I was greeted with my very first kernel panic on my lowly MacMini. Too bad I can't just choose my previous kernel from a Grub menu, anyone know how I can choose the previous kernel in Open Firmware?
Its nothing really, I simply cracked the odometer open and rolled back the digits, or maybe I ran the car in reverse for some time, I don't quite remember it was so long ago.
Wan't Microsoft making noise a little while ago about adding some extensions to RSS. Isn't this the only reason they are including RSS in IE, not because of some heartwarming realization that no company is an island?
If you work in a company like mine where Outlook is de rigueur and the Boss is too worried about missing an email to even allow for simple spam filtering at the head end. I can't recommend enough that you give SpamBayes Outlook plug-in a try. It operates nearly perfectly if you train it well (only about 600 spam messages needed).
Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers have been clamoring for Microsoft to update its CSS support to support the latest W3C standards for years. But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 support to IE 7.0, but not embracing the standard in its entirety, partners say.
This is the kinda crap that really makes Microsoft look like an asshole.
Instead of just signing on with the standard, so that things can interoperate smoothly between browsers. Microsoft has to take its ball and go home, playing once again by its rules and only its rules.
What possible benifit do they have to creating their own cascading style sheet spec? Its just enough CSS2 so no one complains but not enough that they should even be able to call it CSS2.
Oh I know, this way people will conform to their 'standard' and they will once again dominate the browser market.
Perhaps the goal is to get a complete 'Groupware' server, and client out the door with a little functionality as possible. Then slowly add that functionality into the products, instead of speding the first three years of the project hammering out an exacting spec. that takes another five years to implement and debug.
Think of it sort of like a bottom-up design to a 'Groupware' standard.
How well this approach works will be interesting to follow.
But no matter what, if it doesn't have a flawless MS Exchange mailboxe import feature it will be useless.
The only good thing about Exchange/Outlook is being able to invite people to meetings.
Maybe they should start with a kickass scheduling server and client.
Just as certainly as Linux has hope of going against the momentum, Enlightenment has the same chance.
Just what sort of proven technology is GNOME, a desktop? Enlightenment isn't striving to be a desktop.
What type of scalability are you talking about? With Enlightenment's rendering backend you can move from small PDA environments all the way to full blown desktops with gigs of RAM and OpenGL acceleration. That seems like it scales quite well?
I'll have to conceed on stability, as I run neither E nor GNOME and have no comparsion for that metric.
Honestly, if you're developing a new application, are you going to develop for the mature and distributed Windows desktop environment, or will you use Linux, which is available now with some ephemeral advantages but some serious disadvantages?
Well, if you wish to get really pedantic about it. You could argue that once programs like GNU Emacs were placed under the stewardship of the GPL, they were emancipated from the bonds of proprietary software.
Yes there never existed a version of GNU Emacs that was ever locked down by a corporate master, but until GNU Emacs was licensed under the GPL is was not yet enlightened to the four freedoms.
But by then people may think you a bit strange, and start slowly backing away.
Look, its a word-processor, not a nuclear power-plant control center. It should not need an manual, it should be intuitive.
The Open Office people should take a lesson from this, and not attempt to play catch-up to Microsoft.
Sure they may gain converts by mimicing the already broken interface of Microsoft Word (even if the choose the least broken interface of Word ever: Word 5 for Macintosh), but if they simply took some time away from trying to copy Word and spent it thinking about how to lay-out their word processor so that $65, 500 page manuals were not needed (except to explain the underlying code of the program) then they could gain many more users.
If the only argument to use Open Office is it works exactly like word, most people aren't going to understand why they are expected to make a change. Remember: Microsoft Word, as far as your average Windows user at home or in the office is concerned, is free.
This may have been posted to Slashdot before, but it is worth bringing up again since its been at the "Pre-Orders Coming Soon!" stage to quite some time now.
This is Andre LaMothe's little project (little?), that when it comes to fruition will be a bad-assed tutorial on not only hacking together your own computer but all the neat programming that goes into getting it up and running as a fully functional console game system.
Anyway, I can't wait to get my hands on one (not that my apartment floor is an ideal workspace to build one), so hopefully the more eyeballs that go to the site will perhaps play a small part in getting the very ambitious project out the door.
I guess, the book reviewed here will be a great way to gain a foothold on the skill necessary for the XGameStation.
Slashdot Mirror
I was thinking iCall.
They are doing it, simply, because of this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/
They already are paying for it.
Do you think that large content providers were being given free bandwidth by the data network providers?
If the data network providers weren't making enough money provideing the network why can't they just increase their rates?
What does Bart write on the chalkboard?
Sure wish I had an XBox 360 to "Disassemble"
It was definitly Trick for me.
I was greeted with my very first kernel panic on my lowly MacMini. Too bad I can't just choose my previous kernel from a Grub menu, anyone know how I can choose the previous kernel in Open Firmware?
[#e] oGMo!
Its nothing really, I simply cracked the odometer open and rolled back the digits, or maybe I ran the car in reverse for some time, I don't quite remember it was so long ago.
Wan't Microsoft making noise a little while ago about adding some extensions to RSS. Isn't this the only reason they are including RSS in IE, not because of some heartwarming realization that no company is an island?
If you work in a company like mine where Outlook is de rigueur and the Boss is too worried about missing an email to even allow for simple spam filtering at the head end. I can't recommend enough that you give SpamBayes Outlook plug-in a try. It operates nearly perfectly if you train it well (only about 600 spam messages needed).
Maybe they used numbers from Viaweb.
Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers have been clamoring for Microsoft to update its CSS support to support the latest W3C standards for years. But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 support to IE 7.0, but not embracing the standard in its entirety, partners say.
This is the kinda crap that really makes Microsoft look like an asshole.
Instead of just signing on with the standard, so that things can interoperate smoothly between browsers. Microsoft has to take its ball and go home, playing once again by its rules and only its rules.
What possible benifit do they have to creating their own cascading style sheet spec? Its just enough CSS2 so no one complains but not enough that they should even be able to call it CSS2.
Oh I know, this way people will conform to their 'standard' and they will once again dominate the browser market.
Ever thought of remapping your screen escape key-sequence?
.screenrc:
Try this in your
escape ^\\\
Now Ctrl-\ can be used to invoke screen commands, and Ctrl-a works like it used to.
Why the 90 second time-limit for hand retouching?
Was it to keep within a schedule for the restoration project?
Perhaps the goal is to get a complete 'Groupware' server, and client out the door with a little functionality as possible. Then slowly add that functionality into the products, instead of speding the first three years of the project hammering out an exacting spec. that takes another five years to implement and debug.
Think of it sort of like a bottom-up design to a 'Groupware' standard.
How well this approach works will be interesting to follow.
But no matter what, if it doesn't have a flawless MS Exchange mailboxe import feature it will be useless.
The only good thing about Exchange/Outlook is being able to invite people to meetings.
Maybe they should start with a kickass scheduling server and client.
Just as certainly as Linux has hope of going against the momentum, Enlightenment has the same chance.
Just what sort of proven technology is GNOME, a desktop? Enlightenment isn't striving to be a desktop.
What type of scalability are you talking about? With Enlightenment's rendering backend you can move from small PDA environments all the way to full blown desktops with gigs of RAM and OpenGL acceleration. That seems like it scales quite well?
I'll have to conceed on stability, as I run neither E nor GNOME and have no comparsion for that metric.
Buh.
Honestly, if you're developing a new application, are you going to develop for the mature and distributed Windows desktop environment, or will you use Linux, which is available now with some ephemeral advantages but some serious disadvantages?
Sounds about the same to me.
Somebody better go and inform Cohaagen.
I agree, plus they never boot the system up. He might as well have kept the parts in their original boxes.
Well, if you wish to get really pedantic about it. You could argue that once programs like GNU Emacs were placed under the stewardship of the GPL, they were emancipated from the bonds of proprietary software.
Yes there never existed a version of GNU Emacs that was ever locked down by a corporate master, but until GNU Emacs was licensed under the GPL is was not yet enlightened to the four freedoms.
But by then people may think you a bit strange, and start slowly backing away.
Hey! Where did every body go?
Maybe RMS should have called it Emancipated Software.
Actually, most of what you listed is already included in OS X Tiger.
Of course SQL Server is a bit more heavy-duty than the implementation of SQLLite included in Apple's CoreData.
Heh, check out those companies parent companies.
Look, its a word-processor, not a nuclear power-plant control center. It should not need an manual, it should be intuitive.
The Open Office people should take a lesson from this, and not attempt to play catch-up to Microsoft.
Sure they may gain converts by mimicing the already broken interface of Microsoft Word (even if the choose the least broken interface of Word ever: Word 5 for Macintosh), but if they simply took some time away from trying to copy Word and spent it thinking about how to lay-out their word processor so that $65, 500 page manuals were not needed (except to explain the underlying code of the program) then they could gain many more users.
If the only argument to use Open Office is it works exactly like word, most people aren't going to understand why they are expected to make a change. Remember: Microsoft Word, as far as your average Windows user at home or in the office is concerned, is free.
Maybe they should read this: http://www.finseth.com/~fin/craft/index.html
Check this out some time: XGameStation.
This may have been posted to Slashdot before, but it is worth bringing up again since its been at the "Pre-Orders Coming Soon!" stage to quite some time now.
This is Andre LaMothe's little project (little?), that when it comes to fruition will be a bad-assed tutorial on not only hacking together your own computer but all the neat programming that goes into getting it up and running as a fully functional console game system.
Anyway, I can't wait to get my hands on one (not that my apartment floor is an ideal workspace to build one), so hopefully the more eyeballs that go to the site will perhaps play a small part in getting the very ambitious project out the door.
I guess, the book reviewed here will be a great way to gain a foothold on the skill necessary for the XGameStation.