What's the point though? Every major desktop distribution includes Gaim as standard to my knowledge. Why write a client for a platform which already includes a client which is far better?
The good ISPs (eg. Internode and friends) are starting to dump Telstra and move to Agile's network. Because of this we're getting ADSL2 rolled out. Makes you realise how expensive Telstra's bandwidth is when you can get a net connection 40 times as fast for the same price.
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Have a look at the perlref(1) man page. Square brackets provide a list reference. Python does this automatically because it's a reference-oriented language, while perl provides values. In response to your other comment, perl uses a @ for lists, but you have a reference to a list, not a list.
Does it render the machine unbootable? Does it refuse to compile under OS X's default compiler? Does it crash when you look at http://slashdot.org/? That is an example of a blocker/major/normal classified bug respectively.
You don't seem to understand how bugs are ranked. For example, this is how Gentoo does it (and I'm assuming it's standard BugZilla stuff):
Blocker: You find this bug and your system doesn't boot (Wipes your MBR, gcc, etc. etc.)
Major: The application is completely useless most if not all of the time. (Doesn't Compile)
Normal: Significant problems in the application, not affecting 100% of users though (Crashes on seeing MySpace's HTML for example...not that I can blame it;). This may seem as bad, but it is a bug in the renderer, and as a result probably affects other sites too.)
Minor: Smaller problems, most users don't have the problem and it doesn't cause massive problems (I would put the plugin problems in here, simply because I don't know enough about the problem to put it into Enhancement)
Enhancement: Feature requests go here
On top of this, you can set a priority rating. Even if this is a minor/enhancement-severity bug entry, it can still be ranked as priority-1.
Their software won't seem as good though when users find that it doesn't work on some random brand-new box with no drivers, or Uncle Joe's boc in the shed from 1992. OS X is helped significantly by the fact that there is a known hardware set.
It's useful from the user/sysadmin point of view provided that *they* are in charge of the private key for their computer. Being able to tie an encryption key to a piece of secure hardware is useful from a security point of view (for example, someone trying to get at your data can't rip out the hard drive and walk off).
From what I understand you can require the kernel/applications to be signed to be loaded by the TPM. This completely stops untrusted code from being run. This is only a danger when the user doesn't hold the private key.
For those not using Windows, Privoxy is also capable of blocking ads based on both location and other characteristics (eg. size). I also successfully used it to block Opera's ads and replace them with a grey bar the same colour as the rest of the window, back when it was ad-supported.
It wasn't for security though. The reason they disabled raw sockets was to stop people from using them to get around the limits on network connectivity between XP Home/XP Pro/Server 2003.
Not area in the absolute sense, but in the angular sense. If the moon appeared the same number of degrees across but at the same distance as this galaxy, then it would be 1/5000 the size.
The same thing could be said about schools, parties, anywhere where there are people. And what their kids are really doing seems a bit exaggerated from my point of view, but I'm not in the US, maybe things are different over there.
In Australia (from memory) the statistics are somewhere along the lines of 30% of people use some sort of [illegal] drug, and
If you think that there's any way that you can stop teenagers from taking drugs you're kidding yourself though, people take drugs, people drink, and nothing anyone does is going to change that. And no, I don't do either.
I don't know of any personally, but you could make one easily enough. Just put a pair of trimpots on a small piece of PCB, join it to a 3.5mm plug/socket and mount it in a piece of plastic or wrap the whole thing up in heatshrink. Better methods are available, but they aren't as simple, and often require either batteries and/or extra size (eg. a dual-gang potentiometer will give you something more like a traditional balance control, making one earpiece louder and one softer, but is larger).
Well bear in mind that turning on/changing discs in a console is an operation which encouraged falls (ie. bending down to get the game/put it in). If over the course of months/years it got knocked over several times I wouldn't be suprised.
You don't need to make a package for it, just a script to built it. The sources/packages can be downloaded from the original site at build time, and not from a central repository, if seen fit. Of course you can always download from a mirror.
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Google have a mobile version now at http://m.gmail.com.
But how many of those ways would allow cross-platform viewing of that video inside the browser?
The problem is people who save stuff onto USB but don't leave a copy anywhere else. User Problem(tm).
Though now that I see it, you live in Australia, so please allow 6-8 weeks for the lunacy to reach your shores.
6-8 weeks? Pfft...Real ID made it over in under 3.
Only if you live in the US....other countries out there have subsidies on medications, not leaving their people in this situation.
What's the point though? Every major desktop distribution includes Gaim as standard to my knowledge. Why write a client for a platform which already includes a client which is far better?
The good ISPs (eg. Internode and friends) are starting to dump Telstra and move to Agile's network. Because of this we're getting ADSL2 rolled out. Makes you realise how expensive Telstra's bandwidth is when you can get a net connection 40 times as fast for the same price.
Have a look at the perlref(1) man page. Square brackets provide a list reference. Python does this automatically because it's a reference-oriented language, while perl provides values. In response to your other comment, perl uses a @ for lists, but you have a reference to a list, not a list.
It doesn't matter if Joe's to blame, Joe's going to tell everyone about how it sucks because it didn't work.
Does it render the machine unbootable? Does it refuse to compile under OS X's default compiler? Does it crash when you look at http://slashdot.org/? That is an example of a blocker/major/normal classified bug respectively.
On top of this, you can set a priority rating. Even if this is a minor/enhancement-severity bug entry, it can still be ranked as priority-1.
Their software won't seem as good though when users find that it doesn't work on some random brand-new box with no drivers, or Uncle Joe's boc in the shed from 1992. OS X is helped significantly by the fact that there is a known hardware set.
It's useful from the user/sysadmin point of view provided that *they* are in charge of the private key for their computer. Being able to tie an encryption key to a piece of secure hardware is useful from a security point of view (for example, someone trying to get at your data can't rip out the hard drive and walk off).
From what I understand you can require the kernel/applications to be signed to be loaded by the TPM. This completely stops untrusted code from being run. This is only a danger when the user doesn't hold the private key.
And a private house with the door held open and a sign in front saying "COME IN!"?
*nix of course also has OpenNTPD.
For those not using Windows, Privoxy is also capable of blocking ads based on both location and other characteristics (eg. size). I also successfully used it to block Opera's ads and replace them with a grey bar the same colour as the rest of the window, back when it was ad-supported.
It wasn't for security though. The reason they disabled raw sockets was to stop people from using them to get around the limits on network connectivity between XP Home/XP Pro/Server 2003.
Actually, if I recall correctly, he gave the phone to one of his deputies and they didn't know until they picked up the other guy a few months later.
Not area in the absolute sense, but in the angular sense. If the moon appeared the same number of degrees across but at the same distance as this galaxy, then it would be 1/5000 the size.
The same thing could be said about schools, parties, anywhere where there are people. And what their kids are really doing seems a bit exaggerated from my point of view, but I'm not in the US, maybe things are different over there.
In Australia (from memory) the statistics are somewhere along the lines of 30% of people use some sort of [illegal] drug, and
If you think that there's any way that you can stop teenagers from taking drugs you're kidding yourself though, people take drugs, people drink, and nothing anyone does is going to change that. And no, I don't do either.
I don't know of any personally, but you could make one easily enough. Just put a pair of trimpots on a small piece of PCB, join it to a 3.5mm plug/socket and mount it in a piece of plastic or wrap the whole thing up in heatshrink. Better methods are available, but they aren't as simple, and often require either batteries and/or extra size (eg. a dual-gang potentiometer will give you something more like a traditional balance control, making one earpiece louder and one softer, but is larger).
It depends on whether or not you can extract enough energy from your fuel to break even.
Well bear in mind that turning on/changing discs in a console is an operation which encouraged falls (ie. bending down to get the game/put it in). If over the course of months/years it got knocked over several times I wouldn't be suprised.
You don't need to make a package for it, just a script to built it. The sources/packages can be downloaded from the original site at build time, and not from a central repository, if seen fit. Of course you can always download from a mirror.
Do you ground your kids when they trip while carrying a glass?