"If something's hard to do, it is not worth doing."
So, theoretically there is nothing between hard and not hard problems. Is there an assumption somewhere in there that you have infinite computing resources and an infinite number of monkeys to monitor them?
Try telling this to students to students that just failed an engineering, science, or math test:)
If someone does identify themselves as law enforcement/criminal investigators, it would be best to remain silent. Most convictions come from admissions that spewed right out of the defendant's mouth. If you talk and you lie to a Federal Officer, and they take handwritten notes about the incident you can be charged under 18 USC 1001.
Dear Sirs:
Please be assured of my sincere desire to co-operate with you.
"Because of what happened to Martha Stewart, I don't feel I can answer
any oral questions at all unless I clear all your questions with a
criminal lawyer. Please submit all your questions in writing, and I will
get back to you. Please sign this letter below as a receipt for your
copy of this document and as evidence that I gave you no information
whatsoever in this or any other interview."
_______________________-DATED: __________
NAME & OFFICIAL POSITION OF QUESTIONER
ID #
telephone number
address:
E-Bullion has a credit card sized CryptoCard available to protect one's gold backed ecurrency account. Another advantage to E-Bullion is opening an account is much easier than opening an account with most banks who want details like your cat's date of birth, etc.
The Constitution is a document that RESTRICTS what government can do. As the FSF is a private charity and not a government, it is impossible for the FSF to do or create something that is unconstitutional.
/tmp># uname -a Linux cephalus 2.0.35 #1 Fri Sep 4 21:58:40 MST 1998 i586 unknown
I use 2.0.35 for my daily internet access and word processing on my Debian machine.
I have a newer kernel (don't remember what, and its been a year or two since I booted it) that I boot if I want my Zip drive to work, but then I lose my printer access and sound (insignificant, because my sound card went in the trash last year when it died)./tmp># uptime
7:03pm up 55 days, 12:27, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.29, 0.30
This Pentium 233MMX is so old, I just don't care to put any effort into upgrading hardware or software.
Using the DMCA, Dean Kamen and Segway have sued a group of nerds who, in their garage, built an open source Segway for $50 that uses Linux and a Beowulf cluster comprised of 4 386's and a rotary bladed push mower from a garage sale.
I have had good experience with http://www.Evocash.com http://www.E-Gold.com (gold backed) http://www.E-Bullion.com (gold backed)
E-Bullion has an option for a credit card sized DigiPass security device for logging in.
7-11 sells 2 prepaid American Express cards. One is only good for internet use and the other is good with any merchant. There is a $1K max limit, 4% up front commission, and the card can only be used in the USA.
This shows an example of the FaqOMatic package. Some users may be able to help other users without your input, or if you want, you can jump in when needed.
I have used Dvorak for 9 months now. The feeling is like drumming your fingers on a table. Sometimes, I am amazed when I see how little my fingers move; it is like keyboard ventriloquism- typing without your fingers moving.
I see no reason to argue, it is a matter of personal choice. I use Linux because it is the best for me. Dvorak is supported in almost all OS. My dinosaur 386 supports Dvorak under DOS and Win3.11.
Dvorak tutorials:
http://www.karelia.com/abcd forms based tutorial. This is how I learned.
unix software called dvorak7min uses ncurses to teach you the lessons of karelia's abcd. It is available in.tgz and.deb formats. It also includes scripts to switch between Dvorak and qwerty by typing aoeu or asdf, which can be typed by the left hand without moving. This is convenient for households with mixed classes of typists.
http://www.ufaq.org is the Netscape Unofficial FAQ site. There are links to USENET groups for different versions. Somewhere along the way I found http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
DEMORONISER
Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML
This page describes, in Unix manual page style, a Perl program available for downloading from this site which corrects numerous errors and incompatibilities in HTML generated by, or edited with, Microsoft applications. The demoroniser keeps you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform.
NAME
demoroniser - correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible HTML generated by Microsoft applications
Many slick, high profile corporate Web sites I visit seemed to exhibit terrible grammar completely inconsistent with the obvious investment in graphics and design. Apostrophes and quote marks were frequently omitted, and every couple of paragraphs words were run together which should have been separated by a punctuation mark of some kind.
This remained a mystery to me until I wanted to convert a presentation I'd developed in 1996 using Microsoft PowerPoint into a set of Web pages. A friend was kind enough to run the presentation through PowerPoint's "Save as HTML" feature (I have abandoned all use of Microsoft products, so I did not have a current version of PowerPoint which includes this feature). When I got the PowerPoint-generated HTML back and viewed it in my browser, I discovered that it contained precisely the same grammatical errors I'd noted on so many Web sites, and which certainly were not present in my original presentation.
A little detective work revealed that, as is usually the case when you encounter something shoddy in the vicinity of a computer, Microsoft incompetence and gratuitous incompatibility were to blame. Western language HTML documents are written in the ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 character set, with a specified set of escapes for special characters. Blithely ignoring this prescription, as usual, Microsoft use their own "extension" to Latin-1, in which a variety of characters which do not appear in Latin-1 are inserted in the range 0x82 through 0x95--this having the merit of being incompatible with both Latin-1 and Unicode, which reserve this region for additional control characters.
These characters include open and close single and double quotes, em and en dashes, an ellipsis and a variety of other things you've been dying for, such as a capital Y umlaut and a florin symbol. Well, okay, you say, if Microsoft want to have their own little incompatible character set, why not? Because it doesn't stop there--in their inimitable fashion (who would want to?)--they aggressively pollute the Web pages of unknowing and innocent victims worldwide with these characters, with the result that the owners of these pages look like semi-literate morons when their pages are viewed on non-Microsoft platforms (or on Microsoft platforms, for that matter, if the user has selected as the browser's font one of the many TrueType fonts which do not include the incompatible Microsoft characters).
You see, "state of the art" Microsoft Office applications sport a nifty feature called "smart quotes." (Rule of thumb--every time Microsoft use the word "smart," be on the lookout for something dumb). This feature is on by default in both Word and PowerPoint, and can be disabled only by finding the little box buried among the dozens of bewildering option panels these products contain. If enabled, and you type the string,
"Halt," he cried, "this is the police!"
"smart quotes" transforms the ASCII quote characters automatically into the incompatible Microsoft opening and closing quotes. ASCII single and double quotes are similarly transformed (even though ASCII already contains apostrophe and single open quote characters), and double hyphens are replaced by the incompatible em dash symbol. What other horrors occur, I know not. If the user notices this happening at all, their reaction might be "Thank you Billy-boy--that looks ever so much nicer," not knowing they've been set up to look like a moron to folks all over the world.
You see, when you export a document as text for hand-editing into HTML, or avail yourself of the "Save as HTML" features in newer versions of Office applications, these incompatible, Microsoft-specific characters remain in place. When viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform, they will not be displayed properly--most browsers seem to just drop them, as opposed to including a symbol indicating an undisplayable character. Hence, the apparently ungrammatical text, which the author of the page, editing on a Microsoft platform, will never be aware of.
Having no desire to hand-edit the HTML for a long presentation to correct a raft of Microsoft-induced incompatibilities, I wrote a Perl program, the demoroniser, to transform Microsoft's "junk HTML" into at least a starting point for something I'd consider presentable on my site. In addition to replacing the incompatible characters with HTML-compliant equivalents wherever possible (a few rarely-encountered characters which can't be translated result in warning messages if encountered), the following sloppy or downright wrong HTML is corrected.
The missing semicolon at the end of numeric character escapes (=) is supplied. Numeric renderings of special characters ( &) are replaced with readable equivalents. Unquoted tags containing non-alphanumeric characters are quoted. PowerPoint's mis-nesting of and tags is corrected. PowerPoint's boneheaded use of
and
tags to accomplish paragraph breaks is corrected and the proper
tags inserted. Missing tags in text-only slides are inserted. Nugatory
tags are removed. Unmatched
tags in headings are removed. Idiot "paragraph-long lines" are broken into something suitable for editing with a normal text editor.
OPTIONS
-u Print how-to-call information and a summary of options.
-wcols Wrap output lines at column cols. By default, lines are wrapped at column 72. A cols specification of 0 disables line wrapping. demoroniser attempts to wrap lines so as to preserve their meaning. Lines are broken at white space whenever possible. If this cannot be done, a line longer than the cols specification will remain in the output HTML.
BUGS
demoroniser is a Perl script. In order to use it, you must have Perl installed on your system. demoroniser was developed using Perl 4.0, patch level 36.
FILES
If no outfile is specified, output is written to standard output. If no infile is specified, input is read from standard input.
SEE ALSO
perl(1)
Download demoroniser.zip
AUTHOR
John Walker http://www.fourmilab.ch/
This software is in the public domain. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, without any conditions or restrictions. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Slashdot Mirror
As long as we are talking about virtual reality gaming, P O R N!
I am sure there are some funny bugs that would be reported from buggy alpha porn software.
Ahh, I caught a bug from my computer.
28 day instability occurs once a month for y chromosomes, I mean kernels.
Anyone that is affected by a patent on IsNot could rename it "aint".
Put TV jacks in the bathrooms. It seems silly not to wire up the Throne Room :)
2. Charge license fees for everyone that comes down in a different spot from where they took off.
3. Become rich!
This article talks about how the Chinese are working on melt-down proof nuclear reactors, and they intend to use some of them to generate hydrogen.
"If something's hard to do, it is not worth doing."
So, theoretically there is nothing between hard and not hard problems. Is there an assumption somewhere in there that you have infinite computing resources and an infinite number of monkeys to monitor them?
Try telling this to students to students that just failed an engineering, science, or math test:)
Donald Kaul writes about Martha Stewart's error
It would be best to state:
Dear Sirs: Please be assured of my sincere desire to co-operate with you. "Because of what happened to Martha Stewart, I don't feel I can answer any oral questions at all unless I clear all your questions with a criminal lawyer. Please submit all your questions in writing, and I will get back to you. Please sign this letter below as a receipt for your copy of this document and as evidence that I gave you no information whatsoever in this or any other interview." _______________________-DATED: __________ NAME & OFFICIAL POSITION OF QUESTIONER ID # telephone number address:
E-Bullion has a credit card sized CryptoCard available to protect one's gold backed ecurrency account. Another advantage to E-Bullion is opening an account is much easier than opening an account with most banks who want details like your cat's date of birth, etc.
The Constitution is a document that RESTRICTS what government can do. As the FSF is a private charity and not a government, it is impossible for the FSF to do or create something that is unconstitutional.
Wouldn't a public incitement to damage private property be considered terrorism under the PATRIOT act? At a minimum it is irresponsible.
/tmp># uname -a
/tmp># uptime
Linux cephalus 2.0.35 #1 Fri Sep 4 21:58:40 MST 1998 i586 unknown
I use 2.0.35 for my daily internet access and word processing on my Debian machine.
I have a newer kernel (don't remember what, and its been a year or two since I booted it) that I boot if I want my Zip drive to work, but then I lose my printer access and sound (insignificant, because my sound card went in the trash last year when it died).
7:03pm up 55 days, 12:27, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.29, 0.30
This Pentium 233MMX is so old, I just don't care to put any effort into upgrading hardware or software.
Using the DMCA, Dean Kamen and Segway have sued a group of nerds who, in their garage, built an open source Segway for $50 that uses Linux and a Beowulf cluster comprised of 4 386's and a rotary bladed push mower from a garage sale.
Visit VCDHelp.com where they have a Linux forum.
I have had good experience with http://www.Evocash.com
http://www.E-Gold.com (gold backed)
http://www.E-Bullion.com (gold backed)
E-Bullion has an option for a credit card sized DigiPass security device for logging in.
7-11 sells 2 prepaid American Express cards. One is only good for internet use and the other is good with any merchant. There is a $1K max limit, 4% up front commission, and the card can only be used in the USA.
Do you believe it is morally wrong for a group of people to take from one American in order to give to another?
This shows an example of the FaqOMatic package. Some users may be able to help other users without your input, or if you want, you can jump in when needed.
I have used Dvorak for 9 months now. The feeling is like drumming your fingers on a table. Sometimes, I am amazed when I see how little my fingers move; it is like keyboard ventriloquism- typing without your fingers moving.
.tgz and .deb formats. It also includes scripts to switch between Dvorak and qwerty by typing aoeu or asdf, which can be typed by the left hand without moving. This is convenient for households with mixed classes of typists.
I see no reason to argue, it is a matter of personal choice. I use Linux because it is the best for me. Dvorak is supported in almost all OS. My dinosaur 386 supports Dvorak under DOS and Win3.11.
Dvorak tutorials:
http://www.karelia.com/abcd forms based tutorial. This is how I learned.
unix software called dvorak7min uses ncurses to teach you the lessons of karelia's abcd. It is available in
DEMORONISER
Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML
This page describes, in Unix manual page style, a Perl program available for downloading from this site which corrects
numerous errors and incompatibilities in HTML generated by, or edited with, Microsoft applications. The demoroniser keeps
you from looking dumber than a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft platform.
NAME
demoroniser - correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible HTML generated by Microsoft applications
SYNOPSIS
demoroniser [ -u ] [ -wcols ] [ infile ] [ outfile ]
DESCRIPTION
Many slick, high profile corporate Web sites I visit seemed to exhibit terrible grammar completely inconsistent with the
obvious investment in graphics and design. Apostrophes and quote marks were frequently omitted, and every couple of
paragraphs words were run together which should have been separated by a punctuation mark of some kind.
This remained a mystery to me until I wanted to convert a presentation I'd developed in 1996 using Microsoft PowerPoint into
a set of Web pages. A friend was kind enough to run the presentation through PowerPoint's "Save as HTML" feature (I have
abandoned all use of Microsoft products, so I did not have a current version of PowerPoint which includes this feature). When
I got the PowerPoint-generated HTML back and viewed it in my browser, I discovered that it contained precisely the same
grammatical errors I'd noted on so many Web sites, and which certainly were not present in my original presentation.
A little detective work revealed that, as is usually the case when you encounter something shoddy in the vicinity of a
computer, Microsoft incompetence and gratuitous incompatibility were to blame. Western language HTML documents are
written in the ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 character set, with a specified set of escapes for special characters. Blithely ignoring this
prescription, as usual, Microsoft use their own "extension" to Latin-1, in which a variety of characters which do not appear in
Latin-1 are inserted in the range 0x82 through 0x95--this having the merit of being incompatible with both Latin-1 and
Unicode, which reserve this region for additional control characters.
These characters include open and close single and double quotes, em and en dashes, an ellipsis and a variety of other things
you've been dying for, such as a capital Y umlaut and a florin symbol. Well, okay, you say, if Microsoft want to have their own
little incompatible character set, why not? Because it doesn't stop there--in their inimitable fashion (who would want
to?)--they aggressively pollute the Web pages of unknowing and innocent victims worldwide with these characters, with the
result that the owners of these pages look like semi-literate morons when their pages are viewed on non-Microsoft platforms
(or on Microsoft platforms, for that matter, if the user has selected as the browser's font one of the many TrueType fonts
which do not include the incompatible Microsoft characters).
You see, "state of the art" Microsoft Office applications sport a nifty feature called "smart quotes." (Rule of thumb--every
time Microsoft use the word "smart," be on the lookout for something dumb). This feature is on by default in both Word and
PowerPoint, and can be disabled only by finding the little box buried among the dozens of bewildering option panels these
products contain. If enabled, and you type the string,
"Halt," he cried, "this is the police!"
"smart quotes" transforms the ASCII quote characters automatically into the incompatible Microsoft opening and closing
quotes. ASCII single and double quotes are similarly transformed (even though ASCII already contains apostrophe and single
open quote characters), and double hyphens are replaced by the incompatible em dash symbol. What other horrors occur, I
know not. If the user notices this happening at all, their reaction might be "Thank you Billy-boy--that looks ever so much
nicer," not knowing they've been set up to look like a moron to folks all over the world.
You see, when you export a document as text for hand-editing into HTML, or avail yourself of the "Save as HTML" features
in newer versions of Office applications, these incompatible, Microsoft-specific characters remain in place. When viewed by
a user on a non-Microsoft platform, they will not be displayed properly--most browsers seem to just drop them, as opposed to
including a symbol indicating an undisplayable character. Hence, the apparently ungrammatical text, which the author of the
page, editing on a Microsoft platform, will never be aware of.
Having no desire to hand-edit the HTML for a long presentation to correct a raft of Microsoft-induced incompatibilities, I
wrote a Perl program, the demoroniser, to transform Microsoft's "junk HTML" into at least a starting point for something I'd
consider presentable on my site. In addition to replacing the incompatible characters with HTML-compliant equivalents
wherever possible (a few rarely-encountered characters which can't be translated result in warning messages if
encountered), the following sloppy or downright wrong HTML is corrected.
The missing semicolon at the end of numeric character escapes (=) is supplied.
Numeric renderings of special characters ( &) are replaced with readable equivalents.
Unquoted tags containing non-alphanumeric characters are quoted.
PowerPoint's mis-nesting of and tags is corrected.
PowerPoint's boneheaded use of
- and
tags to accomplish paragraph breaks is corrected and the proper
tags are removed.tags inserted.
Missing tags in text-only slides are inserted.
Nugatory
Unmatched
tags in headings are removed.
Idiot "paragraph-long lines" are broken into something suitable for editing with a normal text editor.
OPTIONS
-u Print how-to-call information and a summary of options.
-wcols Wrap output lines at column cols. By default, lines are wrapped at column 72. A cols specification of 0 disables line
wrapping. demoroniser attempts to wrap lines so as to preserve their meaning. Lines are broken at white space
whenever possible. If this cannot be done, a line longer than the cols specification will remain in the output HTML.
BUGS
demoroniser is a Perl script. In order to use it, you must have Perl installed on your system. demoroniser was developed
using Perl 4.0, patch level 36.
FILES
If no outfile is specified, output is written to standard output. If no infile is specified, input is read from standard input.
SEE ALSO
perl(1)
Download demoroniser.zip
AUTHOR
John Walker
http://www.fourmilab.ch/
This software is in the public domain. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, without any conditions or restrictions. This
software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
by John Walker
January 16th, 1998