many people overlook the fact that the best thing we all can do for oss is to use it.
Not KDE. I have been contributing bug reports and triaging other people's bugs (well over 1000 bugs) for years at KDE, so there will be no mistake that I love that project.
However, KDE breaks compatibility between point-dot releases (4.2 and 4.4 had problems with 4.1 and 4.3 ~/.kde configurations, respectively), and they release "developer preview" (their own words) as dot-oh software: KDE 4.0, Kdevelop, Amarok, Koffice, the list goes on. KDE SC 4.4's Kaddressbook was missing critical features after a rewrite, and this will be the case for other KDE-PIM components in KDE SC 4.5.
If you have to click 4 times to get something done, an application will feel (seem/look/whatever) slow compared to when you can do that in one single click as well.
And yet, that's what the new design is.
For instance, instead of three buttons for the password manager: [Save Password] [Don't Save] [Not Now]...Firefox 4 has a dropdown menu, and the Save Password click-area is an order of magnitude larger (and right next to) the dropdown arrow.
Ack! TFA (yeah, I went for it) splashes some ad that didn't make it past my hosts file. You might want this link instead, which goes to the sourceforge page and not the techworld blog: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guacamole/
I hardly type anything in to my HTC Incredible. Google's voice recognition, which is enabled on every textbox works just about perfectly.
Seriously, get an Android phone, try out the speech recognition text entry, and then tell me speech recognition is dead.
Is that speech-recognition software distributed with Android, and hence distributed with the Linux kernel? If so, then it must be under a GPL-compatible licence, with source code available. How much effort would it take to compile it for Debian?
They fixed some things too. Most notably in my case, was the use of an external monitor at a different resolution than my netbook. That was horribly broken in 9.04.
Actually I agree with this.. I was going to post asking what goodness exists even in 10.04.. Facebook this cloud that... Personally I don't CARE. What INTERNAL things are better?
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I'm Jewish, you insensitive clod!
Also, when I first saw it my brain was pretty sure it said "google-tits", which is probably an even more common problem...
Wait, it _doesn't_ say that?!? Well, off to middle click the next tab over, I almost got suckered into reading that fine article this time!
As made up words go, google-itis is particularly stupid, since it literally means "inflammation or irritation of the google."
There's nothing wrong with that. The patient thinks that he has 10^100 inflammations or irritations.
many people overlook the fact that the best thing we all can do for oss is to use it.
Not KDE. I have been contributing bug reports and triaging other people's bugs (well over 1000 bugs) for years at KDE, so there will be no mistake that I love that project.
However, KDE breaks compatibility between point-dot releases (4.2 and 4.4 had problems with 4.1 and 4.3 ~/.kde configurations, respectively), and they release "developer preview" (their own words) as dot-oh software: KDE 4.0, Kdevelop, Amarok, Koffice, the list goes on. KDE SC 4.4's Kaddressbook was missing critical features after a rewrite, and this will be the case for other KDE-PIM components in KDE SC 4.5.
And let's not forget that "Does KDE even need (certain) users":
http://troy-at-kde.livejournal.com/17753.html
After 25 years of maintainance and upgrades, what percentage of this Atlantis, was part of the maiden flight in 1985?
In terms of launch weight: ~57%
In terms of landing weight: ~74%
In terms of individual components: ~60%
Not including cargo, crew, food, OMS fuel, or non-orbiter stack components.
If one parks a car this way, is it possible to un-park it?
Depends if it is a Hummer or a Hyundai parked in front of you.
I'll raise you one: Ari Vatanen driving up Pikes Peak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKgeCQGu_ug
And Ari's not only a wonderful driver, he doesn't need to do spin-out videos just to show off how great he is.
I couldn't even figure out how to get Chrome to print.
http://xkcd.com/627/
If you have to click 4 times to get something done, an application will feel (seem/look/whatever) slow compared to when you can do that in one single click as well.
And yet, that's what the new design is.
For instance, instead of three buttons for the password manager: ...Firefox 4 has a dropdown menu, and the Save Password click-area is an order of magnitude larger (and right next to) the dropdown arrow.
[Save Password] [Don't Save] [Not Now]
Welcome newcommer!
His UID is lower than yours. Now get off his lawn!
Actually, one in 18 humans have them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernumerary_nipple
Yeah, like www.bankofamerica.com.secure.cn
The domains are to be whitelisted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#ASCII_spoofing_concerns
That sounds even worse than a blacklist, and in fact means yet _another_ link in the HTTP chain, this one a SPoF.
Text on the tab is the HTML title element. It has nothing to do with the non-Latin TLD.
This is equivalent to http://mcit.gov.eg/ except it directs you to the English webpages instead of the Arabic webpages.
No, I got the Arabic pages. I'm in Israel, with my browser set as:
Accept-Charset: windows-1255,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en
You can use this website to check how your browser is configured:
http://simplesniff.com/
Even better, a custom driver that XOR's the traffic twice for double the protection.
I swear next time you rot26 your posts I'm killfiling you!
Ax? James? No, that's Arty for sure.
(In any event, threaded conversations a la GMail are clearly the way forward)
If you use Thunderbird, you must see this:
GMail Conversation View
Ack! TFA (yeah, I went for it) splashes some ad that didn't make it past my hosts file. You might want this link instead, which goes to the sourceforge page and not the techworld blog:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guacamole/
Actually, I have not problem with Slashvertisements that would obviously interest the slashdot community, such as this. Just tag it as such!
Wow. Thanks.
Fine, you win, I won't call her then!
Thank god for sexting...
I hardly type anything in to my HTC Incredible. Google's voice recognition, which is enabled on every textbox works just about perfectly.
Seriously, get an Android phone, try out the speech recognition text entry, and then tell me speech recognition is dead.
Is that speech-recognition software distributed with Android, and hence distributed with the Linux kernel? If so, then it must be under a GPL-compatible licence, with source code available. How much effort would it take to compile it for Debian?
Already used up half the (latin) alphabet.
What are they going to do after Zany Zebra?
0x2134 0x9343
They fixed some things too.
Most notably in my case, was the use of an external monitor at a different resolution than my netbook.
That was horribly broken in 9.04.
Good thing you're not using an ATI video card:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/537640
Actually I agree with this.. I was going to post asking what goodness exists even in 10.04.. Facebook this cloud that... Personally I don't CARE. What INTERNAL things are better?
The close buttons are on the left, and the wallpaper is purple. Oh, and it's useless for ATI notebooks:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/537640