they are all the same (i.e. invisible) to the end user, who doesn't even want to know about IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. "google.com" gets him where he wants to go, and everything else is implementation details.
Untrue. When, to take a random example, Blizzard has to walk end-users through setting up portforwarding on their routers for the WoW updater, the hack that is NAT is being inconvenient and very visible. I don't know about corporate networks, I suppose it might be okay to have your network cut off from targetted inbound connections, but NAT in a home network is a bother for all kinds of p2p traffic. Torrents, skype, messaging all require quite a bit more set-up than "google.com"
But if you don't upgrade, you're a dinosaur! You wouldn't want to be a dinosaur, now would you? Dinosaurs are reptiles! They are oooooold! Don't be a dinosaur! Upgrade today!
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We really should send down some breeders.. - I've read that in scandinavia, some 5% or 10% of the population are immune to HIV (the black plague ravaged pretty hard there.) With people dying in droves down there because of AIDS, the mutation should propagate quickly enough... Are there ethical issues with sending carriers of beneficial mutations to knock up women in areas where the mutations would be useful?
Well, though they likely didn't have as much sulphuric acid in their rainwater as we have today, natural water still is slightly acidic because it reacts with CO2 in the air. Furthermore, running water would tear more on the pipes than storing it still in barrels.
I should be much suprised if missile ballistics even accounted for the gravity pull of the moon. Navigating around celestial bodies is a completely unrelated task, bar the fact that they both involve math. I should guess the reason the exact mathemathics involved is hard to come by is that it is utterly useless for just about everyone, save the people who actually send these things up
OT, but I am curious, why Slackware? I am quite fond of Slackware myself, but it doesn't strike me as an OS for someone with no *nix experience, other than to learn how Linux works at system level. Some experience needed to set it up, install and upgrade drivers and applications, etc...
Nooo! You ruined it! They were supposed to find that by following the chain of open proxies. Now we'll have all the newbies swarming the BBS in no time. Like it wasn't getting hard enough to grab a free line already.
Well, whatever works, of course. Strange, though, all shortcuts are working for me. I basically used 'load from existing keyboard' when the hacked DLL was loaded, and as far as I can determine, I get the exact same functionality.
Well, as you say, your parent posted (seemingly)seriously about how horrible Windows was based on his experience with ME. Can't set the bar too low around here.:P Meh, you just got slightly too subtle for me this early in the morning. Still, I were more interested in the other issues. How do you show a webserver 'in action?' 'As you can see here, this IIS server has 25% more blinkenlights than this corresponding apache server running on Linux.'
QWERTY isn't really that biased towards any specific language... It's biased towards typewriters, which is rather silly these days. Still, at least the alternating vowel, consonant thing in Dvorak should benefit most languages. If you're speaking one of those weird ten-lines-of consonant-languages, you probably will need a special keyboard, anyway.
You may be interested in Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. With it, you can create a separate layout dll, so you don't have to replace the system file. (Though I replaced kbddv.dll, then loaded the layout from there to save as a separate file, and then restored kbddv.dll from the backup.) Okay, it's a bit of a bother, but you end up with an install file that you can use on several XP/2k systems, without messing with auto restore.
So you are comparing Windows XP with an 10 years old Linux distribution? Not that the technical nature of the installation matters in this context, it looks like they were targeting sysadmins. Which is kind of strange. How do you "see the Apache Web server in action"? And where does KDE enter into any serious administration?
Thing is, if you go back in time and shag, lets say your mother for simplicity, then for you to father yourself, your child would need to be genetically identical to you. Which is a biological impossibility(or rather, improbability.) So it is not a closed loop, since you do not end up with things being as they were.
You are defining "Linux user" as "people who use Linux". I'm not.
He isn't defining it then, he is using it as commonly defined. May I suggest coining your own terms for the subjects you refer to, rather than redefining Common English?
Hm, good point. It would be trivial, devastating and fun to set two counterattacking systems against eachother. Small vs. small, big vs. big or big vs. small, depending on the desired effect.
* Which other browsers expose just their rendering engine as an embeddable module ?
That's some of the point. Why shouldn't any rendering engine be able to be plugged in when an application wants to render HTML? If they want to have such file rendering in the OS, it should be easily provided by any installed browser, instead of all applications expecting and spesifically calling IE. The way it is now, any application that wants to show web content as some minor feature, uses IE, and is therefore a security risk. Meh, may be hard to do right, but good system design never hurts.
Wuh? That would be the job of the help system itself, it should just hand the rendering engine the necessary HTML+Pics. And how is the anchor links not 'granular' enough? I can hardly see the need to target any finer features than single lines of text.
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Untrue. When, to take a random example, Blizzard has to walk end-users through setting up portforwarding on their routers for the WoW updater, the hack that is NAT is being inconvenient and very visible.
I don't know about corporate networks, I suppose it might be okay to have your network cut off from targetted inbound connections, but NAT in a home network is a bother for all kinds of p2p traffic. Torrents, skype, messaging all require quite a bit more set-up than "google.com"
I read it as 'Nigeria', but were sadly unable to come up with a decent 419 joke.
But if you don't upgrade, you're a dinosaur!
You wouldn't want to be a dinosaur, now would you?
Dinosaurs are reptiles! They are oooooold!
Don't be a dinosaur! Upgrade today!
* This message brough to you by Corporations Against Intelligent Design
We really should send down some breeders.. - I've read that in scandinavia, some 5% or 10% of the population are immune to HIV (the black plague ravaged pretty hard there.)
With people dying in droves down there because of AIDS, the mutation should propagate quickly enough...
Are there ethical issues with sending carriers of beneficial mutations to knock up women in areas where the mutations would be useful?
Well, though they likely didn't have as much sulphuric acid in their rainwater as we have today, natural water still is slightly acidic because it reacts with CO2 in the air. Furthermore, running water would tear more on the pipes than storing it still in barrels.
No, that would make Slashdot a "wanker party."
Purely platonic, of course...
I should be much suprised if missile ballistics even accounted for the gravity pull of the moon. Navigating around celestial bodies is a completely unrelated task, bar the fact that they both involve math.
I should guess the reason the exact mathemathics involved is hard to come by is that it is utterly useless for just about everyone, save the people who actually send these things up
OT, but I am curious, why Slackware?
I am quite fond of Slackware myself, but it doesn't strike me as an OS for someone with no *nix experience, other than to learn how Linux works at system level. Some experience needed to set it up, install and upgrade drivers and applications, etc...
Nooo! You ruined it! They were supposed to find that by following the chain of open proxies.
Now we'll have all the newbies swarming the BBS in no time. Like it wasn't getting hard enough to grab a free line already.
Apple is hardly one to be concerned about anti-competive practices...
Well, whatever works, of course.
Strange, though, all shortcuts are working for me.
I basically used 'load from existing keyboard' when the hacked DLL was loaded, and as far as I can determine, I get the exact same functionality.
Well, as you say, your parent posted (seemingly)seriously about how horrible Windows was based on his experience with ME. Can't set the bar too low around here. :P
Meh, you just got slightly too subtle for me this early in the morning.
Still, I were more interested in the other issues. How do you show a webserver 'in action?'
'As you can see here, this IIS server has 25% more blinkenlights than this corresponding apache server running on Linux.'
QWERTY isn't really that biased towards any specific language... It's biased towards typewriters, which is rather silly these days.
Still, at least the alternating vowel, consonant thing in Dvorak should benefit most languages.
If you're speaking one of those weird ten-lines-of consonant-languages, you probably will need a special keyboard, anyway.
You may be interested in Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
With it, you can create a separate layout dll, so you don't have to replace the system file. (Though I replaced kbddv.dll, then loaded the layout from there to save as a separate file, and then restored kbddv.dll from the backup.)
Okay, it's a bit of a bother, but you end up with an install file that you can use on several XP/2k systems, without messing with auto restore.
Presumably you were expected to IM him/her?
So you are comparing Windows XP with an 10 years old Linux distribution?
Not that the technical nature of the installation matters in this context, it looks like they were targeting sysadmins.
Which is kind of strange. How do you "see the Apache Web server in action"?
And where does KDE enter into any serious administration?
People would be willing to pay a *lot* of money for food, if there was a monopoly on it. That doesn't mean that it should cost that much.
Thing is, if you go back in time and shag, lets say your mother for simplicity, then for you to father yourself, your child would need to be genetically identical to you. Which is a biological impossibility(or rather, improbability.)
So it is not a closed loop, since you do not end up with things being as they were.
You are defining "Linux user" as "people who use Linux". I'm not.
He isn't defining it then, he is using it as commonly defined. May I suggest coining your own terms for the subjects you refer to, rather than redefining Common English?
They are obviously using smart filtering for profanity, and misflagged 'freedom' as a reference to free software.
Hm, good point. It would be trivial, devastating and fun to set two counterattacking systems against eachother. Small vs. small, big vs. big or big vs. small, depending on the desired effect.
Heh, point your DN at a government website for a few hours?
* Which other browsers expose just their rendering engine as an embeddable module ?
That's some of the point. Why shouldn't any rendering engine be able to be plugged in when an application wants to render HTML? If they want to have such file rendering in the OS, it should be easily provided by any installed browser, instead of all applications expecting and spesifically calling IE. The way it is now, any application that wants to show web content as some minor feature, uses IE, and is therefore a security risk. Meh, may be hard to do right, but good system design never hurts.
Wuh? That would be the job of the help system itself, it should just hand the rendering engine the necessary HTML+Pics. And how is the anchor links not 'granular' enough? I can hardly see the need to target any finer features than single lines of text.
Bleh. It also looks and operates horribly, on my winbox at least. Media Player Classic is a much smoother ride.