Our cafe was *BLACKLISTED* by spamcop. I checked the logs. I found his MAC address and when he came in with his laptop. I asked the staff. They described him. He came back and I caught him red handed.
Someone prominent in the U.S referred to Nelson Mandela as an African-American. I can't remember who but it brings a smile to my face whenever I hear it.
You obviously weren't around here a few years ago when Ms were allowing their client to connect to AOL. AOL changed their protocol, Ms changed their client.
If Microsoft made the CHOICE to use their desktop monopoly to try and stamp out other IM networks, they shouldn't complain when others act as they do.
Easy. Any debian package is compiled to run on an xserver. So you run the directfb xserver, and the apps connect to that. Much like they do with the OSX xserver.
The monitor isn't the only factor in display quality. I bought a Sony E400 (19" crt) for about IE£ 450 3 years ago. Through that time, it's probably been on 4 different graphics cards. The monitor itself is exceptional, there is no question of that...
I had a cheap but fast Geforece 2 GTS from Asus at the time, which was pretty poor. The card handled 1280x1024@85Hz without a problem. The image was ever so slightly blurry. Since then I've had a GF3 ti200 from Asus which was visibly better at the same resolution and refresh. I've also owned an MSI gf4 ti4200, which was equally good.
So make a note of the serial number on the RAMDAC if you find a good card, and try and buy something using the same chip next time.
It can be *distributed* as a Debian package. It just won't be accepted as an official package until this is done. And it isn't that much effort to stick in a dummy manpage saying that it has not yet been completed.
You are correct. As long as the libraries that a gnome app requires (gtk) are present, the app will run, even if you aren't running a window manager or desktop. There is no magic to it. I've been running Konquerer under gnome for some time now.
I had the pleasure of seeing Alan Cox speak in Dublin a couple of months back, and he made the point that it was unreasonable for people to expect Nvidia to release the full source for their drivers. The Nvidia drivers were what gave them the edge. He reckoned that the ATI cards were generally a bit faster if you looked purely at the hardware, but Nvidia have had the advantage of working on the same codebase for their drivers for years now.
The idea of "patenting it before some other asshole does" is unreasonable. Once I invent something, the patent cannot be granted to someone else who patents it post that invention because it is not an original work. If I can prove prior art (ie that I made the invention before that time), the patent will not be granted/invalidated.
I usually stop playing such a game when vision of said game appear in my sleep... that's just too freaky for me.
Bah, that's nothing. Try playing two games very intensively over the same period. You get a mixture of both. I've had Ryu and Ken running around that house in Swat 3, or even worse, the guy from Die by the Sword running across the landscape from Giants.
I think that given current network technology, your goal is not really practical at present. The best you can do is have data stored in one central location, and then have a number of clients, each of which has software to interpret the data...
Basically, IMAP, LDAP etc. would be a good bet, with other higher level solutions presenting a different set of problems (think passport)
I'll tell you what I'd do with it. I'd fix what is IMHO the most broken thing in Windows XX: It's infuriating file system layout.
Nothing gets me more than the fact that if I want to migrate my settings to another computer, it involves copying out chunks of the registry, going into various Program files directories and also the stuff in Documents and Settings (Where all that stuff should have been in the first place).
Actually, it's less hassle to wait for the various applications to work under your open operating system of choice, so I guess I won't bother.
I couldn't get 2.2.20 to compile on my alpha (ruffian) either, some problems relating to some PCI code. I tried to fix it myself, (it appeared that a wrong struct type was being used somewhere) but other things broke after that, so I gave up.
2.2.18 worked grand, and I believe 2.2.19 will as well. I'm running 2.4.16 now which has given me very little trouble (bar a broken network driver)... the machine is rarely stressed so I can't say for sure. One day I'll fire up 10 seti processes and see what happens.
Seriously, it is an absoloute atrocity, I understand your anger, but if I were in charge I'd be seeking a solution which focused on:
1) Bringing those responsible to justice.
2) Minimizing the number of deaths from this in the future, on both sides of whichever divide this happened.
I live in a country where the exact opposite of this has been going on for 30 years (Ireland, in case you care), and it isn't nice, and it just makes people angry. It's on a much smaller scale than today's events, but seeking blood will eventually result in the blood of someone you love being taken.
On top of that, I honestly don't believe this planet will survive another world war.
I've always felt that the collapse in online advertising was brought on by the advertisers themselves. The ads inevitably always led to something which required you to give away money, or were tricked into joining some casino/pr0n site/whatever. Or those ones that look like dialog boxes. That is just plain nasty. My mum was getting really irritated that she couldn't get that box to go away when she clicked on it. Is it any wonder people ignore the things these days.
The banners eventually became trash, that people don't bother taking in... they are seen as scams and tricks.
There was no effort to make people more aware of products, which is where TV ads excel. Perhaps they shouldn't be trying to get money out of us directly, but instead let us know the product exists and show you how to get more information.
This is where ads based on ZIP code etc. come in. Most of the sites I look at are american based, and all the ads are for online stores in the states. I am Irish, and really don't feel inclined to pay huge shipping etc. If they knew where I was from, they could show me an ad that might actually be relevant to me.
They don't need to know any more than that... they can work out what my interests are from the station I listen to (just like TV). Hell, you can work out where people are just from their IP address really.
So online ads need to reinvent themselves. This story is showing how one company is making an effort, but at the end of the day, privacy advocates aren't going to like it one bit. There are better ways I guess...
That is really cool...
mine is just:
set prompt="%S%T%s[%B%n@%m]%/%S>%b%s"
But I'd like to be able to understand where the title actually gets set in your one.
It is a little worrying that this might just end up like a cheap Tomb Raider knock off (I am well aware where Tomb Raider's main influence came from).
There was another Indy Game called The Infernal Machine. I never played it, but it looked like it was trying really hard to be a Tomb Raider, in both it's environments and gameplay style.
I think Lucasarts should have stuck with the point and click thing, and I certainly hope that Spielberg sticks with the themes and mood of the old films.
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I do my transperant proxying using iptables.
Just forward outgoing traffic on port 25 to local:25.
You need to do some sanity checking afterwards, to make sure you haven't ended up as an open relay. Other than that, it works fine for me.
Eh how about you read the mail.
Our cafe was *BLACKLISTED* by spamcop. I checked the logs. I found his MAC address and when he came in with his laptop. I asked the staff. They described him. He came back and I caught him red handed.
Someone prominent in the U.S referred to Nelson Mandela as an African-American. I can't remember who but it brings a smile to my face whenever I hear it.
:-)
I was poking fun at them
You obviously weren't around here a few years ago when Ms were allowing their client to connect to AOL. AOL changed their protocol, Ms changed their client.
If Microsoft made the CHOICE to use their desktop monopoly to try and stamp out other IM networks, they shouldn't complain when others act as they do.
"If I punch people in the face, can I call that a service, too?"
Yes, because so many people need what you are selling.
Easy. Any debian package is compiled to run on an xserver. So you run the directfb xserver, and the apps connect to that. Much like they do with the OSX xserver.
Here, go read:
a fairly unpleasant thread started by Mr. Reiser himself.
He has a point, but surely it doesn't hurt to be slightly less aggressive on these matters. Unless he enjoys being credited as an asshole...
The monitor isn't the only factor in display quality. I bought a Sony E400 (19" crt) for about IE£ 450 3 years ago. Through that time, it's probably been on 4 different graphics cards. The monitor itself is exceptional, there is no question of that...
I had a cheap but fast Geforece 2 GTS from Asus at the time, which was pretty poor. The card handled 1280x1024@85Hz without a problem. The image was ever so slightly blurry. Since then I've had a GF3 ti200 from Asus which was visibly better at the same resolution and refresh. I've also owned an MSI gf4 ti4200, which was equally good.
So make a note of the serial number on the RAMDAC if you find a good card, and try and buy something using the same chip next time.
It can be *distributed* as a Debian package. It just won't be accepted as an official package until this is done. And it isn't that much effort to stick in a dummy manpage saying that it has not yet been completed.
You are correct. As long as the libraries that a gnome app requires (gtk) are present, the app will run, even if you aren't running a window manager or desktop. There is no magic to it. I've been running Konquerer under gnome for some time now.
It probably is a little unfair. Much in the same way that the US Army have released a publicly funded, free of charge computer game...
I had the pleasure of seeing Alan Cox speak in Dublin a couple of months back, and he made the point that it was unreasonable for people to expect Nvidia to release the full source for their drivers. The Nvidia drivers were what gave them the edge. He reckoned that the ATI cards were generally a bit faster if you looked purely at the hardware, but Nvidia have had the advantage of working on the same codebase for their drivers for years now.
I think you are sort of missing the point:
The idea of "patenting it before some other asshole does" is unreasonable. Once I invent something, the patent cannot be granted to someone else who patents it post that invention because it is not an original work. If I can prove prior art (ie that I made the invention before that time), the patent will not be granted/invalidated.
The man speaks the truth:
22:19[ssh@blanka]/tmp/thing/WINNT/system32>stri ngs winsock.dll | grep BSD
BSD Socket API for Windows
I usually stop playing such a game when vision of said game appear in my sleep... that's just too freaky for me.
:-)
Bah, that's nothing. Try playing two games very intensively over the same period. You get a mixture of both. I've had Ryu and Ken running around that house in Swat 3, or even worse, the guy from Die by the Sword running across the landscape from Giants.
*That's* when you know you shold stop
I think that given current network technology, your goal is not really practical at present. The best you can do is have data stored in one central location, and then have a number of clients, each of which has software to interpret the data...
Basically, IMAP, LDAP etc. would be a good bet, with other higher level solutions presenting a different set of problems (think passport)
I'll tell you what I'd do with it. I'd fix what is IMHO the most broken thing in Windows XX: It's infuriating file system layout.
Nothing gets me more than the fact that if I want to migrate my settings to another computer, it involves copying out chunks of the registry, going into various Program files directories and also the stuff in Documents and Settings (Where all that stuff should have been in the first place).
Actually, it's less hassle to wait for the various applications to work under your open operating system of choice, so I guess I won't bother.
I couldn't get 2.2.20 to compile on my alpha (ruffian) either, some problems relating to some PCI code. I tried to fix it myself, (it appeared that a wrong struct type was being used somewhere) but other things broke after that, so I gave up.
2.2.18 worked grand, and I believe 2.2.19 will as well. I'm running 2.4.16 now which has given me very little trouble (bar a broken network driver)... the machine is rarely stressed so I can't say for sure. One day I'll fire up 10 seti processes and see what happens.
Hope that's of some use.
And thus begins the circle of violence...
Seriously, it is an absoloute atrocity, I understand your anger, but if I were in charge I'd be seeking a solution which focused on:
1) Bringing those responsible to justice.
2) Minimizing the number of deaths from this in the future, on both sides of whichever divide this happened.
I live in a country where the exact opposite of this has been going on for 30 years (Ireland, in case you care), and it isn't nice, and it just makes people angry. It's on a much smaller scale than today's events, but seeking blood will eventually result in the blood of someone you love being taken.
On top of that, I honestly don't believe this planet will survive another world war.
People like you will be the end of the world.
I went to look at the linked site, and here is the title of the first story:
Linux vs. M$ (in the home market)
Once I see that M$, I just know it's unlikely you are going to see well balanced arguements. It's one step up from declaring M$ = p00pyp4nts.
It's not a UNIX (tm)... very few noteable operating systems are these days. GNU/Linux certainly isn't.
It is however Unix-like.
I've always felt that the collapse in online advertising was brought on by the advertisers themselves. The ads inevitably always led to something which required you to give away money, or were tricked into joining some casino/pr0n site/whatever. Or those ones that look like dialog boxes. That is just plain nasty. My mum was getting really irritated that she couldn't get that box to go away when she clicked on it. Is it any wonder people ignore the things these days.
The banners eventually became trash, that people don't bother taking in... they are seen as scams and tricks.
There was no effort to make people more aware of products, which is where TV ads excel. Perhaps they shouldn't be trying to get money out of us directly, but instead let us know the product exists and show you how to get more information.
This is where ads based on ZIP code etc. come in. Most of the sites I look at are american based, and all the ads are for online stores in the states. I am Irish, and really don't feel inclined to pay huge shipping etc. If they knew where I was from, they could show me an ad that might actually be relevant to me.
They don't need to know any more than that... they can work out what my interests are from the station I listen to (just like TV). Hell, you can work out where people are just from their IP address really.
So online ads need to reinvent themselves. This story is showing how one company is making an effort, but at the end of the day, privacy advocates aren't going to like it one bit. There are better ways I guess...
That is really cool... mine is just: set prompt="%S%T%s[%B%n@%m]%/%S>%b%s" But I'd like to be able to understand where the title actually gets set in your one.
It is a little worrying that this might just end up like a cheap Tomb Raider knock off (I am well aware where Tomb Raider's main influence came from).
There was another Indy Game called The Infernal Machine. I never played it, but it looked like it was trying really hard to be a Tomb Raider, in both it's environments and gameplay style.
I think Lucasarts should have stuck with the point and click thing, and I certainly hope that Spielberg sticks with the themes and mood of the old films.