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Since Firefox has started their crazy version numbering, I've given up on upgrading. I use 27 different addons and perfectly configured to make my web browser do what I want. It is near impossible to do an upgrade without spending hours reconfiguring the addons, some of which need to be manually downloaded and have their "MaxVersion" incremented so they will install. Maybe in 6 more months when we reach Firefox 50 I'll give it a try, but until then. Firefox 8 all the way!

Application: Firefox 8.0 (20111104165243)
Total number of items: 27

- Active Stop Button 1.4.10
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/active-stop-button/
- Adblock Plus 1.3.10
http://adblockplus.org/en/
- BetterPrivacy 1.68
http://nc.ddns.us/extensions.html
- ColorfulTabs 7.1
http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/colorfultabs-for-firefox/
- Cookie Monster 1.1.0
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/?src=api
- Copy Link Name 1.3.2
http://www.captaincaveman.nl/
- Download Statusbar 0.9.10
http://downloadstatusbarapp.com/
- DownloadHelper 4.9.14
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
- DownThemAll! 2.0.8
http://downthemall.net/
- Export Cookies 1.2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api
- Find Toolbar Tweaks 3.0.0
http://homepage3.nifty.com/georgei/extension/ftt_en.html
- Firebug 1.8.4
http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Greasemonkey 0.9.13
http://www.greasespot.net/
- HeaderControlRevived 1.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/headercontrolrevived/?src=api
- Hide Caption Titlebar Plus 2.4.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13505/
- Menu Editor 1.2.7
http://menueditor.mozdev.org/
- Movable Firefox Button 1.4
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movable-firefox-button/
- NoScript 2.1.7
http://noscript.net/
- OptimizeGoogle 0.78.2
http://www.optimizegoogle.com/
- RequestPolicy 0.5.27
http://www.requestpolicy.com/
- Screen Capture Elite 2.0.0.23
http://www.grizzlyape.com/
- Searchbastard 1.5.5
http://searchbastard.rosell.dk/
- SkipScreen 0.6.1.2

You mean, like this pre-Palm device? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Newton_MP100.jpg

Or, like this pre-Newton device. The Sony PTC-300 preceded the Apple Newton by two years, and it had permanent icons along one side, and sometime, icons along the bottom, depending on the app.

By the way, the PTC-300 was preceded by two other Sony models: PTC-500 and PTC-550.

Nearest equivalent for X / Linux that I've used is xte, which uses the XTest extension to send keyboard and mouse events to the desktop.
xte is usually included with the "xautomation" package for various distributions.

I've also seen people use xvkbd -text to automate keystrokes (often in concert with xbindkeys), but I've found xte works a bit better in many cases, for example, when activating CTRL/ALT/Shift/etc. modifiers.

To complete the package, xprop can also give you some useful window state information and control so you can find and manipulate application windows.

Solaris and OpenSolaris have a well defined device driver interface, sample and real driver source code, and a stable ABI, so third-party ethernet and WiFi drivers are available for the common network devices that Sun themselves don't yet support:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=solaris+ethernet+drivers

Put the downloaded drivers on a flash drive or your hard disk.

I recommend Flight Gear. http://www.flightgear.org/ If that's too involved, you could try something simpler like Ysflight. http://homepage3.nifty.com/ysflight/ysflight/e.html

I ran into a similar problem. In a lot of cases, the drivers for the network cards are actually available. The problem seems to be that there is no mapping of the PCI id in /etc/driver_aliases. I've found that in many cases you can just add a line in that file with the appropriate pci vendor and product id and the nic will work. You can find the pci vendor and product id using prtconf -v and searching for the Ethernet Adapter section.

There are also a bunch of free network drivers for Solaris can be found here.

First, I agree that Thinkpads are the best out there. They are more robust and more usable than anything else, with the exception of the first run of T60s when Lenovo first broke away from IBM. Unfortunately, the key placement has moved me to purchase Dells for my company instead.

For reference, here are some pictures for keyboard comparison:
Thinkpad X300
Dell D420 keyboard
Macbook Pro Air keyboard

Escape and the Function key are in the wrong places ... Esc must be in the NW corner, left of F1 and above back-tick (`), and the SW corner should read Ctrl, Fn, Win, Alt, Space. (Recall the fact that corners are the most easily located/accessed spots by sight and touch, to speak nothing of habit). Browser navigation buttons by the arrows are made useless by rocker gestures and ALT+Arrows. Most of my users don't even know what they do. I prefer nothing (or PgUp/PgDn if you must). Apple's defaults of Fn+arrow for home/end and pgup/pgdn are very useful (Dell uses those key combos for brightness, but how often do you change that?).

Apple's go the lack of a second mouse button (alleviated by multi-touch?) and Fn out of place, Lenovo has Esc and Fn out of place (plus funky web buttons blocking your fingers from arrow keys). I go with Dell.

Yes, I use ctrl:nocaps. Not so easy to set up (or convince of its usefulness) for my Thinkpad-based Windows users, but they'll get Dells when they're upgraded in a few months.

I'm personally not a fan of ultraportable laptops with the footprints of ordinary laptops. If a laptop is going to be minimalistic, its manufacturer ought to go all the way. A subnotebook will never replicate the functionality of a typical 14" computer, so it's pointless to give it the footprint of one. I'd much rather see a diminished footprint than a minuscule thickness. I would personally prefer an updated version of my Thinkpad S30 than this MacBook Air competitor.

May I ask what software used this previously?

My best guess for "first" is SGI's 4dwm window manager, which provided a (relatively powerful) pager app that displayed a "mini view" of the desktops, along with rectangles to scale (no snapshots of window contents, though. I think it gave window titles on mouseover) which you could drag around, etc. I used the SGI workstations back in 2000 or so, and they had already been around for years before that. Scaring up a screenshot of 4dwm itself is a bit tough, I don't think anyone cared about this stuff back then, but here's a shot of "windows like 4dwm" shell for windows that has the pager displayed: http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/semishigure/images/4dwm.jpg That virtual desktop manager for windows seems to be the one here which was last updated this year, but has links to reviews from 2003/2004. http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/CDE/_MOTIF.GIF shows the "SCO Panner" which operated in a similar fashion.

No, Nexenta does not include any of the closed source binaries
http://www.gnusolaris.org/: "NexentaOS is completely open source and free of any charge.".

Here is the list of what is missing from OpenSolaris: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/. Missing is e.g. some device drivers, luckily some of them have OSS counterparts in the net (e.g. http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/).

However, the way Nexenta is built it can use binary only Solaris drivers - a very nice feature IMHO.

I was supposed to give those links in my previous post but somehow managed to screw up ... sorry.

FLAC doesn't compress the absolute best of the alternatives, but it's 'good enough' and is widely supported, even directly on some portable devices. You won't wake up one day to find out that FLAC support has all but disappeared because the original developer lost interest (since the source is out there, unlike many alternatives). You will also be able to trivially transcode FLAC to Vorbis with meta-data intact, and do it FAST. (not a unique property, but well supported with FLAC/oggenc2).

I wonder if http://homepage3.nifty.com/furumizo/gmaskd_e.htm can unblur them.... Providing that google used the same technique that Japanese Porn industry blur thier pictures... hahahahaha

When I installed Solaris last year, there were no drivers to support my hardware.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/furumizo/l_gmaskd.htm
And source code for linux. Untranslated, inconveniently.

Now cue about 50 posts talkng about the "CSI Photoshop enhance plugin".

> ripping CDs to MP3

Might be true, LAME isn't exactly a speed monster in high quality mode. On the other hand, oggenc/lancer is so fast it's almost silly. Upgrade to Vorbis, save money on hardware :-)

Possibly from proto-Japonic '*gugumi', c.f. Goryeo '*g-g-o'.

What I think is interesting is that languages other than English have begun to do this as well. In Japanese, "Guuguru/Guguru" is used both as the Japanization (Japanese phoneticization?) of "Google" and as a verb (the "-ru" ending signifies a verb in dictionary form). Here is an example of a page using it, in case you read Japanese. I'm not sure how generic the verb has become, but the fact that it has become a verb is interesting.

All I know is that using oggenc/lancer I'm getting 35 times real-time encoding on my dual-core AMD 3800+ rig (a single-core Athlon64 at 2.7GHz encodes at 45 times real-time -- or to put it another way -- a six minute track is encoded in less than 8 seconds).

Did I mention oggenc is single threaded? I'm not naive enough to believe this translates to 2*35=70 real-time encodes, but less than ten?! No. Way.

"Pixel" is his handle--now here is a completely unknown japanese guy who definitely deserves some acclaim. He single-handedly created Cave Story over the course of five years, and it's often described as being a "perfect" game. Think Castlevania, Metroid, and Yoshi's Island, among others--some great old-fashioned platforming gameplay to be found here. It has some amazing 8-bit era graphics and chiptunes, charming characters and plot, really fun boss battles; it appeals greatly to any nostalgic gamer out there. And it's freeware to boot. Check it out.

Game English Patch

For RE4, this sort of already exists...especially for the Japanese. The site http://homepage3.nifty.com/shin3/capcom/bio4.htm tracks both the best times on the main game and high scores for the Mercenaries minigame, ranging from top 20ish to the top 64. I think he just includes the submissions for anyone that sends him videos of their performances. It also includes video downloads for the highest scoring/best time people, so you know it's legit. It even includes submissions from players from all over the world. There is a downside to it, though. I'd love to send some vids in, but I don't want to plop down $100-200 dollars for a good video capture card just so I can send recordings there and have my name on the scoreboards.

The same applies for the Speed Running community across the world. They track and display the top times for a variety of games, but if you want to submit your own speedrun(s) you have to go through the hassle of recording your work, rather than having a built in online scoreboard system. Also they tend to only display the times of the top one or two players, rather than having a top 20 or so. But, at least you get to download their runs and see how it's done!

Indeed, "hello world" began running with WINE on x86 MacOSX a few days ago.

Live beautifully with the super fast fantastic lens.

Research on Large Membrane Furoshiki Satellite

FYI:
Furoshiki is traditional wrapping-cloth in Japan.
Often, old women use Furoshiki as a substitute of bag.
For example, when carrying a watermelon, Furoshiki is used as follows.
Suika-zustumi

CMO
ALPO

Of most interest is over the past three weeks there has been a nice dust storm that was visible with small telescopes from the US.

I dare you to suggest that the difference between MP3 and Vorbis is "minimal" at low bitrates (

The page is in Japanese, but surely the links are universal? You just point the mouse and click, and (win32) software comes flying. Amazing.

(Sure, if you want a linux version you'll have to point to the patch and roll your own -- unless you can find a binary somewhere. Hydrogen Audio anyone?)

How is "sounds better at lower bitrates" (therefore giving you more songs/MB) a moral crusade?

Not to mention the benefits of SANE tagging and fast encodes.

Personally, I would never buy a keyboard that has an "email key", that's what keybindings are for. I would question the build and design quality of a keyboard that relies on extra keys to get me to hand over the cash.

I never like the dumb (and utterly uselss) "email" buttons, but I am a fan of the Sun Keyboard designs. The "cut", "Copy", "paste", "stop" and other keys on the left can be very handy. It's too bad that Unix software is moving away from using such wonderful keys. :-(

The only thing that tends to throw users new to Unix keyboards is the location of the Control key. On Unix keyboards, the Control and Caps Lock are swapped. I actually find it a bit more comfortable, but many people are used to the PC keyboard design.

A simple way to combat hardware keystroke loggers is to use a screen-driven keyboard to enter sensitive data like xvkbd.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/

If you're in such a hurry, I suggest you try oggenc Archer. Then you'd get higher quality encodes faster; I get more than 20 times real-time on my Athlon XP 2400+

I don't know how much encoding you do, but at this speed I can encode ~7200 tracks per day.

No it absolutely did not.

The Lisa mouse is easily recognized by having a beige color scheme similar to the original Macintosh mouse, but with a different connector, a wider, shorter button, and somewhat different case styling.

This is a Lisa mouse.

The second mouse seen here is the original Macintosh mouse, IIRC.

I call bs. You are posting on /. hence you can't have a girlfriend let alone a hot asian one.

I'll do him one better - I've got a hot Asian (actually Japanese) wife!

But he is actually right - sushi neither refers to the rice nor directly to the fish. It's a method of preserving food. Specifically, it originally was a method of preserving fish - hence it generally being served with fish today (though not always). But it is not really correct to say that sushi does not refer to the fish - without fish, sushi never would have been invented, and the first forms of sushi were little more than fish, salt, and vinegar. There was no rice.

Sushi evolved over the years like many foods do. Today's maki are not even really Japanese (though neither was the first sushi, really, either).

Do a Google search on the origins of sushi and you'll find a bunch of stories that say basically the same thing - you can glean the true history from that. (I'm not linking to a specific page because they all have minor details that sound more or less apocryphal, but the gist is basically the same between most of them).

The kanji for sushi also looks like a fish. Kanji originally was a pictographic language - it depicts what it is. Here's a nice page that shows the various kanji used throughout the years and also talks a little bit about their origins and the origins of sushi. (Before anyone gets confused by that page talking about a bunch of Chinese stuff, remember that Japanese kanji is derived from Chinese kanji, so all Japanese kanji have origins in the Chinese language.)

Gogo mp3 encoder. Fastest mp3 encoder I've ever run across. The main problem with gogo is that it encodes so fast that you sit around waiting for tracks to get ripped off the CD a lot.

Any more excuses?

I recently inherited an obscure Dell laptop with a broken keyboard. It's a P3-633 with decent RAM and disk, but a new keyboard is $75, so I set it up with xvkbd on-screen keyboard. The keyboard starts when gdm starts, so as long as you don't need to leave X it works fine. Not a perfect solution, but it's the difference between a useless laptop and one that's at least usable.

Treo would probably be your best bet, as PalmOS can work in Japanese. Support for Japanese is possible via J-OS or CJKOS. With CJKOS, you should be able to use Chinese as well as Japanese (and Korean, if you need). I have used J-OS on my Palm once upon a time, and it worked OK. Many Japanese Palm users have been using it for a while to send e-mails from their PalmOS PDAs, so it should have no problem sending e-mail in Japanese to other devices (including phones).
Your Japanese phone will NEVER work in the US carrier, as Japanese carriers use their own standards (there is no GSM, no regular CDMA in Japan. Even wCDMA is based upon partly their standard, which does not necessary allow regular wCDMA to work in their network nor their phone in regular wCDMA network).
Besides, I don't think there is a Japanese phone that can truely let you use Chinese on. Keep it in your mind, just because Japanese use Chinese characters in writing doesn't mean they use all the Chinese characters. There are a tons of Chinese characters that does not exist in Japanese (or rarely used). Japanese phones are geared clearly towards entering Chinese characters used in Japanese (aka Kanji) writings (as well as alphanumeric). So, if you were to enter anything in Chinese, you will have to enter everything as if you are pronouncing that particular character in Japanese, not in Chinese, which means you will have to enter it quite a bit differently (trust me, I can read/write/speak Japanese perfectly).

Anyone else remember this from Logitech a while back? I remember Sierra Online was trying to hawk it in their product catalog (disguised as a games magazine) bundled with their games back in the mid-90s, when FPS games were just starting to take off.

Found a review of it here.

Apparently, Logitech even made a second, newer version, as seen here. I had the original, I thought it sucked.

Oh really? Then what's this? The SheepShaver page clearly states that it includes a PowerPC emulator for platforms that need it. It does not run OSX, however.

is KANEKO Isamu, 33, was relatively well-known in Japan as a talented 3D-programming programmer, too (though it's not known until today that he is the "47"). His personal homepage has many 3D-programming stuff, including flight simulator, realtime 3-D body model generator, PBO-FS(Prototype-Based Object File System), missile simulator, and realtime motion-generation by physics calculation. His academic concern was fast 3D physics calculation, network design, and OS design.

Solid state drives have been around for a long time. Hell, the old RocketDrives could hit 4GB with four 1GB RDRAM sticks.

- Hachiya is looking for a test pilot for the first version made this past year. Applications accepted up to March 15.

- The faq has another picture including something that looks more like an ordinary glider. To answer the question "What kind of project is this?" he writes, "The final goal of the 'Open Sky Project' is to produce a 'personal jet glider' that can be ridden by a single person (a girl up to 50kg)." Phase 2 which he is working on now includes consideration of ideas like those in the photo.

- He is being assisted in phase 2 by Aircraft OLYMPOS, looks like this guy (Mr. Shibe? Yobe? The name reads like "four doors"..heh) knows his planes.. and he says he thinks it is possible.

- The part about a girl being needed is basically a matter of image.. no reason can't be a guy. The point is to have someone as light and strong as possible, so 40kg plus or minus 5 kg, say 55kg max with full equipment. There is a training program for the pilot budgeted. And since he wouldn't put anyone on it without doing it himself first, he's in training now too. Sounds more ballsy and realistic than at first, no? I think we're back to "KEWL!"

- For phase 2 it will be called another name, not Moewe since if there did happen to be an accident Studio Ghibli (Nausicaa creators) would be inconvenienced. Also because when he looked it up it turns out that Mazda owns a trademark for a plane called Mehbeh. He wonders if they are actually thinking of building it?!?!

- Answering the question "Is this Open Source?" he says "Funny you should ask about that, the was originally developed as an Impac project but since it ended up not getting realized there I decided to do it by by myself. Even this phase I plan to make it open source to some degree, for example releasing diagrams and discussing problem points openly and so on. But as for completely open source hardware (?) I've given up on it. That is, when constructing the body someone should take responsibility for designing it, and when putting someone on it, obviously should take responsibility for that. And considering that kind of responsibility, I don't think it's possible to do that and try to get opinions about an under construction aircraft, or get advice on important parts of the project. However, I am looking for staff (link), so if anybody is interested they are welcome."

- Hey people this sounds like it is maybe real. And while he is an artist not an aeronautics engineer, he does have a good deal of clout and Nausicaa is a powerful image in Japan among the general public, in particular I think among engineers.

I'd like to mention the opinion of an older man who took me out for sushi tonight as I think it may be salient. We were talking about the way sushimaking is taught.. He said the difference between Japan and the U.S. is that Japan is a nation of craftsmen, and they don't teach just anyone what they know. In the U.S. everything is written in a manual, anyone (even someone who doesn't really *care*) can learn whatever is needed. In Japan the expert is not going to teach the young man the trade unless he has fire in his eyes.. Oh so you really *want* to know huh? And the student has to "steal" the information.

Well maybe this is a bit off and might have more to do with chefs than aircraft and open source, but I think it is safe to say at any rate whether this has anything to do with it or not, that a huge percentage of aircraft engineers in Japan have long dreamed of building something like Moewe, compared to their U.S. counterparts, and Hachiya does have a pretty strong way of grabbing people's attention with his designs. Anyway I'd like to hear if people think he is right and if open source aircraft is impossible. Seems it is possible but litigous..

By the way I just caught "BPS: Battle Programmer Shirashi" a (new?) Japanese cartoon. Whit

The application is: TCLOCK!

And what's with the rainbow? hmmm...?

(posted from a powerbook, you zealots!)

There are still many things that can go wrong; remember the poor record of successful missions to Mars spans all countries... Russian, Soviet, US and now Japanese.

For one thing, be sure to keep an eye on growing dust storms on Mars... they appear to be mostly confined to the southern hemisphere now, but that might change... and Beagle 2 is landing at only 11 degrees north.

We ALL stand to gain from a successful Beagle 2 mission as well as successful NASA missions.

Yes, it works in VMware. It correctly detects the PCnet32 network card in vmware but not the video card. You have to do a text install (abort the x configuration) otherwise it will come up at 640x480 and the dialog boxes will be off the screen. Then use XFree86 to select the vmware video card. Other drivers are here:

Sound drivers for onboard audio and pci sound blasters

some usb devices

Network drivers Solaris should autodetect the video in Microsoft Virtual PC because it uses an S3 TRIO32/64 chipset, but it uses a Tulip network chip, so you'll need the nic drivers above.

>>Solaris 8/9 and CDE, what could be better...
Solaris 9 and Gnome...oh wait that's been standard for the the last couple of releases of 9.

And before people whine too much about hardware support...
For a port of XFree86 drivers to Solaris(even the VESA driver) please see: here
For nic drivers see here(I helped get the Realtek driver building with the Solaris/sparc version of gcc, previously you had to buy Sun's compiler to build the driver for a 10 dollar nic)
Or you might want to look here for links to other Solaris drivers.

The crown jewel of the NES era, SMB3, took 8 hours the first time through

Google searches and perusing HTTP_REFERER logs can turn up some interesting things. I've found documentation written for my project in Czech (also a Czech patch), Portuguese and Japanese, as well as a directory listing in German. Free Software is cool! ;-)

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