You were doing really well there, until you insulted me.
It's a free world, and I'm allowed to offer my opinion according the the Universal Rules of Earth.
I'm surprised my comment has sparked such an active thread, but I have now learnt much about RSS that I had hitherto not considered. Many thanks to those that replied (including you).
My main opinion point still stands, RSS is _not_ the second coming, well not for me anyway.
It was originally touted as a low-bandwidth solution, but this in most cases is false. If 10,000 people subscribe to a sites' RSS feed and set their RSS aggregators to 'refresh' that feed every 5 mins or so, the bandwidth usage very quickly mounts up. Most sites use dyanamically created pages even for the feeds, so pre checking the age of the page doesn't help.
I installed an RSS reader on my PDA, I thought it would be great for offline news browsing, but I quickly found that I was crippled by most of the feeds because they at very least just showed the news titles, and at most showed only the first paragraph of the articles. If I wanted to read more, I had to go online. If I'm going online I might as well just browse the web normally.
I'm sure RSS has niche uses (such as the slashboxes here on/.), but in general I fail to see why the whole community is hailing RSS as the second coming of the Internet.
I have a silent PSU in my main machine. It also has a Zalman Flower Cooler on the CPU, which also runs damn near silently. Unfortunately the noisiest part of my PC is the ATI Radeon card, with its proprietory fan and heatsink.
I know there are kits out there that can replace the fan/heatsink combo on a graphics card, but they are not for the faint hearted - I broke my previous graphics card just trying to remove the original heatsink:(
Graphics card manufacturers really need to get on the silent PC bandwagon, instead of focusing on how many trillion polys per milli-second they can render.
Ok, without wishing to start an OS flame war, I have to point out that XP can do all of that, in almost exactly the same manner.
"You want to move text to a different application?"
Under XP simply select it and drag it to the other application.
"If you drag it to the desktop, it creates a file called whatever.textClipping."
Under XP this works too, you get a file called 'appname1.scp' this too can then be dragged back into applications.
"Want to add an image to your document?"
XP can also let you drag drop an image into a document. However, some apps embed it as an OLE item (Office apps mainly) - but many insert it as a viewable iamge.
If you find an App that doesn't support this under XP then it's the Apps fault, not the OS's - Most programmers are lazy and can't be bothered to add the required hooks.
I don't think It needed a 10 year old kid to devalue it. I think MCPs/MCSEs are doing a good job devaluting themselves.
Here in London, every second street has a 'acredited training centre' which after 4 days of 'intensive' (read, mind numbing) training, they guarantee that anyone can get their MCP. Combine that with Microsoft setting the pass value at ~60% correct answers, and you've got a pretty much useless qualification. I've worked with many MCSEs and only a handful of them actually knew their Kerberos' from their SMBs.
What our industry needs is a cross platform Chartership program, that other professions have. Something that you have to work towards over a period of years. Something that will actually mean something at the top of your CV.
My first experience of the WWW was finding the source of Mosaic on an FTP site and spending 2 days trying to compile the bugger under VMS/XTerm on a VaxStation. Finally did it though, and it was totally worth it. Ahhh those were the days. My regret now is that I totally ignored stuff like IRC, and missed on an era when it was actually useful.
...and I wouldn't bother buy any now. Your 5 year old scratch floppies are probably more reliable than the fresh new (!?) ones you can buy in the shop.
As an OS installation engineer, I tend to use floppies a lot to prototype network boot scenarios - it's a lot quicker to work directly on the A:\ drive than keep cleaning/rewriting a CDRW. Anyway, as I have found out to my dismay, at least 40% of new floppies (in this case brand name, recently bought from a large computer store) cannot be formatted or have serious write errors. I can only guess that as a dwindling market, far eastern manufacturers are trying to squeeze as much profit out of them before the demand dries up altogether.
In the UK, the copyright act was amended; photo copying ANY part of a copyrighted document is now considered illegal. The concept of 'fair use' is no longer applicable.
That said, certain professions (librarians etc) can register as an exception so that they can photocopy a percentage of a document legally (just like the old days...)
I read somewhere that the warez community use a pyramid system to distribute software:
Level 1. Hub Servers - Where the software gets uploaded from the original CDs (less than 10 servers worldwide) Level 2. Dump Servers - Where the software gets copied to for distribution (greater than 1000 servers worldwide) Level 3. Usenet - Where the 'savvy' people download it from Level 4. Peer2peer/BitTorrent - Where the ipod generation download it from.;)
So if they shut down the hub servers, yes they will be replaced by the pirates, but in the mean time the shockwave effect of losing these servers will slow down or even stall the illegal distribution (for a while anyways).
The full printable ASCII American National Standard Code for Information Interchange) set is available
It may be an old article (I remember the Mac debuting so it's not as old as me), but theres no excuse for mixing up ASCII and ANSI, two associated but different standards.
Last time I checked there wasn't a standard called 'ANSCII'
You laugh... but *most* corporate Internet facing email servers ARE Microsoft Exchange Servers, configured as bridge-end servers. Once Exchange goes through an upgrade cycle to, say, version 2006/7 and has SenderID checking enabled by default, then expect to see this adopted at an expediential rate.
Everyone talks about how Linux runs the internet, but the internet is really run by the Businesses, and the Businesses all use Microsoft products.
At the end of the day, no matter what medium you choose to use for 'Your Internet' - you will be transmitting 'Other Peoples Data' and will eventually have to succumm to the logging requirements that are imposed on everyone else.
In the UK, we have the data protection act, so to use that as an example, if you sent my data between two of your 'servers' (Morse Code Station #1 and Morse Code Station #2), I legally have the right as a user of your service to see any data that you have record on me, regardless of your traffic or storage medium.
Thats the downside of DVD Recorder Decks. However, if your PC is up to it, and you have a video capture card, _most_ PC video capture applications don't give a hoots about Macrovision and will record the protected VHS fine. In some cases they even re-stabilise the picture (an artifact of Macrovision).
My current contract which ISN'T a major global bank, insists on Ties, Which is kinda irritating. Add on to that no use of headphones (it's an open plan office, next to the support guys, try programming in that), and NO bod-mods on display, have put me in a position where I've had to take my BCR out.
Previous to this contract I've working in several banks in London UK, an have always eventually managed to put my earing back in...
I hate the dress code thing. What I wear has no bearing on what I can do. It's always shite managers who don't know their arse from their elbows that insist on these stupid rules.
IT in Corporates has completely gone to the dogs. It's run by suits for suits, and we've all become drones. I'm old enough to remember when being in an IT dept. was a fun thing, where you could innovate and invent and create. Now it's all 'can we buy that off the shelf?' so that us guys with real skills have become overpaid 'IT product buyers'.
Incidently, A friend of mine was stopped by police two days ago in London. He had just left work (a major global investment bank), and took advantage of the strong evening sunlight to take some photographs with his semi-pro camera of the buildings in and around the Square Mile (Londons 'Wall Street').
After about 10 minutes a police officer ran up to him, and said he'd been monitored on the CCTV cameras, and that 'Under Section 44 of the Anti Terrorism Act' he'd now search my friend and take down all his details. He also demanded that all the photos be deleted.
My friend was flabbergasted, but the copper was totally serious, and threatened to take him to the police station if he didn't co-operate.
The last batch of Skittles TV adverts in the UK had dropped the 'taste the rainbow' tag line, which is a shame, as I used to get great delight saying it along with the little girl...
It was about that time that I last ate Skittles, so just goes to show, if the advert isn't any good, you stop consuming the product.
I was about to get all indignant when I read that, thinking that Saige was a man, because yes indeed, defining women as 'chicks' is demeaning and counterproductive. It wasn't util I actually RTFA, it realised that Saige was female, in fact the exact article extract is:
"It has been a very much male-centred universe," Ms Walton said. "They need some more chicks."
Note the 'Ms' - I know/. editorialise (it's one of the things that make it uniquely/.), but in this case the extract should have been left unmolested.
Yeah I recall that also. Shame - it was a good sequence, and (in the early seasons) gave Georgi the jitters;)
On a similar note, it'd be nice if the new 'shuttle' looked like the one in the ST:Enterprise credits. After all Star-Trek imitates Life imitates Star-Trek ad infinutum;)
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You were doing really well there, until you insulted me.
It's a free world, and I'm allowed to offer my opinion according the the Universal Rules of Earth.
I'm surprised my comment has sparked such an active thread, but I have now learnt much about RSS that I had hitherto not considered. Many thanks to those that replied (including you).
My main opinion point still stands, RSS is _not_ the second coming, well not for me anyway.
-Jar.
So far, I have failed to see the point of RSS.
/.), but in general I fail to see why the whole community is hailing RSS as the second coming of the Internet.
It was originally touted as a low-bandwidth solution, but this in most cases is false. If 10,000 people subscribe to a sites' RSS feed and set their RSS aggregators to 'refresh' that feed every 5 mins or so, the bandwidth usage very quickly mounts up. Most sites use dyanamically created pages even for the feeds, so pre checking the age of the page doesn't help.
I installed an RSS reader on my PDA, I thought it would be great for offline news browsing, but I quickly found that I was crippled by most of the feeds because they at very least just showed the news titles, and at most showed only the first paragraph of the articles. If I wanted to read more, I had to go online. If I'm going online I might as well just browse the web normally.
I'm sure RSS has niche uses (such as the slashboxes here on
Just my 2p's worth.
-Jar.
Now I never say this. But someone please mod parent up. It's the /only/ sensible comment attached to this article.
-Jar.
I have a silent PSU in my main machine. It also has a Zalman Flower Cooler on the CPU, which also runs damn near silently. Unfortunately the noisiest part of my PC is the ATI Radeon card, with its proprietory fan and heatsink.
:(
I know there are kits out there that can replace the fan/heatsink combo on a graphics card, but they are not for the faint hearted - I broke my previous graphics card just trying to remove the original heatsink
Graphics card manufacturers really need to get on the silent PC bandwagon, instead of focusing on how many trillion polys per milli-second they can render.
-Jar.
hmm, it would seem that IE doesn't support it - All the office apps do however. -Jar.
Ok, without wishing to start an OS flame war, I have to point out that XP can do all of that, in almost exactly the same manner.
"You want to move text to a different application?"
Under XP simply select it and drag it to the other application.
"If you drag it to the desktop, it creates a file called whatever.textClipping."
Under XP this works too, you get a file called 'appname1.scp' this too can then be dragged back into applications.
"Want to add an image to your document?"
XP can also let you drag drop an image into a document. However, some apps embed it as an OLE item (Office apps mainly) - but many insert it as a viewable iamge.
If you find an App that doesn't support this under XP then it's the Apps fault, not the OS's - Most programmers are lazy and can't be bothered to add the required hooks.
-Jar.
IANSC [I Am Not Susan Calvin]
:)
At the risk of being modded redundant, can I just say that this acronym totally cracked me up. Uber-geeky to say the least.
-Jar.
I don't think It needed a 10 year old kid to devalue it. I think MCPs/MCSEs are doing a good job devaluting themselves.
Here in London, every second street has a 'acredited training centre' which after 4 days of 'intensive' (read, mind numbing) training, they guarantee that anyone can get their MCP. Combine that with Microsoft setting the pass value at ~60% correct answers, and you've got a pretty much useless qualification. I've worked with many MCSEs and only a handful of them actually knew their Kerberos' from their SMBs.
What our industry needs is a cross platform Chartership program, that other professions have. Something that you have to work towards over a period of years. Something that will actually mean something at the top of your CV.
-Jar.
My first experience of the WWW was finding the source of Mosaic on an FTP site and spending 2 days trying to compile the bugger under VMS/XTerm on a VaxStation. Finally did it though, and it was totally worth it. Ahhh those were the days. My regret now is that I totally ignored stuff like IRC, and missed on an era when it was actually useful.
-Jar.
...and I wouldn't bother buy any now. Your 5 year old scratch floppies are probably more reliable than the fresh new (!?) ones you can buy in the shop.
As an OS installation engineer, I tend to use floppies a lot to prototype network boot scenarios - it's a lot quicker to work directly on the A:\ drive than keep cleaning/rewriting a CDRW. Anyway, as I have found out to my dismay, at least 40% of new floppies (in this case brand name, recently bought from a large computer store) cannot be formatted or have serious write errors. I can only guess that as a dwindling market, far eastern manufacturers are trying to squeeze as much profit out of them before the demand dries up altogether.
-Jar.
In the UK, the copyright act was amended; photo copying ANY part of a copyrighted document is now considered illegal. The concept of 'fair use' is no longer applicable.
That said, certain professions (librarians etc) can register as an exception so that they can photocopy a percentage of a document legally (just like the old days...)
-Jar.
Ah but are these 8 servers the 'hub' servers?
;)
I read somewhere that the warez community use a pyramid system to distribute software:
Level 1. Hub Servers - Where the software gets uploaded from the original CDs (less than 10 servers worldwide)
Level 2. Dump Servers - Where the software gets copied to for distribution (greater than 1000 servers worldwide)
Level 3. Usenet - Where the 'savvy' people download it from
Level 4. Peer2peer/BitTorrent - Where the ipod generation download it from.
So if they shut down the hub servers, yes they will be replaced by the pirates, but in the mean time the shockwave effect of losing these servers will slow down or even stall the illegal distribution (for a while anyways).
-Jar.
Of course Windows XP supports playing back video. Don't be silly.
What Windows XP in it's default configuration DOESN'T support is playing back DivX encoded video.
*sigh* - It's mis-statements like yours that fan the FUD fire.
-Jar.
From TFA:
The full printable ASCII American National Standard Code for Information Interchange) set is available
It may be an old article (I remember the Mac debuting so it's not as old as me), but theres no excuse for mixing up ASCII and ANSI, two associated but different standards.
Last time I checked there wasn't a standard called 'ANSCII'
-Jar.
You laugh... but *most* corporate Internet facing email servers ARE Microsoft Exchange Servers, configured as bridge-end servers. Once Exchange goes through an upgrade cycle to, say, version 2006/7 and has SenderID checking enabled by default, then expect to see this adopted at an expediential rate.
Everyone talks about how Linux runs the internet, but the internet is really run by the Businesses, and the Businesses all use Microsoft products.
-Jar.
At the end of the day, no matter what medium you choose to use for 'Your Internet' - you will be transmitting 'Other Peoples Data' and will eventually have to succumm to the logging requirements that are imposed on everyone else. In the UK, we have the data protection act, so to use that as an example, if you sent my data between two of your 'servers' (Morse Code Station #1 and Morse Code Station #2), I legally have the right as a user of your service to see any data that you have record on me, regardless of your traffic or storage medium.
Thats the downside of DVD Recorder Decks. However, if your PC is up to it, and you have a video capture card, _most_ PC video capture applications don't give a hoots about Macrovision and will record the protected VHS fine. In some cases they even re-stabilise the picture (an artifact of Macrovision).
http://www.videohelp.com/ is your friend.
-Jar.
Two ways of saying the same thing:
BCR = Ball-Closure Ring
CBR = Captive Bead Ring
Personally, I refer my my earing as a BCR.
My current contract which ISN'T a major global bank, insists on Ties, Which is kinda irritating. Add on to that no use of headphones (it's an open plan office, next to the support guys, try programming in that), and NO bod-mods on display, have put me in a position where I've had to take my BCR out.
Previous to this contract I've working in several banks in London UK, an have always eventually managed to put my earing back in...
I hate the dress code thing. What I wear has no bearing on what I can do. It's always shite managers who don't know their arse from their elbows that insist on these stupid rules.
IT in Corporates has completely gone to the dogs. It's run by suits for suits, and we've all become drones. I'm old enough to remember when being in an IT dept. was a fun thing, where you could innovate and invent and create. Now it's all 'can we buy that off the shelf?' so that us guys with real skills have become overpaid 'IT product buyers'.
*sigh* Roll on the revolution.
-Jar.
Incidently, A friend of mine was stopped by police two days ago in London. He had just left work (a major global investment bank), and took advantage of the strong evening sunlight to take some photographs with his semi-pro camera of the buildings in and around the Square Mile (Londons 'Wall Street').
After about 10 minutes a police officer ran up to him, and said he'd been monitored on the CCTV cameras, and that 'Under Section 44 of the Anti Terrorism Act' he'd now search my friend and take down all his details. He also demanded that all the photos be deleted.
My friend was flabbergasted, but the copper was totally serious, and threatened to take him to the police station if he didn't co-operate.
-Jar.
The last batch of Skittles TV adverts in the UK had dropped the 'taste the rainbow' tag line, which is a shame, as I used to get great delight saying it along with the little girl...
It was about that time that I last ate Skittles, so just goes to show, if the advert isn't any good, you stop consuming the product.
-Jar.
I was about to get all indignant when I read that, thinking that Saige was a man, because yes indeed, defining women as 'chicks' is demeaning and counterproductive. It wasn't util I actually RTFA, it realised that Saige was female, in fact the exact article extract is:
/. editorialise (it's one of the things that make it uniquely /.), but in this case the extract should have been left unmolested.
"It has been a very much male-centred universe," Ms Walton said. "They need some more chicks."
Note the 'Ms' - I know
-Jar.
Of course. Everything has Paris Hilton in it. That woman's more-overexposed than a black negative feefalling into a sun thats about to go nova.
-Jar.
Yeah I recall that also. Shame - it was a good sequence, and (in the early seasons) gave Georgi the jitters ;)
;)
On a similar note, it'd be nice if the new 'shuttle' looked like the one in the ST:Enterprise credits. After all Star-Trek imitates Life imitates Star-Trek ad infinutum
Personally, I want a Phoenix of my very own...
-Jar.
I've reported this exploit to Amazon.com
-Jar.
Technically, the BBC are just lifting from this Months UK PC Pro magazine, something they freely admit in the body of the article.
-Jar.