It's interesting to see the new animated-ish tab movement on the tab bar (when you scroll the mousewheel over it) and the animation when things like 'Remember this password?' appear. They look pretty, but are slow on some crappy video cards -- would anyone know how these 'animation' effects can be disabled?
I sure hope they can be disabled somehow.
I have a relatively simple video card at home (Intel 915 (or something like that)), and it amazes me how many developers seem to only think about testing test new software on the latest & greatest cards. Kubuntu, for instance, added enough visual effect cruft to KDE 3.5.?7 on Gutsy to the point that switching desktop workspaces will very often have delays. Clicking on panel buttons also have delays.
Running a freaking Core Duo 1.6G, and clicking on buttons have a 1sec lag due to flashes and blings....:-(
OTOH, there is enough love being given to Firefox that this kind of problem is unlikely to be missed on it (I hope).
We've released twelve stable versions of Parrot this year alone, including one just yesterday.
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Oeps... my bad. Seriously.
I hadn't heard from Parrot in some time, and I do hear regularly about PyPy (though I have stopped reading Python specific sites for a while now). I guess I should spare you from silly questions I can get answered by downloading a tar ball.
he problem is that it isn't finished yet for what? 6 years already?
I remember reading that the parrot codebase was around 150.000 lines some years ago... so I reckon that there is a lot of real work that went in there. Still, it has been years, and who is going to run production code on an unfinished interpreter? How many jobs are asking for people with experience messing with Parrot?
The way I see it, Parrot is probably a great thing for people interested in researching, and experimenting with interpreters, but as far as actual coding is concerned, a (interpreter) project that doesn't release for so long *is* *vaporware*.
(note that I did play with Parrot back in the day (some 5 years ago I guess), and would love to see it fly;-))
Sure some people actually like the browser. The number of users are at least in the hundreds of millions, with a distribution that big, there will always be users that will be happy with it.
That doesn't change the fact that the browser is horrible, and that MS is using Explorer to leverage desktop dominance into Web control.
AFAIK this (Philips spin off) iRex has a deal with the E-Ink folks; where they got exclusive rights to the technology for the whole of Europe.
The iRex Iliad reader will cost you around 650. Now assume both Amazon's and iRex's readers are actually made in China, both ARE mostly sold through the web, and convert the prices from Euros to US$. The only e-reader for Europe costs around US$1000, amazon's is what? US$400? Looks like a bargain from this POV, eh? Aren't exclusive distribution rights deals sweet?
I would really rather have an EBook reader, say as opposed to read pdf or txt files in a computer.
The thing that would make me buy it would be:
- decent screen that doesn't kills my eyes (after already spending the whole day programming);
- battery life measured in thousands of pages;
- a form format that is suitable for reading.
- easy to get it to work with Linux
The form format of the screen is a bit of a problem with something like the XO.
The screen brightness could also give me trouble.
[...]
About screen size, the only ereader with something more than 6" is this iRex illiad. But it costs around $700:-(
And it has DRM all over:-((
I am, however, eagerly waiting for the Hanlin v9, which will have 10", and can be easily used from Linux. But there is no info on the pricing yet.
[..]
BTW, this is a good summary of the EReader market http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix
Cheers
> #!/bin/bash (which, of course, only works on Eft; it's/usr/bin/bash elsewhere,/usr/local/bin/bash in other places,
> bash doesn't come on OS X and BSD but/bin/sh works, etc).
Ever heard of using: #!/usr/bin/env bash ?? That should solve your path problem.
BTW, if you are writing bash shell scripts, please mark it to execute as bash. When you use/bin/sh you can only expect your scripts to work for as long as they are POSIX.
Frisian is actually the second official language of the Netherlands, but is mostly restricted to the (surprise surprise) Frisian province.
Dutch indeed is *very* close to english. So speaking English as first language, definitely should help. The trick to learn Dutch (I did) is to find ways to force the dutch to talk in dutch with you, and no that is not easy.
I live in the NL for 4.5 years now. Here are some anecdotes:
As the IND only gives me stay visa (verblijfsvergunning) for one year, I've already renewed mine 4 times. Every single time, I had to do it. They complained that I had sent the wrong papers and asked to resubmit. Then I send the SAME PAPERS, and they process my request.
A colleague (from Asia) has had his requests for family reunification "lost". Twice. They simply told him, "oh, what? No, we don't have your papers anywhere. Please send it again"Twice.
In my experience, meeting a dutch person involves a dance of 3 or 4 questions: 1. Where are you from? 2. What do you do? 3. Do you like it here? and When are you leaving? The last question is always made.
Often I have found myself in situations where there was one or more dutch person (a friend) complaining (or simply cussing) about something. Then someone has the brilliant idea of asking me if I don't agree something is not good. Many times, when I answered (in very polite terms) that I was also discontent with "whatever it was". I heard (in different occasions) from other dutch people in the conversation things like:
-- Hey, why don't you just don't go back to your country? You know, I think you should go back to your country!
-- Why are you saying this?? Don't you come from XXX? Shut up!
===========
I have to go, so I'll be short here (sorry)...
A big part of the problem seems to be: 1. there are lots of xenophobic people here (most of which are not even aware of the stuff they say). 2. There has been a huge political use of this issue, which just makes the situation worse. Oh yeah, and the IND has gone mad....
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BTW, I have lots of great dutch friends. People I like and admire a lot.
Brazil's government is not asking for data to prosecute (american|canadian|martian) citizens making remarks disparaging to Brazil.
The information asked is about what is believed to be about information published inside Brazil: "it is not relevant that the data are stored in the United States, since all the photographs and messages being investigated were published by Brazilians, through Internet connection in national territory."
Using your own metaphor: an Saudi Arabian company opening an office in the USA; then USA citizens using this network inside the USA to practice illegal acts, these people get under investigation from the US gov, which after due legal process decides to break the privacy of some of these citizens. Then the Saudi ATT says: no, we wont give you anything; because our servers are in Saudi Arabia.
Would you then be saying: Go Saudi ATT!! Show then what's good!!!???
My point when saying that the system ships naked is not only package configuration but also package installation, and no, I don't mean that running "aptitude|apt-get install foo" is a problem (BTW, use aptitude); but that knowing which packages to install can be a problem.
Out of the top of my head I can only think of libpam-devperm and dash as/bin/sh. Another case is when there are 4 or 5 different choices of packages and no indication of which one you should try first.
The problem IMHO being that people assume that whoever is running/installing Debian is a trained sysadmin or developer with time to tinker, not realizing (1) how difficult the system is to untrained people, and (2) how the lack of worry with this issue leads to a system that is more complex than what it should, making it a more time consuming system (to administrate) than what it has to be.
> Personally, I feel that Ubuntu is sort of a Debian for Beginners.
> As soon as you're no longer a beginner, Debian proper is probably a better option. That said, I still recommend Ubuntu to people who I know are beginners.
I use Debian for ? 11 years or something and have worked as a Debian sysadmin. So... no, I don't think I am a beginner.
I prefer (K)Ubuntu to Debian because, in my understanding, Ubuntu as a community and project understands that their main task is to control the complexity of the operating system. Period.
IMHO Debian, as a project, dont seem to get this. For me, Debian, to some extent, still fells like those old Linux people in the 90s talking about how the system should not be made easier to be used. Again IMHO, using Debian involves an unnecessary amount of effort just to get it running, simply because the mentality is that the system must be shiped naked with no configuration choices made, since after all "real linux people" should always configure the system and learn while doing it, i.e. IMHO they leave unnecessary complexity exposed to the end user.
BTW1: this is my first/. post.
BTW2: I use both Debian and Ubuntu
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I sure hope they can be disabled somehow.
I have a relatively simple video card at home (Intel 915 (or something like that)), and it amazes me how many developers seem to only think about testing test new software on the latest & greatest cards. Kubuntu, for instance, added enough visual effect cruft to KDE 3.5.?7 on Gutsy to the point that switching desktop workspaces will very often have delays. Clicking on panel buttons also have delays.
Running a freaking Core Duo 1.6G, and clicking on buttons have a 1sec lag due to flashes and blings.... :-(
OTOH, there is enough love being given to Firefox that this kind of problem is unlikely to be missed on it (I hope).
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Oeps... my bad. Seriously.
I hadn't heard from Parrot in some time, and I do hear regularly about PyPy (though I have stopped reading Python specific sites for a while now). I guess I should spare you from silly questions I can get answered by downloading a tar ball.
Cheershe problem is that it isn't finished yet for what? 6 years already?
I remember reading that the parrot codebase was around 150.000 lines some years ago... so I reckon that there is a lot of real work that went in there. Still, it has been years, and who is going to run production code on an unfinished interpreter? How many jobs are asking for people with experience messing with Parrot?
The way I see it, Parrot is probably a great thing for people interested in researching, and experimenting with interpreters, but as far as actual coding is concerned, a (interpreter) project that doesn't release for so long *is* *vaporware*.
(note that I did play with Parrot back in the day (some 5 years ago I guess), and would love to see it flyHello,
Is there a place where I can read (I read Dutch) the minutes or a summary of what was discussed?
Or if that is not available, do you know where I can find the text of the decision itself?
Cheers!
> Some people actually like the browser.
Sure some people actually like the browser. The number of users are at least in the hundreds of millions, with a distribution that big, there will always be users that will be happy with it.
That doesn't change the fact that the browser is horrible, and that MS is using Explorer to leverage desktop dominance into Web control.
Don't forget that Frits Bolkestein http://eupat.ffii.org/players/bolkestein/index.en.html, is also member of the VVD.
FWIW, the guy is a big-time defensor of software patents, and calls open source advocates of misinformers (in the context of software patents).
Probably never.
AFAIK this (Philips spin off) iRex has a deal with the E-Ink folks; where they got exclusive rights to the technology for the whole of Europe.
The iRex Iliad reader will cost you around 650. Now assume both Amazon's and iRex's readers are actually made in China, both ARE mostly sold through the web, and convert the prices from Euros to US$. The only e-reader for Europe costs around US$1000, amazon's is what? US$400? Looks like a bargain from this POV, eh? Aren't exclusive distribution rights deals sweet?
This is the one stop place for comparing all the different e-readers:
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_MatrixThis one is more comprehensive than the matrix posted at Wired, which BTW looks as if it was a cut & paste from some parts of the above matrix
I would really rather have an EBook reader, say as opposed to read pdf or txt files in a computer. The thing that would make me buy it would be: - decent screen that doesn't kills my eyes (after already spending the whole day programming); - battery life measured in thousands of pages; - a form format that is suitable for reading. - easy to get it to work with Linux The form format of the screen is a bit of a problem with something like the XO. The screen brightness could also give me trouble. [...] About screen size, the only ereader with something more than 6" is this iRex illiad. But it costs around $700 :-(
And it has DRM all over :-((
I am, however, eagerly waiting for the Hanlin v9, which will have 10", and can be easily used from Linux. But there is no info on the pricing yet.
[..]
BTW, this is a good summary of the EReader market http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix
Cheers
> bash doesn't come on OS X and BSD but
Ever heard of using: #!/usr/bin/env bash ?? That should solve your path problem.
BTW, if you are writing bash shell scripts, please mark it to execute as bash. When you use /bin/sh you can only expect your scripts to work for as long as they are POSIX.
Frisian is actually the second official language of the Netherlands, but is mostly restricted to the (surprise surprise) Frisian province.
Dutch indeed is *very* close to english. So speaking English as first language, definitely should help. The trick to learn Dutch (I did) is to find ways to force the dutch to talk in dutch with you, and no that is not easy.
As the IND only gives me stay visa (verblijfsvergunning) for one year, I've already renewed mine 4 times. Every single time, I had to do it. They complained that I had sent the wrong papers and asked to resubmit. Then I send the SAME PAPERS, and they process my request.
A colleague (from Asia) has had his requests for family reunification "lost". Twice. They simply told him, "oh, what? No, we don't have your papers anywhere. Please send it again" Twice.
In my experience, meeting a dutch person involves a dance of 3 or 4 questions: 1. Where are you from? 2. What do you do? 3. Do you like it here? and When are you leaving? The last question is always made.
Often I have found myself in situations where there was one or more dutch person (a friend) complaining (or simply cussing) about something. Then someone has the brilliant idea of asking me if I don't agree something is not good. Many times, when I answered (in very polite terms) that I was also discontent with "whatever it was". I heard (in different occasions) from other dutch people in the conversation things like:
-- Hey, why don't you just don't go back to your country? You know, I think you should go back to your country!-- Why are you saying this?? Don't you come from XXX? Shut up!
===========
I have to go, so I'll be short here (sorry)...
A big part of the problem seems to be: 1. there are lots of xenophobic people here (most of which are not even aware of the stuff they say). 2. There has been a huge political use of this issue, which just makes the situation worse. Oh yeah, and the IND has gone mad....
===========BTW, I have lots of great dutch friends. People I like and admire a lot.
my 2 centsBrazil's government is not asking for data to prosecute (american|canadian|martian) citizens making remarks disparaging to Brazil.
The information asked is about what is believed to be about information published inside Brazil:
"it is not relevant that the data are stored in the United States, since all the photographs and messages being investigated were published by Brazilians, through Internet connection in national territory."
Using your own metaphor:
an Saudi Arabian company opening an office in the USA; then USA citizens using this network inside the USA to practice illegal acts, these people get under investigation from the US gov, which after due legal process decides to break the privacy of some of these citizens. Then the Saudi ATT says: no, we wont give you anything; because our servers are in Saudi Arabia.
Would you then be saying: Go Saudi ATT!! Show then what's good!!!???
Yes, Debian is great for dev/admin work.
My point when saying that the system ships naked is not only package configuration but also package installation, and no, I don't mean that running "aptitude|apt-get install foo" is a problem (BTW, use aptitude); but that knowing which packages to install can be a problem.
Out of the top of my head I can only think of libpam-devperm and dash as /bin/sh. Another case is when there are 4 or 5 different choices of packages and no indication of which one you should try first.
The problem IMHO being that people assume that whoever is running/installing Debian is a trained sysadmin or developer with time to tinker, not realizing (1) how difficult the system is to untrained people, and (2) how the lack of worry with this issue leads to a system that is more complex than what it should, making it a more time consuming system (to administrate) than what it has to be.
> As soon as you're no longer a beginner, Debian proper is probably a better option. That said, I still recommend Ubuntu to people who I know are beginners.
I use Debian for ? 11 years or something and have worked as a Debian sysadmin. So... no, I don't think I am a beginner.
I prefer (K)Ubuntu to Debian because, in my understanding, Ubuntu as a community and project understands that their main task is to control the complexity of the operating system. Period.
IMHO Debian, as a project, dont seem to get this. For me, Debian, to some extent, still fells like those old Linux people in the 90s talking about how the system should not be made easier to be used. Again IMHO, using Debian involves an unnecessary amount of effort just to get it running, simply because the mentality is that the system must be shiped naked with no configuration choices made, since after all "real linux people" should always configure the system and learn while doing it, i.e. IMHO they leave unnecessary complexity exposed to the end user.
BTW1: this is my firstBTW2: I use both Debian and Ubuntu