Whole thing, and especially the image swapping is a kludge, but hey, it works, and looks non-it'y. I don't know CSS worth a crap so it's all done with try-and-error method.
Note that until http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238099 lands to Firefox (in 1.1, probably), this can and probably does affect colors of non-slashdot sites if put into userContent.css, so it's not really anything other than demonstration.
Do you seriously need GTK+ support to get decent fonts?
No. You need GTK+ support to get Mozilla at all, because that's what it uses on *nix. GTK2 just happens to have font support that is light years ahead GTK1 (doh).
You wouldn't suggest someone who "just wants to run Konqueror" to use a version that links against QT1, even if there was a recent one, would you?
Also, I know how to use the menu item that suppresses images from a site. But with flash ads, the menu is short, and doesn't include the "Block images from..." item that GIF and JPEG ads have. So is there a way to do this with flash ads?
In addition to flashblock and other drastic measures recommended (though may be fine for you, sounds you don't like flash at all, non-ads included) Adblock does kind of what the mozilla builtin image blocker does, only it works with _any_ object, as well as supports filtering on regexp or other pattern instead of only domain.
As for the google bar, I wish there was something like you could do in IE, with the help of TweakUI (or the registry if you knew the proper entries. There is the ability in IE to configure a prefix such that when you type it into the address bar (I used to make this the character 'g' for "Google") followed by a space and then a search string you are interested in searching for it would perform a google search.
Well, there is, and has been for a LOOOOONG time. I can't believe you haven't heard of it, especially since it sounds you've been looking for that...
So, I would simply type 'g Search String' (w/o the quotes) into the address bar and results for a google search on 'Search String' would be displayed. It works with quotes to (where you can enter 'g "Search String"' and get the expected behaviour)
It may not be immediately apparent because it's not related in GUI to the address bur, but it's there.
Create a bookmark that points to "http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s", and set the keyword field to g, and it does exactly what you describe, without having to install any pesky third party tools like tweakui, or go digging in the obscure registry.
The right way to do this is to get the HTTP Headers and see what MIME type is being returned by the server.
Which would make it, instead of "mostly useless", though it's pretty useful to me, even for just recognizing mailto and new window links, totally useless (it'd be too slow to be usable), because it would have to do HEAD for every damn href on the page.
Hmm, I decided to try that, but the only copy option is 'copy image location', which copies the URL. This is for both Mozilla and Firefox. I tried dragging and dropping to two different applications. The first application only took the URL, while the second took the image.
It's not quite as handy as what you're describing, but extensions that have (mostly) been designed for pr0n also work somewhat for that with the most common format that has numbered pages in url.
For example magpie lets you specify a part of url (numeric) that changes and go to next/previous with ctrl+shift+x/z
They can't patent the libraries, only ways of implementing the libraries.
In theory, that's the way patent system should work.
In practice, that is NOT how it works, and you know it. They can, and do, patent ideas, not ways of doing them. Oh, sure, that kind of patents would probably get thrown out in court, but it'll still be heck of an expensive lawsuit to go against Microsoft even if you win, which is why nobody wants to take a change of that happening.
find . -name "*.oog" -mtime -7 It actually seems to be easier given that the expression requires fewer keystrokes, and would return a correct result rather than an SQL error.
Well, if you want to go pedantic about typos, no, it wouldn't return anything because the file extension is.ogg.
Do that in the root directory and it'll take ten minutes too, whether it returns anything or not, whereas this kind of db thing would be nigh instant (think locate, only with all the filters you can use with find).
I would say that truth is truth, regardless of whether or not science, or anything else for that matter agree with it.
Of course it is. But if nobody knows the truth, it's all but irrelevant if it is the truth or not. And believing something is true does not make it so, any more than believing something is not true.
I cant even prove that your mind (not brain) exists (I cant see it, touch it or otherwise), so how do I know that you have a mind?
You don't. For all you know, I may not have a mind. For all we know, YOU may not have a mind either, free will may be just an illusion.
I was cheerily talking about fermions - or actually a word which would have encompassed both fermions and bosons, that is, quanta or "elementary particles" depending on excessive latin tolerance - with a wrong name.
To be fair, dpkg and rpm are about equally functional, dpkg still has some stuff rpm does not (recommendations, for example would be quite nice to have), and vice versa.
I don't know about any of you, but the new X fonts look best of those five to me.
OS X is *WAY* too blurry (though it is turned off under a certain size), and Windows is kind of too sharp, X fonts are the perfect compromise between those two extremes.
Make no mistake about it, even though slashdot folks may be excited about translucencies and shadows, there are real technical advancement behind those that not only allow them to happen, but are more advanced than the ones in "the other two desktop operating systems".
And those core architecture changes are certainly not limited to translucency and shadows, in a sense they ARE those "newer things" others are still working on, NOW. You can catch a glimpse even here by browsing the few comments that are more than "whee! transpacenry".
I'm just so glad that you got the point that I made, which was who in their right mind would release screenshots that would risk creating a perceived association between Apple's icon set and XOrg or a desktop environment knowing how rabid apple is about protecting their interfaces.
An user who happens to like Apple's icon set? He may even have a legitimate copy of OS X in which case he's purchased the right to use those icons.
Apple may be rabid, but if they would be so rabid (and stupid, even a child knows those things have been themable for aeons, something visible in a screen shot does not mean they are bundled with the software) that they would go after XOrg, desktop environment or a distro maker because one of their users has the *NERVE* to use icons on his *PERSONAL DESKTOP* they would be laughed off the courd, and rightly so. They'd probably be laughed off even if they went after the invidual user who did this *HORRIBLE* misdeed.
You all noticed it's a troll, you even say it's a bad troll, obviously with zero content, no point or no real criticism, just offensive bullshit.
Yet, you fall to it and feed the moron? Looks like a pretty good troll, or at least a flamebait, to me, they rarely manage to generate this big thread.
It looks cool and all, but theres an even bigger looking one to the left.
Yeah, that's a star. About 11 million light years closer than the supernova. Just to give a hint of a relative brightness...
How exactly can they tell the difference?
Well, dunno, if you don't want to hear anything about doppler and red shift or wavelength, how about the fact that the bright star has been there for as long as we've been looking whereas the supernova just popped to brilliance a few months ago from a location that did not have anything even remotely as bright before?
... how rare this is. The last real supernova was in the constellation Monoceros in the 1980s, and it was the first one since the invention of the telescope. That makes this the second.
I'm assuming you refer to 1987A, though it was not in Monoceros. No, it was not the last real supernova. It was the last one that was near enough to be visible to the naked eye, there have been lots since then, they just tend to be rather far and so dim.
This is brighter than most, which is why it's interesting, but nowhere near being visible to eye.
On a positive note, however, there is one bright spot in northern Europe: Finland is building its 5th reactor in near future (not sure if it's for one of existing 2 plants or a new one... I assume it's the former).
Doh, I was about to correct you that at least one new reactor is being built until I noticed you already mentioned it. And it's indeed the former.
Well, those all all fine but none touches the biggest problem with the drift: why does it always begin at 1420MHz? Especially if it's not intended to us, and even if it is, which is most likely: randomly sweeping telescope looks up at that point of thee sky just as the signal begins, or that it hits it in the middle of transmission?
When body deuterium reaches about 50%, it inhibits mitosis
That's hardly toxic. You'd need to drink nothing but D2O for several days to get anywhere near those levels, and even when it reaches that point, you'd need to spend quite a lot of time, weeks at least, to actually die of cell division failures, and the cure at any point is to simply start drinking water.
It could also be argued you don't actually die of heavy water poisoning, you die because of water deficiency. Is nitrogen toxic because you will suffocate if you don't have an oxygen intake? Are sand and fibers toxic because you die of starvation if you eat only things with no nutritional value whatsoever?
If the nucleus is unaffected then it is a CHEMICAL reaction!
It is a chemical reaction, but that does not mean there is no mass loss. You can't cheat E=mc^2, it doesn't limit itself to nuclear processes, but is true for all forms of energy, mass is energy and energy is mass, if you get an increase of one form of mass-energy, there must be a decrease in another.
There is no practical loss, nothing we could hope to measure, which is why "no mass loss in a chemical reaction" is still useful approximation, just as Newton's calculations are still useful approximation, but a loss there is.
Oh yeah, and then there was this small startup, you may not have heard about them, what was it again... let me think, oh yes, something called "Google".
I expect there to be ample amounts of Spam, Vikings, Spanish Inquisitions, Black Vicars, etc. Happy?
Dunno. Didn't notice any of those, but perhaps they all popped up at your place?
Once people resort to violence as a form of political speech the "point" they really don't deserve anything in return but a bullet in the head.
I agree. When is GWB going to get his bullet? He wreaked revenge on two nations full of people who had nothing to do with it, and still hasn't managed to catch the actual guilty ones, why didn't he attack Saudi-Arabia? Oh, right, they weren't utterly defenceless.
And all the previous US presidents for that matter, what are you still waiting for, when are the executions scheduled?
Or perhaps you meant to say that it's "politics" if you command a big army to do your violence for you, it's "violence" or "terrorism" if you command a slightly smaller army with no high-tech but a shitload of desperation.
It's shameful that Sadr can walk away from the mosque and enter politics after being responsible as the leader of the militia for all the deaths in these clashes.
Yeah, man those muslim politicians, how fricking' utterly EVIL for them to defend their country from hostile invader, who now wants to steal their natural resources to fund their war. It's shameful that Bush can walk away from the war room and enter politics after being responsible as the leader of the military for all the deaths in these clashes.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, yes it does make that possible, because even though Slashdot does not use CSS, CSS can be used to *override* /.'s HTML formatting.
9 lands to Firefox (in 1.1, probably), this can and probably does affect colors of non-slashdot sites if put into userContent.css, so it's not really anything other than demonstration.
See http://www.cc.puv.fi/~e0000274/itslash.png, css code at http://www.cc.puv.fi/~e0000274/slash.css.
Whole thing, and especially the image swapping is a kludge, but hey, it works, and looks non-it'y. I don't know CSS worth a crap so it's all done with try-and-error method.
Note that until http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23809
Do you seriously need GTK+ support to get decent fonts?
No. You need GTK+ support to get Mozilla at all, because that's what it uses on *nix. GTK2 just happens to have font support that is light years ahead GTK1 (doh).
You wouldn't suggest someone who "just wants to run Konqueror" to use a version that links against QT1, even if there was a recent one, would you?
Also, I know how to use the menu item that suppresses images from a site. But with flash ads, the menu is short, and doesn't include the "Block images from ..." item that GIF and JPEG ads have. So is there a way to do this with flash ads?
In addition to flashblock and other drastic measures recommended (though may be fine for you, sounds you don't like flash at all, non-ads included) Adblock does kind of what the mozilla builtin image blocker does, only it works with _any_ object, as well as supports filtering on regexp or other pattern instead of only domain.
As for the google bar, I wish there was something like you could do in IE, with the help of TweakUI (or the registry if you knew the proper entries.
There is the ability in IE to configure a prefix such that when you type it into the address bar (I used to make this the character 'g' for "Google") followed by a space and then a search string you are interested in searching for it would perform a google search.
Well, there is, and has been for a LOOOOONG time. I can't believe you haven't heard of it, especially since it sounds you've been looking for that...
So, I would simply type 'g Search String' (w/o the quotes) into the address bar and results for a google search on 'Search String' would be displayed. It works with quotes to (where you can enter 'g "Search String"' and get the expected behaviour)
It may not be immediately apparent because it's not related in GUI to the address bur, but it's there.
Create a bookmark that points to "http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s", and set the keyword field to g, and it does exactly what you describe, without having to install any pesky third party tools like tweakui, or go digging in the obscure registry.
The right way to do this is to get the HTTP Headers and see what MIME type is being returned by the server.
Which would make it, instead of "mostly useless", though it's pretty useful to me, even for just recognizing mailto and new window links, totally useless (it'd be too slow to be usable), because it would have to do HEAD for every damn href on the page.
Hmm, I decided to try that, but the only copy option is 'copy image location', which copies the URL. This is for both Mozilla and Firefox. I tried dragging and dropping to two different applications. The first application only took the URL, while the second took the image.
3 (bugzilla and slashdot, you know the drill)
BTW this was under MacOS X.
It's there, but the feature currently only exists in Windows version. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21004
Maybe there is an extension to add 'copy image'.
There is that too, from a time it was not a browser feature, perhaps it works in non win32-platforms, perhaps it doesn't.
It's not quite as handy as what you're describing, but extensions that have (mostly) been designed for pr0n also work somewhat for that with the most common format that has numbered pages in url.
For example magpie lets you specify a part of url (numeric) that changes and go to next/previous with ctrl+shift+x/z
They can't patent the libraries, only ways of implementing the libraries.
In theory, that's the way patent system should work.
In practice, that is NOT how it works, and you know it. They can, and do, patent ideas, not ways of doing them. Oh, sure, that kind of patents would probably get thrown out in court, but it'll still be heck of an expensive lawsuit to go against Microsoft even if you win, which is why nobody wants to take a change of that happening.
find . -name "*.oog" -mtime -7
.ogg.
It actually seems to be easier given that the expression requires fewer keystrokes, and would return a correct result rather than an SQL error.
Well, if you want to go pedantic about typos, no, it wouldn't return anything because the file extension is
Do that in the root directory and it'll take ten minutes too, whether it returns anything or not, whereas this kind of db thing would be nigh instant (think locate, only with all the filters you can use with find).
I would say that truth is truth, regardless of whether or not science, or anything else for that matter agree with it.
Of course it is. But if nobody knows the truth, it's all but irrelevant if it is the truth or not. And believing something is true does not make it so, any more than believing something is not true.
I cant even prove that your mind (not brain) exists (I cant see it, touch it or otherwise), so how do I know that you have a mind?
You don't. For all you know, I may not have a mind. For all we know, YOU may not have a mind either, free will may be just an illusion.
You are of course totally correct.
I was cheerily talking about fermions - or actually a word which would have encompassed both fermions and bosons, that is, quanta or "elementary particles" depending on excessive latin tolerance - with a wrong name.
To be fair, dpkg and rpm are about equally functional, dpkg still has some stuff rpm does not (recommendations, for example would be quite nice to have), and vice versa.
I don't know about any of you, but the new X fonts look best of those five to me.
OS X is *WAY* too blurry (though it is turned off under a certain size), and Windows is kind of too sharp, X fonts are the perfect compromise between those two extremes.
Make no mistake about it, even though slashdot folks may be excited about translucencies and shadows, there are real technical advancement behind those that not only allow them to happen, but are more advanced than the ones in "the other two desktop operating systems".
And those core architecture changes are certainly not limited to translucency and shadows, in a sense they ARE those "newer things" others are still working on, NOW. You can catch a glimpse even here by browsing the few comments that are more than "whee! transpacenry".
I'm just so glad that you got the point that I made, which was who in their right mind would release screenshots that would risk creating a perceived association between Apple's icon set and XOrg or a desktop environment knowing how rabid apple is about protecting their interfaces.
An user who happens to like Apple's icon set? He may even have a legitimate copy of OS X in which case he's purchased the right to use those icons.
Apple may be rabid, but if they would be so rabid (and stupid, even a child knows those things have been themable for aeons, something visible in a screen shot does not mean they are bundled with the software) that they would go after XOrg, desktop environment or a distro maker because one of their users has the *NERVE* to use icons on his *PERSONAL DESKTOP* they would be laughed off the courd, and rightly so. They'd probably be laughed off even if they went after the invidual user who did this *HORRIBLE* misdeed.
You all noticed it's a troll, you even say it's a bad troll, obviously with zero content, no point or no real criticism, just offensive bullshit.
Yet, you fall to it and feed the moron? Looks like a pretty good troll, or at least a flamebait, to me, they rarely manage to generate this big thread.
Stop responding to the idiot. Thanks.
It looks cool and all, but theres an even bigger looking one to the left.
Yeah, that's a star. About 11 million light years closer than the supernova. Just to give a hint of a relative brightness...
How exactly can they tell the difference?
Well, dunno, if you don't want to hear anything about doppler and red shift or wavelength, how about the fact that the bright star has been there for as long as we've been looking whereas the supernova just popped to brilliance a few months ago from a location that did not have anything even remotely as bright before?
... how rare this is. The last real supernova was in the constellation Monoceros in the 1980s, and it was the first one since the invention of the telescope. That makes this the second.
I'm assuming you refer to 1987A, though it was not in Monoceros. No, it was not the last real supernova. It was the last one that was near enough to be visible to the naked eye, there have been lots since then, they just tend to be rather far and so dim.
This is brighter than most, which is why it's interesting, but nowhere near being visible to eye.
That's true but it doesn't mean they are not quarks as well.
Leptons are just one family of quarks, the another being fermions.
On a positive note, however, there is one bright spot in northern Europe: Finland is building its 5th reactor in near future (not sure if it's for one of existing 2 plants or a new one... I assume it's the former).
Doh, I was about to correct you that at least one new reactor is being built until I noticed you already mentioned it. And it's indeed the former.
http://www.tvo.fi/362.htm.
Well, those all all fine but none touches the biggest problem with the drift: why does it always begin at 1420MHz? Especially if it's not intended to us, and even if it is, which is most likely: randomly sweeping telescope looks up at that point of thee sky just as the signal begins, or that it hits it in the middle of transmission?
When body deuterium reaches about 50%, it inhibits mitosis
That's hardly toxic. You'd need to drink nothing but D2O for several days to get anywhere near those levels, and even when it reaches that point, you'd need to spend quite a lot of time, weeks at least, to actually die of cell division failures, and the cure at any point is to simply start drinking water.
It could also be argued you don't actually die of heavy water poisoning, you die because of water deficiency. Is nitrogen toxic because you will suffocate if you don't have an oxygen intake? Are sand and fibers toxic because you die of starvation if you eat only things with no nutritional value whatsoever?
If the nucleus is unaffected then it is a CHEMICAL reaction!
It is a chemical reaction, but that does not mean there is no mass loss. You can't cheat E=mc^2, it doesn't limit itself to nuclear processes, but is true for all forms of energy, mass is energy and energy is mass, if you get an increase of one form of mass-energy, there must be a decrease in another.
There is no practical loss, nothing we could hope to measure, which is why "no mass loss in a chemical reaction" is still useful approximation, just as Newton's calculations are still useful approximation, but a loss there is.
When I hear about a site powered by Python
Here you go.
Oh yeah, and then there was this small startup, you may not have heard about them, what was it again... let me think, oh yes, something called "Google".
I expect there to be ample amounts of Spam, Vikings, Spanish Inquisitions, Black Vicars, etc.
Happy?
Dunno. Didn't notice any of those, but perhaps they all popped up at your place?
Once people resort to violence as a form of political speech the "point" they really don't deserve anything in return but a bullet in the head.
I agree. When is GWB going to get his bullet? He wreaked revenge on two nations full of people who had nothing to do with it, and still hasn't managed to catch the actual guilty ones, why didn't he attack Saudi-Arabia? Oh, right, they weren't utterly defenceless.
And all the previous US presidents for that matter, what are you still waiting for, when are the executions scheduled?
Or perhaps you meant to say that it's "politics" if you command a big army to do your violence for you, it's "violence" or "terrorism" if you command a slightly smaller army with no high-tech but a shitload of desperation.
It's shameful that Sadr can walk away from the mosque and enter politics after being responsible as the leader of the militia for all the deaths in these clashes.
Yeah, man those muslim politicians, how fricking' utterly EVIL for them to defend their country from hostile invader, who now wants to steal their natural resources to fund their war. It's shameful that Bush can walk away from the war room and enter politics after being responsible as the leader of the military for all the deaths in these clashes.