Comment Re:lunacy (Score 1) 192
Heh, best joke of the year! Oh, and I'm Greek, btw :)
Comment Re:Safe... until (Score 1) 449
"If you pass along an infected e-mail you are spreading a virus that could have stopped with you."
If you pass a long an infected email by forwarding an attachment that you didn't even open at all (the assumption here is that you are running a free operating system and Windows virri can't really do any damage), then you are not only spreading a virus that could have stopped with you. You are being stupid and unnecessarily annoying, and you deserve to be blacklisted.
If an MTA passes along an infected email, then clamav and other filtering programs exist. It's probably a good idea to install one.
Comment Re:grep and emacs integration (Score 1) 412
(setq pattern (or (read-string "in files [all]: ") "*"))
(setq pattern (if (equal pattern "") "*" pattern))
Using (setq
(let ((search-pattern (read-string "Search files [all]:" T "*")))
(forms-for-searching search-pattern))
What you have there is very similar to the built-in `lgrep', `rgrep', `find-grep' and `find-grep-dired' commands. Have a look in their help. They may be useful [I like find-grep-dired a *lot*
Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act 128
Jabbrwokk writes "Michael Geist reports legislation to create a Canadian version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been delayed again, possibly because of massive public outcry, and possibly even because of opposition from the industry itself. Canada's biggest ISPs have banded together to oppose the proposed new legislation and suggest their own solution, which include allowances for expanded fair dealing, private copying, no liability for ISPs and legislation that concentrates its wrath on commercial pirates instead of penny-ante downloaders and seeders.'"
Comment works for me (Score 1) 603
I've been using rsync to back up 3 macs (g4 mini, g4 ibook, macbook) to the same firewire drive for years, on 10.4.
Perhaps in your father's case PEBKAC?
Perhaps in your father's case PEBKAC?
Bookmark Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory (eweek.com)
Comment Re:Emacs excels at the basics... (Score 2, Informative) 643
Ironically, I installed Ubuntu, and found that most apps there used the windows keys (I know this must be an editable setting, but I haven't looked yet). So, as a hardcore Emacs user I'm actually much more comfortable on Windows than Ubuntu!
For most GTK+ apps (which is probably the majority in the default install of Ubuntu), you can get Emacs keybindings by adding the following line to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
This used to be the default in GTK+ 1.x, but then the GTK+/GNOME people decided to change this as part of the quest to make GNOME more "user-friendly". Ironically, the users they strive to befriend are Windows users rather than long-time Unix / GNU users...
Apple Reaches 12% Market Share In U.S. Notebooks 377
bonch writes "Apple's U.S. notebook market share has doubled to 12% after shipping 1.33 million Macs in the quarter. Apple also shipped 8.11 million iPods, topping analyst estimates, for a net income of $472 million. Remember when Apple was dying?" From the article: "The iPod shipments appeared to calm investors worried that growth in that red-hot business was slowing and Apple's results topped what analysts had said was a conservative forecast. Shares of Apple were down some 24 percent since early May. 'Apple looked good,' said Jane Snorek, technology analyst with First American Funds. 'The PC numbers were great, too.'"
Comment Re:Interesting, I'm glad someone has done this... (Score 1) 222
That link is a double 404.
But the answer is probably "because it won't do the job well enough". For details read the web page again, and particularly the first attempt, which looks like what I think you're talking about.
Greg
But the answer is probably "because it won't do the job well enough". For details read the web page again, and particularly the first attempt, which looks like what I think you're talking about.
Greg
