to be non-"violent": the only infringing aspect would be teabagging, etc.
I can't say anythinng for games such as GTA, because I've never played it, but unless it involves really bothering/torturing people instead of merely shooting it, it probably won't be considered violent.
So this is a good bill. It doesn't affect most games rated M for pure violence.
George W. Bush can use MS Word. He can also use OpenOffice.org. I doubt he'll be able to use LaTeX without training.
Do you want to be one of the people involved in teaching Bush to use LaTeX? And remember that not just Bush but every government employee and elected official has to learn it, if it becomes a federal standard. (Replace President with Governor, etc., if only Massachusetts adopts it.)
LaTeX is a good format only because it forces the user to think about how they're styling their document. And most of the time people don't want to think about it - they just want to start typing and then drag some margins or set some fonts if necessary. For example, I still haven't figured out a clean way (other than running metafont a few times) to print flyers in large size with LaTeX - I tried once or twice, gave up, and typed and printed the thing from Word in half a minute.
LaTeX is a format, not an editor. The format gains its advantage mainly if people work with it. If you come up with a WYSIWYG LaTeX editor that works like Word, then a) you lose the advantage of LaTeX as a plan-based instead of a design-based format (think old HTML with <h1> and modern editor HTML with endless <font> tags), and b) you'll get better results - more reliable storage - in OpenDocument or MS Office.doc than in LaTeX.
LaTeX is a great format, but it isn't in the running because it doesn't have the same philosophy as.doc,.sxw, even.wpd, etc.
(note that the "DVI" part of that makes a HUGE difference - Most of the artifacts people blame on poor response time actually come from doing an unnecessary D2A2D conversion)
Yeah, I always get higher quality by printing the DVI file directly instead of running dvipdf and printing that.
If you know a cooling solution cheaper than what he provided, why not post that instead?
Download software that keeps your fan on constantly. (I had to do this to my mom's laptop because it was overheating badly even without processor load.)
Turn off some devices in Device Manager (or your OS's equivalent), or unplug PC cards / modular disk drives / anything else that can be unplugged.
Run the laptop in a cooler environment.
Close other programs, in case it's just overload that's slowing down the computer. (Close Explorer while you're at it.)
Prop the computer up on something like LEGO blocks so that it isn't building up heat against the table, your lap, etc. Remove it from the table at once if you're ruhning it there - air simply will not flow!
Check for dust and obstructions in the fan.
See what the company's warranty will do. Bad components are not unheard of.
Keep the computer in the freezer (in a tight, nonporous Ziploc bag) when not in use, so that it's much cooler when you start using it. I can't guarantee it's a good idea for a computer, but it worked well on a PC card my dad was having trouble with.
Slow down your computer's processor (powersave mode) - you'll get a slightly slower framerate, but it probably won't overheat.
Along with the above, try changing game settings so that it demands less of your processor.
Place the computer in the path of a good fan.
And the only solution I list that costs money: Get a laptop without heating problems. I have an original iBook that was designed not to need a fan (partially because of its internal design and airflow, and partially because its rounded shape allows more slots on the side). I have used it in hot climates (90-100 deg F) without even the slightest hint of heating problems - or any noticeable emitted heat from the laptop.
Hey, Retard (and no, I'm not insulting you, I'm just using the name YOU chose upon YOURSELF)...ever heard of common sense?
Throwing money at a problem is almost never the right solution.
If you're going to use Google, at least look for some answer to your question than some unrelated store. You're lucky that he said it was an overheating problem, or you'd've given us a nice page on buying new laptops and felt smart for it.
Actually, I have a way you could be useful. Why don't YOU pay for whatever stupid device you want him to get?
And why just 10 seconds of Googling instead of looking for something worthwhile? Is your attention span only 11 seconds?
(Yes, I'm getting abusive and trollish. I know. But honestly, does a guy named "Hey, Retard..." deserve any better?)
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Perhaps I shouldn't've bothered translating it, becuase you didn't get the joke even in English. Of course the cheese doesn't affect how you rule a country.
And no, you can't come back and say your post was a joke too. It can't be a joke. It's a strong personal attack. Et on a battu le cheval mort way too much for jokes about French inferiority to retain any humor today.
Maybe the French are a nation of pathetic, whiny defeatists, but at least they're pathetic, whiny defeatists with a sense of humor.
They are merely reciting all of the different types of cheese they have eaten in their lifetime.
Reminds me of Charles de Gaulle, the famous French leader:
"How can you govern a country that has 246 different kinds of cheese?"
FWIW, I've run un-patched Windows2k for years without trouble, largely because I use a hardware NAT (firewall) and avoid Outlook. Even so, I am careful to avoid clicking on the wrong things online
That works well, actually. I've run Windows XP Home for a few years without SP2 nor anti-virus nor personal firewall, and it hasn't slowed to a halt nor given any signs of abnormal activity. The trick? Don't download disreputable software, use Firefox (or Mozilla), and stay behind a firewall/NAT. And run Windows Firewall.
I used to have ZoneAlarm, but I gave up on that because it decided it wanted a dialog box clicked every time I connected via SSH, and the only way I could click it without being there was via unprotected VNC. So I uninstalled it. ZA never caught one real attack attempt from either direction - and not because ZA was poor, but because my setup is strong enough.
Perhaps there is a rootkit, but I haven't noticed even the slightest signs of its activity (such as spurious disk access or Internet connections - noticed from elsewhere, e.g., Ethereal), and I don't even see how it would've gotten installed. I sent it into the DMZ once or twice perhaps (before I figured out how to use the router properly), and the onslaught of Windows Messenger popups convinced me to disable it before a real worm hit.
Oh, and I should mention that my ISP blocks a few ports, such as 135-139, 445, etc. (good) and 25 and 80 (annoying). That keeps me slightly safe even when using the DMZ.
A lot of the time, you're not looking for a true rootkit, but just phone-home malware, which assumes that once your identity/credit card/password has been stolen there's not much you can do about it anyway.
Try CoDeeN, courtesy of your local PlanetLab node.
If that doesn't work, run an SSH tunnel through it. Of course they'll know you're using SSH, but what you're doing is very securely encrypted.
Steve: It's over, Eric! I have the high market share!
Eric: You underestimate my employees!
Steve: You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy OSS, not join it!
O.o y dont u like emoticons
Does it do something more than just netstat -a?
By the way, that's the answer to the original question. netstat -a at a command prompt lists current connections and current listeners. Check the other computers (by googling or whoising them, not by visiting them) to see if they're evil.
And this is different from the display racks in the store how?
Or the advertisemens in magazines (who actually reads the fine print on the next page) or on TV ("more information is available in some magazine you can possibly find at the library")?
not more knee-jerk religious zealoutry.
Isn't dismissing religion as "knee-jerk zealotry" itself a knee-jerk reaction? I'm all for a fair public discussion, but shutting out the beliefs of the religious seems as short-sighted as shutting out the beliefs of the non-religious.
Not everything about religion is bad, you know.
Yeah, that's what I use. There's a couple of other useful sites (e.g., the NET Bible, a new volunteer translation).
BibleGateway doesn't list all the languages by the search box: the Latin Vulgate (the version written in 405, corrected in the 1500s, and used in Roman Catholicism until the 1960s), for example, is only accessible by going to "Available Versions" on the left. That page also lists some obscure PDF versions (one of which is technically my mother tongue).
Another interesting translation is the "Luther Bibel 1545".
He didn't say the Bible actually said anything about condoms (or even about anything). He said that the so-called religous right will claim that it does - and what's worrisome is that'll be enough for most people.
Martin Luther published one translation of the Bible into German and everyone read it, because the peasants then knew that once they read the Bible for themselves, they would know if the clergy were lying to them. Today we have a bazillion translations of the Bible, many even available online, and we trust the religious right to tell us what it says - to tell us what He says. Is that wise for us, to hand our religion to a political group?
You say "I'm sure it speaks of pre-marital sex." Are you sure because you know for a fact it does, or are you saying "I'm sure" because society has implied that it does, so you think it does? (I know it does because I've seen a few of the passages, but I've heard reasonable arguments that question the translation, and even the passages themselves don't condemn it that strongly IIRC.)
Believe me, the religous right has read the Bible cover to cover, and that's how they know how to wield it. A religious left can as easily read it and use it to their ends too. The Bible doesn't have much to say as far being on the right or on the left (except perhaps Joshua 1:7).
It's nice to see that he has his head screwed on right
Yes, he's completely technically correct - except for that people live(d) in New Orleans and have invested their whole life in the sity. If you could go back to the founding of the city and tell them "hey, this is a bad spot," that would've been awesome. But that's not quite an option now. Even if 40% don't want to return to NO, that means that 60% do.
His head's screwed on but his heart's screwed up.
Put everything on stilts? That'd look nice on bourbon street.
Stilts are acceptable (have you seen many of the older nonplantation houses and buildings in South Louisiana?). I don't know if 6-foot stilts would work, though....
Or you could just build better levees and drainage systems. Or, now that the city's kinda emptyish, bulldoze the parts that are irrevocably ruined, raise the ground level, and rebuild. You don't have to bulldoze most of the city - just some parts.
Or if you've got money to burn you could do what Italy's doing to keep the Leaning Tower from falling - pump soil underground to raise the level of the land. That wouldn't require rebuilding.
How the heck is the fundamentalist right related to anything? I was talking about New Orleans and the ability of Hastert to make sensible statements in public - not who's slanting his statements.
"We have met the enemy and it is us." Well, I have met the enemy, and it is you....
But do you really want Mr. Hastert to say it like it is?
It "doesn't make sense to me" to rebuild a city under sea level, says he. "It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed. You know, we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of earthquake fissures and they rebuild, too. Stubbornness."
I expect similar great insight from this man on his blog. Let NO, SF, and LA be destroyed by the next natural disaster - for a stronger America!
Yeah, they do, and they don't touch the regular telephone network so they're not affected by this clause. Otherwise we'd have to tap everything from AIM to Xbox Live.
we want to get paid
And why not? If you want people to do work for free, move to Russia and time travel about half a century back.
And yes, I understand free software and all, but it should be the developer's choice to release the software as free. And most developers who spend at least 40 hours a week working on software aren't willing to work for free.
If you want a Civlike game without paying, freeciv does exist. If you want Civ IV, you'll have to pay.
Inconvenience for the customer is a valid reason for protesting CD requirements. Not wanting to pay isn't.
Go read Atlas Shrugged. You'll probably hate it - and there's nothing wrong with that - but you should at least see her viewpoint.
If this is the same as the California bill in its definition of "violent", it is a good bill. Not all games that involve shooting or killing are necessarily "violent", since this bill's definition of violence involves torture/mental anguish or force beyond what is necessary to kill the enemy. Most fighting games wouldn't then be considered too violent: every strike decreases the opponent's HP (which has a minimum of 0) and does nothing else to them. There's not much gore, and there's nothing that mentally harms the player.
Similarly, Halo single-player has only one part IIRC that would be considered violent: the soldiers sometimes shoot corpses if you're not moving and there are no enemies nearby. Multiplayer isn't that regulable, but it's supposed to be non-"violent": the only infringing aspect would be teabagging, etc.
I can't say anythinng for games such as GTA, because I've never played it, but unless it involves really bothering/torturing people instead of merely shooting it, it probably won't be considered violent.
So this is a good bill. It doesn't affect most games rated M for pure violence.
George W. Bush can use MS Word. He can also use OpenOffice.org. I doubt he'll be able to use LaTeX without training.
.doc than in LaTeX.
.doc, .sxw, even .wpd, etc.
Do you want to be one of the people involved in teaching Bush to use LaTeX? And remember that not just Bush but every government employee and elected official has to learn it, if it becomes a federal standard. (Replace President with Governor, etc., if only Massachusetts adopts it.)
LaTeX is a good format only because it forces the user to think about how they're styling their document. And most of the time people don't want to think about it - they just want to start typing and then drag some margins or set some fonts if necessary. For example, I still haven't figured out a clean way (other than running metafont a few times) to print flyers in large size with LaTeX - I tried once or twice, gave up, and typed and printed the thing from Word in half a minute.
LaTeX is a format, not an editor. The format gains its advantage mainly if people work with it. If you come up with a WYSIWYG LaTeX editor that works like Word, then a) you lose the advantage of LaTeX as a plan-based instead of a design-based format (think old HTML with <h1> and modern editor HTML with endless <font> tags), and b) you'll get better results - more reliable storage - in OpenDocument or MS Office
LaTeX is a great format, but it isn't in the running because it doesn't have the same philosophy as
(note that the "DVI" part of that makes a HUGE difference - Most of the artifacts people blame on poor response time actually come from doing an unnecessary D2A2D conversion)
Yeah, I always get higher quality by printing the DVI file directly instead of running dvipdf and printing that.
Remember y2k? Who do you think caused the problem in the first place? It wasn't guys either my age or yours. :-)
The awards are paid for anyways
...what's that you say about Google being a co-sponsor of the event?
Well, Slashdot was nominated, so I think it's a little more honest than you...
If you know a cooling solution cheaper than what he provided, why not post that instead?
Download software that keeps your fan on constantly. (I had to do this to my mom's laptop because it was overheating badly even without processor load.)
Turn off some devices in Device Manager (or your OS's equivalent), or unplug PC cards / modular disk drives / anything else that can be unplugged.
Run the laptop in a cooler environment.
Close other programs, in case it's just overload that's slowing down the computer. (Close Explorer while you're at it.)
Prop the computer up on something like LEGO blocks so that it isn't building up heat against the table, your lap, etc. Remove it from the table at once if you're ruhning it there - air simply will not flow!
Check for dust and obstructions in the fan.
See what the company's warranty will do. Bad components are not unheard of.
Keep the computer in the freezer (in a tight, nonporous Ziploc bag) when not in use, so that it's much cooler when you start using it. I can't guarantee it's a good idea for a computer, but it worked well on a PC card my dad was having trouble with.
Slow down your computer's processor (powersave mode) - you'll get a slightly slower framerate, but it probably won't overheat.
Along with the above, try changing game settings so that it demands less of your processor.
Place the computer in the path of a good fan.
And the only solution I list that costs money: Get a laptop without heating problems. I have an original iBook that was designed not to need a fan (partially because of its internal design and airflow, and partially because its rounded shape allows more slots on the side). I have used it in hot climates (90-100 deg F) without even the slightest hint of heating problems - or any noticeable emitted heat from the laptop.
Hey, Retard (and no, I'm not insulting you, I'm just using the name YOU chose upon YOURSELF)...ever heard of common sense?
Throwing money at a problem is almost never the right solution.
If you're going to use Google, at least look for some answer to your question than some unrelated store. You're lucky that he said it was an overheating problem, or you'd've given us a nice page on buying new laptops and felt smart for it.
Actually, I have a way you could be useful. Why don't YOU pay for whatever stupid device you want him to get?
And why just 10 seconds of Googling instead of looking for something worthwhile? Is your attention span only 11 seconds?
(Yes, I'm getting abusive and trollish. I know. But honestly, does a guy named "Hey, Retard..." deserve any better?)
Why are storm names female?
Right, those classic female names Andrew, Charlie, Francis, Mitch, and so forth. Just like my dear papa.