I think that the web is not as bad as we think it is. Using Opera, I haven't seen an unwanted popup in ages (besides, about the only sites that have popups any more are the crappy geocities ones, I think), and I have had gmail for a year and seen haven't seen a bit of spam, although my hotmail account gets a couple of messages per week (and my email addresses are available on the web for spiders to find). It's much better than, say, 3 years ago, when every site had popups with more colours than pixels.
Idea: Is there some kind of minimal linux distro with apache on it that I can load in QEMU (or another emulator that supports networking) and have a full blown webserver with FTP etc while being reasonably protected from hackers (well, at least the rest of the system will be).
No... Gah, this is driving me crazy. I had read an article about it in a PC magazine and it was too good to be true, so I googled it and I found a few press releases, but no demo/code in sight at the time. It was probably vapourware but I'll burst if I don't remember the name. Maybe as another poster said it is rosetta now, but I don't think so, it wasn't Apple's. What was rosetta called before?
No, it had a name that sounded like an english word and it was supposed to be embedded in programs to make them able to run on any platform... I can't find it on Google and I can't remember the name, it was a few months ago.
Well, in Greek the gender of the word depends upon its suffix (unlike, say, German, where you have to learn each word's gender by rote). So, the chair is feminine, the wall is masculine, the child is neuter, etc.
No, I wasn't trolling. And I refer to the child as "it" because I'm Greek and in Greek the gender of the word "child" is neutral, so it kinda slipped to my English. I stand corrected, the parent did say about watching what the child does, not limiting what (he or she) does.
What's with all the censorship? If you have raised your child properly it should be able to distinguish what is good and what isn't. Just because a child seens a building on fire doesn't mean it's going to burn the house down. Just like movies, I was watching violent ones (well, not more violent than GTA, admittedly) and I never once killed my parents.
This is something everyone knows, yet the RIAA still hasn't gotten wind of. Users would gladly pay for songs if they were sufficiently cheap and instantly available. Look at iTunes.
What about hacking? People feel that hackers that hack into companies' computers and steal/destroy data should be dealt with harsh penalties (there was an article about the death penalty), and everyone argued about how it was too much. I think that neither one deserves to die, but I am a bit bugged by the hypocrisy. Actually, I don't think it's hypocrisy, it's probably just the different point of view. A spammer would certainly have the opposite opinions.
Wait, doesn't not "not a mob hit" mean "a mob hit"? It's not like there are other hits in the space except "mob" and "not mob". P(mob) + P(not mob) = 1 and other mathematical nonsense.
Well, it's all largely subjective, but to me MP3 VBR at 128ish sounds like crap, while Vorbis (not Ogg, Ogg is the wrapper btw) at -q -1 (42ish kbps) sounds much more natural. Vorbis retains all the high frequencies so it sounds a bit better at less than half the bitrate, although I can tell the difference very easily. I can't tell the difference between CD and MP3 192 and CD and Vorbis 128 though. I don't have any great equipment though, just a Live! soundcard and 4.1 Philips speakers. For the record, I rip at Vorbis -q 6 and FLAC for rare/whatever CDs with EAC (www.exactaudiocopy.de).
By the way, you should try that compile someone did that allowed Vorbis to encode to -2 quality at 500 BITS per second. It sounded quite amazing, considering the size (well, it sounded like crap, but a whole CD took like 2 MB).
That's important for everything that has to do with computers, how to hold the mouse, how to sit in the chair, etc. If you are not totally comfortable with your posture you will probably have problems later. For example, rest your arms on the desk instead of having them floating mid-air, move only the fingers instead of the entire hand/arm when using the mouse, etc.
That's true. I've been infected with a dialer myself once (I still can't figure out how the damn thing got in), but I quickly found and removed it (it changed IE's startup page, good thing I opened the damn thing to check something that didn't like Opera). Sometimes I help friends remove malware from their PCs, and I tell you, it's not that easy. Even when booting a windows livecd and running 2-3 antispyware programs, a lot of malware stay stuck in the system, and they're not really worth the trouble of cleaning them vs formatting.
How does this prevent me from saying I'm, for example, the previous user that posted a comment? He has his server set to trust the site I am posting on, and I'm using his name, so shouldn't the server accept my comment, since it doesn't know who's posting? I know this is not supposed an authentication scheme, but an identification scheme where everyone can claim to be anyone else isn't that good, IMO.
Neon = New Genesis = Creation, birth Evangelion = Gospel
"Neon" refers to "Evangelion" rather than "Genesis", or it would be "Neas Genesis Evangelion", so it's "New Gospel of Creation". I don't know if that's what they intended, but that's what it means in Greek.
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I think that the web is not as bad as we think it is. Using Opera, I haven't seen an unwanted popup in ages (besides, about the only sites that have popups any more are the crappy geocities ones, I think), and I have had gmail for a year and seen haven't seen a bit of spam, although my hotmail account gets a couple of messages per week (and my email addresses are available on the web for spiders to find). It's much better than, say, 3 years ago, when every site had popups with more colours than pixels.
Idea: Is there some kind of minimal linux distro with apache on it that I can load in QEMU (or another emulator that supports networking) and have a full blown webserver with FTP etc while being reasonably protected from hackers (well, at least the rest of the system will be).
Yes! I'm fairly sure that's it, QuickTransit. So rosetta is a version of Transitive's QuickTransit? Then it's not vapourware after all...
No... Gah, this is driving me crazy. I had read an article about it in a PC magazine and it was too good to be true, so I googled it and I found a few press releases, but no demo/code in sight at the time. It was probably vapourware but I'll burst if I don't remember the name. Maybe as another poster said it is rosetta now, but I don't think so, it wasn't Apple's. What was rosetta called before?
No, it had a name that sounded like an english word and it was supposed to be embedded in programs to make them able to run on any platform... I can't find it on Google and I can't remember the name, it was a few months ago.
that emulator which was supposed to emulate any OS/architecture on any other and run at near realtime? What happened to that?
Well, in Greek the gender of the word depends upon its suffix (unlike, say, German, where you have to learn each word's gender by rote). So, the chair is feminine, the wall is masculine, the child is neuter, etc.
No, I wasn't trolling. And I refer to the child as "it" because I'm Greek and in Greek the gender of the word "child" is neutral, so it kinda slipped to my English. I stand corrected, the parent did say about watching what the child does, not limiting what (he or she) does.
What's with all the censorship? If you have raised your child properly it should be able to distinguish what is good and what isn't. Just because a child seens a building on fire doesn't mean it's going to burn the house down. Just like movies, I was watching violent ones (well, not more violent than GTA, admittedly) and I never once killed my parents.
What are you talking about? Look at all the posts, NOONE spellchecks, EVAR.
Or just get a case with a fan and put it in the next room? I mean, if you're going to wire it anyway, why do you need the A/C? :P
(whirrrrr)
Nobody says, "Hey, lets all go to BonziBuddy.com!"
What's BonziBuddy? Let me go there. Oh, look at that cute bear! I'm installing it now, thanks!
This is something everyone knows, yet the RIAA still hasn't gotten wind of. Users would gladly pay for songs if they were sufficiently cheap and instantly available. Look at iTunes.
I know this is offtopic, but...
-- I systematically moderate down people who describe their abuses of the mod and metamod system in their sigs. --
Doesn't that include you? Or did I miss the sarcasm?
What about hacking? People feel that hackers that hack into companies' computers and steal/destroy data should be dealt with harsh penalties (there was an article about the death penalty), and everyone argued about how it was too much. I think that neither one deserves to die, but I am a bit bugged by the hypocrisy. Actually, I don't think it's hypocrisy, it's probably just the different point of view. A spammer would certainly have the opposite opinions.
Wait, doesn't not "not a mob hit" mean "a mob hit"? It's not like there are other hits in the space except "mob" and "not mob". P(mob) + P(not mob) = 1 and other mathematical nonsense.
Well, it's all largely subjective, but to me MP3 VBR at 128ish sounds like crap, while Vorbis (not Ogg, Ogg is the wrapper btw) at -q -1 (42ish kbps) sounds much more natural. Vorbis retains all the high frequencies so it sounds a bit better at less than half the bitrate, although I can tell the difference very easily. I can't tell the difference between CD and MP3 192 and CD and Vorbis 128 though. I don't have any great equipment though, just a Live! soundcard and 4.1 Philips speakers. For the record, I rip at Vorbis -q 6 and FLAC for rare/whatever CDs with EAC (www.exactaudiocopy.de).
By the way, you should try that compile someone did that allowed Vorbis to encode to -2 quality at 500 BITS per second. It sounded quite amazing, considering the size (well, it sounded like crap, but a whole CD took like 2 MB).
Ah, I see now, I must have missed that in the spec, thanks. :)
That's important for everything that has to do with computers, how to hold the mouse, how to sit in the chair, etc. If you are not totally comfortable with your posture you will probably have problems later. For example, rest your arms on the desk instead of having them floating mid-air, move only the fingers instead of the entire hand/arm when using the mouse, etc.
That's true. I've been infected with a dialer myself once (I still can't figure out how the damn thing got in), but I quickly found and removed it (it changed IE's startup page, good thing I opened the damn thing to check something that didn't like Opera). Sometimes I help friends remove malware from their PCs, and I tell you, it's not that easy. Even when booting a windows livecd and running 2-3 antispyware programs, a lot of malware stay stuck in the system, and they're not really worth the trouble of cleaning them vs formatting.
How does this prevent me from saying I'm, for example, the previous user that posted a comment? He has his server set to trust the site I am posting on, and I'm using his name, so shouldn't the server accept my comment, since it doesn't know who's posting? I know this is not supposed an authentication scheme, but an identification scheme where everyone can claim to be anyone else isn't that good, IMO.
That's what it is.
Neon = New
Genesis = Creation, birth
Evangelion = Gospel
"Neon" refers to "Evangelion" rather than "Genesis", or it would be "Neas Genesis Evangelion", so it's "New Gospel of Creation". I don't know if that's what they intended, but that's what it means in Greek.
Oh, I had no idea there were THAT annoying spyware programs... Thank god for OSS.
It means ads on web pages.