I'll take exception that Seinfeld is of poor quality. I have seen I love Lucy, I have seen Honeymooner. Seinfeld may well be the best tv comedy of US of all time.
Yes, comparing it to other American TV shows. Although there are some good Yankie shows. Friends, Drew Carrey, The Simpsons, The Practice, The X-Files, Third Rock form the Sun, Moonlighting, Quantum leap, and a few others.
But in general I could list off a lot more bad shows. Married with children, Jesse, Ally McBeal, Familly law, 7th Heaven, LA Law, Miami Vice, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Will & Grace, Ned & Stacy, Becker, Beverly hills 90210, Melrose Place, Savhanna, Sunset Beach, Silk Stalkings, 7 Days, almost any american cartoon made in the last ten years, and many others that I would kill myself if I remembered their names.
Not that other countries don't have bad TV shows (I live in Australia and EUGH! some of our TV outright SUCKS). It's just that so many American TV series are forced down the throats of of viewers both stateside and abroad.
Of course I tend to watch UK TV and documentries (Archeological and historical if possible) mostly and I don't like to watch TV much anymore. But I partially blame the likes of NBC for the death of TV.
The previous poster transcribed his text from a really poor quality (imensly popular, but really poor quality, which is of course the whole basis of the American business model) American TV show called Seinfeld.
So not only is s/he a racist, s/he's also too stupid to think up his/her own bullshit, and instead has to steal it from NBC!
I can't install Mandrake on a system with 8 megs of ram, but the system will run.. How screwed it that - the installer needs more ram than the OS!
Have you tried installing in text mode?? When you start the install there should be an option to bring up install options (Hitting when you see the first install screen I believe). This should install fine on older hardware (in fact I sometimes use it on newer harware, less video card problems with the GUI installer).
This doesn't actually relate to the discussion at hand, and hopefully it hasn't been posted already (don't want to bore people out there), but living in Australia I really didn't know exactly what the CueCat was (I've been skimming the articles lately). So I finnally checked out the RadioShack site to see what the fuss was all about.
Looking about, I stumbled apon the:CUECAT F.A.Q.S page and found some rather ammusing items. e.g:
Do I Still Need My Mouse Now That I Have A:CueCat Code Reader?
Yes.:CueCat has a different function from the mouse. You will certainly continue to use your mouse, but probably less often.:CueCat helps you get to the Web page you want instantly, so that you do not need to click repeatedly in search of what you want.
Do I Have To Connect:CueCat Through My Keyboard Port, Or Will It Work From The Mouse PS/2 Port?
The mouse port can not be used. If:CueCat is plugged into the mouse port, it won't read codes.
Remember: cats and mice don't mix!
Is There An Easy Way To Enter The Registration Code?
Once you receive the email containing your code, simply copy the code and paste it into the appropriate box on the registration.
Will Staring Into The:CueCat Hurt My Eyes Like A Laser Pointer?
No.:CueCat uses LEDs for scanning. It poses no risk to your eyes.
You've really got to wonder about the target audience for these devices.
P.S. The subject is not self moderating, just clear labeling.
I tend to agree with the idea of distros being more secure out of the box, but I look at it in a different way. You say that someone who expects a distro to be secure on install is asking to be rooted, but look at it the other way around.
If a distro installed with external ports closed it would mean that in order to access the system remotely you had to explicitly open that port. What's so bad about that? If you don't know how to open ports, it's a good bet that you probably should not be opening the port. Not everyone knows how to manage system security, not everyone want's to be able to ssh into their home machine from work, and if you can't enable the services you should probably learn more about system administration first.
I see it as a much more logical process to say:
Well this system is going to be an intranet server for the development team projects. I'll enable the ftp, http and ssh services.
Rather than:
Well this is a graphical workstation, now what services are running that I should disable?
By making people explicitly enable their services, you force them to think about what the system is to be used for, and they're less likely to leave a port open accidently (usually because they didn't realise it was open in the first place, or even existed).
Anyway, it's just my philosophy on setting up systems.
It's like the secret of why the company is called "Red Hat"*, which (until recently) was a fairly well-guarded tidbit known mostly to those who owned really, really old Red Hat releases.
Um... I haven't heard this before. Why is it called Red Hat?? (You did say until recently, I assume that you know.)
This is not actually the first big breakthrough in this field. A British company call the Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has been developing these for quite some time and are going into business with Seiko-Epson to create LEP (Light Emitting Polymer) displays.
This article in zdnet Australia has some of the details, and describes the fact the the displays are made with a "specialty printer that can shoot red, blue and green polymer inks... from three separate cartridges, then mix with a fourth cartridge that contains a conductive polymer. The printer "prints" small drops of the four inks onto a thin screen, which combined with electrodes will make an LEP display.", says that these displays will have about 200dpi and states that "Best of all, Seiko-Epson is working on a mammoth printer that will create screens 15 feet across with no seams and without the staggering yield problems that plague LCD technology."
At the moment these displays are created sandwiched in glass, but to be released commercially, they need to be able to be set in plastic. Still mighty impressive. The CDT website has a lot of technical papers on how these LEP's work, and interesting read.
Actually I believe that when you apply for a.com from these registrars, they simply apply on your behalf to another (American) registrar with the usual first-come-first-served routine, but when you apply for a.com.au domain the TLD owners insist that the claim be checked for things like trademarks and potential comflicts and to see if the company actually relates to the name or not (I think it's done by Melbourne IT (MIT - tee hee)), which takes time and people.
And in response to Australia, ludicrous as ever, go #@%&*$%.us yourself!!!
I would like to add my opinion to this already lengthy discussion regarding WinNT and the Navy craft. But first I would like to say that I am NOT a fan of the NT operating system (me like Mandrake!!) but I am a fan of open and accurate discussion. I would also like to say that I am a relative newcommer to high level technology in general so I might not exactly know what I'm talking about. Following is conjecture and hearsay based on what I like to think is my common sense.
First: This article is dated 1998. Now I know that technology has not advanced that quickly in the past two years but I think that that discounts the idea of the system being a Java app, or a web page.
Second: The Battleship's hardware system (like the missile launch system for instance) is very likely not going to be a part of the NT operating system hardware list. Ie:
Device Manager:
CDROM
Disk drives
Display adapter
Hard disk controller
Infra-red missile tracking
Keyboard
Missile launch/guidence
Monitor
etc
Therefore the Battle systems are most probably controled through a proprietry software system that runs on top of NT and uses NT for communicating. Bringing me to
Third: I find the idea that a Battleship's main system being run by a large number of independant and separate programs is highly unlikely. All the systems would need to be synchronized and interdependant to operate in a realtime enviroment. The missile systems need to get targeting data from the radar/tracking systems etc. This would all work in a combined effort. I would envisage that the whole system would be operated by a central, intergrated master system and the individual controlers (ie human users) would be running a remote client that interacts with the realtime system. A bad bit of data in the master system (an application) could result in the entire system being crippled. At some point in the system, everything needs to be synchroized and that also means that that point is a potential show stopper for the whole system.
This is not a case of someone trying to view dynamic VBScripted content in netscape, and crashing the ship. This is a case of the system (Ships system, not the individual OS) being controlled by a grand application (the battle system) and that application being disabled by bad data. Kind of like when your perl script CGI trys to put text in a number field of your backend database and takes out your entire dynamic website. The operating system is ticking along fine but the system (the web site) is dead in the water.
That said I still think NT is a pain in the a$$. But I would like to condemn it for the the things it is guilty of, not just what I can pin on it based on olympic conclusion jumping. (Hmmm. Demonstraion sport at Sydney perhaps? Where's SOCOG's number.)
It seems when there are articles talking about music everyone here on slashdot is of the opinion it should be free and that things like napster are ok. Yet when we are talking about work that some people on slashdot create actually being distributed everyone screams bloody murder?
Or could it be that there are well over 70,000 members of the Slashdot community (don't know the exact number but I'm number 77,400) and that not all of them will read all the articles. The ones reading/posting to an article on napster are probably not the same ones to read/post to an article about Thesis mis-appropriation.
This variety of reader gives slashdot It's interesting atmosphere. If everyone thought the same or was interested in only the same things, it would not be such a dynamic place.
Probably had to go the way of the dodo when they decided not to put any hard drive into it. Programs like Netscape Communicator have to put the e-mail *somewhere* local while you're reading it. I think IMAP might get around this, but anything based on POP can't work without a HD.
Not necessarily. Netscape has the option to download all mail on connect, leave messages on the server and to delete on server when deleted locally. This all would mean that email could be stored onto a virtual disk that could be reset each time you turned the system on.
I Predict that the next person to be voted off will be Colleen. The reasoning is very simple. If you look at the voting patern on the web site, the previous members of Tagi seem to be eliminating the previous members of Pagong, and Colleen is the only Pagong left. Ipso Facto.
We have access to code, to make it even less suckkie.
We can decide which suckkie bits we want and which we don't.
When the suckie bits don't work with each other, it's usually our fault, not a corporate srtatagy.
The way to unsuckie it is not a licence fee based upgrade path. (Oh, that's a known bug in SQL 7. No there's no upgrade patch available, but the problem is fixed in SQL 2000.)
Hmmm, I don't know about the rest of you but this seems a little odd to me. A serious flaw in their Email client that requires an upgrade to their latest Web browser to fix.
Could it be that they're using email virus warnings to increase the install base of IE 5.5?
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Yes, comparing it to other American TV shows. Although there are some good Yankie shows. Friends, Drew Carrey, The Simpsons, The Practice, The X-Files, Third Rock form the Sun, Moonlighting, Quantum leap, and a few others.
But in general I could list off a lot more bad shows. Married with children, Jesse, Ally McBeal, Familly law, 7th Heaven, LA Law, Miami Vice, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Will & Grace, Ned & Stacy, Becker, Beverly hills 90210, Melrose Place, Savhanna, Sunset Beach, Silk Stalkings, 7 Days, almost any american cartoon made in the last ten years, and many others that I would kill myself if I remembered their names.
Not that other countries don't have bad TV shows (I live in Australia and EUGH! some of our TV outright SUCKS). It's just that so many American TV series are forced down the throats of of viewers both stateside and abroad.
Of course I tend to watch UK TV and documentries (Archeological and historical if possible) mostly and I don't like to watch TV much anymore. But I partially blame the likes of NBC for the death of TV.
Touche, Fred Touche (The Goon Show)
No, actually it comes from the stand up cut scenes on the sitcom, which were all written for the show itself.
So not only is s/he a racist, s/he's also too stupid to think up his/her own bullshit, and instead has to steal it from NBC!
Have you tried installing in text mode?? When you start the install there should be an option to bring up install options (Hitting when you see the first install screen I believe). This should install fine on older hardware (in fact I sometimes use it on newer harware, less video card problems with the GUI installer).
Looking about, I stumbled apon the :CUECAT F.A.Q.S page and found some rather ammusing items. e.g:
Do I Still Need My Mouse Now That I Have A :CueCat Code Reader?
Yes. :CueCat has a different function from the mouse. You will certainly continue to use your mouse, but probably less often. :CueCat helps you get to the Web page you want instantly, so that you do not need to click repeatedly in search of what you want.
Do I Have To Connect :CueCat Through My Keyboard Port, Or Will It Work From The Mouse PS/2 Port?
The mouse port can not be used. If :CueCat is plugged into the mouse port, it won't read codes.
Remember: cats and mice don't mix!
Is There An Easy Way To Enter The Registration Code? Once you receive the email containing your code, simply copy the code and paste it into the appropriate box on the registration.
Will Staring Into The :CueCat Hurt My Eyes Like A Laser Pointer?
No. :CueCat uses LEDs for scanning. It poses no risk to your eyes.
You've really got to wonder about the target audience for these devices.
P.S. The subject is not self moderating, just clear labeling.
Cya!
"You're under arrest for going to jail!"
"Not AGAIN!!"
Not yet.
If a distro installed with external ports closed it would mean that in order to access the system remotely you had to explicitly open that port. What's so bad about that? If you don't know how to open ports, it's a good bet that you probably should not be opening the port. Not everyone knows how to manage system security, not everyone want's to be able to ssh into their home machine from work, and if you can't enable the services you should probably learn more about system administration first.
I see it as a much more logical process to say:
Well this system is going to be an intranet server for the development team projects. I'll enable the ftp, http and ssh services.
Rather than:
Well this is a graphical workstation, now what services are running that I should disable?
By making people explicitly enable their services, you force them to think about what the system is to be used for, and they're less likely to leave a port open accidently (usually because they didn't realise it was open in the first place, or even existed).
Anyway, it's just my philosophy on setting up systems.
Thanks for listening.
Damien Byrne
P.S. Did everyone see CmdrTaco on the Time.com 100 most influential people of the 21st century?? They mention "the Linux programming language", and I thought it was an Operating System!
Um... I haven't heard this before. Why is it called Red Hat?? (You did say until recently, I assume that you know.)
How can FreeBSD run less apps than Linux when it can run Linux compiled binaries??
This article in zdnet Australia has some of the details, and describes the fact the the displays are made with a "specialty printer that can shoot red, blue and green polymer inks ... from three separate cartridges, then mix with a fourth cartridge that contains a conductive polymer. The printer "prints" small drops of the four inks onto a thin screen, which combined with electrodes will make an LEP display.", says that these displays will have about 200dpi and states that "Best of all, Seiko-Epson is working on a mammoth printer that will create screens 15 feet across with no seams and without the staggering yield problems that plague LCD technology."
At the moment these displays are created sandwiched in glass, but to be released commercially, they need to be able to be set in plastic. Still mighty impressive. The CDT website has a lot of technical papers on how these LEP's work, and interesting read.
And in response to Australia, ludicrous as ever, go #@%&*$%.us yourself!!!
Apparently.
First: This article is dated 1998. Now I know that technology has not advanced that quickly in the past two years but I think that that discounts the idea of the system being a Java app, or a web page .
Second: The Battleship's hardware system (like the missile launch system for instance) is very likely not going to be a part of the NT operating system hardware list. Ie:
Device Manager:
- CDROM
- Disk drives
- Display adapter
- Hard disk controller
- Infra-red missile tracking
- Keyboard
- Missile launch/guidence
- Monitor
- etc
Therefore the Battle systems are most probably controled through a proprietry software system that runs on top of NT and uses NT for communicating. Bringing me toThird: I find the idea that a Battleship's main system being run by a large number of independant and separate programs is highly unlikely. All the systems would need to be synchronized and interdependant to operate in a realtime enviroment. The missile systems need to get targeting data from the radar/tracking systems etc. This would all work in a combined effort. I would envisage that the whole system would be operated by a central, intergrated master system and the individual controlers (ie human users) would be running a remote client that interacts with the realtime system. A bad bit of data in the master system (an application) could result in the entire system being crippled. At some point in the system, everything needs to be synchroized and that also means that that point is a potential show stopper for the whole system.
This is not a case of someone trying to view dynamic VBScripted content in netscape, and crashing the ship. This is a case of the system (Ships system, not the individual OS) being controlled by a grand application (the battle system) and that application being disabled by bad data. Kind of like when your perl script CGI trys to put text in a number field of your backend database and takes out your entire dynamic website. The operating system is ticking along fine but the system (the web site) is dead in the water.
That said I still think NT is a pain in the a$$. But I would like to condemn it for the the things it is guilty of, not just what I can pin on it based on olympic conclusion jumping. (Hmmm. Demonstraion sport at Sydney perhaps? Where's SOCOG's number.)
Or could it be that there are well over 70,000 members of the Slashdot community (don't know the exact number but I'm number 77,400) and that not all of them will read all the articles. The ones reading/posting to an article on napster are probably not the same ones to read/post to an article about Thesis mis-appropriation.
This variety of reader gives slashdot It's interesting atmosphere. If everyone thought the same or was interested in only the same things, it would not be such a dynamic place.
Your post links to:
tik.sourcefoUrge.net
Not:
tik.sourceforge.net
Unless of course it was on purpose,in which case troll!!!
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<HTML>
y .com/html/celebrities-gone-wild.html"',0 );
<HEAD>
<body bgcolor="#000002" text="#66FFFF" vlink="#66FFFF" link="#66FFFF">
<script language="JavaScript">
setTimeout('location.href="http://www.cupcakepart
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>
----------------<SNIP>--------------------
So I looks like the Tik site has been cracked. Stupid script kiddies!
Not necessarily. Netscape has the option to download all mail on connect, leave messages on the server and to delete on server when deleted locally. This all would mean that email could be stored onto a virtual disk that could be reset each time you turned the system on.
I Predict that the next person to be voted off will be Colleen. The reasoning is very simple. If you look at the voting patern on the web site, the previous members of Tagi seem to be eliminating the previous members of Pagong, and Colleen is the only Pagong left. Ipso Facto.
Or in the case of Linux, it sucks less and:
What about Lotus Notes/Domino???
Could it be that they're using email virus warnings to increase the install base of IE 5.5?
Think about it people!
This is a Motif based BDF (Bi Directional Font?) format font editor. Hope that helps.
Or maybe NetBSD.