I hear using Gentoo would would help reduce the stress you are apparently suffering from. Gentoo also cures headaches, purifies water, makes a great floor polish and desert topping. I added a quart of Gentoo to my car, drained the oil, and have been driving it for nearly a million miles. Recent scientific studies indicate that Gentoo cures cancer , brings the dead back to life, and adds spice to any decor.
Try Gentoo... it's not just for Gentoo zealots any more.
In keeping with the Bill Gates as Borg theme, maybe Slashdot could create an icon to represent SCO of a Borg Sphere colored like the current Caldera icon.
What if Southwest ALSO offered a third service where you could get your tickets by traversing an obstacle course. Does that mean fat lazy people like me could sue?
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Wow. It looks like a lot of people can't stand PayPal. Thank you for that informative list of links. Before this, I was unaware of just how bad PayPal was. I never figured people would be so upset as to set up anti PayPal sites.
Actually 300bps was 30cps. You have 8-N-1 correct, but you forgot the start and stop bits, so it actually took 10 bits per character.
Modems stopped using start/stop bits sometime around 14.4 bps I think.
It wasn't the modems that used start/stop bits, it was the term/BBS software. The most common configuration was F-N-8-1 (Full Duplex, No Parity Bits, 8 Bit characters, 1 Stop bit). This was often combined with X-On/X-Off software flow control - adding more overhead.
10 bits per character is actually a reasonable estimate though. A 2400 bps modem often had a throughput of about 240 chars/s
It wasn't the modem the typists were waiting on, it was that line noise.
When you buy a house, you know for a FACT that glass will break when hit with a hammer.
The people who buy MS products THINK they're getting something secure, since it's one of the many buzzwords (READ: lies) that MS always uses.
Many people look to buy house in a "safe" neighborhood. Most people want cars with a good "safty rating". People install alarm systems in their homes and cars to make them "safer".
You know what... none of that works either. Determined people will always find a way to break things. It doesn't matter if it is a house, a car, an alarm system, or an operating system.
You simply shouldn't try to blame one entity for the malicious acts of another.
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Included in the news clip it would be really useful if there was a link for newbies that explained how to compile.
Recompiling the kernel is not exactly for newbies. Let them get comfortable with Linux first... and this may take a few months or even years for some. You have to have some idea what all those configuration switches do and why you might want to change some; otherwise you're more likely to break stuff than you are to optimize the system. Once they are comfortable enough to read a HOWTO, then the link you want will not be needed.
Anyone who doesn't know about the HOWTOs, or refuses to read them, definately does not need to be recompiling the kernel.
HTML and HTTP were created at the expense of the European Union.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't HTML and HTTP (and most other internet technologies) predate the EU?
I can see it now, TBL back in the 80's thinking to himself "What can I do to screw the nonexistant EU? I know! HTML and HTTP! And furthur, I'll use DNS to pile an unfair domain system on top of that!"
Speaking as "another web designer" myself that's also a tech, you're the kind that have given us all a bad name and screwed up the web.
That's going to far.
What you're looking for is more ways to push style over substance, and I'm asking you to reconsider that position.
What I'm looking for is a better way to manage display. Let's face it, most websites are little more than interactive ads. Sites like this are the exception, not the rule. What you suggest works fine for a content driven site, not for a corporate site where the marketing department is extremly concerned about presentation.
Yes, everyone has different preferences, so how about giving them content they can use regardless of those choices instead of trying to manage the myriad of different user preference combinations that might want to see your pages?
That's precisely what I would like to do. With a little more information on what their preferences are, I can easily generate pages that give them what they want in a way they perfer. Want just the basics? No problem. Want fancy animated graphics? No problem. Want it converted to PDF and emailed to you? I can even do that. But if I don't know what you want, I have to make trade-offs to serve the lowest common denominator.
You don't have to do jack to give the user what they want given the preferences they have chosen.
On the one hand, I could understand how some of this could be important if we were talking about sending full-fledged web apps to the user. On the other hand, it appears that what most web designers really want is the ability to send me content that would be far better off rendered as a pdf file.
That's right. It would be better visually many times as a PDF... Or an easily resizable Flash... or, or, or. Right now though, the best thing we have to work with for display is HTML.
CSS is still in the "maybe one day it could be really useful" stage, but it is mostly broken in different ways on different browsers. PDF isn't interactive. Flash is about 90% supported display-wise, but tools for interactive use (such as the PHP-Ming combo) are still maturing and you still have to be concerned with the other 10% of users.
Don't get me wrong. I think pixel perfect HTML is much more trouble than it's worth. However, it's generally marketing that makes the look-and-feel decisions, not us measly nerdy web masters. A HTML header that would give me as a designer a couple more tools to work with would be extremely welcome.
Personally, I'd like to see HTML completly scrapped in favor of something that works well. It's being used for things it was never intended. I picture it as this huge pile of scrap stuck together with bubble gum and kite string. Like Microsoft, massive chunks of gizmos tacked on from every direction that somehow still manages to (mostly) work. HTML is not the best tool for most jobs, but it's the most common and compatible.
You can get most of the info through javascript then return it to a cgi for logging purposes.
In my experience, Javascript is usually a bad solution to whatever the problem is (others would disagree stongly). With this particular issue you have the problem of passing the information to the server (a page load), keeping up with the information while the user navigates (session management/cookies/user tracking of some sort), and the generally not-quite-completly-compatible nature of Javascript (you have to write scripts to check for and behave differently for just about every browser and browser version).
Sure, there are plenty of prewritten scripts to do just that. But you still have to worry about the possibility that the user's browser does not support Javascript or that it is disabled. You therefore STILL have to have a default "blind guess" (as opposed to a "Javascript guess") version.
The HTML headers would not remove the need for a "blind guess" version, but it would solve all the other problems. If it existed, the web designer could count on it and utilize it easily.
Slashdot Mirror
IP over laser pointer.
I'm sure there's already a RFC.
I hear using Gentoo would would help reduce the stress you are apparently suffering from. Gentoo also cures headaches, purifies water, makes a great floor polish and desert topping. I added a quart of Gentoo to my car, drained the oil, and have been driving it for nearly a million miles. Recent scientific studies indicate that Gentoo cures cancer , brings the dead back to life, and adds spice to any decor.
Try Gentoo... it's not just for Gentoo zealots any more.
I was thinking....
In keeping with the Bill Gates as Borg theme, maybe Slashdot could create an icon to represent SCO of a Borg Sphere colored like the current Caldera icon.
Let's see...
What if Southwest ALSO offered a third service where you could get your tickets by traversing an obstacle course. Does that mean fat lazy people like me could sue?
Oops, didn't mean to post this anonymously.
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Wow. It looks like a lot of people can't stand PayPal. Thank you for that informative list of links. Before this, I was unaware of just how bad PayPal was. I never figured people would be so upset as to set up anti PayPal sites.
Which one is Fuchsia again?
I'm fairly confident this is just a fake news item (a la The Onion).. read the last paragraph:
Maybe. GCN seems to have a lot of realistic looking content. That's not to say it's not a real good hoax, or GCN got duped, or maybe it's real.
Who knows... the jury's still out.
For the one and probably only time in my life I'm just hoping for high legal fees.
I'm going through a divorce. You're welcome to mine.
If the government would switch to Linux, just think how much money could be saved.
I don't know if anyone can guarentee a cheat free server.
I didn't think I'd ever see anything like this on Slashdot. This is not what I thought Slashdot was all about.
I'm starting my stop watch. Let's see how long before this is modded down.
Senseboard + MIDI = Real air guitar
In the voices of Bill and Ted: "Excellent".
Nothing evil here. Have you ever read 1984?
Are you saying Microsoft is double plus ungood?
eOn Communication's eQueue is also Linux based.
Actually 300bps was 30cps. You have 8-N-1 correct, but you forgot the start and stop bits, so it actually took 10 bits per character.
Modems stopped using start/stop bits sometime around 14.4 bps I think.
It wasn't the modems that used start/stop bits, it was the term/BBS software. The most common configuration was F-N-8-1 (Full Duplex, No Parity Bits, 8 Bit characters, 1 Stop bit). This was often combined with X-On/X-Off software flow control - adding more overhead.
10 bits per character is actually a reasonable estimate though. A 2400 bps modem often had a throughput of about 240 chars/s
It wasn't the modem the typists were waiting on, it was that line noise.
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When you buy a house, you know for a FACT that glass will break when hit with a hammer.
The people who buy MS products THINK they're getting something secure, since it's one of the many buzzwords (READ: lies) that MS always uses.
Many people look to buy house in a "safe" neighborhood. Most people want cars with a good "safty rating". People install alarm systems in their homes and cars to make them "safer".
You know what... none of that works either. Determined people will always find a way to break things. It doesn't matter if it is a house, a car, an alarm system, or an operating system.
You simply shouldn't try to blame one entity for the malicious acts of another.
Included in the news clip it would be really useful if there was a link for newbies that explained how to compile.
Recompiling the kernel is not exactly for newbies. Let them get comfortable with Linux first... and this may take a few months or even years for some. You have to have some idea what all those configuration switches do and why you might want to change some; otherwise you're more likely to break stuff than you are to optimize the system. Once they are comfortable enough to read a HOWTO, then the link you want will not be needed.
Anyone who doesn't know about the HOWTOs, or refuses to read them, definately does not need to be recompiling the kernel.
Slashdot finally linked to a story that included my name.... three times even.
Now that I'm "Big-Time[tm]" I can stop Karma Whoring and Trolling.
Has anybody ever seen a bug-free piece of software of any complexity greater than "Hello World"?"
I once wrote a "Hello Universe" that I was fairly confident was relatively bug free.
HTML and HTTP were created at the expense of the European Union.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't HTML and HTTP (and most other internet technologies) predate the EU?
I can see it now, TBL back in the 80's thinking to himself "What can I do to screw the nonexistant EU? I know! HTML and HTTP! And furthur, I'll use DNS to pile an unfair domain system on top of that!"
Hmmm.. combining the Slashdot community's favorite "I hate it just because" and "I love it just because" subjects into one device.
I picture a lot of people out there thinking "Does... not... compute..."
How will the mental hospitals cope with the influx?
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane! It's a really obvious although not very creative reference to Superman!
Speaking as "another web designer" myself that's also a tech, you're the kind that have given us all a bad name and screwed up the web.
That's going to far.
What you're looking for is more ways to push style over substance, and I'm asking you to reconsider that position.
What I'm looking for is a better way to manage display. Let's face it, most websites are little more than interactive ads. Sites like this are the exception, not the rule. What you suggest works fine for a content driven site, not for a corporate site where the marketing department is extremly concerned about presentation.
Yes, everyone has different preferences, so how about giving them content they can use regardless of those choices instead of trying to manage the myriad of different user preference combinations that might want to see your pages?
That's precisely what I would like to do. With a little more information on what their preferences are, I can easily generate pages that give them what they want in a way they perfer. Want just the basics? No problem. Want fancy animated graphics? No problem. Want it converted to PDF and emailed to you? I can even do that. But if I don't know what you want, I have to make trade-offs to serve the lowest common denominator.
You don't have to do jack to give the user what they want given the preferences they have chosen.
I disagree.
On the one hand, I could understand how some of this could be important if we were talking about sending full-fledged web apps to the user. On the other hand, it appears that what most web designers really want is the ability to send me content that would be far better off rendered as a pdf file.
That's right. It would be better visually many times as a PDF... Or an easily resizable Flash... or, or, or. Right now though, the best thing we have to work with for display is HTML.
CSS is still in the "maybe one day it could be really useful" stage, but it is mostly broken in different ways on different browsers. PDF isn't interactive. Flash is about 90% supported display-wise, but tools for interactive use (such as the PHP-Ming combo) are still maturing and you still have to be concerned with the other 10% of users.
Don't get me wrong. I think pixel perfect HTML is much more trouble than it's worth. However, it's generally marketing that makes the look-and-feel decisions, not us measly nerdy web masters. A HTML header that would give me as a designer a couple more tools to work with would be extremely welcome.
Personally, I'd like to see HTML completly scrapped in favor of something that works well. It's being used for things it was never intended. I picture it as this huge pile of scrap stuck together with bubble gum and kite string. Like Microsoft, massive chunks of gizmos tacked on from every direction that somehow still manages to (mostly) work. HTML is not the best tool for most jobs, but it's the most common and compatible.
You can get most of the info through javascript then return it to a cgi for logging purposes.
In my experience, Javascript is usually a bad solution to whatever the problem is (others would disagree stongly). With this particular issue you have the problem of passing the information to the server (a page load), keeping up with the information while the user navigates (session management/cookies/user tracking of some sort), and the generally not-quite-completly-compatible nature of Javascript (you have to write scripts to check for and behave differently for just about every browser and browser version).
Sure, there are plenty of prewritten scripts to do just that. But you still have to worry about the possibility that the user's browser does not support Javascript or that it is disabled. You therefore STILL have to have a default "blind guess" (as opposed to a "Javascript guess") version.
The HTML headers would not remove the need for a "blind guess" version, but it would solve all the other problems. If it existed, the web designer could count on it and utilize it easily.