Re:For those of us who don't follow mozilla.org...
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SeaMonkey 1.0 Released
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I just opened up the OS X version of Mozilla 1.7 and SeaMonkey 1.0, they appear to be the same. At first glance they look exactly the same except for the name. They even use the same profile. What differentiates SeaMonkey from Mozilla?
As long as you don't need WPA, get a card with an rt2x00 series chip. The drivers work fine, though they are not yet good enough to be merged into the kernel. http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/
And as long as you use the 2.4 series of kernel. I have been unable to compile the driver for 2.6.15.
That's just what I need, my iPod to release glue in my pockets everytime my keys rub up against it. It's bad enough when the caps slip off of pens which then leak ink.
Coincidently, it was twenty years ago today that my first sexually transmiteed virus, Herpes, was discovered. Compared to today's potential bird flu, its a minor virus, and like Brain, it spread by my "floppy disk" (as I like to call it).
But don't you have to upgrade to a hard drive in order to transmit it?
Re:One thing perl is still good for.
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What is Perl 6?
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One thing that perl is good for that I hope it continues to be good for in the future in command line scripting.
What is this "command line" thing of which you speak? I vaguely remember a retiring programmer telling me about using it and other mythical computing concepts such as GPL licensing , POSIX standards and Unix environments, but I always thought they were just fairy tales.
Keep up the good work! Thanks guys, without you jumping on every Winblows exploit, we would never have gotten where we are today. Linux and OS X for a brighter future! - The Apple Team
That message is in the file:
/System/Library/Extensions/Thanks For the help.kext
I don't think it'll be that hard. All we have to do is get GRUB working on the thing and I bet Windows running the ACPI Uniprocessor HAL will pick up the devices. GRUB has an EFI port, IIRC.
The Linux kernel 2.6 series supports EFI and the help message says that ELILO already supports EFI. Of course, guessing from the name, you would have to switch back to a LILO like loader.
In my opinion, the iPod is a superior MP3 player... it has no FM tuner, but these...
Steve Jobs announced the iPod Radio Remote in his keynote presentation. So for $50 you can listen to FM radio on your iPod... However I though the whole point of an MP3 player is to listen to the music you like, not what the DJ likes.
The only MP3 player that I know of which will work with a non-FAT filesystem is the iPod, which on the Mac can be formatted as HFS/HFS+. Unfortunately, I don't think this is really going to help you as a Linux user, as you'll probably need a Mac to reinitialize/reformat the iPod to use HFS/HFS+, may need to install extra software to be able to
The iPod looks like any other usb-storage device to a Linux system. In order to switch the iPod to HFS+ using a Linux system, you will need to compile support into your Kernel for "Apple's Extended HFS File System" and "Macintosh partition map support" which is available in both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. You will also need HFSUtils which are installed with Slackware (I don't know about other distros).
mount HFS/HFS+ partitions under Linux, and will need to run iTunes through some sort of emulator to manage your music. Ick.
Or you could use one of the open source iPod applications such as gtkpod, gnupod, mypod, or one of many others. I've only used GTKPod which has worked great for me.
The iPod can use HFS+ which is supported by the Linux kernel. I have been using it since the 2.4 series kernel. I started using it instead of vfat on my iPod before I bought a Mac because it supports Unix file permissions and ownerships which is nice since I also used it to transfer files between multiple Linux workstations.
Actually this is probably a good idea since a great majority of people nowadays do not even need the PC-Card slot for anything.
If you are using the laptop, then you are likely using the mouse thus the port would be available for other PC cards. So unless you need to keep a PC card in your laptop while you are not using it (actively interacting with the mouse and keyboard) you would not loose your ability to use your PC card for other things.
Actually hydrogen does not provide twice the lift of helium. In ideal conditions hydrogen has roughly 7% more lift.
Helium has an atomic weight of 4.002602. A diatomic Hydrogen molecule at an atomic weight of 4.002602 is half the weight of a single helium module. However lift is determined from the difference in weight between the gas inside the envelope and the gas outside of the envelope.
Normal air is composed of 78.084% Nitrogen, 20.947% Oxygen,.934% Argon, and.002% CO2 by molecules (I forgot where I found these figures) so normal air has an average atomic weight of 28.951.
Assuming the tempature and pressure is the same inside and outside the envelope there would be an equal amount of normal air molecules displaced by the gas used to fill the envelope (for now disregarding the material of the envelope). As a result helium would have an atomic lift of 24.948 and hydrogen would have an atomic lift of 26.935.
If you would like to see more about the ratios of Lighter Than Air (LTA) lift and how some variables affect lift, I wrote a lift calculator a few years ago.
I am not a chemist, so some of the above may be inaccurate, but the concept should be sound.
My understanding is that OSPF does not dip into a database to perform routing decisions. The patent is for a method to tie least cost routing into a database. Even if the idea of least cost routing, which BTW the CEO of RTI helped develop in the '70s, has prior art, the concept of using a database to make the determination probably does not have prior art that precedes 1994 when the patent was granted.
As for it being a blatant attempt to use a trash patent against a deep-pocketed vicitm, I agree with you. However this tactic has already worked against the likes of Cisco, Lucent, and Nortel along with 700 other smaller companies. The saving point for Google Talk may be that it does not interface with a telephone line which is explicitly mentioned in the patent. Nortel, Cisco, and Lucent all have gear (even VoIP gear) that interfaces with telephone lines (even Cisco's Call Manager Express has the ability to have a backup POTs line for emergency services in the event that the connectivity to the gateway is unavailable.
The patent 5,425,085 appears to be for the device that implements least cost routing using a database, not the concept and patent 5,519,769 appears to be the method to update the database. A conversation with the CEO of RTI indicates that Sharp Electronics, Cisco, Nortel, and Lucent have already paid for the permission to use this patent or a Covenant Not Sue (CNS).
I'm willing to bet that you are using Cisco, Nortel, or Lucent gear at your shop to perform least cost routing which why you would not have to pay RTI a CNS since you are covered by your gear's manufacturer. In addition, the patents only refer to devices that use databses to determine routing, if your configuration is manually updated the patent would not apply to you. The problem with Google talk is that the "device" is the clients' computers (and I doubt seriously that Dell, HP, Apple, etc have paid for the permission to use this patent) and the database is Google's server.
Now I am not sure how his patent can apply towards Google Talk since telephone lines are not used by Google Talk and the patent '085 explicitly specifies telephone lines. I also read references that the patent has been revised over the last few years, but I lost the links to support this statement.
It is not a matter of the ISP trying to protect the individual, but a matter of the ISP trying to protect the ability to provide service to others. I work at an ISP in Alaska. We are having to take preventive measures to ensure that our entire network is not black listed by larger ISPs such as AOL.
We may be inconveniencing a small minority of our users, but we trying to maintain access for the majority of users. If we allowed our network to be in a perpetual blacklist, we would eventually not have any subscribers since they would transfer to providers that take measures to allow most of the subscribers to use services that the subscriber pays for.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess you probably think "Safari" is a terrible name for a browser, because you don't make the connection with surfin' and exploring.
In addition most people starting on a Mac don't use the names to open applications, but the icons in the dock. They click on the "compass" to nagivate, explore, and browse the web. They click on the the "postage stamp" for email, the "Musical note on a CD" for music, and the "chat bubble" for instant messaging. The list goes on.
If you really want to get petty and just use the names instead of the dock to open applications, Mail.app is more intuitive than msimn.exe, and Preview.app is more intuitive than AcroRd32.exe. The naming list can go on as well.
Your "tabs" in Internet Explorer are only available on the Window's platform. For those of us that use Apple's OS X or Linux the Window's task bar is not going to cut it. In addition I usually have 11 - 20 tabs open that reference various API documentation. Having 11-20 windows open can really clutter a desktop so even when I have to lower my standards and use a Windows workstation, I prefer to use Firefox tabbing to reduce the clutter from multiple open windows.
Re:Bash build a program now in 10 easy seconds
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Build a Program Now
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I can trim 9 seconds off that and make it more portable:
Not all systems have/bin/bash, but/bin/sh is pretty universal. In addition expecting a nube to use vi without telling them to use ESC to exit insert mode is just cruel.:)
What exactly would be a minor state's state goverment be? One whose State has less voting power in the House of Reps such as Alaska or one that is geographically smaller such as New York?
If Coke invents some new thing and decides to keep it a secret, you can tell them how you feel by not buying any Coke. You have no choice with the government.
You can tell the government how you feel by voting out the current politicians at election time in favor of politicians that agree with your beliefs and ideals. You choice is to vote for or against currently elected officials. Granted this will not help you at this precise moment, but neither will not buying Coca-Cola products provide instant results from Coca-Cola.
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I just opened up the OS X version of Mozilla 1.7 and SeaMonkey 1.0, they appear to be the same. At first glance they look exactly the same except for the name. They even use the same profile. What differentiates SeaMonkey from Mozilla?
I think we should just submit them to a public stoning... they might actually consider not doing it again!
Death tends to make people lethargic and unmotivated, as a result most do not repeat transgressions once they are dead.
As long as you don't need WPA, get a card with an rt2x00 series chip. The drivers work fine, though they are not yet good enough to be merged into the kernel. http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/
And as long as you use the 2.4 series of kernel. I have been unable to compile the driver for 2.6.15.
effectively crackproof consumer electronics
That's just what I need, my iPod to release glue in my pockets everytime my keys rub up against it. It's bad enough when the caps slip off of pens which then leak ink.
Coincidently, it was twenty years ago today that my first sexually transmiteed virus, Herpes, was discovered. Compared to today's potential bird flu, its a minor virus, and like Brain, it spread by my "floppy disk" (as I like to call it).
But don't you have to upgrade to a hard drive in order to transmit it?
One thing that perl is good for that I hope it continues to be good for in the future in command line scripting.
What is this "command line" thing of which you speak? I vaguely remember a retiring programmer telling me about using it and other mythical computing concepts such as GPL licensing , POSIX standards and Unix environments, but I always thought they were just fairy tales.
Keep up the good work! Thanks guys, without you jumping on every Winblows exploit, we would never have gotten where we are today. Linux and OS X for a brighter future! - The Apple Team
/System/Library/Extensions/Thanks For the help.kext
That message is in the file:
I don't think it'll be that hard. All we have to do is get GRUB working on the thing and I bet Windows running the ACPI Uniprocessor HAL will pick up the devices. GRUB has an EFI port, IIRC.
The Linux kernel 2.6 series supports EFI and the help message says that ELILO already supports EFI. Of course, guessing from the name, you would have to switch back to a LILO like loader.
In my opinion, the iPod is a superior MP3 player ... it has no FM tuner, but these...
Steve Jobs announced the iPod Radio Remote in his keynote presentation. So for $50 you can listen to FM radio on your iPod... However I though the whole point of an MP3 player is to listen to the music you like, not what the DJ likes.
The only MP3 player that I know of which will work with a non-FAT filesystem is the iPod, which on the Mac can be formatted as HFS/HFS+. Unfortunately, I don't think this is really going to help you as a Linux user, as you'll probably need a Mac to reinitialize/reformat the iPod to use HFS/HFS+, may need to install extra software to be able to
The iPod looks like any other usb-storage device to a Linux system. In order to switch the iPod to HFS+ using a Linux system, you will need to compile support into your Kernel for "Apple's Extended HFS File System" and "Macintosh partition map support" which is available in both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. You will also need HFSUtils which are installed with Slackware (I don't know about other distros).
mount HFS/HFS+ partitions under Linux, and will need to run iTunes through some sort of emulator to manage your music. Ick.
Or you could use one of the open source iPod applications such as gtkpod, gnupod, mypod, or one of many others. I've only used GTKPod which has worked great for me.
The iPod can use HFS+ which is supported by the Linux kernel. I have been using it since the 2.4 series kernel. I started using it instead of vfat on my iPod before I bought a Mac because it supports Unix file permissions and ownerships which is nice since I also used it to transfer files between multiple Linux workstations.
iBook user I presume? I wonder how well this will work in the PC card slot on my Powerbook.
Actually this is probably a good idea since a great majority of people nowadays do not even need the PC-Card slot for anything.
If you are using the laptop, then you are likely using the mouse thus the port would be available for other PC cards. So unless you need to keep a PC card in your laptop while you are not using it (actively interacting with the mouse and keyboard) you would not loose your ability to use your PC card for other things.
First, hydrogen gives twice the lift of helium.
.934% Argon, and .002% CO2 by molecules (I forgot where I found these figures) so normal air has an average atomic weight of 28.951.
Actually hydrogen does not provide twice the lift of helium. In ideal conditions hydrogen has roughly 7% more lift.
Helium has an atomic weight of 4.002602. A diatomic Hydrogen molecule at an atomic weight of 4.002602 is half the weight of a single helium module. However lift is determined from the difference in weight between the gas inside the envelope and the gas outside of the envelope.
Normal air is composed of 78.084% Nitrogen, 20.947% Oxygen,
Assuming the tempature and pressure is the same inside and outside the envelope there would be an equal amount of normal air molecules displaced by the gas used to fill the envelope (for now disregarding the material of the envelope). As a result helium would have an atomic lift of 24.948 and hydrogen would have an atomic lift of 26.935.
If you would like to see more about the ratios of Lighter Than Air (LTA) lift and how some variables affect lift, I wrote a lift calculator a few years ago.
I am not a chemist, so some of the above may be inaccurate, but the concept should be sound.
My understanding is that OSPF does not dip into a database to perform routing decisions. The patent is for a method to tie least cost routing into a database. Even if the idea of least cost routing, which BTW the CEO of RTI helped develop in the '70s, has prior art, the concept of using a database to make the determination probably does not have prior art that precedes 1994 when the patent was granted.
As for it being a blatant attempt to use a trash patent against a deep-pocketed vicitm, I agree with you. However this tactic has already worked against the likes of Cisco, Lucent, and Nortel along with 700 other smaller companies. The saving point for Google Talk may be that it does not interface with a telephone line which is explicitly mentioned in the patent. Nortel, Cisco, and Lucent all have gear (even VoIP gear) that interfaces with telephone lines (even Cisco's Call Manager Express has the ability to have a backup POTs line for emergency services in the event that the connectivity to the gateway is unavailable.
The patent 5,425,085 appears to be for the device that implements least cost routing using a database, not the concept and patent 5,519,769 appears to be the method to update the database. A conversation with the CEO of RTI indicates that Sharp Electronics, Cisco, Nortel, and Lucent have already paid for the permission to use this patent or a Covenant Not Sue (CNS).
I'm willing to bet that you are using Cisco, Nortel, or Lucent gear at your shop to perform least cost routing which why you would not have to pay RTI a CNS since you are covered by your gear's manufacturer. In addition, the patents only refer to devices that use databses to determine routing, if your configuration is manually updated the patent would not apply to you. The problem with Google talk is that the "device" is the clients' computers (and I doubt seriously that Dell, HP, Apple, etc have paid for the permission to use this patent) and the database is Google's server.
Now I am not sure how his patent can apply towards Google Talk since telephone lines are not used by Google Talk and the patent '085 explicitly specifies telephone lines. I also read references that the patent has been revised over the last few years, but I lost the links to support this statement.
The Internet is better than Alaska, where the men are men and the women are too.
It is not a matter of the ISP trying to protect the individual, but a matter of the ISP trying to protect the ability to provide service to others. I work at an ISP in Alaska. We are having to take preventive measures to ensure that our entire network is not black listed by larger ISPs such as AOL.
We may be inconveniencing a small minority of our users, but we trying to maintain access for the majority of users. If we allowed our network to be in a perpetual blacklist, we would eventually not have any subscribers since they would transfer to providers that take measures to allow most of the subscribers to use services that the subscriber pays for.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess you probably think "Safari" is a terrible name for a browser, because you don't make the connection with surfin' and exploring.
In addition most people starting on a Mac don't use the names to open applications, but the icons in the dock. They click on the "compass" to nagivate, explore, and browse the web. They click on the the "postage stamp" for email, the "Musical note on a CD" for music, and the "chat bubble" for instant messaging. The list goes on.
If you really want to get petty and just use the names instead of the dock to open applications, Mail.app is more intuitive than msimn.exe, and Preview.app is more intuitive than AcroRd32.exe. The naming list can go on as well.
I thought Microsoft was a big company based in the US, not India, so wouldn't it be Big American?
Yes, I know he was talking about byte order.
Your "tabs" in Internet Explorer are only available on the Window's platform. For those of us that use Apple's OS X or Linux the Window's task bar is not going to cut it. In addition I usually have 11 - 20 tabs open that reference various API documentation. Having 11-20 windows open can really clutter a desktop so even when I have to lower my standards and use a Windows workstation, I prefer to use Firefox tabbing to reduce the clutter from multiple open windows.
I can trim 9 seconds off that and make it more portable:
./program.sh
/bin/bash, but /bin/sh is pretty universal. In addition expecting a nube to use vi without telling them to use ESC to exit insert mode is just cruel. :)
cat << EOF > program.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo 'Hello World!'
EOF
chmod +x program.sh
Output:
Hello World!
Not all systems have
...a major state's state government...
What exactly would be a minor state's state goverment be? One whose State has less voting power in the House of Reps such as Alaska or one that is geographically smaller such as New York?
If Coke invents some new thing and decides to keep it a secret, you can tell them how you feel by not buying any Coke. You have no choice with the government.
You can tell the government how you feel by voting out the current politicians at election time in favor of politicians that agree with your beliefs and ideals. You choice is to vote for or against currently elected officials. Granted this will not help you at this precise moment, but neither will not buying Coca-Cola products provide instant results from Coca-Cola.
You'll have to pry my child from my cold dead hand and you'll have to pry your throat from the other hand.
I am only partly joking, in reality both hands would be on your throat and my child would be in my wife's arms.