Are you aware it's the principle of the matter that people are arguing about? They get no useful statistics from requiring you to login with a "free" soul-sucking registration because, like you said, everyone can just use Bugmenot or put in fake info. So what purpose does it serve other than to annoy readers? If every site on the Internet started requiring registrations before you could read their content it'd become a pain in the ass just to surf the web.
Do you mind if someone browses child porn from your open access point? Afterall, you're the one going to jail if they do. Secure your access point or accept the responsibilities for any actions taken via that point.
So, uh, Safari doesn't actually pass the Acid2 test yet, but it might at some point in the future after they've finished making sure that the proposed fixes don't break anything else?
I would just be happy if they got Safari to the point where it doesn't crash all the time on me. This is on MacOS X 10.3.9, but it was happening all the way back to 10.3.7. I'm lucky if I can browse for more than 10 minutes without Safari crashing and wanting me to send in bug reports. I just switch to Mozilla Firefox instead.
What do you want to bet I can find the passwords written on a post-it under the keyboard?
A security policy that doesn't take usability into account is worse than no security policy at all.
Just because it's 14 characters doesn't mean a child couldn't remember it. Make it a passphrase or an acronym out of a sentence your kids can remember.
What is interesting is that "Trusted" used to be a label applied to systems like Trusted Solaris that implemented mandatory access controls (similar to what SELinux does for Linux). Which version of Trusted computing are they talking about? Mandatory access controls or the DRM nonsense?
On a practical level, Linus has said many times that he won't do this because it would require freezing the internal kernel api. While this might sound good for an outsider, you only have to consider how much say the USB structure has been reorganised to realise how bad an idea it would have been if this was all frozen.
So you're saying it's better to have major kernel APIs changing constantly and breaking third-party drivers (even open source ones that need to be tweaked) rather than coming up with a stable interface to expose to module developers? There's no reason they can't write an abstraction layer between the internal kernel code that changes from release to release and the modules... they just don't want to. It's a political and philisophical argument for Linus.
In addition, there is a VB for KDE, but there is something very strange about professor unix wanting VB.
I was learning VB for my own survival. There are thousands of VB programmer jobs out there... It's something to fall back on should I need to. I'll probably have to get an MCSE soon as well if I want to stay in my hometown. My own personal love is security and networking, but every single job in the area wants their networking guy to double as their Windows2000 Server admin and wants an MCSE. It sucks, but we need to put food on the table somehow and moving is not an option (all our family is here and the wife doesn't want to move).
I was thinking of learning Cocoa programming for MacOS X, but there don't seem to be any jobs at all for that. Too bad.:-(
I know it's not cool to the Slashdot crowd, but does anyone know of a nice IDE to build GUI applications on Linux or MacOS X that's similar to VB.Net? I've found I can throw together a decent Windows interface in 15 minutes and then code all the backend functions to handle click events and such rather easily, but when I tried GUI programming under Linux you had to actually know how to call all the complicated library routines and set stuff up. I'm not a programmer by trade so no flames please, but there are times I'd like to throw a basic GUI interface on a simple program I've written without sacrificing a dead chicken.;-)
With less than.000001% problems, I'm sticking with the blacklists. People who get on those blacklists do have other communication channels open to them and they can easily contact me if there is ever a problem.
Just remember that you should be accepting mail to postmaster@yourdomain regardless of the blacklist so that the users can contact postmaster to discuss the problem. I realize today admins treat postmaster as the bitbucket full of bounces and such, but that technically should be a valid communications channel for the sender to get through to someone who administers the mail system.
If a company buys out an OSS, you can often still get the older, free version somewheres on the internet. It may not be as updated, but at least it is free.
But would you begin using a piece of software if you knew it was a dead end? Think about it, the authors will never produce another update for that version and if you want to continue using it you'll either have to hope someone else will come along and fork it (unlikely) or you need to buy the commercial version. Why bother using it in the first place in that case?
Why don't they just set up another company to do it so that they can work around the law. Companies set up new companies all the time.
Why don't they just license the format from Nikon and quit being a bunch of babies? It's not like this is open source software, they make a ton of money off selling it to photographers.
I've never heard a non geek complain about picture quality on an average broadcast TV. Unless it's a signal strength problem or a failing TV, consumers don't care. NTSC is good enough.
What people are forgetting is that it's not the quality of the image that is the problem, but the quality of the programming. They've already cancelled two of my favorite shows (Third Watch and Star Trek: Enterprise), so what am I going to watch on this super-clear television? There's basically four things on broadcast TV these days: Reality TV shows, "Law and Order" type shows (cop dramas, lawyer shows, medical investigation type shows, hospital series, etc.), sports, and the news. Other than sports, I don't see how any of the others benefit from HDTV resolution.
They can take my TV set out of my cold.... oh wait, let me see what ad-free dvd movie to watch first...
According to Star Trek: TNG episode "The Neutral Zone", television as a medium doesn't survive much past the mid-21st century. Around the time of WWIII.
Linux, the kernel, is extremely innovative, providing a superior reverse engineered substitute for the UNIX specifications. And then some.
What exactly has Linux "innovated" with its kernel? I'm asking a serious question... Linux has done an excellent job of copying existing technologies, but I can't remember a single thing that was invented on Linux before another operating system. In my mind it stands out as nothing more than a free generic UNIX clone. There's nothing wrong with that of course, but it certainly hasn't innovated any areas of computer science like other operating systems have.
I understand the reference but to understand the joke one must understand you to mean that one day 16 terabytes won't be enough for the average application.
Thank you Mr. Data, but there's no need to explain every punchline.
Sure, but try synching that inbox to your PDA. I will be first in line for the windows CE phones with 2 gig HDs.
2 gigs? I think my work mail archive is up to at least 100GB now uncompressed. Thankfully it fits on 3 or 4 DVDs gzipped though. That's all without any spam, just work-related e-mail over 8 years. I need to store it in some kind of online database of some sort.. working with the flat files and grep is too slow.
I don't believe in royalty. "Kings" are nothing but dictators IMHO. All men are created equally, but to have a monarchy you must believe that that man is better by birth than you. Silly notion.
I guess he doesn't have much faith in his own product eh?
I guess he figures people will just use the numerous free web browsers like Mozilla, Firefox, or even Internet Explorer. People that use Opera remind me of Amiga users in the mid 1990's... rapidly fanatical about supporting their product as superior at a time when the world wasn't paying any attention to them.
Roy first released the Dutch citizens, as the war was over, and the Geneva Convention requires the release of all prisoners. The German was held longer, as he had accepted a Sealand Passport, and therefore was guilty of treason. Prince Roy, who was grateful that the incident had not resulted in a loss of life, and did not want to bloody the reputation of Sealand, eventually released him as well.
This whole Sealand thing makes me laugh. Someone needs to just blow the thing up. Some guy comes along and squats on an old WWII combat rig and calls himself a Prince? He's looney.
Probably the same way people who consider the Gamecube to be a "flop" even though it has higher worldwide sales than the PS2 or the XBox.
Selling consoles to children is irrelevent, what they need to concentrate on are adults who want more violence, gore, and nudity. Without those items Nintendo will surely fail. The Gamecube is a flop.
However, most people get their news from Fark, Slashdot, Google News, Yahoo News, and other news congregation sites. With linking, users of those sites would have to pay to read the article. Hence, the newspapers will pass the cost to consumers via Google and Fark. Some might use an ad-based model, but most will use a subscription model.
So people will just link to the CNN or FoxNews version instead of some podunk newspaper in Iowa that happened to cut and paste the AP article online. The New York Times will of course continue to never get greenlighted on Fark though since they require a soul-sucking registration.
i can finally back up my hard drive so i can do the properly install i want to do.
Buy external 300GB Firewire/USB2.0 drive, backup data to it, reinstall computer. Believe me, you'd be out a LOT less money than you would be buying the drive and media for this thing. I'd imagine the starting price over $5000 for a drive.
I haven't had a landline in years. I live with just my cellphone and cable modem.
Well, don't complain to Verizon if your cell phone doesn't work inside your house. What kind of stupid expectation is that? Cell phones are for outdoor use and landlines are for indoor residential and office use.
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Are you aware it's the principle of the matter that people are arguing about? They get no useful statistics from requiring you to login with a "free" soul-sucking registration because, like you said, everyone can just use Bugmenot or put in fake info. So what purpose does it serve other than to annoy readers? If every site on the Internet started requiring registrations before you could read their content it'd become a pain in the ass just to surf the web.
Do you mind if someone browses child porn from your open access point? Afterall, you're the one going to jail if they do. Secure your access point or accept the responsibilities for any actions taken via that point.
I would just be happy if they got Safari to the point where it doesn't crash all the time on me. This is on MacOS X 10.3.9, but it was happening all the way back to 10.3.7. I'm lucky if I can browse for more than 10 minutes without Safari crashing and wanting me to send in bug reports. I just switch to Mozilla Firefox instead.
Just because it's 14 characters doesn't mean a child couldn't remember it. Make it a passphrase or an acronym out of a sentence your kids can remember.
What is interesting is that "Trusted" used to be a label applied to systems like Trusted Solaris that implemented mandatory access controls (similar to what SELinux does for Linux). Which version of Trusted computing are they talking about? Mandatory access controls or the DRM nonsense?
So you're saying it's better to have major kernel APIs changing constantly and breaking third-party drivers (even open source ones that need to be tweaked) rather than coming up with a stable interface to expose to module developers? There's no reason they can't write an abstraction layer between the internal kernel code that changes from release to release and the modules... they just don't want to. It's a political and philisophical argument for Linus.
I was learning VB for my own survival. There are thousands of VB programmer jobs out there... It's something to fall back on should I need to. I'll probably have to get an MCSE soon as well if I want to stay in my hometown. My own personal love is security and networking, but every single job in the area wants their networking guy to double as their Windows2000 Server admin and wants an MCSE. It sucks, but we need to put food on the table somehow and moving is not an option (all our family is here and the wife doesn't want to move).
I was thinking of learning Cocoa programming for MacOS X, but there don't seem to be any jobs at all for that. Too bad. :-(
I know it's not cool to the Slashdot crowd, but does anyone know of a nice IDE to build GUI applications on Linux or MacOS X that's similar to VB.Net? I've found I can throw together a decent Windows interface in 15 minutes and then code all the backend functions to handle click events and such rather easily, but when I tried GUI programming under Linux you had to actually know how to call all the complicated library routines and set stuff up. I'm not a programmer by trade so no flames please, but there are times I'd like to throw a basic GUI interface on a simple program I've written without sacrificing a dead chicken. ;-)
Just remember that you should be accepting mail to postmaster@yourdomain regardless of the blacklist so that the users can contact postmaster to discuss the problem. I realize today admins treat postmaster as the bitbucket full of bounces and such, but that technically should be a valid communications channel for the sender to get through to someone who administers the mail system.
But would you begin using a piece of software if you knew it was a dead end? Think about it, the authors will never produce another update for that version and if you want to continue using it you'll either have to hope someone else will come along and fork it (unlikely) or you need to buy the commercial version. Why bother using it in the first place in that case?
Why don't they just license the format from Nikon and quit being a bunch of babies? It's not like this is open source software, they make a ton of money off selling it to photographers.
What people are forgetting is that it's not the quality of the image that is the problem, but the quality of the programming. They've already cancelled two of my favorite shows (Third Watch and Star Trek: Enterprise), so what am I going to watch on this super-clear television? There's basically four things on broadcast TV these days: Reality TV shows, "Law and Order" type shows (cop dramas, lawyer shows, medical investigation type shows, hospital series, etc.), sports, and the news. Other than sports, I don't see how any of the others benefit from HDTV resolution.
According to Star Trek: TNG episode "The Neutral Zone", television as a medium doesn't survive much past the mid-21st century. Around the time of WWIII.
What exactly has Linux "innovated" with its kernel? I'm asking a serious question... Linux has done an excellent job of copying existing technologies, but I can't remember a single thing that was invented on Linux before another operating system. In my mind it stands out as nothing more than a free generic UNIX clone. There's nothing wrong with that of course, but it certainly hasn't innovated any areas of computer science like other operating systems have.
Thank you Mr. Data, but there's no need to explain every punchline.
B is byte, b is bit. I don't know where you've heard otherwise.
2 gigs? I think my work mail archive is up to at least 100GB now uncompressed. Thankfully it fits on 3 or 4 DVDs gzipped though. That's all without any spam, just work-related e-mail over 8 years. I need to store it in some kind of online database of some sort.. working with the flat files and grep is too slow.
I don't believe in royalty. "Kings" are nothing but dictators IMHO. All men are created equally, but to have a monarchy you must believe that that man is better by birth than you. Silly notion.
I guess he figures people will just use the numerous free web browsers like Mozilla, Firefox, or even Internet Explorer. People that use Opera remind me of Amiga users in the mid 1990's... rapidly fanatical about supporting their product as superior at a time when the world wasn't paying any attention to them.
This whole Sealand thing makes me laugh. Someone needs to just blow the thing up. Some guy comes along and squats on an old WWII combat rig and calls himself a Prince? He's looney.
Selling consoles to children is irrelevent, what they need to concentrate on are adults who want more violence, gore, and nudity. Without those items Nintendo will surely fail. The Gamecube is a flop.
So people will just link to the CNN or FoxNews version instead of some podunk newspaper in Iowa that happened to cut and paste the AP article online. The New York Times will of course continue to never get greenlighted on Fark though since they require a soul-sucking registration.
Well, it WAS before they let Berman loose on it. Congratulations Rick, you've killed Star Trek. Gene would be so proud of you.
Buy external 300GB Firewire/USB2.0 drive, backup data to it, reinstall computer. Believe me, you'd be out a LOT less money than you would be buying the drive and media for this thing. I'd imagine the starting price over $5000 for a drive.
Well, don't complain to Verizon if your cell phone doesn't work inside your house. What kind of stupid expectation is that? Cell phones are for outdoor use and landlines are for indoor residential and office use.