Re:As a linux neophyte...
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Hacking VIM
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When I first started using *nix, I used nano too. It's got simple key combinations to do simple actions. I used it for years.
I didn't start to use Vim until I started work at a software shop where the lead developers used it almost exclusively. I couldn't figure out why... but then they showed me how to customize parts of it. To add syntax highlighting and tabs, and to record macros (for doing the same operation on a bunch of different chunks of text). You can even enable mouse support when working in an XTERM (forget this GVIM thing).
It was a steep learning curve that I probably wouldn't have endured if I hadn't been coding, but now I can edit any text more efficiently in vim than in any CLI or GUI program out there.
I believe this is partially addressed in Leopard. Authors can sign their programs with their key (I forget the exact mechanism), and you can accept certain authors as trusted.
It was detailed in the review article from the other day.
Re:And all of a sudden....
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SCO Loses
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You give the example of a large corporation supporting Hitler's regime, and still feel that you haven't reinforced my point? You're honestly telling me that because you 'just want to get paid', you see no reason to stand up to your execs' supporting genocide?
I'm not saying Microsoft is any worse than IBM, or any other company. I'm saying that I think it's wrong to separate 'life' and 'business' to the point that you give up your values just for a paycheque from a large corporation.
Re:And all of a sudden....
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"I don't believe for one second Microsoft are any worse than any other big corporate out there.... To my mind, it's like hating an entire country based on some unpopular foreign policies."
This may be true, but is irrelevant to the your parent poster's point.
"I don't believe for one second either that it's the job of the workforce to have a consciousness about company strategies"
That's a very dangerous belief. Is it not the job of the population to have a consciousness about their government's strategies? Just where does the responsibility end, and why? Because you're too apathetic? Because you don't want to be bothered? I'm sure nobody here needs more examples of how such an attitude can lead to catastrophe.
"If we can find a way to create threads and/or intertwined bundles using the molecules in a scalable fashion, while retaining the adhesive properties..."
Alright, so it sounds like they're just using the spider-man analogy because it sounds cool... but if it's even remotely possible that I'll be swinging from buildings any time soon, just tell me where to throw my money!
*Disclaimer: as a starving student, I actually have no money to throw, but a guy can dream... right?
Parent (AC) is totally right. If you can get someone to understand the basics of the internet, and they want to understand how the data is sent... It's just like a postal system. Except instead of hundreds of postcards a minute... it's billions.
Many "laypeople" don't know what a "network" is. When they do start to understand that two computers can talk to eachother, they don't understand what part a "web browser" plays.
Some people still think "Internet Explorer" is the internet. You and I know that's not true. You and I know that HTML and HTTP are only a tiny part of what is now the internet. Lots of people don't.
Here are 10 points. The first 4 are just background.
Computers can send information to eachother over cables, and with radio waves.
Military and educational institutions started a long-distance network back in the day.
It kept getting bigger and more popular.
Now, most communication is sent over phone and cable lines, just like extra channels.
When you connect to the internet, you're really connecting to your ISP's computer--this is just like when you connect to the computer on the other desk but in stead of just giving you access to its files, it gives you a gateway to every other computer on the internet.
Every computer has an internet address (IP) that other computers use to find it.
Everyone has a number address, but you can buy a "name" address (a.net or.com)
When you try to download something or view a webpage, your computer first sends a request to the other computer.
That request goes through a bunch of other computers (usually your ISP's and their ISP's). Then that remote computer can choose to acknowledge you, and send you the information you asked for. That data takes the same route back to you.
Web browsers and web sites are a way of displaying pictures and text over the internet.
Especially the bit about violence against women (but not against men) being grounds for a license to be revoked. And the bit about censoring my access to information.
The internet loses value if we start filtering it. Granted there are laws that prohibit sexual exploitation (of minors) and violence against anybody, but this is not a reason to give anybody such a high level of control over our (not mine, not his, not yours, but our) medium.
I don't think this will make it through as law... I hope. But I worked as a Legislative Page for a while, and you'd be amazed what gets voted on.
You beat me to it! To the GP and his sibling: I suggest you try Ubuntu Feisty when it comes out on the 20th.
You can also go to the System menu at the top of the screen, Administration > Shared Folders. If NFS and SMB support are not already installed, you will have to click (oh no!) "Install Services" at the pop-up. It takes about 15 seconds on broadband to download the packages.
Then click the "+ Add" button in the "Shared Folders" dialog.
Want to browse a network? Mount an FTP, SFTP, SMB share? Go to the Places menu at the top of the screen and select "network."
I don't know that I've ever had to use the CLI for anything. (I use it all the time, of course, to do special customizations, or to compile/run CLI programs. It can't be beat for speed, if you know what you're doing. Especially on old hardware.)
I used 5.04 and 5.10 before trying the Feisty beta, and the difference is remarkable. Roaming networking. Automatic codec installation. Support for binary drivers by default. Everything is easy. If you've got a fancy video card, you can do the crazy 3D desktop effects, too.
Of course not. The GP was just explaining that you had the link backwards.
Just try to imagine all those trees they showed you in school. Different dinosaurs might be on the same level, beside each other, connected by a common ancestor. Birds might descend from only one dinosaur species, but they still share an ancestry with all of them.
The on-board ethernet did quit on me, and in my laptop I use a PCMCIA card for compatibility with my school's wireless network (which is newer than my laptop).
I don't know how much weight this "dark matter" theory holds (pun intended). But I was immediately interested when I saw their translucent blue 3d render of the stuff.
What are the odds that guys with low IQs, short attention spans, and an affinity for risks are just more likely to eat undercooked meat, and that the more outgoing promiscuous women catch it because of them.
I missed Blue Security in the headlines, but what these guys seem to be doing is pretty cool. Providing a way for people to send and receive information about issues they care about isn't really ahead of it's time technology-wise, but is definitely an appropriate and commendable use of technology.
I don't know how much hype comes from the word AJAX being thrown around, but if ever there was a place for it, I say they've found it. A niche, and a productive one at that.
Perhaps after a certain point, people do deserve what they get. I have two problems with giving up so soon, though:
We live in a society where critical-thinking skills are never even taught. Many people never even have the opportunity to learn how to seperate the wheat from the chaff (or valuable information from the empty rhetoric). This is a problem that needs solving first.
Because so many people are influenced by the advertising coming from every direction, companies will continue to produce it. More and more by the day. And I have to watch it. (No, hiding away in the woods with my head in a hole is not an acceptable alternative.)
Critical Thinking, in my experience, is often written off as Cynicism by people who don't understand see the importance in thinking for themselves. These people are either in denial about their reality, or are honestly lacking the skills needed to examine it.
I find it hard to understand how anybody watching could miss the (usually obvious) manipulation tactics used in the media every day. People seem to have a very high tolerance for being manipulated and lied to.
The most recent ad that's got my goat is a TV commercial for some subsidiary of Virgin Group. It very explicitly depicts evil men in suits being overpowered the beauty of nature, a colourful fish reversing the flow of toxic waste, plants and animals growing. It uses happy music and bright colours and is very obviously trying to say "we're really sticking it to the man!"
This isn't technically a lie, but come on! It irritates me that it's socially acceptable to be so completely dishonest. It irritates me further that so many people can't see what's going on.
Such blatant dishonesty and trickery as is used in all forms of advertising seems to undermine the entire idea of communication in the first place. Instead of encouraging cooperation, it creates an us-against-them situation where the them (the public at large) don't even know they've got to be on guard.
Sure they could be harmful. In fact, where two species evolve seperately, it is less likely that they'll be able to coexist peacefully. Just look at the species that have been introduced to Australia.
I think the greater danger here, though, is that humans will disturb or destroy the new-found species or their habitats.
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When I first started using *nix, I used nano too. It's got simple key combinations to do simple actions. I used it for years.
I didn't start to use Vim until I started work at a software shop where the lead developers used it almost exclusively. I couldn't figure out why... but then they showed me how to customize parts of it. To add syntax highlighting and tabs, and to record macros (for doing the same operation on a bunch of different chunks of text). You can even enable mouse support when working in an XTERM (forget this GVIM thing).
It was a steep learning curve that I probably wouldn't have endured if I hadn't been coding, but now I can edit any text more efficiently in vim than in any CLI or GUI program out there.
I believe this is partially addressed in Leopard. Authors can sign their programs with their key (I forget the exact mechanism), and you can accept certain authors as trusted.
It was detailed in the review article from the other day.
You give the example of a large corporation supporting Hitler's regime, and still feel that you haven't reinforced my point? You're honestly telling me that because you 'just want to get paid', you see no reason to stand up to your execs' supporting genocide?
I'm not saying Microsoft is any worse than IBM, or any other company. I'm saying that I think it's wrong to separate 'life' and 'business' to the point that you give up your values just for a paycheque from a large corporation.
"I don't believe for one second Microsoft are any worse than any other big corporate out there. ... To my mind, it's like hating an entire country based on some unpopular foreign policies."
This may be true, but is irrelevant to the your parent poster's point.
"I don't believe for one second either that it's the job of the workforce to have a consciousness about company strategies"
That's a very dangerous belief. Is it not the job of the population to have a consciousness about their government's strategies? Just where does the responsibility end, and why? Because you're too apathetic? Because you don't want to be bothered? I'm sure nobody here needs more examples of how such an attitude can lead to catastrophe.
Sad, perhaps, but more true than anything I just read in that article.
(Granted I didn't make it through the whole thing, but it could've easily been a collection of comment trolls from /. itself.)
"If we can find a way to create threads and/or intertwined bundles using the molecules in a scalable fashion, while retaining the adhesive properties..."
Alright, so it sounds like they're just using the spider-man analogy because it sounds cool... but if it's even remotely possible that I'll be swinging from buildings any time soon, just tell me where to throw my money!
*Disclaimer: as a starving student, I actually have no money to throw, but a guy can dream... right?
Parent (AC) is totally right. If you can get someone to understand the basics of the internet, and they want to understand how the data is sent... It's just like a postal system. Except instead of hundreds of postcards a minute... it's billions.
Many "laypeople" don't know what a "network" is. When they do start to understand that two computers can talk to eachother, they don't understand what part a "web browser" plays.
Some people still think "Internet Explorer" is the internet. You and I know that's not true. You and I know that HTML and HTTP are only a tiny part of what is now the internet. Lots of people don't.
Here are 10 points. The first 4 are just background.
Granted the term "FLOSS" sounds sort of goofy, but "I want to punch them in the dick" is so Grade 5 it actually make me laugh out loud.
Especially the bit about violence against women (but not against men) being grounds for a license to be revoked. And the bit about censoring my access to information.
The internet loses value if we start filtering it. Granted there are laws that prohibit sexual exploitation (of minors) and violence against anybody, but this is not a reason to give anybody such a high level of control over our (not mine, not his, not yours, but our) medium.
I don't think this will make it through as law... I hope. But I worked as a Legislative Page for a while, and you'd be amazed what gets voted on.
You beat me to it! To the GP and his sibling: I suggest you try Ubuntu Feisty when it comes out on the 20th.
You can also go to the System menu at the top of the screen, Administration > Shared Folders. If NFS and SMB support are not already installed, you will have to click (oh no!) "Install Services" at the pop-up. It takes about 15 seconds on broadband to download the packages.
Then click the "+ Add" button in the "Shared Folders" dialog.
Want to browse a network? Mount an FTP, SFTP, SMB share? Go to the Places menu at the top of the screen and select "network."
I don't know that I've ever had to use the CLI for anything. (I use it all the time, of course, to do special customizations, or to compile/run CLI programs. It can't be beat for speed, if you know what you're doing. Especially on old hardware.)
Try Feisty.
I used 5.04 and 5.10 before trying the Feisty beta, and the difference is remarkable. Roaming networking. Automatic codec installation. Support for binary drivers by default. Everything is easy. If you've got a fancy video card, you can do the crazy 3D desktop effects, too.
Check it out.
Of course not. The GP was just explaining that you had the link backwards.
Just try to imagine all those trees they showed you in school. Different dinosaurs might be on the same level, beside each other, connected by a common ancestor. Birds might descend from only one dinosaur species, but they still share an ancestry with all of them.
They sure do still make Maya for linux.
"They" are just Autodesk now, instead of Alias or SGI.
I don't know about you, but I do.
The on-board ethernet did quit on me, and in my laptop I use a PCMCIA card for compatibility with my school's wireless network (which is newer than my laptop).
I find your ideas interesting, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I don't know how much weight this "dark matter" theory holds (pun intended). But I was immediately interested when I saw their translucent blue 3d render of the stuff.
I wonder how many other people that works for...
What are the odds that guys with low IQs, short attention spans, and an affinity for risks are just more likely to eat undercooked meat, and that the more outgoing promiscuous women catch it because of them.
I missed Blue Security in the headlines, but what these guys seem to be doing is pretty cool. Providing a way for people to send and receive information about issues they care about isn't really ahead of it's time technology-wise, but is definitely an appropriate and commendable use of technology.
I don't know how much hype comes from the word AJAX being thrown around, but if ever there was a place for it, I say they've found it. A niche, and a productive one at that.
Better luck this time, guys.
Perhaps after a certain point, people do deserve what they get. I have two problems with giving up so soon, though:
(No, hiding away in the woods with my head in a hole is not an acceptable alternative.)
Critical Thinking, in my experience, is often written off as Cynicism by people who don't understand see the importance in thinking for themselves. These people are either in denial about their reality, or are honestly lacking the skills needed to examine it.
I find it hard to understand how anybody watching could miss the (usually obvious) manipulation tactics used in the media every day. People seem to have a very high tolerance for being manipulated and lied to.
The most recent ad that's got my goat is a TV commercial for some subsidiary of Virgin Group. It very explicitly depicts evil men in suits being overpowered the beauty of nature, a colourful fish reversing the flow of toxic waste, plants and animals growing. It uses happy music and bright colours and is very obviously trying to say "we're really sticking it to the man!"
This isn't technically a lie, but come on! It irritates me that it's socially acceptable to be so completely dishonest. It irritates me further that so many people can't see what's going on.
Such blatant dishonesty and trickery as is used in all forms of advertising seems to undermine the entire idea of communication in the first place. Instead of encouraging cooperation, it creates an us-against-them situation where the them (the public at large) don't even know they've got to be on guard.
Sure they could be harmful. In fact, where two species evolve seperately, it is less likely that they'll be able to coexist peacefully. Just look at the species that have been introduced to Australia.
I think the greater danger here, though, is that humans will disturb or destroy the new-found species or their habitats.