Instead, they plan to start marketing their flavor of Unix.
Good luck! SCO's pretty much lost the good will of nearly everyone in the computer industry. I doubt people are going to give any legitimate offering from them a second look. Companies that sue their customers will slowly find themselves without customers.
I strongly disagree. I think the problem is that we have to flash these devices at all. Instead of spending the time to engineer and test a device thoroughly companies rush to get their product to market as soon as possible, even if the functionality is half-working. They rely on the user to install new firmware to fix bugs in the device, turning all of their users into beta testers for their products. This seems to be a growing trend be it games, or cell phones, or computer peripherals. So bitch away. As users we shouldn't be rushing to upgrade the latest firmware on all of these devices. Companies should be taking the time to create a stable product before they ship it.
Free in this context means free as in freedom, not price. As the GNU people like to say, "Think of free speech, not free beer." You can read more about all that at the FSF web site.
SPF works like this. You receive an email from someone@hotmail.com. You can then take the domain name, hotmail.com, and check hotmail.com's SPF record. The SPF record states what IP addresses are authorized to send mail for that domain. Take the IP address of the machine connecting and sending the mail from someone@hotmail.com and see if it matches what's listed in hotmail.com's SPF record. If it doesn't match, it's a forged email. If it does match then it's a pretty fair bet that the email is legitimate.
Of course, you'd have software at the MTA level to automate these checks.
Tim, Bob, Matt, Bert, etc. are not real names, they are nicknames.
That's not always true. One of my ex-girlfriends was named Kristy. That was her legal name, not Kristine or any other permutation. Her sister's legal name was Kim, not Kimberly. Those were the names that their parents gave them and it was on all of their legal documents since birth. They had the opposite problem in that people would often make assumptions when they were told their names. This lead to having to get certain documents reissued because the people handling the processing of documents would sometimes try to correct the name.
For me it's a matter of identity. My given name might have been Matthew but that's not my name any more than Steve is. I don't answer to it. It doesn't even catch my attention if someone says it. I used Matt everywhere and that was what I was known by. It only made sense to me to have it legally changed so that I could avoid the same problems that the article submitter is starting to experience.
Although Markus was being funny he was right about having your name legally changed. It will cause problems if you use Tim and Timothy on offical documents and records. Your best bet is to pick one and stick with it. I went from Matthew to Matt because I was running into the same thing you are. If you want to go by Tim instead of Timothy then you should look into getting your name changed. It's a simple procedure that you can usually do yourself. If you live in California you can find the information on how to do it online. Other states may have similar information available.
Yeah, that is a pain. As a workaround, you could add the following alias for set so that it suppresses output of any functions that begin with an underscore, like the bash programmable completion ones do:
alias set="set|perl -ne 'print unless/^_.* \(\)\s*$/../^}$/'"
If you end up needed the full output just type "command set" and it'll skip the alias and run the real command.
Sounds just like the Remembrance Agent for emacs which has been around since about 1996. It's also similar to the Dashboard program that Nat Friedman made for Gnome. There's enough prior art that I have no doubt that blinkx will get a patent.
Bash has programable tab completion. In fact, you should check out the Bash Programmable Completion package if you are a bash user. That contains a bunch of completions for commonly used commands and their options.
5) multiple commandline commands are not rewritten as commands with ';' in them (what I typed is what I get, see 4)
That's the default in bash, too. If you aren't getting that behaviour it's because you turned the cmdhist option on (or your distro did). "shopt -u cmdhist" will turn that back off.
For someone that's keen (I may even try myself if I find some time) couldn't a close approximation of this be done VERY simply by just sending a search request to google restricting to sites listed in your history?
You could but google limits you to 10 words per query. The "word" to limit the search to a specific URL is going to count towards that limit, even when using the google API. You could be talking about hundreds or even thousands of queries if the user has a lot of pages in their history. I set my history to 90 days instead of the default of nine, so I have a ton of pages listed in my history.
all root logins from anyplace other than approved machines get sent to my phone
You're allowing root logins for somewhere other than the console? You should consider turning that off and only allowing root logins from the console. That way someone has to log in as a normal user and then su to root.
But this can be a false economy, especially with programs that are used frequently: precompiled binaries will never run as quickly as those compiled with the right optimizations for your own machine.
Not being a programmer, I have to ask, does this matter that much? I mean, other than the kernel or glibc, it seems that most programs spend their time waiting on an event, be it user input or some type of request from another program or service.
When would it make sense to compile my apps from source and turn on all of the optimization? Would it help much for a desktop user or is it something better suited for someone who has a specific busy task, like a busy web server?
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There's a great overview of PHP5's new OO capabilities at Kuro5hin.
Finally, a use for open proxies.
Sounds a lot like what Philip Greenspun was trying to do with ArsDigita University.
Use DVD Shrink. It does everything that DVD X-Copy does and is free (as in beer).
I strongly disagree. I think the problem is that we have to flash these devices at all. Instead of spending the time to engineer and test a device thoroughly companies rush to get their product to market as soon as possible, even if the functionality is half-working. They rely on the user to install new firmware to fix bugs in the device, turning all of their users into beta testers for their products. This seems to be a growing trend be it games, or cell phones, or computer peripherals. So bitch away. As users we shouldn't be rushing to upgrade the latest firmware on all of these devices. Companies should be taking the time to create a stable product before they ship it.
This books sounds exactly like the Google Hacks book. Is it the same thing with a new cover?
Free in this context means free as in freedom, not price. As the GNU people like to say, "Think of free speech, not free beer." You can read more about all that at the FSF web site.
It's already been done. The Slashdot admins should just ask if they can use the code
Of course, you'd have software at the MTA level to automate these checks.
For me it's a matter of identity. My given name might have been Matthew but that's not my name any more than Steve is. I don't answer to it. It doesn't even catch my attention if someone says it. I used Matt everywhere and that was what I was known by. It only made sense to me to have it legally changed so that I could avoid the same problems that the article submitter is starting to experience.
Although Markus was being funny he was right about having your name legally changed. It will cause problems if you use Tim and Timothy on offical documents and records. Your best bet is to pick one and stick with it. I went from Matthew to Matt because I was running into the same thing you are. If you want to go by Tim instead of Timothy then you should look into getting your name changed. It's a simple procedure that you can usually do yourself. If you live in California you can find the information on how to do it online. Other states may have similar information available.
Why not just do it yourself? I keep all of my config files in CVS on my Debian and RedHat boxes. It's pretty easy to set things up to do this.
Sounds just like the Remembrance Agent for emacs which has been around since about 1996. It's also similar to the Dashboard program that Nat Friedman made for Gnome. There's enough prior art that I have no doubt that blinkx will get a patent.
Here's the fixed link: http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/p rivacy.aspx?ln=en
You could download the human denome database from the NCBI. All the files are here.
When would it make sense to compile my apps from source and turn on all of the optimization? Would it help much for a desktop user or is it something better suited for someone who has a specific busy task, like a busy web server?