I was one of the sysadmins pushing those monitors out. And (like other people mentioned in this thread), there was a *lot* of whining about "they got one before me!" Enough such that we had three groups where the managers just decreed that "everyone in my group will get the 24", there will be no duals, and that's final." So you do have to account for people being stupid...
Cyberduck. It's the only cocoa-java app that I use, or even know about (not saying there aren't more, just that I don't know about them). Following the cocoa mailing lists, questions about the java bindings are few and far between, which probably lead them to this point. Why dump so much time and effort into a language that your developers aren't using? Either redirect the manpower somewhere else entirely, or into a language like python, which gives your users a meaningful choice - between objc (lowlevel) and python (scripting). And applescript, I guess:-)
There was an old Indian belief that by making love on the hide of their favorite animal, one could guarantee the health and prosperity of the offspring conceived thereupon. And so it goes that one Indian couple made love on a buffalo hide. Nine months later, they were blessed with a healthy baby son. Yet another couple huddled together on the hide of a deer and they too were blessed with a very healthy baby son. But a third couple, whose favorite animal was a hippopotamus, were blessed with not one, but TWO very healthy baby sons at the conclusion of the nine month interval. All of which proves the old theorem that: The sons of the squaw of the hippopotamus are equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
Even on machines that are technically x86 (the AMD64 that I'm resting my legs on right now, for example) don't necessarily work with Macromedia's plugin. And besides just the monkey punching, there are still - even in the year 2005 - websites that I *have* to go to that *require* flash. So I end up starting a browser on a collegues machine and displaying it back. Just thought I would take the time to point that out to all the idiots that think X shouldn't be remote-transparent...
The sqeezebox does not 'do' video. Hence your confusion. He's talking about strictly music, and you're asking (I presume) about mythtv-recorded television. So, no, it does not do what you want. Sorry:-(
David
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That's interesting, because OpenBSD only provides support for releases for 1 year, too. Some guy was making a big stink about it in the slashdot article on the latest release. I suppose I could spend the time to see how long FreeBSD provides free support, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be roughly the same.
Agreed on the whole 'too cumbersome to become a debian dev', though. I started the process once but gave up before I got too far. However, I don't see what being called a developer vs. committer has to do with being 'above human'. I think your rant was starting to fall apart about there.
I noticed in a couple of other threads on this article you have some unflattering things to say about debian. Is there something in particular about debian that bothers you, something that you want to get off your chest? Or is this just a case of 'a lot of people seem to like [item a], therefore I do not like [item a]'? I mean, (and this is kind of ironic), as I'm sitting here typing this I am wearing a t-shirt that says "Nothing is any good if other people like it", so I can understand if that's the motivating force. I mean, I know people that would run Windows everywhere if it had the marketshare linux does. I don't know, maybe I'm just getting too old for the internet, but I just don't "get" why someone who doesn't like debian, who obviously has no use for debian, would come onto a story talking about debian just to say, in essence, "debian sucks". Meh, it's probably because I have kids. When you only have a very limited amount of time allotted to 'computer stuff', you tend to focus on just the stuff that is actually productive. On the other hand, I just wasted five minutes typing this reply, so who the hell am I to talk about being productive?!?
Did you read the whole thread, or just the one message you linked to? Maybe it's just me being reasonable, but it looked like Zack brought up a good point (albeit in typical Zack fashion), Dave replied with some good points, patches were split up, and everyone went home happy. Also, that thread was from almost a year ago - when Hyatt and the khtml devs where still relatively new to this whole "working together" thing. It's interesting that you didn't have a newer email to link to.
Looking at your other two posts (at this point in time) in this discussion, it appears that you have had poor luck when dealing with their gcc devs. Not to point out the obvious, but all corporations are made up of people, and Dave Hyatt (and the Safari dev group) seem to be better at playing well with others than the Apple gcc team. I don't know what, if anything, that says about Apple-the-corporation being arrogant or overbearing. One thing I can guarantee is that there is no company wide conspiracy at Apple to screw over KDE by deliberately making things hard for the khtml developers. What would be the point?
Well, I should have said that I was actually looking for what the op explicetly wasn't: something along the lines of 3D Home Architect, where there's a lot more handholding and templates. *shrug* Didn't find any of those, saw most of what you listed off. But I got the kind of software I'm thinking of for $40 on Windows a few years ago, and those are all in the multiple hundreds. No big deal.
I went searching for something like this just last week, and didn't really find anything. I ended up going with a tract home where I'm picking from one of 10 different floor plans, but if I had gone custom, it would have been illustrator or nothing...
She actually asked about wine in her first email to me. I discouraged her from it though, based mainly on the fact that we use Crossover Office here at work for our linux workstations, and it is a crashy, buggy, piece of crap. Maybe I have a jaundiced view of it simply because I'm the admin in charge of keeping it running, and upgrading, but I wouldn't wish it on anybody. Especially if she's going to be adding plugins, like the abbreviation expanders.
Do you happen to know if either of these solutions are easily 'shareable'? I.e., put into a separate file that can be copied around and expanded by different people? If they are, I think we found a winner. Thanks!
I'm sorry for not making it clearer, but she approached me, not the other way 'round. And the main reason she wants to do it is because Windows is proprietary, and she doesn't want to be beholden to one vendor. This is all according to her, I haven't been preaching Free Software to her at all. So moving to a mac would increase her productivity, but not address the underlying problem. Frankly, it makes me a bit giddy to see 'normals' seeing this sort of stuff on their own. Makes me wonder if the revolution is closer than I thought:-)
that OO needs to have before they'll switch, and I'm looking for abbreviation replacement. Well, for my sister. She works as a medical transcriptionist, and would really like to switch over to Linux. She started out a few months ago using Windows, IE, Outlook Express, and Word and has switched over to Firefox and Thunderbird so far. If she could get a good replacement for Word (+some plugins she uses), then she'd drop Windows in a second. She's also been using a desktop automater program and was very interested to learn that you can do the same things in Linux using a standard programming language like python (with dcop bindings) and shell scripts, for free. Basically, she wants to be the most efficient she can possibly be, and see's Windows as a stumbling block towards achieving that.
By the way, an abbbreviation expander program is something that looks for you typing something like abd and it expands it to abdomen. Obviously, the programs she uses (shorthand and speedtype) are aimed directly at the medical transcriptionist market and come preloaded with abbreviations, but even something that she could customize would suffice for her needs. There are other MTs that are looking into Linux as well, and they could probably spread the load of inputting the medical terms into an abbreviation database and share it with one another, if only a word processor on Linux supported this. Any suggestions? I spent a goodly amount of time yesterday surfing google trying to find anything, and came up empty.
Actually, though I don't watch most of those shows (on either list:-), after scanning through it it *seems* that the only show on the "bad" list with gay characters was Will and Grace. And Southpark wasn't mentioned because it's not on network television. All of the shows they list are. If they went to cable, they would have put the Sopranos on the list, for sure.
Note, I'm not disputing the extreme christian slant of their list, just not for two out of the three reasons you mentioned:-)
And if you don't have carpentry skill, go 3s2wu from the main plaza, kill rats until you level, and use your skill points at Harold's House O' Wood. There you go! Now you can make a desk!
Well, I don't do anything with R, I was just the sysad for the web server, doing what the devs told me I needed to do. I will, however, pass that info along to the current sysad for that machine, along with the programmers. Thanks for the heads up!
We have a few people using R around here, mainly in the backend of cgis to produce graphs of various things. The main problem? If you want to output to a jpg or png (like, to display the result in a webpage), R has to create a window in X, draw onto the window, and then take a snapshot of the window. What this means on a headless sun machine? We get to run a virtual X server soley for our R cgis. Bloody hell, it's a stupid implementation of a crappy language.
It's funny you mention that, as I have been surfing their webpage all day today (in fact, I had it up in another tab when I went to slashdot and saw this story). My system for surfing their site is to use konqueror 3.3, go to the page where the video should be embedded, use View->View Mode->Embedded Text Editor, search for "wmv", copy and paste that line into wget in konsole, grep for mms in the resulting file and then copy&paste that into mplayer. Works like a champ! Who says *nix isn't user friendly!??!?:-P In all seriousness, it sucks horribly but doesn't take as long to do as it does to describe.
you can get it delivered right into your living room.
I read both...
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and I liked them both for different reasons. Mainly that's because they are different genre of books. Altered Carbon is a straight-ahead detective story with some great technology thrown in. Broken Angels is more sci-fi'ish, slower paced, and not a mystery at all. So if you look at them as being two stand-alone novels that happen to share a character, you'll be a lot happier. I'll admit it took me a bit longer to get through Broken Angels, though it's been long enough since I read either of them that I can't remember specifically why. It just seems to drag a bit near the end.
Did you actually read the article? All the way to the end, that is? The only thing that actually went wonky was the machine that projects the totals up on the wall. And it was smart enough to know that it hadn't been reset, so it delibaretly put up huge numbers to attract attention to the fact. As the article said, at no time was the actual voting machine off in any way. In short, there are plenty of reasons to dislike or distrust electronic voting, but this is a particulary bad example to use as one of them.
Just the various plugins, like check_dns, which didn't pass a - in front of the second argument to nslookup. check_nagios needed to have "ax" added to the ps command in order to work correctly. Just little stuff like that, that wasn't a huge pain to track down, but is kind of "death by a thousand paper cuts" if you know what I mean. After a while I just want things to work, without figuring out what linuxism the original author used this time.
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I was one of the sysadmins pushing those monitors out. And (like other people mentioned in this thread), there was a *lot* of whining about "they got one before me!" Enough such that we had three groups where the managers just decreed that "everyone in my group will get the 24", there will be no duals, and that's final." So you do have to account for people being stupid...
I had forgotten about that, but it doesn't go against my primary statement: this doesn't affect any app that I actually *use* :-).
Cyberduck. It's the only cocoa-java app that I use, or even know about (not saying there aren't more, just that I don't know about them). Following the cocoa mailing lists, questions about the java bindings are few and far between, which probably lead them to this point. Why dump so much time and effort into a language that your developers aren't using? Either redirect the manpower somewhere else entirely, or into a language like python, which gives your users a meaningful choice - between objc (lowlevel) and python (scripting). And applescript, I guess :-)
There was an old Indian belief that by making love on the hide of
their favorite animal, one could guarantee the health and prosperity
of the offspring conceived thereupon. And so it goes that one Indian
couple made love on a buffalo hide. Nine months later, they were
blessed with a healthy baby son. Yet another couple huddled together
on the hide of a deer and they too were blessed with a very healthy
baby son. But a third couple, whose favorite animal was a hippopotamus,
were blessed with not one, but TWO very healthy baby sons at the conclusion
of the nine month interval. All of which proves the old theorem that:
The sons of the squaw of the hippopotamus are equal to the sons of
the squaws of the other two hides.
Even on machines that are technically x86 (the AMD64 that I'm resting my legs on right now, for example) don't necessarily work with Macromedia's plugin. And besides just the monkey punching, there are still - even in the year 2005 - websites that I *have* to go to that *require* flash. So I end up starting a browser on a collegues machine and displaying it back. Just thought I would take the time to point that out to all the idiots that think X shouldn't be remote-transparent...
David
The sqeezebox does not 'do' video. Hence your confusion. He's talking about strictly music, and you're asking (I presume) about mythtv-recorded television. So, no, it does not do what you want. Sorry :-(
David
That's interesting, because OpenBSD only provides support for releases for 1 year, too. Some guy was making a big stink about it in the slashdot article on the latest release. I suppose I could spend the time to see how long FreeBSD provides free support, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be roughly the same.
Agreed on the whole 'too cumbersome to become a debian dev', though. I started the process once but gave up before I got too far. However, I don't see what being called a developer vs. committer has to do with being 'above human'. I think your rant was starting to fall apart about there.
I noticed in a couple of other threads on this article you have some unflattering things to say about debian. Is there something in particular about debian that bothers you, something that you want to get off your chest? Or is this just a case of 'a lot of people seem to like [item a], therefore I do not like [item a]'? I mean, (and this is kind of ironic), as I'm sitting here typing this I am wearing a t-shirt that says "Nothing is any good if other people like it", so I can understand if that's the motivating force. I mean, I know people that would run Windows everywhere if it had the marketshare linux does. I don't know, maybe I'm just getting too old for the internet, but I just don't "get" why someone who doesn't like debian, who obviously has no use for debian, would come onto a story talking about debian just to say, in essence, "debian sucks". Meh, it's probably because I have kids. When you only have a very limited amount of time allotted to 'computer stuff', you tend to focus on just the stuff that is actually productive. On the other hand, I just wasted five minutes typing this reply, so who the hell am I to talk about being productive?!?
that the previous version of this book was old? A little bit? Maybe?
Did you read the whole thread, or just the one message you linked to? Maybe it's just me being reasonable, but it looked like Zack brought up a good point (albeit in typical Zack fashion), Dave replied with some good points, patches were split up, and everyone went home happy. Also, that thread was from almost a year ago - when Hyatt and the khtml devs where still relatively new to this whole "working together" thing. It's interesting that you didn't have a newer email to link to.
Looking at your other two posts (at this point in time) in this discussion, it appears that you have had poor luck when dealing with their gcc devs. Not to point out the obvious, but all corporations are made up of people, and Dave Hyatt (and the Safari dev group) seem to be better at playing well with others than the Apple gcc team. I don't know what, if anything, that says about Apple-the-corporation being arrogant or overbearing. One thing I can guarantee is that there is no company wide conspiracy at Apple to screw over KDE by deliberately making things hard for the khtml developers. What would be the point?
Well, I should have said that I was actually looking for what the op explicetly wasn't: something along the lines of 3D Home Architect, where there's a lot more handholding and templates. *shrug* Didn't find any of those, saw most of what you listed off. But I got the kind of software I'm thinking of for $40 on Windows a few years ago, and those are all in the multiple hundreds. No big deal.
I went searching for something like this just last week, and didn't really find anything. I ended up going with a tract home where I'm picking from one of 10 different floor plans, but if I had gone custom, it would have been illustrator or nothing...
She actually asked about wine in her first email to me. I discouraged her from it though, based mainly on the fact that we use Crossover Office here at work for our linux workstations, and it is a crashy, buggy, piece of crap. Maybe I have a jaundiced view of it simply because I'm the admin in charge of keeping it running, and upgrading, but I wouldn't wish it on anybody. Especially if she's going to be adding plugins, like the abbreviation expanders.
Do you happen to know if either of these solutions are easily 'shareable'? I.e., put into a separate file that can be copied around and expanded by different people? If they are, I think we found a winner. Thanks!
I'm sorry for not making it clearer, but she approached me, not the other way 'round. And the main reason she wants to do it is because Windows is proprietary, and she doesn't want to be beholden to one vendor. This is all according to her, I haven't been preaching Free Software to her at all. So moving to a mac would increase her productivity, but not address the underlying problem. Frankly, it makes me a bit giddy to see 'normals' seeing this sort of stuff on their own. Makes me wonder if the revolution is closer than I thought :-)
that OO needs to have before they'll switch, and I'm looking for abbreviation replacement. Well, for my sister. She works as a medical transcriptionist, and would really like to switch over to Linux. She started out a few months ago using Windows, IE, Outlook Express, and Word and has switched over to Firefox and Thunderbird so far. If she could get a good replacement for Word (+some plugins she uses), then she'd drop Windows in a second. She's also been using a desktop automater program and was very interested to learn that you can do the same things in Linux using a standard programming language like python (with dcop bindings) and shell scripts, for free. Basically, she wants to be the most efficient she can possibly be, and see's Windows as a stumbling block towards achieving that.
By the way, an abbbreviation expander program is something that looks for you typing something like abd and it expands it to abdomen. Obviously, the programs she uses (shorthand and speedtype) are aimed directly at the medical transcriptionist market and come preloaded with abbreviations, but even something that she could customize would suffice for her needs. There are other MTs that are looking into Linux as well, and they could probably spread the load of inputting the medical terms into an abbreviation database and share it with one another, if only a word processor on Linux supported this. Any suggestions? I spent a goodly amount of time yesterday surfing google trying to find anything, and came up empty.
Actually, though I don't watch most of those shows (on either list :-), after scanning through it it *seems* that the only show on the "bad" list with gay characters was Will and Grace. And Southpark wasn't mentioned because it's not on network television. All of the shows they list are. If they went to cable, they would have put the Sopranos on the list, for sure.
:-)
Note, I'm not disputing the extreme christian slant of their list, just not for two out of the three reasons you mentioned
And if you don't have carpentry skill, go 3s2wu from the main plaza, kill rats until you level, and use your skill points at Harold's House O' Wood. There you go! Now you can make a desk!
Well, I don't do anything with R, I was just the sysad for the web server, doing what the devs told me I needed to do. I will, however, pass that info along to the current sysad for that machine, along with the programmers. Thanks for the heads up!
We have a few people using R around here, mainly in the backend of cgis to produce graphs of various things. The main problem? If you want to output to a jpg or png (like, to display the result in a webpage), R has to create a window in X, draw onto the window, and then take a snapshot of the window. What this means on a headless sun machine? We get to run a virtual X server soley for our R cgis. Bloody hell, it's a stupid implementation of a crappy language.
</cranky old man>
It's funny you mention that, as I have been surfing their webpage all day today (in fact, I had it up in another tab when I went to slashdot and saw this story). My system for surfing their site is to use konqueror 3.3, go to the page where the video should be embedded, use View->View Mode->Embedded Text Editor, search for "wmv", copy and paste that line into wget in konsole, grep for mms in the resulting file and then copy&paste that into mplayer. Works like a champ! Who says *nix isn't user friendly!??!? :-P In all seriousness, it sucks horribly but doesn't take as long to do as it does to describe.
you can get it delivered right into your living room.
and I liked them both for different reasons. Mainly that's because they are different genre of books. Altered Carbon is a straight-ahead detective story with some great technology thrown in. Broken Angels is more sci-fi'ish, slower paced, and not a mystery at all. So if you look at them as being two stand-alone novels that happen to share a character, you'll be a lot happier. I'll admit it took me a bit longer to get through Broken Angels, though it's been long enough since I read either of them that I can't remember specifically why. It just seems to drag a bit near the end.
Did you actually read the article? All the way to the end, that is? The only thing that actually went wonky was the machine that projects the totals up on the wall. And it was smart enough to know that it hadn't been reset, so it delibaretly put up huge numbers to attract attention to the fact. As the article said, at no time was the actual voting machine off in any way. In short, there are plenty of reasons to dislike or distrust electronic voting, but this is a particulary bad example to use as one of them.
Thank you, I didn't know that.
Just the various plugins, like check_dns, which didn't pass a - in front of the second argument to nslookup. check_nagios needed to have "ax" added to the ps command in order to work correctly. Just little stuff like that, that wasn't a huge pain to track down, but is kind of "death by a thousand paper cuts" if you know what I mean. After a while I just want things to work, without figuring out what linuxism the original author used this time.