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Slashback: Galeon, Forgent, Platformation
Who said what now? bratgrrl writes "eWeek's "Red Hat: Next Redmond?"article was quietly and without comment altered- they deleted the crucial "Red Hat backlash" quote from the original article. No retraction, no explanation, just an Orwellian revision. Thank goodness for Google, which cached the original article.
I suspect the original quote never happened."
Because not everyone needs Chatzilla. Mozilla gets a lot of attention around here -- after all, it is the giant lizard of the open source browser world. But to the question "What about Galeon?", Nachtjäger writes: "The answer: LOTS is happening to Galeon. Given the length of time since the last release, we decided to write up an update on how things are going on Galeon2. Check it out here"
I hope certain aspects of Galeon (tab-name shortening and color coding, for two) are soon rolled back into Mozilla.
OK, now you can have it. Esekla writes "Slashdot did an article about the announcement of Kylix 3 (the first Kylix to support C++ code), but at the time it was not actually available for download. Now both Open and Enterprise Trial editions finally can be downloaded."
Now you can assemble your yard-sale cluster. Speaking of things now really available, BJH writes: "The site featured in last week's Dreamcast BBA story is now accepting orders! The good news is, they're only $US80 each. The bad news is, they're not accepting orders from outside Japan ;) (If there's enough interest, perhaps someone could be convinced to do a bulk buy and ship to people overseas...)"
Anyone who offers something interesting enough in trade can have my Dreamcast for mucking about ;)
When you trace things back far enough ... Dennis writes: "Although Chris has a valid point about the catch 22 between Win2K, SP3 and HIPAA, his example is not accurate because medical records that are related to students are protected by FERPA regulations and not by HIPAA. Here's a reference link with more info."
The fat ladies are still warming up. john82 writes "With all the hoopla still swirling about MP3s, there is fresh information in the JPEG saga. Dateline Berlin: Algovision-Luratech GmbH says that Forgent's patent claim (4,698,672) is all wet. Technical experts have laid out the technical and legal arguments against the claim. And they intend to air the dirty laundry at a meeting Sept 4. The announcement by Forgent earlier this year caused quite a stir here. Wonder if Sony can get their money back?"
Of especial interest to iBook owners. Earlier this month, Slashdot posted the news that rather than wiping your Mac's OS to put on a GNU/Linux system, you could order Yellow Dog Linux preinstalled on Apple hardware. Ray Sanders of Qli Tech Linux Computers writes: "We also are selling Apple Systems with Linux installed, however, Terrasoft is only installing Yellow Dog Linux, we offer Gentoo PPC, Debian PPC, Mandrake PPC, and SuSE PPC. We also have full working sound and video on the iBook and Powerbook with XFree86, whereas YDL Does not yet support the mobile Radeon chipset found on those two units."
Competition is good.
Bloodmoon, Yes all of our Apple Linux Systems dual boot OSX/Linux by default. If memory serves correctly, YDL also does Dual Boot by default.
I'd strongly suggest Gentoo Linux 1.4 when it hits the street in early-mid sept.
Altivec Support is a good thing
All "New World" Macs use Open Firmware for booting and you can have as many OS partitions as you like, with or without any of the MacOSes. Linux does need to reside on a different partition from MacOS X, though, as some of the directory structures clash.
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The internet is the greatest source of biased information in the history of mankind.
yes, they modified the online version, but they can't unprint it. I recieved my copy today and it's still there.
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
It is absolutely possible. There is a nice set of instructions at here for installing Debian. While it is explicitly about the iBook, the process should work on a Ti book just fine.
I've mirrored the Galeon 2 web page and screenshots here.
I sure hope Mozilla gets ported to gtk2 quickly, and maybe even Garnome features Galeon2 soon.
When I bought my iBook, I also purchased Yellow Dog, because I feared that even though OSX is BSD under the hood, it wouldn't feel "Unixy" enough for me. But thanks to the porting efforts of the fink team, I have pretty much everything I'd want on my OSX box. In fact with X & Gnome, I have it set up to look exactly like my Solaris box at work. I ended up never installing YDL.
Of course, I'm not everyone, so I'll ask: Is there any really compelling reason to go to a Linux distro left?
Aside from the official site, ncsx is also accepting pre-orders for the dreamcast broad band unit.
Anything Goes in a Slashback(tm)!
As I understand certainly MPEG 2 (as used in DVD [Video]) uses MP3 to encode the audio.
No, the version of MPEG-2 used in DVD Video uses Dolby's AC3 codec, generally in 2.0 or 5.1 channel configuration. One of the reasons Apple can't license iDVD free of charge to all Macintosh computer owners is that Apple must pay the MPEG-2 patent pool for each DVD encoding or decoding software product shipped.
Will I retire or break 10K?
gEdit and some other GTK+ based applications have some pretty nifty tabbed effects: basically, dragging one out of a window makes a new window. Dragging it back into another windows combines the tabs into one main parent window.
:) If Mozilla could somehow support that, I'd be much happier with it.
How handy is that? Very handy! It makes the interface a lot easier to use, and more obvious. You just drag what you want to where it should be and use it
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
...This is one time where I *must* hide behind the AC to post something...
I recently had my educational records sealed at my university through FERPA. Most of my privacy options can be set online through the university's private portal. This portal allows me to pay tuition, register for classes, check grades, etc. FERPA cannot be done through this system and you must come in person to give the administration a written notice to activate "FERPA". The reason why I did this was because I was applying for summer jobs at the local places such as Costco, Circuit City, The Good Guys, and other places. A lot of the places ask for educational history and the contact info on where to get transcripts. I found that very odd since the work I was going to do was brainless sales work. Interestingly, every place attempted to get my records. What's even more amazing is that my university called me and said that a certain store was using my social security number in an attempt to get my transcript. That same store claimed that they were me and wanted the transcript. When I got the phone call, I went ahead and called up the store to ask them what they were up to. They denied everything but my university is required to report the incident. Its nice to have such things, since I know where not to go next time.
FYI, Chimera is a Mac OS X web browser using the Gecko engine. It's not done, but it's supposed to be pretty nice.
SIGFEH
You can preorder your DC BBA through NCSX, a reputable import gaming retailer, for only $49, less than the original BBA cost from Sega. Their site seems to be undergoing some work right now, but I placed my order a few days ago, $56.13 shipped! No, I don't work for them, but it's a great way for us who can't read Japanese to get in on this deal. I just hope it hits 1000 orders...
am not making the 5 cents up.
i was refering to the stamping costs involved. not counting the artists and the cover designers etc. just the physical CDs.
I got some CDs stamped before; twas ~50cents in quantities of ~2000 (that's WITH PRINTING), and IIRC the price dropped sharply as the quantity rose (as it should, thanks to the Gold -> mother -> father stamping method); i would not be surpriced if Sony's actual costs per CD (again, excluding case and stuff) are in the single digit region.
i mean -- even if it costed them 50 cents / disc; and then you add the case, the booklet, and the royalties: it's still a *fat* profit margin, eh?
My life in the land of the rising sun.
In today's competitive online market, news publishers are pushing their journalists to get the "scoop" on everyone else. The publication that publishes first will get the advertising dollars that go with it as word spreads of some breaking news and the masses head over to the site to check out the story. As a result, mistakes, misquotes and other misunderstandings are going to happen...not unlike how things work(ed) on the "press wire" (or did work in the "good ol' days" :) ). In fact, it is probably not far from the truth to say that the online publishers of today view themselves as the "wired" publishers of yesteryear. "Get the story NOW! Sort out the details later."
Unlike print publishers who can publish a retraction or updated story and be reasonably certain that readers will see the correction in the next issue, online publishers do not have the luxury of "issues". The boundaries between "issues" are nebulous in the online world. An online publisher can publish a retraction, update a timestamp, whatever and people who have read the article will likely never know a retraction or correction has occurred -- they aren't "flipping" through the pages.
Don't ascribe to conspiracy theory, censorship or crimes against humanity that which can most easily be ascribed to greed and advertising. :)
Rob
If you have migrated from version to version, something is probably
.galeon directory tree. It will recreate it.
fucked up in your old config files.
Backup your bookmarks and settings, and delete the
Galeon is faster than hell here on a wimpier machine.
If you want tab name shortening in Mozilla, then please take the time to vote for and indicate support for it here in bug 126611.
Currently this enhancement is marked as WONTFIX, which is the wrong decision IMO.
And taking things to their logical conclusion, Skipstone is Galeon without all the bloat. I used to have really high hopes for Galeon, but their dependencies on bleeding edge versions of countless Gnome libraries make it nearly impossible to install on anything that isn't running Ximian.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown