What I usually do is when the rep answers I say, "This call may be recorded for quality control purposes." At that point all parties are aware that they are being recorded which is the standard that has to be met where I live (California).
She said they were all sweet and so and called her sweetheart and sweetie...
That's sexual harrassment. She should call in and report them. If she was called those things while at her work she can report the incident to her supervisor and they are required by law to follow up on it.
Opera may well be closed source but it's a far better browser than Firefox which still suffers from memory issues and runs like a pig if you happen to hit the wrong website with the wrong combination of plugins installed.
Yeah, but Opera is just a browser whereas Firefox is slowly becoming more of a platform for web based tools. Let's forget about whether Opera is open source or not. The real issue is that until Opera supports the ability to add some type of extensions, like Firefox does, then there will be many people who continue to use Firefox over Opera, even if they feel Opera is a better "browser". I like Opera a lot. I use it when editing data on certain sites (like MusicBrainz.org) because it renders pages so quickly. However, for the majority of my day to day work it lacks the functionality I get with Firefox and all of the installed extensions that I use. I just can't abandon those tools.
I don't think you understand what he is asking. What he means is, why create a new function call at all? Why wasn't the code that is now in splice() put into sendfile() in the first place?
This was covered recently in a nearly identical Ask Slashdot almost two months ago. You might find a lot of relvant information in the comments to that story. There were many great suggestions.
Provided that I was browsing google. I wasn't. I was reading slashdot so it took less time post my question. I think the onus is on the submitter and the slashdot editors to link things like IED to a definition or to use the acronym tag. Doing this would clarify what the article summary is about. IED wasn't a computer term so it stands to reason that I wasn't the only person who did not know what it meant. Also, by posting my question in the comments and then receiving answers, the definition of IED is preserved on the same page as the article summary. No one else needs to go google for the answer.
I mean we know he sued because he doesn't like GPL, but why doesn't he like GPL? Does he own a closed sourcesoftware buseinss that was trying to compete with Linux? Or is he a paid shill? Or did RMS insult him at a comic book convention? Maybe Linus wrote a scathing reply to his ponies request inclusion to the Linux kernel?
Here's another possibility. Maybe he wanted to lose so that the decision would make it onto the books, thereby strengthening the position of the GPL via existing case law. I'm not a lawyer but I would think that every little decision in the right direction helps.
Coming from Windows all of my libraries are in windows\system32 or in the directory of the actual application. Linux could put them in/lib,/usr/lib,/usr/local/lib,/usr/share/lib/, etc, and my application is almost certainly not going to have its own directory.
And that's an issue how? "Average joe" end-users don't muck about with their libraries. Even power users are unlikely to be messing with those, letting the package manager (under windows or linux) handle it.
You want a multi-threaded browser? Why?? It's hardly a cpu intensive application.
Because the browser hangs when opening a tab that takes a while to finish loading. For example, opening gmail in a new tab makes the browser hang for several seconds.
From the original article which evidently doesn't have any information on the open letter anymore - D-Link took the Stratum 1 list and shoved it into some of their router NTP lookup tables.
Which provides a link to here which no longer contains any information.
D-Link routers do not recognize the kill request, and they re-request very quickly. So yes, he configured the NTP server correctly, AND he posted restrictions on the NTP site correctly, AND D-Link said we don't care.
So D-Link units were making a NTP request, the request was denied by the server, but the D-Link engineers put it in their list of NTP servers anyway?
These situations make no sense to me. The NTP system is very easy to use properly.
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Basically, there's no excuse for hard-coding a time server in almost any situation, unless your client is completely incapable of DNS and has no access to external DNS servers.
The question that we need to be asking is, "how do we prevent abuse of NTP servers, either by malicious intent or by accident, so that these issues do not happen again?" AFAIK, ntpd has a method to allow name servers to only serve clients that are specifically authorized. Why would a stratum 1 time server allow open access which could, and did, lead to this type of abuse? With proper confiuration such queries would be denied.
I wasn't asking what labels do you know of. I can list labels too. What I meant was if someone picked up one of your CDs, told you the band name and the album title, and then asked you "What label is this on" could you tell them off of the top of your head? Even for your favorite albums? I know I couldn't. I just didn't know if other people memorize all of that stuff. Apparently they do which was news to me.
Then either you need to wake up, or stop just downloading all your music from the Net...
Hey, there is no need to be rude and insulting. You don't even know me.
25 years ago. Hmmm. OK, that doesn't quite work
Why does that not work? 25 years ago I was almost 10 years old and listening to my dad's record collection. He might have played his Beatles records for me earlier than that. But it was when I was 10 that he trusted me enough to touch his record collection.
but didn't you ever wonder why there was a big fat apple on the CD? (Or, if you really were listening 25 years ago, in the middle of the record).
Not really. I also didn't wonder why there were a bunch of naked people laying on rocks on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy or why a girl was covered in whipped cream on another album. None of those covers ever made me ask myself "who publishes this?". I still have no idea who the label is for either of those albums. Nor do I care.
Wait a minute. You said the "middle of the record". Well, I paid less attention to that than I did the cover. However, I do remember the cover artwork to those Beatles albums. In any case, one of the few record designs that I remember paying attention to was a copy of the white album at a friend's house. It belonged to a guy I had met in middle school. He was a huge Beatles fan. I was over at his house one day and he showed me a copy of the white album that was pressed on white vinyl. I thought that was pretty neat as I had only seen black records up until then. Impressive for a 13 year old. I also vaguely recall a record of mine that had a spiral on the label. It was a nice effect when it spun around. It was either some kind of children's record, a Dr. Demento record, or something like that.
Anyway, I'm far more interested in the music, and the people who make it, rather than who sells it or what the artwork looks like. This thread shows I'm in the minority when it comes to that. These days I hardly look at the CDs that I buy. I flip through the booklets while I rip the CD but once that's done the CD is packed away with the others in a box in the closet.
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What I usually do is when the rep answers I say, "This call may be recorded for quality control purposes." At that point all parties are aware that they are being recorded which is the standard that has to be met where I live (California).
Vincent was the caller. John was the AOL rep. Please RTFA next time.
I don't think you understand what he is asking. What he means is, why create a new function call at all? Why wasn't the code that is now in splice() put into sendfile() in the first place?
This reminds me of a Dr. Fun cartoon.
This was covered recently in a nearly identical Ask Slashdot almost two months ago. You might find a lot of relvant information in the comments to that story. There were many great suggestions.
Provided that I was browsing google. I wasn't. I was reading slashdot so it took less time post my question. I think the onus is on the submitter and the slashdot editors to link things like IED to a definition or to use the acronym tag. Doing this would clarify what the article summary is about. IED wasn't a computer term so it stands to reason that I wasn't the only person who did not know what it meant. Also, by posting my question in the comments and then receiving answers, the definition of IED is preserved on the same page as the article summary. No one else needs to go google for the answer.
What is an IED?
In other words, no good deed goes unpunished. It's so sad that attempting to help people can put you at risk.
Not sure if your licenses are in order? Get legal.
Harvey Ball invented in first in the 1960s.
Is the label really that important to people?
Wait a minute. You said the "middle of the record". Well, I paid less attention to that than I did the cover. However, I do remember the cover artwork to those Beatles albums. In any case, one of the few record designs that I remember paying attention to was a copy of the white album at a friend's house. It belonged to a guy I had met in middle school. He was a huge Beatles fan. I was over at his house one day and he showed me a copy of the white album that was pressed on white vinyl. I thought that was pretty neat as I had only seen black records up until then. Impressive for a 13 year old. I also vaguely recall a record of mine that had a spiral on the label. It was a nice effect when it spun around. It was either some kind of children's record, a Dr. Demento record, or something like that.
Anyway, I'm far more interested in the music, and the people who make it, rather than who sells it or what the artwork looks like. This thread shows I'm in the minority when it comes to that. These days I hardly look at the CDs that I buy. I flip through the booklets while I rip the CD but once that's done the CD is packed away with the others in a box in the closet.