However, there is a large difference. If/when someone finds out how to circumvent the system, it will probably be widely distributed free of charge.
In thievery, lockpicks require skill + time to use, and money to buy (unless you stole them...) Whereas a crack/portal would be click+go.
I went to germany, and they said sweet (approximated for English) "soos."
From my (limited) knowledge of german I'd say it was soo-suh.
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Although some DEs don't have a menu as such - XFCE uses a desktop menu, instead.
I used to map windows to the Multi-Key, as it's very useful to be able to type proper german characters, sometimes.
I started with Nautilus, but I soon realised that gnome-terminal was a far cry from the DOS prompt. It's much easier to use, and in most cases it is easier than a GUI file manager.
Especially for traversing large directory trees. However, there're some things, like viewing my ~/documents/pictures folder, that having a GUI is very useful for (thumbnails.)
You are correct. technically there is no gender-neutral, singular word, and it is correct to say "him/her" or similar.
Since this is a colloquialism, it's much more fun to use the invented Spivak Pronouns to refer to gender neutral subjects.
Conversely, it would seem the majority is. Therefore, it would surely be better to place the adverts somewhere where a potential majority audience will lie.
Admittedly, it may convert some, but more likely it will cause more hate and zealotry.
There was a tweak for your user preferences listed on the site (along with some other useful tweaks) That blocked banner ads by preventing adserving pages displaying images.
It's very effective, although doesn't prevent ads being downloaded.
It's rather amusing, seeing something that says "advertisement: " and then... nothing.
Once again, "FIREFOX >> YOU," adservomg piece of trash.
From the point of view of an Englishman, pretty much.
You're not a member of the NRA, are you?;-)
Of course, many people in America are damn funky, but some are downright stupid. I've seen news broadcasts from America, and it they were mostly filled with "Oh my God, Oh my God - Oh the humanity" type stuff.
Compared to over here where (at least as far as I can see), newsreaders are pretty much emotionless, whatever the catastrophe. (Except on Dead Ringers!)
This is what Michael Moore reckons is "the" problem with America.
Sensationalist crap from TV that implies that you're about to have someone break into you home and shoot you all is obviously going to give people an incentive to buy guns. It is also possible that this, rather than video games, is the cause of excessive violence - most people can tell the difference between reality and fantasy, and therefore can tell that just because you shot an alien in a game doesn't mean you can shoot someone in the street.
However, if you're bombarded with images of people getting shot in the street (or whatever) then that is real - surely a different matter?
I have no Norton products, instead I have AVG. I'm also not stupid enough to open "important.pif."
Of course, this isn't much good for those that do, and are.
I wonder whether this a purposeful thing, or an actual bug.
Either way, reasonable AV software such as Norton has active scanning, so simply opening something will trigger the alarms. For example, I once looked at some of the VBScript for the Melissa virus in IE, and Norton threw a wobbly.
I actually committed a crime here; I couldn't be bothered switching to KDE, after I'd got gnome sorted out + beautiful.
On the upgrade, I decided not to install KDE, and then before I'd got GNOME set up, I discovered XFCE4 - and loved it. It's slick and fast which, although I have more than adequate hardware, is refreshing. It also looks rather juicy, with all the GTK 2 themes available for it, some of its own, and also XFWM themes. Unfortunately, the ones for XFWM are not nearly as good as metacity ones, but there are some nice options there.
Getting back to the point, I found GNOME to be very beautiful, as already stated - with skins, I don't see an excuse for an ugly desktop, however.
The first two, at least, are service ports (Why else would something exploit them) So the question is really, "why are they open by default?"
I expect this will be fixed in XP SP2.
The next time I boot into windows, I reckon I'm gonna be destroyed... I haven't updated in ages, so anything that zonealarm misses is heading straight for me.
Never mind the potential for Microsoft getting annoyed at you. If they can wage war against MikeRoweSoft for nothing, they can wage it against me for reverse engineering their protocols.
Admittedly, it has the potential to get them more business, so perhaps they wouldn't mind.
This is true - the same agreement that stated that they could burn the harddisk with your data on and get away with it.
However, most ISPs would seem to give email addresses with an account, so what stops people using that is beyond me. It has the added advantage of allowing people to store as much as their hardware will allow, and you can't access hotmail via an email client, so you can't download data to back it up.
The only way is to copy/paste it all, which is time consuming and pointless.
Although I'm not sure, I should think that there are free email accounts that allow access via POP... Does anyone know of any?
Which is a great reason for diversifying and using things other than hotmail - which seems likely to go down at any moment, what with server failures and now data loss.
With the advent of GMail, I'm hoping that they will be able to see mistakes of other companies, and build a robust, worthwhile service.
With some deduction, it seems likely that gmail's search algorithms could be put to good use on attacking spam, also.
Of course, with 1 Gig of space, you needn't worry about being inundated and losing space.
Incidentally hotmail spam is unblockable. I.E. The unrequested marketing that hotmail sends you, if you try and block the address it says you can't, so that hotmail can send you "important" information.
As long as you tried Linux. If you reject it offhand because of the "community" that you encountered, or some sort of FUD, then you have no right to offer an opinion of it (unless of course, you state your ignorance;-))
However, having tried it and decided "no" what's wrong with that? Isn't this the natural way for people do things?
Of course, it's also natural for those who've already "converted" to try and "convert" you (I'm going to have stop using "air quotes" before I injure someone)
Personally, I use Linux. I find it mentally challenging + fun, a good learning experience, and I like being able to take the moral high ground.
However, we should all remember: each to his own, whether we agree or not - going for both sides of any argument.
1) It's not that simple. It's much more convenient to use just one address, then you don't have to check two, remember two, use two.
2) Why bother? My spam filter catches all but a few of my spam emails, then automatically deletes them after a week so I have chance to check over them.
By giving out a different email address, you aren't helping network load. For message boards it's helpful to supply a correct email,as you can then receive reply notification (a la/.) Therefore, you may as well just have a decent spam filter on your regular address - you'll have the same amount of spam, but less incovenience.
And for some of the upgrade process in OSS at least, it is very painless.
Because we don't have a registry, migrating not only my bookmarks, but my history, extensions and skins for firefox was as simple as copying ".phoenix" to my new home directory.
This was repeated for many applications, and even my WLAN drivers + configuration.
Consequently, I was back to normal in a matter of minutes.
How does making a download look faster hide buggy code? The coding of shareaza will have a negligible effect on download speeds - rather, as the sibling points out, this depends on available bandwidth.
I remember reading in the manual/FAQ that it was in bits/sec, and that this can be changed.
That was 1998!
They successfully launched their Nova rocket in 2001:
"2001: -
Moved to our new vehicle assembly building in Hyde to become the only active aerospace company in the UK manufacturing space hardware for the space tourism industry.
The first successful launch of Nova, the world's first privately built reusable rocket capable of carrying ordinary people. NOVA/Starchaser 4 is the largest rocket ever flown from mainland UK." -- www.starchaser.co.uk
Which was rather larger! They're planning to launch the Thunderstar in Australia.
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However, there is a large difference. If/when someone finds out how to circumvent the system, it will probably be widely distributed free of charge.
In thievery, lockpicks require skill + time to use, and money to buy (unless you stole them...) Whereas a crack/portal would be click+go.
I went to germany, and they said sweet (approximated for English) "soos."
From my (limited) knowledge of german I'd say it was soo-suh.
Although some DEs don't have a menu as such - XFCE uses a desktop menu, instead.
I used to map windows to the Multi-Key, as it's very useful to be able to type proper german characters, sometimes.
I started with Nautilus, but I soon realised that gnome-terminal was a far cry from the DOS prompt. It's much easier to use, and in most cases it is easier than a GUI file manager.
Especially for traversing large directory trees. However, there're some things, like viewing my ~/documents/pictures folder, that having a GUI is very useful for (thumbnails.)
You are correct.
technically there is no gender-neutral, singular word, and it is correct to say "him/her" or similar.
Since this is a colloquialism, it's much more fun to use the invented Spivak Pronouns to refer to gender neutral subjects.
Conversely, it would seem the majority is. Therefore, it would surely be better to place the adverts somewhere where a potential majority audience will lie.
Admittedly, it may convert some, but more likely it will cause more hate and zealotry.
It's very effective, although doesn't prevent ads being downloaded.
It's rather amusing, seeing something that says "advertisement: " and then... nothing.
Once again, "FIREFOX >> YOU," adservomg piece of trash.
You're not a member of the NRA, are you?
Of course, many people in America are damn funky, but some are downright stupid. I've seen news broadcasts from America, and it they were mostly filled with "Oh my God, Oh my God - Oh the humanity" type stuff.
Compared to over here where (at least as far as I can see), newsreaders are pretty much emotionless, whatever the catastrophe. (Except on Dead Ringers!)
This is what Michael Moore reckons is "the" problem with America.
Sensationalist crap from TV that implies that you're about to have someone break into you home and shoot you all is obviously going to give people an incentive to buy guns. It is also possible that this, rather than video games, is the cause of excessive violence - most people can tell the difference between reality and fantasy, and therefore can tell that just because you shot an alien in a game doesn't mean you can shoot someone in the street.
However, if you're bombarded with images of people getting shot in the street (or whatever) then that is real - surely a different matter?
Of course, this isn't much good for those that do, and are.
I wonder whether this a purposeful thing, or an actual bug.
Either way, reasonable AV software such as Norton has active scanning, so simply opening something will trigger the alarms. For example, I once looked at some of the VBScript for the Melissa virus in IE, and Norton threw a wobbly.
Lucky - I signed up, but I haven't received any notification that I have an account :-(
I actually committed a crime here; I couldn't be bothered switching to KDE, after I'd got gnome sorted out + beautiful.
On the upgrade, I decided not to install KDE, and then before I'd got GNOME set up, I discovered XFCE4 - and loved it. It's slick and fast which, although I have more than adequate hardware, is refreshing. It also looks rather juicy, with all the GTK 2 themes available for it, some of its own, and also XFWM themes. Unfortunately, the ones for XFWM are not nearly as good as metacity ones, but there are some nice options there.
Getting back to the point, I found GNOME to be very beautiful, as already stated - with skins, I don't see an excuse for an ugly desktop, however.
So that's the key to the mysterious toxins building up on our computers - chain smoking!
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The first two, at least, are service ports (Why else would something exploit them) So the question is really, "why are they open by default?"
I expect this will be fixed in XP SP2.
The next time I boot into windows, I reckon I'm gonna be destroyed... I haven't updated in ages, so anything that zonealarm misses is heading straight for me.
Never mind the potential for Microsoft getting annoyed at you. If they can wage war against MikeRoweSoft for nothing, they can wage it against me for reverse engineering their protocols.
Admittedly, it has the potential to get them more business, so perhaps they wouldn't mind.
However, most ISPs would seem to give email addresses with an account, so what stops people using that is beyond me. It has the added advantage of allowing people to store as much as their hardware will allow, and you can't access hotmail via an email client, so you can't download data to back it up.
The only way is to copy/paste it all, which is time consuming and pointless.
Although I'm not sure, I should think that there are free email accounts that allow access via POP... Does anyone know of any?
With the advent of GMail, I'm hoping that they will be able to see mistakes of other companies, and build a robust, worthwhile service.
With some deduction, it seems likely that gmail's search algorithms could be put to good use on attacking spam, also.
Of course, with 1 Gig of space, you needn't worry about being inundated and losing space.
Incidentally hotmail spam is unblockable. I.E. The unrequested marketing that hotmail sends you, if you try and block the address it says you can't, so that hotmail can send you "important" information.
Well I never - that surprises me.
I think that sums up the weight of this problem.
However, having tried it and decided "no" what's wrong with that? Isn't this the natural way for people do things?
Of course, it's also natural for those who've already "converted" to try and "convert" you (I'm going to have stop using "air quotes" before I injure someone)
Personally, I use Linux. I find it mentally challenging + fun, a good learning experience, and I like being able to take the moral high ground.
However, we should all remember: each to his own, whether we agree or not - going for both sides of any argument.
2) Why bother? My spam filter catches all but a few of my spam emails, then automatically deletes them after a week so I have chance to check over them.
By giving out a different email address, you aren't helping network load. For message boards it's helpful to supply a correct email,as you can then receive reply notification (a la /.) Therefore, you may as well just have a decent spam filter on your regular address - you'll have the same amount of spam, but less incovenience.
If you have a networked home drive then all of your personal settings will be preserved - not just firefox's bookmarks.
And for some of the upgrade process in OSS at least, it is very painless. Because we don't have a registry, migrating not only my bookmarks, but my history, extensions and skins for firefox was as simple as copying ".phoenix" to my new home directory. This was repeated for many applications, and even my WLAN drivers + configuration. Consequently, I was back to normal in a matter of minutes.
How does making a download look faster hide buggy code? The coding of shareaza will have a negligible effect on download speeds - rather, as the sibling points out, this depends on available bandwidth.
I remember reading in the manual/FAQ that it was in bits/sec, and that this can be changed.
They successfully launched their Nova rocket in 2001: "2001: -
Moved to our new vehicle assembly building in Hyde to become the only active aerospace company in the UK manufacturing space hardware for the space tourism industry.
The first successful launch of Nova, the world's first privately built reusable rocket capable of carrying ordinary people. NOVA/Starchaser 4 is the largest rocket ever flown from mainland UK." -- www.starchaser.co.uk
Which was rather larger! They're planning to launch the Thunderstar in Australia.