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Stirring The GNOME Fires
uninet writes "Tim Butler and Ed Hurst have discussed GNOME quite a bit. Tim likes the current trend, and Ed doesn't. Read Ed's alternate perspective at OfB.biz."
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Surely the poster meant 'stoking the GNOME fires'. Last I heard, fire's not liquid :)
Don't get me started on Gniggers. They always seemed second class to me. Even when Kikes were 1.0 and Gniggers were pre 1, they looked like arse. Their icons hardly achieve the brilliance that Kike icons have had for the past 1000 years. And then there was the fiasco with fried chicken. Which they still haven't fixed, and probably won't forever.
Eleanor Rigby
Sits at the keyboard and waits for a line on the screen.
Lives in a dream.
Waits for a signal.
Finding some code that will make the machine do some more.
What is it for?
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
Guru MacKenzie
Typing the lines of a program that no one will run,
Isn't it fun?
Look at him working,
Munching some chips as he waits for the code to compile.
It takes a while...
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
Eleanor Rigby
Crashes the system and loses 6 hours of work.
Feels like a jerk.
Guru MacKenzie
Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code.
Nothing will load.
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser true
[slaps forehead]
Of course! I should have guessed... Now I can see why they didn't put an option switch on the browser itself to switch between "convenient browsing" and the current "blind arrogance browsing"... It was right there in front of me all the time!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
I never used ${APPLICATION}, but I thought I would ${ACTION} it after reading about it on ${NEWS_SITE}. The very first impression was that ${COMPONENT} was taking way too ${SPEED} to ${ACTION}, and I don't know why the ${THEOLOGICAL_CONCEPT} they made the ${COMPONENT} use the ${UI_CONCEPT}, unless they were all ${ALTITUDE} on ${ILLICIT_SUBSTANCE}.
I gave up after ${INT} ${UNIT_OF_TIME} of trying to make ${COMPONENT} work -- the ${UI_CONCEPT} is cludgy, the ${LAYOUT_CONCEPT} seems to have been written by a ${INT}-year-old, ${COMPONENT} is downright ${DEROGATORY_ADJECTIVE}, and such an essential feature as ${FEATURE} is not even present.
The reason why ${APPLICATION} functions so ${DEROGATORY_ADJECTIVE} is ${LACK_OF_DOUBT} related to the fact that it was written in ${LANGUAGE}. ${SOFTWARE_CATEGORY} should not be written in ${LANGUAGE}, as every programmer with even ${INT} years of experience knows -- ${LANGUAGE} should only be used for ${ANOTHER_AREA_OF_PROGRAMMING}, and not in ${THIS_AREA_OF_PROGRAMMING}. ${COMPETING_APPLICATION} is the ${PRAISING_ADJECTIVE} example of that -- it was written in ${ANOTHER_LANGUAGE}, which is precisely suited for this ${SOFTWARE_CATEGORY}.
After suffering for ${INT} ${UNIT_OF_TIME}, I switched back to using the ${COMPETING_APPLICATION}, which I would suggest to anyone who needs to ${ACTION} and actually have it done.
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.