To see what I mean, compare Opera and Konqueror. When Opera gets a popup it can't help but de-maximize the currently maximized window, since in a MDI interface, maximization is incompatible with showing a second window as a popup. Konqueror has absolutely no problem in this case though, it just creates a new tabless window.
Sure, that would be great. Then _every_ computer you sit at would be strange and foreign. Get over it. Ford sells cars with Bridgestone tires. If you don't like it, then buy a Toyota, drive on those Bridgestones to go buy some Goodyears, or petition Ford to switch brands.
The wife's play machine is running KDE Trunk. It's a decent environment, but the developers go off on their own pet projects and disregard user input. That's fine for a 0.xx release, but not for a mature product. It's not the product that I am unhappy with, it is the alienation.
I have no problem paying for the software if it does what I need, and vendor lock in is not an issue in Windows any more than in KDE. I don't _want_ to leave the secure environment that is Linux, but I want a complete package that does what I need. KDE seems to have no interest in providing that anymore.
Um, why not move to Gnome on the same Linux distro you're using, rather than jumping ship entirely?
Because from what I've seen of Windows 7, it looks like it does the job better than Gnome. In both Windows and Gnome I feel very restricted in that I must work how someone else decided I should work, but more so in Gnome nowadays. I will give them both a fair shot, and KDE 4.2 as well. I know that no matter how bad the KDE dev community gets, they could never get as bad as the MS dev community!
There are pieces of military equipment, the details of which should remain secret. The army is more than M16's and HMMWV's after all.
Neither you nor I know what was on that drive. The point that I was making is that not all military information is top secret, nor should it be assumed to be.
This article wasn't about infection or transfer of system files, it was about discovery of mission and personnel data being found on a second-hand USB device. A non-Windows OS wouldn't have necessarily helped, in this case.
Not in this case, no. But previous articles have discussed the matter that I mentioned.
Microsoft bundled a web browser specifically to kill the market.
I suppose that Ubuntu also bundled a web browser specifically to kill the market? Microsoft sells on operating system, not a kernel. Operating systems come with, at a bare minimum, a file browser, a web browser, a media player, a text editor. The better ones even come with an office suite or three.
A) I'm a dumbass, not a moron. Get it right. 2) The point that I was making is that not all 'weapons schematics' are super top secret. IV) Personal attacks at other posters is not only being a dickwad, it is also called trolling.
Guns with silencers make a 'bang' sound, too. It's just that most of the sound doesn't leave the gun.
The sound of it cocking itself isn't silenced, though. It's not like in James Bond movies where the gun makes only a faint whisper. The automatic cocking is pretty damn loud, and draws quite a lot of attention.
Yes, and let's welcome them back by taking down their webserver.
Nice job.
Seriously, three comments and the server's already 500ing?!? I had to get Winnertz Patrick's phone number from the whois information and call him to ask about the new MC.
It's not about fixing anything. It's about being childish and spiteful.
And goddamn, it's funny.
Quite true and insightful. Who _cares_ what the default browser is. If it's Firefox, then Firefox will have an "unfair advantage". Go get your browser packaged in an operating system by virtue of it's quality, not by virtue of law.
If it contains the names & details of armed forces personnel it could very well be defined as a national security breach. The fact it contains a mission briefing & details of equipment would pretty much seal that one.
All that is available on wikipedia anyway. What do you want to know about the M16 that isn't freely available?
Most of the US Gov is banning USB key drives, music players plugged into computers, and any other read/write media.
When they should be banning operating systems that allow these devices a convenient attack vector. Seriously, why should a removable device has executable privileges and access to critical system files?
Thanks, Tanktalus. You will see that a lot of KDE devs responded to Harris's post with "we _do_ need users!" posts of their own. And Aaron Seigo's refusal to remove the "cashew" turned out to be the right move after all. However, I feel that there are roadblocks _everywhere_ in KDE now, especially in the usability department. The HIG is being broken all the time, in fact, the HIG specifically forbids MDI but Dolphin, Konqueror, Kopete, and many other applications have tabbed interfaces. The person responsible for the HIG takes no outside suggestions and when people have asked how they can help contribute to the HIG, she either does not respond or she insists that users cannot be involved in the development of the HIG. She says that it is a "conflict of interest".
I also have filed hundreds of bugs for KDE in the past few years, and only lately have I felt that my input is not appreciated nor wanted. Of course there are exceptions, such as Aaron from Plasma, Peter from Dolphin, and the entire Digikam team. But Kontact is near abandonment, when the Bug Team tried to organize a Kontact Bug Day they were not interested. There are outstanding issues in moving events in Korganizer from years past, and they just keep adding up to the point where I am afraid to move appointments now. Kmail has certainly improved, though.
Little by little I am bleeding off KDE. I have moved from Knowit to Basket, found Basket terrible, and have settled on the terrific Zim. Digikam is being replaced by F-Spot next month. Thunderbird has already replaced Kmail, and to be honest I always used Opera or Firefox instead of Konqueror for browsing. With the exception of the KDE desktop, I still use Kate (VIM could easily replace it) and Kontact (which due to abandonment from the devs may need to be replaced anyway). So instead of the unified desktop that KDE was supposed to be, I am right back with a hodge-podge of unrelated applications and frankly, Window 7 is starting to look rather good. I have no problem paying for the software if it does what I need, and vendor lock in is not an issue in Windows any more than in KDE. I don't _want_ to leave the secure environment that is Linux, but I want a complete package that does what I need. KDE seems to have no interest in providing that anymore.
Unfortunately, that's what they said about Vista, too.
No, what's unfortunate is not that Microsoft feels this way, but that KDE feels this way. Microsoft has a beta product that people are generally happy with (Windows 7). KDE has a released product that many people hate (KDE 4.x). I don't need to say that KDE is open source, and that things were reversed just one year ago, and all the other obvious trolls. I do however want to remind us that KDE doesn't really need users at all. I have been using KDE for years and I've stuck with the 3.x branch while the 4.x branch is developing, but more and more often I feel pushed away. If it is simple usability reports that they are not interested in or other little things that add up in the KDE community. I think that they are really forgetting what is KDE.
I repeat that I am a KDE user, but as KDE 3.x is being made obsolete I am looking for a new place to go. it's a shame because I love Kate, Konqueror, and Kontact especially. KDE 4.2 betas are beautiful and work like they should (Aaron Siego is a genius, what he has done with Plasma). But the developer community is scaring me away.
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter of bosons confined in an external potential and cooled to temperatures very near to absolute zero.
What?!? I got all wet thinking about what kind of headphones might carry Einstein's name and you go ruin it with techno-speak!
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To see what I mean, compare Opera and Konqueror. When Opera gets a popup it can't help but de-maximize the currently maximized window, since in a MDI interface, maximization is incompatible with showing a second window as a popup. Konqueror has absolutely no problem in this case though, it just creates a new tabless window.
I could not reproduce here: Opera blocks popups!
Sure, that would be great. Then _every_ computer you sit at would be strange and foreign. Get over it. Ford sells cars with Bridgestone tires. If you don't like it, then buy a Toyota, drive on those Bridgestones to go buy some Goodyears, or petition Ford to switch brands.
The wife's play machine is running KDE Trunk. It's a decent environment, but the developers go off on their own pet projects and disregard user input. That's fine for a 0.xx release, but not for a mature product. It's not the product that I am unhappy with, it is the alienation.
Um, why not move to Gnome on the same Linux distro you're using, rather than jumping ship entirely?
Because from what I've seen of Windows 7, it looks like it does the job better than Gnome. In both Windows and Gnome I feel very restricted in that I must work how someone else decided I should work, but more so in Gnome nowadays. I will give them both a fair shot, and KDE 4.2 as well. I know that no matter how bad the KDE dev community gets, they could never get as bad as the MS dev community!
Internal documents did not reveal they had a plan to cripple the entire Web
Serious question, not a troll. Can you point me to a source where leaked internal Microsoft documents called for the web to be crippled? Thanks.
Sorry for this.
There are currently over 2000 different IPs online on the webserver _per minute_.
Welcome to 1997.
(oh, wait, this is the Midnight Commander team that we are talking to)
Er, dude, this Slashdot thingi has been doing this to webservers for over a decade now! Good morning, and welcome to 2009!
There are pieces of military equipment, the details of which should remain secret. The army is more than M16's and HMMWV's after all.
Neither you nor I know what was on that drive. The point that I was making is that not all military information is top secret, nor should it be assumed to be.
This article wasn't about infection or transfer of system files, it was about discovery of mission and personnel data being found on a second-hand USB device. A non-Windows OS wouldn't have necessarily helped, in this case.
Not in this case, no. But previous articles have discussed the matter that I mentioned.
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Microsoft bundled a web browser specifically to kill the market.
I suppose that Ubuntu also bundled a web browser specifically to kill the market? Microsoft sells on operating system, not a kernel. Operating systems come with, at a bare minimum, a file browser, a web browser, a media player, a text editor. The better ones even come with an office suite or three.
P.S. You're a moron.
A) I'm a dumbass, not a moron. Get it right.
2) The point that I was making is that not all 'weapons schematics' are super top secret.
IV) Personal attacks at other posters is not only being a dickwad, it is also called trolling.
So Lame and Predictable walk into this bar...
My god, it's full of code!
Guns with silencers make a 'bang' sound, too. It's just that most of the sound doesn't leave the gun.
The sound of it cocking itself isn't silenced, though. It's not like in James Bond movies where the gun makes only a faint whisper. The automatic cocking is pretty damn loud, and draws quite a lot of attention.
Yes, and let's welcome them back by taking down their webserver.
Nice job.
Seriously, three comments and the server's already 500ing?!? I had to get Winnertz Patrick's phone number from the whois information and call him to ask about the new MC.
It's not about fixing anything. It's about being childish and spiteful.
And goddamn, it's funny.
Quite true and insightful. Who _cares_ what the default browser is. If it's Firefox, then Firefox will have an "unfair advantage". Go get your browser packaged in an operating system by virtue of it's quality, not by virtue of law.
If it contains the names & details of armed forces personnel it could very well be defined as a national security breach. The fact it contains a mission briefing & details of equipment would pretty much seal that one.
All that is available on wikipedia anyway. What do you want to know about the M16 that isn't freely available?
Most of the US Gov is banning USB key drives, music players plugged into computers, and any other read/write media.
When they should be banning operating systems that allow these devices a convenient attack vector. Seriously, why should a removable device has executable privileges and access to critical system files?
That's not a photograph, it's a crappy 3D render.
That's no moon....
(fuck you saw that coming didnt you?)
Apparently I was not-so-obviously joking.
I think that the fill-in /. reply here is "WHOOSH".
Thanks, Tanktalus. You will see that a lot of KDE devs responded to Harris's post with "we _do_ need users!" posts of their own. And Aaron Seigo's refusal to remove the "cashew" turned out to be the right move after all. However, I feel that there are roadblocks _everywhere_ in KDE now, especially in the usability department. The HIG is being broken all the time, in fact, the HIG specifically forbids MDI but Dolphin, Konqueror, Kopete, and many other applications have tabbed interfaces. The person responsible for the HIG takes no outside suggestions and when people have asked how they can help contribute to the HIG, she either does not respond or she insists that users cannot be involved in the development of the HIG. She says that it is a "conflict of interest".
I also have filed hundreds of bugs for KDE in the past few years, and only lately have I felt that my input is not appreciated nor wanted. Of course there are exceptions, such as Aaron from Plasma, Peter from Dolphin, and the entire Digikam team. But Kontact is near abandonment, when the Bug Team tried to organize a Kontact Bug Day they were not interested. There are outstanding issues in moving events in Korganizer from years past, and they just keep adding up to the point where I am afraid to move appointments now. Kmail has certainly improved, though.
Little by little I am bleeding off KDE. I have moved from Knowit to Basket, found Basket terrible, and have settled on the terrific Zim. Digikam is being replaced by F-Spot next month. Thunderbird has already replaced Kmail, and to be honest I always used Opera or Firefox instead of Konqueror for browsing. With the exception of the KDE desktop, I still use Kate (VIM could easily replace it) and Kontact (which due to abandonment from the devs may need to be replaced anyway). So instead of the unified desktop that KDE was supposed to be, I am right back with a hodge-podge of unrelated applications and frankly, Window 7 is starting to look rather good. I have no problem paying for the software if it does what I need, and vendor lock in is not an issue in Windows any more than in KDE. I don't _want_ to leave the secure environment that is Linux, but I want a complete package that does what I need. KDE seems to have no interest in providing that anymore.
Unfortunately, that's what they said about Vista, too.
No, what's unfortunate is not that Microsoft feels this way, but that KDE feels this way. Microsoft has a beta product that people are generally happy with (Windows 7). KDE has a released product that many people hate (KDE 4.x). I don't need to say that KDE is open source, and that things were reversed just one year ago, and all the other obvious trolls. I do however want to remind us that KDE doesn't really need users at all. I have been using KDE for years and I've stuck with the 3.x branch while the 4.x branch is developing, but more and more often I feel pushed away. If it is simple usability reports that they are not interested in or other little things that add up in the KDE community. I think that they are really forgetting what is KDE.
I repeat that I am a KDE user, but as KDE 3.x is being made obsolete I am looking for a new place to go. it's a shame because I love Kate, Konqueror, and Kontact especially. KDE 4.2 betas are beautiful and work like they should (Aaron Siego is a genius, what he has done with Plasma). But the developer community is scaring me away.
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter of bosons confined in an external potential and cooled to temperatures very near to absolute zero.
What?!? I got all wet thinking about what kind of headphones might carry Einstein's name and you go ruin it with techno-speak!
He may end up "launching a website" on blogspot himself, which of course would be illegal if he was Republican.
Like the respectful leaders of other influential nations do?
Why was this article red...
That's a good question. Typo aside, since when have /. articles ever been read?
Wow, that is quite a wide price range.