No it hasn't. GMT still exists as Time Zone, in the same way that EDT does. UTC is just a new fancy everyone-in-the-world-is-happy-about-it name for the zero offset of the meridian line. GMT was a bit to Ye-Olde-British-Empire for most people.
Great - The UK (and many other countries) flip back to GMT\UTC Sunday morning, so now my head hurts trying to work out when I have to set my alarm so I can get up, get get dressed, go outside, and stand disapointedly staring at a cloud covered sky:(
In the 5231 build, the Category view is not that much different from the XP version, with the exception of a few colour changes according to the new Aero theme.
So far looking at the pug-ugly new dialog of, say, the power schemes, I'd say the look and feel on Vista has a LONG way to go until we can finally judge whether it's comparable to OSX or not.
Ugh, that page is a mess - a fine example of all that is wrong with Wikipedia. I'd go and clean it up, but tbh, I know that within a day it'll just be back to the state it's currently in.:(
As for the Aussies and Kiwis, you'll have to ask them yourself. But I suspect they'll go with the British version.
Yup, I've just done a straw poll around the office, and as is common in London based IT depts, there are plenty Aussies, Kiwis, and South Africans. They all pronounce it the 'british' way.
Personally, I go with 'a' coz I'm a Brit, is it just U.S. peeps who pronounce it 'b' ?
(I'd submit this as a/. poll, but everything I submit gets rejected... I wish there were _at the very least_, proforma reasons as why things get rejected so you know where you went wrong...)
I know I'm going to get mauled over this quesiton... but has anyone compiled it on Windows 2003 server ?
For practical reasons I don't have linux in my test lab, and I'd like to have DSpam on my Webserver which is running IIS6 and Windows 2003 Server.
I can see I need to run it in SMTP mode with a relay to my Exchange box, but I don't want to waste my time trying to compile it (using Visual Studio), if someone already knows it wont work.
Yes, but Live Communicator isn't a consumer product, it's specifically designed for Corporates, where the problem of interoperability is a BIG issue.
Live Communicator (the IM client) needs Live Communicator Server, plus Active Directory, with either Exchange, or a Schema change to the AD.
Live Communicator Server is the gateway to the external IM networks - the client has no ability to connect to Yahoo!/AIM/ICQ directly.
It's a huge undertaking for a Corporate to install it, and most Corporates are wary of IM in the first instance, and feel the benefits are not yet clear (I don't agree with this, being a Business Chat/IM evangelist).
Sorry, to waffle on, but just wanted to nip the 'Live Communicator does this already' argument in the bud.
the greatest omission of the 1/2/3 trilogy is what happened in between 2 and 3 when obi wan and anakin were going around pounding on evil throughout the galaxy. now it is implicated that anakin saved obi wan's life many times, but you also have to guess that there was a lot of cooperative ass-whooping (although nothing is guaranteed).
That's touched upon in the animated Clone Wars series.
On that note, Clone Wars Season 2, was released on DVD in the UK AFTER Episode 3 hit the Cinema, way after. Nice One LucusFilm!
I don't know much about this, but where I currently work, we use the Netbay Virtual Console from IBM. It's a rack mount unit that offers KVM over IP for the servers in the rack.
Well, I haven't been a long term slashdotter, I lurked for a few years before finally sorting an account earlier this year, so I'm not in a good place to list requirements... That said, I'd like to see:
Zero Bias. We're all IT people, with a healthy interest in technology, albeit in different disciplines. From my POV (and I hope from a lot of slashdotters POVs as well) there is no need for the Linux-ers to bash the MS-ers and vice versa. Lets face it, no-one is going to convert from one side to the other, no matter how much they get flamed. So lets all learn to live together, and learn from and appreciate other peoples insights on systems we don't that that well. As far as the editors go, they are guilty for allowing the anti-MS viewpoint continue, and in some cases (this article in point) they actively fan the flames. I know slashdot used to be primarily a place for *nix people to hang out, but the world and the net has moved on. Slashdot has a strong influence, and it needs to start using that influence responsibly.
A better balance of articles. I guess for this one to work, we need more editors, from different professional backgrounds. As many posters have said, quality article submissions get rejected for no good reason, this needs to stop. (I'm not offering myself up as an editor, far from it. I, like others, don't have the time)
No matter how low and crummy/. articles become, we will still flock here, several times a day, to read said crummy and low articles. Then we will all bitch about it in the comments for several days afterwards.
Now I _know_ I'm going to get flamed for this, but the/. editors are now running/. as if it were Microsoft; fobbing us off with sub-standard products and expecting us to be grateful, time and time again.
Henceforth I now declare/. to be known as MSSlashdot. Expect an increase in factually incorrect badly typed articles to be posted before they are finished, only to be 'hotfixed' several days later when nobody really cares anymore.
And to show that I'm kidding (but only slightly)...
In the UK, billboards are everywhere in your usual metropolis. On the A13 into London (one the the most used commuter roads), there are billboards all the way along it. The A13 is most definately a 'highway', even though most of the time, traffic is crawling along it at 20mph.
A lot of good comics get republished in 'graphic novel' form, ie. the whole weekly series rebound in a single book. I am serious collector of Batman (Dark knight ethos) Graphics Novels. Half of them were originally weekly serials rebound to form a complete 'story' and the other half are original 'novels' first published as a complete 100 odd page story.
Like the parent, I have no desire to consume a story one 'chapter' a week, as this pace is far too slow for me, and I feel that this is whats wrong with the current young generation. They live such fast paced lives, being constantly bombarded with blip-verts and high octane TV programmes that all shout at them at 100 miles an hour. So it's no surprise that a weekly segment of 8 comic pages is too slow and laid back to hold their attention. The knock on effect of todays Insta-Media society is that most teenagers have the attention span of a goldfish.
The way forward? Complete stories, of say ~50 pages, bound like a weekly comic, to keep the costs down. Can't afford staff to write these? Either tap the online comic market, or recycle the past 20 years of printed comics.
Ah, but would you restrict the sensors to just fingers/hands/feet, or go for the whole 'body' ?
To be useful, covering the whole body would require millions of sensors, and somewhat impractical to implement and process.
I agree with earlier poster, the best use for this, is in prosthetics. We already have artificial limbs that can be 'moved' via crude nerve interfaces, add this on and the limb becomes a lot more useful. Much more usful than a Honda-bot that can pick up an egg without breaking it.
Money doesn't make you Upper Class, Money just makes you a richer-version-of-your-original class.
It saddens me when I see all these $1m lottery winners on TV. It's not that they have won the jackpot, it's that they are all invariably, ignorant lower-class inbred pig-fiddling swamp-living hik looking idiots living in trailers. What a waste of $1m.
Not all games/demos have to be at the burning edge of graphics.
15 years on, and loads of people still play lemmings. The emulator scene for old 16 bit machines, and even old arcade machines is bigger than ever. All these people can't be wrong.
All modern games have, is their graphics. Most of them don't even have enjoyable game-play. Graphics are not everything, calling a game with low-spec graphics, rubbish, is like saying Impressionists couldn't paint.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't he ? My bad. 2 & 3 always blend into one film for me. :(
-Jar.
Yup, two extra hours of Kirk mourning the loss of his son...
-Jar.
I seriously doubt that would work with NTLM based authentication, which most IIS/ISA Proxy Servers would be set-up to use.
-Jar.
Switch the laptops to Casablanca time - it's the same as GMT without the BST switch.
Or you could just un-tick the 'auto adjust for daylight savings' checkbox until you've done the ghost hunt?
-Jar.
No it hasn't. GMT still exists as Time Zone, in the same way that EDT does. UTC is just a new fancy everyone-in-the-world-is-happy-about-it name for the zero offset of the meridian line. GMT was a bit to Ye-Olde-British-Empire for most people.
-Jar.
So that's 3:25am UTC Sunday morning?
:(
Great - The UK (and many other countries) flip back to GMT\UTC Sunday morning, so now my head hurts trying to work out when I have to set my alarm so I can get up, get get dressed, go outside, and stand disapointedly staring at a cloud covered sky
-Jar.
Man, I hear your pain. My primary role is as a desktop architect.
You may want to take a look at the Windows Automated Installation Kit - It's a whole new way of deploying Windows in the Corporate space.
-Jar.
In the 5231 build, the Category view is not that much different from the XP version, with the exception of a few colour changes according to the new Aero theme.
So far looking at the pug-ugly new dialog of, say, the power schemes, I'd say the look and feel on Vista has a LONG way to go until we can finally judge whether it's comparable to OSX or not.
-Jar.
Ugh, that page is a mess - a fine example of all that is wrong with Wikipedia. I'd go and clean it up, but tbh, I know that within a day it'll just be back to the state it's currently in. :(
-Jar.
As for the Aussies and Kiwis, you'll have to ask them yourself. But I suspect they'll go with the British version.
Yup, I've just done a straw poll around the office, and as is common in London based IT depts, there are plenty Aussies, Kiwis, and South Africans. They all pronounce it the 'british' way.
-Jar.
Is aluminium pronounced:
/. poll, but everything I submit gets rejected... I wish there were _at the very least_, proforma reasons as why things get rejected so you know where you went wrong...)
a) AL-LEW-MIN-NEE-UM
or
b) AL-LUMIN-UM
Personally, I go with 'a' coz I'm a Brit, is it just U.S. peeps who pronounce it 'b' ?
(I'd submit this as a
Cheers for that, Mr Elephant. :)
I owe you One (1) Beer.
-Jar.
I know I'm going to get mauled over this quesiton... but has anyone compiled it on Windows 2003 server ?
For practical reasons I don't have linux in my test lab, and I'd like to have DSpam on my Webserver which is running IIS6 and Windows 2003 Server.
I can see I need to run it in SMTP mode with a relay to my Exchange box, but I don't want to waste my time trying to compile it (using Visual Studio), if someone already knows it wont work.
-Jar.
Yes, but Live Communicator isn't a consumer product, it's specifically designed for Corporates, where the problem of interoperability is a BIG issue.
Live Communicator (the IM client) needs Live Communicator Server, plus Active Directory, with either Exchange, or a Schema change to the AD.
Live Communicator Server is the gateway to the external IM networks - the client has no ability to connect to Yahoo!/AIM/ICQ directly.
It's a huge undertaking for a Corporate to install it, and most Corporates are wary of IM in the first instance, and feel the benefits are not yet clear (I don't agree with this, being a Business Chat/IM evangelist).
Sorry, to waffle on, but just wanted to nip the 'Live Communicator does this already' argument in the bud.
-Jar.
the greatest omission of the 1/2/3 trilogy is what happened in between 2 and 3 when obi wan and anakin were going around pounding on evil throughout the galaxy. now it is implicated that anakin saved obi wan's life many times, but you also have to guess that there was a lot of cooperative ass-whooping (although nothing is guaranteed).
That's touched upon in the animated Clone Wars series.
On that note, Clone Wars Season 2, was released on DVD in the UK AFTER Episode 3 hit the Cinema, way after. Nice One LucusFilm!
-Jar.
still wishing for a kvm over ip
I don't know much about this, but where I currently work, we use the Netbay Virtual Console from IBM. It's a rack mount unit that offers KVM over IP for the servers in the rack.
-Jar.
Well, I haven't been a long term slashdotter, I lurked for a few years before finally sorting an account earlier this year, so I'm not in a good place to list requirements... That said, I'd like to see:
Zero Bias. We're all IT people, with a healthy interest in technology, albeit in different disciplines. From my POV (and I hope from a lot of slashdotters POVs as well) there is no need for the Linux-ers to bash the MS-ers and vice versa. Lets face it, no-one is going to convert from one side to the other, no matter how much they get flamed. So lets all learn to live together, and learn from and appreciate other peoples insights on systems we don't that that well. As far as the editors go, they are guilty for allowing the anti-MS viewpoint continue, and in some cases (this article in point) they actively fan the flames. I know slashdot used to be primarily a place for *nix people to hang out, but the world and the net has moved on. Slashdot has a strong influence, and it needs to start using that influence responsibly.
A better balance of articles. I guess for this one to work, we need more editors, from different professional backgrounds. As many posters have said, quality article submissions get rejected for no good reason, this needs to stop. (I'm not offering myself up as an editor, far from it. I, like others, don't have the time)
-Jar.
Y'know, it's all our fault.
/. articles become, we will still flock here, several times a day, to read said crummy and low articles. Then we will all bitch about it in the comments for several days afterwards.
/. editors are now running /. as if it were Microsoft; fobbing us off with sub-standard products and expecting us to be grateful, time and time again.
/. to be known as MSSlashdot. Expect an increase in factually incorrect badly typed articles to be posted before they are finished, only to be 'hotfixed' several days later when nobody really cares anymore.
No matter how low and crummy
Now I _know_ I'm going to get flamed for this, but the
Henceforth I now declare
And to show that I'm kidding (but only slightly)...
"I for one welcome our new http://slashdot.microsoft.com/ overlords."
-Jar
As I understand it, Skype can route your call to standard landlines/mobiles as well. Google Talk (at the moment) cannot.
-Jar.
In the UK, billboards are everywhere in your usual metropolis. On the A13 into London (one the the most used commuter roads), there are billboards all the way along it. The A13 is most definately a 'highway', even though most of the time, traffic is crawling along it at 20mph.
-Jar.
A lot of good comics get republished in 'graphic novel' form, ie. the whole weekly series rebound in a single book. I am serious collector of Batman (Dark knight ethos) Graphics Novels. Half of them were originally weekly serials rebound to form a complete 'story' and the other half are original 'novels' first published as a complete 100 odd page story.
Like the parent, I have no desire to consume a story one 'chapter' a week, as this pace is far too slow for me, and I feel that this is whats wrong with the current young generation. They live such fast paced lives, being constantly bombarded with blip-verts and high octane TV programmes that all shout at them at 100 miles an hour. So it's no surprise that a weekly segment of 8 comic pages is too slow and laid back to hold their attention. The knock on effect of todays Insta-Media society is that most teenagers have the attention span of a goldfish.
The way forward? Complete stories, of say ~50 pages, bound like a weekly comic, to keep the costs down. Can't afford staff to write these? Either tap the online comic market, or recycle the past 20 years of printed comics.
-Jar.
Ah, but would you restrict the sensors to just fingers/hands/feet, or go for the whole 'body' ?
To be useful, covering the whole body would require millions of sensors, and somewhat impractical to implement and process.
I agree with earlier poster, the best use for this, is in prosthetics. We already have artificial limbs that can be 'moved' via crude nerve interfaces, add this on and the limb becomes a lot more useful. Much more usful than a Honda-bot that can pick up an egg without breaking it.
-Jar.
Money doesn't make you Upper Class, Money just makes you a richer-version-of-your-original class.
It saddens me when I see all these $1m lottery winners on TV. It's not that they have won the jackpot, it's that they are all invariably, ignorant lower-class inbred pig-fiddling swamp-living hik looking idiots living in trailers. What a waste of $1m.
Hmm, hang on, maybe it is all about the money...
-Jar.
Uhuh, Wikipedia uses MediaWiki. Xbox-Linux uses MediaWiki. Hence the similarity.
-Jar.
Then you, my friend, are missing the point.
Not all games/demos have to be at the burning edge of graphics.
15 years on, and loads of people still play lemmings. The emulator scene for old 16 bit machines, and even old arcade machines is bigger than ever. All these people can't be wrong.
All modern games have, is their graphics. Most of them don't even have enjoyable game-play. Graphics are not everything, calling a game with low-spec graphics, rubbish, is like saying Impressionists couldn't paint.
-Jar.