I haven't used Lyx much yet, but couldn't what you desire be accomplished by just allowing the user to enter LaTeX commands by first pressing a special key to open a 'enter command' prompt? LyX lets you see that what you entered makes sense, while editing LaTeX in text editor leaves me guessing whether my input was what I meant.
With the possible exception of the X-ray issue, I point out that the bomb/drug-sniffing equipment is there for precisely that eventuality.
And last time I checked, most airports do not have the handheld bomb detection devices yet. And there are not enough bomb sniffing dogs to go to every airport either. The device is what, $50,000 US? Time for some taiwan copies to hit the market!
Does anyone know if you can get sorceror or gentoo to use the free (personal use) intel (kai) compiler? I know the kernel is gcc-specific, but most other things avoid gcc-isms, right?
So much discussion == Time to update the GPL
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A lot of people here are having trouble seeing what "preferred form" means. That is partly because the GPL never spells it out.
So I suggest to the maintainers of the GPL, the FSF I believe, the slight addition of:
Addendum. Terminology Definitions:
"preferred form for modifications": If a party modifies the product source code and releases their modified form, the "preferred form" is <insert ironclad legal definition of "the code that you hand modify in an editor when making changes, plus any tools that are required to transform the changes into the released product".>
That last part is key. IBM released the jikes compiler along with the parser that was generated by their proprietary parser-generator. So in a great gesture of openness, they released the parser-generator.
Well in PA rates didn't skyrocket....perhaps Cali should have done it right...
Absolutely. But California politicians didn't mind when the big players like Enron played the major part in writing California's deregulation legislation. Want to fix it? Call your purchased senator or congressman and urge them to vote for the McCain-Feingold bill.
While browsing the page for the book, I noticed the author is working on a new lisp dialect called "Arc". I hope they manage to fix the niggling thing that keeps me from really trying Lisp: freely available MATURE cross platform libraries for threads, GUI toolkit, and networking.
Hell, I would settle for just a GUI toolkit!
The "CLIM" (the standard Lisp gui toolkit) has a free implementation, but it is unfinished.
Garnet, has been abandoned by CMU (the developers).
XIT hasn't been modified in 6 years.
Winterp is its own mini-Lisp and is Unix-specific.
Aside from a lack of basic text formatting, he is dead on accurate. Hell, even on something as simple as the compiler that we all had to write back in college, CVS can help track down changes that introduced bugs, and that is without anyone except your sketchy partner being allowed to checkin.
You're assuming that the user is thinking in shell syntax. If you think that "subtract a from b" means "a - b", as any kid hopefully would,
"subtract access from other users and groups"
A UI that doesn't teach or protect or grow the user, is the Windows OS...
That really got me thinking. When coworkers sometimes ask where I learn things about Linux, I'm not sure how to respond because once I got the feel of it, man foo usually has an answer to my problems, but with Windows the "Help" program feels like talking to a tech support person on their first day, reading the idiot list:
Me: How do I cause the system to re-detect a mouse after it has been disconnected and reconnected by a KVM switch?
Support: Reboot, Reinstall driver, Reinstall OS.
Me: Ctrl-Alt-Delete, select "linux" from Grub list.
I got all excited after several of you pointed out that the Recall plugin exists, but no one cared to mention that it is broken by Mozilla versions 0.95 and up,
due to the inclusion of the Tabbed Browsing feature, as discussed in this bug report.
Since I don't want to give up either tabbed browsing or crash recovery, back to Opera for now.
I know, as a programmer I should just do this myself, but I'm a little swamped programming right now.
Mozilla absolutely needs a crash-recovery feature
ala Opera. It will always crash at some point, so why not just track all open Mozilla windows and cache the current (non-ssl) page. When the program starts, default to the same set of pages.
No, but it does make your copy illegal. When I sold some old console games on Ebay I was quite surprised to see that I had to click "Yes, these are real and I'm not a villain".
Re:Well, there is a standard, on Linux anyway.
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I'm honestly curious, you don't seem to like APT, so what is the non-debian apt-get equivalent?
The repeatable Linux crashes when ogg123 -d oss is playing and I load X Windows is on another machine with a Yamaha DSXG using whatever the Yamaha PCI kernel-mode driver for 2.2.19 is, I believe OSS.
I posted a note on debian-user, but no one ever responded.
This will probably fall on deaf ears since everyone seems to keep buying Creative Labs products, but
dammit!
Their drivers are the worst I have ever seen! The SB Live has been out for years now and even their most recent driver still crashes occassionaly under every version of Windows I've tried (98SE, ME, 2000, Windows XP).
Now, before you say this is a flaw in windows, just yesterday my Linux box died twice in quick succession because of a sound driver bug. Every OS has its guts exposed to the hardware drivers.
Mad props. On topic: Why are slashdotters so into TV recording? What are you all watching that is worth the time? I watch the Simpsons on sunday. Half an hour, no Tivo or ReplayTV required!
While I usually avoid responding to Trolls, Return to Castle Wolfenstein already has a 4 compatibility rating, the highest a game can get without being tested by Transgaming themselves.
If a game that came out this month is not 'new' enough for you, then what do you play? Betas?
While underwater encryption is a nifty idea, I would much rather we discuss the US government plans to start using powerful sonar communications that, in test runs, have caused whales to beach with under highly atypical signs of death (the equivalent of bleading ears).
I don't know where you work, but 20 developers is way more than you need.
At my office there's only about 10 developers and we have 3 seperate (successful) product lines that groups of 3 or 4 people devote most of their time to.
And since that article was posted the only substantive change was the addition of an intro graphic announcing that October 22 there would be news!
Book recommends editing in Word
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You know, I just read a somewhat new book about debugging and the author recommends MSWord as a programmer's text editor. That's about when I dropped the book and ran.
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I haven't used Lyx much yet, but couldn't what you desire be accomplished by just allowing the user to
enter LaTeX commands by first pressing a special key to open a 'enter command' prompt? LyX lets you see that what you entered makes sense, while editing LaTeX in text editor leaves me guessing whether my input was what I meant.
With the possible exception of the X-ray issue, I point out that the bomb/drug-sniffing equipment is there for precisely that eventuality.
And last time I checked, most airports do not have the handheld bomb detection devices yet. And there are not enough bomb sniffing dogs to go to every airport either. The device is what, $50,000 US? Time for some taiwan copies to hit the market!
Does anyone know if you can get sorceror or gentoo to use the free (personal use) intel (kai) compiler? I know the kernel is gcc-specific, but most other things avoid gcc-isms, right?
A lot of people here are having trouble seeing what "preferred form" means. That is partly because the GPL never spells it out.
So I suggest to the maintainers of the GPL, the FSF I believe, the slight addition of:
Addendum. Terminology Definitions:
"preferred form for modifications": If a party modifies the product source code and releases their modified form, the "preferred form" is <insert ironclad legal definition of "the code that you hand modify in an editor when making changes, plus any tools that are required to transform the changes into the released product".>
That last part is key. IBM released the jikes compiler along with the parser that was generated by their proprietary parser-generator. So in a great gesture of openness, they released the parser-generator.
Well in PA rates didn't skyrocket....perhaps Cali should have done it right...
Absolutely. But California politicians didn't mind when the big players like Enron played the major part in writing California's deregulation legislation. Want to fix it? Call your purchased senator or congressman and urge them to vote for the McCain-Feingold bill.
I haven't tried any of this yet, but keep in mind that Cygwin has sh, awk and sed and it works just fine under Windows XP.
Now to just download 'arch' and try it all out!
While browsing the page for the book, I noticed the author is working on a new lisp dialect called "Arc". I hope they manage to fix the niggling thing that keeps me from really trying Lisp: freely available MATURE cross platform libraries for threads, GUI toolkit, and networking.
Hell, I would settle for just a GUI toolkit!
The "CLIM" (the standard Lisp gui toolkit) has a free implementation, but it is unfinished.
Garnet, has been abandoned by CMU (the developers).
XIT hasn't been modified in 6 years.
Winterp is its own mini-Lisp and is Unix-specific.
Aside from a lack of basic text formatting, he is dead on accurate. Hell, even on something as simple as the compiler that we all had to write back in college, CVS can help track down changes that introduced bugs, and that is without anyone except your sketchy partner being allowed to checkin.
should be "chmod og - a"
or perhaps I'm thinking too programmerish.
That really got me thinking. When coworkers sometimes ask where I learn things about Linux, I'm not sure how to respond because once I got the feel of it, man foo usually has an answer to my problems, but with Windows the "Help" program feels like talking to a tech support person on their first day, reading the idiot list:
Me: How do I cause the system to re-detect a mouse after it has been disconnected and reconnected by a KVM switch?
Support: Reboot, Reinstall driver, Reinstall OS.
Me: Ctrl-Alt-Delete, select "linux" from Grub list.
Since I don't want to give up either tabbed browsing or crash recovery, back to Opera for now.
Mozilla absolutely needs a crash-recovery feature ala Opera. It will always crash at some point, so why not just track all open Mozilla windows and cache the current (non-ssl) page. When the program starts, default to the same set of pages.
No, but it does make your copy illegal. When I sold some old console games on Ebay I was quite surprised to see that I had to click "Yes, these are real and I'm not a villain".
I'm honestly curious, you don't seem to like APT, so what is the non-debian apt-get equivalent?
The repeatable Linux crashes when ogg123 -d oss is playing and I load X Windows is on another machine with a Yamaha DSXG using whatever the Yamaha PCI kernel-mode driver for 2.2.19 is, I believe OSS.
I posted a note on debian-user, but no one ever responded.
This will probably fall on deaf ears since everyone seems to keep buying Creative Labs products, but
dammit!
Their drivers are the worst I have ever seen! The SB Live has been out for years now and even their most recent driver still crashes occassionaly under every version of Windows I've tried (98SE, ME, 2000, Windows XP).
Now, before you say this is a flaw in windows, just yesterday my Linux box died twice in quick succession because of a sound driver bug. Every OS has its guts exposed to the hardware drivers.
Someone? Are they at least planning a single player binary?
Mad props. On topic: Why are slashdotters so into TV recording? What are you all watching that is worth the time? I watch the Simpsons on sunday. Half an hour, no Tivo or ReplayTV required!
While I usually avoid responding to Trolls, Return to Castle Wolfenstein already has a 4 compatibility rating, the highest a game can get without being tested by Transgaming themselves.
If a game that came out this month is not 'new' enough for you, then what do you play? Betas?
While underwater encryption is a nifty idea, I would much rather we discuss the US government plans to start using powerful sonar communications that, in test runs, have caused whales to beach with under highly atypical signs of death (the equivalent of bleading ears).
Why not just use a program like ZoneAlarm (free)
to block all outgoing network attempts by Windows'
update program?
Everything I've read about modifying the insides of TVs says even days after power is removed they can store a huge amount of charge. Be careful!
Anyone with more solid info care to comment?
I don't know where you work, but 20 developers is way more than you need.
At my office there's only about 10 developers and we have 3 seperate (successful) product lines that groups of 3 or 4 people devote most of their time to.
And since that article was posted the only substantive change was the addition of an intro graphic announcing that October 22 there would be news!
You know, I just read a somewhat new book about debugging and the author recommends MSWord as a programmer's text editor. That's about when I dropped the book and ran.