I admire any teacher with the guts to do that. Part of the problem is that some of these teachers are just concerned about their paycheck, and don't really care if someone is interfering with other students learning.
I'm sick of these yuppie kids with their cell phones. Phone rings in the middle of the lecture, usually with some annoying song that they think is so clever. The professor pretends to ignore it, even though all 200 people in the lecture hall turn around to see who it is. Half the time the yuppie has the nerve to answer it. "Yeah? I'm in class, what are you doing? I don't know, what are you doing this weekend?..."
Notice I said "was" self-sustaining. Now the community I'm referring to is a center of poverty in one of the poorest states in the U.S. Everyone there drives at least 20 miles to work at low paying jobs to put gas in their gas-guzzling cars so they can drive 40 miles to buy groceries. This is far from the self-sustaining community it was 80 years ago, when each family would make one trip a year, if even that, to the nearest city.
But if civilization were to suddenly come to an end, such a community could possibly form again. With the help of some "geeks"- technically minded people, some technology could be salvaged for the benefit of the community. It would not be an easy life, but I think we could survive. This was my point.
Perhaps I should add that all my friends and I grew up in a very rural area. We all worked on farms, our families grew their own food to an extent. The area we lived in was a self-sustaining community 80 years ago. I never claimed to be a genius (although I would say that some of my friends are). But compared to someone of our same technical skills who grew up in the suburbs, I would say we have more skills that would benefit our survival. It would not be an easy life, but I stand by my claim that as a community we would prosper.
Re:I think we'd have more important problems
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I have discussed these possible "end of civilization" senarios with my geek friends on numerous occasions. We concluded that computers were far from the top of are list of priorities. We also found that we possess numerous valuable skills and together we stand a good chance at surviving and prospering in a post-apocalyptic world. With our combined skills we could rebuild automobiles, distill ethonol for fuel, generate electricity from wind and water, forge our tools and weapons from scrap metal, make gunpowder, grow our own crops. We could build a self-sustaining community with nearly all the modern convieniences.
Choosing default texts
debug: found an old tmpdir:/tmp/eazel-installer.TGAHPL298
Trying to contact Eazel services, ignore any 404 warnings at the next line
warning: HTTP error 404 "Not Found" on uri http://triggerfish.eazel.com:8888/installer-string s-en.xml
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: Eazel Package System - rpm4
d: SOFTCAT host: triggerfish.eazel.com
d: SOFTCAT port: 8888
Writing logfile to/tmp/eazel-install.log...
Nautilus-Installer-ERROR **: file eazel-package-system-rpm4.c: line 197 (eazel_package_system_rpm4_query_foreach): should not be reached
aborting...
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debug: found an old tmpdir:/tmp/eazel-installer.TGAHPL298
Trying to contact Eazel services, ignore any 404 warnings at the next line
warning: HTTP error 404 "Not Found" on uri http://triggerfish.eazel.com:8888/installer-string s-en.xml
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: Eazel Package System - rpm4
d: SOFTCAT host: triggerfish.eazel.com
d: SOFTCAT port: 8888
Writing logfile to/tmp/eazel-install.log...
Nautilus-Installer-ERROR **: file eazel-package-system-rpm4.c: line 197 (eazel_package_system_rpm4_query_foreach): should not be reached
aborting...
When quoting from a book, one doesn't usually attribute the quote to a character, rather just the title and/or author. Why can't one do the same with a movie?
I am still concerned about Nautilus's lack of support for the.desktop file standard. *.desktop files are the standard for program launchers in both GNOME and KDE. Nautilus uses it's own file format for launchers on the desktop.
.desktop files specify an icon, a program to launch or url to open, and the text label and tooltip for more information. The translations for the text labels are contained in the.desktop file for localization. You can specify if a program needs to run in a terminal, or what programs to use to open, edit, or view a file. The same format is used for urls.
Nautilus's system is inconsistent and incoherent. Dragging a program from the GNOME menu makes a symlink to the excutable program. The icon is specified in.nautilus-metafile.xml. It also gets a "no write" emblem. The name that appears under the icon is the actual file name of the symlink (bad for localization). There is no way to specify that a program needs to run in a terminal. An entirely different format is used for urls, and this time the icon is specified in the file, not in.nautilus-metafile.xml.
I am not just complaining. I test Nautilus on a daily basis and file bug reports. I think this is a design problem that has been overlooked and is of greater importance than some people at Eazel believe. I sincerely want Nautilus to be the best file manager / desktop environmant possible.
What I wonder is: Why there aren't more partnerships between Helix^H^H^H^H^H Ximian and Linux distributions?
Ximian's upcoming package manager, Red Carpet looks like it will provide everything that Eazel Services and Redhat Network provide and be more flexible, as they already support nearly every major distro. The features I'm most looking forward to in Red Carpet are the channels for updates to your distribution and the unstable/ cutting-edge channel.
So why not partner with Ximian, since they will be providing the same service anyway? Is it because they haven't been making enough noise in the press lately?
"And since mozilla is already loaded with Nautilus, opening a web page will be as rapid as with m$ (since gnome would be "cheating" in the same way)."
Ah no, GNOME/ Nautilus is not cheating in that way. The Mozilla component is not preloaded, it is only loaded when you are viewing a webpage and unloaded when you are not.
I think not. I was informing the gentleman that this is in fact the way that Free software development works, and hoping to dispell the confusion caused by his misinterpretation of the article. How much more on topic can you get?
So now free software projects that use the Freetype library are going to be in trouble. IADNAL (I am definitely not a lawyer), so is it illegal to link to an illegal library? At the very least it won't be legal to distribute Freetype, which just about all Linux distributions do.
What really hurts is that the latest version of Xfree86 depends on Freetype for the Xrender extension, so there goes all hopes of Antialiased text for Linux down the drain.
I wonder what Eazel (the Linux software company founded by former bigshot Apple programmers) will think of this? They use Freetype for all the font rendering in their upcoming Nautilus desktop/ file manager.
Please lay off the crack. How is this redundant? No one else has asked this question, and I really wanted an answer. But now that it has been modded all to hell no one will read it, and no one will answer my question. Thanks a lot.
Why was my post modded down and this one modded up? This guy isn't even saying anything. Slashdot is going to hell and moderators are smoking crack.
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Another way to look at it this:
Once Wine works perfectly, every Windows program will run flawlessly under Linux.
If this is the case, then why in the world would anyone run Windows?
If no one runs Windows, then why would any company develop software for Windows, with all it's hidden APIs and such?
Of course this is a long way off...
That is rather rude. I suggest following the instructions from nautilus testing to get the latest hourly built rpms (or tarballs). I'm using it on Redhat 7, and it works except for the package view.
You can store files on their servers and access them from a web page or through the file manager, where they appear just like all the rest of your files. I haven't had a chance to try it yet. It will be one of the services they will charge for, and not one for which I am particularly interested in paying.
The ideal situation would be if NVidia released the source to the drivers they wrote. That way if something changed in XFree86 that would potentially break those drivers it could be fixed before Bad Things happen.
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I admire any teacher with the guts to do that. Part of the problem is that some of these teachers are just concerned about their paycheck, and don't really care if someone is interfering with other students learning.
I'm sick of these yuppie kids with their cell phones. Phone rings in the middle of the lecture, usually with some annoying song that they think is so clever. The professor pretends to ignore it, even though all 200 people in the lecture hall turn around to see who it is. Half the time the yuppie has the nerve to answer it. "Yeah? I'm in class, what are you doing? I don't know, what are you doing this weekend?..."
They deserve their brain tumors.
Notice I said "was" self-sustaining. Now the community I'm referring to is a center of poverty in one of the poorest states in the U.S. Everyone there drives at least 20 miles to work at low paying jobs to put gas in their gas-guzzling cars so they can drive 40 miles to buy groceries. This is far from the self-sustaining community it was 80 years ago, when each family would make one trip a year, if even that, to the nearest city.
But if civilization were to suddenly come to an end, such a community could possibly form again. With the help of some "geeks"- technically minded people, some technology could be salvaged for the benefit of the community. It would not be an easy life, but I think we could survive. This was my point.
Talk to Eazel about it, I just copied the text from my terminal. In fact, I dare you to file a bug report on it: http://bugzilla.eazel.com
Perhaps I should add that all my friends and I grew up in a very rural area. We all worked on farms, our families grew their own food to an extent. The area we lived in was a self-sustaining community 80 years ago. I never claimed to be a genius (although I would say that some of my friends are). But compared to someone of our same technical skills who grew up in the suburbs, I would say we have more skills that would benefit our survival. It would not be an easy life, but I stand by my claim that as a community we would prosper.
I have discussed these possible "end of civilization" senarios with my geek friends on numerous occasions. We concluded that computers were far from the top of are list of priorities. We also found that we possess numerous valuable skills and together we stand a good chance at surviving and prospering in a post-apocalyptic world. With our combined skills we could rebuild automobiles, distill ethonol for fuel, generate electricity from wind and water, forge our tools and weapons from scrap metal, make gunpowder, grow our own crops. We could build a self-sustaining community with nearly all the modern convieniences.
Output from Eazel's Nautilus installer:
/tmp/eazel-installer.TGAHPL298
g s-en.xml
/tmp/eazel-install.log ...
[root@the-shell eazel]# eazel-installer.sh --server=triggerfish.eazel.com --port=8888
Eazel Installer 1.0
Choosing default texts
debug: found an old tmpdir:
Trying to contact Eazel services, ignore any 404 warnings at the next line
warning: HTTP error 404 "Not Found" on uri http://triggerfish.eazel.com:8888/installer-strin
Choosing default texts
: Eazel Package System - rpm4
d: SOFTCAT host: triggerfish.eazel.com
d: SOFTCAT port: 8888
Writing logfile to
Nautilus-Installer-ERROR **: file eazel-package-system-rpm4.c: line 197 (eazel_package_system_rpm4_query_foreach): should not be reached
aborting...
SEGV (6) -- SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB.
Output from Eazel's nautilus installer:
/tmp/eazel-installer.TGAHPL298
g s-en.xml
/tmp/eazel-install.log ...
[root@the-shell eazel]# eazel-installer.sh --server=triggerfish.eazel.com --port=8888
Eazel Installer 1.0
Choosing default texts
debug: found an old tmpdir:
Trying to contact Eazel services, ignore any 404 warnings at the next line
warning: HTTP error 404 "Not Found" on uri http://triggerfish.eazel.com:8888/installer-strin
Choosing default texts
: Eazel Package System - rpm4
d: SOFTCAT host: triggerfish.eazel.com
d: SOFTCAT port: 8888
Writing logfile to
Nautilus-Installer-ERROR **: file eazel-package-system-rpm4.c: line 197 (eazel_package_system_rpm4_query_foreach): should not be reached
aborting...
SEGV (6) -- SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB.
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When quoting from a book, one doesn't usually attribute the quote to a character, rather just the title and/or author. Why can't one do the same with a movie?
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I am still concerned about Nautilus's lack of support for the .desktop file standard. *.desktop files are the standard for program launchers in both GNOME and KDE. Nautilus uses it's own file format for launchers on the desktop.
.desktop file for localization. You can specify if a program needs to run in a terminal, or what programs to use to open, edit, or view a file. The same format is used for urls.
.nautilus-metafile.xml. It also gets a "no write" emblem. The name that appears under the icon is the actual file name of the symlink (bad for localization). There is no way to specify that a program needs to run in a terminal. An entirely different format is used for urls, and this time the icon is specified in the file, not in .nautilus-metafile.xml.
.desktop files specify an icon, a program to launch or url to open, and the text label and tooltip for more information. The translations for the text labels are contained in the
Nautilus's system is inconsistent and incoherent. Dragging a program from the GNOME menu makes a symlink to the excutable program. The icon is specified in
I am not just complaining. I test Nautilus on a daily basis and file bug reports. I think this is a design problem that has been overlooked and is of greater importance than some people at Eazel believe. I sincerely want Nautilus to be the best file manager / desktop environmant possible.
What I wonder is: Why there aren't more partnerships between Helix^H^H^H^H^H Ximian and Linux distributions?
Ximian's upcoming package manager, Red Carpet looks like it will provide everything that Eazel Services and Redhat Network provide and be more flexible, as they already support nearly every major distro. The features I'm most looking forward to in Red Carpet are the channels for updates to your distribution and the unstable/ cutting-edge channel.
So why not partner with Ximian, since they will be providing the same service anyway? Is it because they haven't been making enough noise in the press lately?
"And since mozilla is already loaded with Nautilus, opening a web page will be as rapid as with m$ (since gnome would be "cheating" in the same way)."
Ah no, GNOME/ Nautilus is not cheating in that way. The Mozilla component is not preloaded, it is only loaded when you are viewing a webpage and unloaded when you are not.
I think not. I was informing the gentleman that this is in fact the way that Free software development works, and hoping to dispell the confusion caused by his misinterpretation of the article. How much more on topic can you get?
right here.
Chris Blizzard rocks. He builds (almost) daily Mozilla rpms for Redhat 6 and 7. At the above link you will find:
So now free software projects that use the Freetype library are going to be in trouble. IADNAL (I am definitely not a lawyer), so is it illegal to link to an illegal library? At the very least it won't be legal to distribute Freetype, which just about all Linux distributions do.
What really hurts is that the latest version of Xfree86 depends on Freetype for the Xrender extension, so there goes all hopes of Antialiased text for Linux down the drain.
I wonder what Eazel (the Linux software company founded by former bigshot Apple programmers) will think of this? They use Freetype for all the font rendering in their upcoming Nautilus desktop/ file manager.
Please lay off the crack. How is this redundant? No one else has asked this question, and I really wanted an answer. But now that it has been modded all to hell no one will read it, and no one will answer my question. Thanks a lot.
Why was my post modded down and this one modded up? This guy isn't even saying anything. Slashdot is going to hell and moderators are smoking crack.
Another way to look at it this: Once Wine works perfectly, every Windows program will run flawlessly under Linux. If this is the case, then why in the world would anyone run Windows? If no one runs Windows, then why would any company develop software for Windows, with all it's hidden APIs and such? Of course this is a long way off...
That is rather rude. I suggest following the instructions from nautilus testing to get the latest hourly built rpms (or tarballs). I'm using it on Redhat 7, and it works except for the package view.
You can store files on their servers and access them from a web page or through the file manager, where they appear just like all the rest of your files. I haven't had a chance to try it yet. It will be one of the services they will charge for, and not one for which I am particularly interested in paying.
The ideal situation would be if NVidia released the source to the drivers they wrote. That way if something changed in XFree86 that would potentially break those drivers it could be fixed before Bad Things happen.