Moreover, hotmail is a dumb system, if you send an EXE - it's blocked and nothing can be done.
Gmail must be dumb, too - it bounces e-mail with an EXE attached. I cannot remember the last time I received a legitimate EXE through e-mail. It's really not that hard to put the file on the web somewhere and link to it. If all else fails, you can upload it to Yahoo! Briefcase.
Prodigy (remember them?) actually shipped some disks without the write-protect switch, making it a little more difficult to re-format them. I thought it was an interesting strategy, and I'm a little surprised I've never seen it on original diskettes from other companies.
Tell me about it. Slashdot posts are the paragon of literacy, insight, and high social class. It would be utter disaster if the plebians that frequent digg were to soil the characteristic quality and originality found on Slashdot.
If you read the GFS paper closely, it's fairly clear that they don't actually use GFS on all their production systems - only some of them. Sorry, I don't have it in front of me, so I can't give you an exact page number.
I would be concerned if they were recording audio or video, but I haven't read any evidence of that. I'm not concerned if all they're doing is tracking web site use - schools everywhere do that. The students need to have the mindset that this equipment is basically a portable lab computer. No sane student would look up illegal stuff in a computer lab. It's really a simple rule: "This is a computer lab you can carry home with you. Treat as such."
Additionally, I think we can reasonably assume the school is not forcing them to keep it on at all times - only when they're doing schoolwork.
Again, there seems to be no limit to the school's stupidity, but assuming that all they're requiring is for the students to use the computers for school purposes and understand that they're being monitored, I don't see a problem here.
I disagree. If the school is providing the laptop free of charge to be used for school purposes, why shouldn't the student have to comply with the rules?
Not that I'm defending their gross stupidity. Just the question of whether they can make kids use computers or not.
It depends on whether you're looking at the live version, or the historical one. The live version was apparently re-written to reflect the fact that it describes a fictional character.
My Netscape supported drag and drop long, long before start.com or Google's customized start page was a gleam in either company's eye.
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How clearly was it marked that you wanted the non-current edition? I ask this not to criticize or blame you, but to point out that if I was an overworked book buyer, I might start to forget to match the requested edition with the edition being sold by the publisher. Also, the bookstore may have thought you would want the current revision if it was published recently.
Some people have expressed concern that organizations can take GPL'd code, modify it, and then run a web site with it. The act of running a web site using GPL code isn't considered distribution by the FSF, and the source code modifications therefore can be kept to themselves.
That's the argument. Personally, I don't know how I feel about it one way or the other.
You may have answered my question, but I don't see it. Who decides that the W3C is "the formal standards body for the web?" We could just as easily put Microsoft, Apple, or Mozilla in that role. The only reason W3C defines the standards is that the browser manufacturers and content providers decide it does.
Is your complaint that XMLHttpRequest isn't documented? I argue that it is.
RSS has been through several revisions. Is 2.0 a "formal standard"? If so, what makes XMLHttpRequest different? If not, why not?
Everything on the Internet started as a de-facto standard, and the definition of "formal" depends on who you're talking to.
I argue that XMLHttpRequest is implemented consistently and widely enough that it can be considered a reliable standard. Heck, there's more major implementations of it than Load and Save.
I'm curious. At what point does something become a standard? After all, I'm pretty sure Sir Berners-Lee didn't worry about all that standardization stuff when he released WorldWideWeb in 1990 - he simply told people how to write HTML that his code could read. This is approximately four years before W3C even existed.
XMLHttpRequest is available, in a mostly identical form, in the current stable versions of Internet Explorer, Gecko-based browsers (including Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, and Camino), Opera, and KHTML-based browsers (including Konqueror and Safari). I would say that representents the vast majority of Internet users.
If a spec becomes a standard after a standards organization vets it, then how does one become a standards organization? To the best of my knowledge, W3C has no government mandate.
Nonsense. Ducks are among the most honorable of the lesser species. I shall never forget the three most profound words ever spoken by the wise human philosopher, Gordon Bombay: "Ducks stick together."
At your recommendation, I downloaded and burned a Kubuntu LiveCD. The first problem I noticed was that it took over five minutes to boot, not counting the time to push the buttons to pick my keyboard, etc. I can forgive that problem because presumably uncompressing and bootstrapping from the CD is the cause of the delay.
The next problem I ran into is not having network access. After manually adding a route for my local network, I discovered that my router didn't have DHCP on, so I tried to configure the network manually. I found Control Center fairly easily, but when I tried to add the DNS servers, it kept giving me a "must type alias" error, along with the most irritating glass breaking sound I've ever heard. Of course, since the servers showed up in the list, I have no idea if it "took" or not.
The default gateway didn't, however - I typed it in, but each time I did and switched tabs, I found the IP address disappeared without any explanation. I had to bring up Konsole and add a default route manually. Even then, I couldn't hit anything outside the local network, and I'm sure the router isn't the cause of the problem.
Like any good geek who doesn't know what they're doing, I tried to RTFM. When I clicked Help in the K menu, however, the window refused to open - the taskbar button showed up for about 15 seconds before disappearing. I killed the help process (remember, a typical OS X or Windows user won't have a clue how to do this) and restarted Help, which seemed to do the trick. However, when I tried to search, it asked me to build an index. No problem - Windows does the same thing. When I did, however, the search button remained grayed out, and it took about a minute to find the button labeled "index status" or something like that that simply said, "htdig failed" with no other explanation.
After all this, I rebooted the LiveCD, only this time I enabled DHCP on the router, thinking I probably missed a step in the configuration. It still didn't work.
There were a few things Kubuntu managed that my previous forays into Linux GUIs hadn't - it recognized a SD card, Memory Stick, and USB key without any trouble, and it's kind of cute and easy on the eyes.
On the other hand, this was a LiveCD. LiveCD are supposed to provide a perfect user experience to demonstrate the best Linux has to offer. I'll give it another try in a couple of days, but for now I'm going to stand by my earlier statement that Linux isn't anywhere near OS X and Windows in readiness for the desktop.
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Moreover, hotmail is a dumb system, if you send an EXE - it's blocked and nothing can be done.
Gmail must be dumb, too - it bounces e-mail with an EXE attached. I cannot remember the last time I received a legitimate EXE through e-mail. It's really not that hard to put the file on the web somewhere and link to it. If all else fails, you can upload it to Yahoo! Briefcase.
Prodigy (remember them?) actually shipped some disks without the write-protect switch, making it a little more difficult to re-format them. I thought it was an interesting strategy, and I'm a little surprised I've never seen it on original diskettes from other companies.
Tell me about it. Slashdot posts are the paragon of literacy, insight, and high social class. It would be utter disaster if the plebians that frequent digg were to soil the characteristic quality and originality found on Slashdot.
I would've refused to use it outside school regardless.
Thank you. You've just provided the solution.
If you read the GFS paper closely, it's fairly clear that they don't actually use GFS on all their production systems - only some of them. Sorry, I don't have it in front of me, so I can't give you an exact page number.
The terms of service for iTunes Music Store allows remote deactivation. In particular, read paragraphs 9d and 14a-b.
IANAL.
I would be concerned if they were recording audio or video, but I haven't read any evidence of that. I'm not concerned if all they're doing is tracking web site use - schools everywhere do that. The students need to have the mindset that this equipment is basically a portable lab computer. No sane student would look up illegal stuff in a computer lab. It's really a simple rule: "This is a computer lab you can carry home with you. Treat as such."
Additionally, I think we can reasonably assume the school is not forcing them to keep it on at all times - only when they're doing schoolwork.
Again, there seems to be no limit to the school's stupidity, but assuming that all they're requiring is for the students to use the computers for school purposes and understand that they're being monitored, I don't see a problem here.
I disagree. If the school is providing the laptop free of charge to be used for school purposes, why shouldn't the student have to comply with the rules?
Not that I'm defending their gross stupidity. Just the question of whether they can make kids use computers or not.
If you're going to do that, why not do what my school did and give the same non-secure password to everybody?
He has to ask Al first, and Al will naturally have to ask Ziggy.
No.
have to go to public auction
Since you've collaborated, can you enlighten the rest of us as to why they weren't sold at auction? That seems like a ridiculously good plan to me.
Yep. Just like that Power Mac I borrowed* from the Apple Store yesterday. Hey, I wasn't going to buy it in the first place.
* Disclaimer: I did no such thing.
It depends on whether you're looking at the live version, or the historical one. The live version was apparently re-written to reflect the fact that it describes a fictional character.
RSS has a method for pushing new posts via SOAP or XML-RPC. I haven't found good documentation for it, however.
Dave, where are you when we need you?
Perhaps it could help the single slashdotters among us find a significant other.
http://start.com/1/ http://start.com/2/ http://start.com/3/
My Netscape supported drag and drop long, long before start.com or Google's customized start page was a gleam in either company's eye.
How clearly was it marked that you wanted the non-current edition? I ask this not to criticize or blame you, but to point out that if I was an overworked book buyer, I might start to forget to match the requested edition with the edition being sold by the publisher. Also, the bookstore may have thought you would want the current revision if it was published recently.
Some people have expressed concern that organizations can take GPL'd code, modify it, and then run a web site with it. The act of running a web site using GPL code isn't considered distribution by the FSF, and the source code modifications therefore can be kept to themselves.
That's the argument. Personally, I don't know how I feel about it one way or the other.
You may have answered my question, but I don't see it. Who decides that the W3C is "the formal standards body for the web?" We could just as easily put Microsoft, Apple, or Mozilla in that role. The only reason W3C defines the standards is that the browser manufacturers and content providers decide it does.
Is your complaint that XMLHttpRequest isn't documented? I argue that it is.
RSS has been through several revisions. Is 2.0 a "formal standard"? If so, what makes XMLHttpRequest different? If not, why not?
Everything on the Internet started as a de-facto standard, and the definition of "formal" depends on who you're talking to.
I argue that XMLHttpRequest is implemented consistently and widely enough that it can be considered a reliable standard. Heck, there's more major implementations of it than Load and Save.
That is incredibly sweet. Just to clarify, this was posted in 2005, right? I don't see the year anywhere.
I'm curious. At what point does something become a standard? After all, I'm pretty sure Sir Berners-Lee didn't worry about all that standardization stuff when he released WorldWideWeb in 1990 - he simply told people how to write HTML that his code could read. This is approximately four years before W3C even existed.
XMLHttpRequest is available, in a mostly identical form, in the current stable versions of Internet Explorer, Gecko-based browsers (including Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, and Camino), Opera, and KHTML-based browsers (including Konqueror and Safari). I would say that representents the vast majority of Internet users.
If a spec becomes a standard after a standards organization vets it, then how does one become a standards organization? To the best of my knowledge, W3C has no government mandate.
Nonsense. Ducks are among the most honorable of the lesser species. I shall never forget the three most profound words ever spoken by the wise human philosopher, Gordon Bombay: "Ducks stick together."
At your recommendation, I downloaded and burned a Kubuntu LiveCD. The first problem I noticed was that it took over five minutes to boot, not counting the time to push the buttons to pick my keyboard, etc. I can forgive that problem because presumably uncompressing and bootstrapping from the CD is the cause of the delay.
The next problem I ran into is not having network access. After manually adding a route for my local network, I discovered that my router didn't have DHCP on, so I tried to configure the network manually. I found Control Center fairly easily, but when I tried to add the DNS servers, it kept giving me a "must type alias" error, along with the most irritating glass breaking sound I've ever heard. Of course, since the servers showed up in the list, I have no idea if it "took" or not.
The default gateway didn't, however - I typed it in, but each time I did and switched tabs, I found the IP address disappeared without any explanation. I had to bring up Konsole and add a default route manually. Even then, I couldn't hit anything outside the local network, and I'm sure the router isn't the cause of the problem.
Like any good geek who doesn't know what they're doing, I tried to RTFM. When I clicked Help in the K menu, however, the window refused to open - the taskbar button showed up for about 15 seconds before disappearing. I killed the help process (remember, a typical OS X or Windows user won't have a clue how to do this) and restarted Help, which seemed to do the trick. However, when I tried to search, it asked me to build an index. No problem - Windows does the same thing. When I did, however, the search button remained grayed out, and it took about a minute to find the button labeled "index status" or something like that that simply said, "htdig failed" with no other explanation.
After all this, I rebooted the LiveCD, only this time I enabled DHCP on the router, thinking I probably missed a step in the configuration. It still didn't work.
There were a few things Kubuntu managed that my previous forays into Linux GUIs hadn't - it recognized a SD card, Memory Stick, and USB key without any trouble, and it's kind of cute and easy on the eyes.
On the other hand, this was a LiveCD. LiveCD are supposed to provide a perfect user experience to demonstrate the best Linux has to offer. I'll give it another try in a couple of days, but for now I'm going to stand by my earlier statement that Linux isn't anywhere near OS X and Windows in readiness for the desktop.