Slashdotters may not be thrown off by the "fake windows" popups, especially when using other operating systems, but most people are. My wife has many times said things like, "Oh no - we have a virus" or "there's something wrong with our internet connection" when seeing one of those fakeware popups. She's probably installed spyware because of it too.
Dr. Bederson, Dr. Ratey and others often refer to the notion of flow, a concept coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, (pronounced
CHICK-sent-me-hi-ee), professor of psychology at the Claremont Graduate University and the author of "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" (Perennial, 1991).
I think that if I checked my email and saw that CHICK sent me hi-ee, that would interrupt my flow too.
I've been running bogofilter for about 6 months. I just started keeping stats on it, and I'm getting only about 65% of spams identified (no false positives, though). That's really pretty poor, especially since more than half of my emails are spam. Many of the emails that get through have very few tokens, or all random character strings.
What software are you using that gives you 99.5% success rate?
Since global terrorism is mostly funded by countries whose economies rely almost solely on oil, such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia, then a terrorist would be most unhappy to find such an oil-free solution put into place.
Has anyone tried this site in Konqueror? There is a floating link to the home page on top of the results that says search in progress, but never goes away?
Is that the same language they speak in the "Borland Nation" referenced in the article? Anyway, once the People's Republic of Borland officially secedes from the US, they will be able to put their boilerplate in their new Constitution.
Who here is using KOffice as your primary suite?
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My only experiences with KWord (admittedly limited) have been bad. I've opened a few Word docs in KWord and found them to be a disaster (whereas StarOffice did a 99% good job).
Also, the one time I typed a homework in KOffice and saved as HTML, as soon as I opened the HTML file in vi, I found that it contained nothing but "<html>". If I can't assume that pressing "Save" will save my file, then it's really not so useful to me.
Does.rtf count as Word format for such requests (since I think by default Windows will open it in either Word or Wordpad)? All the free offices (AFAIK) can save as rtf, which is a nice, open, format.
Why does NSI make me do things illegally in order to transfer my DOMAIN?
So true! I once wanted to change contacts for the domain for my school newspaper, and they said I had to fax a letter on company letterhead, where the letterhead had me as having some lofty position. I told them we didn't have letterhead, and asked if I should make some up. I even asked what position I should be. They suggested managing director. A download of the paper's masthead from the web and a few clickety-clicks in Word later, I had my easiest promotion ever and new contacts on my domain. Pretty stupid, but that's NSI.
Of course now, all my domains reside with Gandi. It's very simple to transfer it from gandi's web site - all you need to do is reply to an email, and they do the rest.
I think it's great that the judges are taking this so seriously, but this kind of monioring is already very commonplace in most workplaces. I get a message similar to the one in the prison when I log into my workstation at work.
I work at a large inventment bank, where many employees have access to information that other employees do not. And, I suppose that whoever has the job of snooping on people's email, etc. would have access to all of this proprietary or client information. But that's not stopping them from having the policy.
Is the outcome of this struggle amongst judges really going to have any effect on the rest of us in the private sector?
I called them and asked for a machine with either Linux or no OS. I was told that neither was an option, nor was there any way for me to not pay for Windows. They did tell me which machines were certified to work with Linux, though. This was at least a month ago. Were they ever selling PC desktops with Linux installed?
The problem has even spread to the Caribbean. At a workshop at a research institute in Barbados, one hardy group of theoretical computer scientists stayed up late one rum- soaked night, playing a drinking game based on the puzzle.
Sounds fun! How can I get a job at said "research" institute??
It's not just non-free apps that have a problem. I am running RedHat 6.1, and I can't install any KDE RPMs because they all require glibc-2.2, and I don't want to upgrade glibc, because a) all my current RPMs require glibc-2.1, and b) it's stupid to have to upgrade every app on my machine for one new app. Sometimes I can fool RPM by linking foo.so.1 to foo.so and so forth, but that's really stupid. So instead, I have to compile things from source, which in the case of KDE, took me about 3 full days.
Web browsing is perfect at handling msIE html and their version of Hebrew, if you use Konqueror.
Really? I've installed the latest KDE (from source), and all I hebrew characters show up as spaces in Konq, and ??? in the window manager. What else do I need to do?
Either way, I have to say that MS is miles ahead - a default install of MSIE 5.5 allows fully functional Hebrew browsing (without playing around with fonts) plus Hebrew text entry and full bilingual and bidirectional support across the OS.
Though, I have noticed that Israelis have a strong tendancy to send windows-1255 HTML email for no good reason.
The rest of the time is spent testing, fixing bugs, and working on projects that will later be cancelled.
This is kind of a muddled analysis. If you work a lot on projects that get cancelled, then this is a problem with your management. If you spend time dealing with poorly written vendor products, as illustrated in the anecdote at the beginning, then this is a problem with the vendor. If you spend a lot of time debugging, then, well, that's programming for you. As for testing, are they saying people should test less? Then we'll have more of the second problem, except you'll be the incompetant vendor to someone else.
I'm not exactly sure what this article is about. Bad software? Bad management? That programming is hard? You can't really address a problem if you don't know what it is.
It does not properly support the dir attribute. This was a big disappointment, since there is a dirth of browsers with bidirectional support. (Note: konqueror.org claims it does have bidi support, but that doesn't seem to be the case.)
The article says that Napster will be paying a (presumably flat) fee to the record company. Will any of that get passed on to the artists? Even if so, as someone else pointed out, will it be relative to the number of downloads?
If not, then artists are still not getting compensated for their work that appears on Napster. It would be interesting to see if some of the bands find this agreement insufficient and still sue Napster.
They still didn't address the concern mentioned yesterday that users can't view or edit the message before sending it out. I think a feature that sends a message FROM you without allowing you to look at it first is evil no matter what the message says.
But Becker knows one thing - he wants Sun to stop peddling the kit, which he says includes "explicit instructions on taking a copyrighted work and converting it to unlicensed use with the Solaris operating system."
So, it's illegal to distribute instructions on how to bypass copyright protection? I suppose Sun will claim they were only trying to use Becker's code on the Solaris operation system, but we all know their real intent was piracy.
We may not like it, but those "instructions" are free speech.
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Slashdotters may not be thrown off by the "fake windows" popups, especially when using other operating systems, but most people are. My wife has many times said things like, "Oh no - we have a virus" or "there's something wrong with our internet connection" when seeing one of those fakeware popups. She's probably installed spyware because of it too.
What software are you using that gives you 99.5% success rate?
Since global terrorism is mostly funded by countries whose economies rely almost solely on oil, such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia, then a terrorist would be most unhappy to find such an oil-free solution put into place.
Has anyone tried this site in Konqueror? There is a floating link to the home page on top of the results that says search in progress, but never goes away?
Is that the same language they speak in the "Borland Nation" referenced in the article? Anyway, once the People's Republic of Borland officially secedes from the US, they will be able to put their boilerplate in their new Constitution.
My only experiences with KWord (admittedly limited) have been bad. I've opened a few Word docs in KWord and found them to be a disaster (whereas StarOffice did a 99% good job).
Also, the one time I typed a homework in KOffice and saved as HTML, as soon as I opened the HTML file in vi, I found that it contained nothing but "<html>". If I can't assume that pressing "Save" will save my file, then it's really not so useful to me.
Does .rtf count as Word format for such requests (since I think by default Windows will open it in either Word or Wordpad)? All the free offices (AFAIK) can save as rtf, which is a nice, open, format.
who invented Reply to All?
So true! I once wanted to change contacts for the domain for my school newspaper, and they said I had to fax a letter on company letterhead, where the letterhead had me as having some lofty position. I told them we didn't have letterhead, and asked if I should make some up. I even asked what position I should be. They suggested managing director. A download of the paper's masthead from the web and a few clickety-clicks in Word later, I had my easiest promotion ever and new contacts on my domain. Pretty stupid, but that's NSI.
Of course now, all my domains reside with Gandi. It's very simple to transfer it from gandi's web site - all you need to do is reply to an email, and they do the rest.
Has anyone here signed up with an email address? Did you receive any unwanted email as a result?
I work at a large inventment bank, where many employees have access to information that other employees do not. And, I suppose that whoever has the job of snooping on people's email, etc. would have access to all of this proprietary or client information. But that's not stopping them from having the policy.
Is the outcome of this struggle amongst judges really going to have any effect on the rest of us in the private sector?
I called them and asked for a machine with either Linux or no OS. I was told that neither was an option, nor was there any way for me to not pay for Windows. They did tell me which machines were certified to work with Linux, though. This was at least a month ago. Were they ever selling PC desktops with Linux installed?
Sounds pretty difficult to pull off without any communication.
Sounds fun! How can I get a job at said "research" institute??
It's not just non-free apps that have a problem. I am running RedHat 6.1, and I can't install any KDE RPMs because they all require glibc-2.2, and I don't want to upgrade glibc, because a) all my current RPMs require glibc-2.1, and b) it's stupid to have to upgrade every app on my machine for one new app. Sometimes I can fool RPM by linking foo.so.1 to foo.so and so forth, but that's really stupid. So instead, I have to compile things from source, which in the case of KDE, took me about 3 full days.
Really? I've installed the latest KDE (from source), and all I hebrew characters show up as spaces in Konq, and ??? in the window manager. What else do I need to do?
Either way, I have to say that MS is miles ahead - a default install of MSIE 5.5 allows fully functional Hebrew browsing (without playing around with fonts) plus Hebrew text entry and full bilingual and bidirectional support across the OS.
Though, I have noticed that Israelis have a strong tendancy to send windows-1255 HTML email for no good reason.
I would actually be supportive of a CD license which prohibited the listener from singing along outloud, especially on the subway.
This is kind of a muddled analysis. If you work a lot on projects that get cancelled, then this is a problem with your management. If you spend time dealing with poorly written vendor products, as illustrated in the anecdote at the beginning, then this is a problem with the vendor. If you spend a lot of time debugging, then, well, that's programming for you. As for testing, are they saying people should test less? Then we'll have more of the second problem, except you'll be the incompetant vendor to someone else.
I'm not exactly sure what this article is about. Bad software? Bad management? That programming is hard? You can't really address a problem if you don't know what it is.
It does not properly support the dir attribute. This was a big disappointment, since there is a dirth of browsers with bidirectional support. (Note: konqueror.org claims it does have bidi support, but that doesn't seem to be the case.)
If not, then artists are still not getting compensated for their work that appears on Napster. It would be interesting to see if some of the bands find this agreement insufficient and still sue Napster.
"GRACE!!!!"
OK, I changed my password to Pete.
They still didn't address the concern mentioned yesterday that users can't view or edit the message before sending it out. I think a feature that sends a message FROM you without allowing you to look at it first is evil no matter what the message says.
So, it's illegal to distribute instructions on how to bypass copyright protection? I suppose Sun will claim they were only trying to use Becker's code on the Solaris operation system, but we all know their real intent was piracy.
We may not like it, but those "instructions" are free speech.