You could always buy one of their guitars (MusicMan), although they are a bit on the expensive side (I think they only have "artist signature" models). Aside from being ugly, IMHO.
Brasilian money also has a plastic money, currently there is two version of the R$10,00 bill in circulation, one of the is plastic.
Bills which, by the way, are imported from Australia. If I'm not confusing things, the Brazilian central bank buys the bills with all the security features already in place, and only prints the "face value" on them.
Perhaps there is a --konsole-only./configure option for kdelibs that will ONLY compile the konsole ? if there is then for that package they could provide those type granularity and control.
I don't know if it exists, but if Gentoo could provide a way to do that that would work for all packages, it would be nice. Kind of a "USE" flag, but for "components" inside a package. That way I wouldn't need to know how each developer decided to call the configure flag that enables/disables the compilation of that component.
For KDE, for example, it seems that each app has its own directory under the expanded package file tree. It shouldn't be difficult to map that to a "components" list.
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Gentoo has drawn my attention when I first heard of it (it kinda reminds me of the time when I used to use Slackware and compiled everything myself from tarballs), but I don't think I have the time to invest on it... but I've read some of the documentation, and I couldn't find anything about how to control the granularity of the packages.
What I mean is: let's say you're installing KDE and you "emerge" kdeutils. There are lots of applications in that package, but let's say that I only want konsole and a couple of others. Is there an easy way to specify that?
I know that other distros (RedHat, at least) aren't much better in that area, but I use Conectiva at home, and it has a very fine grained package setup. That's one of the things I like about it (aside from the fact that it has a few tweaks that makes it better to use with Brazilian Portuguese).
For instance, I can install only konsole, and only konsole's documentation in Brazilian portuguese. Each single application has its own package and its own documentation packages (one for each language for which it's available). I think that's very cool. Add that to the fact that apt is the standard package manager, and it's a very pleasant system to maintain.
"rpm -qa | grep konsole" brings up: kde-i18n-fr-docs-kdebase-konsole-3.1.1-26675c l konsole-3.1.1-28534cl
So, back to the question: is it possible to do something like that with Gentoo?
Everybody could just save the time and instead of reading Slashdot today, just go to this page and read 10 or so "articles". Works the same...
Re:What if another coutry did the same ?
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Sorry, but I can't help replying to this. When I see someone telling that the US is doing this to protect "the people of Iraq", the only images that flash in my mind are the military dictatorships in Latin America during the 60s/70s/80s.
Specially the ones in Brazil, Argentina and Chile (since I'm Brazilian, those are the one's I'm most familiar with).
You know, these "governments" were heavily supported by the US government. I don't know how much you americans know about what used to happen over there, but I'm sure you have heard of how the football ("soccer" to you) stadiums in Chile were used as mass prisons (and even "Death Rows") for "communists" (basically, people that did not agree with the government). To day, we yet have a countless number of people unaccounted for in Brazil - people that were taken from their houses, taken to government facilities, and tortured, sometimes to death, in "the search for evil and subversive behavior".
And I don't remember any US-led action to end this. Much on the contrary. Guess it was nice to have "someone on your side in the battle against communism", even though this people were killing their own people...
Well, since there seems to be some frequent doubts about our voting system, I'll be wrapping up some of the responses from others. I'm Brazilian also, but I won't be voting on these elections.
(i) This is not a new system
This isn't the first time we're voting electronically. We've been doing this for some years now. It started only in the bigger voting places (like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), and (I can't remember exaclty when) has been extended to (almost) the whole country since the last (2 years ago,, mayors an senate) or second to last (4 years ago, president, governors and senate, just like this one) elections.
Not all votes are electronic. There are some remote places where I'm not sure if it's already electronic, and also votes from Brazilians that reside out of Brazil are still done using paper ballots (AFAIK) and, thus, counted manually. Those are generally the cause the we do not have the final result until the next day (or 2, sometimes), until all the votes arrive from other countries.
If you want to see what it looks like just go to this site and click on the title (light blue, "Teste seu voto online com candidatos fictícios"). It's a Java applet that looks like the voting device. It's slow as hell, but you can get an idea.
(ii) There is a paper backup system
When you vote, your vote is stored in the memory of the voting device, and also printed and stored in a bag attached to the device. In case there are doubts regarding the device, or if it fails in some way, then votes are counted by hand. But, primarily, all votes are counted electronically.
(iii) Voting is mandatory
Yeah, we are obligated to vote. If we do not vote, we have to say why we didn't. If we still do not say why, we lose many civil rights (as has been already pointed out: we cannot get a job - at least not in public services, etc, etc).
If someone does not live in Brazil (like myself) we have two options: vote in a local Brazilian government building (consulate, embassy, etc) or, when back to Brazil, fill some official forms and show proof that you were not in Brazil during the elections. I'm in the second group, since there are no government agencies that I know of around here in Texas. "Foreigners" are only allowed to vote for president (and not for other local authorities).
Here in Brazil the "regular size" meals in fast foods come with 500ml drinks (about 16.9oz according to my HP). But the bigger size you can get your drink is 700ml (23.7oz), and not every place serves that size. "Small" is generally 300ml (~10oz).
In Europe, "regular size" meant 400ml drinks when I was there last May, while small was 250ml. In Japan I can't say because it's been a while since I last was there, but it should be even smaller.
In USA I always get a cup a little too big for my thirst when I order something to drink... unless it's beer (everywhere people prefer the 300-350ml bottles, while in Brazil the 600ml bottles are much more common).
It's relly IE's fault if it happens (can't test now, IE still won't run in my Linux box.). The server reply gives the correct content type for the "image":
$ telnet peterj.freeshell.org 80 Connected to peterj.freeshell.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET/code.jpg HTTP/1.1 Host: peterj.freeshell.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:53:29 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2 Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:26:29 GMT ETag: "d5921-e2-3d0a0b25" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 226 Content-Type: image/jpeg
Anyone with a recent JDK/JRE installed already has the plugin for Mozilla/Netscape and does NOT need to install this package!
I don't know why the installer does not do this automatically if it detects Java, but all you have to do is go to the Mozilla plugins directory and make a symbolic link to the plugin. In the case of JDK 1.4, the plugin resides in ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_o ji140.so (for Linux at least).
In Windows, in some directory that looks like that, there are some dll's you can copy to the Mozilla plugins' folder to make the Java plugin work.
I don't know if any other distribution does this, but Conectiva (www.conectiva.com) has per-application rpms in most cases. So, if you want just the CD player in kdemultimedia, you has to install only kdemultimedia-kscd.
It's really nice, and I hope more dists would do this. SuSE has something similiar, but not for the base packages (e.g., kdemultimedia comes in a big package, but "3rd-party" applications not included in the distribution have their own package and can be installed individually.)
Aside from what has already been said about the sound from vacuum tubes being more "warm", a teacher of mine mentioned once that one other reason musicians like vaccum tubes is that there is no transistor today that can match the signal/noise ratio of a 12AX7 tube. I can't say how much he is right or wrong on this, but he has always worked in the area, so...
A way to delete the contents of the URL bar without destroying the contents of my clipboard. Right now, I copy a URL from somewhere else, then click in the URL bar and hit delete, just to have the contents of the URL bar copied to my clipboard.
Maybe you're using KDE? This is a KDE/Qt bug, not a Mozilla one. Try this: select a URL in a web page (within Mozilla), and hit CTRL+C. Select the content of the URL bar, and hit CTRL+V. Bingo.
Now, if you're using the mouse selection clipboard to do this, it is obvious that when you select the text in the URL bar the clipboard will be overwritten. The bug in KDE/Qt is that is uses the same clipboard for mouse selection and CTRL+C. This is fixed in Qt 3, BTW.
But will they be standardizing the libraries or just the language (and the CLR for that matter)?
The beauty of Java is that you write your code once to a set of libraries that are available on a lot of platforms. Even if you had to recompile the code on each platform, there would be no problems because there's a standard library to which you code.
But, if only C# the language is sent to the ECMA, won't we have another C/C++/ with different features? The code you write will still be specific to the libraries you choose to use (and thus the platforms those libraries are available).
Up until now (at least in my area) the only "advertising" Linux has received has been the mention of Linux...
I don't know if anyone remembers, but IBM has been marketing Linux for some time now. When I was in Boston and San Francisco last July, it was hard to walk a block without seeing a billboard or a bus ad of the "Peace, Love and Linux" campaign, among other stuff from IBM marketing Linux.
I remember even seeing some of these in Toronto...
As it's already been said, Opera in Linux dows not show it at all.:-) Mozilla seems just fine (as there is not point of comparisson to me, I can't say). Konqy hangs (after showing "XML parser error" or something, too bad...
But you don't need to look much to test CSS. Just look at the source: W3C CSS Page. *No* browser shows it correctly... Mozilla (and Netscape after 6.1) are almost there (look at the rounded corners)... Konqy does a good job also. Opera too, but no trasnparent PNGs (at least in Linux).
The only problem with that page is that it kills the performance of older Mozilla browsers (and Netscape 6.2 also). Newer Mozilla builds have a workaround for that in Linux (I don't think they fixed in windows yet). The bug is 98252.
In case you use the *official* Netscape 6.1 release (don't know about 6.0 or 6.01). It is just lame that Mozilla is blocked and Netscape 6.1 is allowed just fine...
Actually, this is the same behaviour they had in their beta page (http://beta.msn.com, nothing to see there now).
I can't say I agree that JSP, ASP, PHP, or any of the *SP family of languages are good design. They encourage exactly the opposite of MVC, they encourage you to mix HTML and (non-display related) programming code.
As it has been pointed out, at least with regards to JSP, "allows" does not mean "encourages". And talking about MVC, you should take a look at one of the many "MVC"-like implementations for Servlet development (be it using JSP or not).
The main problem with the systems right now is that they cannot track only eye movement.
Maybe not all systems, but I'm almost sure there are systems that can track eye movement. I've seen a short documentary with people with ALS (the same disease that Stephen Hawkings has if I'm not mistaken), and they showed Jason Becker, a former guitar player that has this disease and can only move some muscles in his face.
His site does not say much about the equipment he has, but he uses many gadgets that track his eye movements (one of the only parts of his body that he can move) and translate into commands to his computer. Actually, he has produced a lot of music in the last years this way (and you guys should check his material, it *is* awesome).
It's a shame I can't show any more specific links, but maybe serching through his pages you can find something.
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You could always buy one of their guitars (MusicMan), although they are a bit on the expensive side (I think they only have "artist signature" models). Aside from being ugly, IMHO.
But their strings are the best.
Bills which, by the way, are imported from Australia. If I'm not confusing things, the Brazilian central bank buys the bills with all the security features already in place, and only prints the "face value" on them.
I don't know if it exists, but if Gentoo could provide a way to do that that would work for all packages, it would be nice. Kind of a "USE" flag, but for "components" inside a package. That way I wouldn't need to know how each developer decided to call the configure flag that enables/disables the compilation of that component.
For KDE, for example, it seems that each app has its own directory under the expanded package file tree. It shouldn't be difficult to map that to a "components" list.
Gentoo has drawn my attention when I first heard of it (it kinda reminds me of the time when I used to use Slackware and compiled everything myself from tarballs), but I don't think I have the time to invest on it... but I've read some of the documentation, and I couldn't find anything about how to control the granularity of the packages.
c l
What I mean is: let's say you're installing KDE and you "emerge" kdeutils. There are lots of applications in that package, but let's say that I only want konsole and a couple of others. Is there an easy way to specify that?
I know that other distros (RedHat, at least) aren't much better in that area, but I use Conectiva at home, and it has a very fine grained package setup. That's one of the things I like about it (aside from the fact that it has a few tweaks that makes it better to use with Brazilian Portuguese).
For instance, I can install only konsole, and only konsole's documentation in Brazilian portuguese. Each single application has its own package and its own documentation packages (one for each language for which it's available). I think that's very cool. Add that to the fact that apt is the standard package manager, and it's a very pleasant system to maintain.
"rpm -qa | grep konsole" brings up:
kde-i18n-fr-docs-kdebase-konsole-3.1.1-26675
konsole-3.1.1-28534cl
So, back to the question: is it possible to do something like that with Gentoo?
Everybody could just save the time and instead of reading Slashdot today, just go to this page and read 10 or so "articles". Works the same...
Sorry, but I can't help replying to this. When I see someone telling that the US is doing this to protect "the people of Iraq", the only images that flash in my mind are the military dictatorships in Latin America during the 60s/70s/80s. Specially the ones in Brazil, Argentina and Chile (since I'm Brazilian, those are the one's I'm most familiar with). You know, these "governments" were heavily supported by the US government. I don't know how much you americans know about what used to happen over there, but I'm sure you have heard of how the football ("soccer" to you) stadiums in Chile were used as mass prisons (and even "Death Rows") for "communists" (basically, people that did not agree with the government). To day, we yet have a countless number of people unaccounted for in Brazil - people that were taken from their houses, taken to government facilities, and tortured, sometimes to death, in "the search for evil and subversive behavior". And I don't remember any US-led action to end this. Much on the contrary. Guess it was nice to have "someone on your side in the battle against communism", even though this people were killing their own people...
Yeah, also remember not to use 1's too much during an electrical storm... you know, all those pointy edges are a hazard.
I play PC games online all the time, yet I don't think I've ever heard the voice of any people whom I've played against.
Well, maybe you should try Half-Life or any of its mods, since they've had voice comm for quite some time now. Don't know about other games, though.There is a consulate in Houston.
:-)
Too far.
Well, since there seems to be some frequent doubts about our voting system, I'll be wrapping up some of the responses from others. I'm Brazilian also, but I won't be voting on these elections.
(i) This is not a new system
This isn't the first time we're voting electronically. We've been doing this for some years now. It started only in the bigger voting places (like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), and (I can't remember exaclty when) has been extended to (almost) the whole country since the last (2 years ago,, mayors an senate) or second to last (4 years ago, president, governors and senate, just like this one) elections.
Not all votes are electronic. There are some remote places where I'm not sure if it's already electronic, and also votes from Brazilians that reside out of Brazil are still done using paper ballots (AFAIK) and, thus, counted manually. Those are generally the cause the we do not have the final result until the next day (or 2, sometimes), until all the votes arrive from other countries.
If you want to see what it looks like just go to this site and click on the title (light blue, "Teste seu voto online com candidatos fictícios"). It's a Java applet that looks like the voting device. It's slow as hell, but you can get an idea.
(ii) There is a paper backup system
When you vote, your vote is stored in the memory of the voting device, and also printed and stored in a bag attached to the device. In case there are doubts regarding the device, or if it fails in some way, then votes are counted by hand. But, primarily, all votes are counted electronically.
(iii) Voting is mandatory
Yeah, we are obligated to vote. If we do not vote, we have to say why we didn't. If we still do not say why, we lose many civil rights (as has been already pointed out: we cannot get a job - at least not in public services, etc, etc).
If someone does not live in Brazil (like myself) we have two options: vote in a local Brazilian government building (consulate, embassy, etc) or, when back to Brazil, fill some official forms and show proof that you were not in Brazil during the elections. I'm in the second group, since there are no government agencies that I know of around here in Texas. "Foreigners" are only allowed to vote for president (and not for other local authorities).
Well, I think that's pretty much all for now.
Here in Brazil the "regular size" meals in fast foods come with 500ml drinks (about 16.9oz according to my HP). But the bigger size you can get your drink is 700ml (23.7oz), and not every place serves that size. "Small" is generally 300ml (~10oz). In Europe, "regular size" meant 400ml drinks when I was there last May, while small was 250ml. In Japan I can't say because it's been a while since I last was there, but it should be even smaller. In USA I always get a cup a little too big for my thirst when I order something to drink... unless it's beer (everywhere people prefer the 300-350ml bottles, while in Brazil the 600ml bottles are much more common).
Talk about vaporware!
Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills.
Yeah, exactly the opposite of what happens with the british unit system you use. Those are really easy compared to understanding your money...
(For the humour impaired: This is supposed to be sarcastic.)
It's relly IE's fault if it happens (can't test now, IE still won't run in my Linux box.). The server reply gives the correct content type for the "image":
/code.jpg HTTP/1.1
$ telnet peterj.freeshell.org 80
Connected to peterj.freeshell.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET
Host: peterj.freeshell.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:53:29 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2
Last-Modified: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:26:29 GMT
ETag: "d5921-e2-3d0a0b25"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 226
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Anyone with a recent JDK/JRE installed already has the plugin for Mozilla/Netscape and does NOT need to install this package!
o ji140.so (for Linux at least).
I don't know why the installer does not do this automatically if it detects Java, but all you have to do is go to the Mozilla plugins directory and make a symbolic link to the plugin. In the case of JDK 1.4, the plugin resides in ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_
In Windows, in some directory that looks like that, there are some dll's you can copy to the Mozilla plugins' folder to make the Java plugin work.
Blame it on the packagers! :-)
I don't know if any other distribution does this, but Conectiva (www.conectiva.com) has per-application rpms in most cases. So, if you want just the CD player in kdemultimedia, you has to install only kdemultimedia-kscd.
It's really nice, and I hope more dists would do this. SuSE has something similiar, but not for the base packages (e.g., kdemultimedia comes in a big package, but "3rd-party" applications not included in the distribution have their own package and can be installed individually.)
Aside from what has already been said about the sound from vacuum tubes being more "warm", a teacher of mine mentioned once that one other reason musicians like vaccum tubes is that there is no transistor today that can match the signal/noise ratio of a 12AX7 tube. I can't say how much he is right or wrong on this, but he has always worked in the area, so...
A way to delete the contents of the URL bar without destroying the contents of my clipboard. Right now, I copy a URL from somewhere else, then click in the URL bar and hit delete, just to have the contents of the URL bar copied to my clipboard.
Maybe you're using KDE? This is a KDE/Qt bug, not a Mozilla one. Try this: select a URL in a web page (within Mozilla), and hit CTRL+C. Select the content of the URL bar, and hit CTRL+V. Bingo.
Now, if you're using the mouse selection clipboard to do this, it is obvious that when you select the text in the URL bar the clipboard will be overwritten. The bug in KDE/Qt is that is uses the same clipboard for mouse selection and CTRL+C. This is fixed in Qt 3, BTW.
But will they be standardizing the libraries or just the language (and the CLR for that matter)?
The beauty of Java is that you write your code once to a set of libraries that are available on a lot of platforms. Even if you had to recompile the code on each platform, there would be no problems because there's a standard library to which you code.
But, if only C# the language is sent to the ECMA, won't we have another C/C++/ with different features? The code you write will still be specific to the libraries you choose to use (and thus the platforms those libraries are available).
Up until now (at least in my area) the only "advertising" Linux has received has been the mention of Linux...
I don't know if anyone remembers, but IBM has been marketing Linux for some time now. When I was in Boston and San Francisco last July, it was hard to walk a block without seeing a billboard or a bus ad of the "Peace, Love and Linux" campaign, among other stuff from IBM marketing Linux.
I remember even seeing some of these in Toronto...
As it's already been said, Opera in Linux dows not show it at all. :-) Mozilla seems just fine (as there is not point of comparisson to me, I can't say). Konqy hangs (after showing "XML parser error" or something, too bad...
But you don't need to look much to test CSS. Just look at the source: W3C CSS Page. *No* browser shows it correctly... Mozilla (and Netscape after 6.1) are almost there (look at the rounded corners)... Konqy does a good job also. Opera too, but no trasnparent PNGs (at least in Linux).
The only problem with that page is that it kills the performance of older Mozilla browsers (and Netscape 6.2 also). Newer Mozilla builds have a workaround for that in Linux (I don't think they fixed in windows yet). The bug is 98252.
In case you use the *official* Netscape 6.1 release (don't know about 6.0 or 6.01). It is just lame that Mozilla is blocked and Netscape 6.1 is allowed just fine...
Actually, this is the same behaviour they had in their beta page (http://beta.msn.com, nothing to see there now).
I can't say I agree that JSP, ASP, PHP, or any of the *SP family of languages are good design. They encourage exactly the opposite of MVC, they encourage you to mix HTML and (non-display related) programming code.
As it has been pointed out, at least with regards to JSP, "allows" does not mean "encourages". And talking about MVC, you should take a look at one of the many "MVC"-like implementations for Servlet development (be it using JSP or not).
The main problem with the systems right now is that they cannot track only eye movement.
Maybe not all systems, but I'm almost sure there are systems that can track eye movement. I've seen a short documentary with people with ALS (the same disease that Stephen Hawkings has if I'm not mistaken), and they showed Jason Becker, a former guitar player that has this disease and can only move some muscles in his face.
His site does not say much about the equipment he has, but he uses many gadgets that track his eye movements (one of the only parts of his body that he can move) and translate into commands to his computer. Actually, he has produced a lot of music in the last years this way (and you guys should check his material, it *is* awesome).
It's a shame I can't show any more specific links, but maybe serching through his pages you can find something.
That the 2.3 Servlet specification and 1.2 JSP Specification have been released as final.