We have wireless mice, wireless keyboards, even wireless networking... what about some decent wireless monitors? And I don't mean vnc... running a desktop over a network... or Microsoft's stupid portable monitor with a CPU built into it... but a simple flatscreen lcd monitor.. that has a wireless receiver on it, and a dongle plugs into the graphics card with a wireless transmitter. I don't see how the addition of such a wireless connection could add all that much to the price of a monitor..
Then the PC can be anywhere in the house, noisy as hell, and monitor/keyboard/mouse all in another room.
Offtopic? Read the article? The article is about how he wants to prevent most of these very same things because it scares the newbie user.. without realising that the newbie user sholdn't be messing with these things anyway. Gah! Moderators!
1) There's no way I'm giving you su access, you might screw things up and blame the distro. 2) The package management system is gonna be secret and encrypted, because there's no way I'll let you install anything someone else made, in case it screws the system and you blame the distro. 3) There's no way I'll let you see the filesystem, you might get scared, instead the graphical file browser will only show you a sanitised view of the system, think you're gonna see/dev or/proc or/usr or anything else like that? Forget it, if it scares you, you'll blame the distro. 4) 2 DE's? no way, choice = panic = blaming the distro 5) Terminal = Nope.. it scares people... see above about what panic equals 6) Linux in a linux distro?? No way... what's the point.. might as well use FreeBSD 7) Open source everything? Nah.. 8) Community support that answers every single question promptly.. sure... that'll be easy.. right?? 9) Profit!!!
One could argue that the singular page of actual test results was not primary content. The primary content was the thousands of words of what I did and how I did it, etc etc
My Uni would not have allowed me to license my code.. as they believe they have ownership rights over it. That was the whole point of specifically tagging it as an invariant section of my thesis, so that the code was restricted. This was possible because the Uni didn't understand the FDL well enough to realise what I was doing.
Anyone actually implementing this idea/deserves/ to be standing next to a freeswinging ten-ton steel weight hanging from a tall tower when an earthquake hits. I want to be on another continent watching live video feed as it all starts going wrong.
Of course I am assuming for the sake of maximum scorn, that the construction is located at the earthquake epicentre;)
As I state elsewhere in this subject my MSc thesis was under the FDL, and my results were an invariant section. I didn't want anyone simply changing what results I got to lie about my work. Of course anyone changing the document could add their own results section, reflecting any changes they had made to the program.. the the invariant section was quite important
When I finished my MSc last year, I had to publish my thesis, and sourcecode. The university instructued us that the thesis had to claim them as the copyright owners, as they had a claim over our code and report. The lecturers were aware that we would maybe want to contest this, and noted that we'd probably have a fair point as we had never signed away our IP rights.. yet in order to be accepted our reports MUST contain the copyright info as stated, unless a alternative was agreed. I got my course director to accept the FDL as a license on my work in which I claimed the copyright, and I published my source code as an invariant section. As no other license/copyright info appeared on my sourcecode either printed or on disk, I essentially made them unable to claim ownership of it and make modifications.
Now I don't have any objections to the GPL or freedom over sourcecode in principle, I just didn't want them to claim ownership and rights over it.
So I was thankful that the invariant clause of the FDL allowed me to restrict the published sourcecode.
My take on this may be wrong, IANAL, but seemed to be the case, hence why I did it.
Go watch a porn movie, you'll find better breasts. I'll watch matrix for the story/direction/production/special effects/action sequences and maybe even the recycled theology
> A more realistic application of your suggestion woul dbe to place this box outside your residence. If you live in an > apartment building, you could put it in a hallway or above some ceiling panels somewhere. If it is confiscated, there is
Want to tell me where you live so I can come by and steal it?
> no issue of possession to tie it to you. This follows the precedent set by clandestein farmers who grow illegal crops on > National Park property.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In my life money goes out, but doesn't come in. Thanks a bunch apple, I finally found out it's all your fault!!!
The BitTorrent instructions for linux are very simple. edit/etc/mailcap with a few relevant entries (see below) and by default links to torrent files (using correct mimetype -see below) open seamlessly with bittorrent.
It's as simple as that. Any site that/doesn't/ send torrent files with correct mime type, you just download the file, and run: btdownloadprefetched.py 'filename'
Bittorrent does not work/best/ on windows, or with IE, it works on many platforms.
To paraphase Linus, his patch is not doing anything especially for X or the desktop. But for processes that have a particular behaviour, and this behaviour is easily seen in X. This patch combo tries to aid any interactive process. Whether an X server, or an IM server, etc etc. So this makes interactivity better all around. Bonus for desktop, bonus all round. Of course.. i could have totally misunderstood:)
Correct, Britain has no mandatory ID card. That is, there is no ID card which a British individual/must/ have and/must/ carry. However, as to your final words.. you may not be aware of this.. but each British citizen/aready/ does have a mandatory identity. As well as having an identity, we also have a mandatory identity number in the form of a National Insurance number. Many also have passports and driving licenses. Having some form of digitally usable identity number has absolutly nothing whatsoever to do with mandatory identity cards. Not unless police can stop us on the street and demand our URU and arrest us if we don't have it on us. British Telecom is not an arm of the British security services, BT is a private company. Also, a mandatory ID card requires primary legislation.
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I got this story rejected on: 2003-04-24 21:46:57
Would have been nice to give people more advance notice of this!
I've run out of toilet paper, will you pass me some?
from Cubicle 2
Better yet, an mp3player shaped gun.... so you can kill people as you pretend to listen to music.
Dance.. i said dance!! You can't hear the music?
BANG.. BANG.. BANG..
Can ya hear the music yet? DANCE I tell you!!
We have wireless mice, wireless keyboards, even wireless networking... what about some decent wireless monitors? And I don't mean vnc... running a desktop over a network... or Microsoft's stupid portable monitor with a CPU built into it... but a simple flatscreen lcd monitor.. that has a wireless receiver on it, and a dongle plugs into the graphics card with a wireless transmitter. I don't see how the addition of such a wireless connection could add all that much to the price of a monitor..
Then the PC can be anywhere in the house, noisy as hell, and monitor/keyboard/mouse all in another room.
Offtopic? Read the article? The article is about how he wants to prevent most of these very same things because it scares the newbie user.. without realising that the newbie user sholdn't be messing with these things anyway. Gah! Moderators!
1) There's no way I'm giving you su access, you might screw things up and blame the distro. /dev or /proc or /usr or anything else like that? Forget it, if it scares you, you'll blame the distro.
2) The package management system is gonna be secret and encrypted, because there's no way I'll let you install anything someone else made, in case it screws the system and you blame the distro.
3) There's no way I'll let you see the filesystem, you might get scared, instead the graphical file browser will only show you a sanitised view of the system, think you're gonna see
4) 2 DE's? no way, choice = panic = blaming the distro
5) Terminal = Nope.. it scares people... see above about what panic equals
6) Linux in a linux distro?? No way... what's the point.. might as well use FreeBSD
7) Open source everything? Nah..
8) Community support that answers every single question promptly.. sure... that'll be easy.. right??
9) Profit!!!
Isn't Darth Vader supposed to symbolise redemption rather than simply evil?
Manhole covers are round, because the hole they cover is round. Trying to put a square cover on a round hole would be stupid.
One could argue that the singular page of actual test results was not primary content. The primary content was the thousands of words of what I did and how I did it, etc etc
My Uni would not have allowed me to license my code.. as they believe they have ownership rights over it. That was the whole point of specifically tagging it as an invariant section of my thesis, so that the code was restricted. This was possible because the Uni didn't understand the FDL well enough to realise what I was doing.
Anyone actually implementing this idea /deserves/ to be standing next to a freeswinging ten-ton steel weight hanging from a tall tower when an earthquake hits. I want to be on another continent watching live video feed as it all starts going wrong.
;)
Of course I am assuming for the sake of maximum scorn, that the construction is located at the earthquake epicentre
As I state elsewhere in this subject my MSc thesis was under the FDL, and my results were an invariant section. I didn't want anyone simply changing what results I got to lie about my work. Of course anyone changing the document could add their own results section, reflecting any changes they had made to the program.. the the invariant section was quite important
When I finished my MSc last year, I had to publish my thesis, and sourcecode. The university instructued us that the thesis had to claim them as the copyright owners, as they had a claim over our code and report. The lecturers were aware that we would maybe want to contest this, and noted that we'd probably have a fair point as we had never signed away our IP rights.. yet in order to be accepted our reports MUST contain the copyright info as stated, unless a alternative was agreed. I got my course director to accept the FDL as a license on my work in which I claimed the copyright, and I published my source code as an invariant section. As no other license/copyright info appeared on my sourcecode either printed or on disk, I essentially made them unable to claim ownership of it and make modifications.
Now I don't have any objections to the GPL or freedom over sourcecode in principle, I just didn't want them to claim ownership and rights over it.
So I was thankful that the invariant clause of the FDL allowed me to restrict the published sourcecode.
My take on this may be wrong, IANAL, but seemed to be the case, hence why I did it.
> Trinity's breasts
Go watch a porn movie, you'll find better breasts.
I'll watch matrix for the story/direction/production/special effects/action sequences and maybe even the recycled theology
Matrix Movie > Trinity's breasts
Wouldn't it be funny if they all turned out to be AOL customers...
Article: It'll still come out on the PC, of course.
Submitter: I'd be sad if Doom 3 required me to use the X-Box's controller.
Me: Read the article!! It will still come out on the PC, so you won't need to use the xbox controller... sheesh...
> A more realistic application of your suggestion woul dbe to place this box outside your residence. If you live in an
> apartment building, you could put it in a hallway or above some ceiling panels somewhere. If it is confiscated, there is
Want to tell me where you live so I can come by and steal it?
> no issue of possession to tie it to you. This follows the precedent set by clandestein farmers who grow illegal crops on
> National Park property.
> F*ck's F*ckers F*cking F*cked
;)
Hmm.. that's 4 words, and I'm not even getting pedantic enough to debate if they are the same word or not, but that's certainly not a 1 word sentence.
Here's a one word sentence: Doh!
Try it out.
(not claiming it's grammatically correct
> Money goes in, but doesn't come out
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In my life money goes out, but doesn't come in. Thanks a bunch apple, I finally found out it's all your fault!!!
> I dont think this fits into the 'Digital Hub'
Hmm.. computers.. music.. music sold over internet by apple... sounds like it fits into the 'digital hub' to me
1) MSAvatar - Where would you like to go today?
2) OpenSourceAvatar - You wanna go somewhere, go there yourself!!
The BitTorrent instructions for linux are very simple. edit /etc/mailcap with a few relevant entries (see below) and by default links to torrent files (using correct mimetype -see below) open seamlessly with bittorrent.
/etc/mailcap
/path/to/BitTorrent-3.1/btdownloadprefetched.py %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
/etc/httpd/conf/apache-mime.types
/doesn't/ send torrent files with correct mime type, you just download the file, and run: btdownloadprefetched.py 'filename'
/best/ on windows, or with IE, it works on many platforms.
edit:
## Adding BitTorrent
application/x-bittorrent;
edit:
application/x-bittorrent torrent
It's as simple as that. Any site that
Bittorrent does not work
More like iRISK, pronounced with a cockney accent to make it sound the same as 'high risk'
To paraphase Linus, his patch is not doing anything especially for X or the desktop. But for processes that have a particular behaviour, and this behaviour is easily seen in X. This patch combo tries to aid any interactive process. Whether an X server, or an IM server, etc etc. So this makes interactivity better all around. Bonus for desktop, bonus all round. Of course.. i could have totally misunderstood :)
Correct, Britain has no mandatory ID card. That is, there is no ID card which a British individual /must/ have and /must/ carry. However, as to your final words.. you may not be aware of this.. but each British citizen /aready/ does have a mandatory identity. As well as having an identity, we also have a mandatory identity number in the form of a National Insurance number. Many also have passports and driving licenses. Having some form of digitally usable identity number has absolutly nothing whatsoever to do with mandatory identity cards. Not unless police can stop us on the street and demand our URU and arrest us if we don't have it on us. British Telecom is not an arm of the British security services, BT is a private company. Also, a mandatory ID card requires primary legislation.