I was trying to watch a youtube video on my tivo. The tivo youtube app put a 5 minute advertisement at the beginning of the three minute youtube video, and to rub salt in the wound, the button designated to skip the ad after 30 seconds was disabled.
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I punted the tivo and watched the video on my notebook, sans ads.
As an occasional user of both Windows and Linux, I used to see a significant difference between the two. The clarity of Linux, the fog of Windows.
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But now Linux seems to be getting closer to fog than clarity.
One example:
Last week I installed opensuse. When I tried to send an email using the mail command, Postfix was giving me odd permission errors for maildrop. So I went to look at the Postfix log, and there was none that I could find.
One step closer to the fog of Windows, where the system is hidden behind magical portals that only a few know how to access....
One of my all-time favorites in this area was a review done many years ago by a upper midwest audiophile club.
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They did a listening test comparing a $300 Pioneer receiver with two $10,000 "audiophile" mono tube amplifiers.
At the beginning of the test, the listeners knew which device they were listening to and, predictably, the Pioneer receiver was painful to listen to, destroying the music.The mono amps were all that is wonderful in listening.
Then the identities were masked and the listening test was done again. Most of the listeners could not tell the two apart, guessing incorrectly about half the time.
A sad commentary on the industry when an audiophile club cannot even tell a $300 receiver from $20,000 of audiophile amplification.
If you want little girls to develop an interest in technology, give them a reason to do so.
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"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
...setting up vhosts on Apache (always an adventure)...
When I was faced with the task of configuring my many Apache virtual hosts with individual IPv6 addresses while keeping them all with the same IPv4 address (throw in a couple of SSL certs as well), I jumped into the Apache config files. After a few hours of Apache frustration, I took a peek at nginx. I have not looked back since.
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Within an hour of installing nginx, I had all the sites running as I wanted, using the one IPv4 address, the individual IPv6 addresses, and the appropriate SSL certs.
I could not believe how simple it was to configure nginx.
As we've noted, Verizon's been looking to offload its fixed-line assets for years, since the company clearly finds wireless service (and caps and overages) a far-more profitable venture. As such they've spent the last few years actually raising rates and neglecting unwanted customers in the hopes they'll leave to wireless, or leave to companies like Comcast (where they'll then be pitched...you guessed it...Verizon Wireless services as part of a co-marketing arrangement).
After massive sales to Frontier and Fairpoint in years past, Verizon this week convinced Frontier to buy all of the company's DSL and FiOS customers in Florida, Texas and California. Amusingly (or not), Verizon is trying to spin the latest deal to pretend they were forced down this path because of net neutrality:...
The goal may not have been to take over the world. But the goal was also not to become a bloated browser with an unusable UI that is driving users away.
How should I make sure that I retain access to today's data 20 years from now?
I still have my long-term MSDOS backups from 1991. The backup file is a whopping 13MB in size, and that includes the OS, a word processor, a C compiler and my source code.
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I just made sure that I continually copied forward the backup files I wanted to retain. Each iteration of archival storage increased about ten-fold, so space wasn't a problem.
I think it is more important to have a good archival process in place. To the OP, the error you made was leaving all the data you want on old floppies and IDE drives, etc.. You should have moved that data off to more current media as your processing moved to more current media.
...When we finally admit that you cannot push people ahead in line because of their race/sex/sexuality without simultaneously pushing someone else back in line because of theirs, we will be truly enlightened....
On the contrary, helping people to succeed does not necessarily mean that others do not succeed. There are not a finite number of "successes," as you imply is the case
The NFL appears to be looking anywhere and everywhere, trying to find enough uncertainty so that they can avoid coming to the conclusion that the deflation was intentional.
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Does the NFL want to find out the truth, or do they want to find ways to avoid finding out the truth?
StarDot Technologies webcams run Linux. I have root access for my camera, and I have modified the various shell scripts in the camera to send images where I want them to be sent. In my camera FTP is supported.
So, I have to trust a server to automatically replace a trusted key with a new trusted key....
You don't have to do anything. You can use this feature if it is suitable for your needs and security requirements. If it is not, then no one is forcing you to use it, so don't.
... Enthusiasts have been quick to take up the motto: "Coding is the new literacy!" But long-time developer Chris Granger argues that this is not the case: "When we say that coding is the new literacy, we're arguing that wielding a pencil and paper is the old one. Coding, like writing, is a mechanical act....
The new literacy?
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Coding is a talent or a skill. Beyond that, there is nothing, not a single thing, special about it.
The extreme productivity that some software engineers possess is not due to their literacy in coding. It is due to their ability to look at, understand, and solve problems at a level higher than most.
It is not a question of literacy. It is a question of problem analysis and resolution.
[aside: I often wonder why software engineers constantly have he need to elevate themselves above all others]
...In the recent Slashdot discussion on the D programming language, I was surprised to see criticisms of Pascal that were based on old information and outdated implementations....
Criticisms based on old information and outdated implementations also plague object-oriented FORTRAN 2003.
Slashdot Mirror
Control Panel -> System and Security -> View event logs
I see no such menu structure in either opensuse or Windows 7.
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I punted the tivo and watched the video on my notebook, sans ads.
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But now Linux seems to be getting closer to fog than clarity.
One example:
Last week I installed opensuse. When I tried to send an email using the mail command, Postfix was giving me odd permission errors for maildrop. So I went to look at the Postfix log, and there was none that I could find.
One step closer to the fog of Windows, where the system is hidden behind magical portals that only a few know how to access....
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They did a listening test comparing a $300 Pioneer receiver with two $10,000 "audiophile" mono tube amplifiers.
At the beginning of the test, the listeners knew which device they were listening to and, predictably, the Pioneer receiver was painful to listen to, destroying the music.The mono amps were all that is wonderful in listening.
Then the identities were masked and the listening test was done again. Most of the listeners could not tell the two apart, guessing incorrectly about half the time.
A sad commentary on the industry when an audiophile club cannot even tell a $300 receiver from $20,000 of audiophile amplification.
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"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
...setting up vhosts on Apache (always an adventure)...
When I was faced with the task of configuring my many Apache virtual hosts with individual IPv6 addresses while keeping them all with the same IPv4 address (throw in a couple of SSL certs as well), I jumped into the Apache config files. After a few hours of Apache frustration, I took a peek at nginx. I have not looked back since.
.
Within an hour of installing nginx, I had all the sites running as I wanted, using the one IPv4 address, the individual IPv6 addresses, and the appropriate SSL certs.
I could not believe how simple it was to configure nginx.
As we've noted, Verizon's been looking to offload its fixed-line assets for years, since the company clearly finds wireless service (and caps and overages) a far-more profitable venture. As such they've spent the last few years actually raising rates and neglecting unwanted customers in the hopes they'll leave to wireless, or leave to companies like Comcast (where they'll then be pitched...you guessed it...Verizon Wireless services as part of a co-marketing arrangement). After massive sales to Frontier and Fairpoint in years past, Verizon this week convinced Frontier to buy all of the company's DSL and FiOS customers in Florida, Texas and California. Amusingly (or not), Verizon is trying to spin the latest deal to pretend they were forced down this path because of net neutrality: ...
The goal may not have been to take over the world. But the goal was also not to become a bloated browser with an unusable UI that is driving users away.
How should I make sure that I retain access to today's data 20 years from now?
I still have my long-term MSDOS backups from 1991. The backup file is a whopping 13MB in size, and that includes the OS, a word processor, a C compiler and my source code.
.
I just made sure that I continually copied forward the backup files I wanted to retain. Each iteration of archival storage increased about ten-fold, so space wasn't a problem.
I think it is more important to have a good archival process in place. To the OP, the error you made was leaving all the data you want on old floppies and IDE drives, etc.. You should have moved that data off to more current media as your processing moved to more current media.
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Declaring CS to be a foreign language may have unintended consequences, like mandatory CS subtitles on TV shows and movies.
privoxy does ad blocking and reduces tracking. A different approach.
Helping more people to succeed often means lowering the bar. And that makes the really talented ones lazy and bored.
Huh? If they are really talented, they are going to succeed regardless of where the bar is.
...When we finally admit that you cannot push people ahead in line because of their race/sex/sexuality without simultaneously pushing someone else back in line because of theirs, we will be truly enlightened....
On the contrary, helping people to succeed does not necessarily mean that others do not succeed. There are not a finite number of "successes," as you imply is the case
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A rising tide raises all boats.
Maybe we should also take aim at the plummeting sales of Barbie dolls, and encourage more boys to buy them.
So far, no explanation of why only 11 of the 12 balls were deflated.
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Does the NFL want to find out the truth, or do they want to find ways to avoid finding out the truth?
StarDot Technologies webcams run Linux. I have root access for my camera, and I have modified the various shell scripts in the camera to send images where I want them to be sent. In my camera FTP is supported.
So, I have to trust a server to automatically replace a trusted key with a new trusted key....
You don't have to do anything. You can use this feature if it is suitable for your needs and security requirements. If it is not, then no one is forcing you to use it, so don't.
... Fortunately, Verizon now says users will soon have the ability to opt out of the identifiers....
Yeah, you'll probably need to keep an opt-out cookie on your device in order to opt-out.
"We understand the value of encryption and the importance of security,"
It is not just security, it is privacy. It is the freedom from governments and others snooping through my life.
... Enthusiasts have been quick to take up the motto: "Coding is the new literacy!" But long-time developer Chris Granger argues that this is not the case: "When we say that coding is the new literacy, we're arguing that wielding a pencil and paper is the old one. Coding, like writing, is a mechanical act. ...
The new literacy?
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GMAFB
Coding is a talent or a skill. Beyond that, there is nothing, not a single thing, special about it.
The extreme productivity that some software engineers possess is not due to their literacy in coding. It is due to their ability to look at, understand, and solve problems at a level higher than most.
It is not a question of literacy. It is a question of problem analysis and resolution.
[aside: I often wonder why software engineers constantly have he need to elevate themselves above all others]
...Ludwig went on to explain that backporting a patch would be a herculean effort....
Google is acting irresponsibly to the users of the vulnerable devices by refusing to patch the vulnerability in its software. Period.
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imo, there is NO excuse why this vulnerability will not be patched. NONE.
Google has the resources to fix the vulnerability, what they are saying is that they do not have the desire to do so.
...In the recent Slashdot discussion on the D programming language, I was surprised to see criticisms of Pascal that were based on old information and outdated implementations. ...
Criticisms based on old information and outdated implementations also plague object-oriented FORTRAN 2003.
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"we fixed it"
...with your permission and all of that...
It does not appear that the internet providers are all that concerned about obtaining the users' permission to track them.
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Coming from a google exec, the statement is laughable, and ominous.