The machine has to support booting from an external drive in BIOS, which should be most new computers, I think. There are versions of Knoppix that run off a thumbdrive.
Well, I use Firefox on my Windows PC, and I love it. But using it on my Mac just didn't work out- I'm used to hitting the "backspace" button to go back, which for some reason doesn't work on the Mac. So I abandoned Firefox in favor of Safari, which does other things that bug me. It especially lacks plugins like Adblock that I have come to rely on on the other computer.
So right now I can't say there are any browsers for the Mac that I like. I remember trying Camino long ago, I'll have to download this version. Do any Firefox plugins work with Camino?
If a person thinks their beliefs can be harmed by a movie, they need to have a little more faith and a lot more shut the fuck up.
Sorry. Actually, I don't think that this is about a few mere movies chalenging their beliefs. I think that extreme fundamentalists (Christians in the US, but fundies are essentially the same everywhere) have convinced themselves that the rest of us are out to get them, that we are conspiring everyday to take away their ability to worship God. They see it all around them; look, we can't put the 10 Cammandments in front of the courthouse! That's one more place where we can't pray. What's next?
Unfortunately this combination of conspiracy theory and fundamentalism is impossible to address. There is simply no way to convince these people that we are not all out to get them, so the best thing to do is accommodate them when possible and ignore them when necessary.
For news sites, you can usually also use RefSpoof for Mozilla/Firefox. Set "http://news.google.com" as your fake referrer, since most news sites bypass registration on pages linked from Google News.
For non-news registration sites, like forums, you'd probably be better off with a free email address you don't care about.
The advertising model looks appealing now, but do we want our future to depend on that single source of revenue? What happens if advertising goes flat? What happens when somebody develops software to filter out advertising - TiVo for the Web?"
Thanks, AdBlock (and BugMeNot)! This article would have been much more annoying without you.
I imagine power would also be a problem. Dual video cards and everything else would need, what, 500 watts? Those are some tiny power supplies in SFF computers.
If this report was first posted January 2000, then most of it was probably thrown out and re-written twenty months later. No wonder they declassified it.
Given that the maximum length for ethernet is 100m, and the signal degrades greatly over that range, I wonder if this would be better for connecting separate buildings (like, say, a farmhouse and a barn). Could be useful.
I think the term "liberal" (and conservative) has come to mean whatever the hell people want it to mean. Though in political science we distinguish between capital-L and lower-case liberal.
My, but that was an...energetic post. I live in the midwest, not San Francisco, and I get roughly 360K DSL. I live pretty far from the phone co, but even if I lived next door, 1.5M is the most I'd be able to get no matter how much I am willing to pay. Cable might be able to get me a megabit, unless my neighbors all use it.
And they want to send HD TELEVISION down that line? SBC is out of their fucking minds. I can't download more than two files at once.
I think you've hit on the reasons for CDs to exist. A pressed-disc CD will probably last longer than you will, as opposed to a burned disc that will deteriorate in a few years.
Also, a 128kbps download will just not please some people. Audiophiles want the maximum quality they can get, and if they want it digital, they will rip it themselves to their own specifications.
She may call herself a wimp, but it also says she was a competitive swimmer for eight years, which means she could probably kick my ass. I don't know about you.
It depends on her definition of "wimp." Maybe she's afraid of spiders or something. Or she's a weakly-interacting massive particle.
Steven R. Nelson, executive director of HBS's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, said the letters were taken off the site early yesterday.
"These were just internal administrative devices," Nelson said.
Don't post internal-only information to a webserver. Ever. Whoever put them on the site should get a remedial course on security.
As for the applicants, they just saved mom and dad a couple hundred grand. Hopefully, they'll learn some sort of lesson from this, though I doubt it.
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I have a Mac and an XP machine sitting in front of me, and I gotta say, the icons look like calculators to me.
The machine has to support booting from an external drive in BIOS, which should be most new computers, I think. There are versions of Knoppix that run off a thumbdrive.
Well, I use Firefox on my Windows PC, and I love it. But using it on my Mac just didn't work out- I'm used to hitting the "backspace" button to go back, which for some reason doesn't work on the Mac. So I abandoned Firefox in favor of Safari, which does other things that bug me. It especially lacks plugins like Adblock that I have come to rely on on the other computer.
So right now I can't say there are any browsers for the Mac that I like. I remember trying Camino long ago, I'll have to download this version. Do any Firefox plugins work with Camino?
If a person thinks their beliefs can be harmed by a movie, they need to have a little more faith and a lot more shut the fuck up.
Sorry. Actually, I don't think that this is about a few mere movies chalenging their beliefs. I think that extreme fundamentalists (Christians in the US, but fundies are essentially the same everywhere) have convinced themselves that the rest of us are out to get them, that we are conspiring everyday to take away their ability to worship God. They see it all around them; look, we can't put the 10 Cammandments in front of the courthouse! That's one more place where we can't pray. What's next?
Unfortunately this combination of conspiracy theory and fundamentalism is impossible to address. There is simply no way to convince these people that we are not all out to get them, so the best thing to do is accommodate them when possible and ignore them when necessary.
Wouldn't that be a hydrogen bomb? That's way too powerful to be considered a "tactical" weapon.
Offtopic? I quoted from the article and replied to it.
All these world are belong to you...
For news sites, you can usually also use RefSpoof for Mozilla/Firefox. Set "http://news.google.com" as your fake referrer, since most news sites bypass registration on pages linked from Google News.
For non-news registration sites, like forums, you'd probably be better off with a free email address you don't care about.
The advertising model looks appealing now, but do we want our future to depend on that single source of revenue? What happens if advertising goes flat? What happens when somebody develops software to filter out advertising - TiVo for the Web?"
Thanks, AdBlock (and BugMeNot)! This article would have been much more annoying without you.
I imagine power would also be a problem. Dual video cards and everything else would need, what, 500 watts? Those are some tiny power supplies in SFF computers.
You're telling geeks that 300w is a lot of power? That quite a bit less than any computer I own, and those run all the time.
If this report was first posted January 2000, then most of it was probably thrown out and re-written twenty months later. No wonder they declassified it.
Given that the maximum length for ethernet is 100m, and the signal degrades greatly over that range, I wonder if this would be better for connecting separate buildings (like, say, a farmhouse and a barn). Could be useful.
I think the term "liberal" (and conservative) has come to mean whatever the hell people want it to mean. Though in political science we distinguish between capital-L and lower-case liberal.
As long as those are his last words, you'll hear no complaints.
My, but that was an...energetic post. I live in the midwest, not San Francisco, and I get roughly 360K DSL. I live pretty far from the phone co, but even if I lived next door, 1.5M is the most I'd be able to get no matter how much I am willing to pay. Cable might be able to get me a megabit, unless my neighbors all use it.
And they want to send HD TELEVISION down that line? SBC is out of their fucking minds. I can't download more than two files at once.
I think you've hit on the reasons for CDs to exist. A pressed-disc CD will probably last longer than you will, as opposed to a burned disc that will deteriorate in a few years.
Also, a 128kbps download will just not please some people. Audiophiles want the maximum quality they can get, and if they want it digital, they will rip it themselves to their own specifications.
Yes, I'm too lazy to find the 'ole astronomy text and look it up, but I imagine a red supergiant can be well over 150 times larger than the sun.
mass and weight- not the same thing.
Nearly all computer factories are already in China. Most likely the only thing changing will be the name on the building.
She may call herself a wimp, but it also says she was a competitive swimmer for eight years, which means she could probably kick my ass. I don't know about you.
It depends on her definition of "wimp." Maybe she's afraid of spiders or something. Or she's a weakly-interacting massive particle.
Not if you're posting on Slashdot, you won't.
Better yet, blame it on the parents. They might want to know if their (not so) little kid go accepted.
Steven R. Nelson, executive director of HBS's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, said the letters were taken off the site early yesterday.
"These were just internal administrative devices," Nelson said.
Don't post internal-only information to a webserver. Ever. Whoever put them on the site should get a remedial course on security.
As for the applicants, they just saved mom and dad a couple hundred grand. Hopefully, they'll learn some sort of lesson from this, though I doubt it.
Buzz already knows how to shut up conspiracy theorists. I prefer his method, too.