Holy pope on a stick! I realized that this was technically possible with giFT, but I didn't know anybody ahd been working on it. Brillian, and tanks for the link.
Ever notice how every time it's shown on TV they eliminate the excellent "there is no spoon" scene right before Neo sees the Oracle, but still have him say "There is no spoon" in the elavator shaft?
Firstly it's plain criminal to screw first time TV viewers out of that scene, secondly it's damn confusing. Why is Neo talking about a spoon?
Kazaa used to distribute kza, a linux curses app which was very basic but worked fairly well. Then they changed some stuff about the protocol, kza broke, and they've never released an updated version. At this point you're basically stuck with Wine, and last I knew installing Kazaa under Wine failed (you have to install under windows, and then run under wine).
For a while there was giFT, an attempt at implimenting an open Fast Track client. But due to some of the same changes that broke kza, which were an attempt by the authors to keep out third party clients, giFT could no longer connect. giFT still exists as a fastrack-like open File Transfer network. They've not had an official release as far as I am aware, but you can grab CVS and a frontend and compile it without too much trouble. It works well, but the number of users is small (and will remain so until they actually do a release.)
America isn't feared, really. Fear is no longer the overriding emotion. It used to be fear/resentment/respect. Now it's generally fear/resentment/outrage/hatred. These are in no particular order.
Nobody ever loved the US who was not an American citizen. Now people hate us. People with nukes. Sitting, as I am, within kill radius of the white house, that makes me sleep really well at night.
You presume that not voting is an act of laziness and meek acceptance. I don't vote, after much consideration I decided it was wrong to do so.
I am opposed to the form of government used in this country. I am also opposed to the method of government. As such I am convinced that the traditional "fix it from within the system" method will not work, because the system is too hopelessly corrupted to be fixed.
I have chosen not to vote so as to not support something I decry. People tell me "Well if you don't vote, don't complain" but that is the ignorant position. I have every right to wish to overthrow the american government, whether by means traditional (in the system) or esoteric (not necessarily violent). That I am exercising my political rights in a nonstandard and unfamiliar way does not mean I have passed on political participation, merely that mine takes a different form.
The assumption that declining to support a corrupt system is the same as choosing not to participate in politics is irritating and shockingly wide spread.
Perhaps most non-voters do not not vote for the same reasons I do not vote, but I will wager a fair percentage hold similar views.
You would also have to include the right to voice an opinion, the right to publish your views on an open stage where they can be heard by anyone... maybe it's not internet specific, but that's the only presently viable means.
What regexp are you using? It looks like Perl, but under Perl's regex $ is end of string/line and ^ is beginning.
$app =~/^g/i; etc.
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Gnumeric is clearly better than Excel. With Excel, there's a limit and you're fucked. With Gnumeric, there's a limit but if you really want to you can change it. That's a LOT better than Excel. THAT is the whole point of open source.
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What did Isaac Newton say, again? I started over from scratch and ignored the work of those who studied these problems before I had? No. "If I've seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
I've heard it said that he trying to dismiss claims by a colleague of his, who was rather short, that without the colleague's work Newton would never have gotten anywhere. Thus, Newton was saying he stood, if anything, on the shoulders of giants, and not of this short man.
This is what I have heard.
Personally, I don't particularly like Windows much because it doesn't work like I want to work. I'm accustomed to the Unix Way (or at least the Linux Way, though I did start with real UNIX in the form of AT&T SVR4, SunOS and Solaris). I really dislike Microsoft as a company, and anyone who thinks that removing choices and is a great way to make software easier to use. (Easier to learn, maybe, not not easier to use.) Hence, I don't run Windows at home, nor do I use MacOS X except via ssh. (My wife has a Mac in addition to a PC.)
So do you really dislike GNOME, too? Because you know, they're all for the less-choice-is-easier thing.
2,000 us nice, but how well does it handle 20,000? In one folder?
I have a massive mail archive, something like 150,000 messages, split accross several folders. In Mozilla this doesn't seem to have any impact on performance, but in the KDE2 version of KMail it slowed me down quite a lot. Maybe things have improved... I probably wouldn't switch anyway, because I'd hate to load all of that KDE background material just to check mail.
He dinna say browser, laddie, he said email client.
He's wrong, of course, because a healthy percentage of geeks use mutt or pine, and no small number use kmail, evolution, emacs, pronto, balsa, mail,... and so on.
I sat down in front of a computer in a public lab at my local college campus last semester and did the following:
Downloaded Pheonix (it was not yet FireBird) and unzompressed it. Ran Phoenix and installed the IE skin. Edited the Phoenix toolbar to be quite a lot like IEs. Set Phoenix as the default browser. Deleted the IE links from the desktop and start menu. Added links to Phoenix using the IE icon with the text "Internet Explorer" to the desktop and start menu. Quietly left.
I'm not sure what impact this really had, but I did it on 3 computers at differing times. I do hope I caused some havoc, but not as much as I hope nobody noticed.
Don't talt to me of "Slow". On my PII350MHz box Mozilla is my mail client, and it's SLOW. But I cannot switch away from it to something nicer/faster, because Mozilla does one thing none of the others do: it handles large volume.
Most mail clients scale to hundreds of messages well, and a few can do several thousand without slowing down. I have one folder with over 40,000 messages, another with over 30,000, another with over 25,000... you get the idea.
ONLY Mozilla, and no other I've yet seen, takes these in stride. It doesn't crash, it hardly slows down at all. Now, it was never fast to begin with, but I can throw 100,000 messages at it and it's still "sluggish" instead of "hung" or "dead" like most of the others. I'll take the slowness for the robustisity.
Sometimes I feel like I'm tied to my mail archive with a ball and chain [sigh]
rm -rf / # As root removes everything on the drive rm -rf ~ # Removes everythng uner your home directory rm -rf / # As a regular user removes everything on the drive to which you have write permission, which includes everything under ~
Because rm -rf / will eventually decend into/home and then into your home directory and try to remove everything it sees. It will just fail everywhere else. This means that rm -rf / as a regular user is just as destrucitve as rm -rf ~ as a regular user, but it takes longer to finish.
rm -rf / will do the same as rm -fr ~, it will just take more time. The -r is for Recursive, remember? So, unless you somehow don't have ~ under/, it's ultimatrly the same thing.
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"Web Designers" != "HTML page authors"
Web Design, in this horrific modern age, is the venue of artists. These people know just enough about computers to make real sleek, sickening, awful web pages that just ooze glitz and glitter, or maybe are very fancy, or artsy. I'll bet you no web designer told Taco how to arrange his web site, which is why/. is usable and not an eyesore.
The world would largely be better without a ton of freaky web designers who think looking "cool" is better than being usable.
I can see that, and respect it. But personally, 99% of the details about my desktop I don't want to be in charge of; I don't care and I don't want to be bothered so long as they're handled even reasonably intelligently.
I agree. But I'd never use Windows (again) or Mac OS X (at all) because... they don't let me change things IF I want to. Under Linux, with a decent distro, things come preconfigured. I don;'t HAVE to tweak anything, and I hardly NEED to tweak anything. But when it takes my fancy, I CAN. Under the other two I simply can't. I use Linux because I have more choices, even the choice not to make choices. Under Windows and OS X you cannot choose not to choose, it has already been decided you don't want to choose. If OS X were infinitely customizable, but just set up one way by default, then that'd be fine, but it isn't, so I don't use it.
Not everybody likes desktop icons. Not everybody likes a single titlebar. Not everybody likes their icons all on one side.
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Try DirectConnect (DC++ or DCGUI for client, and one of the many FOSS servers). Require a password from all users and run your own hub.
Depreciated? They were never intended for layout. How can you depreciate something that was always against the rules?
Holy pope on a stick! I realized that this was technically possible with giFT, but I didn't know anybody ahd been working on it. Brillian, and tanks for the link.
and 2 times on TV
Ever notice how every time it's shown on TV they eliminate the excellent "there is no spoon" scene right before Neo sees the Oracle, but still have him say "There is no spoon" in the elavator shaft?
Firstly it's plain criminal to screw first time TV viewers out of that scene, secondly it's damn confusing. Why is Neo talking about a spoon?
Kazaa used to distribute kza, a linux curses app which was very basic but worked fairly well. Then they changed some stuff about the protocol, kza broke, and they've never released an updated version. At this point you're basically stuck with Wine, and last I knew installing Kazaa under Wine failed (you have to install under windows, and then run under wine).
For a while there was giFT, an attempt at implimenting an open Fast Track client. But due to some of the same changes that broke kza, which were an attempt by the authors to keep out third party clients, giFT could no longer connect. giFT still exists as a fastrack-like open File Transfer network. They've not had an official release as far as I am aware, but you can grab CVS and a frontend and compile it without too much trouble. It works well, but the number of users is small (and will remain so until they actually do a release.)
So basically, no. No alternative.
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And it's better to be loved than hated.
America isn't feared, really. Fear is no longer the overriding emotion. It used to be fear/resentment/respect. Now it's generally fear/resentment/outrage/hatred. These are in no particular order.
Nobody ever loved the US who was not an American citizen. Now people hate us. People with nukes. Sitting, as I am, within kill radius of the white house, that makes me sleep really well at night.
You presume that not voting is an act of laziness and meek acceptance. I don't vote, after much consideration I decided it was wrong to do so.
I am opposed to the form of government used in this country. I am also opposed to the method of government. As such I am convinced that the traditional "fix it from within the system" method will not work, because the system is too hopelessly corrupted to be fixed.
I have chosen not to vote so as to not support something I decry. People tell me "Well if you don't vote, don't complain" but that is the ignorant position. I have every right to wish to overthrow the american government, whether by means traditional (in the system) or esoteric (not necessarily violent). That I am exercising my political rights in a nonstandard and unfamiliar way does not mean I have passed on political participation, merely that mine takes a different form.
The assumption that declining to support a corrupt system is the same as choosing not to participate in politics is irritating and shockingly wide spread.
Perhaps most non-voters do not not vote for the same reasons I do not vote, but I will wager a fair percentage hold similar views.
Karma whore? He's an AC, no gain there. Maybe what he did is not right, but it isn't evil either.
You would also have to include the right to voice an opinion, the right to publish your views on an open stage where they can be heard by anyone... maybe it's not internet specific, but that's the only presently viable means.
What regexp are you using? It looks like Perl, but under Perl's regex $ is end of string/line and ^ is beginning.
/^g/i;
$app =~
etc.
Gnumeric is clearly better than Excel. With Excel, there's a limit and you're fucked. With Gnumeric, there's a limit but if you really want to you can change it. That's a LOT better than Excel. THAT is the whole point of open source.
What did Isaac Newton say, again? I started over from scratch and ignored the work of those who studied these problems before I had? No. "If I've seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
I've heard it said that he trying to dismiss claims by a colleague of his, who was rather short, that without the colleague's work Newton would never have gotten anywhere. Thus, Newton was saying he stood, if anything, on the shoulders of giants, and not of this short man.
This is what I have heard.
Personally, I don't particularly like Windows much because it doesn't work like I want to work. I'm accustomed to the Unix Way (or at least the Linux Way, though I did start with real UNIX in the form of AT&T SVR4, SunOS and Solaris). I really dislike Microsoft as a company, and anyone who thinks that removing choices and is a great way to make software easier to use. (Easier to learn, maybe, not not easier to use.) Hence, I don't run Windows at home, nor do I use MacOS X except via ssh. (My wife has a Mac in addition to a PC.)
So do you really dislike GNOME, too? Because you know, they're all for the less-choice-is-easier thing.
And I must say that this is probably the most fantastic thing I've seen in terms of 2D fighting since Streetfighter II.
It leaves me speachless and at a loss for words. I will simply recommend that you get this game, and leave it at that
2,000 us nice, but how well does it handle 20,000? In one folder?
I have a massive mail archive, something like 150,000 messages, split accross several folders. In Mozilla this doesn't seem to have any impact on performance, but in the KDE2 version of KMail it slowed me down quite a lot. Maybe things have improved... I probably wouldn't switch anyway, because I'd hate to load all of that KDE background material just to check mail.
He dinna say browser, laddie, he said email client.
... and so on.
He's wrong, of course, because a healthy percentage of geeks use mutt or pine, and no small number use kmail, evolution, emacs, pronto, balsa, mail,
I happen to know the computers I did this to did not get wiped for between 3 weeks and 2 months, varying by computer.
I knew going in it wouldn't last. That wasn't tha point.
I sat down in front of a computer in a public lab at my local college campus last semester and did the following:
Downloaded Pheonix (it was not yet FireBird) and unzompressed it.
Ran Phoenix and installed the IE skin.
Edited the Phoenix toolbar to be quite a lot like IEs.
Set Phoenix as the default browser.
Deleted the IE links from the desktop and start menu.
Added links to Phoenix using the IE icon with the text "Internet Explorer" to the desktop and start menu.
Quietly left.
I'm not sure what impact this really had, but I did it on 3 computers at differing times. I do hope I caused some havoc, but not as much as I hope nobody noticed.
Don't talt to me of "Slow". On my PII350MHz box Mozilla is my mail client, and it's SLOW. But I cannot switch away from it to something nicer/faster, because Mozilla does one thing none of the others do: it handles large volume.
Most mail clients scale to hundreds of messages well, and a few can do several thousand without slowing down. I have one folder with over 40,000 messages, another with over 30,000, another with over 25,000... you get the idea.
ONLY Mozilla, and no other I've yet seen, takes these in stride. It doesn't crash, it hardly slows down at all. Now, it was never fast to begin with, but I can throw 100,000 messages at it and it's still "sluggish" instead of "hung" or "dead" like most of the others. I'll take the slowness for the robustisity.
Sometimes I feel like I'm tied to my mail archive with a ball and chain [sigh]
"missed it by this much" -Maxwell Smart
I believe the line is usually by "that" much.
What the hell are you smoking? ;)
/home and then into your home directory and try to remove everything it sees. It will just fail everywhere else. This means that rm -rf / as a regular user is just as destrucitve as rm -rf ~ as a regular user, but it takes longer to finish.
rm -rf / # As root removes everything on the drive
rm -rf ~ # Removes everythng uner your home directory
rm -rf / # As a regular user removes everything on the drive to which you have write permission, which includes everything under ~
Because rm -rf / will eventually decend into
rm -rf / will do the same as rm -fr ~, it will just take more time. The -r is for Recursive, remember? So, unless you somehow don't have ~ under /, it's ultimatrly the same thing.
"Web Designers" != "HTML page authors"
/. is usable and not an eyesore.
Web Design, in this horrific modern age, is the venue of artists. These people know just enough about computers to make real sleek, sickening, awful web pages that just ooze glitz and glitter, or maybe are very fancy, or artsy. I'll bet you no web designer told Taco how to arrange his web site, which is why
The world would largely be better without a ton of freaky web designers who think looking "cool" is better than being usable.
I can see that, and respect it. But personally, 99% of the details about my desktop I don't want to be in charge of; I don't care and I don't want to be bothered so long as they're handled even reasonably intelligently.
I agree. But I'd never use Windows (again) or Mac OS X (at all) because... they don't let me change things IF I want to. Under Linux, with a decent distro, things come preconfigured. I don;'t HAVE to tweak anything, and I hardly NEED to tweak anything. But when it takes my fancy, I CAN. Under the other two I simply can't. I use Linux because I have more choices, even the choice not to make choices. Under Windows and OS X you cannot choose not to choose, it has already been decided you don't want to choose. If OS X were infinitely customizable, but just set up one way by default, then that'd be fine, but it isn't, so I don't use it.
Not everybody likes desktop icons. Not everybody likes a single titlebar. Not everybody likes their icons all on one side.
I can run GNome on a Mac via X11.
Being able to run GNOME is not the best example of having the ability to change things to your liking. GNOME has become disturbingly limited lately.
So they hire another company to do their evil work for them. Nothing has changed.