actually, iirc (i'm an athiest raised lutheran) the whole "eye for an eye" thing started with the code of Hammurabi (sp?), who probably got himself mentioned in the bible because of the fact that he was an important Babylonian ruler...
you really think the average luser is going to pay 8 bucks to get a new keyboard which is no better than the one they already have? for this to be actually scary AOL would have to get M$-style agreements (i'm gonna make you a keyboard you can't refuse:) with OEMs, which i don't see happening--the big OEMs (like Compaq) probably want to produce their own keyboards with their own special buttons, so the only OEMs who would bite would probably be the little irrelevant ones. so big deal. (now if AOL would put their stupid buttons on a Kinesis keyboard--there's a nice big space in the middle of the keyboard for them--and give them out for 8 bucks i'd bite though...and i'd have 17 buttons to map to emacs keys:)
the article seemed to say that Mr. Sun (Kingston guy) not Sun (the company) offered the golf match to Mr. McNealy to settle the dispute... that would be *really* fun to see a webcast of...
i did a double major in psyc and cs (i switched into cs from psyc), and i think that as a programmer the one thing you'll find *really* annoying about psyc is how insanely dumb, imprecise and pc many of your fellow students are... not sure if that gets better in grad school though...
Yeah, instead of Russia or some other country why don't we just get some valley company to go public with the idea of selling banner ads on a live video feed of the space station? This idea is guaranteed to lose a ton of money in the first few years, so it must be worth billions! Then we can get VCs to fund the whole thing--who needs the international community;)
So is a nice fault-tolerant solution to have DNS at your hosting provider and at http://soa.granitecanyon.com and have both MX records specify the same IP (but a different IP than your web server) as your mail server? Does anyone know of another place that provides free DNS service? (In order to be more fault tolerant it would be nice to have 3 DNS servers instead of just 2.)
If/. is already mentioned in the email, then why doesn't it go a step further and also mirror the source code? I'm sure that Andover.net is *much* better equipped to fight a legal battle than these individuals are:-)
(Note: this is NOT meant in a negative way. If it wasn't for/. many people, myself included, wouldn't know what was going on re. this issue at all...)
While I agree with most of what you say, I disagree about one point: hardware support is a (necessary but not sufficient) factor. Yes, windoze has better hardware support, but once you rule out windoze and you start choosing between the BSDs and Linux, then (for desktop systems) hardware support is certainly a factor.
I use a logitech mouse too (the one with the third button as a thumb button and with a wheel (which works with GNOME terminals)) and I have found that the nicest mouse pad I have ever used is a new one called "cyber gel" which you can buy at Fry's if you live near one. Don't know a URL of the company, sorry.
I am using a M$ elite right now (with Linux of course) but I preferred my old v1 M$ natural (when it was springier) since it didn't have those demented tiny home/insert/delete and idiotic arrow keys. Also, the built in wrist rest in the M$ elite and v1 natural isn't good enough, but there are 2 things you can do about that:
1. buy a gel wrist rest which is not permanently mounted on a stupid plastic base (leaving it free to follow the contour of the built-in wrist rest
2. cut the built-in wrist rest with a hacksaw to straighten it out (make sure to open the keyboard up first though so you know where the circuitry stops!!!) and then sand down the sharp edge you've cut. Then you can use a normal wrist rest (or a funky gel one like the kensington sports ones) with it. If you cut at a bit of an angle (so that the bottom is more deeply cut in than the top) I found that the wrist rest slides up against it nicely. I did this to an old M$ natural v1 keyboard and it works nicely.
The two things I haven't tried are (1) attaching a gel wrist rest on top of the built-in one (you can't just buy one and set it on top since it is too high, you'd have to cut it up and get rid of lots of the gel and somehow put it back together) and (2) those funky sunken keyboards like the Maltron and the Kinesys.
All generalizations are false (!), but when Roblimo starts making them he sounds like an irrelevant, sexist anachronism. Why this kind of shit belongs on/. is beyond me...
When I registered a domain name to use (should I ever be a high-priced consultant) I used PeterArmstrong.com. I obviously couldn't use Armstrong.com (since that's tile flooring, but it could have been cheese), but that didn't bother me since using one's first and last name seems a lot more personal. People whose first and last names have been registered could just add in their middle name or initial or whatever... Until.com loses its sex appeal lots of people will want a.com so that seems to be the best interim solution...
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actually, iirc (i'm an athiest raised lutheran) the whole "eye for an eye" thing started with the code of Hammurabi (sp?), who probably got himself mentioned in the bible because of the fact that he was an important Babylonian ruler...
you really think the average luser is going to pay 8 bucks to get a new keyboard which is no better than the one they already have? for this to be actually scary AOL would have to get M$-style agreements (i'm gonna make you a keyboard you can't refuse :) with OEMs, which i don't see happening--the big OEMs (like Compaq) probably want to produce their own keyboards with their own special buttons, so the only OEMs who would bite would probably be the little irrelevant ones. so big deal. (now if AOL would put their stupid buttons on a Kinesis keyboard--there's a nice big space in the middle of the keyboard for them--and give them out for 8 bucks i'd bite though...and i'd have 17 buttons to map to emacs keys :)
i thought it was contempt ;) ...it might breed content also, but only if you're lucky :)
so do i... best thing i've seen on /. all day.
the article seemed to say that Mr. Sun (Kingston guy) not Sun (the company) offered the golf match to Mr. McNealy to settle the dispute... that would be *really* fun to see a webcast of...
hopefully the beer is better than the (cough) language :)
nice.
i did a double major in psyc and cs (i switched into cs from psyc), and i think that as a programmer the one thing you'll find *really* annoying about psyc is how insanely dumb, imprecise and pc many of your fellow students are... not sure if that gets better in grad school though...
Yeah, instead of Russia or some other country why don't we just get some valley company to go public with the idea of selling banner ads on a live video feed of the space station? This idea is guaranteed to lose a ton of money in the first few years, so it must be worth billions! Then we can get VCs to fund the whole thing--who needs the international community ;)
So is a nice fault-tolerant solution to have DNS at your hosting provider and at http://soa.granitecanyon.com and have both MX records specify the same IP (but a different IP than your web server) as your mail server? Does anyone know of another place that provides free DNS service? (In order to be more fault tolerant it would be nice to have 3 DNS servers instead of just 2.)
I heard/read somewhere it was 6 BC...
If /. is already mentioned in the email, then why doesn't it go a step further and also mirror the source code? I'm sure that Andover.net is *much* better equipped to fight a legal battle than these individuals are :-)
/. many people, myself included, wouldn't know what was going on re. this issue at all...)
(Note: this is NOT meant in a negative way. If it wasn't for
While I agree with most of what you say, I disagree about one point: hardware support is a (necessary but not sufficient) factor. Yes, windoze has better hardware support, but once you rule out windoze and you start choosing between the BSDs and Linux, then (for desktop systems) hardware support is certainly a factor.
I use a logitech mouse too (the one with the third button as a thumb button and with a wheel (which works with GNOME terminals)) and I have found that the nicest mouse pad I have ever used is a new one called "cyber gel" which you can buy at Fry's if you live near one. Don't know a URL of the company, sorry.
I am using a M$ elite right now (with Linux of course) but I preferred my old v1 M$ natural (when it was springier) since it didn't have those demented tiny home/insert/delete and idiotic arrow keys. Also, the built in wrist rest in the M$ elite and v1 natural isn't good enough, but there are 2 things you can do about that:
1. buy a gel wrist rest which is not permanently mounted on a stupid plastic base (leaving it free to follow the contour of the built-in wrist rest
2. cut the built-in wrist rest with a hacksaw to straighten it out (make sure to open the keyboard up first though so you know where the circuitry stops!!!) and then sand down the sharp edge you've cut. Then you can use a normal wrist rest (or a funky gel one like the kensington sports ones) with it. If you cut at a bit of an angle (so that the bottom is more deeply cut in than the top) I found that the wrist rest slides up against it nicely. I did this to an old M$ natural v1 keyboard and it works nicely.
The two things I haven't tried are (1) attaching a gel wrist rest on top of the built-in one (you can't just buy one and set it on top since it is too high, you'd have to cut it up and get rid of lots of the gel and somehow put it back together) and (2) those funky sunken keyboards like the Maltron and the Kinesys.
Does anyone have any experience with either?
...it's disclosure not discloser! But I hope you make a ton of money :-)
Isn't mod_perl the Perl Apache module? So that's not a point of comparison then?
Can't they just say it's a parody and be covered that way?
All generalizations are false (!), but when Roblimo starts making them he sounds like an irrelevant, sexist anachronism. Why this kind of shit belongs on /. is beyond me...
Unfortunately I don't have any advice, but I might soon be in a very similar position and I'd be very interested in hearing what you decided on.
When I registered a domain name to use (should I ever be a high-priced consultant) I used PeterArmstrong.com. I obviously couldn't use Armstrong.com (since that's tile flooring, but it could have been cheese), but that didn't bother me since using one's first and last name seems a lot more personal. People whose first and last names have been registered could just add in their middle name or initial or whatever... Until .com loses its sex appeal lots of people will want a .com so that seems to be the best interim solution...