Yes, you have the odd compatibility problem, but you get those between MS-Office versions as well. I've even had it happen with patched versions of MSO dropping the bundle when reading files written by the unpatched version which preceded it.
In one case, OpenOffice translations worked around the problems (well, the few incompatibilities raised were negligible compared with the inter-MSO glitches).
In another, where the 2/3 of the customer's documents were "stuck" to an ancient laser printer which died, & the new printer didn't quite cover as much paper with ink, & they couldn't lay hand on another, they simply had to pull each document which failed, and correct it and test-print it. This was pre-OpenOffice (well... StarDivision's StarOffice was only just released), but even so OOo would have fixed only a small fraction of the problems, which were to do with where hand-formatted print (Tabs & spaces & Enters) landed on the paper. If it had been entered in OOo originally, this wouldn't have been a problem since OOo doesn't get so "stuck" to the printer.
Not quite right. In this case, the "victim" is the OS — which has had plenty of time to come good with security — not the customer directly.
The customer becomes the victim when the service people bill them for the time their defenceless machine chewed up getting fixed. And what else can the service-people do? Run a charity for MS OSes?
-- With spending like this [twu.net/cct], just what are "conservatives" conserving? (Homophobia?)
The answer is: Their own social positions.
Conserving homophobia would probably earn them too much money, as well. Like smoking, homosexuality can prove very expensive in, well, odd little ways. Too easy to justify mean/nasty stuff against the savings.
It's also a bit too definite for conservatives. Fingers can be pointed, innocence can be cast aside, scarey stuff. Especially because your own failings (whatever they are) will be next in the spotlight. Not conservative enough. They can get away with blaming the linked-to spending as circumstantial. For now.
...and actually quite a messy one, when you get down to the details.
For example, the presents under the tree and the balls dangling from it are echoes of sacrifices to pagan tree-gods, bodies & heads of enemies draped around their trees to propitiate them.
In fact, given the number of messy parts available, I'm actually amazed that we don't get into it in discussion.
The tree itself is associated with the pagan god Nimrod; traditionally it sprang from the dead stump of his father, Tammuz. In Rome, it was decorated with berries during the time of Saturnalia... & so on. Likewise for wreaths & we have pagan Yuletide etc for the Yule log. Oh, yes, the drunken festivities which attended the kissing of the mistletoe... & a few other things.
The history of some of these ceremonies is so messy that I can't see how SlashDotters avoid being tempted into discussing them.
Creation, on the other hand, is a grand, sweeping & even messier tale. Oceans & later whole classes of plants & animals founded in a day apiece & the whole world died (except for one Ark-full) at one step, to make a kind of re-creation for Noah with his crew. Very little paganism in comparison, but broader & more glamorous themes overall.
Plus the descriptions are kind of summary, leaving lots of room for speculation.
And you get to upset far more people discussing it than merely following the assorted paganisms.
... even allowing very limited numbers of faithful Clausian children and very limited stop-times, the trip has to be made far faster than the speed of light to cover the many houses involved.
Some routers simply don't route anything but TCP (and sometimes not even that) correctly. Putting up a VPN will teach you which ones. I have one situation where the "calling" router does not recieve UDP correctly, but the (same-brand) server router does.
I've switched OpenVPN to TCP and she's a all work, but I could switch just one side of the link to TCP and she's all still work.
If you only want to forward one or a few TCP ports, you can use ssh (-L and -R options). Do take care to have the thing be paranoid about disconnects; having it drop out too often is better than having it stuck for half a day. However, it's magnificent for an instant "VPN".
It was basically a derivative of VMS 5 called MICA; for a while, NT and MICA were patch-compatible; Microsoft hired many of the key Digital people (there was even a lawsuit about this) & still couldn't make it anywhere near as tough or secure as VMS routinely was.
So... even with such a blatant head-start, Microsoft couldn't make it anything but rattley.
Packager | Olivier Thauvin [nanardon at mandriva.org]
Summary | A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements
Description | VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-enhanced package contains a version of VIM with extra, recently introduced features like Python and Perl interpreters.
Install the vim-enhanced package if you'd like to use a version of the VIM editor which includes recently added enhancements like interpreters for the Python and Perl scripting languages. You'll also need to install the vim-common package.
So sayeth URPMI of the vim-enhanced version which ships with Mandriva 2006.0; and yes, it does start in editing mode, not command mode
Of the 4 browsers I have here, all are safer in JavaScript than MSIE (FireFox, SeaMonkey, Opera, Konqueror). Three of those are easily available for 'doze & even Konqueror can be made to work in it.
Er... sorry, I also have lynx, links & w3m available, plus Galeon and a few other GNOMEish built-ins kicking around. Spoilt for choice!
I read left-to-right, and my second finger sits on the mouse's middle scroll-wheel/button (so I can roll it up or down). It all just works.
WRT handedness-sensitive PDAs, hain't knowingly seen one yet.
Handing a mouse is easy, just ask for some weird combination (Ctrl-Alt-Button for example, and wait for the cursing from 'Doze users:-) for choosing sides. Alternatively, just watch to see which buttons get clicked when a user logs in.
Selecting solely because of skin colour I can certainly agree with, because it is both a) out of a person's control and b) utterly irrelevant to how a person behaves.
It can, however, be a valid cultural tag. A very, very simplistic one & not a guarantee, but...
However, the same cannot be said of religion.
However, religion doesn't necessarily leave any detectable marks.
Telling the exact truth to an infidel (or machine) would need to be more important to the subject than their current mission & I know that some beliefs give suicide-missioneers serious indulgences on the job.
What would you do about a suicidal/homicidal Atheist? I was involved (many years ago) in a FIDO chat with Madalyn Murray O'Hair's grand-daughter Robin when she suddenly stopped posting. It turned out later that she'd been murdered (along with Madalyn) by David Roland Waters, an Atheist working for American Atheists as an office manager and typesetter. He evidently did it in order to be able to steal some gold coins. What if he'd wanted to blow up an airplane instead?
...this was on an open side-road, I don't ride that close to cars & Mr Car Door reckons that he only opened it "two inches" despite the injuries all across my face etc from impacting said door; & also, according to the police, I was the 4th person he'd hit that day. He also gave different stories to the police & courts about why he was there at the time.
Accident? Yeah, right.
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For example, the "AIDS drugs to Africa" campaign involved getting the US DoT to first shut down Brasilian companies which were already doing a fine job of shipping the same medications to Africa.
And so on, across the board.
Bill's idea of "philanthropy" seems to have a very stiff controlling aspect. Steve's philanthropy was/is more intersting & genuine.
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As long as they don't provide any disadvantage, they're not going to be eliminated from the gene pool.
Appendicitis would be a fairly strong disadvantage. As would dying because you didn't have an appendix to filter certain things out.
Our appendix is liable to damage, it can fall ill by itself, it costs energy etc to grow & maintain, etc. Everything has disadvantages.
Using the logic you present, every feature we have should find itself deprecated relatively swiftly.
...being fed all of those slack museum visitors instead of healthy, wild food.
Still, I guess it would clean up their gene pool. Eventually.
Some of them do, anyway.
And all of them spend some time sleeping during the day.
Don't know about sleep as protection, but some of them fang you fairly thoroughly if disturbed.
I use OpenOffice.
Yes, you have the odd compatibility problem, but you get those between MS-Office versions as well. I've even had it happen with patched versions of MSO dropping the bundle when reading files written by the unpatched version which preceded it.
In one case, OpenOffice translations worked around the problems (well, the few incompatibilities raised were negligible compared with the inter-MSO glitches).
In another, where the 2/3 of the customer's documents were "stuck" to an ancient laser printer which died, & the new printer didn't quite cover as much paper with ink, & they couldn't lay hand on another, they simply had to pull each document which failed, and correct it and test-print it. This was pre-OpenOffice (well... StarDivision's StarOffice was only just released), but even so OOo would have fixed only a small fraction of the problems, which were to do with where hand-formatted print (Tabs & spaces & Enters) landed on the paper. If it had been entered in OOo originally, this wouldn't have been a problem since OOo doesn't get so "stuck" to the printer.
Practically everything you see in the sky is nuclear fallout.
Come to think of it, the same is true during daytime.
Call this a radical idea, but how about fruit, grains and vegetables?
Another few centuries of eating that kind of food probably won't do us much harm...
Not quite right. In this case, the "victim" is the OS — which has had plenty of time to come good with security — not the customer directly.
The customer becomes the victim when the service people bill them for the time their defenceless machine chewed up getting fixed. And what else can the service-people do? Run a charity for MS OSes?
Quoting your tagline:
--
With spending like this [twu.net/cct], just what are "conservatives" conserving? (Homophobia?)
The answer is: Their own social positions.
Conserving homophobia would probably earn them too much money, as well. Like smoking, homosexuality can prove very expensive in, well, odd little ways. Too easy to justify mean/nasty stuff against the savings.
It's also a bit too definite for conservatives. Fingers can be pointed, innocence can be cast aside, scarey stuff. Especially because your own failings (whatever they are) will be next in the spotlight. Not conservative enough. They can get away with blaming the linked-to spending as circumstantial. For now.
Read Me now!
Yes, it does make a difference. (-:
...forcing their children to believe in nothing.
Naturally.
It's hard work. You have no idea how thin "Things just happen" gets as an explanation.
...and actually quite a messy one, when you get down to the details.
For example, the presents under the tree and the balls dangling from it are echoes of sacrifices to pagan tree-gods, bodies & heads of enemies draped around their trees to propitiate them.
In fact, given the number of messy parts available, I'm actually amazed that we don't get into it in discussion.
The tree itself is associated with the pagan god Nimrod; traditionally it sprang from the dead stump of his father, Tammuz. In Rome, it was decorated with berries during the time of Saturnalia... & so on. Likewise for wreaths & we have pagan Yuletide etc for the Yule log. Oh, yes, the drunken festivities which attended the kissing of the mistletoe... & a few other things.
The history of some of these ceremonies is so messy that I can't see how SlashDotters avoid being tempted into discussing them.
Creation, on the other hand, is a grand, sweeping & even messier tale. Oceans & later whole classes of plants & animals founded in a day apiece & the whole world died (except for one Ark-full) at one step, to make a kind of re-creation for Noah with his crew. Very little paganism in comparison, but broader & more glamorous themes overall.
Plus the descriptions are kind of summary, leaving lots of room for speculation.
And you get to upset far more people discussing it than merely following the assorted paganisms.
... even allowing very limited numbers of faithful Clausian children and very limited stop-times, the trip has to be made far faster than the speed of light to cover the many houses involved.
That about sums it up for me, too.
Well... it seemed a reasonable thing to ask. (-:
Some routers simply don't route anything but TCP (and sometimes not even that) correctly. Putting up a VPN will teach you which ones. I have one situation where the "calling" router does not recieve UDP correctly, but the (same-brand) server router does.
I've switched OpenVPN to TCP and she's a all work, but I could switch just one side of the link to TCP and she's all still work.
If you only want to forward one or a few TCP ports, you can use ssh (-L and -R options). Do take care to have the thing be paranoid about disconnects; having it drop out too often is better than having it stuck for half a day. However, it's magnificent for an instant "VPN".
It was basically a derivative of VMS 5 called MICA; for a while, NT and MICA were patch-compatible; Microsoft hired many of the key Digital people (there was even a lawsuit about this) & still couldn't make it anywhere near as tough or secure as VMS routinely was.
So... even with such a blatant head-start, Microsoft couldn't make it anything but rattley.
No change there in decades.
What may not be so obvious is the way they return the effort (Utnubu was pleasing to see).
Well... so close that it doesn't matter.
I know some of the people behind dunc-tank and they are not the kind of person MS or any other puppet-master would have much success with.
urpmq -i vim-enhanced
Name | vim-enhanced
Version | 6.3
Release | 21mdk
Group | Editors
Size | 1239458
Packager | Olivier Thauvin [nanardon at mandriva.org]
Summary | A version of the VIM editor which includes recent enhancements
Description | VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-enhanced package contains a version of VIM with extra, recently introduced features like Python and Perl interpreters.
Install the vim-enhanced package if you'd like to use a version of the VIM editor which includes recently added enhancements like interpreters for the Python and Perl scripting languages. You'll also need to install the vim-common package.
So sayeth URPMI of the vim-enhanced version which ships with Mandriva 2006.0; and yes, it does start in editing mode, not command mode
Just don't do it using MSIE.
Simple, eh?
Of the 4 browsers I have here, all are safer in JavaScript than MSIE (FireFox, SeaMonkey, Opera, Konqueror). Three of those are easily available for 'doze & even Konqueror can be made to work in it.
Er... sorry, I also have lynx, links & w3m available, plus Galeon and a few other GNOMEish built-ins kicking around. Spoilt for choice!
I read left-to-right, and my second finger sits on the mouse's middle scroll-wheel/button (so I can roll it up or down). It all just works.
:-) for choosing sides. Alternatively, just watch to see which buttons get clicked when a user logs in.
WRT handedness-sensitive PDAs, hain't knowingly seen one yet.
Handing a mouse is easy, just ask for some weird combination (Ctrl-Alt-Button for example, and wait for the cursing from 'Doze users
...try this, to be sure:
/U
A:\> FORMAT C:
Caution, don't do this on a real PC unless you really feel like head-butting a wall real soon now. (-:
It can, however, be a valid cultural tag. A very, very simplistic one & not a guarantee, but...
However, religion doesn't necessarily leave any detectable marks.
Telling the exact truth to an infidel (or machine) would need to be more important to the subject than their current mission & I know that some beliefs give suicide-missioneers serious indulgences on the job.
What would you do about a suicidal/homicidal Atheist? I was involved (many years ago) in a FIDO chat with Madalyn Murray O'Hair's grand-daughter Robin when she suddenly stopped posting. It turned out later that she'd been murdered (along with Madalyn) by David Roland Waters, an Atheist working for American Atheists as an office manager and typesetter. He evidently did it in order to be able to steal some gold coins. What if he'd wanted to blow up an airplane instead?
...this was on an open side-road, I don't ride that close to cars & Mr Car Door reckons that he only opened it "two inches" despite the injuries all across my face etc from impacting said door; & also, according to the police, I was the 4th person he'd hit that day. He also gave different stories to the police & courts about why he was there at the time.
Accident? Yeah, right.
For example, the "AIDS drugs to Africa" campaign involved getting the US DoT to first shut down Brasilian companies which were already doing a fine job of shipping the same medications to Africa.
And so on, across the board.
Bill's idea of "philanthropy" seems to have a very stiff controlling aspect. Steve's philanthropy was/is more intersting & genuine.