Re:Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from Gestures?
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KDE Gesture Control
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Damn, I have the habit of always resting my wrists when I type [1]. I also do this when using the mouse, do you happen to know if that's correct behaviour?
[1] Well, I'm not resting them now and I'm typing slower and with more errors than before, also I have the tendency to have my wrists float away. Hope this will pass.
Okay. Start with this: why the hell does kwrite automatically copy selections into the clipboard whether I want it to or not? (Did that on RH6.0, anyway; I haven't really paid attention to whether it's been fixed since).
This is a feature in X, not a bug. If you don't like it, you can turn it off. Well, unless KWrite does it explicitly (as opposed to the general way most apps use). Now, the real question is why Redhat doesn't make this easily configurable.
I believe it is a bug in the current version of Qt, I also think Qt3 is going to fix it.
See, in X there are a couple of different clipboards, one is being used for selected text that can then be copied with the middle mouse button, another one is used as the traditional, Windows-like clipboard. The remaining clipboard(s) isn't/aren't used actually.
Now, the problem is (mind you, I don't use KDE and am only telling what I read) that the current Qt uses only one clipboard instead of both. So just be patient and the problem will be fixed.
As more and more governments start doing this I'm really planning to start using GPG on a regular basis. Not that I have a lot of interesting things to say but they don't have the right to know if I have interesting things to say IMO! If we all start doing this then those logs will be useless (ignoring Quantum computing for a moment here.. and Quantum key transportation would come to the rescue anyway;-D).
LICQ seems to be supporting SSL connections, I'm sure there's a plug-in for Windows but I couldn't find it. A more interesting thing that I found for Windows, however, is a PGP-ICQ plug-in. This plug-in is claimed to be open-source though the license seems to be one they invented themself [1]. Anyone care to port this thing? Perhaps they're willing to relicense to an(other) open-source license.
[1] I found this (I changed the formatting because of the lameness filter) at the top of PGPICQ.cpp and found no other license notices:
PGPICQ.cpp : implementation file
Copyright (c) 2000 Samopal Corporation.
All right are all right (tm)
For news and updates visit http://www.samopal.com/soft/pgpicq/
Email your comments to pgpicq@samopal.com
Free use and distribution of this source code allowed
under the condition of keeping this header intact.
PS: Are the Slashdot admins hosting Quake games or something? Uptimes are terrible lately. I've spent way to much time trying to get this thing posted.
Yes. But it's strange for a program that comes with source and that's for the most part distributed by other people (your distro, Ximian, etc.) who would probably remove the banners before packaging.
Yes, but those are free services. They didn't have the ones that would cost money available yet.
In fact, they only recently started to develop a framework for that (reef).
Now I have evidence to back up the things I've been saying for years. I'm a free software and open source fanatic, but at least I'm a REALISTIC free software and open source fanatic. Business need to make money.
You have zero evidence. Eazel was never able to test services, they didn't get enough funding to get to that point.
Eazel must have figured that so many people would want to get automated updates of Nautilus that they'd have a sustainable growth. Yeah, right. The customers who would use Nautilus are technical enough to use Ximian's update tools, Red Hat's update tools, or simple FTP downloads and RPM/APT/whatever.
I don't think they ever meant to make money from the service catalog. They always said they would have some free services.
I have a question about your nickname: why did you pick (startx) and not (startx&)? I don't understand the point in executing startx in a new shell but not sending it to the background.
Re:Sad to see people lose jobs, but otherwise...
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Eazel Come, Eazel Go?
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I didn't like Nautilus. I've tried to get used to it, it's ALWAYS slower than command line for me, and I've only been using CLI for about 9 months.
Perhaps you're just not the target audience. This is not a shame (hey, I like the CLUE too) but you should consider that before you start complaining.
I didn't like Eazel's attitude about distros other than Red Hat, especially early on when I was trying to get into the project. For the longest time during the preview phase, only RH6.2 binaries were available. It took a lot of effort to compile early Nautilus on non-RH systems.
True, although I did manage to install it fine on my SuSE distro at the time. Now that I use Debian I trust on Kitame to build and install it.
I didn't like the totally half-hearted feel of everything in Nautilus. The.desktop issue, rejection of the Cut/Copy/Paste idea without any substitute, glitchy themes, millions (exaggerating) of processes, the "My Documents" wannabe folder, services that NEVER EVER worked on any of my systems (I didn't spent more than ~30minutes trying to get them to work, but why should I have to try?), few file managing tools (lots of sugary file browsing tools...).
The.desktop issue was indeed a mistake, but this has been fixed by Ximian and merged into the official Nautilus tree. Cut/Copy/Paste is now available, drag 'n' drop was always there as a substitute. The millions of processes are just threads and Bonobo things AFAIK, what's wrong with that? I have no idea what the "My Documents" wannabe folder is actually. The services worked fine until recently. And what file managing tools did you miss?
I dunno. I can't claim to have produced much useful software myself. I do lots of bug reports and I give lots of feature feedback.
Same here for now:-).
I sort of think that Nautilus became such a mixed up, inconsistant, gnarled project because it was so corporate and so under the gun. So many pieces of Nautilus seem like they're just self-justification of Eazel's existance. There are some decent features in Nautilus, I don't feel it's crap. There were SO MANY boneheaded problems along the way, though! It's just so sad to see something that could've been good, but was just planned so poorly and executed so hurriedly.
I don't agree, the issues I did have with it were slowly being solved over time.
Anyway, I just hope people don't get the idea that Nautilus is the example of the rest of GNOME, and than the rest of GNOME is somehow gonna break down because they lost their newer file manager... there's PLENTY of great app development happening in GNOME, it'll become more apparent as GNOME gets closer to 2.0 and the piece's really start to come together.
Yes, like those KDE trolls that think GNOME is dead because Eazel isn't here anymore. That's just BS.
I'm not going to debate here if services will work but I think it's important to note that Eazel didn't fail because they didn't work but because they never got far enough to test their business plan.
The only problem is that djbdns and qmail (and Real Player) are not Open Source or Free Software. Consider it the only software poluting the Free Software spirit of the Red Hat distro (assuming the original poster is correct, I don't use RH).
Both programs were written (started) by D.J. Bernstein. You might also be interested in his djbdns security guarantee. It seems to be good software but it's just not Free.
Transgaming wants to port games and release them under a proprierty license initially and as soon as enough people have subscribed they want to merge the code with the main WINE tree.
We all know that Wine is a bit of a resource hog, since it emulates windows on top of another OS, and Windows is a resource hog on its own, so now you've got two hogs and that can only lead to trouble (anyone seen Hannibal?). Running natively makes the games much faster and gives linux the boost that it needs for people and organizations (like PC Mag that claims there's not enough apps for linux when the reverse is actually true).
Wine Is Not an Emulator! It doesn't emulate Windows at all, it just reimplements the Windows libraries and runs it *natively*.
Unlike with traditional applications where the GUI must really fit into a desktop environment, games do not have this problem. In fact, in games you should get the feeling that you're working with a console. If a good game interface is made it shouldn't be noticable on what platform you run the game.
This brings us to the game developers, they have a real choice: they can port the game to OpenGL or they can make it compatible with WINE, why should we decide for them? If a game company decides to use Wine then why not? If it runs fast on Linux then why complain about the underlying toolkit? Free software is supposed to be about openess and choice, not about locking vendors in to your platform, leave that to MS, Sony and Nintendo.
If we support more toolkits than Windows then perhaps most games will be written for Windows but every now and then there's going to be a game that's written for Linux specifically (if only something like Tux Racer, taqfh, etc.), this can be enough to make people consider Linux!
Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps there's a REASON some people are infertile?
I've been told it's because of polution, plastic, hot bathes and other stuff. I don't believe it's because we leave on an overpopulated plant.
Stopping infirtile people from having children isn't going to solve anything. If we'd have to be serious about this problem then we should have more general birth control like they have in China. But of course we shouldn't do that in Europe and the US because of the aging population... and because terminating old people is less accepted than abortion.
I might sound overly harsh, but if this continues, we'll have lots and lots of perfectly healthy, long-lived, incredibly weak and fragile human beings walking this planet.
We could of course genetically modify them so they wouldn't be weak and fragile.
P.S. I am somewhat on the same page with him about the cash donations. The idea of trying to donate cash in a way that keeps the money from going to creditors seems odd, perhaps even immoral. And what good will it do to contribute money to the Eazel company if it will go bankrupt for not paying its creditors?
I've been following the Nautilus mailing list and I believe the paypall system was set up kinda as moral support. They really seem enthousiastic when someone donates money... that, and you get a tshirt if you donate $20 or more:).
Think of it as a way to undo some of the harm the Slashdot, Gnotices and Powell trolls have done:).
This really sucks. How about an open source version of my.netscape.com... like a my.mozilla.org...
You seem to miss the point. A brief explenation of the problem:
The article is about RSS files, which are files used mostly by news sites and blogs. They contain a summary of the most recent topics on a site. RSS files were used by my.netscape.com to monitor multiple sites on your MyNetscape page, also they are used in Evolution and the Nautilus has the ability in CVS (under a "News" sidebar IIRC).
The problem here is that the RSS format was written in XML and used a DTD (document type definition) that was stored on the Netscape servers. Whenever *someone* *somewhere* tries to parse a RSS file the Netscape server is queried for the file and the RSS file is validated against it. So now that Netscape removed the file people don't get to see the RSS summary but get an error instead.
What could be done is putting a copy of the file on an alternate location and changing all RSS files to match the new URI... well, this could be done if it weren't for the fact that Netscape copyrighted the RSS DTD... the only sollution left is to change to the updated RSS format which doesn't depend on Netscape.
My feelings on the matter: If cloning were allowed, I think it would be important for us to accept them as equals in all respects.
I think we should even accept them as equals in all respects if cloning isn't allowed. Just because it will/would be banned in most parts of the world doesn't mean it can't/won't be done, if it is done then the clone should not suffer because of the parent's choice.
This is the wrong design. It should index if you're idle *and* you have moved/created/deleted files, and it should examine only the directories involved. This should take a fraction of a second.
I do believe they plan to do this eventually but I don't think it's as simple as you claim. You see, Medusa also indexes contents and I would think that it's not desirable to have Medusa index a 2000 pages long book every time you save it.
What it should do is schedule the book to be indexed and then do so when the computer is idle, also when someone searches for something should the indexer kick in.
Give it enough time. I'm sure the Medusa people have thought of this.
Nice idea but it disappoints me that there's almost no mentioning of a network (except for the cable modem that is).
After all, people having multiple TVs wouldn't want to buy a box for every TV they have. A sollution would be to make all interaction with the box go via the network. If I want to program the box to do something I point my browser at it and have a nice interface, unlike what I would espect from an application running on a TV screen. If I want to copy files to/from the machine I could use FTP, if I want to hack the software I could use SSH:-).
But of course it's not desirable to go to your computer every time you want to do something with the box. The perfect solution would be to have a network connection from the box to all TVs, and from all TVs to your PDA [1] (bluetooth anyone?). You could then do simple things like selecting a file to play or setting your alarm clock. If the PDA's screen would be to limitted then the TV screen could be used.
If bluetooth or something simallar doesn't get integrated into TVs and/or PDA's by that time then small stations could be placed near all TVs. They would be connected via the cable to the box and would be able to tell the box to send a certain peace of audio on a certain frequention which they would then send to the TV via SCART. Simple remote controls could then be used to communicate with the stations.
[1] Heck, all remote controls should be replaced by something like this.
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[1] Well, I'm not resting them now and I'm typing slower and with more errors than before, also I have the tendency to have my wrists float away. Hope this will pass.
I believe it is a bug in the current version of Qt, I also think Qt3 is going to fix it.
See, in X there are a couple of different clipboards, one is being used for selected text that can then be copied with the middle mouse button, another one is used as the traditional, Windows-like clipboard. The remaining clipboard(s) isn't/aren't used actually.
Now, the problem is (mind you, I don't use KDE and am only telling what I read) that the current Qt uses only one clipboard instead of both. So just be patient and the problem will be fixed.
LICQ seems to be supporting SSL connections, I'm sure there's a plug-in for Windows but I couldn't find it. A more interesting thing that I found for Windows, however, is a PGP-ICQ plug-in. This plug-in is claimed to be open-source though the license seems to be one they invented themself [1]. Anyone care to port this thing? Perhaps they're willing to relicense to an(other) open-source license.
[1] I found this (I changed the formatting because of the lameness filter) at the top of PGPICQ.cpp and found no other license notices:
PGPICQ.cpp : implementation file
Copyright (c) 2000 Samopal Corporation.
All right are all right (tm)
For news and updates visit http://www.samopal.com/soft/pgpicq/
Email your comments to pgpicq@samopal.com
Free use and distribution of this source code allowed
under the condition of keeping this header intact.
PS: Are the Slashdot admins hosting Quake games or something? Uptimes are terrible lately. I've spent way to much time trying to get this thing posted.
Yes. But it's strange for a program that comes with source and that's for the most part distributed by other people (your distro, Ximian, etc.) who would probably remove the banners before packaging.
Ads? I find that very strange. Perhaps they meant they were going to place ads on their service's pages, do you know?
Yes, but those are free services. They didn't have the ones that would cost money available yet. In fact, they only recently started to develop a framework for that (reef).
If you do want to return to the CLUE immediately you type: (startx&)
If never seen anyone use (startx).
On second thought. Perhaps '&' isn't allowed in a slashdot username.
I have a question about your nickname: why did you pick (startx) and not (startx&)? I don't understand the point in executing startx in a new shell but not sending it to the background.
They never planned to make any money from Nautilus directly but from their services. Too bad they never got to test them.
I'm not going to debate here if services will work but I think it's important to note that Eazel didn't fail because they didn't work but because they never got far enough to test their business plan.
Both programs were written (started) by D.J. Bernstein. You might also be interested in his djbdns security guarantee. It seems to be good software but it's just not Free.
Great, now we slashdotted free speech.
More info on their site.
Unlike with traditional applications where the GUI must really fit into a desktop environment, games do not have this problem. In fact, in games you should get the feeling that you're working with a console. If a good game interface is made it shouldn't be noticable on what platform you run the game.
This brings us to the game developers, they have a real choice: they can port the game to OpenGL or they can make it compatible with WINE, why should we decide for them? If a game company decides to use Wine then why not? If it runs fast on Linux then why complain about the underlying toolkit? Free software is supposed to be about openess and choice, not about locking vendors in to your platform, leave that to MS, Sony and Nintendo.
If we support more toolkits than Windows then perhaps most games will be written for Windows but every now and then there's going to be a game that's written for Linux specifically (if only something like Tux Racer, taqfh, etc.), this can be enough to make people consider Linux!
Stopping infirtile people from having children isn't going to solve anything. If we'd have to be serious about this problem then we should have more general birth control like they have in China. But of course we shouldn't do that in Europe and the US because of the aging population... and because terminating old people is less accepted than abortion.
We could of course genetically modify them so they wouldn't be weak and fragile.We normally inherit genes from our biological parents, the term GM is used when the child has genes that don't come from either parent.
Think of it as a way to undo some of the harm the Slashdot, Gnotices and Powell trolls have done :).
The article is about RSS files, which are files used mostly by news sites and blogs. They contain a summary of the most recent topics on a site. RSS files were used by my.netscape.com to monitor multiple sites on your MyNetscape page, also they are used in Evolution and the Nautilus has the ability in CVS (under a "News" sidebar IIRC).
The problem here is that the RSS format was written in XML and used a DTD (document type definition) that was stored on the Netscape servers. Whenever *someone* *somewhere* tries to parse a RSS file the Netscape server is queried for the file and the RSS file is validated against it. So now that Netscape removed the file people don't get to see the RSS summary but get an error instead.
What could be done is putting a copy of the file on an alternate location and changing all RSS files to match the new URI... well, this could be done if it weren't for the fact that Netscape copyrighted the RSS DTD... the only sollution left is to change to the updated RSS format which doesn't depend on Netscape.
What it should do is schedule the book to be indexed and then do so when the computer is idle, also when someone searches for something should the indexer kick in.
Give it enough time. I'm sure the Medusa people have thought of this.
After all, people having multiple TVs wouldn't want to buy a box for every TV they have. A sollution would be to make all interaction with the box go via the network. If I want to program the box to do something I point my browser at it and have a nice interface, unlike what I would espect from an application running on a TV screen. If I want to copy files to/from the machine I could use FTP, if I want to hack the software I could use SSH :-).
But of course it's not desirable to go to your computer every time you want to do something with the box. The perfect solution would be to have a network connection from the box to all TVs, and from all TVs to your PDA [1] (bluetooth anyone?). You could then do simple things like selecting a file to play or setting your alarm clock. If the PDA's screen would be to limitted then the TV screen could be used.
If bluetooth or something simallar doesn't get integrated into TVs and/or PDA's by that time then small stations could be placed near all TVs. They would be connected via the cable to the box and would be able to tell the box to send a certain peace of audio on a certain frequention which they would then send to the TV via SCART. Simple remote controls could then be used to communicate with the stations.
[1] Heck, all remote controls should be replaced by something like this.