At the moment I use gaim. It is very similar to Trillian. However I use use gaim both at home and at work, and therefore I have to spend time adding every buddy twice, and that annoys me. I guess that I can solve this problem with the
unison file syncronizer , but it would rather solve it by convincing my work so set up a Jabber server. In Jabber the buddy list is put in the server, so I only have to add each buddy once. Of course I would feel badly about using a public Jabber server, because I don't want my private messages to go through a server that I cannot trust.
A small correction to correct to the last post. Stable Debian has clients and jabberd (a server), but it has no transports. I can get an account at a Jabber transports at jabber.org, but I don't like my private messages to go through a foreign transport, so I don't use that.
Happily Debian has gaim which allows me to use multiple protocols. As mentioned earlier on slashdot the gaim user interface would probably gain from a visit by the GNOME usability team, but it fulfills my needs so I am happy:)
Another thing we should do is add the regular user created during installation to the 'audio' and 'video' groups, along with installing sudo and setting them up with it by default. Along those lines, it would be good to configure applications such as cd-recording apps to use
gnome-sudo. Anyways, that's all just off the top of my head.
I agree that the report is very well made, and I would wish for more opensource projects to be examined in a similar way (gaim would be an obvious candate).
The report notes that the menus in the Control Center are confusing for a novice, but it does not specifically recommend that a experienced user should not be allowed to tweak the system the way she wants it. Usability for the novice and usability for the expert need not be opposites.
Yesterday I stumbled upon Openoffice.org debs for Debian, and naturally I was very happy, but at the same time I was asking myself: Why are all the new stuff being build off site? Why do I have to add a new adress to my/etc/apt/sources.list everytime I want something new?
I thought that the basic idea behing idea behind the different distributions was that unstable debs should go to sid, stable to woody etc, but now all the new stuff is put in private repositories.
I am very happy with Debian, and I am not writing this to troll, but I don't understand this trend about private repositories. So I was hoping that someone with more insight than me could explain it to me:)
Debian has a very nice howto that tells you how to disable ftp, telnet and some other stuff. But still I would prefer if there was a single install option that allowed me to automatically disable all the potentially insecure services. This way I could avoid the trouble of guessing what to do myself, and i could avoid the chance of making a fatal mistake:)
I own a part of a windturbine in Denmark. This is very nice investment for me, because of the generous subsidies from the danish state. The wind turbine is even insured against lack of wind,so if the wind stops blowing I will still earn my money:)
I believe that the former danish goverment (who wrote the note in question in 1999) thought of the subsidies as a way of supporting to the danish wind turbine industry, and there is no question that the support has helped the danish factories
to sell a lot of wind turbines.
However lately a
report from the danish economic counsel, has concluded that from a pure economical point of view, the subsidies to the wind turbine industry was a bad investment for the danish state.
Nevertheless many danes are very happy about the wind turbines, because we feel very globally conscious:)
The paper is written signed by the minister of environment of the former social democratic gouverment in 1999. The new gouverment (Currently
presidents of the EU) has a very different perspective on the environment. During their first month in power they hired the
infameous
Bjoern
Lomborg
to create a
and
Institute of Environmental assessment
. For further information on Bjørn Lomborg see
here
Gaim seems to support all the protocols you mention. The user interface could do with a little extra polishing, but it is good fun to be able to use all the protocols at the same time.
In Risø Denmark there is a pretty large
research group working on fuel cells. They always planned to sell to industry, but only recently private companies believed so much in the idea that they started to invest large amounts of money
Their website contains some very nice ram files :)
I always wanted a browser that allowed me to do the following with a single keypress 1) Search in page for hyperlink with text containing the word "next".2) Press the button with text containing the word "next". Such a feature would really help a lot when reading documents created by tex2html
Recently I had good fun playing
Runescape
It is somewhat simple, but I like the idea that
you start the game by pressing a button on a webpage. They always have around 5000 people logged in at the same time.
It seems that theyget most of the money from commercials, but you can pay 5$ a month to get a few extra quests and spells. I don't plan to pay extra, but I still have good fun. Have a look at the fan page
too.
Here is a link to a somewhat similar application that may become cheaper to make. The basic idea is to measure infra red light, reflected from a hand. Using several diodes the 3d position of the hand can be meassured. It seems that the system is still under construction:) http://www.beamcontrol.com/spatial_position.html
BTW: I am looking forward to playing 3d Descent rather than 3D ponf once the technology is here
One of the factors is ocean flow. Here is a link to a
german professor that claims that a slight change of temperature will have dramatic effects since it will change the salt concentration in the upper layers of the arctic ocean.
The gulf stream is powered by cold water sinking to the bottom at the arctic ocean, so a slight change in mass density could change the direction of the gulf stream producing an ice age in northern Europe. Have a look at the nice pics.
He are links to two diffenent groups of scientist. They are both somewehat controversial, but I have had much fun reading aboutv their work. Read and judge for yourself.
The danish solar physicist Henrik Svensmark claims that there is a close link between solar activity and cloudforming, which again affects average earth temperature. He finds a nice correlations between temperature and the number of solar spots.
Some of his theories are being tested at
CERN. If I remember correctly the UN climate council has admitted that solar activity was responsible for the rise in temperature in the first half of this century.
The gulf stream is being driven by cold water that sinks in the basin between Greenland and Norway. The german physicist Stefan Rahmstorf claims that when the icecap melts ic creates a layer of freshwather on top of the ocean. This fresh water is so light that eddies do not form, and therefore it does not sink. His simulations showthat this effect can (within 50 years) force the gulf stream turn west outside spain, leaving northern europe very cold. Computer simulatuons may be largely insecure, but I think that he does show a mechanism by which a 2 degree temperature change end up having a dramatic effect on the climate where I live.
BTW: The american oil industry is sponsoring a lot of scientist to work on reports showing that there is no global warming going on, so we have FUD against FUD.
The old classics xpilot and xblast are still alive. I just participated in the official world championships of
xpilot.
The good old game xblast is also still goin strong. They are writing a new client based version, so that you can play international games.
Slashdot Mirror
At the moment I use gaim. It is very similar to Trillian. However I use use gaim both at home and at work, and therefore I have to spend time adding every buddy twice, and that annoys me. I guess that I can solve this problem with the unison file syncronizer , but it would rather solve it by convincing my work so set up a Jabber server. In Jabber the buddy list is put in the server, so I only have to add each buddy once. Of course I would feel badly about using a public Jabber server, because I don't want my private messages to go through a server that I cannot trust.
Happily Debian has gaim which allows me to use multiple protocols. As mentioned earlier on slashdot the gaim user interface would probably gain from a visit by the GNOME usability team, but it fulfills my needs so I am happy :)
I think we all have :)
Another thing we should do is add the regular user created during installation to the 'audio' and 'video' groups, along with installing sudo and setting them up with it by default. Along those lines, it would be good to configure applications such as cd-recording apps to use gnome-sudo. Anyways, that's all just off the top of my head.
NeXT and Aqua are brilliant examples of this :)
I am very happy with Debian, and I am not writing this to troll, but I don't understand this trend about private repositories. So I was hoping that someone with more insight than me could explain it to me :)
Debian has a very nice howto that tells you how to disable ftp, telnet and some other stuff. But still I would prefer if there was a single install option that allowed me to automatically disable all the potentially insecure services. This way I could avoid the trouble of guessing what to do myself, and i could avoid the chance of making a fatal mistake :)
I believe that you misunderstood her. He was referrring to tic tac toe which is easily solved by hand
Is source installation in Debian different from source installation with Sorcerer or Lunar?
I believe that the former danish goverment (who wrote the note in question in 1999) thought of the subsidies as a way of supporting to the danish wind turbine industry, and there is no question that the support has helped the danish factories to sell a lot of wind turbines. However lately a report from the danish economic counsel, has concluded that from a pure economical point of view, the subsidies to the wind turbine industry was a bad investment for the danish state.
Nevertheless many danes are very happy about the wind turbines, because we feel very globally conscious :)
The paper is written signed by the minister of environment of the former social democratic gouverment in 1999. The new gouverment (Currently presidents of the EU) has a very different perspective on the environment. During their first month in power they hired the infameous Bjoern Lomborg to create a and Institute of Environmental assessment . For further information on Bjørn Lomborg see here
Gaim seems to support all the protocols you mention. The user interface could do with a little extra polishing, but it is good fun to be able to use all the protocols at the same time.
In Risø Denmark there is a pretty large research group working on fuel cells. They always planned to sell to industry, but only recently private companies believed so much in the idea that they started to invest large amounts of money Their website contains some very nice ram files :)
I always wanted a browser that allowed me to do the following with a single keypress 1) Search in page for hyperlink with text containing the word "next" .2) Press the button with text containing the word "next". Such a feature would really help a lot when reading documents created by tex2html
It seems that theyget most of the money from commercials, but you can pay 5$ a month to get a few extra quests and spells. I don't plan to pay extra, but I still have good fun. Have a look at the fan page too.
Here is a link to a somewhat similar application that may become cheaper to make. The basic idea is to measure infra red light, reflected from a hand. Using several diodes the 3d position of the hand can be meassured. It seems that the system is still under construction :)
l
http://www.beamcontrol.com/spatial_position.htm
BTW: I am looking forward to playing 3d Descent rather than 3D ponf once the technology is here
Don't tease Britney.She is a very inteligent woman. Have a look at this: Britney Spears guide to Semiconuductor Physics
It seems that I am the only karma whore on the line that still remember about the openracer project:r
1 9&mode=thread
http://moria.mit.edu:8080/wf/dev/systems/OpenRace
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/02/20262
The gulf stream is powered by cold water sinking to the bottom at the arctic ocean, so a slight change in mass density could change the direction of the gulf stream producing an ice age in northern Europe. Have a look at the nice pics.
The danish solar physicist Henrik Svensmark claims that there is a close link between solar activity and cloudforming, which again affects average earth temperature. He finds a nice correlations between temperature and the number of solar spots. Some of his theories are being tested at CERN. If I remember correctly the UN climate council has admitted that solar activity was responsible for the rise in temperature in the first half of this century.
The gulf stream is being driven by cold water that sinks in the basin between Greenland and Norway. The german physicist Stefan Rahmstorf claims that when the icecap melts ic creates a layer of freshwather on top of the ocean. This fresh water is so light that eddies do not form, and therefore it does not sink. His simulations showthat this effect can (within 50 years) force the gulf stream turn west outside spain, leaving northern europe very cold. Computer simulatuons may be largely insecure, but I think that he does show a mechanism by which a 2 degree temperature change end up having a dramatic effect on the climate where I live.
BTW: The american oil industry is sponsoring a lot of scientist to work on reports showing that there is no global warming going on, so we have FUD against FUD.
What is the number of users of gnome?
What is the number of users of KDE?
I have been searching the net, but its hard to find data
At least they could have written in the intro what the story was about, so that we didn't have to follow the link to find out.
Van Flandern (who wrote the article) is a wellknown crackpot in the usenet physics goups. Here is a page about his theory of FTL gravity waves
Add the following moderations: "good links", "bad links", "wrong information"
Allow readers to ignore certain types of moderations (Example: good links & funny)
Allow users to turn off the field: "related pages"
Show the number of times each article has been read (This way we can see how popular Mr Katz really is)
The old classics xpilot and xblast are still alive. I just participated in the official world championships of xpilot. The good old game xblast is also still goin strong. They are writing a new client based version, so that you can play international games.