Hmm, that's interesting. I've had issues with Kubuntu as well (always switched back to Debian).
As of your custom splash, try running "locate ksplash" and find out what sits where. I think you can install your own splash themes under ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/, but if you're determined to make your own I guess you can find all the stuff out by yourself:)
OTOH I find Plastik ugly. I'm not a Mac fanboy of any sort, but they (Apple) have managed to do one thing just damn right - the UI *look* (and feel, to some degree). Too bad there are *no* good Mac-like themes (Baghira for KDE used to be cool and so on but it felt bloated and it hadn't had a release for long months... Or maybe it's years now?).
My favorite setup is milk-like theme for a window manager, Milk for GTK apps and QtCurve with whitey (Milk-like) colors for KDE apps. Although it's much faster, it's nowhere like Baghira, forget Mac OS X:<
I use Thunar (from XFCE) with E16, E17 is still too unstable for me. Rox filer is also very good, and the Rox desktop environment just... Rocks (but it has very frequent problems with stability, and even more with dependencies, due to poor (or rather: none at all) integration of zeroinstall with debian package management). Neither of the two seems more integrated with E or Fluxbox, at least to me, but that depends on your definition of "integration"... And they're lightweight.
BTW, which version of E are you running? If E16, do you use a run dialog, similar to KDE's Alt+F2? I've found that KDE's run dialog works the best for me, but damn, it is not a separate program, and I won't be running this resource hog on my poor old machine just because of that one thing =/
OK, I recently decided not to bash Vista until I see it doing something wrong "in action". I do not own a computer that is powerful enough to run Vista so I had to wait until I can play around with it on someone else's machine.
Then, one of my friends had Vista on her laptop, and she said she was satisfied with it. I thought, OK, let's see how good it really is.
The very first thing she was trying to do with her laptop that afternoon: playing a movie. She fired up Explorer, browsed to the right directory, tried to open the file, and... Vista simply pretended that no icon was clicked. My friend explained to me: "oh, it's always like that when there's no internet connection..."...
Are people getting used to such things in the same way they got used to crashes, unreliability and restarts?... Do they consider it "normal"?... If yes, then we're doomed.
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A year ago it used to be cool and pr0 and so on to have Linux running Beryl with some Aero theme. I do not know how much these Aero themes resemble the "real" Aero thing, but they were all shitty. I've found translucent borders very distracting, often I stared at them instead of doing work, and it was so until I've switched to something Mac-like (OTOH Mac themes are great). The less transparency you use, the better (but *some* transparency is ok). Look at the Mac, with every major revision of their OS there's a little less transparency here and there...
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My other friend is a microsoftie:< He's a great guy but he has sold his soul, and became a MS Student Partner (or whatever they call them). He always hyped MS products, etc. He also used to have Vista on his laptop. =)
Until he himself switched back to XP:P I'm not surprised - as of what I've heard from him, he had to reinstall the Vista thing almost weekly.
By contrast, my Debian box is withstanding all my experiments since December 2006 without trouble (ok, without REAL trouble until *I* make some real trouble, but then, I'm always able to recover without reinstalling).
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I've recently had an argument with yet another friend, about OS design and stuff. He also was a microsoftie:> and defended Vista with his teeth and claws, but finally admitted that MS screwed up Vista's internals totally, and that they've lost a great opportunity to evolve the system and make it a Great Thing (tm). He's a Windows 2003 user:P
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Summing all that up, no, I'm not downgrading to Vista anytime soon.
Windows 95 was full of ugly 16bit code and shitty hacks to keep legacy 16bit stuff barely working. Did you know that the whole kernel space was mapped into every program's address space? AFAIR at around the 3rd gigabyte. Win95 thing was just some 32bit GUI & extensions on top of the 16bit DOS thing. Ugliest piece of shit in the OS history, but hey, people didn't care, they wanted their damn old legacy programs still working and that's what Win95 gave them, along with the ugly 16bit shitty hacks.
> Vista and XP both shipped with 64 bit versions
And what use you have of 64bit system where almost all apps are still 32bit? And BTW nobody cares to make two versions (32 and 64 bit) of their exe's because Windows lacks any decent package management. Maybe.NET will solve this, but I still consider it a half-solution.
> Guess what! Windows runs on more than x86: IA64, DEC Alpha and x86-64
And also MIPS, but guess what! It treated them as if they were 32bit. There were no real 64bit capabilities until XP 64-bit edition. Go figure. BTW all archs but x86(-64)? were dropped for "marketing reasons".
A second thought... Xbox 360 runs a variant of Windows, right? Then there must be a 64bit PowerPC port also.
Assuming that this code was really just some debugging stuff accidentaly left there... It might have been there in only a few particular versions or something like that...
Why is my post funny? I was serious about forgiving Miguel.
From ESR's HH FAQ:
Q:Do I need to hate and bash Microsoft?
A:No, you don't. Not that Microsoft isn't loathsome, but there was a hacker culture long before Microsoft and there will still be one long after Microsoft is history. Any energy you spend hating Microsoft would be better spent on loving your craft. Write good code -- that will bash Microsoft quite sufficiently without polluting your karma.
Of course it's always *your* choice, how will you use your energy, but I don't need it wasted on hating someone.
Ah, my sig, "This statement is false" - it refers only to itself.
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Hmm, that's interesting. I've had issues with Kubuntu as well (always switched back to Debian).
:)
As of your custom splash, try running "locate ksplash" and find out what sits where. I think you can install your own splash themes under ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/, but if you're determined to make your own I guess you can find all the stuff out by yourself
Your nikname reads "KAnonymous Koward".
OTOH I find Plastik ugly. I'm not a Mac fanboy of any sort, but they (Apple) have managed to do one thing just damn right - the UI *look* (and feel, to some degree). Too bad there are *no* good Mac-like themes (Baghira for KDE used to be cool and so on but it felt bloated and it hadn't had a release for long months... Or maybe it's years now?).
:<
My favorite setup is milk-like theme for a window manager, Milk for GTK apps and QtCurve with whitey (Milk-like) colors for KDE apps. Although it's much faster, it's nowhere like Baghira, forget Mac OS X
I use Thunar (from XFCE) with E16, E17 is still too unstable for me. Rox filer is also very good, and the Rox desktop environment just... Rocks (but it has very frequent problems with stability, and even more with dependencies, due to poor (or rather: none at all) integration of zeroinstall with debian package management). Neither of the two seems more integrated with E or Fluxbox, at least to me, but that depends on your definition of "integration"... And they're lightweight.
BTW, which version of E are you running? If E16, do you use a run dialog, similar to KDE's Alt+F2? I've found that KDE's run dialog works the best for me, but damn, it is not a separate program, and I won't be running this resource hog on my poor old machine just because of that one thing =/
It always bothered me...
How the hell is the slashdot effect even possible when nobody does RTFA?
And what's the problem with running "sed 's/\+.*@gmail/@gmail/'"?
OK, I recently decided not to bash Vista until I see it doing something wrong "in action". I do not own a computer that is powerful enough to run Vista so I had to wait until I can play around with it on someone else's machine.
:< He's a great guy but he has sold his soul, and became a MS Student Partner (or whatever they call them). He always hyped MS products, etc. He also used to have Vista on his laptop. =)
:P I'm not surprised - as of what I've heard from him, he had to reinstall the Vista thing almost weekly.
:> and defended Vista with his teeth and claws, but finally admitted that MS screwed up Vista's internals totally, and that they've lost a great opportunity to evolve the system and make it a Great Thing (tm). He's a Windows 2003 user :P
Then, one of my friends had Vista on her laptop, and she said she was satisfied with it. I thought, OK, let's see how good it really is.
The very first thing she was trying to do with her laptop that afternoon: playing a movie. She fired up Explorer, browsed to the right directory, tried to open the file, and... Vista simply pretended that no icon was clicked. My friend explained to me: "oh, it's always like that when there's no internet connection..."...
Are people getting used to such things in the same way they got used to crashes, unreliability and restarts?... Do they consider it "normal"?... If yes, then we're doomed.
---
A year ago it used to be cool and pr0 and so on to have Linux running Beryl with some Aero theme. I do not know how much these Aero themes resemble the "real" Aero thing, but they were all shitty. I've found translucent borders very distracting, often I stared at them instead of doing work, and it was so until I've switched to something Mac-like (OTOH Mac themes are great). The less transparency you use, the better (but *some* transparency is ok). Look at the Mac, with every major revision of their OS there's a little less transparency here and there...
---
My other friend is a microsoftie
Until he himself switched back to XP
By contrast, my Debian box is withstanding all my experiments since December 2006 without trouble (ok, without REAL trouble until *I* make some real trouble, but then, I'm always able to recover without reinstalling).
---
I've recently had an argument with yet another friend, about OS design and stuff. He also was a microsoftie
---
Summing all that up, no, I'm not downgrading to Vista anytime soon.
But no GTA 2014, since the world ends in 2012.
> Windows 95 was 32 bit software.
.NET will solve this, but I still consider it a half-solution.
Windows 95 was full of ugly 16bit code and shitty hacks to keep legacy 16bit stuff barely working. Did you know that the whole kernel space was mapped into every program's address space? AFAIR at around the 3rd gigabyte. Win95 thing was just some 32bit GUI & extensions on top of the 16bit DOS thing. Ugliest piece of shit in the OS history, but hey, people didn't care, they wanted their damn old legacy programs still working and that's what Win95 gave them, along with the ugly 16bit shitty hacks.
> Vista and XP both shipped with 64 bit versions
And what use you have of 64bit system where almost all apps are still 32bit? And BTW nobody cares to make two versions (32 and 64 bit) of their exe's because Windows lacks any decent package management. Maybe
> Guess what! Windows runs on more than x86: IA64, DEC Alpha and x86-64
And also MIPS, but guess what! It treated them as if they were 32bit. There were no real 64bit capabilities until XP 64-bit edition. Go figure. BTW all archs but x86(-64)? were dropped for "marketing reasons".
A second thought... Xbox 360 runs a variant of Windows, right? Then there must be a 64bit PowerPC port also.
In other news, Government Sues Israelis For Sharks.
Assuming that this "debug" code was left here intentionally, it's almost 100% sure that these addresses and passwords have been forwarded.
Maybe these ~1700 users will learn not to use proprietary software?
Assuming that this code was really just some debugging stuff accidentaly left there... It might have been there in only a few particular versions or something like that...
i am polish, you insensitive clod!
> a combination of eye tracking and brainwave monitoring, but that's still far too unreliable.
Hmm, how about involving some neural networks to recognize patterns, etc?
From ESR's HH FAQ:
Of course it's always *your* choice, how will you use your energy, but I don't need it wasted on hating someone.
Ah, my sig, "This statement is false" - it refers only to itself.
damn mod points, they're never around when you need 'em...
please somebody mod parent up?
how do you know she wasn't the creator of the universe?
Yeah, sure
> What are the odds he'll look at the return date before he leaves?
1 04 2130
1+4+1+2+3... 11
Zero
someone finally got it! :D
"It's not a big of change"!? Man, labels were the guys that had >95% of all the profit!
There's only one left as the other two are focused on developing Haiku.
...And I didn't paid for my copy of Linux, so f*cking what?
Nay, hell is not a place, but a state of mind.