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Since the only thing I really never want and haven't been able to control using the built-in options, are those annoying ad-things which highlight words, I've been using a user-javascript in Opera with a hook to detect and disable them. Sure, I need to manually update it a couple of times per year, but no big deal. To use, find/set your user javascript directory under "prefs->advanced->content->javascript options" and just drop the file there.

> but even then it still usues way too much screen space for things other then the actual webpage.

WTF?! You do know that the sidebar "Panel" toggles on and off with F4, right? Requests ought to focus on stuff that isn't already in the browser and trivially available to users to configure, don't you think?

I'm sorry, but requesting more space for the web page is sort of insane, considering there's always full screen mode (F11). The difference between full screen and my current configuration is neglible. Here's a current full screen screenshot (~44KiB) of my setup. Explain what you want to disable and how that makes a real difference to your browsing experience.

Personally I'd like a special tab which would include all client-server exchanges, toggable to exclude content body/show as hexa, etc.

Didn't know about DenyHosts, wrote something similar in sshd_failed_ips.pl. I didn't want a deamon or cron job when it's completely unnecessary, though me script does depend on TCP wrappers (any dist. not running that by default?)

>Can I ask what board that is?

It was a revision 1 Abit KT7A-RAID. It doesn't "officially" support the XP-series of CPUs either, but it'll work if you know what you're doing. You have to set some specific settings in the BIOS to get it stable, but it really is stable. The XP2400+ was the last CPU you could just plonk in there and run, since it was the last one to run at 266MHz bus (there might be some higher speed grade mobile part too, but let's not go there).

Many older boards support this particular CPU even though the the official word is "Max 1.4GHz Thunderbird". Best way to know if it can be done and what's required is to use Google Groups.

Of course, getting hold of a cheap 2400+ XP probably isn't easy nowadays, so it's probably not a worthvile upgrade unless you can find a used one for cheap, in which case it can be a great upgrade.

Both of your allegedly(?) "uncommon" features are present in my favourite editor, GWD Edit

Sort of wrote an "ode" to it a few years back. Still haven't found a replacement.

From his website: http://gazonk.org/~eloj/who_am_i.html

It looks like he is Swedish

Opera has a needlessly vast header area that takes up too much screen real estate

Liar.

I can prove you wrong easily.

HTH. HAND.

I have no idea if this affects pscp too, but I've brought my pscp download resume patch up to date anyhow. Grabbed the source snapshot which I assume post-dates the 0.55 fixes.

Shouldn't be necessary, but here's a mirror of the torrent just in case.

It's not slashdotted, as of writing (after your post). But if goes down, try this (GIFs converted to PNG because I find GIF offensive).

Memorandum in opposition is now available. PDF here (my conversion).

In a revealing interview, a SCO VP recently stated that SCO's strategy in this case is not to "put everything on the table at the start, but instead to bring out arguments and evidence piece by piece".

"SCO should not be allowed, through its own misconduct, to prolong this case merely to serve its own interests in cultivating the fear, uncertainty and doubt SCO has created regarding Linux and IBM's products.

Goodies.

Here you go.

I had the misfortune to read a book on Qt by Patrick Ward called Qt Programming. I'm sorry, but it's got to be one of the worst books on this topic that I've ever seen.

Stay far, far away from it.

Not sure what to add to that, but Machinae Supremacy is inspired by game music and they've done game music. But since you've reading this story you knew that already ;-)

As for stand-alone soundtracks for Games I think that's going to be a niche for a very long time, but one that I think is worth having. Jeremy Soule and Inon Zur have done a lot of good music for games (BG, IWD, etc). Robert Holmes did good work on the GK games too (also available on soundtrack in the now somewhat-hard-to-get Gabriel Knight Mysteries (Limited Edition) package).

It merely doesn't do anything that is immediately useful to the typical non-techie user.

Give it a few days and I'm sure we'll have something more non-techie like. :-)

And speaking of music, if you're a Machinae Supremacy fan (and who isn't?) you can get the new live-footage of them doing the tune from The Great Gianna Sisters from this torrent.

Actually, I wonder how many people will read the NYT article and think, "Wow! Easy access to porn! I gotta download that now!

I haven't bought a CD since Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done which I think was late 2002.

My next buy is going to be the forthcoming album of Machinae Supremacy. They're recording new tracks (Advocacy FAQ) for it, if you were wondering.

You mean Fermat's Enigma? My review here.

Yes, and don't forget genome@home. You might consider joining the Wicked Old Atheists even :-)

Umm.. I don't think the issue is so much with poor documentation where documentation exists, I think the issue is more with non-existing documentation.

If you are looking at the whole system from the point of documentation, of course everything looks great? That's like looking at the world though a great big filter.

Instead you will have to go the other way; check all DLL/EXEs for exports, and then see if those exports are documented. Some exports aren't even done by name, but only by ordinal, making them even harder to use.

I'm not a win32 guy either, so I can't give any concrete examples off hand, but I'm pretty sure this is partly where the issues lie.

You really cannot say the APIs are highly documented unless you have disassembled the code to see what it can really do, can you? Sure, there might be a hundred documented functions, but that is only impressive if there are only a hundred exports, and those exports are limited to the paramaters defined by the documentation.

Agreed. And the right way of doing it is to join the Wicked Ol' Atheists.

I've ranted on this very same topic. Flame on!

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