I really liked the way the Amiga FS worked. (*ducks*).
Seriously, I liked the organsation of <volume name> :
<directory> /... /
<filename>
the volume name could be any string (within the file name character set, of course).
There are improvements to be made in this, of course -- using more intuitive names would be good
Of course, this is all moot, since linux's filesystem is unix, and will always be unix, but you could add the idea of aliases. When a user goes to a "save" or "load" dialog box, you could give them options like "Home:" and "Desktop:" and "Jim's Home:" or something, like ~ and ~jim, but in English, not UNIX.
I don't think putting the user's home directories at root level is a good idea (consider 2000 users), and I quite like/home/userid, or ~userid. Perhaps someone should write a really cool "Beginners' Interactive Guide to Gnome" that would introduce concepts such as unix fs, etc. Also perhaps now would be a good time to make a new help system, drawing on what has been learnt from the past -- just don't use flipping HTML
To quote a good friend of mine on Windoze's directory layout:
"[what is it with Windows' directories...] 'My Documents', 'My Pictures', 'My Bloody Little Pony'..."
I really like linux (the kernel) and the GNU shell and tools, but X sucks big time. I often boot into runlevel 2 so I don't have to bother with it.
Does anyone know if anyone is trying to make a better graphical display thinguhmajig that actually works, doesn't hog 35% of my RAM and isn't horrible and slow.
That goes for graphical web browsers, too, they all suck. (and yes, I am using Mozilla)
Erm.. as far as I am aware, the chinese version of linux exists today (it uses the CJK unified set so chinese japanese and korean are all supported at once) and when I installed my linux, hindi and arabic, as well as many other languages, were also availabe.
Oh, and SuSE linux supports braille displays for those who are visually impaired.
There is also the problem of attenuation. I'm no electrical engineer, but I recall that whenever a digital signal line changes state, there is a wobble (it doesn't flick immediately). This is something to do with the fourier series.
If this wobble is big enough, and the bits are being read too fast, the following bit can be read during a dip in the wobble and be misinterpretted as the wrong value. (this was, I believe, the original limiting factor in cpus, before heat).
Those who try and get as much as they can for free at the expense of others (Napster etc)
Those who stifle the industry, and try to make money out of their proprietry creations (www.micro$oft.com)
Of course, these are generalisations, and in fact most people lie between these three extremes, but which one do you come closest to? I personally like to think of myself as being nearest to the first.
Pro-life vs. Anti-abortion is not a "semantic" difference.
err.. yes it is.
In one context, pro-life could mean anti-murder. In another context, anti-abortion could mean not stopping print jobs halfway through (called aborting).
Semantics very much depend on the context. Fortunately, as humans, we develop a context from our environment and current affairs, so terms that are in themselves completely meaningless, become meaningful in the current 'social' context.
I am implementing a record database for a hospital radio station.
It uses a Postgres database, and uses libpq++ to connect to it.
The main program itself is C++ with a ncurses interface (no X on the machine).
The coding is *really* lame (I've been doing it in my spare time and haven't put all the effort in I should have). Should I release this code, or should I not bother?
> Microsoft Windows
>
> In Windows 2000 (only, I believe, correct me if
> I'm wrong)
Well... Win 95/98 don't have the IME to begin with, but if you install IE 5 the option is there. Once installed it works fine with Office2k
I did once have a problem where although the IME existed and allowed me to type in kana and kanji, nothing displayed them (I just got little black boxes). Then, suddenly it randomly fixed itself.
Oh, and the IME only seems to come with certain versions of IE 5 (5.0 and 5.5 but not 5.01 or something like that!!).
What is more concerning is that data that other companies hold about you, and keep encrypted for your own privacy (and under the Data Protection Act) would be in effect forced to disclose your personal information to the authorities.
I'm concerned over the implications and contradictions with the DPA. Could anyone with more knowledge of British law throw any light on the subject.
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I really liked the way the Amiga FS worked. (*ducks*).
Seriously, I liked the organsation of <volume name> : <directory> / ... /
<filename>
the volume name could be any string (within the file name character set, of course).
There are improvements to be made in this, of course -- using more intuitive names would be good
Of course, this is all moot, since linux's filesystem is unix, and will always be unix, but you could add the idea of aliases. When a user goes to a "save" or "load" dialog box, you could give them options like "Home:" and "Desktop:" and "Jim's Home:" or something, like ~ and ~jim, but in English, not UNIX.
I don't think putting the user's home directories at root level is a good idea (consider 2000 users), and I quite like /home/userid, or ~userid. Perhaps someone should write a really cool "Beginners' Interactive Guide to Gnome" that would introduce concepts such as unix fs, etc. Also perhaps now would be a good time to make a new help system, drawing on what has been learnt from the past -- just don't use flipping HTML
To quote a good friend of mine on Windoze's directory layout:
What you want is the Linux Progress Patch, my friend.
What about UCS?
Support for up to 31bits per character and backwardly compatible with UTF-8
0x00000000 - 0x0000007F: 0xxxxxxx
0x00000080 - 0x000007FF: 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx
0x00000800 - 0x0000FFFF: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
0x00010000 - 0x001FFFFF: 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
0x00200000 - 0x03FFFFFF: 111110xx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
0x04000000 - 0x7FFFFFFF: 1111110x 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
This still leaves us with 0xFF and 0xFE as escape characters!
or M-XINU? (hint: read backwards)
Ever seen the voyager episode "Future's End"?
If you have, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't -- go watch it now!
> Mozy baby is only at 0.8.1, and I imagine she'll be oh-so-near perfect by 1.0.
Which will be in 2010 or so. I'd like a usable browser NOW, thanks.
Moz is usable now. By 1.0 it should be pretty darn good.
Besides, I'm convinced that any decent web browser would reduce to the Halting Problem.
I so agree with this.
I really like linux (the kernel) and the GNU shell and tools, but X sucks big time. I often boot into runlevel 2 so I don't have to bother with it.
Does anyone know if anyone is trying to make a better graphical display thinguhmajig that actually works, doesn't hog 35% of my RAM and isn't horrible and slow.
That goes for graphical web browsers, too, they all suck. (and yes, I am using Mozilla)
Erm.. as far as I am aware, the chinese version of linux exists today (it uses the CJK unified set so chinese japanese and korean are all supported at once) and when I installed my linux, hindi and arabic, as well as many other languages, were also availabe.
Oh, and SuSE linux supports braille displays for those who are visually impaired.
There is also the problem of attenuation. I'm no electrical engineer, but I recall that whenever a digital signal line changes state, there is a wobble (it doesn't flick immediately). This is something to do with the fourier series.
If this wobble is big enough, and the bits are being read too fast, the following bit can be read during a dip in the wobble and be misinterpretted as the wrong value. (this was, I believe, the original limiting factor in cpus, before heat).
It seems to me there are three types of people on the internet:
Of course, these are generalisations, and in fact most people lie between these three extremes, but which one do you come closest to? I personally like to think of myself as being nearest to the first.
Pro-life vs. Anti-abortion is not a "semantic" difference.
err.. yes it is.
In one context, pro-life could mean anti-murder. In another context, anti-abortion could mean not stopping print jobs halfway through (called aborting).
Semantics very much depend on the context. Fortunately, as humans, we develop a context from our environment and current affairs, so terms that are in themselves completely meaningless, become meaningful in the current 'social' context.
Here's a question...
I am implementing a record database for a hospital radio station.
It uses a Postgres database, and uses libpq++ to connect to it.
The main program itself is C++ with a ncurses interface (no X on the machine).
The coding is *really* lame (I've been doing it in my spare time and haven't put all the effort in I should have). Should I release this code, or should I not bother?
> Microsoft Windows
>
> In Windows 2000 (only, I believe, correct me if
> I'm wrong)
Well... Win 95/98 don't have the IME to begin with, but if you install IE 5 the option is there. Once installed it works fine with Office2k
I did once have a problem where although the IME existed and allowed me to type in kana and kanji, nothing displayed them (I just got little black boxes). Then, suddenly it randomly fixed itself.
Oh, and the IME only seems to come with certain versions of IE 5 (5.0 and 5.5 but not 5.01 or something like that!!).
I think Windows 286 was windows 2.1, which had two versions: one for the 286 and one enhanced for the new 386 processer
What is more concerning is that data that other companies hold about you, and keep encrypted for your own privacy (and under the Data Protection Act) would be in effect forced to disclose your personal information to the authorities.
I'm concerned over the implications and contradictions with the DPA. Could anyone with more knowledge of British law throw any light on the subject.