Those sorts of speed are kinda nice on paper but what happens when you go over that quota. That whopping 12Mbit/s becomes no faster than a dial-up, which kinda sucks. All the people I know who use broadband care more about how much they can download than the actual speed. And in that department Australia is extremely lacking I feel. The only ISP truly offers a genuine and realiable all-you-can-download service on broadband is Internode with maybe one or two others. But the price for such an offering is very expensive: $100 for 512 and $150 for 1500, which to me shows that broadband in Australia still has a long way to go.
In addition, the team has made colorless single-crystal diamonds, transparent from the ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths with their CVD process.
I once saw a doco that showed a natural and artificial stone laying side by side with UV light shone on it, the natural one was indeed 'invisible' whereas the artificial one glowed the colour the UV light. But now it's going to get a lot harder to detect them using more complex methods.
I think the whole page itself is static. Those with incompatible browsers (such as lynx) are shown an error message and a link of the page in question when trying to access the main page.
I too am using 0.9.1 and logged in to check my mail just a little while ago without any problems.
1) no "new tab" button on the tab bar - have to right-click or do kbd shortcut
Nope, but the tab extension has an option to open new tabs by double clicking in the tab bar. Personally I have a new tab button in the main nav bar right before the back button.
2) search bar is separate from address bar - i like having one address bar and when i want to search instead of browse i hit down arrorw twice and enter (in mozilla)
There's SmartBrowsing option in firefox, of course you can only use that to search the one engine. The search bar has the option to add and use as many engine as you wish. Which of course I prefer even if I have to constantly have the search bar open.
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I'd doubt fiddling with those options would have any effect. I really have no idea about this at all, but a search on Google turns up this. It seems to be a direct reference to the bug, but since it's in japanese I have no idea if a fix is also provided. I'd suggest you pop off a message on the project's forum.
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Check this extension for Firefox out. It gives the tabs in Firefox more options and features that you could poke a stick at. And also has just very recently been updated to work with 0.9 properly.
One bit. Oh, you weren't talking ASCII?:-) Larry now uses "Perl" to signify the language proper and "perl" the implementation of it, i.e. the current interpreter. Hence Tom's quip that "Nothing but perl can parse Perl." You may or may not choose to follow this usage. For example, parallelism means "awk and perl" and "Python and Perl" look OK, while "awk and Perl" and "Python and perl" do not. But never write "PERL", because perl is not an acronym, apocryphal folklore and post-facto expansions notwithstanding.
Some people are pedantic about these sorts of things. Personally my only spelling pet peeve is seeing people use 'alot'.
Perl is way too slow and it's not designed for quickly scripting web sites.
Slow? Have you ever tried running it with mod_perl? Or did you mean slow in another way?
And what about quickly? I'll take a guess that you mean by using something like CGI where for each script you need to put in prerequisite functions and calls to functions. You don't have to do that with things like HTML::Mason, HTML::Template or Embperl since makes all those tedious tasks of setting up each script to parse the arguments passed or print out the header unneeded. You can just crack open a new file and put in Perl code mixed with HTML. Or blocks of code where markup is not allowed if you wish. And in the case of HTML::Mason the parsed down components are even cached for greater speed. To me HTML::Mason and Embperl are VERY PHP like.
A lot of generalized scripting languages (eg. Python, Ruby) are not designed for running in a web environment. But because they are generalized someone somewhere will make them work there and as most usually the case make them work VERY well. Also in most cases more than one person will do things in a totally different way with the excact same language and even possibly make it work like a counterpart in another language.
I doubt 1 programmer can turn the Gimp into somthing usable in 3 months.
GIMP is already usable.
a company would have to pay more then a few k to get any program to the level of photoshop
Just like you have to spend millions on kernels like Linux or BSD. Or things like Apache, XFree86, Mozilla... ad infinitum?
Most Free software will get to the same featureset standards of their commercial equivalent eventually. And some ARE the standard in the respective industries they're used in. Most will get there and they'll do it fine without needing a lot of cashed to be pumped in but of course it would speed things up with, no doubt about that:P
Creative never released drivers for their emu10k1 chipset (SB Live, Audigy2). They didn't even released the specs for them. That's why the drivers until recently have never been able to use most of the features availiable on the cards (IIRC it still doesn't support all the features). The only thing creative did was host the OSS drivers on their site, nothing more. And now the projects moved to sourceforge.
As for dropping the ball, how? The drivers have always worked for me and for a lot of people who have used it. You seem the be the only person who I've met who's been having long term problem getting their SB Live to work under Linux. Not only that but the drivers are still being worked on and maintained both the OSS and ALSA versions.
That should be that, then just use a mixer to change the volume and so on if you're getting some sort of weird screeching noises or no noise at all.
And if you want the module loaded automatically everytime on boot just add 'emu10k1' to/etc/modules. It couldn't be simpler. I've had my SB Live working since day one, and never had it stop or otherwise any sorts of problems with it not working.
Nice, except you're missing the whole point of people being able to already download the same songs somewhere else in MP3 format. All unencrypted, and quality as good (or near as to be indistinguishable by most people)... and get this, FOR FREE. But guess what? The people who are actually using Playfair aren't doing this. They're using it to remove DRM from files which they've paid for. And what use would it be for someone who wants it for free to go through the process of decrypting DRM'ed AAC files when they can get the same files quicker and easier somewhere else. Then even if the people who have removed the DRM were to share those files who would want them? Seriously who would want AAC music files that plays on how many portable players? How many PC media players? Not many.
But this is where the whole stable thing comes in, the other branches (testing, unstable) don't have a release schedule per se. Packages are released when they're ready across all the archs. But with stable IIRC all the packages have to be ready for all the archs before release. And the only serious people using stable are those who are putting it on servers, which (I'm taking a wild guess) probably has a more non x86 ratio that those running testing/unstable on non-servers. So I'm sure the non-x86 archs are more appreciated there than in testing/unstable.
Stable does make sense to people running things on real servers doing real work that requires their apps to keep working. Which means not only known to work software but a stable API across those softwares.
Sigh, when will people remember that it's Debian who does most of the major porting of XFree86 to other platforms other than x86. Personally last time I tried 4.3.0 I kept getting lockups that required a reboot when I played a file using mpg123 in a terminal. Also other odd but not as critical bugs.
If Debian doesn't support all of the archs that it does who will? Not everyone out there is running x86 and those that don't aren't second class citizens just because they're not running what a majority of other people are.
What happens if SCO wins? No one at the moment can say that they won't. If that happens Novell stands to loose A LOT of money from the indemnification alone. No business, especially not one as big as Novell would do something like this just to get a few extra upgrade sales from a few of their customers.
- it was designed from the ground up and is conceptually sound, unlike mozilla which was a hack job on top of netscape's browser
The old Netscape code was dropped and Mozilla started it's life from stratch.
- unlike other browsers (mozilla, IE), it was designed using 'mature' technology (HTML4, CSS, etc.) and does not have nearly as many compatibility woes as IE, nor as many add-on hacks, as the other browsers had, due to changing stnadards over the years (in other words: it's a newer, fresher code base)
Mozilla is the most standards compliant browser in the world par none. It also has better CSS1/2 support than any other browser, including Konqueror.
- unlike mozilla/firebird, I can use it for hours/days with many pages open (15+) without the entire affair slowing to a crawl and/or dying
How the hell are you using it when other people including myself have had more windows open and had it running longer (into weeks) without having to restart it.
I thought it was an outstanding part of the book. It showed just how much each of the characters had changed from their experiences throughout the books. Merry & Pipping showing their courage and valor. Frodo being much the wiser, as shown with the last confrontation with Saruman at the door step of Bag End. And the most significant change of all in Sam, where there being almost none. From start to finish Sam was always Sam, and even at the final he was the still shy, recluse and abated Sam that we knew from the very start of the book. That in my opinion finishes off his character and all the others in a way that couldn't be more complementary.
And I feel the scouring of the Shire was very much needed to show those things.
Who can really say except he himself. What I am saying, or more showing in fact is that LOTR by the author's intent is not an allegorical story of the Wars through which he experienced. That's all. That's what I was replying to in the parent post which was obviously a troll, nothing more.
The real war does not resemble the legendar war in its process or it's conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but ensalved, and Barad-dur would not have been destroyed but occupied..... Other aarangements could be devised according to the tastes or views of those who like allegory or topical reference. But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
How many times does he have to mention the fact that LOTR or his other works are in no way allegorical of the Wars that he himself experienced in the foreword and in past interviews?
I don't know if this was supposed to be a well crafted troll or a simple mistake. But it is very incorrect. From the foreward of LOTR:
As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical....... The crucial chapter, 'The Shadow of the Past', is one of the oldest parts of the tale. It was written long before the foreshadow of 1939 had yet become a thread of inevitable disaster, and from that point the story would have developed along essentially the same lines, if that disaster had be averted. It's souces are things long before in mind, or in some cases already written, and little or nothing in it was modified by the war that began in 1939 or its sequels.
Also the different features that can be enabled on those different software packages that will require things like linking to an external library or adding extra internal code bloat. An example is the exim package in Debian depends on libldap2 for those that don't need LDAP it would be considered uneeded bloatness.
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Those sorts of speed are kinda nice on paper but what happens when you go over that quota. That whopping 12Mbit/s becomes no faster than a dial-up, which kinda sucks. All the people I know who use broadband care more about how much they can download than the actual speed. And in that department Australia is extremely lacking I feel. The only ISP truly offers a genuine and realiable all-you-can-download service on broadband is Internode with maybe one or two others. But the price for such an offering is very expensive: $100 for 512 and $150 for 1500, which to me shows that broadband in Australia still has a long way to go.
I think the whole page itself is static. Those with incompatible browsers (such as lynx) are shown an error message and a link of the page in question when trying to access the main page.
I too am using 0.9.1 and logged in to check my mail just a little while ago without any problems.
There's SmartBrowsing option in firefox, of course you can only use that to search the one engine. The search bar has the option to add and use as many engine as you wish. Which of course I prefer even if I have to constantly have the search bar open.
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If you have any left. Thanks.
I'd doubt fiddling with those options would have any effect. I really have no idea about this at all, but a search on Google turns up this. It seems to be a direct reference to the bug, but since it's in japanese I have no idea if a fix is also provided. I'd suggest you pop off a message on the project's forum.
Check this extension for Firefox out. It gives the tabs in Firefox more options and features that you could poke a stick at. And also has just very recently been updated to work with 0.9 properly.
Some people are pedantic about these sorts of things. Personally my only spelling pet peeve is seeing people use 'alot'.
And what about quickly? I'll take a guess that you mean by using something like CGI where for each script you need to put in prerequisite functions and calls to functions. You don't have to do that with things like HTML::Mason, HTML::Template or Embperl since makes all those tedious tasks of setting up each script to parse the arguments passed or print out the header unneeded. You can just crack open a new file and put in Perl code mixed with HTML. Or blocks of code where markup is not allowed if you wish. And in the case of HTML::Mason the parsed down components are even cached for greater speed. To me HTML::Mason and Embperl are VERY PHP like.
A lot of generalized scripting languages (eg. Python, Ruby) are not designed for running in a web environment. But because they are generalized someone somewhere will make them work there and as most usually the case make them work VERY well. Also in most cases more than one person will do things in a totally different way with the excact same language and even possibly make it work like a counterpart in another language.
Just like you have to spend millions on kernels like Linux or BSD. Or things like Apache, XFree86, Mozilla
Most Free software will get to the same featureset standards of their commercial equivalent eventually. And some ARE the standard in the respective industries they're used in. Most will get there and they'll do it fine without needing a lot of cashed to be pumped in but of course it would speed things up with, no doubt about that
Creative never released drivers for their emu10k1 chipset (SB Live, Audigy2). They didn't even released the specs for them. That's why the drivers until recently have never been able to use most of the features availiable on the cards (IIRC it still doesn't support all the features). The only thing creative did was host the OSS drivers on their site, nothing more. And now the projects moved to sourceforge.
As for dropping the ball, how? The drivers have always worked for me and for a lot of people who have used it. You seem the be the only person who I've met who's been having long term problem getting their SB Live to work under Linux. Not only that but the drivers are still being worked on and maintained both the OSS and ALSA versions.
And if you want the module loaded automatically everytime on boot just add 'emu10k1' to
Nice, except you're missing the whole point of people being able to already download the same songs somewhere else in MP3 format. All unencrypted, and quality as good (or near as to be indistinguishable by most people) ... and get this, FOR FREE. But guess what? The people who are actually using Playfair aren't doing this. They're using it to remove DRM from files which they've paid for. And what use would it be for someone who wants it for free to go through the process of decrypting DRM'ed AAC files when they can get the same files quicker and easier somewhere else. Then even if the people who have removed the DRM were to share those files who would want them? Seriously who would want AAC music files that plays on how many portable players? How many PC media players? Not many.
How about using the search function yourself? It's not too hard.
Hey it was late, I even forget to quote the original posts. *blush* ;)
But this is where the whole stable thing comes in, the other branches (testing, unstable) don't have a release schedule per se. Packages are released when they're ready across all the archs. But with stable IIRC all the packages have to be ready for all the archs before release. And the only serious people using stable are those who are putting it on servers, which (I'm taking a wild guess) probably has a more non x86 ratio that those running testing/unstable on non-servers. So I'm sure the non-x86 archs are more appreciated there than in testing/unstable.
Stable does make sense to people running things on real servers doing real work that requires their apps to keep working. Which means not only known to work software but a stable API across those softwares.
Sigh, when will people remember that it's Debian who does most of the major porting of XFree86 to other platforms other than x86. Personally last time I tried 4.3.0 I kept getting lockups that required a reboot when I played a file using mpg123 in a terminal. Also other odd but not as critical bugs.
If Debian doesn't support all of the archs that it does who will? Not everyone out there is running x86 and those that don't aren't second class citizens just because they're not running what a majority of other people are.
What happens if SCO wins? No one at the moment can say that they won't. If that happens Novell stands to loose A LOT of money from the indemnification alone. No business, especially not one as big as Novell would do something like this just to get a few extra upgrade sales from a few of their customers.
The old Netscape code was dropped and Mozilla started it's life from stratch.
Mozilla is the most standards compliant browser in the world par none. It also has better CSS1/2 support than any other browser, including Konqueror.
How the hell are you using it when other people including myself have had more windows open and had it running longer (into weeks) without having to restart it.
I thought it was an outstanding part of the book. It showed just how much each of the characters had changed from their experiences throughout the books. Merry & Pipping showing their courage and valor. Frodo being much the wiser, as shown with the last confrontation with Saruman at the door step of Bag End. And the most significant change of all in Sam, where there being almost none. From start to finish Sam was always Sam, and even at the final he was the still shy, recluse and abated Sam that we knew from the very start of the book. That in my opinion finishes off his character and all the others in a way that couldn't be more complementary.
And I feel the scouring of the Shire was very much needed to show those things.
Just my 2c.
Who can really say except he himself. What I am saying, or more showing in fact is that LOTR by the author's intent is not an allegorical story of the Wars through which he experienced. That's all. That's what I was replying to in the parent post which was obviously a troll, nothing more.
How many times does he have to mention the fact that LOTR or his other works are in no way allegorical of the Wars that he himself experienced in the foreword and in past interviews?
Also the different features that can be enabled on those different software packages that will require things like linking to an external library or adding extra internal code bloat. An example is the exim package in Debian depends on libldap2 for those that don't need LDAP it would be considered uneeded bloatness.