Either use this Freecache link to save the HTML bandwidth, or read the text below:
All my readers, please note that this is constructive criticism (as well as a fix!) for the new theme, not an emotional rant or complaint. Ben Goodger has done an awesome job in getting Firefox ready for 0.9.
The first time I fired up Firefox 0.9, I wasn't too happy with the new, default Firefox theme. However, It turns out that it mostly the awkward spacing that was making the icons look out-of-place. As strange as it seems, reducing the spacing makes the entire theme look a lot better.
I managed to reduce the spacing on the toolbar buttons by hacking the skin chrome. You'll need to place this in a file named "userChrome.css" under your Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile\chrome directory.
Boycott of Microsoft caller ID for email
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I mentioned this earlier (my other comment), but it seems like something that hasn't got much attention on Slashdot. There's a group (?) of people boycotting the Microsoft email caller ID solution and hoping to get authors and MTA's and email clients to sign on:
To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:
As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source code files require that further distributions of products containing all or portions of the software, acknowledge within their advertising materials that such products contain software developed by UC Berkeley and its contributors.
Specifically, the provision reads:
" * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * This product includes software developed by the University of * California, Berkeley and its contributors."
Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer required to include the acknowledgement within advertising materials. Accordingly, the foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix files containing it is hereby deleted in its entirety.
William Hoskins Director, Office of Technology Licensing University of California, Berkeley
Found in http://lwn.net/Articles/64052/, from http://www.groklaw.com. Unfortunately, I need to add more characters per line to get past the slashdot lameness filter:
I love joker.com - I use their hosted nameservers + web forwarding to link a number of domains to a single CNAME'd domain to a no-ip.org address (yikes).
No real issues in the 4(?) odd years I've been with them.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2002110 7. html
"It would sure be nice for someone to actually consider all of this from our point of view, rather than MS's," wrote Doyle in a recent message to me. "It amazes me that everyone just assumes that MS will be able to merely write a check and make the whole thing go away. What if someone went through the following, purely theoretical, of course, logical analysis?"
"Is there any practical settlement amount that is worth more to Eolas than a victory at trial? Considering the facts in the case and the magnitude of the stakes here, a highly likely outcome is that it will actually go to trial, and, once it does, that a jury will award us both damages and an injunction. Injunction is the key word here. That is what patent rights provide: the power to exclude. What if we were to just say no? Or, what if some other big player were to acquire or merge with us? What if only one best-of-breed browser could run embedded plug-ins, applets, ActiveX controls, or anything like them, and it wasn't IE? How competitive would the other browsers be without those capabilities? How would that change the current dynamics in the Industry?"
Besides the fact that you have no knowledge of the projects I have worked on, your ad hominim attack is weak to begin with. If I were to have worked on no projects of value, this would
If you don't know what this is, refer to this site that explains this fallacy: here.
My point should have been written like this:
"I'm sure he loved hearing about the quality of his apps while they were in development by guys who had written CLI editors ten years back if they made their points by trashing him in public forums."
More productive than you'll ever be.
You're attacking my point that negative criticism is not productive by saying that I'm not productive? How does my lack of productivity affect this point? Please see this part of the ad hominim page:
ad hominem (circumstantial): instead of attacking an assertion the author points to the relationship between the person making the assertion and the person's circumstances.
Please attack my points and not me. I'm interested in what you have to say, but I don't care what you think about me as a person.
You're right - I think my argument is weaker because of my little IPO rant.
I do firmly believe that mindless ranting about "this sucks" "that sucks" is not productive, though. As a developer, I would rather listen to a lucid argument than someone that seems to be foaming at the mouth. The nasty tone is what invalidates his argument - the first one to get angry in a discussion is the one whose points are usually forgotten.
You mention that his words boil down to "Why is this so hard. Make it consistant, make it easy." Now, what if the GStreamer people were trying to put a nice, consistant face on a media player by wrapping it with Gnome2 (which they are, BTW)? JWZ has dismissed this immediately by saying both Gnome2 and Red Hat 8.0 suck, without any sort of explaination. And then he goes off about not wanting to upgrade, even though the upgrade could give him exactly what he wants!:)
Unfortunately, because he's ranting, there's no way to know exactly what his point was. He seems to pursue an avenue and then stop and trash the application!
I'll admit my mistake with my IPO comment. This has nothing to do with this situation, but I will maintain that people still do get off on ranting.:)
Short answer: No, you don't matter. You're a politician, not a coder.
Long answer: If you wrote the original version of XEmacs and a little program called "Netscape", then people might listen to your opinions.
Just because he was involved in the creation of a number of old applications doesn't give him the right to trash developers of applications that aren't quite as old yet.
I'm sure he loved hearing about the quality of his apps while they were in development by guys who had written CLI editors ten years back. It's really productive isn't it?
First of all, installing apt on RedHat doesn't compete to install packages - it uses apt to install RPMs, rather than debs. This means that it will automatically locate RPM dependencies and install them, exactly as a Debian system would. It just adds missing functionality to the RPM system.
It all comes down to people complaining and complaining that they can't do something right away. Why not build a package for mplayer that installs it the way you want? These people are writing software in their free time. You don't have to use it.
"Uh, no. I've seen the horror of Red Hat 8.0, and there's no fucking way I'm putting Gnome2 on any more of my machines for at least another six months, maybe a year."
I can't understand why you would complain about installing dependencies for a product that is still in development. How is software supposed to advance if we're always using v1 of libraries instead of v2?
"What are these fucktards thinking???"
Why do people get off on putting other people's work down? Just because you made a quick buck in an IPO doesn't give you the right to rant about whatever you want and expect people to bow down. Why not write up a bug report or a quick suggestion? Isn't that what we do if something bugs us? That's the beauty of having each access to the application developers! Your riches don't elevate you above the rest of us, my friend.
Don't whine that something doesn't work unless you are willing to fix it or willing switch to an environment that satisfies your needs. I should know better than to read JWZ's blog.
Great "pay for development" example
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The freenet fund paid for a month of full-time development. This was enough to take it from a relatively unstable 0.4 to a nearly rock-solid 0.5. I think this is a great example of putting together some donations and giving them to someone who can spend eight hours a day looking at the code.
I think this is similar in some ways to the street performer protocol.
When will we have an HDTV-capable PVR? The Bell ExpressVu boxes up here are either PVRs or HDTV decoders. Looks like at this point you can't have your cake and eat it too.
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I haven't seen any clarification of these patent issues yet, personally. What about the anti-GPL license that CID has? Is that still there?
Ignore the freecache link - I guess they don't cache stuff smaller than 5MB. :)
Change the following items in classic.jar/skin/classic/browser/browser.css and the default theme looks WAY better:
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button { padding: 3px; }
.toolbarbutton-1[open="true"], .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[checked="true"], .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[open="true"] { padding: 4px 2px 2px 4px !important; }
.toolbarbutton-1,
.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"],
The spacing is less annoying and the icons look a lot better.
Since the parent of my last comment was rated as a troll (I don't agree with that) here is the text:
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Make sure you let them know that patents on email technology are unacceptable. Merging is okay, let's just keep the SPF license, not the Microsoft one.
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It's just saying that patents on email tech are unreasonable. That's pretty reasonable to me.
I heartily agree! It's good to see them cooperating, but I hope that the final license has a royalty-free patent grant with no attribution clauses.
If the two camps agree, this will speed up adoption of SPF records enormously.
This is an interesting page...
> Chaka...when the walls fell.
shepd and FUD... at Slashdot.
The page is at http://boycott-email-caller-id.org/ if you're interested.
A related note- the current Microsoft anti-spam solution, Email Caller ID is currently being boycotted.
From:
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http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&ac
To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:
As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source code files require that further distributions of products containing all or portions of the software, acknowledge within their advertising materials that such products contain software developed by UC Berkeley and its contributors.
Specifically, the provision reads:
" * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
* must display the following acknowledgement:
* This product includes software developed by the University of
* California, Berkeley and its contributors."
Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer required to include the acknowledgement within advertising materials. Accordingly, the foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix files containing it is hereby deleted in its entirety.
William Hoskins
Director, Office of Technology Licensing
University of California, Berkeley
Found in http://lwn.net/Articles/64052/, from http://www.groklaw.com. Unfortunately, I need to add more characters per line to get past the slashdot lameness filter:
o .hr no.he rrno.hs 64/errno.hs m-ppc/errno.h/ asm-s390/errno.hu de/asm-sh/errno.hl ude/asm-sparc64/errno.h. hg nal.h6 /signal.h- m68k/signal.h/ asm-mips64/signal.h
include/asm-ppc/signal.hl .hs ignal.hr c/signal.h/ asm-x86_64/signal.he /linux/ctype.hc tl.h/ ioctl.h8 6/ioctl.hm 68k/ioctl.hm -mips64/ioctl.hl ude/asm-parisc/ioctl.h. hs .hi octls.h9 0x/ioctl.hh /ioctls.h- sparc/ioctls.hu de/asm-sparc64/ioctls.h. hl ude/asm-sparc/a.out.hh /mips/boot/ecoff.h
include/asm-sparc/solerrno.h/ bsderrno.h
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include/asm-arm/errn
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include/asm-mips/errno.h
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include/asm-ppc/ioctl
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include/asm-ppc64/
include/asm-s390/ioctl.h
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include/asm-sh/ioctl.h
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Looks sweet- doesn't look like it supports RAID management yet, but the other features are still killer.
I love joker.com - I use their hosted nameservers + web forwarding to link a number of domains to a single CNAME'd domain to a no-ip.org address (yikes).
No real issues in the 4(?) odd years I've been with them.
What about this article in Cringely's pulpit?
0 7. html
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200211
"It would sure be nice for someone to actually consider all of this
from our point of view, rather than MS's," wrote Doyle in a recent
message to me. "It amazes me that everyone just assumes that MS will be
able to merely write a check and make the whole thing go away. What if
someone went through the following, purely theoretical, of course
logical analysis?"
"Is there any practical settlement amount that is worth more to Eolas than a
victory at trial? Considering the facts in the case and the magnitude of the
stakes here, a highly likely outcome is that it will actually go to trial,
and, once it does, that a jury will award us both damages and an injunction.
Injunction is the key word here. That is what patent rights provide: the
power to exclude. What if we were to just say no? Or, what if some other big
player were to acquire or merge with us? What if only one best-of-breed
browser could run embedded plug-ins, applets, ActiveX controls, or anything
like them, and it wasn't IE? How competitive would the other browsers be
without those capabilities? How would that change the current dynamics in
the Industry?"
Sounds like Doyle is not a Microsoft fan...
Or use rdesktop:
http://www.rdesktop.org/
Maybe a better analogy would be:
.NET applcation] won't run on Windows 98 because the .NET framework only runs on Windows 2000+.
It's like complaining that [a
If you don't know what this is, refer to this site that explains this fallacy: here.
My point should have been written like this:
"I'm sure he loved hearing about the quality of his apps while they were in development by guys who had written CLI editors ten years back if they made their points by trashing him in public forums."
More productive than you'll ever be.
You're attacking my point that negative criticism is not productive by saying that I'm not productive? How does my lack of productivity affect this point? Please see this part of the ad hominim page:
ad hominem (circumstantial): instead of attacking an assertion the author points to the relationship between the person making the assertion and the person's circumstances.
Please attack my points and not me. I'm interested in what you have to say, but I don't care what you think about me as a person.
You're right - I think my argument is weaker because of my little IPO rant.
:)
:)
I do firmly believe that mindless ranting about "this sucks" "that sucks" is not productive, though. As a developer, I would rather listen to a lucid argument than someone that seems to be foaming at the mouth. The nasty tone is what invalidates his argument - the first one to get angry in a discussion is the one whose points are usually forgotten.
You mention that his words boil down to "Why is this so hard. Make it consistant, make it easy." Now, what if the GStreamer people were trying to put a nice, consistant face on a media player by wrapping it with Gnome2 (which they are, BTW)? JWZ has dismissed this immediately by saying both Gnome2 and Red Hat 8.0 suck, without any sort of explaination. And then he goes off about not wanting to upgrade, even though the upgrade could give him exactly what he wants!
Unfortunately, because he's ranting, there's no way to know exactly what his point was. He seems to pursue an avenue and then stop and trash the application!
I'll admit my mistake with my IPO comment. This has nothing to do with this situation, but I will maintain that people still do get off on ranting.
Long answer: If you wrote the original version of XEmacs and a little program called "Netscape", then people might listen to your opinions.
Just because he was involved in the creation of a number of old applications doesn't give him the right to trash developers of applications that aren't quite as old yet.
I'm sure he loved hearing about the quality of his apps while they were in development by guys who had written CLI editors ten years back. It's really productive isn't it?
First of all, installing apt on RedHat doesn't compete to install packages - it uses apt to install RPMs, rather than debs. This means that it will automatically locate RPM dependencies and install them, exactly as a Debian system would. It just adds missing functionality to the RPM system.
It all comes down to people complaining and complaining that they can't do something right away. Why not build a package for mplayer that installs it the way you want? These people are writing software in their free time. You don't have to use it.
"Uh, no. I've seen the horror of Red Hat 8.0, and there's no fucking way I'm putting Gnome2 on any more of my machines for at least another six months, maybe a year."
I can't understand why you would complain about installing dependencies for a product that is still in development. How is software supposed to advance if we're always using v1 of libraries instead of v2?
"What are these fucktards thinking???"
Why do people get off on putting other people's work down? Just because you made a quick buck in an IPO doesn't give you the right to rant about whatever you want and expect people to bow down. Why not write up a bug report or a quick suggestion? Isn't that what we do if something bugs us? That's the beauty of having each access to the application developers! Your riches don't elevate you above the rest of us, my friend.
Don't whine that something doesn't work unless you are willing to fix it or willing switch to an environment that satisfies your needs. I should know better than to read JWZ's blog.
The freenet fund paid for a month of full-time development. This was enough to take it from a relatively unstable 0.4 to a nearly rock-solid 0.5. I think this is a great example of putting together some donations and giving them to someone who can spend eight hours a day looking at the code.
I think this is similar in some ways to the street performer protocol.
More information about the takeover in this comment here.
It generates source from the DOM too!
When will we have an HDTV-capable PVR? The Bell ExpressVu boxes up here are either PVRs or HDTV decoders. Looks like at this point you can't have your cake and eat it too.