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  1. Re:Emmett? by Emmettfish · · Score: 2, Informative · on Ogg Vorbis Portables On The Way
    Wasn't he fired from Slashdot?

    No, I wasn't. I was promoted to the position of Editor-in-Chief of Linux.com, then I resigned from there a few months later citing editorial differences. Then I started a web publishing project called Binary Freedom which lives on at System Toolbox, which I still occasionally write for.

    I started a little comic/animation studio on the side, and went back to work as a UNIX Admin (which is what I was doing before I got involved in the whole web-journalism biz) at Digital Island/Exodus for about a year. I got cut in a massive acquisition layoff, chilled out for about a month and then started at Xiph at the request of the team here.

    Now I run Xiph full-time, and release free music on the 'net in my spare time.

    Wow, that was more than you really needed to know. But knowing is half the battle, etc.

    Emmett

  2. translucent windows and other nonsense by henben · · Score: 1, Insightful · on Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity
    For goodness sake, what problem do translucent windows solve? The need to see what's behind your xterm while simultaneously rendering it unreadable?

    The window management in Windows is better than anything I've seen in Linux. I'm sorry, but it's true. I don't care if you can make windows "roll up" into the title bar and you think it looks cool - what problem does that solve that wouldn't be handled better by minimising the window and showing it in the taskbar? Really, I'd be interested if someone could tell me the advantage.

    I'd like to see a better way to handle multiple windows, but sadly it seems we are stuck with things that look cool rather than anything useful.

    These are the problems that need to be solved, I reckon:

    • Provide a consistent, graphical way to traverse the file system.
    • Provide a graphical way to represent pipes and allow the user to send the output of one GUI application to another. For example, if I want to send the source of a web page to my text editor, I shouldn't have to go "View Source, Copy, Launch Text Editor, Paste" - there should be a natural way to do it in a single gesture. Ditto for sending a web page image to a graphics editor.
    • Similarly, there should be a simple way to record a sequence of operations in the GUI and replay/modify it.
    • With the advent of widescreen displays and multiple monitors, the GUI needs to arrange windows intelligently without the user dragging them back and forth.
  3. Towel Day 2002 is May 25 by dclydew · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse

    Greeting DA fans,

    A year ago, I wrote the article that made Towel Day a reality. This is the original story. There is a wrap up of Towel Day here.

    This year, Towel Day is again on May 25th. The new story is here.

    We are inviting anyone who would like to write an essay on Towel Day and Douglas Adams, to submit them to us and we'll get them posted on http://towelday.org

    That gives everyone about a week and a half to prepare for this memorial event.

    D. Clyde Williamson

  4. Towel Day 2002 is May 25 by dclydew · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse

    Greeting DA fans,

    A year ago, I wrote the article that made Towel Day a reality. This is the original story. There is a wrap up of Towel Day here.

    This year, Towel Day is again on May 25th. The new story is here.

    We are inviting anyone who would like to write an essay on Towel Day and Douglas Adams, to submit them to us and we'll get them posted on http://towelday.org

    That gives everyone about a week and a half to prepare for this memorial event.

    D. Clyde Williamson

  5. Towel Day 2002 is May 25 by dclydew · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse

    Greeting DA fans,

    A year ago, I wrote the article that made Towel Day a reality. This is the original story. There is a wrap up of Towel Day here.

    This year, Towel Day is again on May 25th. The new story is here.

    We are inviting anyone who would like to write an essay on Towel Day and Douglas Adams, to submit them to us and we'll get them posted on http://towelday.org

    That gives everyone about a week and a half to prepare for this memorial event.

    D. Clyde Williamson

  6. Towel Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse

    Isn't Towel Day May 25? It's Two weeks after his death, not the first thursday. More information can be found at:

  7. Re:Towel Day coming up, too. by What42 · · Score: 1 · on Hitchhiker's Guide, Salmon of Doubt

    I've got to remember Towel Day this year. I didn't know about it last year or I would've participated. Such a hoopy frood like Adams deserves some recognition.

  8. Towel Day coming up, too. by bstreiff · · Score: 5, Informative · on Hitchhiker's Guide, Salmon of Doubt

    And don't forget to show your appreciation for Adams with the Towel Day tribute, on May 25th.

  9. Resilient Systems- technical and not by soup · · Score: 1 · on The Vulnerability of Our Tech-Dependent World
    Our problems with dependancies circles around the "monopoly" preference of economists- they have a problem picturing any reason to have more than ONE of anything that isn't "disposable".

    So we end up dependant upon technologies that can bring down all of civilization with just a single-point failure. And this is where economists seem certain the "sweet spot" is for "efficiency" in resource utilization.

    Here a little item where I ramble a bit; It doesn't fit perfectly, but it's not too awful either:
    CyberDiversity

    Efficiency may be nice, but survival is nicer.