Not only that, but you can easily create new View Profiles (in Konqueror's Window menu) that do remember the window size, sidebar, etc. I've been using that for exactly what you describe-- I have a profile for my music folder and a profile for my home directory.
I agree-- it seems like they need a real P2P system for this to work. A better approach might be a distributed hashtable system, like the ones at IRIS which just got a large grant from the NSF. I posted a message to OSAF's dev mailing list to see if they would be interested in considering this approach.
I'm running a pretty standard RH 7.3, and the CTRL+ALT+Plus and CTRL+ALT+Minus seem to work fine for me. Try adding a line like the following to the "Screen" section of your/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file:
Re:.NET not smacking Sun hard enough. Bummer
on
Java v. .Net?
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
Sun is going to have to come to their senses
about this relatively soon. Resting on their
laurels while MS funds a massive marketing
strategy could end up crushing Java-- remember
that almost everything MS is touting about.NET
has already been in Java for a long time, but
they're not treating it as a "better Java", but
as something completely new. (Those tricky
thieves...)
The article suggests that Sun should focus on
training more developers. As a student raised
on Java, I think they're already in a good position
here, but MS is currently on a push to get.NET
taught at many of the elite universities as well.
Doing some things better than Java (with a
decade of hindsight) gives them an edge here...
Now's a perfect time for Sun to reinvent Java
a bit. Things like generics and the tail call
optimization, for the researchers, but more
importantly, a general push to the public again.
Face it, there wasn't much fanfare when Java
1.4 was released. It's time to get excited
about it again, is Java is going to hold out...
At Rice, I'm seeing Microsoft's effort first hand--
they're sponsoring a.NET tutorial all day this
Thursday and Friday for some profs and students
in the Comp department. The department seems
to be interested whether.NET has useful aspects
for teaching, but most opinions I've heard are
that C# and the like are still too brain-damaged
to use (no dynamic inner classes?), though
a lot of issues could be fixed trivially in the compiler.
But not only is both the department and university
deeply rooted in Unix (especially for Comp classes),
we're already incorporating Open Source directly
in the curriculum.
In a software engineering course I'm in right now,
we're using Sourceforge to develop
DrJava,
a GPL'd Java development environment that is
particularly useful for teaching beginners.
We're seeing that open source and extreme
programming (complete unit tests, rapid releases,
etc) are a very effective approach towards
building software-- and Microsoft isn't about
to woo us away from that with money. I expect
that any use of.NET here (if there is any) will be
strictly complimentary to our existing approaches.
Granted that extreme programming is quite a buzz term that can be used overzealously, I've actually found that pair programming is very effective. Last semester I had a programming languages course in which we wrote several versions of an interpreter, and we were required to use pair programming. My partner and I caught almost all the little bugs that usually pop up as we went, and we found it much easier to get past places where we were stuck, since we were both thinking about the same thing and could discuss it without one of us having to catch up. Without saying anything about the other hyped aspects of extreme programming, I think this is definitely one simple technique which can help turn out better quality software projects.
Sounds a lot like the "PayPal Tip Jar" icon I've seen on a few sites (like Mikodocs Guide to HTML)... Doubt that will keep Amazon's hunger for patents at bay, though. Either way, it's a really good idea and I hope to see it on more sites-- I know I would use it.
It seems like a lot of universities are now starting to support Linux. Rice University has just adopted support for Red Hat 6.1 on university owned PCs, also offering to help students with installation, troubleshooting, and applications. There's a page announcing their support at http://www.rice.edu/Computer/News/linux.shtml.
This is all very exciting-- I'm sure a University distro would appeal to a lot of schools...
Slashdot Mirror
You can read more details in the MSR article. The paper (to appear at OSDI) is here: http://research.microsoft.com/research/shield/pape rs/bshield.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/research/shield/pape rs/bshield.pdf
Also, this work will appear in OSDI (an operating systems conference) in November.
Not only that, but you can easily create new View Profiles (in Konqueror's Window menu) that do remember the window size, sidebar, etc. I've been using that for exactly what you describe-- I have a profile for my music folder and a profile for my home directory.
I agree-- it seems like they need a real P2P system for this to work. A better approach might be a distributed hashtable system, like the ones at IRIS which just got a large grant from the NSF. I posted a message to OSAF's dev mailing list to see if they would be interested in considering this approach.
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
(This is on XFree86-4.2.0-8.)
Sounds like someone's trying to avoid a Lone Gunmen... :)
Now THAT's support!
The article suggests that Sun should focus on training more developers. As a student raised on Java, I think they're already in a good position here, but MS is currently on a push to get .NET
taught at many of the elite universities as well.
Doing some things better than Java (with a
decade of hindsight) gives them an edge here...
Now's a perfect time for Sun to reinvent Java a bit. Things like generics and the tail call optimization, for the researchers, but more importantly, a general push to the public again. Face it, there wasn't much fanfare when Java 1.4 was released. It's time to get excited about it again, is Java is going to hold out...
Or maybe AOL Timewarner waited until Mozilla started to reach 1.0 status before starting the switch in AOL... Good move on their part.
But not only is both the department and university deeply rooted in Unix (especially for Comp classes), we're already incorporating Open Source directly in the curriculum. In a software engineering course I'm in right now, we're using Sourceforge to develop DrJava, a GPL'd Java development environment that is particularly useful for teaching beginners. We're seeing that open source and extreme programming (complete unit tests, rapid releases, etc) are a very effective approach towards building software-- and Microsoft isn't about to woo us away from that with money. I expect that any use of .NET here (if there is any) will be
strictly complimentary to our existing approaches.
Granted that extreme programming is quite a buzz term that can be used overzealously, I've actually found that pair programming is very effective. Last semester I had a programming languages course in which we wrote several versions of an interpreter, and we were required to use pair programming. My partner and I caught almost all the little bugs that usually pop up as we went, and we found it much easier to get past places where we were stuck, since we were both thinking about the same thing and could discuss it without one of us having to catch up. Without saying anything about the other hyped aspects of extreme programming, I think this is definitely one simple technique which can help turn out better quality software projects.
Sounds a lot like the "PayPal Tip Jar" icon I've seen on a few sites (like Mikodocs Guide to HTML)... Doubt that will keep Amazon's hunger for patents at bay, though. Either way, it's a really good idea and I hope to see it on more sites-- I know I would use it.
This is all very exciting-- I'm sure a University distro would appeal to a lot of schools...
Charlie Reis