Verisign doesn't have a perpetual contract on the com/net gTLDs. Their contract on.net expires in 2005 and.com expires in 2007. The already lost.org to PIR last year, so it is plausible that they may lose.com and/or.net as well.
However, be careful what you ask for. PIR has proven themselves to be even more incompetant than Verisign. It was nice to see them move to EPP, but if they had messed up a.com transition as much as they messed up the.org transition you'd have been crying on your knees to bring Verisign back.
Well I wouldn't want even *one* email, as I don't care about their election and I can't vote anyhow: I'm a Canadian living in Canada. How will these candidates ensure that they will be sending their "one" email only to American voters and not the rest of the world?
That was interesting to read. It made me wonder who the people are who come up with these exploits. This person is obviously very immature, but also very knowlegable about programming to spot something so quickly in so much code. The question is, is this a ridiculously knowledgable 13 year old, or a well-seasoned older programmer who has the social skills of a 13 year old?
Sure, but many times it's the engineers/programmers who are involved in the time estimates in the first place. If marketing arbitrarily chooses a date, sure it's not the engineer's fault, but in my experience it's the engineers themselves that quote the 'one week at $100' figure.
That's not a P2P service, obviously, but from the ISPs own newservers. So wouldnt the ISP make a better target?
I've always wondered about Usenet and ISPs. On a related note: anybody who has casually surfed the alt.binaries.pictures heirarchy know there's a ton of porn on there. There simply has to be child porn in there somewhere, you'd think. Is the ISP not considered responsible (legally) for this content, or is it just obscure enough that it's never been dragged through the courts?
Not at all! Bram has invented a very cool and very marketable technology for downloads! Why isn't he banging on the doors of game and software download sites that have wildly popular files when new demos, patches, or other software is downloaded? Or Microsoft? Or any other company that needs to distribute large files quickly that aren't immediately obvious?
Sure, not everybody wants to be a consultant, but the fact is he didn't even so much as try. Fuck. It's like he's got a backyard full of burried cash but is too lazy to dig it up so he's begging on the street.
Are you sure it's not related to an oft-heard comment from psychonaughts? Specifically: "I took (insert hallucinogenic drug name) and I swear I knew the meaning of life and completely understood the universe! I wrote the whole thing down but unfortunately I can't understand what I wrote."
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The Application Menu!? Come ON. When I first started using the Mac OS (OS 8) it took me FOREVER to figure out where to stick stuff so it appears in the apple menu. It makes absolutely no sense to climb into the System folder just to add an application shortcut.
The Dock may not be perfect, but it's a hell of an improvement. Drag and drop. Plus the finder has the Applications button always visible by default (even better with the Panther sidebar) so it's easy to get to non-dock applications. This makes SO much more sense than the application menu.
Tog's got some great points, but a lot of his complaints these days have been more "greybeard" than objective.
Why not use KNOPPIX then? It's great at hardware detection, and if you install it on the HD it's basically a Debian "unstable" system, but with all your hardware configured for you!
They're helping because they want to push WMA to as many services as possible. They don't care who wins, just as long as the winner is using their DRM.
Also, Microsoft has never been a company that jumps into an emerging market. Their behaviour is down to a science:
1) wait for an emerging market to mature and for the major players to drift up to the top 2) offer to buy the largest player at slightly less than they're worth 3) if they refuse, put hundreds of millions of dollars into developing a competing service or product.
They did it with browsers, game consoles, webmail, you name it. Microsoft will do what they do best -- sit back and wait and then throw their money at the best bet. They call this "innovation."
True, the effect on CD sales is irrelevant. But I think a lot of people here are arguing that when suddenly "recorded music" can be copied millions of times by a 6 year old as easily as it can be copied once perhaps it's time to take a serious look at copyright and distribution-related laws that are based upon "recorded music" only existing on limited physical media.
I spend close to most of my day "in my inbox" at work. I work for an Internet-related company and a lot of the correspondence I have with customers and even developers is done through email. I have junk mail filters, and a slew of mail rules that keep various mail filed where it should be, but it's still hard to keep up with it all and get things put in the right place.
Also, because so much (legitimate) stuff gets sent by email at my company, I often need to search the email archive to find the information I need. This can be a good thing, but email needs better categorization and seach capabilities. Sometimes what I think I need is an email program that works off of a database. Does such a thing exist for Linux?
Sadly this has existed for years but nobody uses it. It's in RFC 2822. Apple's Mail.app does seem to thread using the message IDs, but if there is no message ID (or it's wrong) then it has to guess based on subject. All in all though it has better thread-grouping than I've seen in Thunderbird or KMail.
Unfortunately it's not that easy. The XP/2000 version of NetMeeting does not play nice with firewalls and is quite difficult for novices to get up and running correctly. After trying this with some family members (me saying "Just use NetMeeting! It's already there!"), and having them stumble with it, the response was the same in every case: "Why don't you just install MSN 6? It's great and it's free!"
Is there any way of videoconferencing, on Linux or Mac OS X, with people using MSN 6? I looked for this about six month ago but didn't have any luck. GnomeMeeting works fine for NetMeeting, but if it can't support MSN Messenger videoconferencing it's not of too much use for individuals, unfortunately. *sigh*
The whole thing is ridiculous on so many levels. $5 million for a "rewards program" to Microsoft is about equivalent to me spending $30 on a haircut. In either case it's an example of spending a marginally more money in the hopes of looking good without actually changing anything.
Did I misunderstand? I thought the point of Gentoo was that everything was cutting edge and up to date?
Well there is a KDE CVS version in portage, but I'd rather go with beta "release" as I've had the CVS version break on me.
Can't you just download the sources and the old ebuild files and rebuild? Or is there more magic involved?
More or less, but I can't really use the KDE 3.1 ebuilds as building 3.2 is different enough to be a pain in the ass. Which is why it would be nice if somebody else had already done the work and has an ebuild available. And that's why I was asking:)
However, I also must say that I still have no idea why Apple is sticking with the "one button mouse" thing. I mean, no scroll-wheel even. Is there anyone on the planet who doesn't immediately throw away the one-button mouse that comes with their new Mac?
I used to think the same thing, but now I'm a one-button mouse convert. I bought a PowerBook, and used my Logitech 4-button mouse for a while with it, but recently I picked up Apple's Bluetooth one-button for a few reasons: Mac OS X is built to work just fine with a one-button mouse, it's more comfortable on the hand, and my finger would always cramp up when raising it in the convoluted way necessary to move a scroll wheel. The one button mouse is much more comfortable, and for scrolling I use uControl to allow me to scroll with the mouse by holding down the PowerBook's "Fn" key.
After using the one-button mouse for a while I realize the idea of adding as many buttons as possible is a ticket to repetitive strain injuries, and a one-button mouse (especially the new apple ones) really is a great idea!
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Perhaps because the majority of the English-speaking world calls them "mobile" phones? Only Americans call them "cell" phones.
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a perpetual contract
Verisign doesn't have a perpetual contract on the com/net gTLDs. Their contract on .net expires in 2005 and .com expires in 2007. The already lost .org to PIR last year, so it is plausible that they may lose .com and/or .net as well.
However, be careful what you ask for. PIR has proven themselves to be even more incompetant than Verisign. It was nice to see them move to EPP, but if they had messed up a .com transition as much as they messed up the .org transition you'd have been crying on your knees to bring Verisign back.
Regardless, SiteFinder still stinks.
Well I wouldn't want even *one* email, as I don't care about their election and I can't vote anyhow: I'm a Canadian living in Canada. How will these candidates ensure that they will be sending their "one" email only to American voters and not the rest of the world?
Completely off-topic, but "their" is not a singular pronoun. The proper singular pronoun, when sex is unknown, is "he." That's why I said "he."
That was interesting to read. It made me wonder who the people are who come up with these exploits. This person is obviously very immature, but also very knowlegable about programming to spot something so quickly in so much code. The question is, is this a ridiculously knowledgable 13 year old, or a well-seasoned older programmer who has the social skills of a 13 year old?
Sure, but many times it's the engineers/programmers who are involved in the time estimates in the first place. If marketing arbitrarily chooses a date, sure it's not the engineer's fault, but in my experience it's the engineers themselves that quote the 'one week at $100' figure.
That's not a P2P service, obviously, but from the ISPs own newservers. So wouldnt the ISP make a better target?
I've always wondered about Usenet and ISPs. On a related note: anybody who has casually surfed the alt.binaries.pictures heirarchy know there's a ton of porn on there. There simply has to be child porn in there somewhere, you'd think. Is the ISP not considered responsible (legally) for this content, or is it just obscure enough that it's never been dragged through the courts?
Unfortunately it's the New York Times, which requires free registration, so nobody on slashdot read it. :)
Not at all! Bram has invented a very cool and very marketable technology for downloads! Why isn't he banging on the doors of game and software download sites that have wildly popular files when new demos, patches, or other software is downloaded? Or Microsoft? Or any other company that needs to distribute large files quickly that aren't immediately obvious?
Sure, not everybody wants to be a consultant, but the fact is he didn't even so much as try. Fuck. It's like he's got a backyard full of burried cash but is too lazy to dig it up so he's begging on the street.
Does anybody have a mirror for the button logos? It looks like mozilla.org is taking a beating!
Are you sure it's not related to an oft-heard comment from psychonaughts? Specifically: "I took (insert hallucinogenic drug name) and I swear I knew the meaning of life and completely understood the universe! I wrote the whole thing down but unfortunately I can't understand what I wrote."
The Application Menu!? Come ON. When I first started using the Mac OS (OS 8) it took me FOREVER to figure out where to stick stuff so it appears in the apple menu. It makes absolutely no sense to climb into the System folder just to add an application shortcut.
The Dock may not be perfect, but it's a hell of an improvement. Drag and drop. Plus the finder has the Applications button always visible by default (even better with the Panther sidebar) so it's easy to get to non-dock applications. This makes SO much more sense than the application menu.
Tog's got some great points, but a lot of his complaints these days have been more "greybeard" than objective.
Why not use KNOPPIX then? It's great at hardware detection, and if you install it on the HD it's basically a Debian "unstable" system, but with all your hardware configured for you!
I just tried it on the Mac OS X version of Photoshop CS and it opened just fine. Strange!
Isn't this the truth! If you need any proof of this just look at the number of religious people in America. What a sad state.
They're helping because they want to push WMA to as many services as possible. They don't care who wins, just as long as the winner is using their DRM.
Also, Microsoft has never been a company that jumps into an emerging market. Their behaviour is down to a science:
1) wait for an emerging market to mature and for the major players to drift up to the top
2) offer to buy the largest player at slightly less than they're worth
3) if they refuse, put hundreds of millions of dollars into developing a competing service or product.
They did it with browsers, game consoles, webmail, you name it. Microsoft will do what they do best -- sit back and wait and then throw their money at the best bet. They call this "innovation."
True, the effect on CD sales is irrelevant. But I think a lot of people here are arguing that when suddenly "recorded music" can be copied millions of times by a 6 year old as easily as it can be copied once perhaps it's time to take a serious look at copyright and distribution-related laws that are based upon "recorded music" only existing on limited physical media.
I spend close to most of my day "in my inbox" at work. I work for an Internet-related company and a lot of the correspondence I have with customers and even developers is done through email. I have junk mail filters, and a slew of mail rules that keep various mail filed where it should be, but it's still hard to keep up with it all and get things put in the right place.
Also, because so much (legitimate) stuff gets sent by email at my company, I often need to search the email archive to find the information I need. This can be a good thing, but email needs better categorization and seach capabilities. Sometimes what I think I need is an email program that works off of a database. Does such a thing exist for Linux?
Sadly this has existed for years but nobody uses it. It's in RFC 2822. Apple's Mail.app does seem to thread using the message IDs, but if there is no message ID (or it's wrong) then it has to guess based on subject. All in all though it has better thread-grouping than I've seen in Thunderbird or KMail.
Unfortunately it's not that easy. The XP/2000 version of NetMeeting does not play nice with firewalls and is quite difficult for novices to get up and running correctly. After trying this with some family members (me saying "Just use NetMeeting! It's already there!"), and having them stumble with it, the response was the same in every case: "Why don't you just install MSN 6? It's great and it's free!"
Is there any way of videoconferencing, on Linux or Mac OS X, with people using MSN 6? I looked for this about six month ago but didn't have any luck. GnomeMeeting works fine for NetMeeting, but if it can't support MSN Messenger videoconferencing it's not of too much use for individuals, unfortunately. *sigh*
The whole thing is ridiculous on so many levels. $5 million for a "rewards program" to Microsoft is about equivalent to me spending $30 on a haircut. In either case it's an example of spending a marginally more money in the hopes of looking good without actually changing anything.
Did I misunderstand? I thought the point of Gentoo was that everything was cutting edge and up to date?
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Well there is a KDE CVS version in portage, but I'd rather go with beta "release" as I've had the CVS version break on me.
Can't you just download the sources and the old ebuild files and rebuild? Or is there more magic involved?
More or less, but I can't really use the KDE 3.1 ebuilds as building 3.2 is different enough to be a pain in the ass. Which is why it would be nice if somebody else had already done the work and has an ebuild available. And that's why I was asking
I don't suppose anybody around here has a Gentoo ebuild of 3.2b? :)
However, I also must say that I still have no idea why Apple is sticking with the "one button mouse" thing. I mean, no scroll-wheel even. Is there anyone on the planet who doesn't immediately throw away the one-button mouse that comes with their new Mac?
I used to think the same thing, but now I'm a one-button mouse convert. I bought a PowerBook, and used my Logitech 4-button mouse for a while with it, but recently I picked up Apple's Bluetooth one-button for a few reasons: Mac OS X is built to work just fine with a one-button mouse, it's more comfortable on the hand, and my finger would always cramp up when raising it in the convoluted way necessary to move a scroll wheel. The one button mouse is much more comfortable, and for scrolling I use uControl to allow me to scroll with the mouse by holding down the PowerBook's "Fn" key.
After using the one-button mouse for a while I realize the idea of adding as many buttons as possible is a ticket to repetitive strain injuries, and a one-button mouse (especially the new apple ones) really is a great idea!