Because Mailman has an annoying tendency to be web-based. You have to do the little password thing to do anything interesting, like subscribe.
i'm pretty sure that this statement is untrue, and that you can send list management commands via e-mail. unfortunately, the mailman documentation leaves something to be desired, and i couldn't find any specifics on this besides a few statements to the effect of "no, you don't have to use the web interface."
having said that, the web interface is a good thing for most users; it's fairly slick and easy to use. why bother explaining majordomo/whatever commands to a newbie when you can just point him/her to a web page?
Seriously. What you want is a vocational education, so leave the university, because that's not what a university education is about. A university education is designed to ground you in general principles that will be of value through your lifetime, as long as you have the intelligence to adapt and apply those principles to whatever challenges you face. It is not designed to teach you specific skills so that you can immediately land a job. A reasonably intelligent person can quickly learn whatever specific skills are needed for a job while on the job.
don't forget professional services and consulting, which can bring in a good deal of money. he mentioned that in the same interview, but i guess you chose to overlook it.
I agree. The ideal scenario would be to give these people the resources and the freedom to build the scoiety that they wanted. It wouldn't be what they have now, but it probably be wouldn't be what we wanted either.
There were a number of farmers' revolts following the American Revolutionary War. They were put down. There were isolated labor uprisings in West Virginia and Colorado during the late 1920s, I believe. They were put down.
There's a big difference between a professional army and a mob with rifles and shotguns. I'm not a big fan of guns, but, hey, if anyone wants to exercise his/her right to bear arms, be my guest -- fat lot of good it will do you.
I think you're the one being insensitive here. Katz has as much of a right to post his feelings about what happened -- and apparently today's events have hit him personally -- as anyone else. His article was sincere and heartfelt. How dare you and others like you jump all over him like this, when he is mourning like the rest of the country.
It is your reply that is an example of bad timing. I know you and your vocal minority have made up your minds about Katz and are going to hate what he says whenever he says it, but save your stupid kneejerk reactions for some other time. They're truly inappropriate.
It was also a twistedly conservative cry for masculinity. Note how men are emasculated by consumer culture and New Age-y therapy culture. Note how women and femininity (usually exaggerated and absurd: "bitch tits") in the movie are objects of fear, disdain, or ridicule. It was a solid and fascinating movie, but I wanted to point these aspects out, since people tend to fawn all over it.
"If your God says it's OK to kill people, your God is fucked up."
Aaargh, PLEASE be sane. There is nothing peculiar to Islam that sanctions violence. If you insist on thinking along these lines, at least recognize that one of the biggest problems the world faces today is fundamentalism.
That aside, we don't know who is responsible yet. Let's not point fingers. And when we do find out, let's be sane, let's be calm, let's be mature. No one more deserves to suffer as so many have today.
Wow, I remember GEOS! Didn't early versions of AOL use a GEOS windowing environment running on top of DOS? I seem to remember it that way... (I used to sign up for free AOL trial subscriptions way back when so I could download files, then upload them to local BBSes for leeching privileges... yeah, cheesy)
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What did Microsoft do with TrueType? I'm not familiar with this particular controversy...
Unfortunately, you're right; Nautilus is dog slow, which is a shame, because I truly like using it, especially the scripting support. For low-end systems, I would suggest switching from Nautilus to gmc. I think you can do this using Ximian Doorman, if you're so inclined.
On the bright side, the Nautilus hackers are working at speeding things up... Alan Cox recently posted some useful performance data which ought to be a big help. And I understand that Red Hat has been actively hacking on Nautilus... not sure if they're working on performance or features, though. Anyway, things ought to get better in the near future.
Oh come on, Ximian never claimed that they and Microsoft were collaborating on Mono. The most that Ximian ever said was that they had briefly talked to Microsoft about it, but were developing Mono independently.
And for the ten millionth time, Mono !=.Net..Net is an umbrella term for a whole slew of technologies, including the CLI, Passport, Hailstorm, and whatever else. Mono is a free implementation of the CLI (the virtual machine), the class libraries, and the compiler. Once that work is done, Mono should be generally useful regardless of what Microsoft does with.Net and its API. Granted, it will be more useful if Microsoft sticks to the standard they created and published... But I even recall reading an article somewhere where Miguel spoke of "embracing and extending".Net!:)
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Actually the problem with acceptance of the original USB was lack of OS support. USB-equipped motherboards were available for quite some time, but Win95 and WinNT had extremely poor or no support respectively. I don't think USB devices took off until Win98 and then the iMac came out. As for Linux, well I love it and I use it, but it's probably fair to say that the USB support in 2.2 had little influence on the number of USB devices that were manufactured.
This is either a troll or the poster is clueless. The software mentioned in the article *is* becoming free (as opposed to open source), as it's being released under the terms of the GPL.
Incidentally, if a moderator were to mod the above post as off-topic or a troll, then he/she would most likely get meta-moderated as unfair, because that post looks reasonable when read out of context... Bummer.:-(
A "Soviet" is a workers' council, not the name of a place, a nation, or a person. So a Soviet Socialist Republic is simply (in theory, at least) a socialist republic comprised of workers' councils, not a socialist republic whose name also gives credit to some other entity called "Soviet," and thus is not at all analogous to the whole Linux - GNU/Linux war.
Back to the main point of the discussion (and this is not necessarily directed to the specific poster I am responding to), I would like to respectfully ask that we not misconstrue or oversimplify the Free Software vs. Open Source vs. proprietary software debate by comparing non-proprietary software to communism (or even socialism, since that's just as dirty a word in the U.S.). It's not a very fruitful or fair comparison, since it's such a loaded term, and serves simply to obscure whatever truly valid points are being made. (Personally, I'm not a big fan of communism as practiced or theorized in the 20th century, but I still have my hopes for socialism in general)
Anyway: Think RMS is too dogmatic? Don't like the FSF's ideas on intellectual property? Offended by long-haired hippies? Fine, say so, and explain why! But please, no more of these lazy comparisons.
Looks are subjective, of course, but I too disagree with the author's opinion that Galeon is the worst looking of the lot. If GNOME is your desktop, then Galeon looks and feels native, which is important to me for some reason. This is why I also tend to use IE (gasp!) when I'm using Windows. At any rate, just about all of the current Linux web browsers have come a long way, so whatever you choose is going to be a good choice.
God, this would make a cool MP3 player for my living room. If Linux IrDA support is good, maybe I could even use a remote control with it! I better start reading the LIRC site... Even if it isn't easy, this would make a fun little project.
And with MAME and Snes9x (plus a couple USB gamepads), I'd have a nice game console, as well. With some of the best games ever made, natch.
Yeah, it was always a pain in the ass trying to figure out how to get a Dell machine with Linux preinstalled. Sometimes you could go to www.dell.com/linux, read all about how Dell is thrilled to be supporting Linux, click on "configure a computer," and be taken to a page that let you choose between Win98 and Win2000. Ugh.
However, it really does cost Dell a lot to support Linux. They have to test and validate the OS with every hardware configuration they sell and note those configurations that don't work, they have to make changes to the manufacturing process to support the new OS, and they have to train and staff support lines for Linux customers, and so on.
How dare Ralph and co. complain? This is a capitalist society--if you don't like it, leave it! Money makes the world goes round--that's just how it is! How can someone complain about search engines skewing results to benefit paying advertisers, that's how search engines work!
Keep the circular arguments coming, slashdotters! And don't rest until the Internet is as bland, homogenous, crass, and stultifying as network television and Top 40 radio! One day everyday life and just plain everything will be more boring than our wildest imaginings! Keep fighting until that dream of a money-driven monoculture is a reality--we're almost there!
Yee haw! Are we dead yet?
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Those are not run-on sentences. They are grammatically correct.:)
Despite what the release notes say, user.js seems to be a better location for custom settings, because configuration changes made through the UI will often cause the entire prefs.js file to be overwritten.
Of course, it would be nicer to disable ad sites on the fly, as they are encountered. If I knew a bit more about how Mozilla worked, I could probably do it myself, but I'm lazy, and Mozilla documentation is still a bit scattered. For all I know, it might be possible to do this sort of thing now with Galeon, but I haven't tried the latest release.
Has anyone here tried writing anything with Inform? I'm about to check it out myself, but I'd interested to hear about others' experiences and impressions.
If you ever saw the short-lived Fox sitcom "Herman's Head," then you saw most of the voice actors--including the voice of Bart, who is in reality a short, squeaky woman with beady eyes...
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i'm pretty sure that this statement is untrue, and that you can send list management commands via e-mail. unfortunately, the mailman documentation leaves something to be desired, and i couldn't find any specifics on this besides a few statements to the effect of "no, you don't have to use the web interface."
having said that, the web interface is a good thing for most users; it's fairly slick and easy to use. why bother explaining majordomo/whatever commands to a newbie when you can just point him/her to a web page?
jacob
Seriously. What you want is a vocational education, so leave the university, because that's not what a university education is about. A university education is designed to ground you in general principles that will be of value through your lifetime, as long as you have the intelligence to adapt and apply those principles to whatever challenges you face. It is not designed to teach you specific skills so that you can immediately land a job. A reasonably intelligent person can quickly learn whatever specific skills are needed for a job while on the job.
don't forget professional services and consulting, which can bring in a good deal of money. he mentioned that in the same interview, but i guess you chose to overlook it.
I agree. The ideal scenario would be to give these people the resources and the freedom to build the scoiety that they wanted. It wouldn't be what they have now, but it probably be wouldn't be what we wanted either.
don't forget the Ku Klux Klan. plus there were a number of anarchist-attributed acts of terrors (and state/corporate responses) in the 1890s.
There were a number of farmers' revolts following the American Revolutionary War. They were put down. There were isolated labor uprisings in West Virginia and Colorado during the late 1920s, I believe. They were put down.
There's a big difference between a professional army and a mob with rifles and shotguns. I'm not a big fan of guns, but, hey, if anyone wants to exercise his/her right to bear arms, be my guest -- fat lot of good it will do you.
Just my $0.02...
I think you're the one being insensitive here. Katz has as much of a right to post his feelings about what happened -- and apparently today's events have hit him personally -- as anyone else. His article was sincere and heartfelt. How dare you and others like you jump all over him like this, when he is mourning like the rest of the country.
It is your reply that is an example of bad timing. I know you and your vocal minority have made up your minds about Katz and are going to hate what he says whenever he says it, but save your stupid kneejerk reactions for some other time. They're truly inappropriate.
It was also a twistedly conservative cry for masculinity. Note how men are emasculated by consumer culture and New Age-y therapy culture. Note how women and femininity (usually exaggerated and absurd: "bitch tits") in the movie are objects of fear, disdain, or ridicule. It was a solid and fascinating movie, but I wanted to point these aspects out, since people tend to fawn all over it.
Sorry for being off-topic.
Aaargh, PLEASE be sane. There is nothing peculiar to Islam that sanctions violence. If you insist on thinking along these lines, at least recognize that one of the biggest problems the world faces today is fundamentalism.
That aside, we don't know who is responsible yet. Let's not point fingers. And when we do find out, let's be sane, let's be calm, let's be mature. No one more deserves to suffer as so many have today.
-jacob
Wow, I remember GEOS! Didn't early versions of AOL use a GEOS windowing environment running on top of DOS? I seem to remember it that way... (I used to sign up for free AOL trial subscriptions way back when so I could download files, then upload them to local BBSes for leeching privileges... yeah, cheesy)
What did Microsoft do with TrueType? I'm not familiar with this particular controversy...
On the bright side, the Nautilus hackers are working at speeding things up... Alan Cox recently posted some useful performance data which ought to be a big help. And I understand that Red Hat has been actively hacking on Nautilus... not sure if they're working on performance or features, though. Anyway, things ought to get better in the near future.
And for the ten millionth time, Mono != .Net. .Net is an umbrella term for a whole slew of technologies, including the CLI, Passport, Hailstorm, and whatever else. Mono is a free implementation of the CLI (the virtual machine), the class libraries, and the compiler. Once that work is done, Mono should be generally useful regardless of what Microsoft does with .Net and its API. Granted, it will be more useful if Microsoft sticks to the standard they created and published... But I even recall reading an article somewhere where Miguel spoke of "embracing and extending" .Net! :)
Actually the problem with acceptance of the original USB was lack of OS support. USB-equipped motherboards were available for quite some time, but Win95 and WinNT had extremely poor or no support respectively. I don't think USB devices took off until Win98 and then the iMac came out. As for Linux, well I love it and I use it, but it's probably fair to say that the USB support in 2.2 had little influence on the number of USB devices that were manufactured.
My $0.02, anyway.
This is either a troll or the poster is clueless. The software mentioned in the article *is* becoming free (as opposed to open source), as it's being released under the terms of the GPL.
:-(
Incidentally, if a moderator were to mod the above post as off-topic or a troll, then he/she would most likely get meta-moderated as unfair, because that post looks reasonable when read out of context... Bummer.
A "Soviet" is a workers' council, not the name of a place, a nation, or a person. So a Soviet Socialist Republic is simply (in theory, at least) a socialist republic comprised of workers' councils, not a socialist republic whose name also gives credit to some other entity called "Soviet," and thus is not at all analogous to the whole Linux - GNU/Linux war.
Back to the main point of the discussion (and this is not necessarily directed to the specific poster I am responding to), I would like to respectfully ask that we not misconstrue or oversimplify the Free Software vs. Open Source vs. proprietary software debate by comparing non-proprietary software to communism (or even socialism, since that's just as dirty a word in the U.S.). It's not a very fruitful or fair comparison, since it's such a loaded term, and serves simply to obscure whatever truly valid points are being made. (Personally, I'm not a big fan of communism as practiced or theorized in the 20th century, but I still have my hopes for socialism in general)
Anyway: Think RMS is too dogmatic? Don't like the FSF's ideas on intellectual property? Offended by long-haired hippies? Fine, say so, and explain why! But please, no more of these lazy comparisons.
Looks are subjective, of course, but I too disagree with the author's opinion that Galeon is the worst looking of the lot. If GNOME is your desktop, then Galeon looks and feels native, which is important to me for some reason. This is why I also tend to use IE (gasp!) when I'm using Windows. At any rate, just about all of the current Linux web browsers have come a long way, so whatever you choose is going to be a good choice.
-jacob
And with MAME and Snes9x (plus a couple USB gamepads), I'd have a nice game console, as well. With some of the best games ever made, natch.
Now, if only the whole thing were cheaper...
I'm a fan of the ruby-crowned kinglet, myself.
However, it really does cost Dell a lot to support Linux. They have to test and validate the OS with every hardware configuration they sell and note those configurations that don't work, they have to make changes to the manufacturing process to support the new OS, and they have to train and staff support lines for Linux customers, and so on.
How dare Ralph and co. complain? This is a capitalist society--if you don't like it, leave it! Money makes the world goes round--that's just how it is! How can someone complain about search engines skewing results to benefit paying advertisers, that's how search engines work!
Keep the circular arguments coming, slashdotters! And don't rest until the Internet is as bland, homogenous, crass, and stultifying as network television and Top 40 radio! One day everyday life and just plain everything will be more boring than our wildest imaginings! Keep fighting until that dream of a money-driven monoculture is a reality--we're almost there!
Yee haw! Are we dead yet?
Those are not run-on sentences. They are grammatically correct. :)
For instance, my user.js looks something like this:
user_pref("capability.policy.strict.sites", "http://ads.x10.com http://popup.msn.com");
user_pref("capability.policy.strict.Window.open", "noAccess");
Despite what the release notes say, user.js seems to be a better location for custom settings, because configuration changes made through the UI will often cause the entire prefs.js file to be overwritten.
See the Configurable Security Policies document at Mozilla.org for more info.
Of course, it would be nicer to disable ad sites on the fly, as they are encountered. If I knew a bit more about how Mozilla worked, I could probably do it myself, but I'm lazy, and Mozilla documentation is still a bit scattered. For all I know, it might be possible to do this sort of thing now with Galeon, but I haven't tried the latest release.
-jacob
Has anyone here tried writing anything with Inform? I'm about to check it out myself, but I'd interested to hear about others' experiences and impressions.
If you ever saw the short-lived Fox sitcom "Herman's Head," then you saw most of the voice actors--including the voice of Bart, who is in reality a short, squeaky woman with beady eyes...