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Paper bag security 5946
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:35:21 -0800, r.e.ballard Your right in that these vulnerabilities were minor due to being so complex to trigger that they could only ever be called...
Paper bag security 5947
BearItAll Complicated, shomplicated. Either way, your system now belongs to a Chinese man halfway around the world. You'll have to read the websites for...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing 5948
I'm especially fond of Carey Frisch. That guy's been an idiot for a long time, even to the point that his "peers" (aka "the other clueless My first recollection of that brilliant...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing 5949
While that's definitely true, there might be a sort of non-monetary compensation finding on the part of the...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing 5950
There is a little joke here. Try to get a look at the OEM License Agreement! You first have to register for Microsoft Pbuttport, then you have to Register to be come...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing 5951
gordon Actually, the confusion is critical to Microsoft's success. If people really understood what Microsoft's Licenses really were, legal contracts which allow Microsoft to perform otherwise illegal acts, they would never agree to them...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing 5952
DFS I buttume you are saying that this is a lie? Microsoft depends on confusion. People think they are getting one thing and they are in fact getting something else. They think they...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:17:27 -0500, DFS Can somebody knowledgeable about economics and corporate jiggery-pokery give me some answers? There must be 100...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing 5955
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:44:09 -0500, joe That would depend very much if they are...
Lunacy regarding Windows Licencing 5956
Kier Spending serious time and effort to end up giving away software you ostensibly could and...
Linux in Business 5957
mlw Here I disagree. The 'goodwill' of others is simply that, goodwill. If the person or persons no longer has the time or desire or opportunity to donate...
Linux in Business 5958
Larry Qualig If they can, yes. What about the bigger names? What about, oh, say, Microsoft and IBM dropping support for previous operating systems or products? That is very admirable, and I wish more...
Linux in Business 5959
I doubt this post is serious, but I'll bite anyway... Open source developers do not write software out a sense of good will or charity, at least not primarily. Like...
Linux in Business 5960
On Thursday 17 November 2005 17:51, Larry Qualig stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: I can understand this, yes. The reason could be that...
The Database Lock
I was reading this post: Many programmers would rather write everything in their program code and use the database tables only to store information. I...
Java on Linux
tab SUSE 10.0 commercial product DVD came with Java. Java gets installed with OpenOffice implicitly (RPM rules engine). SAX will automatically install at least the one version. RPM can also be...
Anyone know of a cheap online backup place 5963
Actually, almost any ISP that supports rsync should be able to provide good backup services. The cost can go as high as $1-mb-month but most offer around 100 gig for about...
Anyone know of a cheap online backup place 5964
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Larry Qualig wrote on 17 Nov 2005 11:02:50 -0800 The main problem here (and it's minor) is offsite storage...
Autodesk moving stuff to Linux 5965
You're correct Erik. If Autodesk was offering AutoCAD for Linux, that would be exciting. On the other hand, Blue...
Autodesk moving stuff to Linux 5966
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:51:33 +0100, Ian Hilliard Uhh.. no. There is no such thing as "not enough logically contiguious memory". The whole...
Autodesk moving stuff to Linux 5967
Ian Hilliard If you are serious about this question then you must realize that there isn't nearly enough information and diagnosing this via a newsgroup probably isn't possible. For starters we know nothing about...
Autodesk moving stuff to Linux 5968
The C-C++ language may not have a built in garbage collector, but that does not necessarily mean the operating system's memory Debt Management wasn't...
Another Apple Store to open in England
Oxford - It is tempting to naively buttume that 'modern' is automatically better in computing. This...
If Only Apple Would... 5970
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Times they are a changin, and an increasing number of artists and companies are discovering that...
If Only Apple Would... 5971
Followups to COLA for this particular subthread. In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Köhlmann wrote on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:16:26...
If Only Apple Would... 5972
yeah, it takes a higher level of thinking, something peter may or may not ever figure out. apple is on our side with this, they fight tooth and nail to...
I Wasn't Expecting A Kind of OS Inquisition
Much of what Tom Adelstein says is thought provoking, and reflects my observations and sentiments about...
Dr. Unruh: www.Theory.Physics.UBC.CA
Hi HaHaHanson, JakoEpke, and MikeVarney, Hanson, Varney is an odd ball, too ashamed to post under his real name, and rightly so... what garbage he spews. He says LearnPhysics, but doesn't know...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5975
Lee Sau Dan So? All he's claiming is that it's good to start with a GUI, simply because it does not have such a steep learning curve and it allows him to get a...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5976
begin oeprotect.scr I find the fantasy that GUIs are easy to learn quite amusing. This idea has been pushed by Microsoft for so long now, that...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5977
In other words, they =are= easy to learn, but as you say, they have limitations. For some people, what GUIs allow...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5978
begin oeprotect.scr They're no different to learning any other interface. Just like at the cli, where some commands are easy to...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5979
In GUI, the icons often changes with a new release of the software. That's as terrible as a language whose lexicon changes completely every 3 years. You have to learn a set of...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5980
begin oeprotect.scr Naturally, the more stable language will be easier to learn and work with, although it...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5981
s-important-possibleor s-important-imaginable GUI users are often limited by the horizons of...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5982
JEDIDIAH schreef: This is in fact the point of having tools like xterm, i said in the part of the...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5983
begin oeprotect.scr Not really, the whole discussion was about the absolutes of how one articulates the real differences between GUI and...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5984
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 07:17:45 +0000, Mark Kent the (...) I've had conversations with users, and they want a CLI. They don't know it, but I've heard things like "how can I just tell it...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5985
begin oeprotect.scr I don't think you've remotely got to grips with what I'm talking about here - it...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5986
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:17, Mark Kent stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: You're welcome. ;-) Well, she did say what it was that upset...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5987
begin oeprotect.scr Everyone cannot be experienced in everything. Being overly sensitive is not a good survival trait on usenet. Besides, I...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5988
Mark Kent schreef: I see this in Google, so i'll respond. I am tired of you implying to know what knowledge I do or don't have, based on a few posts...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5989
begin oeprotect.scr Okay... I'll reply. Please consider the whole of my response. As I've only the evidence you provide here to go...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5990
Mark Kent schreef: Okay... I'll answer. I can't stop yuo from that. And that goes vice versa. However, i...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5991
begin oeprotect.scr Good - you're currently graded at -1, let's see if you come up in...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5992
Mark Kent schreef: I'll keep it short. Childish... So you made your point in a very obscure fashion. If that isn't...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5993
begin oeprotect.scr Um, no, it's a fact... I didn't say that they had, however, just because you can't do something, does not mean that others cannot. I agree, howevever, the issue is that this...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5994
Mark Kent schreef: Then there's you and the rest of the world. "it" being? The Mac GUI is a...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5995
begin oeprotect.scr That which you referred to. It is proof that a definition of useful exists, however...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5996
Mark Kent schreef: It is proof that you can define lots of usefull tools, which is quite another matter. Every programmer-software architect tries to define...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5997
JEDIDIAH schreef: Oh? I can imagine a GIS application needing that kind of precision, but that's not the only...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5998
JEDIDIAH Ok. And this can't be done through a textbox in a GUI? Please note i'm not arguing that no...
Command line VS GUI, redux 5999
JEDIDIAH Precision isn't always desirable. Especially when dealing with artwork, imprecision can lend an extra. That's just your indictrination speaking. Nope. It's called the artists hand. Would you accuse (for instance) Picbutto of 'sloppyness...
OT Command line VS GUI, redux
Mark Kent schreef: The big difference, of course, being I lash out for reasons that are specific to DFS, not because of his membership of one group or...
OT Command line VS GUI, redux
I've been coming to the same conclusion. I've seen ample evidence that racists don't change... yet I keep hoping. I once dated...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6002
There were a few attempts to do this. In fact, the berkely "csh" shell had the ability to create...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6003
How is that different, besides the physical medium? Would you explain to us what you mean by a "concept-based language"? Sign languages are like spoken languages. They have their lexicons. They have their...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6004
My girlfriend is a linguistics major and could probably explain the difference better. The gist of it is that a phoneme based language will use a comparatively arbitrary set of sounds to mean...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6005
Phoneme based languages also use sounds in some "obvious" ways. e.g. many languages name birds with phonemes that sound like how those birds sing. English verb "knock", where the first...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6006
Of course. The auditory is a very limited bandwidth. So, we cannot capture too much "raw" information at once. We have to...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6007
That's only recognizable in your culture where you normally make tea from tea bags. I could have guessed that you were just dipping an unfinished hand-made candle into a pot of...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6008
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Nov 2005 09:11:26 +0800, Which is where the sign originated (I was waiting for this comment :) The sign for coffee, is grinding as if using a coffee...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6009
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Nov 2005 17:39:02 +0800, hand grinding isn't as common as it was, although many...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6010
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19 Nov 2005 23:15:20 +0800, Sign language varies greatly from spoken, at least ASL does. Without getting too deep into it. The structure of ASL...
Command line VS GUI, redux 6011
This is not wierd at all if your mother tongue puts verbs at the end of a sentence, such as Japanese. I guess a Japanese would find English's word order wierd. :) And...
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