i downloaded and started using amaya yesterday and it was a pretty interesting little browser.. it seemed to support most if not all the major standards... html 4.0 xhtml 1.0 css mathml, etc. but the good or bad thing depending on how you look at is that it will not display a non compliant webpage well at all. i wish webdevelopers and slashdot would use w3c.org's html validator and their browser to check their pages to make sure that it runs for everybody. like most pages just consist of text, tables, images, and colors, right? and big scripts could be done server side and stylesheets won't be read by bad browsers, so i think everyone could view them. do i not understand something about web development?
i have 256mb of ram on my computer and i will tell you that ram is not the problem. it is a problem on another computer i have that has 32mb of ram so i don't use it on that. but with 256 mb of ram, the ui still feels sluggish like moving the scrollbar is like rolling down a manual window and the textbox feels slow.. it is like the kind where you enter a string and.....there it is a second after you enter it. i also have a 600mhz athlon so i don't know what else the problem could be.
the one thing i find startling is that later builds can get worse! i'm a developer myself and i didn't know something like this could happen---i have broke things but like i don't know how a developer would upload a cvs source with off centered buttons like i have, or config checkboxes that close the browser (manual proxy configuration button for me right now)... well, i hope this didn't sound like a compaint, i just found it interesting and it would be nice to know 'why'.
yeah.. less code less bugs... i hope.. but i haven't tried galeon yet because i think i have to download the mozilla engine and merge them or something... so i probably won't use galeon until there is a deb package.
Explain to me again how the average new user can install Windows because from where I am you are full of crap.
The average new user never has to install windows because almost every place that sells computer puts it on the computer either by default or choice. Preinstalled linux isn't exactly the same thing because linux is harder to configure: text files versus gui checkboxes most of the time.
No screwey misconceptions of how a computer is supposed to work and nothing to learn.
so when granny wants to save a word processor document to disk, you tell her to type: mount -t ext2/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy; cp ~/doc/file.abi; umount/dev/fd0?
and she is like... how am i supposed to remember that! and in windows she can save the document to the desktop---accessible from a combo box and then open mycomputer|floppy disk and drag and drop the file to it. some people don't want to put forth the effort to do that. i hope your 'most situations' is defined as people who really want to learn more about computers and a thirty-year-old design about how almost everything is represented as a file because people that aren't interested aren't going to fool with it. i actually have debian gnu/linux on every computer i own, and my moms, but i don't think it would be a good idea for any newbie unless they have someone to help them climb the curve
not to put this interesting story down, but i see basically two things:
the big obvious one was that he was already 90% there when the computer was given to him. i think it would have been a different experience if rh wasn't already installed and he had to go about partitioning the drive(s) and getting X to work well and making sure the ethernet card was configured or making sure that ppp was setup properly when he turned on the computer. totally differnet for most people who don't get free easy help like he did from the guy who gave it to him...
also, this is one person. maybe someone that had the computer genes in them and is willing to sit down and learn. some people don't like to have to learn the tools they use, to use them (example: moms and english teachers).
and to add to that: 1ghz processor soon = first half of next year? the is probably from 5 to 11 months. i haven't looked at processors lately but i thought 1 ghz is not really a huge deal any more, and after half a year i would think that amd and intel would probably be past that area. but i guess it would have a different market as the previous poster said so maybe it doesn't really matter....
pointers allow memory access to anywhere which requires the OS to sandbox applications and lose performance. i saw an interesting draft of an operating system that has some pretty neat ideas relating to this at http://ftp.rook.com.au/
I heard on the radio the other day about a poll they did for people 95 years-old+. They were asked what they would have done differently if they started over. And the guy on the radio said that they ALL said that they would have taken more risks. just interesting to think about...
an example would be if you were writing a function that calculated the product of the list. perhaps a normal scheme recursivly multiply all the elements together. however you could use call/cc so if you have a zero in a big list of numbers, you can pull out early. see this part of a tutorial for details.
ok, thanks for the reply. yeah, i've had people call me things but usually my friends call me 'computer genius' which i find really annoying, but maybe it beats geek or nerd. i dunno
hmm. that sounds interesting, but i don't really want to be a lifeguard. can you tell me if there was any difference in the quality of girls you got when you were a lifeguard and now you aren't? it seems you got quanity as a lifeguard, but were they unique at all?
At my school, i don't know any girls that like to use computers. the ones that take the computer classes just do it for the easy credit and for looks on a resume. if only they were easier to find. man, i could be at my computer and do IRC with them. and over that, our school is supposed to be a geek school because we don't have a football team and it is a magnet school. i don't even know guys that play on computer as much as me. _this_ is sad.
i sort of felt the same way about the creating stuff. i always wanted to "make exe files" because not many people could do that. so i went: vb-delphi-c++. i wish i had learned about gnu/linux earlier though.
the real problem is that parents (atleast mine) don't understand that I would rather write programs on the comptuer more than anything else. i don't want to go to moves, go out with friends, play baseball, or go skiing or to the beach; i want TO STAY HOME AND PLAY MY COMPUTER!!!;-)
i've never had a gf before. but i think those might rank equal to my computer. so it would be a hard decision whether to go away from my computers then. but i don't have to worry about that; won't happen any time soon... heh
i thought that episode 2 is supposed to be more of a love story between anakin and queen amidala... luke and sis have to become apart of the plot sometime don't they?
i believe linux is getting a replacement for ipchains in the 2.3/2.4 series. i think it is actually the ipnat that you are talking about.
btw: did apache have a remote exploit lately when they got the 'powered by apache' logo replaced with the back office one? i read something like that somewhere....
yea thats the problem with linux, if you get too complicated -- get too much stuff, you lose track of what you have and you can't keep everything secure. The fact that a simple program runs on your computer, can have an exploit that will give someone total access because it is root suid, is rediculous. That is why we should try a credibility system like the one in eros os. unfortunately, its not ready for real use yet. maybe we could avoid problems that made 2.2.16 release early.
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i downloaded and started using amaya yesterday and it was a pretty interesting little browser.. it seemed to support most if not all the major standards... html 4.0 xhtml 1.0 css mathml, etc. but the good or bad thing depending on how you look at is that it will not display a non compliant webpage well at all. i wish webdevelopers and slashdot would use w3c.org's html validator and their browser to check their pages to make sure that it runs for everybody. like most pages just consist of text, tables, images, and colors, right? and big scripts could be done server side and stylesheets won't be read by bad browsers, so i think everyone could view them. do i not understand something about web development?
i have 256mb of ram on my computer and i will tell you that ram is not the problem. it is a problem on another computer i have that has 32mb of ram so i don't use it on that. but with 256 mb of ram, the ui still feels sluggish like moving the scrollbar is like rolling down a manual window and the textbox feels slow.. it is like the kind where you enter a string and.....there it is a second after you enter it. i also have a 600mhz athlon so i don't know what else the problem could be.
the one thing i find startling is that later builds can get worse! i'm a developer myself and i didn't know something like this could happen---i have broke things but like i don't know how a developer would upload a cvs source with off centered buttons like i have, or config checkboxes that close the browser (manual proxy configuration button for me right now)... well, i hope this didn't sound like a compaint, i just found it interesting and it would be nice to know 'why'.
yeah.. less code less bugs... i hope.. but i haven't tried galeon yet because i think i have to download the mozilla engine and merge them or something... so i probably won't use galeon until there is a deb package.
Explain to me again how the average new user can install Windows because from where I am you are full of crap.
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy; cp ~/doc/file.abi; umount /dev/fd0?
The average new user never has to install windows because almost every place that sells computer puts it on the computer either by default or choice. Preinstalled linux isn't exactly the same thing because linux is harder to configure: text files versus gui checkboxes most of the time.
No screwey misconceptions of how a computer is supposed to work and nothing to learn.
so when granny wants to save a word processor document to disk, you tell her to type: mount -t ext2
and she is like... how am i supposed to remember that! and in windows she can save the document to the desktop---accessible from a combo box and then open mycomputer|floppy disk and drag and drop the file to it. some people don't want to put forth the effort to do that. i hope your 'most situations' is defined as people who really want to learn more about computers and a thirty-year-old design about how almost everything is represented as a file because people that aren't interested aren't going to fool with it. i actually have debian gnu/linux on every computer i own, and my moms, but i don't think it would be a good idea for any newbie unless they have someone to help them climb the curve
not to put this interesting story down, but i see basically two things:
the big obvious one was that he was already 90% there when the computer was given to him. i think it would have been a different experience if rh wasn't already installed and he had to go about partitioning the drive(s) and getting X to work well and making sure the ethernet card was configured or making sure that ppp was setup properly when he turned on the computer. totally differnet for most people who don't get free easy help like he did from the guy who gave it to him...
also, this is one person. maybe someone that had the computer genes in them and is willing to sit down and learn. some people don't like to have to learn the tools they use, to use them (example: moms and english teachers).
unlike dselect, apt doesn't fool with all the suggested packages and just gets the ones you need
Solaris, NeXT, etc. Display Postscript.
i think there is a program called 'gv'(ghostview) and it displays postscript.
and to add to that: 1ghz processor soon = first half of next year? the is probably from 5 to 11 months. i haven't looked at processors lately but i thought 1 ghz is not really a huge deal any more, and after half a year i would think that amd and intel would probably be past that area. but i guess it would have a different market as the previous poster said so maybe it doesn't really matter....
he was replying to a guy that was asking about swing, so i think it was swing.
pointers allow memory access to anywhere which requires the OS to sandbox applications and lose performance. i saw an interesting draft of an operating system that has some pretty neat ideas relating to this at http://ftp.rook.com.au/
I heard on the radio the other day about a poll they did for people 95 years-old+. They were asked what they would have done differently if they started over. And the guy on the radio said that they ALL said that they would have taken more risks. just interesting to think about...
an example would be if you were writing a function that calculated the product of the list. perhaps a normal scheme recursivly multiply all the elements together. however you could use call/cc so if you have a zero in a big list of numbers, you can pull out early. see this part of a tutorial for details.
i would never ask my parents that to begin with
maybe they underclocked it to reduce power consumption for the laptop.
ok, thanks for the reply. yeah, i've had people call me things but usually my friends call me 'computer genius' which i find really annoying, but maybe it beats geek or nerd. i dunno
hmm. that sounds interesting, but i don't really want to be a lifeguard. can you tell me if there was any difference in the quality of girls you got when you were a lifeguard and now you aren't? it seems you got quanity as a lifeguard, but were they unique at all?
what are "normal" female geeks?
At my school, i don't know any girls that like to use computers. the ones that take the computer classes just do it for the easy credit and for looks on a resume. if only they were easier to find. man, i could be at my computer and do IRC with them. and over that, our school is supposed to be a geek school because we don't have a football team and it is a magnet school. i don't even know guys that play on computer as much as me. _this_ is sad.
i sort of felt the same way about the creating stuff. i always wanted to "make exe files" because not many people could do that. so i went: vb-delphi-c++. i wish i had learned about gnu/linux earlier though.
;-)
the real problem is that parents (atleast mine) don't understand that I would rather write programs on the comptuer more than anything else. i don't want to go to moves, go out with friends, play baseball, or go skiing or to the beach; i want TO STAY HOME AND PLAY MY COMPUTER!!!
i've never had a gf before. but i think those might rank equal to my computer. so it would be a hard decision whether to go away from my computers then. but i don't have to worry about that; won't happen any time soon... heh
hey, i thought that was pretty funny
not exactly. our school doesn't have a football team but lots of people do the chess club... well the chess club is a joke...but, still...
i thought that episode 2 is supposed to be more of a love story between anakin and queen amidala... luke and sis have to become apart of the plot sometime don't they?
Standard question : So why don't you write everything in binary machine code?
Standard Answer: Because c++ is source code compatible on different platforms and it can be high level or low level depending on how it is written.
i believe linux is getting a replacement for ipchains in the 2.3/2.4 series. i think it is actually the ipnat that you are talking about.
btw: did apache have a remote exploit lately when they got the 'powered by apache' logo replaced with the back office one? i read something like that somewhere....
yea thats the problem with linux, if you get too complicated -- get too much stuff, you lose track of what you have and you can't keep everything secure. The fact that a simple program runs on your computer, can have an exploit that will give someone total access because it is root suid, is rediculous. That is why we should try a credibility system like the one in eros os. unfortunately, its not ready for real use yet. maybe we could avoid problems that made 2.2.16 release early.
http://www.fltk.org/.
here is a description from the FAQ:
What is FLTK?
FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a LGPL'd C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X (UNIX®), OpenGL, and WIN32 (Microsoft® Windows® NT 4.0, 95, or 98). It is currently maintained by a small group of developers across the world with a central repository in the US.
How is FLTK Licensed?
FLTK comes with complete free source code. FLTK is available under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. Contrary to popular belief, it can be used in commercial software! (Even Bill Gates could use it.)