Well, Bin Laden had taken over Hitler's spot of "Evilest Guy Alive" for quite a few years. It's no wonder his death is much discussed.
As someone whose persona was so large, and whose death was always going to be controversial, I guess that means he joins Hitler, Elvis, and Michael Jackson on the island of dead people who are regularly sighted.
Seriously? Since when was Hitler the "Evilest Guy Alive"? I must have missed something.
Yes, I'm quite serious. Just search the 'net (forums and blogs) trying to find a solution, I know I failed to find one.
The SMS and call history stuff are reasons that will probably make me buy another phone soon (even though they've announced SMS stuff is coming to the 3.0 OS, which is due this summer).
I'm still surprised how many features that I've come to expect from a normal phone (it's still called the iPhone, right?) are missing...
Here's a short list:
Call duration display after hanging up. At least for the last call, if not for all calls.
Deleting individual SMS. I hate keeping useless stuff in conversations, just to avoid losing that single SMS that has any importance among 10 that are useless.
(related to the above) ability to save a SMS as a note
Ability to forward a SMS
Deleting individual calls from the recent calls list. Because sometimes I don't want certain numbers in my recent calls list (be it an ex girlfriend, or customer, or something else).
Sending a contact via SMS, or receiving one.
Having a date in the calendar marked as an anniversary or birthday, and having the phone notify you, and calculate the years passed... OK, this one is more of an extra, but I used it a lot.
My old Nokia 6310i did all of the above (SMS -> note was actually "move SMS to another folder"). Also, its battery, after 57 months of daily usage, would last about 6 days with medium-light usage. My iPhone sees a bit more usage, but it needs to be recharged every day.
I've had a similar problem back around 2000-2002, only this time STP was on, and would have avoided the problem... if only it was globally on.
One of the engineers tried to test some ADSL equipment, back-to-back. They put the devices in bridge mode, and disabled STP on those. They tested with their own machine (plug into ADSL ethernet port, go via wire to the other ADSL box which was plugged into the network), and all seemed fine. But later they wanted the devices up (and with links) for a while, to look at error rates at different speeds.
They plugged the other ADSL devices into a port on the wall. The problem was, the devices in bridge mode did know about STP, but had STP disabled (I'm not sure whether it was the engineer who disabled it, or it was disabled by default). Long story short, one mostly unusable network and a few tens of minutes later, I found the culprit: broadcast storm between two ports on the same switch. Too bad I didn't have out of band management at the time.
Unfortunately, the engineer hadn't realized that by plugging the other end of the "ADSL extension" into some port on the wall, they were basically plugging it into the same switch, and thus creating a loop. And the really bad thing was that those ADSL bridges didn't forward STP frames when STP was disabled on the bridges themselves. Also, having STP up on the ADSL bridges would have saved us a lot of trouble.
I fully agree with you. I avoid IE for all sites except http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and have uninstalled the "File and printer sharing for MS Networks" and "Client for Microsoft Networks" services. This leaves me with drivers for the network card, and TCP/IP.
No open ports on the machine, therefore no way in while I leave the machine alone. And I have installed the critical updates.
Furthermore, I also have FreeBSD (flame >/dev/null) as a primary operating system. Windows' main job is gaming these days.
Richard Stallman mentioned in a comment that including GPL code with the source of the FreeBSD kernel was no problem, and that the GPL only covered the compiled kernel if it contains the GPL code.
This basically means that you cannot distribute the FreeBSD kernel with both GPL and proprietary code, but there is no problem distributing it if you leave the GPL part out of the compile.
See Greg Lehey's Diary, namely the Tuesday, 18 December 2001 entry.
As the prevoius answer stated, remove/usr/X11R6 and/etc/X11 and/etc/XF86Config.
But be sure to also remove all ports that might have installed stuff under/usr/X11. I just tested this (will give you a few unimportant errors), but YMMV:
(use some bourne shell, like/bin/sh or bash) cd/var/db/pkg for i in *; do if grep -q '^@cwd/usr/X11R6' $i/+CONTENTS; then echo $i;fi;done > ${HOME}/packagelist
Then remove those packages in ~/packagelist After this, just install/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4, and reinstall the ports/packages you need.
A good source for free books is Project Gutenberg, with the official site at http://promo.net/pg/
Try anything by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I would recommend "Crime And Punishment", and "The Idiot".
Other interesting reads are books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, especially "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" and "The Autumn Of The Patriarch".
For a funnier and lighter reading I suggest reading the Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett. Also, a compulsory read for most slashdotters is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams.
I first listened to Cradle of Filth in some 128kbps files I got from a friend.
One year later I managed to purchase the CD (Cruelty and the Beast), and was amazed when hearing the difference... I would never go back to those mp3s... but I do have ~160kbps Ogg Vorbis files of that CD on my harddrive, for when I am to lazy to start the CD player... I would definitely go for the quality.
On a side note, it is really hard to get this kind of CDs here in Romania, and I had to purchase the CD in France... but I did buy it, so there: I first had the MP3s, and then went and purchased the CD. If it weren't for those MP3s, I might have never bought the CD. There you have it, RIAA.
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Well, Bin Laden had taken over Hitler's spot of "Evilest Guy Alive" for quite a few years. It's no wonder his death is much discussed.
As someone whose persona was so large, and whose death was always going to be controversial, I guess that means he joins Hitler, Elvis, and Michael Jackson on the island of dead people who are regularly sighted.
Seriously? Since when was Hitler the "Evilest Guy Alive"? I must have missed something.
Yes, I'm quite serious. Just search the 'net (forums and blogs) trying to find a solution, I know I failed to find one.
The SMS and call history stuff are reasons that will probably make me buy another phone soon (even though they've announced SMS stuff is coming to the 3.0 OS, which is due this summer).
My old Nokia 6310i did all of the above (SMS -> note was actually "move SMS to another folder"). Also, its battery, after 57 months of daily usage, would last about 6 days with medium-light usage. My iPhone sees a bit more usage, but it needs to be recharged every day.
I've had a similar problem back around 2000-2002, only this time STP was on, and would have avoided the problem... if only it was globally on.
One of the engineers tried to test some ADSL equipment, back-to-back. They put the devices in bridge mode, and disabled STP on those. They tested with their own machine (plug into ADSL ethernet port, go via wire to the other ADSL box which was plugged into the network), and all seemed fine. But later they wanted the devices up (and with links) for a while, to look at error rates at different speeds.
They plugged the other ADSL devices into a port on the wall. The problem was, the devices in bridge mode did know about STP, but had STP disabled (I'm not sure whether it was the engineer who disabled it, or it was disabled by default). Long story short, one mostly unusable network and a few tens of minutes later, I found the culprit: broadcast storm between two ports on the same switch. Too bad I didn't have out of band management at the time.
Unfortunately, the engineer hadn't realized that by plugging the other end of the "ADSL extension" into some port on the wall, they were basically plugging it into the same switch, and thus creating a loop. And the really bad thing was that those ADSL bridges didn't forward STP frames when STP was disabled on the bridges themselves. Also, having STP up on the ADSL bridges would have saved us a lot of trouble.
I fully agree with you. I avoid IE for all sites except http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and have uninstalled the "File and printer sharing for MS Networks" and "Client for Microsoft Networks" services. This leaves me with drivers for the network card, and TCP/IP.
/dev/null) as a primary operating system. Windows' main job is gaming these days.
No open ports on the machine, therefore no way in while I leave the machine alone. And I have installed the critical updates.
Furthermore, I also have FreeBSD (flame >
This basically means that you cannot distribute the FreeBSD kernel with both GPL and proprietary code, but there is no problem distributing it if you leave the GPL part out of the compile. See Greg Lehey's Diary, namely the Tuesday, 18 December 2001 entry.
Great! There were rumours that FreeBSD was still being used at Hotmail, and this seems like possible proof.
Now if we could only see some actual hotmail pages served by that machine...
As the prevoius answer stated, remove /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 and /etc/XF86Config.
/usr/X11. I just tested this (will give you a few unimportant errors), but YMMV:
/bin/sh or bash) /var/db/pkg /usr/X11R6' $i/+CONTENTS; then echo $i;fi;done > ${HOME}/packagelist
/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4, and reinstall the ports/packages you need.
But be sure to also remove all ports that might have installed stuff under
(use some bourne shell, like
cd
for i in *; do if grep -q '^@cwd
Then remove those packages in ~/packagelist
After this, just install
HTH
A good source for free books is Project Gutenberg, with the official site at http://promo.net/pg/
Try anything by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I would recommend "Crime And Punishment", and "The Idiot".
Other interesting reads are books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, especially "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" and "The Autumn Of The Patriarch".
For a funnier and lighter reading I suggest reading the Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett. Also, a compulsory read for most slashdotters is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams.
I first listened to Cradle of Filth in some 128kbps files I got from a friend.
One year later I managed to purchase the CD (Cruelty and the Beast), and was amazed when hearing the difference... I would never go back to those mp3s... but I do have ~160kbps Ogg Vorbis files of that CD on my harddrive, for when I am to lazy to start the CD player... I would definitely go for the quality.
On a side note, it is really hard to get this kind of CDs here in Romania, and I had to purchase the CD in France... but I did buy it, so there: I first had the MP3s, and then went and purchased the CD. If it weren't for those MP3s, I might have never bought the CD. There you have it, RIAA.
Are you sure? Here is what I get:
./1
host% uname -v
FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Sep 21 17:54:34 EEST 2001 root@host:/usr/src/sys/compile/HOST
host% echo 'main() { printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+ "fun"-0x60);}' > 1.c
host% make 1
cc -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro 1.c -o 1
host%
unix
host%
YHBT. YL. HAND.
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