Those are reasonable options for default if you want to mirror. In particular robots=off is a useful switch (one which some sites didn't wish existed, no doubt)
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I'm surprised at how much of a forced 'either/or' proposition people try to make it. Photoshop is the expensive 'professional standard' bitmap editing tool, and the GIMP is the free open source one, but there are many alternatives that are servicible and in many ways a better choice for many people. Personally I use Picture Publisher like yourself on Windows and the GIMP on freenixes. I've never, ever, used Photoshop and haven't really felt like I was missing out on much. If I were a graphics professional it would be different, but instead I'm a casual user whose most common photoediting task is scanning in xrays at work and casual editing of photographs at home of stuff I'm selling on eBay.
Paint Shop Pro is another viable and powerful alternative that is MUCH more user friendly than the GIMP. I don't say this as someone who has never used the GIMP, mind you. I remember it and used it before it spawned off the GTK back in the old days.
I also like XV and have used that particular image manipulation program since before Linux even existed.
There seems to be this notion that the GIMP should evolve into the be-all and end-all of everything.
Um, that goes against the whole UNIX philosphy, dudes.
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People do that already with other GPL'd software on eBay. I don't know if it's there at present, but there used to be an ebay seller hawking 'Luxuriousity Office' which was OpenOffice rebranded and packaged under a different name. I am assuming they did it in a legal fashion, but never 'bought' a copy to find out.
You know, what you just wrote is really weird. You seem to imply that only an organization that doesn't have a vested interest in maintaining credibility can be relied on.
What will I get for convincing a few more people that a rather heavy 'light weight' web browser is a mistake. Namely, what will award do I get for promoting the classic Mozilla Suite (is it still called Seamonkey?) If I convince a few people to upgrade from Firefox to Mozilla is there honorable mention in the tarball of the fork? (The fork, now that the 'Firefox' people have stripped out 'the good stuff.')
This is true. However, most PhDs are unemployable outside of academia. So keep on that track and avoid getting any real world experience, if that's the gig you like.
Where you typed 'the people as a whole' I think you maybe should have typed 'a group of somewhat self-appointed bureaucrats.' The potential for abuse is considerable in any event. Have you ever come up against someone from the civil service? That woman at the DMV is nothing compared to the NASA bureaucracy.
If stuff 'bounces off' it will then be flying in totally new trajectories. Which I would think could screw up the space agencies' ability to track it. I wonder how this sort of thing 'scales' to the point of having a lot of private craft in space. Will the ping-pong of space junk lead to it becoming untrackable?
Doesn't matter if you are on Linux, OS X, Windows, or whatever...the dialog box would be the same.
Sounds like a real mess to me. Every installation of an OS typically installes many, many programs.
I can see that under your regime it would take me 7 hours, instead of 7 minutes, to install NetBSD on a new piece of hardware. It would be like installing Slackware, back in the day, having made the mistake of telling the installer to confirm each package.
It sounds like you've bought too far into the whole 'USB' thing. Heck, you might even be running an OS with too much USB support.
My DVD+R drive here on my NetBSD machine does about anything a person could want, and it was only a $60 drive six months ago. It's old fashioned though. Shucks.
If you ignore the multi-language installer, Opera's install size has increased about 500kb over the past five years.
That may be true, but I can remember when one of the boasting points about Opera was that the install binary could be carried around on one floppy diskette. And I got had a paid, registered copy of Opera back then.
Well, perhaps you have a point, in that the Western interests aren't using sections of the Chinese population as slave laborers. It's the establishment within China that keeps and uses them as slaves. Not metaphorically, I might add.
'Standard of living' is a tricky concept that can be used to shield the truth. If a country has a 'high standard of living' it can mean they have prosperous well-fed people who have little or no freedom to control their own lives. It can mean that the 'average' is okay but that there is a small rich and powerful class that evens out the fact that most people are poor and powerless.
And the notion that 'things are better in China now than they have been historically' just flies in the face of China's rich cultural history. To claim, as you seem to, that Westernization is 'better' than the past.... Well, I think that's an attitude that many Chinese would find offensive, coming from someone who apparently knows little about China.
Truth is, the loudest opponents of DRM tend to feel they are spokespeople for 'the consumer,' who are the regular ordinary 'proles' in the world. And said 'proles' will always need a 'vanguard' to champion and protect their interests. As identified and defined by said 'vanguard,' of course.
Nice sleight-of-hand switch from 'RELIES on Ethics' to 'rely on government' in that comment.
There are no 'quick' answers that can be fully addressed in a comment box on a web forum. But this includes 'government fiat' as one of those optional 'quick answers.'
It's a little shocking that people like you think that government encroachment into the business process is somehow a form of protection against fascism. I mean, your approach essentially DEFINES fascism.
No, I don't mean 'fascism' as it's bandied around in the discussions a lot of shallow thinkers engage in.
Unless the Oil Companies were completely insane, of course that is what they will state.
I don't sell laptops on eBay for $37.95 (including shipping) with buy-it-now. The oil companies don't give away their product, either.
Escalating oil prices, incidentally, are good for the environment. The possiblity of alternative fuels opens up when the price of oil rises to a point where they become more feasible in the market.
The end result, at this point in time, of $.87/gallon gasoline would be environmentally devastating. Let's not pretend otherwise.
Malda's stock options for "VA Software/Used Cars/Whatever" have plummeted and he had to get rid of the cable TV. His mother still sends him VHS tapes of programming, but she lost the remote control to change channels and her cable box is stuck on the Discovery Channel.
Given that the alternative is reading Linux Kernel Developers listservs (that Malda really can't understand, read his perl code if you need to understand why) he's immersed himself in reruns of the Discovery Channel.
I wasn't aware that China was allowing camera crews to wander wherever they wanted in China, including a thorough investigation of 'corrective facilities' which use convicts as a labor source.
I wasn't even aware that the Chinese in power were allowing free dissemination of anything at all. If (which is pretty likely) there are prisons in China that look like Gitmo, there sure isn't the corresponding media coverage.
It's interesting how all the attention is consistently directed at 'abuses' in countries where it's convenient for the media to report them.
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More wget tips:
.wgetrc file in your home directory (on a real OS, not on the Win32 port).
You can create a
Mine reads:
robots=off
no_parent=on
recursive=on
user-agent=blahblah
Those are reasonable options for default if you want to mirror. In particular robots=off is a useful switch (one which some sites didn't wish existed, no doubt)
I'm surprised at how much of a forced 'either/or' proposition people try to make it. Photoshop is the expensive 'professional standard' bitmap editing tool, and the GIMP is the free open source one, but there are many alternatives that are servicible and in many ways a better choice for many people. Personally I use Picture Publisher like yourself on Windows and the GIMP on freenixes. I've never, ever, used Photoshop and haven't really felt like I was missing out on much. If I were a graphics professional it would be different, but instead I'm a casual user whose most common photoediting task is scanning in xrays at work and casual editing of photographs at home of stuff I'm selling on eBay.
Paint Shop Pro is another viable and powerful alternative that is MUCH more user friendly than the GIMP. I don't say this as someone who has never used the GIMP, mind you. I remember it and used it before it spawned off the GTK back in the old days.
I also like XV and have used that particular image manipulation program since before Linux even existed.
There seems to be this notion that the GIMP should evolve into the be-all and end-all of everything.
Um, that goes against the whole UNIX philosphy, dudes.
People do that already with other GPL'd software on eBay. I don't know if it's there at present, but there used to be an ebay seller hawking 'Luxuriousity Office' which was OpenOffice rebranded and packaged under a different name. I am assuming they did it in a legal fashion, but never 'bought' a copy to find out.
then I would worry about the state of college newspapers.
That goes without saying.
"When you flunk Calculus, and then are thrown out of the English Department, you can always transfer to J-School."
You know, what you just wrote is really weird. You seem to imply that only an organization that doesn't have a vested interest in maintaining credibility can be relied on.
Think about it.
What will I get for convincing a few more people that a rather heavy 'light weight' web browser is a mistake. Namely, what will award do I get for promoting the classic Mozilla Suite (is it still called Seamonkey?) If I convince a few people to upgrade from Firefox to Mozilla is there honorable mention in the tarball of the fork? (The fork, now that the 'Firefox' people have stripped out 'the good stuff.')
Probably because all an undergrad degree in CS is good for is hacking some code.
He typed _calligraphy_, not _cocaine_.
This is true. However, most PhDs are unemployable outside of academia. So keep on that track and avoid getting any real world experience, if that's the gig you like.
Some of it is inspired by trip-hop, others from 80s hip hop or 90s gangsta. A lot of it is really bad.
No need to get redundant on us, now.
Where you typed 'the people as a whole' I think you maybe should have typed 'a group of somewhat self-appointed bureaucrats.' The potential for abuse is considerable in any event. Have you ever come up against someone from the civil service? That woman at the DMV is nothing compared to the NASA bureaucracy.
If stuff 'bounces off' it will then be flying in totally new trajectories. Which I would think could screw up the space agencies' ability to track it. I wonder how this sort of thing 'scales' to the point of having a lot of private craft in space. Will the ping-pong of space junk lead to it becoming untrackable?
That has happened with Microsoft's so-called "Windows Genuine Advantage"
Not hardly. A computer running a Microsoft OS by definition can't be doing anything important.
NetBSD...because installing UNIX was less humiliating than having to flash plastic at smug fucks in the Apple Store.
Doesn't matter if you are on Linux, OS X, Windows, or whatever...the dialog box would be the same.
Sounds like a real mess to me. Every installation of an OS typically installes many, many programs.
I can see that under your regime it would take me 7 hours, instead of 7 minutes, to install NetBSD on a new piece of hardware. It would be like installing Slackware, back in the day, having made the mistake of telling the installer to confirm each package.
It sounds like you've bought too far into the whole 'USB' thing. Heck, you might even be running an OS with too much USB support.
My DVD+R drive here on my NetBSD machine does about anything a person could want, and it was only a $60 drive six months ago. It's old fashioned though. Shucks.
If you ignore the multi-language installer, Opera's install size has increased about 500kb over the past five years.
That may be true, but I can remember when one of the boasting points about Opera was that the install binary could be carried around on one floppy diskette. And I got had a paid, registered copy of Opera back then.
Bloatware is what bloatware duz.
Well, perhaps you have a point, in that the Western interests aren't using sections of the Chinese population as slave laborers. It's the establishment within China that keeps and uses them as slaves. Not metaphorically, I might add.
'Standard of living' is a tricky concept that can be used to shield the truth. If a country has a 'high standard of living' it can mean they have prosperous well-fed people who have little or no freedom to control their own lives. It can mean that the 'average' is okay but that there is a small rich and powerful class that evens out the fact that most people are poor and powerless.
And the notion that 'things are better in China now than they have been historically' just flies in the face of China's rich cultural history. To claim, as you seem to, that Westernization is 'better' than the past.... Well, I think that's an attitude that many Chinese would find offensive, coming from someone who apparently knows little about China.
Truth is, the loudest opponents of DRM tend to feel they are spokespeople for 'the consumer,' who are the regular ordinary 'proles' in the world. And said 'proles' will always need a 'vanguard' to champion and protect their interests. As identified and defined by said 'vanguard,' of course.
Same as it ever was.
Nice sleight-of-hand switch from 'RELIES on Ethics' to 'rely on government' in that comment.
There are no 'quick' answers that can be fully addressed in a comment box on a web forum. But this includes 'government fiat' as one of those optional 'quick answers.'
It's a little shocking that people like you think that government encroachment into the business process is somehow a form of protection against fascism. I mean, your approach essentially DEFINES fascism.
No, I don't mean 'fascism' as it's bandied around in the discussions a lot of shallow thinkers engage in.
Unless the Oil Companies were completely insane, of course that is what they will state.
I don't sell laptops on eBay for $37.95 (including shipping) with buy-it-now. The oil companies don't give away their product, either.
Escalating oil prices, incidentally, are good for the environment. The possiblity of alternative fuels opens up when the price of oil rises to a point where they become more feasible in the market.
The end result, at this point in time, of $.87/gallon gasoline would be environmentally devastating. Let's not pretend otherwise.
Malda's stock options for "VA Software/Used Cars/Whatever" have plummeted and he had to get rid of the cable TV. His mother still sends him VHS tapes of programming, but she lost the remote control to change channels and her cable box is stuck on the Discovery Channel.
Given that the alternative is reading Linux Kernel Developers listservs (that Malda really can't understand, read his perl code if you need to understand why) he's immersed himself in reruns of the Discovery Channel.
I wasn't aware that China was allowing camera crews to wander wherever they wanted in China, including a thorough investigation of 'corrective facilities' which use convicts as a labor source.
I wasn't even aware that the Chinese in power were allowing free dissemination of anything at all. If (which is pretty likely) there are prisons in China that look like Gitmo, there sure isn't the corresponding media coverage.
It's interesting how all the attention is consistently directed at 'abuses' in countries where it's convenient for the media to report them.
Yeah. *smacks forehead*
Just like they bought up the patents for that 100 mile per gallon carbuerator and hid it away in their 'secret idea warehouse' in Area 51.
Have a nice compliant day. :=)
You fucked up on your investments, and now you're *angry* huh? Don't worry. Nanny government will protect you.
Tool.