Mirabilis ICQ grew like a Frankenstein's monster, see the procotol specs, they're scary http://www.d.kth.se/~d95-mih/icq/
Correct, however, the current version is described
here.
And add to this the necessarity to have different
versions of the same protocol, you really have a huge mess.
Mirabilis ICQ grew like a Frankenstein's monster, see the procotol specs, they're scary http://www.d.kth.se/~d95-mih/icq/
Correct, however, the current version is described
here.
And add to this the necessarity to have different
versions of the same protocol, you really have a huge mess.
Not that any message you ever send via ICQ ever gets delivered - none that I have tried anyway, so maybe ICQ are actually having problems with their SMS charging.
That greatly depends on the receiver's telco. In Germany e.g., sending to T-D1 is quite reliable (other providers, on the other hand, don't work at all).
Which is probably also true for the German, the French and the Swiss postal service.The same is
probably true for nearly every postal service in
Europe. The only packages gone missing or returned
after months have happened with the US postal office, so "of course" it has to be only
their fault (actually, it was the US' stupid custom). If you want to look where stuff gets missing, go blame e.g. Russia or some underdeveloped countries.
_Loaded_ - yes. _Rendered_ - no. If you can watch it redraw the background picture twice on loading or on resizing or on scolling (okay, not this dummy page, but similar ones), that's not instant, It takes ~1.5seconds.
That's right. This macro (defined elsewhere in the autoconf package) uses AC_TRY_RUN without a default clause. So instead of recovering nicely, the configure script dies when it tries to do this test. The only way to get around this is to modify/usr/share/autoconf/acspecific.m4 or not do the test!
Those test have been greatly improved in 2.5x, but there are of course lots of test that you just can't do on the host machine. Solution: Run those tests once on your target machine and add the result to your site-specific file. You can't expect autoconf to solve something that is impossible to solve.
I use the middle button to open links in a new window, and when I accidentally click a blank spot I end up with some random text from my clipboard in the address bar. Can this feature be turned off?
Konqueror has a clear button beside the address bar, which seems like a better solution. You can also right-click on the address bar and select "empty contents". It shouldn't be too hard for Mozilla to implement something like this.
Unfortunately, Konqueror supports the middle-click as well. Very annoying. Middle-clicking on the clear button to insert clipboard would be nice, as well as beeing able to move links onto it (since eg the image plugin won't recognize them).
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Putting "Xft.core: true" into your.Xresources may help.
Ah, now that's a good advice - now the fonts show up.
Konsole just prints out a warning like QFontDatabase::font: Style not found for
neep, none, iso8859-1 for most fonts that are no AA fonts, when selecting fonts, and it won't use those. Hmmm! What am I missing here? I do switch off AA for mono spaced fonts.
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A lot of the problems come from badly configured X setups
The point is not having AA fonts, but the disapperance of non-AA fonts. I removed all fonts except fixed and Agate, and set my konsole to fixed. Without AA, I have both, bot Agate is of course not AA'ed. When I select AA, Agate is AA'ed, but my konsole can't access fixed and uses Agate instead - which isn't even monospaced. Bingo. What do I do?
For your other issues, you probably want an actual core KDE developer to comment (I hope that you have at least filed the problems as bugs on http://bugs.kde.org ?)
I have to admit beeing lazy in submitting bugs, espacially if they're known or blazingly obvious. The encoding problem was possibly one of Qt. Though I'd like to hear some educated comments as wel:-)
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Sure, if you want to run the terminal without AA'd fonts, just type in QT_XFT=0 konsole
Ha ha ha. Very funny. I want to have all fonts available, and decide in XftConfig whether I want them to be anti-aliased or not. Now, what do I set QT_XFT to if I want my KDE fixed width font not to be AA'ed, but instead my title font? Bingo.
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Not really -- KDE 2 does anti-aliasing very well.
Really? Actually I tried quite a lot to get everythin working. Actually, I had anti-aliased fonts. Checking the anti-aliasing switch (ie setteing QT_XFT=1 within KDE) would give me lots of nice-looking fonts. Except - all non-anti-aliased fonts disappeared. So, if you're the expert, please tell me how to have the same set of fonts with and without anti-aliasing, because anti-aliases fonts for headlines give headaches if you want to use them in a terminal. Also, the XftConfig file is damn bad documented - it says what you can do, but there is no documentation about what actually those chaanes are applied to - request for specific fonts (with what information)? Or list of available fonts? Or...? And XFT_DEBUG=1024 isn't helpfull as well.
Also, KDE has a big font selection problem. You can't use iso-8859-15 fonts (ie with the EUR) if you have iso-8859-1 fonts installed. Konsole for example just won't let you choose anything else than iso-8859-1, Standard or UTF8. You can't even set it in the preference file because it just doesn't contain the encoding (and the strig to identify the font is undocumented, but maybe you can shed some light on it).
True, Workbench had a CLI. But almost no one used it. Sure, it was useful, but the bulk of activity could be done via menus, and avoiding the notion of a shell entirely.
Huh? Seems I missed something. I used it all the time - there is no better way to ssh somewhere than using ViNCed as your terminal. No to forget about mutt and micq.
Actually, the thing I miss most from AmigaOS (not AmigaDOS, which is just - the DOS) is the differentiation between "save" and "use": In KDE, you can "Use" a preference change, but it actually means "Save"ing it to use it forever. Hence, "Revert to last saved" is also missing.
just about everything has caught up with the Amiga.
Not really[tm]. Look at KDE. What do you see? "Use" and "Cancel" in the preferences. What does it mean? Well, "Use" means "Save", and "Use" and "Revert to last saved" are just missing. Check out the (AmigaOS) style guide. This is a basic user interface issue that KDE fails at, and one that makes KDE suck.
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to give aid to strangers whom they shared nothing with except the distinction of being Americans.
Aha[tm]. Of being Americans. Like all people in WTC where Americans as well? rrrright.:-(
The Germans most definitely have adopted English terminology albeit germanised. The resulting 'Denglish' is amusing.
Actually, I feel I have to vomit if I see such words, though there are some words that have really made it, like "booten" for "to boot" (and
although there is a pretty good native word, namely "hochfahren", with "herunterfahren" beeing the natural opposite). But I also have to vomit for constructs like "Stöberer" for "browser". There are words you need some time to find a proper translation (like "einhängen" for "to mount", I didn't come up with it!), and there are words where there just isn't a genuine translation (like for "offline", anyone?).
The funny thing about Denglish is that there are people who can't give a description of their job in German, but use invented pseudo-English words instead... Isn't that embarrassing?
But back to topic: There is no use going to a country, when you don't speak a word at all. At work, you say more than just a bunch of computer science terms, and life is more than just work. Besides, it is arrogant if you go to a country and expect everybody to speak your language. That's not a flame, but expect people to perceive it that way!
you can define your own protocols and assign program (or URLs!) to handle them!
Cool! I always wanted that aminet: kind of
url that would find a file on the mirror the
user chose in the preferences... But wait,
it doesn't run on my Amiga box. Too bad.
There is no way in hell I am giving these companies permission to withdraw their billing amounts directly from my account. I find at least one mistake on each credit card bill and my cable and utility bills screw up at least once a year each.
Good luck you know what you're talking about.
If you don't want to give them your permission, well, there are other choices. Like tranfering
the money directly to their bank account, impossible in the US (I'v lived there for a year,
I know what I'm talking about). That way,
you can check first the bill and then pay.
But it hasn't been invented in the US yet. Too bad.
Anyway, you have 10 days after you get your
account statement to undo the withdrawel if
it is in error. Costs them 10DEM (so they take
care their bill is ok...).
Europeans are much more used to turning over their lives to government and then complaining
that nothing gets done.
Hello? Someone there? This has nothing,
absolutely nothing to do with government.
This is another example of that and another reason that Silicon Valley did not and could
not have happened there. [bla bla bla]
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mICQ logs all messages. And status changes if you want.
But actually, pretty much all clients do so...
Correct, however, the current version is described here. And add to this the necessarity to have different versions of the same protocol, you really have a huge mess.
Did I ever mention that SlashCode sucks?
Correct, however, the current version is described here. And add to this the necessarity to have different versions of the same protocol, you really have a huge mess.
That greatly depends on the receiver's telco. In Germany e.g., sending to T-D1 is quite reliable (other providers, on the other hand, don't work at all).
Mod this up - I unfortunately don't have moderator access today...
Which is probably also true for the German, the French and the Swiss postal service.The same is probably true for nearly every postal service in Europe. The only packages gone missing or returned after months have happened with the US postal office, so "of course" it has to be only their fault (actually, it was the US' stupid custom). If you want to look where stuff gets missing, go blame e.g. Russia or some underdeveloped countries.
_Loaded_ - yes. _Rendered_ - no. If you can watch it redraw the background picture twice on loading or on resizing or on scolling (okay, not this dummy page, but similar ones), that's not instant, It takes ~1.5seconds.
If you want an example of how slow Opera renders a simple page, have a look at this page.
Yeah, and that's why 129.13.64.202 (proxy2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) is not a proxy and located in US/California in San Francisco. Cool.
That's right. This macro (defined elsewhere in the autoconf package) uses AC_TRY_RUN without a default clause. So instead of recovering nicely, the configure script dies when it tries to do this test. The only way to get around this is to modify /usr/share/autoconf/acspecific.m4 or not do the test!
Those test have been greatly improved in 2.5x, but there are of course lots of test that you just can't do on the host machine. Solution: Run those tests once on your target machine and add the result to your site-specific file. You can't expect autoconf to solve something that is impossible to solve.
Unfortunately, Konqueror supports the middle-click as well. Very annoying. Middle-clicking on the clear button to insert clipboard would be nice, as well as beeing able to move links onto it (since eg the image plugin won't recognize them).
Ah, now that's a good advice - now the fonts show up. Konsole just prints out a warning like QFontDatabase::font: Style not found for neep, none, iso8859-1 for most fonts that are no AA fonts, when selecting fonts, and it won't use those. Hmmm! What am I missing here? I do switch off AA for mono spaced fonts.
The point is not having AA fonts, but the disapperance of non-AA fonts. I removed all fonts except fixed and Agate, and set my konsole to fixed. Without AA, I have both, bot Agate is of course not AA'ed. When I select AA, Agate is AA'ed, but my konsole can't access fixed and uses Agate instead - which isn't even monospaced. Bingo. What do I do?
For your other issues, you probably want an actual core KDE developer to comment (I hope that you have at least filed the problems as bugs on http://bugs.kde.org ?)
I have to admit beeing lazy in submitting bugs, espacially if they're known or blazingly obvious. The encoding problem was possibly one of Qt. Though I'd like to hear some educated comments as wel :-)
Ha ha ha. Very funny. I want to have all fonts available, and decide in XftConfig whether I want them to be anti-aliased or not. Now, what do I set QT_XFT to if I want my KDE fixed width font not to be AA'ed, but instead my title font? Bingo.
Really? Actually I tried quite a lot to get everythin working. Actually, I had anti-aliased fonts. Checking the anti-aliasing switch (ie setteing QT_XFT=1 within KDE) would give me lots of nice-looking fonts. Except - all non-anti-aliased fonts disappeared. So, if you're the expert, please tell me how to have the same set of fonts with and without anti-aliasing, because anti-aliases fonts for headlines give headaches if you want to use them in a terminal. Also, the XftConfig file is damn bad documented - it says what you can do, but there is no documentation about what actually those chaanes are applied to - request for specific fonts (with what information)? Or list of available fonts? Or...? And XFT_DEBUG=1024 isn't helpfull as well.
Also, KDE has a big font selection problem. You can't use iso-8859-15 fonts (ie with the EUR) if you have iso-8859-1 fonts installed. Konsole for example just won't let you choose anything else than iso-8859-1, Standard or UTF8. You can't even set it in the preference file because it just doesn't contain the encoding (and the strig to identify the font is undocumented, but maybe you can shed some light on it).
Mod the parent up!
Huh? Seems I missed something. I used it all the time - there is no better way to ssh somewhere than using ViNCed as your terminal. No to forget about mutt and micq.
Actually, the thing I miss most from AmigaOS (not AmigaDOS, which is just - the DOS) is the differentiation between "save" and "use": In KDE, you can "Use" a preference change, but it actually means "Save"ing it to use it forever. Hence, "Revert to last saved" is also missing.
Not really[tm]. Look at KDE. What do you see? "Use" and "Cancel" in the preferences. What does it mean? Well, "Use" means "Save", and "Use" and "Revert to last saved" are just missing. Check out the (AmigaOS) style guide. This is a basic user interface issue that KDE fails at, and one that makes KDE suck.
Aha[tm]. Of being Americans. Like all people in WTC where Americans as well? rrrright. :-(
Actually, I feel I have to vomit if I see such words, though there are some words that have really made it, like "booten" for "to boot" (and although there is a pretty good native word, namely "hochfahren", with "herunterfahren" beeing the natural opposite). But I also have to vomit for constructs like "Stöberer" for "browser". There are words you need some time to find a proper translation (like "einhängen" for "to mount", I didn't come up with it!), and there are words where there just isn't a genuine translation (like for "offline", anyone?).
The funny thing about Denglish is that there are people who can't give a description of their job in German, but use invented pseudo-English words instead... Isn't that embarrassing?
But back to topic: There is no use going to a country, when you don't speak a word at all. At work, you say more than just a bunch of computer science terms, and life is more than just work. Besides, it is arrogant if you go to a country and expect everybody to speak your language. That's not a flame, but expect people to perceive it that way!
Moderators, please mod this up - this is not the usual bash-everything-blamed-in-the-article.
you can define your own protocols and assign program (or URLs!) to handle them!
Cool! I always wanted that aminet: kind of url that would find a file on the mirror the user chose in the preferences... But wait, it doesn't run on my Amiga box. Too bad.
There is no way in hell I am giving these companies permission to withdraw their billing amounts directly from my account. I find at least one mistake on each credit card bill and my cable and utility bills screw up at least once a year each.
Good luck you know what you're talking about. If you don't want to give them your permission, well, there are other choices. Like tranfering the money directly to their bank account, impossible in the US (I'v lived there for a year, I know what I'm talking about). That way, you can check first the bill and then pay. But it hasn't been invented in the US yet. Too bad.
Anyway, you have 10 days after you get your account statement to undo the withdrawel if it is in error. Costs them 10DEM (so they take care their bill is ok...).
Europeans are much more used to turning over their lives to government and then complaining that nothing gets done.
Hello? Someone there? This has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with government.
This is another example of that and another reason that Silicon Valley did not and could not have happened there. [bla bla bla]
Get on topic again. Stop phantasizing. Thanx.
I do see 12 DEM per year pretty reasonable...