This changes only the physical resolution, the virtual resolution says the same. I want to be able to change the virtual resolution as a user (working with virtual != physical sucks anyway).
You are absolutely right. The situation is improving, but Linux isn't there yet.
For example, I can't understand why a user cannot change the resolution of his screen. It's trivial to implement. Let root build the system XF86Config, and let users control only the "Screen" section in their.xf86config. Build a nice GUI tool around it, and you're ready.
The only thing you'll have to work out is changing resolution when starting from XDM/KDM/GDM.
Found it: bug 120238 is the bug I remembered, it was filed 2002-01-16 and still stands unresolved (IOW it has beem ignored). Worse still, bug 90547 also reports a crash due to large fonts. It was reported around 2001-07-12, which is 11 months ago.
I am pretty sure this bug has been in Bugzilla for months without being fixed. However, bugzilla-search seems to be broken so I cannot prove it right now.
However, I am 100% positive I crashed my machine due to a remotely exploitable X bug using Mozilla a few months back. That bug is in bugzilla (search on crash, X, css, hensema when bugzilla search works again).
Mailservers are private. Nobody can force me to receive anybody's mail. I can block whoever I want using whatever method I like. If I want to block connections using some blacklist, that's MY choice. The blacklist only offers me advice on what connection to accept or not. I can freely choose to follow that advice or not.
A public key can be signed by others. For instance: person A meets B IRL. They can now confirm they are who they say they are. So, A signs the key of B, B signs the key of A.
A while later, A meets C, both sign their keys.
Now B can trust C, because B trusts A.
When a PGP sign is not trusted, pgp or gpg will always tell you about it.
Signing at the very least means subsequent mails can't be forged. If you trust somebody who sends you a signed message, you can trust all mail signed by his signature is his.
A one-time message with an untrusted key means exactly nothing.
Personally I check all signatures automatically because I use mutt and gpg. gpg automatically fetches keys from a keyserver.
What AOL has to consider is its 34million users turning round and saying "the latest version of AOL is broke", if it's not rendering IE specific content correctly.
While some of them are certainly going to complain to AOL, others will complain to the webmasters. And when enough webmasters make their sites standards-complaint, less users will complain to AOL. Let's hope the number of compliant sites reaches a critical mass before AOL decides to drop Gecko.
Probably along the line of china, the admins probably don't speak english
Idea: can somebody who speaks chinese write a standard complaint about an open relay in chinese? Just leave a blank where we can fill out the IP address.
If we've got such a standard template, the language barier is effectively broken and we're a (very) small step closer to a clean internet.
I live in Hong Kong and because of them I can't get e-mail through to some of my family and friends. Now I'm a decent person, I post to/. send in bug reports for open-source software and I've never spammed anyone in my life but I still have to suffer these restrictions.
There are two things you can do:
Ask your ISP to close the open relays
Switch ISPs
When you continue to pay your ISP without complaining YOU are part of the spam problem. You help paying the spammers.
I don't know about your provider's AUP (acceptable use policy), but mine says I cannot use all of my bandwidth all the time.
Why not? Simple. While I've got a 3.4 mbit cableconnection at my house for about EUR 45,- a month, my ISP (Essent@Home) has allocated about 100 kbit/user for external bandwidth.
Therefore, we're only permitted to have bursty traffic. Downloading an ISO or two a week is no problem, just don't do it all the time.
When you want a line without these restrictions, get a peering contract at a major ISP. Surely it'll cost you EUR 5000,- a month, but that's quite reasonable for an unlimited (apart from the technical limit of, say, 1 mbit) line.
Fining heavy users seems quite reasonable to me. They take away bandwidth from their neighbours, so they pay more.
Somebody has to speak up against Linus. Linus is not a god. The man makes mistakes. And over the last view years it becomes increasingly a problem that "Linus doesn't scale".
Linus however continues to develop the kernel pretty much the same way he started doing it ten years ago. And not many people think that's a problem. Rik does (AFAIK). And I tend to agree with Rik: the current system just isn't working very well. It's not very bad, but it certainly isn't optimal, IMHO.
However, remaining silent doesn't solve the problem. Somebody has to speak up.
As aliens probably don't speak english, you first have to learn to think without language. Then you'll have to learn the new language which is defined in the picture itself.
Yes, go to this page. Here you find two perl scripts: one script forwards the spam and another script parses the spamcop reply and automatically reports the spam.
He's a kernel maintainer and therefore a celebrity. And his public relation skills aren't very good.
I agree his primary task is maintaining the kernel, and as far as I can see he's doing a fine job, but he's also one of the primary spokesmen for the Linux kernel.
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.
I've got a patch which works on a nightly build from about a month ago, but 0.9.6 segfaults on this. I'll look into it ASAP.
The patch essentially places a small button left of the location bar (much smaller than in the attached screenshot). This button needs some graphic designing, so if anybody can work the Gimp, please visit the bug and download the blank buttons.
When you're running a system with procmail (don't we all?) and better yet: use a mailer which supports piping messages to stdout, you can use these scripts to report spam to spamcop semi-automatically.
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This changes only the physical resolution, the virtual resolution says the same. I want to be able to change the virtual resolution as a user (working with virtual != physical sucks anyway).
You are absolutely right. The situation is improving, but Linux isn't there yet.
For example, I can't understand why a user cannot change the resolution of his screen. It's trivial to implement. Let root build the system XF86Config, and let users control only the "Screen" section in their .xf86config. Build a nice GUI tool around it, and you're ready.
The only thing you'll have to work out is changing resolution when starting from XDM/KDM/GDM.
The company I'm currently working for mainly uses Winows 95 and NT 4.0 on ~ 1000 desktops.
I can download with 425 KB/s any time a day, for EUR 45,- a month. My upload is 128 kbit.
@Home has some slight disadvantages though:
- Unreliable mailservers
- Unreliable newsservers
- Expensive helpdesk
- Connection seems to drop for a minute several times a day
I simply took another account with a quality dialup provider for mail and news, and I'm a happy personFound it: bug 120238 is the bug I remembered, it was filed 2002-01-16 and still stands unresolved (IOW it has beem ignored). Worse still, bug 90547 also reports a crash due to large fonts. It was reported around 2001-07-12, which is 11 months ago.
I am pretty sure this bug has been in Bugzilla for months without being fixed. However, bugzilla-search seems to be broken so I cannot prove it right now.
However, I am 100% positive I crashed my machine due to a remotely exploitable X bug using Mozilla a few months back. That bug is in bugzilla (search on crash, X, css, hensema when bugzilla search works again).
Mailservers are private. Nobody can force me to receive anybody's mail. I can block whoever I want using whatever method I like. If I want to block connections using some blacklist, that's MY choice. The blacklist only offers me advice on what connection to accept or not. I can freely choose to follow that advice or not.
In short: sue whoever you like. You'll loose.
It'll be available for download from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.0/ soon.
A public key can be signed by others. For instance: person A meets B IRL. They can now confirm they are who they say they are. So, A signs the key of B, B signs the key of A.
A while later, A meets C, both sign their keys.
Now B can trust C, because B trusts A.
When a PGP sign is not trusted, pgp or gpg will always tell you about it.
Signing at the very least means subsequent mails can't be forged. If you trust somebody who sends you a signed message, you can trust all mail signed by his signature is his.
A one-time message with an untrusted key means exactly nothing.
Personally I check all signatures automatically because I use mutt and gpg. gpg automatically fetches keys from a keyserver.
My desktop icons always get messed up on startup. However, that seems to be the only real bug in can find.
It simply rocks.
What AOL has to consider is its 34million users turning round and saying "the latest version of AOL is broke", if it's not rendering IE specific content correctly.
While some of them are certainly going to complain to AOL, others will complain to the webmasters. And when enough webmasters make their sites standards-complaint, less users will complain to AOL. Let's hope the number of compliant sites reaches a critical mass before AOL decides to drop Gecko.
Are there any sites actually using ActiveX? I've never ever encountered one. By maybe that's just because I mainly visit OSS-related sites ;-)
Probably along the line of china, the admins probably don't speak english
Idea: can somebody who speaks chinese write a standard complaint about an open relay in chinese? Just leave a blank where we can fill out the IP address.
If we've got such a standard template, the language barier is effectively broken and we're a (very) small step closer to a clean internet.
I live in Hong Kong and because of them I can't get e-mail through to some of my family and friends. Now I'm a decent person, I post to /. send in bug reports for open-source software and I've never spammed anyone in my life but I still have to suffer these restrictions.
There are two things you can do:
When you continue to pay your ISP without complaining YOU are part of the spam problem. You help paying the spammers.
So, yes, the blocks are completely fair.
I don't know about your provider's AUP (acceptable use policy), but mine says I cannot use all of my bandwidth all the time.
Why not? Simple. While I've got a 3.4 mbit cableconnection at my house for about EUR 45,- a month, my ISP (Essent@Home) has allocated about 100 kbit/user for external bandwidth.
Therefore, we're only permitted to have bursty traffic. Downloading an ISO or two a week is no problem, just don't do it all the time.
When you want a line without these restrictions, get a peering contract at a major ISP. Surely it'll cost you EUR 5000,- a month, but that's quite reasonable for an unlimited (apart from the technical limit of, say, 1 mbit) line.
Fining heavy users seems quite reasonable to me. They take away bandwidth from their neighbours, so they pay more.
And only four minutes after being posted, this must be some kind of world record ;-)
Somebody has to speak up against Linus. Linus is not a god. The man makes mistakes. And over the last view years it becomes increasingly a problem that "Linus doesn't scale".
Linus however continues to develop the kernel pretty much the same way he started doing it ten years ago. And not many people think that's a problem. Rik does (AFAIK). And I tend to agree with Rik: the current system just isn't working very well. It's not very bad, but it certainly isn't optimal, IMHO.
However, remaining silent doesn't solve the problem. Somebody has to speak up.
I speak english
As aliens probably don't speak english, you first have to learn to think without language. Then you'll have to learn the new language which is defined in the picture itself.
Perl source is as close to truly random data as possible.
I don't know about the number of spams posted to newsgroups daily, but the number of spams cancelled is on average 25000 to 50000 daily.
However, I don't think anyone bothers to cancel spam in alt.binaries groups.
Yes, go to this page. Here you find two perl scripts: one script forwards the spam and another script parses the spamcop reply and automatically reports the spam.
He's a kernel maintainer and therefore a celebrity. And his public relation skills aren't very good.
I agree his primary task is maintaining the kernel, and as far as I can see he's doing a fine job, but he's also one of the primary spokesmen for the Linux kernel.
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.
I'm working on this one, see bug 24651
I've got a patch which works on a nightly build from about a month ago, but 0.9.6 segfaults on this. I'll look into it ASAP.
The patch essentially places a small button left of the location bar (much smaller than in the attached screenshot). This button needs some graphic designing, so if anybody can work the Gimp, please visit the bug and download the blank buttons.
When you're running a system with procmail (don't we all?) and better yet: use a mailer which supports piping messages to stdout, you can use these scripts to report spam to spamcop semi-automatically.
Subquestion: if you'd put the kernel under CVS, would you allow commit access to key developers?