I can't see how this is true. The 802.11b USB devices (they aren't cards, and not quite dongles. what the hell are they?) are getting to be much better than their PCMCIA counterparts. I would imagine networking directly would be even better.
So you're saying it's an even bigger problem: that the DMCA and RIAA actually lead to the downturn of the economy. The fall of napster triggered the regression we are seeing today. Interesting...
6. upgrades are much less painful than any linux distro Better than RedHat, sure. But better than Debian? How much easier than
sluggy:~# apt-get upgrade
is it? Or is it just that it's easier for source (although I would think that source packages get upgraded via apt as well)?
I switched from RedHat to Debian not that long ago (about 4 months now) to get out of the upgrading cycle and make installing easier. I'm pretty happy with it.
Great. I'm almost finished my ultra-long/. post and someone ICQs me.
"Uh oh"
On another note, I knew a guy who worked with voice rec software where the delete-word command was "oops". Whenever he would watch another person typing and they would typo, he would instinctively say "oops". I'm guessing it's kind of how my writting went bad went I was using graffiti a lot. You get used to these quirky mannerisms you use to control the machines. Then you end up looking like a dork and annoying the people around you
there is no way in hell I'm giving them my bank account number
So you would never pay by cheque? Your bank account number is printed on every single one of them.
I agree though, that having this as "verification" would encourage more fraud, as people will just get bank account numbers from unsuspecting cheque writers.
I'm one of those crazy/. readers that reads the pages linked to by the article. It's in the comparison by the ACLU that they say ATA, PARTIOT, and USA. I took the ACLU's statement to override what/. said since it isn't what I call the paragon of proper reporting.
I use CDex on windows, which uses lame 1.2, and it only takes about 7-9 minutes to do a CD (windows 2000, 700 MHz Intel). It's freeware and you can get it at http://www.cdex.n3.net/
Actually, nobody has really mentioned the text of the bill. I certainly haven't seen it on/.
Do you mean in this article, or in previous ones? It probably wasn't in this article, because there have been at leastone previous article that covers the bills better. As that article states, there is not just 1 bill, but 3, the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), the Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act, and the Uniting and Strengthening (USA) Act. You are right in that the USA Act is the one being talked about here.
It compiles to a native.NET executable that gives a significant speed advantage over VM bytecode on a.NET platform.
I'm doubtful this will happen. Since JIT'ed bytecode is much faster than MSVC in many cases, they would have to change their optimization stategies to get their compiled.NET platform to be close to as fast.
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Bert isn't gay. He's too busy doing the (wah wah) pigeons.
I had problems like this when my ex-roomate was using my WinME machine when she lived with me. We had these ads that would popup and wouldn't close for 30 seconds. There was a vbs script in the startup that would contact some spam filled site everynight (seemingly unrelated, as removing the script did not remove the ads). These weren't viruses, these were things she blindly said "OK" to. I had to do a reinstall. I'm computer literate. She isn't, although she spent most of her spare time (and work time) surfing. I shudder to think what her computer at work is like.
I don't see what's wrong with putting this under Start|Settings. It is a setting, after all. Why do I have to start up Windows Explorer to change how Internet Explorer opens files?
You need to read the paragraph again. Basically, he is saying that if the government orders Microsoft to include RealPlayer (or Netscape) with the default installation of windows, or even just all OEM versions of windows, that they can still leverage their desktop dominance by making RealPlayer an option on a menu under programs, and having all the relevant file extension default to Windows Media Player.
My solution was to order them to incude the software, and to have no extensions using their software (maybe txt is fine), and instead point to the competators. Also, no other software packages can fiddle with the settings (so installing Office won't reassign HTM to IE, although it is fine to have it launch IE directly). This would either have Microsoft's software sitting on the drive bitrotting, or they will come up with a way to make it easy to manage extension.
As funny as this is, it is a good idea (well, not just 1 button, but have 1 button for morse input). I would gladly learn morse code to input into my phone faster.
Even worse, you have to be conscious to enter your pin. You don't have to be conscious or consenting to be knocked out and have you finger put on a pad.
"Although Apache runs more sites than Windows.."Which implies a mutual exclusion that is completely inaccurate
That's not entirely true. It is still possible from the statement that there is overlap, but that Apache has a total number more sites than Windows. I agree, though that there is nothing that explicitly talks about apache on windows. After poking around for a bit, I couldn't find a server/by operating system breakdown.
Not to mention that for a while I had the virtual host for my ip address come up with the default page, whereas if you use a domain name it would go to the right server. This was because I was afraid of being shutdown by my ISP who, before they were bought out by AT&T, had a no server policy, and would help me claim ignorance. Now, AT&T says servers are fine, but block port 80.
Ok, but if this software is flawed, it is possible that the same guy is always hassled and checked by security every time he wants to use a plane. It's not some random distribution that is aggregated over everyone. Some people look more like Osama Bin Laden than others.
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I can't see how this is true. The 802.11b USB devices (they aren't cards, and not quite dongles. what the hell are they?) are getting to be much better than their PCMCIA counterparts. I would imagine networking directly would be even better.
Following a recent /. article, I've reinstalled and started playing FreeCiv.
So you're saying it's an even bigger problem: that the DMCA and RIAA actually lead to the downturn of the economy. The fall of napster triggered the regression we are seeing today. Interesting...
Yes, I'm kidding
Hmmm. I actually really like System V. It makes a lot of sense.
1. no symlink hell in /etc
/usr/share/zo
I don't understand this:
sluggy:/etc# ls -l | grep "\->"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Sep 5 20:00 localtime ->
neinfo/US/Eastern
6. upgrades are much less painful than any linux distro
Better than RedHat, sure. But better than Debian? How much easier than
sluggy:~# apt-get upgrade
is it? Or is it just that it's easier for source (although I would think that source packages get upgraded via apt as well)?
I switched from RedHat to Debian not that long ago (about 4 months now) to get out of the upgrading cycle and make installing easier. I'm pretty happy with it.
It's true
Great. I'm almost finished my ultra-long /. post and someone ICQs me.
"Uh oh"
On another note, I knew a guy who worked with voice rec software where the delete-word command was "oops". Whenever he would watch another person typing and they would typo, he would instinctively say "oops". I'm guessing it's kind of how my writting went bad went I was using graffiti a lot. You get used to these quirky mannerisms you use to control the machines. Then you end up looking like a dork and annoying the people around you
So you would never pay by cheque? Your bank account number is printed on every single one of them.
I agree though, that having this as "verification" would encourage more fraud, as people will just get bank account numbers from unsuspecting cheque writers.
> What do you think of Microsoft
Microsoft is a giant software monopoly.
> Is that a good or a bad thing
I might say no.
It depends on the state
I'm one of those crazy /. readers that reads the pages linked to by the article. It's in the comparison by the ACLU that they say ATA, PARTIOT, and USA. I took the ACLU's statement to override what /. said since it isn't what I call the paragon of proper reporting.
I use CDex on windows, which uses lame 1.2, and it only takes about 7-9 minutes to do a CD (windows 2000, 700 MHz Intel). It's freeware and you can get it at http://www.cdex.n3.net/
Do you mean in this article, or in previous ones? It probably wasn't in this article, because there have been at leastone previous article that covers the bills better. As that article states, there is not just 1 bill, but 3, the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), the Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (PATRIOT) Act, and the Uniting and Strengthening (USA) Act. You are right in that the USA Act is the one being talked about here.
I'm doubtful this will happen. Since JIT'ed bytecode is much faster than MSVC in many cases, they would have to change their optimization stategies to get their compiled
Bert isn't gay. He's too busy doing the (wah wah) pigeons.
Fjords are magnificent. Just look at me! :)
I had problems like this when my ex-roomate was using my WinME machine when she lived with me. We had these ads that would popup and wouldn't close for 30 seconds. There was a vbs script in the startup that would contact some spam filled site everynight (seemingly unrelated, as removing the script did not remove the ads). These weren't viruses, these were things she blindly said "OK" to. I had to do a reinstall. I'm computer literate. She isn't, although she spent most of her spare time (and work time) surfing. I shudder to think what her computer at work is like.
I don't see what's wrong with putting this under Start|Settings. It is a setting, after all. Why do I have to start up Windows Explorer to change how Internet Explorer opens files?
My solution was to order them to incude the software, and to have no extensions using their software (maybe txt is fine), and instead point to the competators. Also, no other software packages can fiddle with the settings (so installing Office won't reassign HTM to IE, although it is fine to have it launch IE directly). This would either have Microsoft's software sitting on the drive bitrotting, or they will come up with a way to make it easy to manage extension.
As funny as this is, it is a good idea (well, not just 1 button, but have 1 button for morse input). I would gladly learn morse code to input into my phone faster.
Even worse, you have to be conscious to enter your pin. You don't have to be conscious or consenting to be knocked out and have you finger put on a pad.
just use < like so: <
That's not entirely true. It is still possible from the statement that there is overlap, but that Apache has a total number more sites than Windows. I agree, though that there is nothing that explicitly talks about apache on windows. After poking around for a bit, I couldn't find a server/by operating system breakdown.
Not to mention that for a while I had the virtual host for my ip address come up with the default page, whereas if you use a domain name it would go to the right server. This was because I was afraid of being shutdown by my ISP who, before they were bought out by AT&T, had a no server policy, and would help me claim ignorance. Now, AT&T says servers are fine, but block port 80.
Ok, but if this software is flawed, it is possible that the same guy is always hassled and checked by security every time he wants to use a plane. It's not some random distribution that is aggregated over everyone. Some people look more like Osama Bin Laden than others.