Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
Luke Kanies wrote: I hate gems, but stupid Rails really wants to use them. Not just that, but a really recent version. I hate ports, but I've got a Mac and it doesn't have real package management. I have an older version of rubygems installed with ports, and I need to upgrade. So:

Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
Timothy Knox wrote: Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:37:15PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: Hate ports. It doesn't explain what dependencies its going to install or even warn you about them. This is inexcusable as all they have to do is take a look at dpkg or fink

Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-20 Thread Jeremy Stephens
Luke Kanies wrote: I hate ports, but I've got a Mac and it doesn't have real package management. Just install it by hand. Whenever I try to install rubygems via some package manager (ports on mac or apt on linux), somehow it always gets screwed up one way or another. -- Jeremy Stephens

wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-20 Thread Robert Rothenberg
I've been (un)fortunate this summer to do a lot of travelling this summer. Most places that I've stayed has some kind of hotspot login where any attempt to visit a website goes to a special login screen and then redirects you do the website once you've logged in. The hate these things inspire are

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-20 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Robert Rothenberg rob...@gmail.com [2007-08-20 03:55]: The hate these things inspire are so numerous. Worst is that most of them are brutally incompetent about HTTP; many of them will send you a 301 permanent redirect for all your web access attempts until you sign in.

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi [2007-08-20 14:00]: A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Robert Rothenberg rob...@gmail.com [2007-08-20 03:55]: The hate these things inspire are so numerous. Worst is that most of them are brutally incompetent about HTTP; many of them will send you a 301 permanent

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:24:24PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: I don't even mind -- but what they should send is their sign-in page in the body of a 403 response, not a redirect and CERTAINLY NOT A FsCKING PERMANENT ONE argh! Kill kill kill!! Have fun checking all your feed subscriptions to

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [2007-08-20 17:55]: On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:24:24PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: I don't even mind -- but what they should send is their sign-in page in the body of a 403 response, not a redirect and CERTAINLY NOT A FsCKING PERMANENT ONE argh! Kill

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-20 Thread Eli Naeher
On 8/20/07, Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi wrote: You are trying to use the Inttarweb before you pay us? Sacrilege! It's not just the places looking to get paid. Libraries with free wifi can be among the worst offenders. I've been to libraries where you are required to check out a wireless card

PDF encryption

2007-08-20 Thread Earle Martin
Gmail provides a very helpful view-PDF-attachment-as-HTML tool. It works for my needs 99% of the time. Except when I get some particular PDFs, clicking upon which in Gmail producing this message: The attachment cannot be viewed as HTML because the author has placed restrictions on its content.

Re: PDF encryption

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Devers
On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Earle Martin wrote: Except when I get some particular PDFs, clicking upon which in Gmail producing this message: The attachment cannot be viewed as HTML because the author has placed restrictions on its content. Download the attachment to view it in its original

Re: PDF encryption

2007-08-20 Thread Peter da Silva
On 20-Aug-2007, at 09:00, Chris Devers wrote: If the Adobe software can open it sans password, then surely Google should be able to either reverse engineer that ability, or license the ability to do so from Adobe. Assuming Adobe wants them to have that ability, and won't sue them for

Re: PDF encryption

2007-08-20 Thread Michael Jinks
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:32:13AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: The amount of stupid hateful wetware around the whole subject of encryption is, of course, amazing. And lots of it spends much of its workday wrapped in black robes. I could easily imagine a course of events thus: - Moron

Re: PDF encryption

2007-08-20 Thread Earle Martin
On 20/08/07, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: On 20-Aug-2007, at 09:00, Chris Devers wrote: If the Adobe software can open it sans password, then surely Google should be able to either reverse engineer that ability, or license the ability to do so from Adobe. Assuming Adobe wants

Re: PDF encryption

2007-08-20 Thread Bob Walker
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:38 +0100, Earle Martin wrote: http://chosaq.net/archives/2006/05/gmail-cripples-drmed-pdf-files-view-as-html-functionality.html Which brings me to another hatred - when was the HTML 'title' element deprecated ? it hasnt

Re: PDF encryption

2007-08-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Bob Walker b...@randomness.org.uk [2007-08-20 19:15]: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:38 +0100, Earle Martin wrote: http://chosaq.net/archives/2006/05/gmail-cripples-drmed-pdf-files-view-as-html-functionality.html Which brings me to another hatred -