Mozilla Thunderbird uses an arrow-pointing-into-the-folder icon.
And there's been a bug filed against the icon: Background of Download Manager looks like one-finger-salute - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233525 (cut and paste - Bugzilla doesn't like referrals from slashdot)
My last Gophering of any consequence was around 1995-1996. Edmunds.com had a fantastic Gopherspace packed with tons of info on automobiles, mainly for educating yourself when buying a new or used vehicle. The gem was the list of exact dealer invoice costs on new cars, broken down for every option, trim level, etc. They really were just plain text files arranged by maker on the site, but they presented so much more information than Edmunds' current typical ad-laden web site. I'd like to see if they still have any such information in such a comprehensive format.
Taking a clue from Photoshop, the Gimp could be made much more user-friendly just by adding a simple window frame around all the controls and sub-windowing all the other windows.
This only happens in Windows. In the Mac version of Photoshop (actually, every single Mac application that follows the UI guidelines) there is no MDI like most Windows apps.
I do feel that they should somehow reduce the number of entries that it creates in the Gnome or KDE taskbar.
I prefer the individual applications, primarily due to launch speed
That's funny, because that's why I use the suite. The turbo/quicklaunch feature in Windows really keeps things quite bearable, especially on older computers. Even in Linux where quicklaunch isn't available, I can click that mail button in a browser window and know the mail window will pop up in an instant, rather than waiting.
Will quicklaunch make its way into the 'birds? Will they be able to share a common GRE to make launching of one faster if the other is running? If so I'll switch when those features are implemented.
I've always heard that Apple uses GCC to compile OS X. Apple has always touted the GCC name on its website, and I remember hearing that a lot of the speed increases in recent releases are due to new optimizations in GCC. Also, the much maligned/celebrated SPEC benchmarks Apple touted for the G5 were obtained with GCC builds. Seeing that Objective C is only in "technical preview" for the IBM XL compilers, you can be certain that it wasn't used for any current version of OSX.
You're not crazy. If you buy a Matrox Parhelia, it'll look a lot better on a CRT than a GeForce. GeForce boards' analog sections are made to lower quality specifications than Matroxes, hence the cheaper price. If you want crisp 2D on a CRT, you're going to have to pay, just like how you paid for your old Matrox -- I'm sure it wasn't cheap when it was new.
If you want crispness with GeForces (or Radeons), go DVI with an LCD monitor. Since it's all digital, there'll be no degradation.
The Wired article linked to is from 2002. Maybe they're finally going to start spamming/calling/junkmailing people after giving them almost two years' notice. I think that's awfully nice of them.
I just checked and everything I clicked "No" on back in 2002 is still there. I think the headline is wrong and misleading. I've never gotten any spam from them both before and after I set my preferences.
The entire point of 20 questions is that they have to be yes/no questions. These guys break that rule on their first question, "Is it classified as Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Other or Unknown?"
I don't know about you, but the traditional 'first question' in 20 questions is the "animal, vegetable, or mineral" question. Granted, they stretch it a bit by adding Other and Unknown, but it's still in the traditional spirit of the game.
I've only seen flash used for spamproof mailtos on one or two sites, but I think it's a pretty good idea as long as all of your users have the Flash player. Just make a little.swf of clickable text linking to the mailto: you want. You probably can even have them dynamically generated if you have a lot of different address across your site. PHP, for example, can do this with its built-in Flash functions.
There's a Toynbee tile in the intersection of (IIRC) Broadway and Olive streets in downtown St. Louis. I had always seen it and thought it to be a marker left over from some art festival, etc. I never had the time to stop and read it due to the rather short nature of green lights. I had no idea there were more of them until I saw a weblog entry about this site. I clicked and instantly recognized it. I have no idea how old the tile is but it's in excellent condition.
Or can I take two RAID-1 disks used on a 3ware RAID card and just plug them into a Promise RAID card, and still be able to access the disks? Or is this something that requires a reformat/repartioning or similar?
(Apologies for responding in two separate posts)
In my experience, you can plug one half of a 3ware RAID-1 mirrored set into a standard IDE controller and read the data just fine. Accessing any other levels, such as 0 or 5, would be a crapshoot on anything but another 3ware.
If I connect two IDE drives on one cable to a HW RAID card, can the failure of one the disks make the other disk unavailable, and thus corrupt the entire disk set?
Yes. Which is why 3ware doesn't let you do that. One drive per channel is the rule. The boards even come with single-drive ribbon cables.
Some SCO stories are run under the Caldera topic so you could filter them out on your Homepage preferences. But many, including this one, aren't under that banner. They need to make an SCO topic (as Caldera really is no more) and be consistent about using it.
This is the way voting is done where I live: Columbia, Missouri. The circles are a lot bigger than the standard scantron, and you bubble them in with a Sharpie marker. It sort of makes sense, with Columbia being a college town, after all, but it may freak out some college students who have seen too many Scantrons!
I noticed a few common thoughts throught the thread that didn't pan out: Multiprocessor desktops becoming commonplace. The demise of X86. Also on a whole people's estimates on HD space were very conservative. People predicted ridiculous resolutions for video. Some people were right on the money though: 1GHz processors, 512MB RAM, and permanent connections to the 'net.
This is one of the best finds I've come across on ye olde Usenet.
Until sombody creates an equally good mathematics software suit for PDA's these things will still be around. Another thing is QA. How are we to be sure that some program we downloaded to our PDA does the calculations correctly.
A few years ago HP started developing a WinCE-based calculator called Xpander. The project was cancelled but if you have a PocketPC you can download the onboard software. I don't have one, so I can't comment on how good it is.
From the article: The Gentoo install suffered a couple of false starts due to a typo using grub and OpenOffice was still being compiled the night before the test. 11 hours later the OpenOffice compile was still going and we thus had to regretfully abandon that portion of the test.
So when does the time taken to compile the app with extra optimizations exceed the time you save on tasks performed in that app? Of course, that's only if an optimized build is faster, which in this tests did not appear to be the case, compared to Debian's oldschool 386 builds and Mandrake's 586 builds (by the way, does Mandrake still give you 586-optimized binaries by default?).
I also wonder why they used -march=pentium3 instead of -march=pentium4. Do they not know that the new Celerons are P4-based? Is -march=pentium4 too buggy? This article leaves a lot unexplained and doesn't seem very scientific.
Well, the same reason as to why we don't have room-temp (or only requiring passive cooling) 500mhz processors for $25, silent single platter 10gb HDs for $25, 256mb 266mhz DDR RAM for $25.
How wrong that is! Even though I never play FPS games today, I still have memories of playing a head to head Quake 1 deathmatch against a friend of mine. I had just learned WSAD+mouse but my friend was still in keyboard land. Man, what a slaughter. We kept on yelling across the room "Where are you shooting me from!?!" "Above you!" "How in the hell are you doing that??"
Unfortunately not only are they testing the audio chipsets, they're also testing the analog sections on the respective motherboards, which has the potential to screw up the sound much, much more than the sound chip ever dreamed.
I was shocked at the poor noise floor and stereo separation of the VIA Envy24PT chip - its older brother, the Envy24, has been used in pro and semipro audio I/O cards from the likes of M-Audio and Terratec. I believe the problem is due to the signal jungle that is a modern motherboard.
I'm a little dismayed at their lack of a recommendation for the Envy24PT - it performed very well in the audio tests and continually had the least CPU usage. Software bells and whistles are useless -- it's the sound that matters in the end. In any case, pardon the grumblings of an Envy24 fanboy.
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Mozilla Thunderbird uses an arrow-pointing-into-the-folder icon.
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And there's been a bug filed against the icon:
Background of Download Manager looks like one-finger-salute - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23352
(cut and paste - Bugzilla doesn't like referrals from slashdot)
My last Gophering of any consequence was around 1995-1996. Edmunds.com had a fantastic Gopherspace packed with tons of info on automobiles, mainly for educating yourself when buying a new or used vehicle. The gem was the list of exact dealer invoice costs on new cars, broken down for every option, trim level, etc. They really were just plain text files arranged by maker on the site, but they presented so much more information than Edmunds' current typical ad-laden web site. I'd like to see if they still have any such information in such a comprehensive format.
Taking a clue from Photoshop, the Gimp could be made much more user-friendly just by adding a simple window frame around all the controls and sub-windowing all the other windows.
This only happens in Windows. In the Mac version of Photoshop (actually, every single Mac application that follows the UI guidelines) there is no MDI like most Windows apps.
I do feel that they should somehow reduce the number of entries that it creates in the Gnome or KDE taskbar.
I prefer the individual applications, primarily due to launch speed
That's funny, because that's why I use the suite. The turbo/quicklaunch feature in Windows really keeps things quite bearable, especially on older computers. Even in Linux where quicklaunch isn't available, I can click that mail button in a browser window and know the mail window will pop up in an instant, rather than waiting.
Will quicklaunch make its way into the 'birds? Will they be able to share a common GRE to make launching of one faster if the other is running? If so I'll switch when those features are implemented.
I've always heard that Apple uses GCC to compile OS X. Apple has always touted the GCC name on its website, and I remember hearing that a lot of the speed increases in recent releases are due to new optimizations in GCC. Also, the much maligned/celebrated SPEC benchmarks Apple touted for the G5 were obtained with GCC builds. Seeing that Objective C is only in "technical preview" for the IBM XL compilers, you can be certain that it wasn't used for any current version of OSX.
You're not crazy. If you buy a Matrox Parhelia, it'll look a lot better on a CRT than a GeForce. GeForce boards' analog sections are made to lower quality specifications than Matroxes, hence the cheaper price. If you want crisp 2D on a CRT, you're going to have to pay, just like how you paid for your old Matrox -- I'm sure it wasn't cheap when it was new.
If you want crispness with GeForces (or Radeons), go DVI with an LCD monitor. Since it's all digital, there'll be no degradation.
The Wired article linked to is from 2002. Maybe they're finally going to start spamming/calling/junkmailing people after giving them almost two years' notice. I think that's awfully nice of them.
I just checked and everything I clicked "No" on back in 2002 is still there. I think the headline is wrong and misleading. I've never gotten any spam from them both before and after I set my preferences.
The entire point of 20 questions is that they have to be yes/no questions. These guys break that rule on their first question, "Is it classified as Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Other or Unknown?"
I don't know about you, but the traditional 'first question' in 20 questions is the "animal, vegetable, or mineral" question. Granted, they stretch it a bit by adding Other and Unknown, but it's still in the traditional spirit of the game.
Thunderbird 0.3 Win32 torrent available HERE.
I've only seen flash used for spamproof mailtos on one or two sites, but I think it's a pretty good idea as long as all of your users have the Flash player. Just make a little .swf of clickable text linking to the mailto: you want. You probably can even have them dynamically generated if you have a lot of different address across your site. PHP, for example, can do this with its built-in Flash functions.
Better still, design it so that either device would work in either port.
If my memory serves me right, this is the way at least some of the original PS/2s worked. This was the case at least on the lowly Model 25.
Coffee with Sinistar from the (usually) funny Bob the Angry Flower.
There's a Toynbee tile in the intersection of (IIRC) Broadway and Olive streets in downtown St. Louis. I had always seen it and thought it to be a marker left over from some art festival, etc. I never had the time to stop and read it due to the rather short nature of green lights. I had no idea there were more of them until I saw a weblog entry about this site. I clicked and instantly recognized it. I have no idea how old the tile is but it's in excellent condition.
Sorry mister .. but that's just baloney .. there aren't floating bricks in real world ...
Sure there are.
Or can I take two RAID-1 disks used on a 3ware RAID card and just plug them into a Promise RAID card, and still be able to access the disks? Or is this something that requires a reformat/repartioning or similar?
(Apologies for responding in two separate posts)
In my experience, you can plug one half of a 3ware RAID-1 mirrored set into a standard IDE controller and read the data just fine. Accessing any other levels, such as 0 or 5, would be a crapshoot on anything but another 3ware.
If I connect two IDE drives on one cable to a HW RAID card, can the failure of one the disks make the other disk unavailable, and thus corrupt the entire disk set?
Yes. Which is why 3ware doesn't let you do that. One drive per channel is the rule. The boards even come with single-drive ribbon cables.
Some SCO stories are run under the Caldera topic so you could filter them out on your Homepage preferences. But many, including this one, aren't under that banner. They need to make an SCO topic (as Caldera really is no more) and be consistent about using it.
This is the way voting is done where I live: Columbia, Missouri. The circles are a lot bigger than the standard scantron, and you bubble them in with a Sharpie marker. It sort of makes sense, with Columbia being a college town, after all, but it may freak out some college students who have seen too many Scantrons!
What expectations did you have for today's PC, 10 years ago and how does the reality match up?
Why not step into the ol' time machine, aka Google Groups' Usenet archive? The thread What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have? is a fascinating read (really -- I recommend reading every post).
I noticed a few common thoughts throught the thread that didn't pan out: Multiprocessor desktops becoming commonplace. The demise of X86. Also on a whole people's estimates on HD space were very conservative. People predicted ridiculous resolutions for video.
Some people were right on the money though: 1GHz processors, 512MB RAM, and permanent connections to the 'net.
This is one of the best finds I've come across on ye olde Usenet.
Until sombody creates an equally good mathematics software suit for PDA's these things will still be around.
Another thing is QA. How are we to be sure that some program we downloaded to our PDA does the calculations correctly.
A few years ago HP started developing a WinCE-based calculator called Xpander. The project was cancelled but if you have a PocketPC you can download the onboard software. I don't have one, so I can't comment on how good it is.
From the article: The Gentoo install suffered a couple of false starts due to a typo using grub and OpenOffice was still being compiled the night before the test. 11 hours later the OpenOffice compile was still going and we thus had to regretfully abandon that portion of the test.
So when does the time taken to compile the app with extra optimizations exceed the time you save on tasks performed in that app? Of course, that's only if an optimized build is faster, which in this tests did not appear to be the case, compared to Debian's oldschool 386 builds and Mandrake's 586 builds (by the way, does Mandrake still give you 586-optimized binaries by default?).
I also wonder why they used -march=pentium3 instead of -march=pentium4. Do they not know that the new Celerons are P4-based? Is -march=pentium4 too buggy? This article leaves a lot unexplained and doesn't seem very scientific.
Watch out -- SD is slllllllllllllloooooooowwwwww. Other flash formats are faster, but they're still really not suitable for running an OS from.
Well, the same reason as to why we don't have room-temp (or only requiring passive cooling) 500mhz processors for $25, silent single platter 10gb HDs for $25, 256mb 266mhz DDR RAM for $25.
600MHz passive-cooled processor for $15
Silent single-platter 20gb HD for $39 (can't hit the magic $25 price point, but it is 20gb)
256mb 266MHz DDR RAM for $22
It CAN be done for the prices you quote; but your point still is valid. The flashy stuff sells and gets the PR.
you can't do the now-standard ASDW+mouse control
How wrong that is! Even though I never play FPS games today, I still have memories of playing a head to head Quake 1 deathmatch against a friend of mine. I had just learned WSAD+mouse but my friend was still in keyboard land. Man, what a slaughter. We kept on yelling across the room "Where are you shooting me from!?!" "Above you!" "How in the hell are you doing that??"
Unfortunately not only are they testing the audio chipsets, they're also testing the analog sections on the respective motherboards, which has the potential to screw up the sound much, much more than the sound chip ever dreamed.
I was shocked at the poor noise floor and stereo separation of the VIA Envy24PT chip - its older brother, the Envy24, has been used in pro and semipro audio I/O cards from the likes of M-Audio and Terratec. I believe the problem is due to the signal jungle that is a modern motherboard.
I'm a little dismayed at their lack of a recommendation for the Envy24PT - it performed very well in the audio tests and continually had the least CPU usage. Software bells and whistles are useless -- it's the sound that matters in the end. In any case, pardon the grumblings of an Envy24 fanboy.