Scott M isn't looking for support because his
uncle raped him when he was five, or because
his government wants to hang him for doing a
certain type of exercise. If he were an individual in such circumstances, his comments
might have some merit. But he isn't. He's
a billionaire, who lives in a bubble of illusion
that the world is a friendly place.
What's wrong with Gnome that there needs to be a special version for Sun? Can't you just build it on a solaris box and be done with it? Or are there pathological bindings to Linux? Why? Does fixing it for Sun also fix it for other platforms?
>Isn't it amazing that the generation that
>campaigned for youth rights in the 60's when
>THEY were teenagers are now voting republican
It sounds like you think the whole generation consisted of hippies.
It isn't so. They were in the minority then, just like the geeks are in the minority against
things like the MPAA and RIAA control.
In 20 years, the next generation will be blaming
YOU for turning around and voting for Disney.
Geeks are so vocal about reform that the record could make it look like this generation was aligned. But the truth is, most people are NOT EVEN AWARE OF THE PROBLEMS.
In the 60's the hippies were definitely in the minority, and any viewpoint not in line with the government or with popular opinion was forcibly rejected.
And you're blaming these people for the laws being passed today? Quit looking for someone to blame for your problems and start writing letters and campaigning.
I need Netscape in order to do Online Banking.
Even though Konqueror would WORK, Wells Fargo
refuses to accept any SSL connections not coming
from Netscape or IE.
Java and Javascript support are pretty good in
Konqueror, but there are still quite a few things that won't work in it that will work in
Netscape. I don't care about those though. If I could do online banking with Wells Fargo without Netscape, I'd probably never use it.
>If you NEED to back up data, hard drives are >VERRRY cheap, and high capacity tape drives are >cheap as well.
You might be thinking hard drives are cheap, but
only until you buy the first couple, or three or
four... I can't imagine using them for daily or
weekly archival backups and still calling them
"cheap" especially compared to CDR.
And since when are "high capacity tape drives" CHEAP? Cheap ones still cost over a grand, and
the media are certainly not cheap. Especially
not cheap like CDR. Where the drives are maybe
$60.00.
On the other hand, are there any backup systems that use CDR effectively? Scenario: I have a
40 gig drive and a spindle of CDR's. I want a restorable copy of this drive, partition table, boot sector, and all filesystems. All I want to
do is change CD's when prompted. They don't have
to be ISO9660 discs, just have to be restorable to the raw device. A multi-volume tar seems like
the way to go.
Show me a better backup method for the home user,
I'm all ears. $800 tape drives aren't even in the same realm as $50 CD writers. $20 tapes??
Sure, the professional user needs a robotic DLT system to backup their Netapps. So we're into
half-milliondollar fileservers and fifty-thousand dollar tape machines.
I haven't seen much discussion of benefits of
Sparc Linux over Solaris. The main one to me
is the use of virtual consoles and the fact that
I can setup a console with a decent rows/cols.
Perhaps it's my ignorance of SunOS working against me, but after years of dealing with
Suns, I haven't once come across info as to
how to get virtual consoles, or better than the
default text mode on a sparc. And this is
done by default when you install sparc linux.
>This is the thing I can't understand. These guys
>need to have some sort of valid contact.
For lots of the spamish businesses, the phone
number is the only backchannel. For some of
them, just your calling the number is what
makes the money. For others, when you call
the 800 number, a salesman at the other end
considers you a hot lead, and starts programming
you with linguistic manipulation (a.k.a. salesmanship) to liberate your money from you.
Out of the last three spams in my spam folder (thank you procmail), two had 800 numbers, and
one had a web URL. Ha ha,
the link points to some
spanish-language 404 page
ERROR! El documento solicitado no existe en nuestro servidor.
So, even if I did want a low-interest loan
with a QUICK APPROVAL! and NO OBLIGATION!
I would be out of luck,eh?
I love this disclaimer:
"The reply address on this email was active at the time this email was
sent."
To me, that says "We know the address will be cancelled by the time you read this".
Be sure to write to
if you want to talk about how Bulk E-Mail can
help where other means have failed!
RATES DROPPED! JUST RELEASED! SUPER WEB SITE!
FOR INVESTORS ONLY!
SPAM doesn't bother me as much as the thought that there is a common class of people on whom this type of marketing will work. It doesn't matter
if you can make money fast and retire quickly on
an exciting home based business blah blah blah.
Maybe some of the MMF strategies can work, maybe
some of the products marketed in this manner are
valuable to people, whatever.
What bothers me is realizing that there are enough
people out there that actually respond to these ads... I know there's one born every minute, but
to buy anything I've seen marketed via SPAM would take someone beyond "sucker".
This bothers me far more than getting spammed, knowing that there are people that can be influenced by it.
Call the Social Security office, explain your
concern in terms of the amount of the SS
"contribution" versus your hours. If there
is any discrepancy between the hours you
worked and the amount of social withheld,
the Atty General of your state might become
very interested in matters.
The journalist's use of "unlikely refuge" really
made me want to just stop reading right there. To anyone who thinks about it for a microsecond, it should plainly be the obvious, MOST LIKELY "refuge". Even the word "refuge" would seem to
imply that it's a temporary situation. This is
more of a Gibraltar, wouldn't you think?
One of the weirdest things about our whole culture
to me is that it's the norm to act embarrased and
surprised about sex, the existance of sex, the fact that people have sex, and above all, SURPRISE! sex sells. To me, it's almost as if
sex would be harder to sell if "we" (society) stopped acting shocked and surprised about porn.
As if, part of the reason it's popular is because
we enable it's mystique by pretending to be innocent, and by pretending that sex is something
that needs to be hidden, restricted only to a certain class of people (e.g., only the marrieds
may participate, and only in the dark even for them), etc.
It just isn't so, but the delusion that it could be, should be, or ever was so, persists as thoroughly as any other cultural idiom in the USA
and much of the world. The very conspicuous absense of any explicit sexual imagery in mainstream media is what creates a market for
erotic material, but that's a topic for another
rant.
Anybody who is genuinely, honestly surprised that
the porn industry thrives, please tell us what cave they've been living in their entire lives.
The reason the descendents of Carnegie and Rockerfeller are not among the wealthiest
people is because estate taxes are doing
thier job. The high "death tax" was intended
to prevent financial dynasties. People of
all walks of life, including those from wealthy
families, are supposed to have to work, or otherwise make their own fortune. Or at
least their children. Or their grandchildren.
Maybe you're rich enough that your estate, divided among Uncle Sam and all your descendents
down to your grandchildren, will be sufficient that your great grandchildren never have to work.
The whole idea of the estate tax is to make that very uncommon. Unamerican, even.
Send user agent string: Pick any of the Netscape4, IE4 or IE5 options. "
It does not work. This feature is broken in the 2-21 snapshot, today's snapshot, and in the new deb's. For one thing, the ADD button stays greyed out. If you put a "*" in the match field, it doesnt save the config. I've tried to fix this but it will take a while for my build to finish.
I submitted a bug report.
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Absolutely every one of the programs you mentioned
works fine on kde. I don't understand the attitude of "either/or" when it comes to this stuff. Just because I have Kde does not mean I can't use Gnome, gimp, any other GTK app. There
seems to be a common misunderstanding about this,
and it should be clarified.
The browser is, hands down, the best feature of KDE2. It uses your JVM, your libssl, and it can
run netscape plugins, and it is much more easy to build than Mozilla.
The downside to Kde2 is that it can be a bitch to
build from source. Once you setup your environment and have all the dependencies, it's not too bad. My nightly checkout and build of the whole cvs tree takes about 3 hours. I have had problems with the dpkgs, but, I stopped using them
when I got really interested in the dev versions of kde2.
The only reason I need Netscape at all now, is to
connect to my bank (Wells Fargo only allows specific Keys from specific versions of Netscape.
If I could work around this, I wouldn't need Netscape at all).
NOBODY else kept archives of Usenet? Not even the
core heirarchies like comp.* and soc.* ??
That's very surprising to me. It's not like
dejanews was ever that good, that *nobody* else
needed to keep a usenet archive.
>Quite a few audio cards have digital out - you
>could simply record it into a harddisk
>recorder, and then record it back to your
>computer without losing a single bit of audio
>quality.
"They" have beaten you to this. If you have
consumer gear, SCMS is going to prevent you
from using this method.
I got angry when I tried to use my minidisc recorder to get the audio from the digital output
of my dvd player. A DVD of a ca. 1940 film of
a Shakespeare play was SCMS protected.
Last time I checked, Shakespeare was public domain, as were films from the early 1940s.
Nevertheless, the only way I could record this
stuff was via the analog output.
I *HATE* SCMS. If I had the money to spend, I could simply buy *pro* DAT's, Minidisc records, DVD's, DAW's, that simply toggle the copybit.
Every copy control mechanism there is, will be
disabled on pro gear anyway.
Don't you think someone who is in a large scale
piracy outfit will be using pro a/v gear in the
first place?
>The other side of this coin is that these
> "censors" were reacting to immense
> pressure to never offend anybody, anywhere,
> ever, no matter what.
Do you think they'll learn anything about this,
now that they're getting lots of attention, all over the world, from people who they've managed to offend?
It looks like their plan has backfired, and they've offended far more people with their intolerance and ignorance than they ever would have offended with a hands-off approach.
>Where in the US is there a Post Office that is >open past 5:00pm, except for special dates (like >April 15th)?
Dallas, Texas has a post office that is
open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except
postal holidays. "Open" means fully staffed
at the counter. The part that sells collectibles
keeps banker's hours.
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Scott M isn't looking for support because his
uncle raped him when he was five, or because
his government wants to hang him for doing a
certain type of exercise. If he were an individual in such circumstances, his comments
might have some merit. But he isn't. He's
a billionaire, who lives in a bubble of illusion
that the world is a friendly place.
SSL Support alone isn't the whole story.
If the site you want to connect to only accepts
keys from certain browsers, it does not matter
what your other browser can do.
Try to connect to the wells fargo online bank
with anything but an "approved browser" and
get back with me about SSL support.
http://www.wellsfargo.com/per/browsertest.jhtml
I've asked for a way to make Konqueror fool this
site into working, but I guess it isn't a
problem for anyone else.
What's wrong with Gnome that there needs to be a special version for Sun? Can't you just build it on a solaris box and be done with it? Or are there pathological bindings to Linux? Why? Does fixing it for Sun also fix it for other platforms?
Okay, a guy from Oz has a US Patent on his invention. Good for him, good for the USPTO.
About the design, Ive often wondered if a Theremin effect could be used for a 3D spacial
controller. Maybe even 4D. Ideas?
>Isn't it amazing that the generation that
>campaigned for youth rights in the 60's when
>THEY were teenagers are now voting republican
It sounds like you think the whole generation consisted of hippies.
It isn't so. They were in the minority then, just like the geeks are in the minority against
things like the MPAA and RIAA control.
In 20 years, the next generation will be blaming
YOU for turning around and voting for Disney.
Geeks are so vocal about reform that the record could make it look like this generation was aligned. But the truth is, most people are NOT EVEN AWARE OF THE PROBLEMS.
In the 60's the hippies were definitely in the minority, and any viewpoint not in line with the government or with popular opinion was forcibly rejected.
And you're blaming these people for the laws being passed today? Quit looking for someone to blame for your problems and start writing letters and campaigning.
http://www.wellsfargo.com/per/browsertest.jhtml
Fool that into believing your Konqueror is Netscape or IE, and I'm all ears!
I need Netscape in order to do Online Banking.
Even though Konqueror would WORK, Wells Fargo
refuses to accept any SSL connections not coming
from Netscape or IE.
Java and Javascript support are pretty good in
Konqueror, but there are still quite a few things that won't work in it that will work in
Netscape. I don't care about those though. If I could do online banking with Wells Fargo without Netscape, I'd probably never use it.
>If you NEED to back up data, hard drives are >VERRRY cheap, and high capacity tape drives are >cheap as well.
You might be thinking hard drives are cheap, but
only until you buy the first couple, or three or
four... I can't imagine using them for daily or
weekly archival backups and still calling them
"cheap" especially compared to CDR.
And since when are "high capacity tape drives" CHEAP? Cheap ones still cost over a grand, and
the media are certainly not cheap. Especially
not cheap like CDR. Where the drives are maybe
$60.00.
On the other hand, are there any backup systems that use CDR effectively? Scenario: I have a
40 gig drive and a spindle of CDR's. I want a restorable copy of this drive, partition table, boot sector, and all filesystems. All I want to
do is change CD's when prompted. They don't have
to be ISO9660 discs, just have to be restorable to the raw device. A multi-volume tar seems like
the way to go.
Show me a better backup method for the home user,
I'm all ears. $800 tape drives aren't even in the same realm as $50 CD writers. $20 tapes??
Sure, the professional user needs a robotic DLT system to backup their Netapps. So we're into
half-milliondollar fileservers and fifty-thousand dollar tape machines.
What's in between for, e.g., my mom?
I haven't seen much discussion of benefits of
Sparc Linux over Solaris. The main one to me
is the use of virtual consoles and the fact that
I can setup a console with a decent rows/cols.
Perhaps it's my ignorance of SunOS working against me, but after years of dealing with
Suns, I haven't once come across info as to
how to get virtual consoles, or better than the
default text mode on a sparc. And this is
done by default when you install sparc linux.
>This is the thing I can't understand. These guys
,eh?
>need to have some sort of valid contact.
For lots of the spamish businesses, the phone
number is the only backchannel. For some of
them, just your calling the number is what
makes the money. For others, when you call
the 800 number, a salesman at the other end
considers you a hot lead, and starts programming
you with linguistic manipulation (a.k.a. salesmanship) to liberate your money from you.
Out of the last three spams in my spam folder (thank you procmail), two had 800 numbers, and
one had a web URL. Ha ha,
the link points to some
spanish-language 404 page
ERROR! El documento solicitado no existe en nuestro servidor.
So, even if I did want a low-interest loan
with a QUICK APPROVAL! and NO OBLIGATION!
I would be out of luck
I love this disclaimer:
"The reply address on this email was active at the time this email was
sent."
To me, that says "We know the address will be cancelled by the time you read this".
Be sure to write to
if you want to talk about how Bulk E-Mail can
help where other means have failed!
RATES DROPPED! JUST RELEASED! SUPER WEB SITE!
FOR INVESTORS ONLY!
SPAM doesn't bother me as much as the thought that there is a common class of people on whom this type of marketing will work. It doesn't matter
if you can make money fast and retire quickly on
an exciting home based business blah blah blah.
Maybe some of the MMF strategies can work, maybe
some of the products marketed in this manner are
valuable to people, whatever.
What bothers me is realizing that there are enough
people out there that actually respond to these ads... I know there's one born every minute, but
to buy anything I've seen marketed via SPAM would take someone beyond "sucker".
This bothers me far more than getting spammed, knowing that there are people that can be influenced by it.
Call the Social Security office, explain your
concern in terms of the amount of the SS
"contribution" versus your hours. If there
is any discrepancy between the hours you
worked and the amount of social withheld,
the Atty General of your state might become
very interested in matters.
I'll take a free cisco 675 any day.
and a phone line filter that actually works
would be worth ten bucks.
also, i'd rather end up with obsolete gear than
leasing it from the telco.
The journalist's use of "unlikely refuge" really
made me want to just stop reading right there. To anyone who thinks about it for a microsecond, it should plainly be the obvious, MOST LIKELY "refuge". Even the word "refuge" would seem to
imply that it's a temporary situation. This is
more of a Gibraltar, wouldn't you think?
One of the weirdest things about our whole culture
to me is that it's the norm to act embarrased and
surprised about sex, the existance of sex, the fact that people have sex, and above all, SURPRISE! sex sells. To me, it's almost as if
sex would be harder to sell if "we" (society) stopped acting shocked and surprised about porn.
As if, part of the reason it's popular is because
we enable it's mystique by pretending to be innocent, and by pretending that sex is something
that needs to be hidden, restricted only to a certain class of people (e.g., only the marrieds
may participate, and only in the dark even for them), etc.
It just isn't so, but the delusion that it could be, should be, or ever was so, persists as thoroughly as any other cultural idiom in the USA
and much of the world. The very conspicuous absense of any explicit sexual imagery in mainstream media is what creates a market for
erotic material, but that's a topic for another
rant.
Anybody who is genuinely, honestly surprised that
the porn industry thrives, please tell us what cave they've been living in their entire lives.
>If I tell you jump off a bridge and you do it,
> a[m] I responsible?
Well, if by jumping off the bridge, I have a small
chance of survival, while staying on the bridge
with you, I do not, then yes, you are responsible.
I wonder if it makes a difference whether the killers bought the game or bootlegged it. If any of them paid retail for a shooter, I'll eat my hat.
"If you wrote a rubber check, they'd just sell it off to TeleCheck or another collection
agency at a discount. "
Careful there. If you wrote a rubber check in
AZ, the Marshalls would be there to take you
to jail for 30-90 days when you bring back the car.
I thought this was "News For Nerds"
Since when are nerds and geeks into sports?
The reason the descendents of Carnegie and Rockerfeller are not among the wealthiest
people is because estate taxes are doing
thier job. The high "death tax" was intended
to prevent financial dynasties. People of
all walks of life, including those from wealthy
families, are supposed to have to work, or otherwise make their own fortune. Or at
least their children. Or their grandchildren.
Maybe you're rich enough that your estate, divided among Uncle Sam and all your descendents
down to your grandchildren, will be sufficient that your great grandchildren never have to work.
The whole idea of the estate tax is to make that very uncommon. Unamerican, even.
" When connecting to: wellsfargo.com
Send user agent string: Pick any of the Netscape4, IE4 or IE5 options. "
It does not work. This feature is broken in the 2-21 snapshot, today's snapshot, and in the new deb's. For one thing, the ADD button stays greyed out. If you put a "*" in the match field, it doesnt save the config. I've tried to fix this but it will take a while for my build to finish.
I submitted a bug report.
Absolutely every one of the programs you mentioned
works fine on kde. I don't understand the attitude of "either/or" when it comes to this stuff. Just because I have Kde does not mean I can't use Gnome, gimp, any other GTK app. There
seems to be a common misunderstanding about this,
and it should be clarified.
The browser is, hands down, the best feature of KDE2. It uses your JVM, your libssl, and it can
run netscape plugins, and it is much more easy to build than Mozilla.
The downside to Kde2 is that it can be a bitch to
build from source. Once you setup your environment and have all the dependencies, it's not too bad. My nightly checkout and build of the whole cvs tree takes about 3 hours. I have had problems with the dpkgs, but, I stopped using them
when I got really interested in the dev versions of kde2.
The only reason I need Netscape at all now, is to
connect to my bank (Wells Fargo only allows specific Keys from specific versions of Netscape.
If I could work around this, I wouldn't need Netscape at all).
NOBODY else kept archives of Usenet? Not even the
core heirarchies like comp.* and soc.* ??
That's very surprising to me. It's not like
dejanews was ever that good, that *nobody* else
needed to keep a usenet archive.
Talk about your single point of failure...
>Quite a few audio cards have digital out - you >could simply record it into a harddisk >recorder, and then record it back to your >computer without losing a single bit of audio >quality. "They" have beaten you to this. If you have consumer gear, SCMS is going to prevent you from using this method. I got angry when I tried to use my minidisc recorder to get the audio from the digital output of my dvd player. A DVD of a ca. 1940 film of a Shakespeare play was SCMS protected. Last time I checked, Shakespeare was public domain, as were films from the early 1940s. Nevertheless, the only way I could record this stuff was via the analog output. I *HATE* SCMS. If I had the money to spend, I could simply buy *pro* DAT's, Minidisc records, DVD's, DAW's, that simply toggle the copybit. Every copy control mechanism there is, will be disabled on pro gear anyway. Don't you think someone who is in a large scale piracy outfit will be using pro a/v gear in the first place?
>The other side of this coin is that these
> "censors" were reacting to immense
> pressure to never offend anybody, anywhere,
> ever, no matter what.
Do you think they'll learn anything about this,
now that they're getting lots of attention, all over the world, from people who they've managed to offend?
It looks like their plan has backfired, and they've offended far more people with their intolerance and ignorance than they ever would have offended with a hands-off approach.
Interstate 30 at Sylvan Avenue, between Downtown and Oak Cliff.
>Where in the US is there a Post Office that is >open past 5:00pm, except for special dates (like >April 15th)?
Dallas, Texas has a post office that is
open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except
postal holidays. "Open" means fully staffed
at the counter. The part that sells collectibles
keeps banker's hours.