quality, not quantity, thats why England rules. shame our priminister has his tongue so far up george bush's arse, bush is using blairs tongue as a cod-piece.
right now on kde - normal useage, ive got the following open
kweather juk amsn krandrtray kget korg kal arm opera konsole mozilla-thunderbird
thats 10 applications, which is over three times the limit imposed by XP-lite. if i closed stuff i wasn't using, it would be still
kweather juk amsn opera mozilla-thunderbird konsole
which is still twice the limit imposed by xp-lite, and to stay at 6 apps, i would have to close something in order to set an alarm, or use the calender, or download something using kget, etc.
this is abysmal, bearing in mind that at the moment im not programming, writing a document or whatever.
its called the patent for MSDOS. it actually covers only running one application at the same time, but i suppose a 3 app OS would probably infringe because it is still severly limited
how about run a firewall blocking the messenger port (i cant be arsed looking it up, do it yourself).
failing that, you could run a proper OS like linux with all services disabled (in slackware its chmod -x/etc/rc.d/*) except for one service to forward anything you need to the rest of the network. run this linux machine as a NAT box. Simple, secure, reasonably cheap (free if youve got an 80486 lying round)
So your the reason Windows is so shit - the only developers that got any work done are the ones that didn't understand the term "reboot your system". That explains why there are so many tallented people at microsoft and their OS acts like it was written by a particularly uninteligent frog.
for the humourously impaired, please ignore this post.
read the FAQ's on gaim.sf.net. there's a section covering SSL. you have to edit a file and run a command or two, cant remember what they are, as i use amsn now (amsn.sf.net)
if google were to have a bot listen to the conversation and target their ads on gmail at me better, i wouldn't mind - its not as if google's ads are intrusive.
as long as somebody (person) wasn't listening to my messages, i wouldn't mind. if you did, you could always use encryption anyway.
If the tin foil hat crowd are botherd about this, why dont they mind using cable internet - on that, your packets get sent to everybugger in the neighborhood, like eithernet with a hub, not a switch.
either that or they could get a nice tin foil theme for their jabber client.
a portable voice recorder is no good - i cant talk fast enough either (and i talk fast anyway). If i started speaking, i think i'd forget the whole thing - typing is more transparent for me.
talking through something is an idea that originates from IBM (according to my programming tutor). they used to have cardboard indians that the programmers used to have to talk to before taking a problem to the boas.
get a british policemans helmet and an old keyboard.
stick the inside of the keyboard inside the helmet, stick the keys to the outside, drill holes to connect the keys to the guts. leave the nipple at the top of the helmet bare, or paint it an amusing colour.
if i could type at 5000 wpm, i would be ok, because i sit there, doing nothing, thinking, and then all of a suddon, a massive chunk of code attacks me, and i have to type it all out within 30 seconds or it all goes away (no, planning is the spawn of the devil).
when i start forgetting what i thought of, i forget what the (sensibly named) modules and functions mean and exactly what arguements they accept and what value they pass back. Then i have to read the code and wait for it to come back to me, then the mad rush again. rince lather repeat.
The first radio broadcast by man was around a hundred years ago. How fast does radio/TV signals travel in a vacuum? its not the speed of light is it? even if it was, it would have got around 100 light years away, which isn't really that far. This means that other civilisations would have to have been using TV/Radio for millions or maybe billions of years.
TV/Radio isn't the only sign of inteligent life, as there may even be a way of transmitting data which seemed ovbious to another colony (such as wires, or something we know nothing about).
Think of it like this:
If two people design a protocol for sending email (if SMTP had never existed), they would quite possibly be very different, with very different features, using different technologies but they could be just as good as each other.
What our exterestrial overlords cant use radio signals because of the differences in atmosphere, or electronic noise surrounding their planet/moon/whatever.
That has to by the longest post ive ever written - i bet slashdot complains about me being behind a firewall or something.
pass all corporate email through a proxy. the proxy could easily store every email in sub folders by employee>yyyy>mm>dd> (let the IRS sort through it if they want it). this could be made cheaper if its stored on a compressed file system (reiser4 with a bzip plugin when its ready, because there wouldn't be that taxing on a cpu dedicated to bzipping mail).
this would also save money if all mails were passed through a virus scanner and all viral attatchments removed before reaching the network proper.
i would have thought companies would want a log of all emails anyway to find out who's wasting resources on emails such as "john, pub at lunch?" and such.
thats wierd, i was sure it was arse-ugly windows 98. spose it makes a bit more sense to use NT4 though. i thought NT4 used the same window borders at 95 but maybe im wrong.
oh ye, my point was that windows 98 is not secure and i wouldn't feel happy drawing money out if halifax weren't going to foot the bill - thankfully for me, they do.
windows 98 on a nationwide system of cashpoints, which holds millions (maybe billions, i dont know) of pounds
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win311 was a frontend to dos. since the actual kernel didn't support proper multitasking, it was piss poor.
Also, unix had proper multi-tasking for ages.
quality, not quantity, thats why England rules. shame our priminister has his tongue so far up george bush's arse, bush is using blairs tongue as a cod-piece.
right now on kde - normal useage, ive got the following open
l arm
kweather
juk
amsn
krandrtray
kget
korg
ka
opera
konsole
mozilla-thunderbird
thats 10 applications, which is over three times the limit imposed by XP-lite. if i closed stuff i wasn't using, it would be still
kweather
juk
amsn
opera
mozilla-thunderbird
konsole
which is still twice the limit imposed by xp-lite, and to stay at 6 apps, i would have to close something in order to set an alarm, or use the calender, or download something using kget, etc.
this is abysmal, bearing in mind that at the moment im not programming, writing a document or whatever.
what if the superduper popup blocker is threaded?
the most crippled distro ive used is suse personal. you have to download the GCC rpm's yourself, hee hee.
its called the patent for MSDOS. it actually covers only running one application at the same time, but i suppose a 3 app OS would probably infringe because it is still severly limited
ah, the joys of telling somebody how to do something in a proper OO, to realise it cant be done easily in their OS.
how about run a firewall blocking the messenger port (i cant be arsed looking it up, do it yourself).
/etc/rc.d/*) except for one service to forward anything you need to the rest of the network. run this linux machine as a NAT box. Simple, secure, reasonably cheap (free if youve got an 80486 lying round)
failing that, you could run a proper OS like linux with all services disabled (in slackware its chmod -x
So your the reason Windows is so shit - the only developers that got any work done are the ones that didn't understand the term "reboot your system". That explains why there are so many tallented people at microsoft and their OS acts like it was written by a particularly uninteligent frog.
for the humourously impaired, please ignore this post.
could you not do this using /etc/hosts or a rule in iptables?
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They could open up the windows compatibility code from OS/2 that they undisputably own.
I know it would be outdated, but afaik, it worked more flawlessly than windows XP compatibility mode s do.
That would make migration so much easier for business - by making wine far better.
amsn.sf.net
as far as i understand, amsn supports the msn messenger protocol over HTTP
gaim recently forked to get this functionality. search on sf.net for it
read the FAQ's on gaim.sf.net. there's a section covering SSL. you have to edit a file and run a command or two, cant remember what they are, as i use amsn now (amsn.sf.net)
if google were to have a bot listen to the conversation and target their ads on gmail at me better, i wouldn't mind - its not as if google's ads are intrusive.
as long as somebody (person) wasn't listening to my messages, i wouldn't mind. if you did, you could always use encryption anyway.
If the tin foil hat crowd are botherd about this, why dont they mind using cable internet - on that, your packets get sent to everybugger in the neighborhood, like eithernet with a hub, not a switch.
either that or they could get a nice tin foil theme for their jabber client.
a portable voice recorder is no good - i cant talk fast enough either (and i talk fast anyway). If i started speaking, i think i'd forget the whole thing - typing is more transparent for me.
talking through something is an idea that originates from IBM (according to my programming tutor). they used to have cardboard indians that the programmers used to have to talk to before taking a problem to the boas.
get a british policemans helmet and an old keyboard.
stick the inside of the keyboard inside the helmet, stick the keys to the outside, drill holes to connect the keys to the guts. leave the nipple at the top of the helmet bare, or paint it an amusing colour.
if i could type at 5000 wpm, i would be ok, because i sit there, doing nothing, thinking, and then all of a suddon, a massive chunk of code attacks me, and i have to type it all out within 30 seconds or it all goes away (no, planning is the spawn of the devil).
when i start forgetting what i thought of, i forget what the (sensibly named) modules and functions mean and exactly what arguements they accept and what value they pass back. Then i have to read the code and wait for it to come back to me, then the mad rush again. rince lather repeat.
The first radio broadcast by man was around a hundred years ago. How fast does radio/TV signals travel in a vacuum? its not the speed of light is it? even if it was, it would have got around 100 light years away, which isn't really that far. This means that other civilisations would have to have been using TV/Radio for millions or maybe billions of years.
TV/Radio isn't the only sign of inteligent life, as there may even be a way of transmitting data which seemed ovbious to another colony (such as wires, or something we know nothing about).
Think of it like this:
If two people design a protocol for sending email (if SMTP had never existed), they would quite possibly be very different, with very different features, using different technologies but they could be just as good as each other.
What our exterestrial overlords cant use radio signals because of the differences in atmosphere, or electronic noise surrounding their planet/moon/whatever.
That has to by the longest post ive ever written - i bet slashdot complains about me being behind a firewall or something.
pass all corporate email through a proxy. the proxy could easily store every email in sub folders by employee>yyyy>mm>dd> (let the IRS sort through it if they want it). this could be made cheaper if its stored on a compressed file system (reiser4 with a bzip plugin when its ready, because there wouldn't be that taxing on a cpu dedicated to bzipping mail).
this would also save money if all mails were passed through a virus scanner and all viral attatchments removed before reaching the network proper.
i would have thought companies would want a log of all emails anyway to find out who's wasting resources on emails such as "john, pub at lunch?" and such.
thats wierd, i was sure it was arse-ugly windows 98. spose it makes a bit more sense to use NT4 though.
i thought NT4 used the same window borders at 95 but maybe im wrong.
(i do believe you btw).
about your sig, afaik gentoo's portage it wrtten in python. (emerde, port of emerge is anyway, which i presume uses most of emerge's code)
YEAH!!! toasters with a firewall!
wouldn't want some git to write a trojan that cooked my toast when im not looking.
oh ye, my point was that windows 98 is not secure and i wouldn't feel happy drawing money out if halifax weren't going to foot the bill - thankfully for me, they do.
windows 98 on a nationwide system of cashpoints, which holds millions (maybe billions, i dont know) of pounds