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| 2001/4/1 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:20882 Activity:nil |
3/31 Trying to install some games on FreeBSD4.2 I installed SDL 1.0.8,
& 1.1.6-devel from ports, and 1.2 from source; I've run
ldconfig -R, and a 'configure' script STILL reports that it can't
find the SDL library. What am I doing wrong? |
| 2001/4/1 [Uncategorized] UID:20883 Activity:nil |
3/31 If I have a non-empty directory and I try to mount a another
partition on that directory, what happens?
\_ read the man page for mount; pay attention to the -o "union" flag.
\_ by default, what was in that directory (and below) becomes
inaccessible
\_ making it a good way to hide things on the filesystem... |
| 2001/4/1 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:20884 Activity:nil |
3/30 The Macintosh Computers often set a "Do not Fragment" bit on outgoing
packets. Back in the Day, I had to get a third party app to turn
this off. I hear that nowadays you don't need to do that. So how
do you turn it off with the OS?
\_ just check the setting |
| 2001/4/1 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:20885 Activity:nil |
3/30 Can someone recommend a spam filter? What does soda use?
\_ A well-configured sendmail.
\_ I use RBL blocking with my sendmail. It works very well
for my purposes.
\_ especially if your purpose is to automatically shit-can
legitimate mail at times completely outside your control.
Use SpamBouncer if you have to. -tom
\_ Legit mail such as?
\_ such as all mail from AOL, or http://socrates.berkeley.edu,
or uunet, to name three sites which have been
blackholed in the past. -tom
\_ You consider mail from AOL to be legit? And
frankly, you're missing the point of the RBL
anyway. The message RBL users are sending out
is that we'd rather not get *any* mail from you
if you're going to have open spam relays. Fix
your shit and you're welcome to play in the same
sandbox as everyone else. Run a stupid server
that is the source of a million spam and we
consider your regular mail not worth receiving
when compared to the burden of carrying the rest
of the spam crap.
\_ fine, stand on principle all you want. I
prefer to get my mail. Spam is hardly even
an annoyance. -tom
\_ More RBL = fewer open relays. The open
relays probably want others to get their
mail as much as you want to receive it.
The RBL puts the burden on the open relay
servers not the rest of us. The fewer
open relays, the less spam, the less
annoyance for everyone with the ultimate
utopian goal of no spam for anyone. Your
answer "just do client side filtering and
hit delete a lot" only drags us back to
the era of getting more spam than email.
It isn't about principle, it's about
increasing the mail to spam ratio. The
RBL does this without forcing every user
or local mail admin to setup white lists,
black lists, and other crap.
\_ spew all you want, but as I said,
I prefer to get my mail and leave
the high-minded principles to
morons like you. As long as any
person on the net can send mail to
any other person on the net, for
free, there will be spam. Get
over it. -tom |
| 2001/4/1 [Computer/HW/IO] UID:20886 Activity:nil |
3/30 Optical mice. Good? Bad? Just a fad?
\_ gr8. Logitech is coming out with a wireless optical one that
lasts 3 months on batt. it could suck, but i wanna hear about it.
\_ good. how would they be bad?
\_ if you're a super 7331 G@M3|2 it's possible the optical sampling
\_ my girlfriend is an 7331 DiabloII G@|\/|3R
rate isn't as good as regular mice, or could be less deterministic
when you make quick sweeps, again mostly sampling rate issue.
another thing is, without the ball, the mouse could be too light
which could make it more susceptible to the cord moving it etc.
the wireless one sounds supa fly ill sick phat dope.
\_ the wireless I used had very poor tracking, though it
was from a previous generation. -tom
\_ Actually optical mice are great for games. I have an Apple
mouse and I recommend it highly over the regular kind.
I used to have a Logitech mouse which constantly got crap
in it which screwed up my aim. I could never clean it completely
and the surface got crapped up too.
\_ bleah. I dislike the apple optical mouse for games... with
the whole thing one big button, I found it too easy to
hit accidentally.
\_ Remind me not to be on your team in team games. I
don't want to get shot in the back when you meant to
jump or switch weapons. :)
\_ Optical mice are nothing special. Wireless means replacing the
batteries. Wired means no battery replacements but you still have
to deal with having "just the right surface" for it. If you work
in an ideal environment, sure. If your desk looks like my floor
when I was in 3rd grade, stick to trackballs.
\_ Uh. What does wired/wireless have to do with the surface you
use the mouse on?
\_ Nothing. I didn't say it did. I was saying that wired
optical mouse have one less issue than wireless ones. That
issue is the surface problem common to both.
\- Optical mice can be really good, if you get the right one. Im using
M$ optical, wired and its great (I know, we all hate M$, etc, etc, but
their optical mouse is really good). Really good sampling and great
resolution. I get much better precision than I used to using a ball
mouse. You can use it w/o a mousepad, but with it, the results are
better.
\_ So why the hell didnt you buy the Logitech one for the same
price? and format your message properly next time.
\_ Logitech has an annoying habit of putting crap in your
'doze system tray that just won't go away. Quite annoying.
\_ Young D0ze Jedi, you must increase your M$ Registry Fu!
\_ honestly, where can I find out info on cleaning
out my registry?
\_ Ijut. It's a STANDARD PS/2 (and USB) mouse! You dont
need to install any extra drivers/software!!!
\_ yeah, that's kind of like the drivers for the M$
mouse... 29 mb? how about 0 mb since I don't need
the stupid side buttons?
\_ won't go away? uh, go your mouse properties and uncheck the
option about having an icon in the system tray.
\_ I've got a Logitech USB optical mouse. I've been pretty happy with
it. Works fine via USB, works fine with PS/2 adapter (included).
I've used it on a bunch of different surfaces, and have yet to use
it with a mouse pad. Fine for first person shooters. -dans |