The best quote from the article: "A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures"
Try navigating a website with only symbols, or button bars with no rollovers. It is the epitome of my UI frustration experiences. This is bothersome in Solaris, and possibly in Aqua under OS X, although I'm sure their designers will put a little more thought into symbols than Microsoft did/does. Did you know that Apple had an icon editor (that's a person, not an app) working on the Macintosh project? Those nice, standard symbols on the back of your Mac, and sometimes other computers, were thought up by someone carefully.
If KDE/GNOME people aren't interested in hacking the GUI, someone else will. Case in point, Kaleidoscope, a program that completely changes the current UI, written by 2 guys in their spare time.When there is a will, there is a way.
What Mozilla needs is what a little 3rd party MacOS browser upstart iCab has: the ability to ask before accepting cookies, and refuse all cookies from that domain from that point on. It is a lot more useful, because if some horrible site uses 5 cookies, or the admin has put on multiple-retry Apache cookieing it doesn't matter if you keep on hitting cancel, cancel, cancel, because it will take lots of time for them to go away.
Any status reports on Mozilla as to whether this is possible with the latest?
I would image in the best way to go about this would to have a Linux announce page, which would have a submission form for companies or observant end-users to give their announcements to slashdot. This would be off of the main page, and once a/. moderator looked at the email acct or whatever where the submissions went to, he/she could post them on the page.
How is this accessible on the main page? A slashbox of course! Make it a default one so everyone can see what's been announced in a box on the main page.
Unix Console was released yesterday. It is not exactly what you're looking for, but if you're a Mac user setting up a Linux box it may help. Basically it allows you to use most of the monitoring/configing tools on a unix box graphically, in a nice little app. It logs you in via telnet and then sends the command line commands when you perform certain tasks. Granted, it's optimized for Solaris, but it seems to do most of the things Webmin does. (Runs on MacOS)
Win2k Professional really does need Active Directory, and hence all new Domain Controllers that run Windows 2000 if you don't want to have networking be a pain in the butt. Right now, if you are using Win2k to connect to a NT4 network, you must go through 5 sublevels in the Network Neighborhood to get to the NT4 shares. You cannot add NT4 printers either, because they are not served by a Win2k domain space. Yes, you can make shortcuts once you eventually find the NT Domain you were looking for, but it makes things more difficult when using network installs, etc.
Novell's problem will be that Active Directory can handle domain-wide auto logins, and manage disk quotas, email, and webspace all across a domain on a per-account basis. This is a boon to SysAdmins. The latest Novell can do this too I believe, but the rationale is why buy an 3rd part system to do something which is possible with the newly upgraded resources at hand? It will be an uphill battle against media hype/buzz and quick-thinking IT admins.
No matter how grandiose or miniscule a "internet plan" or "no net tax" plan may be, chances are it will not translate into anything meaningful. In the past, Congress has been the primary agitator in net related issues, not the President himself. We do tend to blame the President for signing a bill or professing to agree with a bill, but the President is usually a figurehead on these issues.
The subject of course is satirical. I think that the MPAA and the State of Connecticut should be ashamed of their usage of slippery legalese in order to further their vise-like grip on the distribution of DeCSS. Moreover, measures should be taken to clarify and minimize the open ended language of the copyright law--it is all too easy to take advantage of vague, poorly written laws. The MPAA and the RIAA have repeatedly shown their "concern", nay, paranoia, regarding online distribution of content which may infringe on exceedingly overencompassing yet incoherent copyrights.
It is clear that OSS is synonymous with Openly Satanic Sources with the MPAA and RIAA. They do not know how to reposition themselves in digital entertainment; they choose to cling to the former status quo.
What about Merced? Although Transmeta has a 128bit chip, they still emulate the x86 instructions, and are completely reliant on Intel setting standards. Suppose Intel doesn't want to let Transmeta in on a prerelease stepping of the Merced chip? Are they dooomed?
Secondly, I realize this is an interesting turn in chip development, as it is a step away from bragging about megahertz. Was 4 1/2 years too long to wait? Fud for thot
Right below you have Mozilla getting PKI source, and then you have an ex-Mozilla going to Zero Knowledge. Why is this significant? ZK is the maker of the aptly named "Freedom" (from privacy invasion) software, which acts as a very interesting model of secure internet access. White papers are here, and they've truly redefined (or is it defined) a new model for providing inet access privacy. I wonder if Mike Shaver's old ties at Netscape/AOL would help in the distribution of Freedom...
I've used a fair number of FIC motherboards in the past with several different power supplies and it should not matter. I think their reasoning on recommending power supplies is either because of special interest (paid to do so) or just out of courtesy. I would use a 250-300 watt power supply for an Athlon board, simply because the Athlon (along with the PIII) draws a lot of power, and chances are you'll add lots of drives, etc.
The next time you're at an honest to goodness brick n mortar store, take a look at the bottom of your receipt. I'd put it that 66-75% of the time your credit card number in its entirety and sometimes even your expiration date is on it. Suddenly you feel a lot worse about losing the receipt or leaving it in the bag. Oops. No one seems to care about this however, and few companies (but to those that do I applaud you) xxx out the remaining 12 digits of your card for privacy.
It is understood the hackers stole computer "source codes" that are critical to programming, and threatened to crash the entire system. -Washington Post Now that is good journalism! Don't bother explaining that "code" has two meanings in computers, and that the "source code" has nothing to do with accessing the site (unless it was broken to begin with, but...) -Hobbex
At least they didn't try to claim it was part of their "Open Source" Initiative!:) As for the vocab, I prupose putting the acroynm FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) in the dictionary.
Here's my solution to the "different email" problem.
First off, you@yahoo.com looks pretty fishy for a nice, reputable looking site. What, you mean you use a free web email account even though you have a spiffy,.com site? Here's how I'd fix it.
Option 1- Make sure your host will delegate subdomains for you at no charge. It's a piece of cake for them to do, and you're already giving them your business. Make a subdomain mail.yourdomain.com and have that point to a different mail server than your hosts'. The bad part of this is that it still will rely on your ISPs dns servers, but it won't rely on their email servers.
Option 2- Forward your emails out of their system to another account you have. paolo@ideafuture.com forwards to my regular email, so nothing sits on my host's email servers. The advantage to this is you can assign a second or third dns server to your domain and have a semblance of redundancy.
These are not foolproof suggestions by any means. The only way to have control over your site is to colocate with a good provider. Check out the company and the facilities (in person) beforehand. Office.com has a nice service when you sign up where you can look up company information based on name, city, and state. There are quite a few webhosting-type businesses in there. Also, I know someone who has had excellent reliability with colocatiing at Verio, on a Linux box no less. 255 days of uptime and counting, and pretty good rates.
Yay for id, for not barring the release of the SDK because of their problem with the "cheat" mods in the Q1 source. It is inevitable, however, that someone out there will code-in cheats and the like but at least a lot more good will be done than bad from this release!
The New York Times Circuts section carried an article on this very matter as well. It would surprise some people what length advertisers go to in order to make sure their message is being heard. There was once a man interviewed on ABC News whose job is to count up every single ad visible in every second of NASCAR televised racing, along with the duration of visible time. He then punches this in a spreadsheet and uses calculations to both valuate and evaluate the money worth of each ad spot.
Now advertisers will be pissed because there is no more garuntee that they will be seen on television. Technically the networks have a right to broadcast what they want, but it perturbs me to realize that networks will go to lenghts to block competitor's advertisements, but still interrupt broadcasts with sensational journalism, like the OJ "getaway" and planes landing on freeways.
"It seems a bustling, crowded public area in a public library, in front of a big window facing a busy street, is not an environment where people commonly go to look at porn"
Evidently Rob&co haven't read some stories from large universities. I will keep one such large university anonymous, but I will say that there have been repeated incidents in public computing clusters on campus. Voyeurs, exhibitionists, and perverts have harrassed students in the computing clusters. Are they staffed 24/7? Yes. Are they limited to university access? Yes. However, that doesn't stop some of these people.
Do I condone censorship in any way? No, however just because things are monitored doesn't mean things can't happen.
Well it pains me to say this but yes, in fact, before the expo (by a few weeks) I stopped by LinuxOne's website and they had announced a Mac port of their software. (Their being the key word). This was in mid-December. Now, checking their site, I see that it is still advertised though now they may actually have a product thanks to your generosity:/. LinuxOne's LinuxMac product page
I still think this is doomed for those of us with glasses sans contacts. It doesn't look like it'll fit over glasses, and I'm sure it would be mighty uncomfortable if they did. I also have reservations about having my monitor any closer to me than it is, for fear of having it fused to me;)
I've noticed you've based much of your product line on Intel-made motherboards. Is there any plan for producing your own motherboards, which might net greater long term profit margins, or is that too much to delve into?
should probably contact BizRate and CDUniverse itself to express your concern. I'm not sure whether I was more disturbed by the fact that the cards were stolen and customers were not notified immediately, or the fact that CDUniverse was about to pay the thief without contacting authorities.
I'd argue that gamers aren't the only ones interested in having a better TCP stack, but how about sysadmin's and anyone using the net with Linux. This would also have some interesting implications not only with Microsoft, but say, Apple, in that both vendors would be challenged to improve TCP/IP performance in order to keep pace with Linux. I'm sure the job will be easier for Apple with OS X, since it's based on BSD.
The one I work for was kind enough to have a few programmers availible by beeper on New Year's Eve. Surprise! They still got to enjoy whatever they were doing away from work. Paranoia fuels heirarchial orders it seems...
Woah woah woah, "not everybody can afford a backup generator"? If your ISP or the place where you stash your webservers don't have a UPS (battery powered uninteruptable power supply--APC is the best) then you shouldn't be hosting there. UPSes can be bought for $1-2000, as well as reasonably sized generators I might add, and if your business can't spend that as a necessary cost then it will not last long. If you find yourself needing a generator more than once every two months, you need to move locations.
I hate to preach, but in critical situations there are essentials like automated backups, virus checkings, and stable®ulated power. If you have not enough money to have a T1 but more money than $20/month for hosting, consider colocation. This is a safer alternative because you can inspect the facilities in person before you sign up or get into contracts. Buyer beware
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The best quote from the article:
"A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures"
Try navigating a website with only symbols, or button bars with no rollovers. It is the epitome of my UI frustration experiences. This is bothersome in Solaris, and possibly in Aqua under OS X, although I'm sure their designers will put a little more thought into symbols than Microsoft did/does.
Did you know that Apple had an icon editor (that's a person, not an app) working on the Macintosh project? Those nice, standard symbols on the back of your Mac, and sometimes other computers, were thought up by someone carefully.
If KDE/GNOME people aren't interested in hacking the GUI, someone else will. Case in point, Kaleidoscope, a program that completely changes the current UI, written by 2 guys in their spare time.When there is a will, there is a way.
What Mozilla needs is what a little 3rd party MacOS browser upstart iCab has: the ability to ask before accepting cookies, and refuse all cookies from that domain from that point on. It is a lot more useful, because if some horrible site uses 5 cookies, or the admin has put on multiple-retry Apache cookieing it doesn't matter if you keep on hitting cancel, cancel, cancel, because it will take lots of time for them to go away.
Any status reports on Mozilla as to whether this is possible with the latest?
I would image in the best way to go about this would to have a Linux announce page, which would have a submission form for companies or observant end-users to give their announcements to slashdot. This would be off of the main page, and once a /. moderator looked at the email acct or whatever where the submissions went to, he/she could post them on the page.
How is this accessible on the main page? A slashbox of course! Make it a default one so everyone can see what's been announced in a box on the main page.
Unix Console was released yesterday. It is not exactly what you're looking for, but if you're a Mac user setting up a Linux box it may help. Basically it allows you to use most of the monitoring/configing tools on a unix box graphically, in a nice little app. It logs you in via telnet and then sends the command line commands when you perform certain tasks. Granted, it's optimized for Solaris, but it seems to do most of the things Webmin does.
(Runs on MacOS)
Right now, if you are using Win2k to connect to a NT4 network, you must go through 5 sublevels in the Network Neighborhood to get to the NT4 shares. You cannot add NT4 printers either, because they are not served by a Win2k domain space. Yes, you can make shortcuts once you eventually find the NT Domain you were looking for, but it makes things more difficult when using network installs, etc.
Novell's problem will be that Active Directory can handle domain-wide auto logins, and manage disk quotas, email, and webspace all across a domain on a per-account basis. This is a boon to SysAdmins. The latest Novell can do this too I believe, but the rationale is why buy an 3rd part system to do something which is possible with the newly upgraded resources at hand? It will be an uphill battle against media hype/buzz and quick-thinking IT admins.
Nirvana ;-)
Smells like Teen Spirit
...into one big Official Entertainment Industry Lawsuit of 2000 case. Then we can take away all the miscreant technologies with one foul swoop!
If only old media could adapt to new media--
No matter how grandiose or miniscule a "internet plan" or "no net tax" plan may be, chances are it will not translate into anything meaningful. In the past, Congress has been the primary agitator in net related issues, not the President himself. We do tend to blame the President for signing a bill or professing to agree with a bill, but the President is usually a figurehead on these issues.
The subject of course is satirical. I think that the MPAA and the State of Connecticut should be ashamed of their usage of slippery legalese in order to further their vise-like grip on the distribution of DeCSS. Moreover, measures should be taken to clarify and minimize the open ended language of the copyright law--it is all too easy to take advantage of vague, poorly written laws. The MPAA and the RIAA have repeatedly shown their "concern", nay, paranoia, regarding online distribution of content which may infringe on exceedingly overencompassing yet incoherent copyrights.
It is clear that OSS is synonymous with Openly Satanic Sources with the MPAA and RIAA. They do not know how to reposition themselves in digital entertainment; they choose to cling to the former status quo.
OK, here's two pessemistic questions I have--
What about Merced? Although Transmeta has a 128bit chip, they still emulate the x86 instructions, and are completely reliant on Intel setting standards. Suppose Intel doesn't want to let Transmeta in on a prerelease stepping of the Merced chip? Are they dooomed?
Secondly, I realize this is an interesting turn in chip development, as it is a step away from bragging about megahertz. Was 4 1/2 years too long to wait?
Fud for thot
Right below you have Mozilla getting PKI source, and then you have an ex-Mozilla going to Zero Knowledge. Why is this significant? ZK is the maker of the aptly named "Freedom" (from privacy invasion) software, which acts as a very interesting model of secure internet access. White papers are here, and they've truly redefined (or is it defined) a new model for providing inet access privacy. I wonder if Mike Shaver's old ties at Netscape/AOL would help in the distribution of Freedom...
I've used a fair number of FIC motherboards in the past with several different power supplies and it should not matter. I think their reasoning on recommending power supplies is either because of special interest (paid to do so) or just out of courtesy. I would use a 250-300 watt power supply for an Athlon board, simply because the Athlon (along with the PIII) draws a lot of power, and chances are you'll add lots of drives, etc.
The next time you're at an honest to goodness brick n mortar store, take a look at the bottom of your receipt. I'd put it that 66-75% of the time your credit card number in its entirety and sometimes even your expiration date is on it. Suddenly you feel a lot worse about losing the receipt or leaving it in the bag. Oops. No one seems to care about this however, and few companies (but to those that do I applaud you) xxx out the remaining 12 digits of your card for privacy.
Nothing new at all.
It is understood the hackers stole computer "source codes" that are critical to programming, and threatened to crash the entire system.
:)
-Washington Post
Now that is good journalism! Don't bother explaining that "code" has two meanings in computers, and that the "source code" has nothing to do with accessing the site (unless it was broken to begin with, but...)
-Hobbex
At least they didn't try to claim it was part of their "Open Source" Initiative!
As for the vocab, I prupose putting the acroynm FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) in the dictionary.
Here's my solution to the "different email" problem.
.com site? Here's how I'd fix it.
First off, you@yahoo.com looks pretty fishy for a nice, reputable looking site. What, you mean you use a free web email account even though you have a spiffy,
Option 1- Make sure your host will delegate subdomains for you at no charge. It's a piece of cake for them to do, and you're already giving them your business. Make a subdomain mail.yourdomain.com and have that point to a different mail server than your hosts'. The bad part of this is that it still will rely on your ISPs dns servers, but it won't rely on their email servers.
Option 2- Forward your emails out of their system to another account you have. paolo@ideafuture.com forwards to my regular email, so nothing sits on my host's email servers. The advantage to this is you can assign a second or third dns server to your domain and have a semblance of redundancy.
These are not foolproof suggestions by any means. The only way to have control over your site is to colocate with a good provider. Check out the company and the facilities (in person) beforehand. Office.com has a nice service when you sign up where you can look up company information based on name, city, and state. There are quite a few webhosting-type businesses in there. Also, I know someone who has had excellent reliability with colocatiing at Verio, on a Linux box no less. 255 days of uptime and counting, and pretty good rates.
Yay for id, for not barring the release of the SDK because of their problem with the "cheat" mods in the Q1 source. It is inevitable, however, that someone out there will code-in cheats and the like but at least a lot more good will be done than bad from this release!
The New York Times Circuts section carried an article on this very matter as well. It would surprise some people what length advertisers go to in order to make sure their message is being heard. There was once a man interviewed on ABC News whose job is to count up every single ad visible in every second of NASCAR televised racing, along with the duration of visible time. He then punches this in a spreadsheet and uses calculations to both valuate and evaluate the money worth of each ad spot.
Now advertisers will be pissed because there is no more garuntee that they will be seen on television. Technically the networks have a right to broadcast what they want, but it perturbs me to realize that networks will go to lenghts to block competitor's advertisements, but still interrupt broadcasts with sensational journalism, like the OJ "getaway" and planes landing on freeways.
"It seems a bustling, crowded public area in a public library, in front of a big window facing a busy street, is not an environment where people commonly go to look at porn"
Evidently Rob&co haven't read some stories from large universities. I will keep one such large university anonymous, but I will say that there have been repeated incidents in public computing clusters on campus. Voyeurs, exhibitionists, and perverts have harrassed students in the computing clusters. Are they staffed 24/7? Yes. Are they limited to university access? Yes. However, that doesn't stop some of these people.
Do I condone censorship in any way? No, however just because things are monitored doesn't mean things can't happen.
Well it pains me to say this but yes, in fact, before the expo (by a few weeks) I stopped by LinuxOne's website and they had announced a Mac port of their software. (Their being the key word). This was in mid-December. Now, checking their site, I see that it is still advertised though now they may actually have a product thanks to your generosity :/. LinuxOne's LinuxMac product page
I still think this is doomed for those of us with glasses sans contacts. It doesn't look like it'll fit over glasses, and I'm sure it would be mighty uncomfortable if they did. I also have reservations about having my monitor any closer to me than it is, for fear of having it fused to me ;)
I've noticed you've based much of your product line on Intel-made motherboards. Is there any plan for producing your own motherboards, which might net greater long term profit margins, or is that too much to delve into?
should probably contact BizRate and CDUniverse itself to express your concern. I'm not sure whether I was more disturbed by the fact that the cards were stolen and customers were not notified immediately, or the fact that CDUniverse was about to pay the thief without contacting authorities.
I'd argue that gamers aren't the only ones interested in having a better TCP stack, but how about sysadmin's and anyone using the net with Linux. This would also have some interesting implications not only with Microsoft, but say, Apple, in that both vendors would be challenged to improve TCP/IP performance in order to keep pace with Linux. I'm sure the job will be easier for Apple with OS X, since it's based on BSD.
The one I work for was kind enough to have a few programmers availible by beeper on New Year's Eve. Surprise! They still got to enjoy whatever they were doing away from work. Paranoia fuels heirarchial orders it seems...
Woah woah woah, "not everybody can afford a backup generator"? If your ISP or the place where you stash your webservers don't have a UPS (battery powered uninteruptable power supply--APC is the best) then you shouldn't be hosting there. UPSes can be bought for $1-2000, as well as reasonably sized generators I might add, and if your business can't spend that as a necessary cost then it will not last long. If you find yourself needing a generator more than once every two months, you need to move locations.
I hate to preach, but in critical situations there are essentials like automated backups, virus checkings, and stable®ulated power. If you have not enough money to have a T1 but more money than $20/month for hosting, consider colocation. This is a safer alternative because you can inspect the facilities in person before you sign up or get into contracts. Buyer beware