That isn't a valid way of testing legitimacy. I get plenty of emails from companies for which I'm a customer that have links to their site in the email.
Case in point: Spacial Nautilus. It's a moronic idea. Just plain idiotic. Everyone absolutely despises it. It's a retarded throwback to file managers in 1985, which, you guessed it, sucked.
That's the most ignorant statement I've seen on this thread and that's saying something. I happen to love spatial nautilus and find I acutally use a file manager now. The browser model makes no sense to me as a way of managing files. For usability purposes operating systems are moving towards abstracting out the concept of file hierarchy. You shouldn't have to browse for files at all. The browser model is outdated for file management. It's a kludge to get around a deficiency in how files are found and accessed.
It has made me 10 times more productive. I'm not sure what you're talking about. I find I actually use the file manager now. A browser is fine if you want to browse around for files. I have no desire to do that. My files are more organized now and I can get to what I want much easier.
Lighten up, everyone. It's Independence Day. I know I'll be eating a lot of dead cow, drinking a lot of beer, and blowing things up. As messed up as it is, I love this country. As for the film, it has a lot of good points and a lot of lies...now back to my burger....
Nat Friedman's dashboard is absolutely nothing like Konfabulator. Doesn't even remotely do the same thing. The OS X Dashboard is basically a rip-off of Konfabulator, yes. But Nat's Dashboard and Beagle address the problem of searching/indexing metadata on the entire system and not throwing away data that can be useful later for searching.
And if you need a GUI builder you can always use glade-2 which ships with most distributions. I've designed practically the entire user interface for my little app, WoodPusher, in glade, and have been writing the code using MonoDevelop. Eventually there will be a new form designer for MonoDevelop which will not be based on glade at all, but in the meantime, glade gets the job done.
I'm serious. Maybe in your high school that is how you've been branded: as the "smart one." I know what that's like: I was valedictorian and received all kinds of awards for math and science. I hated the branding, though. College changed all that. I went to a good school where I was surrounded by pepole much smarter than myself. But no one cared. We did our work, made friendships, and socialized.
So to summarize, stop thinking of yourself as "uniquely bright," whatever that means. Go to a college or university and develop a social life. Chances are good that no one will really care about your merits in highschool or what your IQ is. It's time to grow up and live real life. High school is not real life.
You don't have to hit print screen. You can go to the actions menu on the panel and select 'Take Screenshot'. the print screen button is just a short cut. And what else would you use print screen for? Actually printing your screen to a printer? It seems much nicer to save the image first and then if you really want to print it, do so. There are lots of keyboard short cuts in every single desktop on the planet and none of them are really intuitive and they can't really be. Is alt-tab intuitive? No, it doesn't have to be...it's just a shortcut. Does that make it a lousy "metaphor"? No, it isn't a metaphor at all.
I know thousands of developers, actually. Most of them use Windows to do professional development. A handful use OS X. And I work with dozens of Linux developers who use GNOME. I never said developers who don't use full desktops don't exist, just that they are a small minority.
What integration benefits do you mean? This is an honest question.
For reference, this is approximately what my notebook desktop looks like right now.
On the first workspace I have a maximized terminal with multiple tabs. This is a gnome-terminal, meaning that I can do things like click on URLs in the terminal to open them in my default browser (epiphany 1.2.4).
On my second workspace, I have epiphany running. Any time I click on a link in a GNOME application (gnome-terminal, gaim chat window, Evolution, etc.) it opens in a new tab on this workspace. When I download a file in epiphany it automatically save in the Downloads folder on my desktop unless I specifically say "save as..." to save to another location.
On my third workspace, I have a busy gvim session. Gvim isn't as integrated with GNOME as I'd like, but at least it's a Gtk application. From time to time instead of vim on this workspace it's Bluefish or MonoDevelop or Eclipse.
My fourth workspace contains gaim and other small utilities and on my fifth workspace I have Evolution running. A common scenario for me is: I click on a link to a file in epiphany. A dialog pops up and I tell it to download. It automatically saves to Downloads. I flip to Evolution, compose a new email, With a click, I have my Downloads folder open. I drag the file I just downloaded to my attachment bar of the composer window to attach the file and send to my coworker. Then perhaps I open it myself to take a peek before sending the mail. Later if I want to access it I can just open it in my "Recent Documents" menu on the panel.
If I've downloaded an image file, say a wallpaper, I can right click on the desktop to change background and then drag and drop the file to the wallpaper changer to set it and add it to my list of available wallpapers.
In a matter of a few seconds I can select a few files in nautilus, right click and select "Create Archive" then drag the created tarball to an email to attach it.
When I pop in a CD the gnome cd player automatically opens and starts playing it. When I pop in a blank CD the nautilus CD creator automatically opens. I can drag files to the window and then hit "burn". I can right click on an ISO and select "Write to CD" and a click later it's burning the image. I can hit Print Screen to screenshot my desktop and get a preview of the screenshot before saving. I can likewise hit alt+Print Screen to screenshot an individual window. These are defaults. I don't have to tweak. I don't have to remember commands to type in a terminal. GNOME gets out of my way and lets me work. If I do need to change something, like configuring a new printer, the settings are all there in my menu. I don't have to vi some configuration file or restart a service from the command line.
In short, I spend less time fiddling and more time writing code.
I use my GNOME Desktop as a tool. I'm not sure why you think a full fledged desktop can't be used as a tool for getting real work done. I actually don't know a single developer who doesn't use a full fledged desktop. I think people like you who insist on using some minimalistic window manager and have an attitude about everyone else are a fringe minority. The rest of us enjoy the integration benefits a full desktop offers.
Unfortunately I've been too busy in the past 3 or 4 months to really work much on WoodPusher, however, I do have a plan to continue work very soon. The code you find in CVS doesn't run with the current Mono/Gtk# and my first priority is to update it to run. If anyone is interested in working on it, feel free to drop me a line. Currently it's a one-man show.
Then apparently you don't understand what is widely understood as "enterprise". Have you actually looked around lately at what the enterprise is? We're not talking about geeks in some shop somewhere who know Linux and love it. We're talking about mainstream deployments. There is no way Gentoo will be mass deployed any time soon at a Fortune 500 company. Period. Think about it for a few seconds. You'll get it...
6th: gentoo rox:) i would never, ever trade it for other distro....
what do you actually like about Gentoo? *why* does it "rock"? I'm honestly trying to figure out what the appeal is. I've been running Redhat/Fedora for years and it does everything I need it to. Why would I want to switch to Gentoo?
Sounds like you basically answered your own question. Use the best tool for the job. If windows allows you to do all that AND make the battery last - then maybe you should just use windows.
He didn't say that Windows lets you do everything Linux can, he said Linux on his laptop can do just about everything Windows can. Linux can also do things Windows can't.:) And really you're missing the point. Many of us have no desire to run Windows or any proprietary operating system. So we want to get the most of our laptop batteries.
I'm sorry, what the hell does finding water on Mars have to do with religious belief? I don't see anyone of any religious faith claiming that there was no water on Mars because their religion says so.
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That isn't a valid way of testing legitimacy. I get plenty of emails from companies for which I'm a customer that have links to their site in the email.
That's the most ignorant statement I've seen on this thread and that's saying something. I happen to love spatial nautilus and find I acutally use a file manager now. The browser model makes no sense to me as a way of managing files. For usability purposes operating systems are moving towards abstracting out the concept of file hierarchy. You shouldn't have to browse for files at all. The browser model is outdated for file management. It's a kludge to get around a deficiency in how files are found and accessed.
It has made me 10 times more productive. I'm not sure what you're talking about. I find I actually use the file manager now. A browser is fine if you want to browse around for files. I have no desire to do that. My files are more organized now and I can get to what I want much easier.
The cup is scanned at one point in the movie. Nothing shows up on the scanners. I think you need to rewatch it.
Lighten up, everyone. It's Independence Day. I know I'll be eating a lot of dead cow, drinking a lot of beer, and blowing things up. As messed up as it is, I love this country. As for the film, it has a lot of good points and a lot of lies...now back to my burger....
Nat Friedman's dashboard is absolutely nothing like Konfabulator. Doesn't even remotely do the same thing. The OS X Dashboard is basically a rip-off of Konfabulator, yes. But Nat's Dashboard and Beagle address the problem of searching/indexing metadata on the entire system and not throwing away data that can be useful later for searching.
And if you need a GUI builder you can always use glade-2 which ships with most distributions. I've designed practically the entire user interface for my little app, WoodPusher, in glade, and have been writing the code using MonoDevelop. Eventually there will be a new form designer for MonoDevelop which will not be based on glade at all, but in the meantime, glade gets the job done.
I've always advocated the .cum domain for all porn. It would solve a lot of problems.
So to summarize, stop thinking of yourself as "uniquely bright," whatever that means. Go to a college or university and develop a social life. Chances are good that no one will really care about your merits in highschool or what your IQ is. It's time to grow up and live real life. High school is not real life.
You don't have to hit print screen. You can go to the actions menu on the panel and select 'Take Screenshot'. the print screen button is just a short cut. And what else would you use print screen for? Actually printing your screen to a printer? It seems much nicer to save the image first and then if you really want to print it, do so. There are lots of keyboard short cuts in every single desktop on the planet and none of them are really intuitive and they can't really be. Is alt-tab intuitive? No, it doesn't have to be...it's just a shortcut. Does that make it a lousy "metaphor"? No, it isn't a metaphor at all.
I know thousands of developers, actually. Most of them use Windows to do professional development. A handful use OS X. And I work with dozens of Linux developers who use GNOME. I never said developers who don't use full desktops don't exist, just that they are a small minority.
For reference, this is approximately what my notebook desktop looks like right now.
On the first workspace I have a maximized terminal with multiple tabs. This is a gnome-terminal, meaning that I can do things like click on URLs in the terminal to open them in my default browser (epiphany 1.2.4).
On my second workspace, I have epiphany running. Any time I click on a link in a GNOME application (gnome-terminal, gaim chat window, Evolution, etc.) it opens in a new tab on this workspace. When I download a file in epiphany it automatically save in the Downloads folder on my desktop unless I specifically say "save as..." to save to another location.
On my third workspace, I have a busy gvim session. Gvim isn't as integrated with GNOME as I'd like, but at least it's a Gtk application. From time to time instead of vim on this workspace it's Bluefish or MonoDevelop or Eclipse.
My fourth workspace contains gaim and other small utilities and on my fifth workspace I have Evolution running. A common scenario for me is: I click on a link to a file in epiphany. A dialog pops up and I tell it to download. It automatically saves to Downloads. I flip to Evolution, compose a new email, With a click, I have my Downloads folder open. I drag the file I just downloaded to my attachment bar of the composer window to attach the file and send to my coworker. Then perhaps I open it myself to take a peek before sending the mail. Later if I want to access it I can just open it in my "Recent Documents" menu on the panel.
If I've downloaded an image file, say a wallpaper, I can right click on the desktop to change background and then drag and drop the file to the wallpaper changer to set it and add it to my list of available wallpapers.
In a matter of a few seconds I can select a few files in nautilus, right click and select "Create Archive" then drag the created tarball to an email to attach it.
When I pop in a CD the gnome cd player automatically opens and starts playing it. When I pop in a blank CD the nautilus CD creator automatically opens. I can drag files to the window and then hit "burn". I can right click on an ISO and select "Write to CD" and a click later it's burning the image. I can hit Print Screen to screenshot my desktop and get a preview of the screenshot before saving. I can likewise hit alt+Print Screen to screenshot an individual window. These are defaults. I don't have to tweak. I don't have to remember commands to type in a terminal. GNOME gets out of my way and lets me work. If I do need to change something, like configuring a new printer, the settings are all there in my menu. I don't have to vi some configuration file or restart a service from the command line.
In short, I spend less time fiddling and more time writing code.
I use my GNOME Desktop as a tool. I'm not sure why you think a full fledged desktop can't be used as a tool for getting real work done. I actually don't know a single developer who doesn't use a full fledged desktop. I think people like you who insist on using some minimalistic window manager and have an attitude about everyone else are a fringe minority. The rest of us enjoy the integration benefits a full desktop offers.
I wrote a paper on using mnemonics which you might find interesting
Alt+Print Screen takes a screenshot of one window. Print Screen takes a screenshot of the whole Desktop.
Unfortunately I've been too busy in the past 3 or 4 months to really work much on WoodPusher, however, I do have a plan to continue work very soon. The code you find in CVS doesn't run with the current Mono/Gtk# and my first priority is to update it to run. If anyone is interested in working on it, feel free to drop me a line. Currently it's a one-man show.
This move will seriously help push Linux further into the enterprise desktop. And anything that does that is bound to help Novell, you see.
The real miguel is http://slashdot.org/~miguel/
Then apparently you don't understand what is widely understood as "enterprise". Have you actually looked around lately at what the enterprise is? We're not talking about geeks in some shop somewhere who know Linux and love it. We're talking about mainstream deployments. There is no way Gentoo will be mass deployed any time soon at a Fortune 500 company. Period. Think about it for a few seconds. You'll get it...
what do you actually like about Gentoo? *why* does it "rock"? I'm honestly trying to figure out what the appeal is. I've been running Redhat/Fedora for years and it does everything I need it to. Why would I want to switch to Gentoo?
They'll ship Fedora Core 2 final with GNOME 2.6, but GNOME 2.6 isn't due to be released until March 31st...
Personally I think the nastiest of all is molten ice! Don't want to fall into a vat of that stuff...
He didn't say that Windows lets you do everything Linux can, he said Linux on his laptop can do just about everything Windows can. Linux can also do things Windows can't. :) And really you're missing the point. Many of us have no desire to run Windows or any proprietary operating system. So we want to get the most of our laptop batteries.
I'm sorry, what the hell does finding water on Mars have to do with religious belief? I don't see anyone of any religious faith claiming that there was no water on Mars because their religion says so.
PokerRoom.com has a nice Java interface that works great in Linux.