good point - my current config (i live with my girlfriend and her pairents, in her room), due to limited space, we got rid of the TV and the computer and monitor is also the tv - with the bgger HD im going to buy in a week or so, and a piece of OSS software that im going to have to find plus the dvd writer im going to buy, it wont be hard to extend the current config to record tv programs and put them on dvd's (i could edit them manually i suppose, and take the adverts out before putting them on dvd)
maybe a company should write a completely new smtp protocol, write clients and servers, and encrypt their traffic with rot13 or base64. its not as if people can reverse engineer anything that complicated....
i say this everytime, but nobody ever replies or mods me (so i assume nobody reads it)
all we need is an extention to the smtp protocol where the pop server says "did you send $HASH_OF_EMAIL" to $SERVER_HEADER" and have a huge list of trusted isp's (which could run as an extention to dns, with a "trusted smtp server" field). if this was properly regulated, it would work, and would only require a certified domain name (registering on dns is cheap, so so could this be). if there were any abuses, the certification of the domain could be simply removed
good point - if people cant be bothered to name stuff differently to document1.doc document2.doc, theyre not going to add metadata to their files, although a full text search would help those people (i thought find in windows explorer could do that using ole or com). not used windows for ages though, so i cant remember
I contacted the UK TV advertising watchdog (cant remember what they're called) a few weeks ago about diamond, here's their reply.
Dear Mr Robinson
Diamond Car Insurance
Thank you for contacting us.
I am sorry that this advertisement concerned you. The television companies are responsible for ensuring that the advertising they carry complies with our codes. Among other things, we expect them to make sure that any claims are justified and to seek the advice of independent consultants where the claims are technical, complex or disputed.
Section 45 of the Sex Discrimination Act permits preferential treatment in relation to certain types of insurance. The broadcasters have received substantiation to show that female drivers have a better claims record on their motor insurance policies than male drivers. (This does not, of course, mean that there are no good male drivers.) As such, Diamond is entitled to offer preferential rates to women. Therefore we have concluded that the reference to better drivers in the context of an insurance advertisement will be understood.
Even though we dont have grounds to intervene on this occasion thank you for taking the trouble to raise this matter.
Yours sincerely
Alistair Hall Broadcast Team Officer - Contact Centre Office of Communications Riverside House 2A Southwark Bridge Road London SE1 9HA www.ofcom.org.uk
it would require a new mail propagation protocol and a whitelist of smtp servers, but hey, it will eliminate spam from zombies:
client sends email (after authenticating) through esmtp server sends an email to mail server. mail server then connects to esmtp server and says "did you send this message $HASH". smtp2 server then says yes or no. Any email which is verified by a whitelisted esmtp server is flagged as not spam by the mail server (pop3, httpmail, whatever), all other email could be flagged as spam and delivered, but with a spam flag in the header (could not be spoofed as it is placed there by the pop3 server. This way old servers would still beable to send email (although they would be marked as spam, the spam header could be removed by the client, if it is from a trusted address or whatever), and any emails sent using the new mail propagation protocol would automatically be flagged as not spam (woo!).
only problem is, who would maintain a whitelist? i suppose governments could do this, and the pop3 server could be configured to use any/many different whitelist servers.
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i recommend waiting until somebody comes round (a neighbour) and coax them into the back garden, using a system of fences. after youve got them in the back garden, create a prison, with a picket fence instead of the jail bars (you cant get jail bars). that normally kills them off, because you dont feed them.
alternatively, a similar setup, but with a building (no room to move), hideous wall paper, mirrors on all walls.
i also once setup a mafia drugs lab (obviously it wasn't really a mafia drugs lab).
if the game was interesting in itself, i wouldn't have done these things.
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your gui's crash?
sounds like dodgy hardware to me. the last time my slackware box crashed (except once a few weeks ago due to misconfiguration) was, erm, i cant actually remember it (long time ago)
maybe your only use very dodgy distro's/software, but more likely, your using crap hardware.
a good place to start is search for slax (its a live distro). when it asks for the boot option, press F1 and it will offer you a memory test, run that.
would it not be possible to write a plugin for QT to use GTK themes and a plugin for GTK to use QT's themes (i know qt and gtk cant be hotswapped because they are both more than just widgets). This way, everything looks the same.
beowolf (is that spelt right) is not the only type of cluster. there are clusters such as openmosix that will cluster applications that aren't even written specially - its a kernel module. if i wanted a stupidly fast kde desktop, for example, i could get a room full of cheap x86's and cluster them using linux and openmosix.
when i use opera on linux (99% of the time), i identify as MSIE6 on windows 2k to get round those crappy websites that tell me im using the wrong os/browser.
im sure a hell of a lot of other people do this too.
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will somebody please explain to me why with the joke about al gore inventing the internet?
everybody (well a bloke i was going to build a computer for) knows that "bill gates runs the internet", so how did he take it away from al gore?
yep - all those fantasy horses in those western/sci-fi's were crazy. just crazy.
different file formats with different compression ratio's?
good point - my current config (i live with my girlfriend and her pairents, in her room), due to limited space, we got rid of the TV and the computer and monitor is also the tv - with the bgger HD im going to buy in a week or so, and a piece of OSS software that im going to have to find plus the dvd writer im going to buy, it wont be hard to extend the current config to record tv programs and put them on dvd's (i could edit them manually i suppose, and take the adverts out before putting them on dvd)
maybe a company should write a completely new smtp protocol, write clients and servers, and encrypt their traffic with rot13 or base64. its not as if people can reverse engineer anything that complicated....
i say this everytime, but nobody ever replies or mods me (so i assume nobody reads it)
all we need is an extention to the smtp protocol where the pop server says "did you send $HASH_OF_EMAIL" to $SERVER_HEADER" and have a huge list of trusted isp's (which could run as an extention to dns, with a "trusted smtp server" field). if this was properly regulated, it would work, and would only require a certified domain name (registering on dns is cheap, so so could this be). if there were any abuses, the certification of the domain could be simply removed
would you give the base64 for those really cool smiley faces that people who send html email use, or would you just draw the pictures?
oo oo - you might start a revolution, and revolutions are fun.
good point - if people cant be bothered to name stuff differently to document1.doc document2.doc, theyre not going to add metadata to their files, although a full text search would help those people (i thought find in windows explorer could do that using ole or com). not used windows for ages though, so i cant remember
and then there was feasting on the lambs and the sloths...
I contacted the UK TV advertising watchdog (cant remember what they're called) a few weeks ago about diamond, here's their reply.
Dear Mr Robinson
Diamond Car Insurance
Thank you for contacting us.
I am sorry that this advertisement concerned you. The television companies are responsible for ensuring that the advertising they carry complies with our codes. Among other things, we expect them to make sure that any claims are justified and to seek the advice of independent consultants where the claims are technical, complex or disputed.
Section 45 of the Sex Discrimination Act permits preferential treatment in relation to certain types of insurance. The broadcasters have received substantiation to show that female drivers have a better claims record on their motor insurance policies than male drivers. (This does not, of course, mean that there are no good male drivers.) As such, Diamond is entitled to offer preferential rates to women. Therefore we have concluded that the reference to better drivers in the context of an insurance advertisement will be understood.
Even though we dont have grounds to intervene on this occasion thank you for taking the trouble to raise this matter.
Yours sincerely
Alistair Hall
Broadcast Team Officer - Contact Centre
Office of Communications
Riverside House
2A Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA
www.ofcom.org.uk
the americans commonly call 'outside the us' canada
troll? that was helpful advice to somebody with flakey hardware.
what are you on about? i'l answer anyway:
fruits are B , grapes are A
grapes are fruits, but not all fuits are grapes, therefore:
all of A are elements of B, but not all elements of B are elements of A (tomato's, apples, etc)
thats because kill expects a pid, killall is the command you are looking for...
it would require a new mail propagation protocol and a whitelist of smtp servers, but hey, it will eliminate spam from zombies:
client sends email (after authenticating) through esmtp server sends an email to mail server. mail server then connects to esmtp server and says "did you send this message $HASH". smtp2 server then says yes or no. Any email which is verified by a whitelisted esmtp server is flagged as not spam by the mail server (pop3, httpmail, whatever), all other email could be flagged as spam and delivered, but with a spam flag in the header (could not be spoofed as it is placed there by the pop3 server. This way old servers would still beable to send email (although they would be marked as spam, the spam header could be removed by the client, if it is from a trusted address or whatever), and any emails sent using the new mail propagation protocol would automatically be flagged as not spam (woo!).
only problem is, who would maintain a whitelist? i suppose governments could do this, and the pop3 server could be configured to use any/many different whitelist servers.
i recommend waiting until somebody comes round (a neighbour) and coax them into the back garden, using a system of fences. after youve got them in the back garden, create a prison, with a picket fence instead of the jail bars (you cant get jail bars). that normally kills them off, because you dont feed them.
alternatively, a similar setup, but with a building (no room to move), hideous wall paper, mirrors on all walls.
i also once setup a mafia drugs lab (obviously it wasn't really a mafia drugs lab).
if the game was interesting in itself, i wouldn't have done these things.
your gui's crash?
sounds like dodgy hardware to me. the last time my slackware box crashed (except once a few weeks ago due to misconfiguration) was, erm, i cant actually remember it (long time ago)
maybe your only use very dodgy distro's/software, but more likely, your using crap hardware.
a good place to start is search for slax (its a live distro). when it asks for the boot option, press F1 and it will offer you a memory test, run that.
would it not be possible to write a plugin for QT to use GTK themes and a plugin for GTK to use QT's themes (i know qt and gtk cant be hotswapped because they are both more than just widgets). This way, everything looks the same.
click start > run > type msconfig > press enter > goto the last tab > find where it says something along the lines of 'preload of ms office'
i believe you meant
/dev/urandom /dev/uspto"
user@host$ su -c "diff
user@host$
you want to make sure it goes away:
killal -9 sudo_patent
beowolf (is that spelt right) is not the only type of cluster. there are clusters such as openmosix that will cluster applications that aren't even written specially - its a kernel module. if i wanted a stupidly fast kde desktop, for example, i could get a room full of cheap x86's and cluster them using linux and openmosix.
its best if your computer is cold, that way you can brute force passwords faster (processors run higher at lower temperatures).
their computer's temperature has nothing to do with it (unless its on fire).
what a silly, silly thing to say
i'd recommend hotwayd instead of gotmail.
when i use opera on linux (99% of the time), i identify as MSIE6 on windows 2k to get round those crappy websites that tell me im using the wrong os/browser.
im sure a hell of a lot of other people do this too.