Follow me on this one: - "Gecko" is a cool name - it's pretty clearly owned by the Mozilla team, so no contention with other [software] groups - already has name recognition (among geeks at least) - most web searches for gecko will lead to a mozilla project. "Firebird" will lead to anything but!
Then just start calling the "current" Gecko the "Gecko engine". Gecko (the browser) will consist almost entirely of the Gecko Engine, which is logical, and other browser-based apps that use the Gecko Engine won't cause too much confusion if they still have old docs around that say "based on Gecko", since it'll still basically be true.
The Mozilla/Phoenix team has been beating their heads trying to come up with a new name for Phoenix.. why not rename one of their own projects out of the way so they can reuse the Gecko name?
As someone who has used both DreamweaverMX and ColdFusion Studio, lemme say that I absolutely can't stand Dreamweaver.
My office tried to "upgrade" us to the latest Dreamweaver and I found so many things that I consider unusable that I told them where they could stick it and I went back to using CF Studio. If you're curious, here's the list I started compiling about my beefs:
1. The ability to detect when someone else changes an open file is broken. Even losing focus triggers it now. Had to disable entirely. 2. Lost ability to have editor reopen all the files you were previously working on 3. Lost row/column indicator for current cursor location (but still got the oh-so-useful download timer instead which only measures raw bytes - almost irrelevant in our complex CF docs) 4. Lost the word wrap column reminder (cosmetic, but was nice to have) 5. Lost the entire icon bar that had the indent/outdent buttons 6. Can't edit/change/move the individual tabs of code bits to insert [EDIT: later found that you can. Must manually edit an XML flatfile and a TXT file to make any changes] 7. The process of forcing a case change to your tags now requires you to make a setting in your preferences, save your file, close your file, reopen the file, then turn that preference back off. It used to be a single menu option with 1 click. 8. They removed the ability to toggle the sidebar file explorer on and off with F9. I found a kludgy workaround (and had to remap F12 to F9) but toggling it now removes *all* the panels, including the insert one, not just the sidebar. 9. File->Open only lets you select and open up one file at a time 10. If the sidebar file explorer is open, and you switch out of back to DWMX (with alt-tab or taskbar), it freezes for about 5 seconds to render the screen, apparently from the tree structure. If you close the file explorer, it's instant. 11. Built in reference lists CF tags, but not CF functions. huh? 12. To research CF functions, now have to use Winhelp. 13. Loading the list of keyboard shortcuts locks up DWMX for nearly a minute 14. The "Answers" panel has an "update" button that you apparently can't configure a proxy for, so you can't do the updates. 15. They removed "Extended Find and Replace" but put in a sort of enhanced "Find". But now missing ability to search all open files!! 16. "Find and Replace" also no longer lets you make changes just to the currently selected text. 17. When you close an open document in DWMX, it doesn't revert to the next prior doc that's open.. it jumps to another arbitrary one?
But given the fact that there are some significant differences between IE versions, which one would you emulate? All of them? Jeez.. talk about bloat, all for the purpose of emulating quirks!
And we won't even get into IE differences between platforms either...
Personally, one of the singularly biggest and best features of Mozilla is that it plays well with others. You can have multiple versions of it installed at a time on one box. Any webdev worth their salt will have a copy of every major browser that intend to support already installed on their box(en). It's been one of my biggest complaints about IE since the IE3 days. I can only have one IE version on a box, usually without even the means to uninstall it... Makes testing cross-platform a pain in the @ss...
Three flicks that I've never met another person who's even heard of them (in order of most recommended to least):
Twice Upon A Time - utterly hilarious - very classic stuff. Animalympics - a little more dated but still so memorable that scenes of it come wafting back to me every Olympics. Shinbone Alley - An animated "musical" based on the Don Marquis stories about Archy, the cockroach that types stories by jumping on typewriter keys.
Personally, I'd say ignore some of the low votes they got on IMDB and check them out. I mean, we are talking about "underappreciated" films here anyway...;)
While all of these are animated, I'd say that 1 and 3 will mostly be lost on kids as their humor and darkness is aimed a little higher than that. Animalympics should work for almost any age level...
...until I find a mail reader (that works well on Windows) that allows me to check multiple POP accounts and read all the incoming mail IN ONE PLACE, and then lets me reply from the right email address to these mails.
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding you, Eudora does this just fine. You create "personalities" for each POP account. Using the filters you can easily have them go into one common folder or mutiple ones, whichever you prefer. I'm pretty sure it remembers which personality each message came from and will default your settings appropriately. If not, the "from" line is a pulldown anyway so you can change it instantly within the message. (This is actually handy since I set up a "Mail Administrator" profile that I use when replying to get companies to remove my email from their lists. The "admin" informs that no user exists with that address, so please remove it. Obviously this isn't for autospam, but POPFile catches all that anyway)
I can't think of anything that Eudora can't do for me. I've been using it for close to a decade now and have never even considered abandoning it... I also bask in the fact that I've never heard of a virus that can hurt a Eudora user (short of stupidly opening a boobytrapped attachment) while Outlook seems to have a steady stream of exploits...
I've got all my bases covered: Eudora (mail) + Forte Agent (news) + Phoenix (web) + Putty (telnet) + WSFTP LE (ftp) + POPFile (antispam). Every app does one thing, and one thing well...
Did they try to screw me? Well, kinda. But not by lying about sales figures.
It was a slightly complex situation than I first described. The whole setup was a three-way agreement between 3 different folks. First was the guy who came up with the whole idea. This was his little brainchild. But he wasn't much of a Delphi programmer, so he contracted with me to write the code. He also wasn't a marketing person so he contracted with another guy to handle sales and marketting. The three of us collaborated like a virtual company that didn't fully trust each other very much, and for good reason as it turned out.
The sales guy kept stringing us out requesting stupid little changes and enhancements month after month, delaying the entire release almost a year! Then right at the very end it turns out that he'd been having a buddy of his writing almost an exact clone of the tool so that he could sell his version and keep all the profits for himself rather than sharing from our pie...
Unfortunately, our contracts didn't have any sort of "non-compete" clause in them since we all were picturing things working out and all of us raking in the dough. (It was poised to be one of the first entry-level eCommerce tools on the market back in 1998. *sigh*)
So, lesson learned. Even when someone stands to gain by cooperating with you, if they think they can gain more by exploiting you, they probably will.
I at least later got some small karma revenge from finding out that he got mired in some other lawsuits and that his wife left him.. Oh well.. it was some good experience and one more thing to add to the resume.
So this was a long way of saying that, yeah, they tried to screw me, but not in any way that my backdoors were useful. Turned out to be IP theft, not actual code theft.
I was subcontracted to build a Delphi app for some other folks. The payment was going to be some pocket change up front and then a percent of sales.
Paranoid that the minute I gave them the program it was going to turn into "Mooman? We never heard of no Mooman" and screw me from the sales, I made a backdoor/easter egg: While the splash screen was showing, if you type m-o-o, the splash would change to information about my little company.
Since the people I was providing the code to weren't Delphi folks, I figured it was a safe CYA to make sure that I got credit where it was due...
I also wrote a perl-based self-registration CGI for them too, and in it I set up a backdoor just so I could get the count of the number of registrations.. Again, just to keep 'em honest.
Not malicious by any stretch but I feel completely justified in what I did...
Heck, when I first read the headline I thought a new version of MOO had come out.
Same here.
MUDS were certainly out of infancy then. I was playing them in early '91, which was about the time that the painfully close-to-home parady Addicted To Muds came out... That "song" actually was a wake-up call for me that I really was spending a little too much time playing MUDS... (Staying up until 4am and only getting 3 hours of sleep apparently weren't obvious enough symptoms for me. Never underestimate the power of denial...)
I had never even heard of "Master of Orion" before today...
Umm, MOO stands for Master of Orion in the minds of thousands of times more people than MOO stands for MUD Object Oriented.
I think it depends on your age too. I've never even heard of "Master of Orion" myself, but am a recovered MOO/MUSH/MUD/MUCK player from over a decade ago. [I actually remember reading this postwhen it came out back in 1991...] I happen to recall a rather large faction of us that were into that whole gaming scene.
So if there are anything approaching a thousand "Master of Orion" fans out there for each of us MUD old-timers, I'm very impressed.... and thereby equally surprised that I haven't heard of it before now...
(and no, the username actually doesn't come from gaming, but from college)
Does this *need* language recognition? I'm assuming that there are enough differences in the words between the two languages that your Norwegian emails will have relatively few English words and the English emails with probably even fewer Norwegian works in them.
Most of these bayesian methods really don't care what the words *are*. (CM114 doesn't even store words for that matter, it stores hashes.) So in your case, your non-spam (good mail) corpus would be heavily weighted with a lot of words that I probably can't pronounce, but are unique to your good mail. Your spam corpus would supply mostly English words. Since you'll need to "feed" these two corpi into any of the Bayes tools, you'll be essentially "teaching" it the differences.
Then any new mail getting filtered will get tested against these two sets. Clearly your Norwegian mail is more likely to get matched as non-spam than your English mail will.
I would almost expect better response from this approach (once you have some content in your corpus) since you're not counting on someone else's use of the language or approach of implementation. Maybe they use Norwegian and English a little differently than you...
If you still want to screen based on language, you could always just add a filter to whatever mail client or filtering tool you use that just checks for the top 10 words in Norwegian and assumes that that message isn't English. (this site seems to have just such a list) You could do it the other way too. The top 10 english words are: (the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it )
Anyway, I'd be curious to see if bayesian filtering resolves the issue without explicit language checking.. I'd almost expect that it would....
Yeah, count me in. I remember installing Slack back when all of the various packages had cryptic one-letter names. Like A, D, N, X, etc... You could add in whichever bits you needed. Getting them to work *together* was a bit of a pain though...
I used to use the Yggdrasil "bible" documentation to help me figure stuff out.
*sniff* Ah. the good old days;)
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I don't think many people ever gave much thought to the licensing of MAME itself. I mean, it's nice that it's possibly joining the ranks of the open source movement, but the whole licensing and legality of the rom images I think is a far more restrictive dilemma...
Now if the games themselves were being made GPL, now that would be some great news!
how much grief Garth Brooks took when he protested people reselling used cds...
I think we have a new "piss off the public" " king-of-the-hill now...
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Here's my Mozilla Google bookmarklet:
javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;ifr am es.length;i++){q=frames[i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Keywords:','')); if(q)location.href='http://www.google.com/search?q ='+escape(q,1)+'&hl=en&safe=off'
[Slashdot adds a space or two to the above code.. strip those out when adding this to your bookmark list]
I just add it to my toolbar folder so it's right under the URL line. You can either click it and type your search in the popup, or highlight some text first, then click the bookmark, and it will submit that text to google...
[Footnote: on some complex pages it does not always seem to respond, but I've been too busy to test why]
No kidding. If you need special paper, then how is this really much different than writing on a graphics tablet?
I think the more practical device would be a run-of-mill-looking clipboard that you could clip any kind of paper to, write on it, and store that image.. I think that offers more flexibility (like automatically filling out "forms" in triplicate, storing receipt/stub information for business travellers, and so on) and would be easier to incorporate wireless into. Shoot, you could even put an inconspicuous PCMCIA slot into it for a wifi adapter, disk drive, or whatever...
I have an old P166 CTX laptop with a 1.6G hard drive I got back in '98. I did the Gentoo download and bootstrap build approach a couple days ago. It started compiling around midnight, and was still gcc'ing away at 8:30 the next morning when I left for work.
When I got home, it had aborted due to being unable to connect to their rsync machine (a problem that others have reported as well) so I kicked the whole process off again. This time, I think my poor old harddrive gave up the ghost from all the thrashing. Now I get nothing but hda errors, even when I boot from a tomsrtbt floppy. It's almost like Gentoo slashdotted my hard drive..:)
I'll give gentoo another try after I find a new laptop HD on ebay... (Anyone got a 2-6 Gig 2.5" notebook IDE drive that needs a new home?)
So yeah, plan on some compile time if you have anything less than a speedy box...
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Follow me on this one:
- "Gecko" is a cool name
- it's pretty clearly owned by the Mozilla team, so no contention with other [software] groups
- already has name recognition (among geeks at least)
- most web searches for gecko will lead to a mozilla project. "Firebird" will lead to anything but!
Then just start calling the "current" Gecko the "Gecko engine". Gecko (the browser) will consist almost entirely of the Gecko Engine, which is logical, and other browser-based apps that use the Gecko Engine won't cause too much confusion if they still have old docs around that say "based on Gecko", since it'll still basically be true.
The Mozilla/Phoenix team has been beating their heads trying to come up with a new name for Phoenix.. why not rename one of their own projects out of the way so they can reuse the Gecko name?
It's simple, really:
Gecko -> Gecko Engine
Phoenix -> Gecko
Let's scrap this whole Firebird debacle...
As someone who has used both DreamweaverMX and ColdFusion Studio, lemme say that I absolutely can't stand Dreamweaver.
My office tried to "upgrade" us to the latest Dreamweaver and I found so many things that I consider unusable that I told them where they could stick it and I went back to using CF Studio. If you're curious, here's the list I started compiling about my beefs:
1. The ability to detect when someone else changes an open file is broken. Even losing focus triggers it now. Had to disable entirely.
2. Lost ability to have editor reopen all the files you were previously working on
3. Lost row/column indicator for current cursor location (but still got the oh-so-useful download timer instead which only measures raw bytes - almost irrelevant in our complex CF docs)
4. Lost the word wrap column reminder (cosmetic, but was nice to have)
5. Lost the entire icon bar that had the indent/outdent buttons
6. Can't edit/change/move the individual tabs of code bits to insert [EDIT: later found that you can. Must manually edit an XML flatfile and a TXT file to make any changes]
7. The process of forcing a case change to your tags now requires you to make a setting in your preferences, save your file, close your file, reopen the file, then turn that preference back off. It used to be a single menu option with 1 click.
8. They removed the ability to toggle the sidebar file explorer on and off with F9. I found a kludgy workaround (and had to remap F12 to F9) but toggling it now removes *all* the panels, including the insert one, not just the sidebar.
9. File->Open only lets you select and open up one file at a time
10. If the sidebar file explorer is open, and you switch out of back to DWMX (with alt-tab or taskbar), it freezes for about 5 seconds to render the screen, apparently from the tree structure. If you close the file explorer, it's instant.
11. Built in reference lists CF tags, but not CF functions. huh?
12. To research CF functions, now have to use Winhelp.
13. Loading the list of keyboard shortcuts locks up DWMX for nearly a minute
14. The "Answers" panel has an "update" button that you apparently can't configure a proxy for, so you can't do the updates.
15. They removed "Extended Find and Replace" but put in a sort of enhanced "Find". But now missing ability to search all open files!!
16. "Find and Replace" also no longer lets you make changes just to the currently selected text.
17. When you close an open document in DWMX, it doesn't revert to the next prior doc that's open.. it jumps to another arbitrary one?
But given the fact that there are some significant differences between IE versions, which one would you emulate? All of them? Jeez.. talk about bloat, all for the purpose of emulating quirks!
And we won't even get into IE differences between platforms either...
Personally, one of the singularly biggest and best features of Mozilla is that it plays well with others. You can have multiple versions of it installed at a time on one box. Any webdev worth their salt will have a copy of every major browser that intend to support already installed on their box(en). It's been one of my biggest complaints about IE since the IE3 days. I can only have one IE version on a box, usually without even the means to uninstall it... Makes testing cross-platform a pain in the @ss...
Three flicks that I've never met another person who's even heard of them (in order of most recommended to least):
;)
Twice Upon A Time - utterly hilarious - very classic stuff.
Animalympics - a little more dated but still so memorable that scenes of it come wafting back to me every Olympics.
Shinbone Alley - An animated "musical" based on the Don Marquis stories about Archy, the cockroach that types stories by jumping on typewriter keys.
Personally, I'd say ignore some of the low votes they got on IMDB and check them out. I mean, we are talking about "underappreciated" films here anyway...
While all of these are animated, I'd say that 1 and 3 will mostly be lost on kids as their humor and darkness is aimed a little higher than that. Animalympics should work for almost any age level...
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding you, Eudora does this just fine. You create "personalities" for each POP account. Using the filters you can easily have them go into one common folder or mutiple ones, whichever you prefer. I'm pretty sure it remembers which personality each message came from and will default your settings appropriately. If not, the "from" line is a pulldown anyway so you can change it instantly within the message. (This is actually handy since I set up a "Mail Administrator" profile that I use when replying to get companies to remove my email from their lists. The "admin" informs that no user exists with that address, so please remove it. Obviously this isn't for autospam, but POPFile catches all that anyway)
I can't think of anything that Eudora can't do for me. I've been using it for close to a decade now and have never even considered abandoning it... I also bask in the fact that I've never heard of a virus that can hurt a Eudora user (short of stupidly opening a boobytrapped attachment) while Outlook seems to have a steady stream of exploits...
I've got all my bases covered: Eudora (mail) + Forte Agent (news) + Phoenix (web) + Putty (telnet) + WSFTP LE (ftp) + POPFile (antispam). Every app does one thing, and one thing well...
They've had to "uncouple" IE. Now they're being asked to uncouple Media Player.
What's next? Uncoupling the calculator? The start button? Command prompt?
Following this line of thinking ad absurdum, what exactly is Microsoft allowed to package with Windows? Sheesh!
Did they try to screw me? Well, kinda. But not by lying about sales figures.
It was a slightly complex situation than I first described. The whole setup was a three-way agreement between 3 different folks. First was the guy who came up with the whole idea. This was his little brainchild. But he wasn't much of a Delphi programmer, so he contracted with me to write the code. He also wasn't a marketing person so he contracted with another guy to handle sales and marketting. The three of us collaborated like a virtual company that didn't fully trust each other very much, and for good reason as it turned out.
The sales guy kept stringing us out requesting stupid little changes and enhancements month after month, delaying the entire release almost a year! Then right at the very end it turns out that he'd been having a buddy of his writing almost an exact clone of the tool so that he could sell his version and keep all the profits for himself rather than sharing from our pie...
Unfortunately, our contracts didn't have any sort of "non-compete" clause in them since we all were picturing things working out and all of us raking in the dough. (It was poised to be one of the first entry-level eCommerce tools on the market back in 1998. *sigh*)
So, lesson learned. Even when someone stands to gain by cooperating with you, if they think they can gain more by exploiting you, they probably will.
I at least later got some small karma revenge from finding out that he got mired in some other lawsuits and that his wife left him.. Oh well.. it was some good experience and one more thing to add to the resume.
So this was a long way of saying that, yeah, they tried to screw me, but not in any way that my backdoors were useful. Turned out to be IP theft, not actual code theft.
I was subcontracted to build a Delphi app for some other folks. The payment was going to be some pocket change up front and then a percent of sales.
Paranoid that the minute I gave them the program it was going to turn into "Mooman? We never heard of no Mooman" and screw me from the sales, I made a backdoor/easter egg: While the splash screen was showing, if you type m-o-o, the splash would change to information about my little company.
Since the people I was providing the code to weren't Delphi folks, I figured it was a safe CYA to make sure that I got credit where it was due...
I also wrote a perl-based self-registration CGI for them too, and in it I set up a backdoor just so I could get the count of the number of registrations.. Again, just to keep 'em honest.
Not malicious by any stretch but I feel completely justified in what I did...
MUDS were certainly out of infancy then. I was playing them in early '91, which was about the time that the painfully close-to-home parady Addicted To Muds came out... That "song" actually was a wake-up call for me that I really was spending a little too much time playing MUDS... (Staying up until 4am and only getting 3 hours of sleep apparently weren't obvious enough symptoms for me. Never underestimate the power of denial...)
I had never even heard of "Master of Orion" before today...
I resemble that remark... ;)
I think it depends on your age too. I've never even heard of "Master of Orion" myself, but am a recovered MOO/MUSH/MUD/MUCK player from over a decade ago. [I actually remember reading this post when it came out back in 1991...] I happen to recall a rather large faction of us that were into that whole gaming scene.
So if there are anything approaching a thousand "Master of Orion" fans out there for each of us MUD old-timers, I'm very impressed.... and thereby equally surprised that I haven't heard of it before now...
(and no, the username actually doesn't come from gaming, but from college)
Does this *need* language recognition? I'm assuming that there are enough differences in the words between the two languages that your Norwegian emails will have relatively few English words and the English emails with probably even fewer Norwegian works in them.
Most of these bayesian methods really don't care what the words *are*. (CM114 doesn't even store words for that matter, it stores hashes.) So in your case, your non-spam (good mail) corpus would be heavily weighted with a lot of words that I probably can't pronounce, but are unique to your good mail. Your spam corpus would supply mostly English words. Since you'll need to "feed" these two corpi into any of the Bayes tools, you'll be essentially "teaching" it the differences.
Then any new mail getting filtered will get tested against these two sets. Clearly your Norwegian mail is more likely to get matched as non-spam than your English mail will.
I would almost expect better response from this approach (once you have some content in your corpus) since you're not counting on someone else's use of the language or approach of implementation. Maybe they use Norwegian and English a little differently than you...
If you still want to screen based on language, you could always just add a filter to whatever mail client or filtering tool you use that just checks for the top 10 words in Norwegian and assumes that that message isn't English. (this site seems to have just such a list) You could do it the other way too. The top 10 english words are: (the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it )
Anyway, I'd be curious to see if bayesian filtering resolves the issue without explicit language checking.. I'd almost expect that it would....
I'm sure most of the other old fogeys will remember the name Craig Shergold...
Yeah, count me in. I remember installing Slack back when all of the various packages had cryptic one-letter names. Like A, D, N, X, etc... You could add in whichever bits you needed. Getting them to work *together* was a bit of a pain though...
;)
I used to use the Yggdrasil "bible" documentation to help me figure stuff out.
*sniff* Ah. the good old days
There are several already:l
m e /Abandonware/
http://www.petitiononline.com/Abware/petition.htm
http://mivox.com/essays/petition.html
http://www.bhlegend.com/icas
etc..
And here are some directory sites that link to other similar abandonware sites:
http://www.inter-change.com/online/abandonware.ht
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Softwar
I don't think many people ever gave much thought to the licensing of MAME itself. I mean, it's nice that it's possibly joining the ranks of the open source movement, but the whole licensing and legality of the rom images I think is a far more restrictive dilemma...
Now if the games themselves were being made GPL, now that would be some great news!
how much grief Garth Brooks took when he protested people reselling used cds...
I think we have a new "piss off the public" " king-of-the-hill now...
Here's my Mozilla Google bookmarklet:
r am es.length;i++){q=frames[i].document.getSelection() ;if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Keywords:','')); if(q)location.href='http://www.google.com/search?q ='+escape(q,1)+'&hl=en&safe=off'
javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;if
[Slashdot adds a space or two to the above code.. strip those out when adding this to your bookmark list]
I just add it to my toolbar folder so it's right under the URL line. You can either click it and type your search in the popup, or highlight some text first, then click the bookmark, and it will submit that text to google...
[Footnote: on some complex pages it does not always seem to respond, but I've been too busy to test why]
No kidding. If you need special paper, then how is this really much different than writing on a graphics tablet?
I think the more practical device would be a run-of-mill-looking clipboard that you could clip any kind of paper to, write on it, and store that image..
I think that offers more flexibility (like automatically filling out "forms" in triplicate, storing receipt/stub information for business travellers, and so on) and would be easier to incorporate wireless into. Shoot, you could even put an inconspicuous PCMCIA slot into it for a wifi adapter, disk drive, or whatever...
Just lend this pen to people anytime they need to sign something.
Viola, you've captured their signature and can forge it whenever needed...
1. Lend pen to important people
2. Blackmail and defraud
3. Profit!
Original Washington Post article was: "Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever"
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Followup article, after slashdot story, was: "Attack on Washington Post Called Largest Ever".
Ah.. behold the mighty power of
I have an old P166 CTX laptop with a 1.6G hard drive I got back in '98. I did the Gentoo download and bootstrap build approach a couple days ago. It started compiling around midnight, and was still gcc'ing away at 8:30 the next morning when I left for work.
:)
When I got home, it had aborted due to being unable to connect to their rsync machine (a problem that others have reported as well) so I kicked the whole process off again. This time, I think my poor old harddrive gave up the ghost from all the thrashing. Now I get nothing but hda errors, even when I boot from a tomsrtbt floppy. It's almost like Gentoo slashdotted my hard drive..
I'll give gentoo another try after I find a new laptop HD on ebay... (Anyone got a 2-6 Gig 2.5" notebook IDE drive that needs a new home?)
So yeah, plan on some compile time if you have anything less than a speedy box...
This smacks a little too much of something like Snow Crash to me... I wonder if he was staring at some white noise prior to collapsing...
As far as I know, wardriving is the only war* term related to 802.11 technologies.
Uh.. Wardriving, warchalking, wartrapping, warwanking...
He's got a point...
Actually, for inexplicable reasons, I've always pictured Monty Python members in several of the roles for HGTTG anyway..
In my mind, John Cleese was the slightly-off Ford Prefect and Terry Jones was the frumpish Arthur Dent.
Shame that they're getting older or I'd have loved to see them considered for those roles...