I do on my Linux boxen---nvi is one of the first programs I emerge when I install Gentoo. But that doesn't help me at all when I'm stuck on a Windows machine...
Or are you expecting software to be 100% bug free?
Actually, for something as important as the National Election, yes, I am.
This isn't a Slashdot poll. It isn't voting for your favorite M&M color. It isn't the MTV Music Awards. It is deciding who will preside over our country, and even more importantly, represent us to the rest of the world for the next four years.
There are currently processes in place in the government to get as close as possible to error-free code. Take a look at the code running the NASA shuttles for an example.
When a person is elected to be our President, I want to know that we did everything we could to make it a fair and impartial fight (from the voting standpoint---campaigns are a very different issue). I don't want to hear about 50 thousand votes being lost or machines counting backwards.
Obviously electronic voting will be used, and I'm all for it. I just think we should turn it over to a group of NASA programmers, or programmers with the same mindset, procedures and policies in place, so we can rest easy, knowing we did all we could to make sure every one of our votes count.
The Evil Wizard Mordroc has again kidnapped the fair Princess Daphne and Dirk is her only hope.
You'd think that you would be just a little leery of letting your princess walk around alone after the first time she gets kidnapped. But letting her go out after getting taken twice? It's like an open invitation!
I have heard a lot of good things about http://www.underthehuppah.com. Several friends have found dating parters there they are very happy with on the site (I am fortunate enough to already have a wonderful partner, or I would sign up as well).
It's a site geared towards Hebrew Christian and Messianic Jewish dating, but even if you don't fall under one of these categories, it's a great site, with a lot of people.
That doesn't mean that web page designers should blatently disregard disabled users, either.
Well-designed pages, with structured CSS layouts and tags (as opposed to sites using huge layout tables, frames, or bleeding edge CSS to get browsers to do backflips) look great in most browsers (and all recent browsers), are readable in all browsers, and are easily read by text readers and other devices.
I generally visit mozilla.org right around twice. Once with IE, to download Firefox. And once the first time Firefox starts up, as mozilla.org is the default home page. Reset the home page to blank, and that's about it.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
The FSF/OSI communities are doing as much as we can, but as much as I hate to say it, things aren't fundamentally going to change until the big companies -- to include Microsoft -- do.
The obvious answer is to always log in as root, so you'll never have to worry about getting locked out!
Now, I haven't RTFA (I wouldn't feel good keeping my Slashdot ID if I did), but what if your job depends on your access to the internet? As in, a problem comes up at work, and you have to search google, or groups.google to find a quick answer?
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I knew I was missing something in there.
Nice catch!
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Or, assuming you had one of the letters, say the 'L', on the board in the right spot, say the lower right hand of the board, this could end up as:
S (1) --- On a triple word score L (1) --- Previously played A (1) S (1) H (4) --- for (8) on double letter score D (2) O (1) T (1) --- on triple word score
Which comes out to 144 points. Not too bad for slashdot!
Remember: In Scrabble, placement is everything.
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If you have Alyson Hannigan and Sara Michelle-Geller hanging around your office, I'd like to submit a resume...
Generally, what gets displayed should *look* cool first, and then if someone from afar comes up to get more info, go ahead and give them all of the geeky specs and such.
When I was in the Air Force, we had an old IBM mainframe with a huge tape silo (like 8 or 10 feet in diameter, 8 feet tall, etc.), and for the main room that got toured by the top brass, we opted for a large window-panel instead of one to store tapes in the six sides. This, of course, took quite a bit of tape storage away. However, the benifit was that those on tour could see the robotic arm moving around at 60 miles an hour inside the silo. We had a program that did nothing but run the arm around, grab random tapes, and swap them in and out of the drives for a minute or two. Completely useless, but it never failed to impress the hell out of them.
Which in turn reminded me of a web page that *still* makes me laugh out loud every time I read it, from The Garden of Eden, the geeky and yet very attractive Eve Anderson's original home page:
Back it up. Just a little more... A little more... Perfect!
Now, Honey, don't you think that E15K makes a great replacement for that china cabinet we used to have? And all I had to do was purchase a software license for StarOffice!
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I do on my Linux boxen---nvi is one of the first programs I emerge when I install Gentoo. But that doesn't help me at all when I'm stuck on a Windows machine...
I *love* vi.
.vimrc file:
:)
I *hate* vim.
There are four lines in my
set compatible
syn off
set ai
set sm
The first turns off all of the extra vim crap. And the second takes out all of the syntax highlighting.
The other two are personal preferences.
Use something like the CVE, or Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list over at Mitre.
And here I thought that the Sailor's best friend was his buddy's backdoor...
Or waterguns that worked, which is how I first read that.
Actually, for something as important as the National Election, yes, I am.
This isn't a Slashdot poll. It isn't voting for your favorite M&M color. It isn't the MTV Music Awards. It is deciding who will preside over our country, and even more importantly, represent us to the rest of the world for the next four years.
There are currently processes in place in the government to get as close as possible to error-free code. Take a look at the code running the NASA shuttles for an example.
When a person is elected to be our President, I want to know that we did everything we could to make it a fair and impartial fight (from the voting standpoint---campaigns are a very different issue). I don't want to hear about 50 thousand votes being lost or machines counting backwards.
Obviously electronic voting will be used, and I'm all for it. I just think we should turn it over to a group of NASA programmers, or programmers with the same mindset, procedures and policies in place, so we can rest easy, knowing we did all we could to make sure every one of our votes count.
You'd think that you would be just a little leery of letting your princess walk around alone after the first time she gets kidnapped. But letting her go out after getting taken twice? It's like an open invitation!
I have heard a lot of good things about http://www.underthehuppah.com. Several friends have found dating parters there they are very happy with on the site (I am fortunate enough to already have a wonderful partner, or I would sign up as well).
It's a site geared towards Hebrew Christian and Messianic Jewish dating, but even if you don't fall under one of these categories, it's a great site, with a lot of people.
Good luck!
That doesn't mean that web page designers should blatently disregard disabled users, either.
Well-designed pages, with structured CSS layouts and tags (as opposed to sites using huge layout tables, frames, or bleeding edge CSS to get browsers to do backflips) look great in most browsers (and all recent browsers), are readable in all browsers, and are easily read by text readers and other devices.
I generally visit mozilla.org right around twice. Once with IE, to download Firefox. And once the first time Firefox starts up, as mozilla.org is the default home page. Reset the home page to blank, and that's about it.
Well, I guess that's a lot better than wronging your rep...
Actually, I think your sig says it all:
The FSF/OSI communities are doing as much as we can, but as much as I hate to say it, things aren't fundamentally going to change until the big companies -- to include Microsoft -- do.
Great Rush quote, BTW.
The obvious answer is to always log in as root, so you'll never have to worry about getting locked out!
Now, I haven't RTFA (I wouldn't feel good keeping my Slashdot ID if I did), but what if your job depends on your access to the internet? As in, a problem comes up at work, and you have to search google, or groups.google to find a quick answer?
I knew I was missing something in there.
Nice catch!
Or, assuming you had one of the letters, say the 'L', on the board in the right spot, say the lower right hand of the board, this could end up as:
Which comes out to 144 points. Not too bad for slashdot!
Remember: In Scrabble, placement is everything.
If you have Alyson Hannigan and Sara Michelle-Geller hanging around your office, I'd like to submit a resume...
Or the Federal Embedded Devices Department of Security.
"Crap! Here come the FEDDS! Nurse Betty, you high-tail it out the back---I've got to hold 'em off until Windows Update finishes!"
Generally, what gets displayed should *look* cool first, and then if someone from afar comes up to get more info, go ahead and give them all of the geeky specs and such.
When I was in the Air Force, we had an old IBM mainframe with a huge tape silo (like 8 or 10 feet in diameter, 8 feet tall, etc.), and for the main room that got toured by the top brass, we opted for a large window-panel instead of one to store tapes in the six sides. This, of course, took quite a bit of tape storage away. However, the benifit was that those on tour could see the robotic arm moving around at 60 miles an hour inside the silo. We had a program that did nothing but run the arm around, grab random tapes, and swap them in and out of the drives for a minute or two. Completely useless, but it never failed to impress the hell out of them.
Already done---it was done before I posted. There is a big difference between not being *able* to do something, and having reasons not to do it.
Random binaries hanging around my system just annoy the crap out of me.
For those of us who want to try Rubyx out, when is White Water going to make it into the Gentoo portage tree?
If it only targeted dummies, I wouldn't be worried about it. I'd call it survival of the fittest.
Which in turn reminded me of a web page that *still* makes me laugh out loud every time I read it, from The Garden of Eden, the geeky and yet very attractive Eve Anderson's original home page:
The Polyorchid Religious Society
This is one of the first sites I ever came across when I first got on the web those many years ago, and I *still* visit it.
Thank you, Eve!
I'm sure it is probably this easy with other distros as well, but:
# emerge unmerge xfree
# emerge xorg-x11
Worked for me!
The only problem with that approach is that you'll have to find a cop who is in shape...
Back it up. Just a little more... A little more... Perfect!
Now, Honey, don't you think that E15K makes a great replacement for that china cabinet we used to have? And all I had to do was purchase a software license for StarOffice!