Comments for Opportunity Knocks

Comment on Can’t Browse Web, Can Ping and E-mail by Bob

Bob — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:54:16 +0000

I had a problem with WIN/XP IE8 being unable to go to http: sites also and this is what it happened to be, similar to yours with NIS..

Earlier that day I’d installed Avast! and that turned out to be the high water mark for my memory usage. Afterward the computer was so slow due to maxed out memory that while it was still coming up I’d cancel unessential auto-started programs (AIM, Paltalk, spyware programs, etc). I cancelled Avast as it was coming up, too, and that’s what caused me to lose ability to browse http sites. Evidentally Avast! blocks http (port 80) until it’s fully started, but since I cancelled it before it could naturally complete it never got the chance to open port 80 again. Ergo no access to http sites even though I could get to https sites OK (port 435). I suspect the registry is updated somehow like NIS and something like your solution to NIS would have worked. I uninstalled Avast! and rebotted and everything worked OK.

Comment on Minty Again Soon by Fresh, Minty Taste « Opportunity Knocks

Fresh, Minty Taste « Opportunity Knocks — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:10:49 +0000

[...] I have related a few times over the past few years how I converted my main laptop, the one that goes with me when I’m working, from Windows XP to Linux Mint, then upstreamed it to Ubuntu because I wasn’t happy with Mint’s updates policy. Later, when I upgraded Ubuntu to 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”, there were some rough edges, including non-working sound. At that point, I appreciated Mint’s philosophy of trying to keep things more stable. [...]

Comment on Minty Again Soon by No Longer Minty-Fresh « Opportunity Knocks

No Longer Minty-Fresh « Opportunity Knocks — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:01:54 +0000

[...] I’m pretty likely to be back to Mint soon. The old laptop is slowly dying, and there were enough pains in the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 that I’ll be glad for a more stable distribution. [...]

Comment on Can We Stop Calling People Racist Now? by Opto

Opto — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:15:06 +0000

Nicely said. Using the term “racism” to describe those in opposition to a proposed bill by the head of the U.S. federal government is ludicrous. It reflects very poorly on those mainstream news shows that suggest such a thing. It also leads non-Americans to believe that Americans make important political decisions based on race, and that Americans are intolerant.

It reminds me of an interview that I saw during the electoral campaign. I can’t remember what this person was representing and why she was interviewed but she stated that those that did not vote for McCain/Palin were anti-women.

Is this how Americans votes? If so, ballots could be designed to make voting easier:
Male or Female (checkbox)
White or Non-White (checkbox)
Old or Young (checkbox)
From North or South of the Mason-Dixon line (checkbox)
Children or no children (checkbox),
Christian or non- (checkbox),…

Comment on Courts, Patents, XML, and Microsoft by Darius Damalakas

Darius Damalakas — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:02:48 +0000

I am so glad to read blogs which understand the long-term impacts of some of the decisions that are being made in the world.

Would it mean that if MS wins a court-case this time, then it would be as a sign that whole patent system can be interpreted either way, depending what you need?

Comment on Copyright As Presently Defined Is Unconstitutional by Courts, Patents, XML, and Microsoft « Opportunity Knocks

Courts, Patents, XML, and Microsoft « Opportunity Knocks — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:29:01 +0000

[...] again been burned by the application of the patent system to the field of software. I maintain that the present patent and copyright system violates the Constitution, but even those who support the present system have problems with the way it was applied in this [...]

Comment on PEAR Site Has OpenDocument Project For PHP by Christian Weiske

Christian Weiske — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:04:29 +0000

Current status:
http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/OpenDocument%200.2.0%20released.htm

Comment on PEAR Site Has OpenDocument Project For PHP by lnxwalt

lnxwalt — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:32:48 +0000

Christian, thanks for coming by. Keep us up-to-date. Tell us what kind of help you need to make this a releasable product.

Comment on PEAR Site Has OpenDocument Project For PHP by Christian Weiske

Christian Weiske — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:19:34 +0000

I actually took over the package and began work on it – so it’s not dead, it’s slowly getting better now.

Comment on Why Do I Use OpenOffice? by Links 08/05/2009: Dell and Android on Sub-notebooks? | Boycott Novell

Links 08/05/2009: Dell and Android on Sub-notebooks? | Boycott Novell — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:03:15 +0000

[...] Why Do I Use OpenOffice? In addition, using OpenDocument Format as the default file format helps future-proof my documents. After the current producers of “office software” all move on to something else, will you have the right to create a program to read and manipulate your data in the formats it was saved in? Will you be forced to buy a license from someone? Or perhaps be required to use a particular operating system? [...]