Clearly this poster hasnt got a clue how things should be done in the unix-a-like os'es.
The thing is, good programs are extensible because they just provide the core of doing things the right way. So does gpg. In easiest form, it can create keys and it can en/decrypt data.
This is what it does and that it does well.
Now, if you want bell and whistles, go find a software that you like and ask nicely the authors to include support for gpg.
For example, ive used gpg for allmost a year now, since gpg support was first published in Evolution mailer. I created my keys (3 commands, i have 3 emails and i wanted to use different keys), and put the date into Evolution. Since that day, i havent invoked gpg directly at all. I have some gui tools to import/scan keyservers for keys that im missing and evolution itself does the rest. So, in my eyes, gpg is as good as it can get.
You might not see images with this method but tell me, how do you disable "splashscreen" type adds.
Splashscreens are now quite common in the messageboards there. When you are in messagelist and you hit the link to read a message, you get to another page with huge add and second link to the actual real message. Its *F*R*U*S*T*R*A*T*I*N*G
WebWhack or DnsWhack
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When im feeling "really busy" at the office, im taking a spinn of WebWack(TM).
First, decide what kind of difficulty level you want, eq, pick a number from 2 - 10.
Open your browser, and do brain.randomize();
Pick N (where n stands for difficulty level) amount of characters from your brain.
enter those characters with www and com concattenated to the beginning and to the end
Hit enter
And be amazed!!
On could also decide number of times to repeat this process and ++ each time a site is found and play the game with office mates so everybody will have a good time;)
Yep, you got a point, and do you know whats the other deal that people recent when it comes to encryption? Its the faulty behaviour in OutlookExpress (Might be Outlook too, dont know really).
When i even sign my mail with a gpg in evolution, my mail looks like an attachment in OE because it cannot handle the "unknown" mime headers. I communicate a lot with email in company where i work and use gpg and there's been a lot of complaints when people cant reply to my mails because the body of my own email is readable only in notepad (yeah, like they give a fuck about correct quoting..). One moronic who had installed some bizarre movieplayer, tried to open my mail in it because OE was suggesting it. Cant belive the look in my face when he dropped by to my cubicle to ask, what was the video about that i send him.
Anyway, GPG integration in the evolution can't get simplier. Well, it can if it would integrate gey generation and key imports but signing and encryption is working totally transparently. You just enter your public key id into account settings and voilã.
Suggestion if you are tech oriented. Stop doing automatic forwarding and start using fetchmail or getmail (i would suggest getmail because its more flexiple to when multidropping whole domain from on pop to serveral)
Ofcourse this would require that bypass the whole RR mailsystem but, hell, if they dont give you the services you want, bypass them!
And if must read that email from public internet, setup your *own* machine to forward that email to your own rr box. Kinda hard to think that they would stop *that*
Wow, publishers are making more money than ever and gamehouses are on tighter budgets and even tighter deadlines "because we have to make money with your product"..
Redcarpet is free to use as a basic services but they also have "premium" package for 10 bucks a month that quarantees faster downloads (this might also mean that some packages appear later to free mirrors, but atleast, redhat channel seems to be quite fast since all upgraded rpms appear usually the same day as redhat puts them out..). Weird part is that after this premium service was launched, redcarpet got shitload of new mirrors and atleast for me, downloads have been really fast.(+800KB/s)
My company bought a bunch of intel server boxes loaded with ami megaraid 5XX (cant remember what) controllers and i must say that atleast in solaris, they suck big time. (Due to drivers i think). Best uptime for such box is around 3-5 days, depending on hd usage. Things start falling done that ssh stops responding first and then, after an hour or so, all other services die too (like apache,tomcat,jserv or mysql).
Well, rest of the company is sun advocates but as im part of another division, ive taken liberty to install linux on production and now, ive got these machines running over 2 months and i cant ever remember logging into the boxes after i installed them... (Allthought i had to tweak the setup first, server's scsibackplane didnt support maximum speed, and also, someone reported that current driver might not work well in 64BIT mode so i dropped it to 32BIT..)
So, atleast, megaraids seem to work for me but buy one and do your tests and make your own choise =)
All valid points but where's the counter argument? I think you missed the point of my post but judging by the boast at the end, again, you might have not...
The core of DJGPP is the MS-DOS port of the GNU C/C++ compiler, GCC, and auxiliary utilities, such as assembler, linker, librarian, Make, and a hypertext docs browser. The DJGPP C library was written specifically for DJGPP, mainly by DJ Delorie himself, with help from a small group of volunteers. This core set of utilities and libraries is still actively developed and maintained.
And the suites are the ones doing the auditing, checking for possible changes and all that other stuff ? You know, back in the real world, sys admins are the ones who test things, install things and keep them running.
I had same kind of problems with this webserver called apache. It ran just smootly from dsl line and 133MHz pentium with 32mb of memory but shit happens, i installed it bunch of netra t1's and all hell broke loose. Totally crappy uptime of allmost few years and i have to restart the goddamn processes every frigin week while im updating the configurations! Can you belive that! Drives me crazy!!
Same thing with one fileserver on same company. Installed samba to allow our people to add their critical files to network and automatically back those up. Horrible. Just Plain horrible. Im loosing my mind with those frigin opensource projects!
I am also concerned about the Ximian fork, (even though I use it) How long till XImian hack up all the libs to work for their effort and how compatible will it be ?
I've understood that actually, ximian gnome is not a fork when it comes to the code, its just packaging and compilation of different versions of programs thats supposed to work well together. I might be wrong thou.
Basicly ximian works on many OSS projects and actually contributes back to them, not just making "their own fork"... For example, read release notes of of Gnumeric, quite a few ximian dudes are warmly thanked there.
Anyway, even thou the codebase is same, that doesnt mean all gnome distributions will work with each other. So, if you are using ximian, will stick with it or change it totally if the times comes...
(and yeah, i dont claim these are the absolute facts)
Actually, Ximian RedCarpet does update your whole system too and shitload of more, for example, provides you with all demogames from Loki (and yes, it also does provide all those redhat updates as rhn (allthou rhn might provide content earlier than pushing the stuff to public ftp's))
And yes, Ximian does develop "truly useful and unique linux app". Its called Evolution. Ofcourse its matter of taste but to me, there's no real comparison in *gui* emailclients field. There's only evolution.
Ive now read some of the most moderated posts and they all claim this is a good thing because ximian pays for bandwidth. While this most likely true, i want to question this a bit. I use redcarpet allmost daily, but as "educated" user, i use mirrors. No, i urge you to go into and look those channel urls.
Lets start with Debian Potato channel..
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/ma in/binary-i386 (thats hardcoded path in channels.xml)
Now tell me how ximian pays bandwidth for that mirror ?
Most of the other channels are then again located in strict list of mirrors that provide ximian's one filestructure. Lists contains sites like sunsite.dk, rpmfind sites, few lug sites and universities. It kinda strikes me odd that these sites that serve free (and linux) software for free are new being used for commercial purposes.
So lets summarize this scheme a bit. Ximian is providing a tool called redcarpet and ximian generated xml metadata for redcarpet and providing content from basicly, publicly and freely acessessible ftp sites. And they want me to pay 10 us dollars for that ? Or are they now starting to use akamai for also redcarpet channels which then again, really shouldnt cost that much because transfers are onetime only (im not familiar with akamai's prices)
In the end, hell no, im going to pay 10 us dollars for eyecandy ftp browser even thou i use it quite a lot. It will be a lot easier for me to remove redcarpat and install autoupdate (which has no gui but its really great tool for keeping anything rpm based up to date, hell, i have even setup my own ftpsite for my company's servers and they poll stuff nightly from one place, thus i can verify all upgrades then then put them on one place and everythin is updated next morning)
My conclution is that ximian will not succeed with this mind of thing. Even thou i really really really do want them to do just that. I use ximian as my desktop and i wouldnt do any real work if there where no Evolution. I hope you guys best and really do hope you manage but personally, im a bit pessimistic.
I also ran across that adequacy site some time ago because there was article about "concerned father and his hacker son".
I was too stubified and amazed to read anything else from the site and thus my questions. Is this site for real or just bunch of trolls with a good sense of humour ?
I mean, that hacker thing was so utterly crap i cant even go describing it..
When if first heard about this 3 years ago i was amazed. One finnish company is behind all of the infrastructure and filtering in Saudi Arabia. Well good for them but i would have thought that noone in Finland would have that kind of greed for money to start business so unethnical. Well ofcourse this is just my point of view but still...
But anyway, the company behind this is Nixu OY. Feel free to/. their servers to oblivion!
And yes, i did leave out the out the following on purpose:
shower()
Because its not yet implemented in this point of version tree.
Re:Drat, no 1900MHz support
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I havent yet read any specs yet so i cannot really speculate about this topic BUT. If the main market for this phone is Europe, 1900MHz aint what people want. Hell, i havent even heard of that kind of frequency.
Afaik, only 900MHz and 1800MHz are used in europe. 900MHz which works pretty much everywhere and dualband 1800MHz in bigger cities & suburbians (and with w/ lesser money ofcourse)
And to the other reply in this thread, no, phones arent tied to certain operators (atleast, not in Finland). I do know thought that this is widely used marketing scheme in other countries (and imho, it sucks big time. There's no real deal why certain phone should be tied to certain operator)
After my first post to this thread, i remembered that infact, Oblivion/2 released its sourcecode in somepoint so someone might have it online somewhere. You might want to start digging those old pascal sourcecode archive sites....
While i agree with you totally, in case of Silmarillion (in wich you probably are referring to), most of that text where just "written" for background. Its not like that there where any good storyleads on it but most of the stuff where just "history" of the middle-earth.
First is Daydream bbs which can be found @ http://daydream.iwn.fi. I think Daydream was first written for Amiga, then ported to msdos/win and now to *nix.
Second is BBBS, which can be found @ http://www.bbbs.net. In "Those" days, i wasnt much of a bbbs fan because of its unix'sh interface but dunno what i might say today =)
I wonder, how many of this people who suggest using lynx actually use it themselves?
Let me spell it out, lynx is crap. There's better choises like w3m and links.
I started coding at the age of 15 w/ turbo pascal. Then attended eletronic engineer classes for a year, never finnished it though.
After that, Then i did a freelance gig for one company, automated a their strorage ordering thru network of modems. Got good feedback from that company, and was hired by another company in the same business because i had year's worth of linux skills. It was small unix shop with only 1 or 2 technical personel and about 400 customers running Sco variants. Did a lot of different stuff there from fixing broken db's to setting & fixing up hardware and os's. This lasted about 5 years
In meanwhile i managed to grow a beard and attitude. Now i work as portal sysadmin in second largest portal in my country and we have branches in all major european countries and states.
I know i a freak in this business but my motto has allways been thats its not up to the schooling to judge person's knowledge. If you know your thing, stick to it and you will be rewarded. And ofcourse, you can never go wrong when buying o'reilly books =)
Slashdot Mirror
The thing is, good programs are extensible because they just provide the core of doing things the right way. So does gpg. In easiest form, it can create keys and it can en/decrypt data.
This is what it does and that it does well.
Now, if you want bell and whistles, go find a software that you like and ask nicely the authors to include support for gpg.
For example, ive used gpg for allmost a year now, since gpg support was first published in Evolution mailer. I created my keys (3 commands, i have 3 emails and i wanted to use different keys), and put the date into Evolution. Since that day, i havent invoked gpg directly at all. I have some gui tools to import/scan keyservers for keys that im missing and evolution itself does the rest. So, in my eyes, gpg is as good as it can get.
Splashscreens are now quite common in the messageboards there. When you are in messagelist and you hit the link to read a message, you get to another page with huge add and second link to the actual real message. Its *F*R*U*S*T*R*A*T*I*N*G
- First, decide what kind of difficulty level you want, eq, pick a number from 2 - 10.
- Open your browser, and do brain.randomize();
- Pick N (where n stands for difficulty level) amount of characters from your brain.
- enter those characters with www and com concattenated to the beginning and to the end
- Hit enter
- And be amazed!!
On could also decide number of times to repeat this process and ++ each time a site is found and play the game with office mates so everybody will have a good time- It works well,
- and is ported to many platforms, including windows
- And has even 3rd party outlook plugins.
So, Why ?When i even sign my mail with a gpg in evolution, my mail looks like an attachment in OE because it cannot handle the "unknown" mime headers. I communicate a lot with email in company where i work and use gpg and there's been a lot of complaints when people cant reply to my mails because the body of my own email is readable only in notepad (yeah, like they give a fuck about correct quoting..). One moronic who had installed some bizarre movieplayer, tried to open my mail in it because OE was suggesting it. Cant belive the look in my face when he dropped by to my cubicle to ask, what was the video about that i send him.
Anyway, GPG integration in the evolution can't get simplier. Well, it can if it would integrate gey generation and key imports but signing and encryption is working totally transparently. You just enter your public key id into account settings and voilã.
Ofcourse this would require that bypass the whole RR mailsystem but, hell, if they dont give you the services you want, bypass them!
And if must read that email from public internet, setup your *own* machine to forward that email to your own rr box. Kinda hard to think that they would stop *that*
Tell me, who's gettin' screwd in this picture ?
Redcarpet is free to use as a basic services but they also have "premium" package for 10 bucks a month that quarantees faster downloads (this might also mean that some packages appear later to free mirrors, but atleast, redhat channel seems to be quite fast since all upgraded rpms appear usually the same day as redhat puts them out..). Weird part is that after this premium service was launched, redcarpet got shitload of new mirrors and atleast for me, downloads have been really fast.(+800KB/s)
Well, rest of the company is sun advocates but as im part of another division, ive taken liberty to install linux on production and now, ive got these machines running over 2 months and i cant ever remember logging into the boxes after i installed them... (Allthought i had to tweak the setup first, server's scsibackplane didnt support maximum speed, and also, someone reported that current driver might not work well in 64BIT mode so i dropped it to 32BIT..)
So, atleast, megaraids seem to work for me but buy one and do your tests and make your own choise =)
All valid points but where's the counter argument? I think you missed the point of my post but judging by the boast at the end, again, you might have not...
Here's a quote from the djgpp faq
And the suites are the ones doing the auditing, checking for possible changes and all that other stuff ? You know, back in the real world, sys admins are the ones who test things, install things and keep them running.
I had same kind of problems with this webserver called apache. It ran just smootly from dsl line and 133MHz pentium with 32mb of memory but shit happens, i installed it bunch of netra t1's and all hell broke loose. Totally crappy uptime of allmost few years and i have to restart the goddamn processes every frigin week while im updating the configurations! Can you belive that! Drives me crazy!!
Same thing with one fileserver on same company. Installed samba to allow our people to add their critical files to network and automatically back those up. Horrible. Just Plain horrible. Im loosing my mind with those frigin opensource projects!
I've understood that actually, ximian gnome is not a fork when it comes to the code, its just packaging and compilation of different versions of programs thats supposed to work well together. I might be wrong thou.
Basicly ximian works on many OSS projects and actually contributes back to them, not just making "their own fork" ... For example, read release notes of of Gnumeric, quite a few ximian dudes are warmly thanked there.
Anyway, even thou the codebase is same, that doesnt mean all gnome distributions will work with each other. So, if you are using ximian, will stick with it or change it totally if the times comes ...
(and yeah, i dont claim these are the absolute facts)
Actually, Ximian RedCarpet does update your whole system too and shitload of more, for example, provides you with all demogames from Loki (and yes, it also does provide all those redhat updates as rhn (allthou rhn might provide content earlier than pushing the stuff to public ftp's))
a in /binary-i386 (thats hardcoded path in channels.xml)
And yes, Ximian does develop "truly useful and unique linux app". Its called Evolution. Ofcourse its matter of taste but to me, there's no real comparison in *gui* emailclients field. There's only evolution.
Ive now read some of the most moderated posts and they all claim this is a good thing because ximian pays for bandwidth. While this most likely true, i want to question this a bit. I use redcarpet allmost daily, but as "educated" user, i use mirrors. No, i urge you to go into and look those channel urls.
Lets start with Debian Potato channel..
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/m
Now tell me how ximian pays bandwidth for that mirror ?
Most of the other channels are then again located in strict list of mirrors that provide ximian's one filestructure. Lists contains sites like sunsite.dk, rpmfind sites, few lug sites and universities. It kinda strikes me odd that these sites that serve free (and linux) software for free are new being used for commercial purposes.
We dont want to forget either that atleast in the past, ximian has used akamai network (atleast when i first installed ximian gnome i was so amazed how frigin fast it installed straight out of network and then i did traceroute to the install server which was akamai host and hell, *only 2 hops* from my laptop. Data was coming from machines that where located in my work's datacenter.)
So lets summarize this scheme a bit. Ximian is providing a tool called redcarpet and ximian generated xml metadata for redcarpet and providing content from basicly, publicly and freely acessessible ftp sites. And they want me to pay 10 us dollars for that ? Or are they now starting to use akamai for also redcarpet channels which then again, really shouldnt cost that much because transfers are onetime only (im not familiar with akamai's prices)
In the end, hell no, im going to pay 10 us dollars for eyecandy ftp browser even thou i use it quite a lot. It will be a lot easier for me to remove redcarpat and install autoupdate (which has no gui but its really great tool for keeping anything rpm based up to date, hell, i have even setup my own ftpsite for my company's servers and they poll stuff nightly from one place, thus i can verify all upgrades then then put them on one place and everythin is updated next morning)
My conclution is that ximian will not succeed with this mind of thing. Even thou i really really really do want them to do just that. I use ximian as my desktop and i wouldnt do any real work if there where no Evolution. I hope you guys best and really do hope you manage but personally, im a bit pessimistic.
Hi.
I also ran across that adequacy site some time ago because there was article about "concerned father and his hacker son".
I was too stubified and amazed to read anything else from the site and thus my questions. Is this site for real or just bunch of trolls with a good sense of humour ?
I mean, that hacker thing was so utterly crap i cant even go describing it..
But anyway, the company behind this is Nixu OY. Feel free to /. their servers to oblivion!
- sleep(60*60*4);
just before line- return 0;
also, also we could make add line- #define WORK 0
and change that returntoAnd yes, i did leave out the out the following on purpose:
- shower()
Because its not yet implemented in this point of version tree.I havent yet read any specs yet so i cannot really speculate about this topic BUT. If the main market for this phone is Europe, 1900MHz aint what people want. Hell, i havent even heard of that kind of frequency.
Afaik, only 900MHz and 1800MHz are used in europe. 900MHz which works pretty much everywhere and dualband 1800MHz in bigger cities & suburbians (and with w/ lesser money ofcourse)
And to the other reply in this thread, no, phones arent tied to certain operators (atleast, not in Finland). I do know thought that this is widely used marketing scheme in other countries (and imho, it sucks big time. There's no real deal why certain phone should be tied to certain operator)
After my first post to this thread, i remembered that infact, Oblivion/2 released its sourcecode in somepoint so someone might have it online somewhere. You might want to start digging those old pascal sourcecode archive sites....
While i agree with you totally, in case of Silmarillion (in wich you probably are referring to), most of that text where just "written" for background. Its not like that there where any good storyleads on it but most of the stuff where just "history" of the middle-earth.
2 Longtimers comes to my mind.
;)
First is Daydream bbs which can be found @ http://daydream.iwn.fi. I think Daydream was first written for Amiga, then ported to msdos/win and now to *nix.
Second is BBBS, which can be found @ http://www.bbbs.net. In "Those" days, i wasnt much of a bbbs fan because of its unix'sh interface but dunno what i might say today =)
And yeah, they are both from Finland
I wonder, how many of this people who suggest using lynx actually use it themselves? Let me spell it out, lynx is crap. There's better choises like w3m and links.
I started coding at the age of 15 w/ turbo pascal. Then attended eletronic engineer classes for a year, never finnished it though.
After that, Then i did a freelance gig for one company, automated a their strorage ordering thru network of modems. Got good feedback from that company, and was hired by another company in the same business because i had year's worth of linux skills. It was small unix shop with only 1 or 2 technical personel and about 400 customers running Sco variants. Did a lot of different stuff there from fixing broken db's to setting & fixing up hardware and os's. This lasted about 5 years
In meanwhile i managed to grow a beard and attitude. Now i work as portal sysadmin in second largest portal in my country and we have branches in all major european countries and states.
I know i a freak in this business but my motto has allways been thats its not up to the schooling to judge person's knowledge. If you know your thing, stick to it and you will be rewarded. And ofcourse, you can never go wrong when buying o'reilly books =)
So, Kylix gives me ability to write console stuff, how nice!