Re:GNOME, Ubuntu, and the colour green...
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(Replying to myself, mumble mumble)
I've done some research, and apparently the screenshot is from a Gnome showcase Linux distribution, Foresight Linux. It seems a nice green theme with that green wallpaper is the default on this distribution.
Now I'm tempted to download and try it out if only for extracting the wallpaper file:). But it seems they have some other nice thing going for them, like a new package management tool.
Re:I can't feel any responsiveness improvements.
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But it's not really cluttered; everything you see on that screen does something important. You could certainly have a more minimalist-looking editor, but if you wanted to keep the same level of functionality, you'd end up having to learn a lot of keystrokes and/or master a complex menu structure.
I think you demonstrate exactly the point I was trying to make about the KDE app design philosophy. Apparently you like this design philosophy, "Everything does something important (so it is needed on the screen)". Personally, I am not a fan. I prefer but the most basic options to be tucked away into organized menues where I can find them when I need them, but where they do not distract me when I am doing other things.
Re:GNOME, Ubuntu, and the colour green...
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I'm looking at this screenshot and thinking that it looks quite good.
I like it too. Does anyone know where one can find that specific wallpaper?
Re:I can't feel any responsiveness improvements.
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honestly, KDE's configurability just scares me.
I'm also a GNOME user, but I think it is not so much the configurability of KDE in itself that scares me. My issue with KDE is that its apps seems to be designed around the idea that every functionality has to be provided by its own widget in the main window. To do this they squeze the UI to a massive cludge of tiny non-descript icon toolbars and usually more than one rows of tabs, some of them vertical. For example, just look at this screenshot of the text editor Kate.
I just have to astroturf a site I have helped startup recently, since it is very much on topic. http://www.anytist.com/ It provides an extremely easy way for artists to sell music to their fans witout DRM.
Why doesn't Steve open up the iTunes store to indies?
Then use an alternative to iTunes! There are a number of alternatives which makes it easy for indie artists to sell non-drm mp3 files with no requirements of exclusivity or other fishy business. For example, I have been involved in a recent startup of such a website, Anytist.
So far no one has ever been able to create a document in MS WOrd that is 100% platform interchangable.
LaTeX uses its own internal floating-point emulation based on integers to ensure the output will look exactly the same everywhere. Now, *that* is to think ahead.
I got the british tv-series the IT crowd season 1 DVD for christmas. While the series sadly diverge away from technical jokes pretty fast, the first two episodes are comedy gold for anyone who works/has worked in a support/IT-setting, and surprisingly accurate on technical details. Furthermore, the DVD has retro-looking menues and '1337 subtitles' with lots of nerd humor. This is the first time *ever* I feel DVD menus has enhanced a DVD (you have to see it to understand...) I warmly recommend this series.
Can someone who knows about this tell me if the textures, art, and models are included in open-sourcing this? Preferably in a commerical-use-friendly license? Because then I would absolutely consider donating.
A large library of free 3d-models with textures would be incredibly useful as a starting library for other open-source engine projects.
Instead, AMD is counting on Accelerated Processing Units, chips that mix and match general-purpose CPU cores with dedicated application processors for graphics and other tasks.
Wasn't this more or less exactly how the Amiga worked? I think you are right about 'same old'...
I agree that connecting video games and 'training to pull the trigger' does not prove that video games turns someone into a more violent person. However, as usual, you cannot argue general principles by giving circumstantial evidence (even when the evidence involves yourself...). Furthermore, you might be joking or something, because I just don't see how these statements work together:
... Since then I have managed to defend myself from every other engagement with another human without causing them any harm whatsoever.
The Army is my job, sometimes we engage and fire on the enemy..
So you fire weapons at people, but have never hit anyone? Or what? Does that really make you a non-violent person?
I'd love to see a package that acts as both a CalDAV server, but also gives you the ability to view and edit the calendars via a nice looking web-interface as well.
Actually, I think the UNIXy way of doing this would be to get a web interface that connects to any generic CalDAV server. Just like e.g. squirrelmail uses a regular IMAP connection.
I tried to find some such calender web interface about a year ago, but with no luck. Has anyone seen anything like that?
But, what sucks very much is that the last Win4Lin kernel I can use is mated to 2.6.8, and that means I cannot run it in Mandriva 2007 Free, which uses 2.6.17
Isn't win4lin basically just qemu + kqemu? Can you not just download the relevant versions of the two packages from the qemu home page, http://www.qemu.org/ and compile them for whatever kernel you want? ./configure; make; make install
But I admit I have no idea if there was a version of kqemu that properly supported Win98. But then again, do you really need kqemu? If "Lotus SmartSuite" did run on 10x slower machines back in the days when Win98 was fresh, I don't see why it wouldn't be "snappy" enough under regular qemu on a modern machine.
"Why did they call it Street Fighter if they're in the jungle all the time?"
Kind of reminds me of my first impression of Uwe Boll's "Alone in the Dark". One of the first scenes shows the lead character hunting some kind of demon over a crowded square in broad daylight...
Then you are assuming that nobody could have a legitimate claim aginst Spamhaus, worthy of a lawsuit.
No, I am not. I use spamassassins feature to tag emails with a spam probability, so I am only assuming that the fact that they have sued to get off the lists strongly correlates with me not being intrested in their emails. This is the same thing I assume for emails repetedly mentioning e.g. viagra. I don't assume that nobody ever could have a legitimate discussion of viagra, just that if they do, they better not do it in a spammy-looking way.
And if this assumed correlation is not valid for your email traffic, just don't use the "removed due to lawsuit"-list for email filtering.
Imagine person A dislikes person B. Person A has access to a massive amount of hacked broadband computers. He does not use these computers for something 'bad' in the normal sense (no spamming etc.). He furthermore runs a modifid ThreatNet software on these hacked systems to act as usual, but also to mark and propagate 'B' as bad.
You are 'B'. How would you protect yourself against this attack?
Do you think burglary victims should be fined for being the victims of a crime?
Actually, at least in my home country (Sweden), they already are: for example if a burglar gets access to wepons that should have been stored in a more secure way (usually a specific locked cabinet) they can be found guilty for this. I belive that is a reasonable law.
However, I didn't say that I want to punish clueless computer users. I just want fewer hacked systems on the Internet becuase I belive that is the only way we eventually can get rid of spam.
The blame rests with the spammers, period.
And the blame for murder lies with murderes. But that does not mean that we shouldn't take steps to prevent neither murder, nor spamming.
And yes, I have worked for an ISP in the same position as you are in. The choice we had was between:
1. Review the documentation and decide that the price for breaking the contract was much lower then the price for supporting spam
2. Don't do anything untill they escalate (effectively just delaying the issue)
3. Don't do anything at all
How about putting into your contract with your customers that engaging in activities that gets them onto well known public email blacklists are defined as spamming, and if they do so, they will have to resolve the issue with the blacklist, or are otherwise in violation of the 'no-spaming' clause of the contract?
Just have a "cut me off after $5/month" plan. Few use 500 emails per month.
Right; I don't debate that this is another solution that makes it harder for spammers to operate. I'm just saying that the spammers will adapt and make more use of the huge number of online identities they have accumulated. Basically, as long as they control a victims computer they can at least always do as much harm as that individual user could do himself;
500 email per month on millions of hacked computers still allows for a lot of spam.
The victim likely has email through some other means than his ISP. 500 emails at hotmail? Spam! Does he connect via VLAN to work? SPAM!
The victim likely has an IM service to freely communicate with his closests friends. SPAM THOSE SUCKERS!
Does the victim use one of the biggest ISPs? Lets send in an reqest for an upgraded email plan for him!
Can his credit cards be snooped? Lets sign him up for a 3:d party email service [1].
etc, etc...
[1] If the attacker has a credit card number, why not just steal the victims money? Normal CC fraud can be traced, but to order a service for the victims own computer from the same computer should be nearly impossible to trace to someone else...
Why don't spamhaus just remove the e360 adresses from their regular spam lists and add them to a new list named "addresses no longer blacklisted becuase we were sued and ordered to remove them"?
That list would then serve as a perfect permanent black list for all sysadmins who happen to think that people who sue spam lists might not be the kind of people who send worthwhile emails.
I would actually recommend even higher priority to that list in the spamassassin config file than spamhaus' regular blacklists:)...
Easy. We just need to set up a protocol where an ISP is charged $0.01 per email sent. That will kill the spammers without having any real effect on people sending email.
Actually, the problem is not this simple. Spammers today send their emails from millions of hacked computers worldwide. They will just continue to do so, and these charges will drop on the clueless users whose computers are used to send the emails.
As long as computer security is as bad as it is today, there just is no easy solution to spam. All hyper-clever ideas about encrypted network id:s, black and whitelists, hashcash, etc, are just temporary solutions --- they only serve to drive the spammer to more intensly use the fact that a hacked computer also gives access to an online identity.
It's funny how the similar the extremes of the political spectrum are. The further to the left or right you go, the more you have in common with the guy at the other end.
True, to me the political scale appears more like a circle.
If you go far into fundamental capitalism you basically have no government. Daycare, school, fire departments, and police etc. are handled by companies. Since there will be no rules against monopolies, large companies will take over all markets; and thus, you end up with only one large body, "the company", that provides you with work and in exchange handles your needs.
If you go far into communism, there will be no companies. There will only be one large body, "the government", that provides you with work and in exchange handles your needs.
These two extreems indeed appears as identical to me.
Thanks Håkon for answering my quesition!; Also for me asking about people having trouble with CSS layout he mentioned CSS tables as a "solution". While proper support for display: table would counter people shouting "html-tables were better for layout than divs", wouldn't that still be a step backward?
Please do not confuse HTML tables with CSS tables. They are totally different things, and the arguments against "table layouts" are specifically targeted at HTML tables and not CSS tables.
I'm not so sure. I've seen people arguing that a proper div-based layout degrades better for small screens and non-visual devices. I think those arguments would still hold true for divs with display: table. I still think new layout sematics are needed, embedded in CSS or not.
I like the idea of an 'advanced layout' module in CSS3, but the suggested syntax (describing layout in a string that represents a template) looks a bit like a hack...
If you were allowed (perhaps by court order, which wouldn't be unthinkable) to force Microsoft to do one (1) change in Internet Explorer, what would that be?
Slashdot Mirror
(Replying to myself, mumble mumble)
:). But it seems they have some other nice thing going for them, like a new package management tool.
I've done some research, and apparently the screenshot is from a Gnome showcase Linux distribution, Foresight Linux. It seems a nice green theme with that green wallpaper is the default on this distribution.
Now I'm tempted to download and try it out if only for extracting the wallpaper file
But it's not really cluttered; everything you see on that screen does something important. You could certainly have a more minimalist-looking editor, but if you wanted to keep the same level of functionality, you'd end up having to learn a lot of keystrokes and/or master a complex menu structure.
I think you demonstrate exactly the point I was trying to make about the KDE app design philosophy. Apparently you like this design philosophy, "Everything does something important (so it is needed on the screen)". Personally, I am not a fan. I prefer but the most basic options to be tucked away into organized menues where I can find them when I need them, but where they do not distract me when I am doing other things.
I'm looking at this screenshot and thinking that it looks quite good.
I like it too. Does anyone know where one can find that specific wallpaper?
honestly, KDE's configurability just scares me.
I'm also a GNOME user, but I think it is not so much the configurability of KDE in itself that scares me. My issue with KDE is that its apps seems to be designed around the idea that every functionality has to be provided by its own widget in the main window. To do this they squeze the UI to a massive cludge of tiny non-descript icon toolbars and usually more than one rows of tabs, some of them vertical. For example, just look at this screenshot of the text editor Kate.
I just have to astroturf a site I have helped startup recently, since it is very much on topic.
http://www.anytist.com/
It provides an extremely easy way for artists to sell music to their fans witout DRM.
Why doesn't Steve open up the iTunes store to indies?
Then use an alternative to iTunes! There are a number of alternatives which makes it easy for indie artists to sell non-drm mp3 files with no requirements of exclusivity or other fishy business. For example, I have been involved in a recent startup of such a website, Anytist.
So far no one has ever been able to create a document in MS WOrd that is 100% platform interchangable.
LaTeX uses its own internal floating-point emulation based on integers to ensure the output will look exactly the same everywhere. Now, *that* is to think ahead.
I got the british tv-series the IT crowd season 1 DVD for christmas. While the series sadly diverge away from technical jokes pretty fast, the first two episodes are comedy gold for anyone who works/has worked in a support/IT-setting, and surprisingly accurate on technical details. Furthermore, the DVD has retro-looking menues and '1337 subtitles' with lots of nerd humor. This is the first time *ever* I feel DVD menus has enhanced a DVD (you have to see it to understand...) I warmly recommend this series.
Can someone who knows about this tell me if the textures, art, and models are included in open-sourcing this? Preferably in a commerical-use-friendly license? Because then I would absolutely consider donating.
A large library of free 3d-models with textures would be incredibly useful as a starting library for other open-source engine projects.
Instead, AMD is counting on Accelerated Processing Units, chips that mix and match general-purpose CPU cores with dedicated application processors for graphics and other tasks.
Wasn't this more or less exactly how the Amiga worked? I think you are right about 'same old'...
I agree that connecting video games and 'training to pull the trigger' does not prove that video games turns someone into a more violent person. However, as usual, you cannot argue general principles by giving circumstantial evidence (even when the evidence involves yourself...). Furthermore, you might be joking or something, because I just don't see how these statements work together:
... Since then I have managed to defend myself from every other engagement with another human without causing them any harm whatsoever.
The Army is my job, sometimes we engage and fire on the enemy..
So you fire weapons at people, but have never hit anyone? Or what? Does that really make you a non-violent person?
I'd love to see a package that acts as both a CalDAV server, but also gives you the ability to view and edit the calendars via a nice looking web-interface as well.
Actually, I think the UNIXy way of doing this would be to get a web interface that connects to any generic CalDAV server. Just like e.g. squirrelmail uses a regular IMAP connection.
I tried to find some such calender web interface about a year ago, but with no luck. Has anyone seen anything like that?
But, what sucks very much is that the last Win4Lin kernel I can use is mated to 2.6.8, and that means I cannot run it in Mandriva 2007 Free, which uses 2.6.17
./configure; make; make install
Isn't win4lin basically just qemu + kqemu? Can you not just download the relevant versions of the two packages from the qemu home page, http://www.qemu.org/ and compile them for whatever kernel you want?
But I admit I have no idea if there was a version of kqemu that properly supported Win98. But then again, do you really need kqemu? If "Lotus SmartSuite" did run on 10x slower machines back in the days when Win98 was fresh, I don't see why it wouldn't be "snappy" enough under regular qemu on a modern machine.
"Why did they call it Street Fighter if they're in the jungle all the time?"
Kind of reminds me of my first impression of Uwe Boll's "Alone in the Dark". One of the first scenes shows the lead character hunting some kind of demon over a crowded square in broad daylight...
For example, Ie running in protected does not have access to the majority of documents in the users home folder. What Linux browser can claim that?
:-)
sudo su nobody -c firefox
Then you are assuming that nobody could have a legitimate claim aginst Spamhaus, worthy of a lawsuit.
No, I am not. I use spamassassins feature to tag emails with a spam probability, so I am only assuming that the fact that they have sued to get off the lists strongly correlates with me not being intrested in their emails. This is the same thing I assume for emails repetedly mentioning e.g. viagra. I don't assume that nobody ever could have a legitimate discussion of viagra, just that if they do, they better not do it in a spammy-looking way.
And if this assumed correlation is not valid for your email traffic, just don't use the "removed due to lawsuit"-list for email filtering.
Since you seem to be asking for feedback:
Imagine person A dislikes person B. Person A has access to a massive amount of hacked broadband computers. He does not use these computers for something 'bad' in the normal sense (no spamming etc.). He furthermore runs a modifid ThreatNet software on these hacked systems to act as usual, but also to mark and propagate 'B' as bad.
You are 'B'. How would you protect yourself against this attack?
Do you think burglary victims should be fined for being the victims of a crime?
Actually, at least in my home country (Sweden), they already are: for example if a burglar gets access to wepons that should have been stored in a more secure way (usually a specific locked cabinet) they can be found guilty for this. I belive that is a reasonable law.
However, I didn't say that I want to punish clueless computer users. I just want fewer hacked systems on the Internet becuase I belive that is the only way we eventually can get rid of spam.
The blame rests with the spammers, period.
And the blame for murder lies with murderes. But that does not mean that we shouldn't take steps to prevent neither murder, nor spamming.
And yes, I have worked for an ISP in the same position as you are in. The choice we had was between:
1. Review the documentation and decide that the price for breaking the contract was much lower then the price for supporting spam
2. Don't do anything untill they escalate (effectively just delaying the issue)
3. Don't do anything at all
How about putting into your contract with your customers that engaging in activities that gets them onto well known public email blacklists are defined as spamming, and if they do so, they will have to resolve the issue with the blacklist, or are otherwise in violation of the 'no-spaming' clause of the contract?
Right; I don't debate that this is another solution that makes it harder for spammers to operate. I'm just saying that the spammers will adapt and make more use of the huge number of online identities they have accumulated. Basically, as long as they control a victims computer they can at least always do as much harm as that individual user could do himself;
etc, etc...
[1] If the attacker has a credit card number, why not just steal the victims money? Normal CC fraud can be traced, but to order a service for the victims own computer from the same computer should be nearly impossible to trace to someone else...
Why don't spamhaus just remove the e360 adresses from their regular spam lists and add them to a new list named "addresses no longer blacklisted becuase we were sued and ordered to remove them"?
:)...
That list would then serve as a perfect permanent black list for all sysadmins who happen to think that people who sue spam lists might not be the kind of people who send worthwhile emails.
I would actually recommend even higher priority to that list in the spamassassin config file than spamhaus' regular blacklists
Easy. We just need to set up a protocol where an ISP is charged $0.01 per email sent. That will kill the spammers without having any real effect on people sending email.
Actually, the problem is not this simple. Spammers today send their emails from millions of hacked computers worldwide. They will just continue to do so, and these charges will drop on the clueless users whose computers are used to send the emails.
As long as computer security is as bad as it is today, there just is no easy solution to spam. All hyper-clever ideas about encrypted network id:s, black and whitelists, hashcash, etc, are just temporary solutions --- they only serve to drive the spammer to more intensly use the fact that a hacked computer also gives access to an online identity.
It's funny how the similar the extremes of the political spectrum are. The further to the left or right you go, the more you have in common with the guy at the other end.
True, to me the political scale appears more like a circle.
If you go far into fundamental capitalism you basically have no government. Daycare, school, fire departments, and police etc. are handled by companies. Since there will be no rules against monopolies, large companies will take over all markets; and thus, you end up with only one large body, "the company", that provides you with work and in exchange handles your needs.
If you go far into communism, there will be no companies. There will only be one large body, "the government", that provides you with work and in exchange handles your needs.
These two extreems indeed appears as identical to me.
Thanks Håkon for answering my quesition!;
Also for me asking about people having trouble with CSS layout he mentioned CSS tables as a "solution". While proper support for display: table would counter people shouting "html-tables were better for layout than divs", wouldn't that still be a step backward?
Please do not confuse HTML tables with CSS tables. They are totally different things, and the arguments against "table layouts" are specifically targeted at HTML tables and not CSS tables.
I'm not so sure. I've seen people arguing that a proper div-based layout degrades better for small screens and non-visual devices. I think those arguments would still hold true for divs with display: table. I still think new layout sematics are needed, embedded in CSS or not.
I like the idea of an 'advanced layout' module in CSS3, but the suggested syntax (describing layout in a string that represents a template) looks a bit like a hack...
If you were allowed (perhaps by court order, which wouldn't be unthinkable) to force Microsoft to do one (1) change in Internet Explorer, what would that be?
....
:-)
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