The same editors that keep posting dupes and such?
You'd better set a higher bar that that.
Personally, I read these threads to get the same amusement that comes from the Weekly World News:
FLASH!!Batboy leads Weekly World News to Elvis' Secret Cave!!
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0) Mac users have Safari, and they will scream at any web site that breaks it. This also helps out Konqueror, since Apple tends to send back KHTML fixes.
1) IE has so many security holes that people are actually getting annoyed at it. This is the best thing to happen for my personal evangalism recently. In the last few weeks I've had more luck getting people to switch to moz than in the last year.
The big change for old hardware speed is OS. (Assuming that you want modern, recent software. "I've got Win95 on a pentium!!1!" trolls need not apply.)
Konqueror & Firefox run just fine with KDE 3.2 on my PII-400. Well, I rarely use Firefox, but it dosen't handle bad.
1) Install SuSE. 2) Plug in speakers, turn on. *Critical Step* 3) Increase volume until we can't hear you whine.
No, really - sound in KDE has always 'just worked'. To be fair, artsd dosen't (seems to be better these days) always play nice with the G-apps, but hey.
OK, you did it for the wrong reason, but you hit the nail on the head - Rich people (well, the self made ones anyway) got that way for basically one of two reasons: 1) They got lucky. 2) They are cheap bastards, where it counts.
I work in the same building as Warren Buffett. I've been in the elevator with him in the morning, and he's wearing a polo shirt and carrying a six-pack of coke. That's right, the second-richest man in the country is too cheap to buy the $.90 cokes from the cafeteria. Right product (since he basically owns Coke) at the right price. Warren's about as common as it gets, except for being f-ing smart and richer than everybody but Bill.
It's redundant because the 0th comment (the f-ing article) covered it.
From the NYT link: Told that the Democratic National Committee Web site runs on open-source software, Tony Welch, the national committee's press secretary, replied, "Oh, thanks for telling me." Later, after checking with his technical staff, Mr. Welch called back to say that open-source software was "the right technology at the right price."
Besides, if you can't figure out how to register with the NYT w/o giving up any real info, you've got bigger problems.
What the original asshat said was relies on bitmaps. It's inherently impossible to not rely on bitmaps, since the output is a bitmap - even if it was generated by a vector algorithm. He was so far in the buzzword forest that he couldn't see the pixelated trees.
I effectively use multiple desktops AND taskbar grouping. I like being able to close all of my Kuickshow windows at once, or move all bazilion Gimp windows to another desktop at once. Task grouping is an effective tool for managing multiple desktops.
Just because you don't (or can't) use task grouping, doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to.
Another idea for the 'fence' - it can be an electronic fence, kind of like electronic dog collars.
The supermarket near where I went to college installed this electric fence for the shopping carts, where one of the wheels would lock up when it sensed that the line was crossed.
"The fact is, Linux distros like Fedora, SuSE, and Mandrake are resource hogs, particularly running a big desktop environment like KDE or GNOME. So, you've got the following options: 1) upgrade your hardware, 2) use a slimmer window manager, 3) try Gentoo (compiled specifically for your HW), or 4) live with it."
No, No, No!!
I've been using SuSE since 6.1 (and therefore KDE 1.x) on the same P2-400, and it keeps getting faster. (except for KDE 2.0. That one kind of sucked.) I put in more RAM about three years ago (cut out the swapping) and that's about it.
How is Gentoo any faster than all of the i586 binaries and the customized kernel that SuSE ships? Can't be more than.00001% of the time the computer is waiting on ME.
Shit, if I tried to compile everything myself I'd damn near need a faster box.
Hopefully (but not that likely) they have to get approval from one of those secret wiretap judges (forget their real title) and there should be some sort of personal responsibility for the 'director.'
The military-industrial complex gets all of the best toys.
No, seriously, war profiteering used to be the main reason for wars. (see: Khan, Genghis; Bonaparte, Napoleon) The fact that it has moved to side effect over the years is a good trend. These things don't just stop.
I spoke without looking, figuring that somewhere in the gajillion mime types that show up, ogg could get at least two. Seems that we need a few more mime types.
Or, maybe we do it that way because common anything, be it courtesy or sense, isn't that common. 3000 users is a little big to know each by name and have a personal relationship. Hell, I'd bet that most of these people didn't even know who Mr. Winer was.
If it is not allowed by the TOS than users have a right to be outraged.
No.
IANAL, but for any sort of agreement to be binding, there has to be some 'consideration'. What does the host get for hosting your blog? Nothing? Then the response - the only one that should be expected- is 'sucks to be you.'
It's not that KDE and Windows offer a spacial-ish mode that makes it bad, it's that the GNOME people are foisting a method on users that they may not want - all in the name of useability. The fact that you have to use Gconf to turn it off makes it bad. The fact that the message sent by the developers (whether they mean it or not) is that deep trees are for losers, and we should all be like them.
Yes, the KDE way does have more options on by default. This is not a bad thing.
If you are building a computer for Mom or distributing a corporate desktop, you can turn off the features that aren't needed. There. Simple, done. Funny thing is, Mom and the corporate desktop probably don't need the same feature set, so they should have all of the options to pick from. KDE gives you all of the features and the power to do both.
As far as XP (can't verify this right now, since I only use Windows at work), the list of things in My computer is short - Physical Drives, Mounted shares, and the My documents folder. Control panel, et al, are hyperlinks on the sidebar (that you can't get rid of, arrggh.). The list is clear, and even warns you when you go trolling about in C: that you shouldn't be messing with it.
KDE - In the file manager mode of Konqueror, there is a little sidebar with seven icons - Bookmarks, Devices, History, Home, Network, Root, and Services. First, if you want to turn some of these off for your mom, you can right click and make the icon go away. By clicking back and forth between the Home and Devices tabs, she can move stuff just as easy, if not easier - she doesn't have to go and find the damn USB Stick window and move it to where she can drag to it, since it's all one window. Besides, there's also a "open folders in separate windows" checkbox in the first configure screen for Konqueror.
Windows- when you click on the my computer icon, you get a few icons, included within are the My Documents, My Pictures, CD-ROM (or burner, or DVD..) and an icon for the USB stick pops up when I stick it in. Never need to click on the C Drive link.
Seriously - the GNOME team took an old cow (open in new window), put on a wig (remember where the window was) and wondered why nobody wanted to take her to the prom.
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The same editors that keep posting dupes and such?
You'd better set a higher bar that that.
Personally, I read these threads to get the same amusement that comes from the Weekly World News:
FLASH!! Batboy leads Weekly World News to Elvis' Secret Cave!!
0) Mac users have Safari, and they will scream at any web site that breaks it.
This also helps out Konqueror, since Apple tends to send back KHTML fixes.
1) IE has so many security holes that people are actually getting annoyed at it.
This is the best thing to happen for my personal evangalism recently. In the last few weeks I've had more luck getting people to switch to moz than in the last year.
Forget the browser. No, well, put it to the side.
The big change for old hardware speed is OS. (Assuming that you want modern, recent software. "I've got Win95 on a pentium!!1!" trolls need not apply.)
Konqueror & Firefox run just fine with KDE 3.2 on my PII-400. Well, I rarely use Firefox, but it dosen't handle bad.
Konqueror gives:
An error occurred while loading http://http//www.ebay.com:
Unknown host http
Which, as far as I can tell, is the correct answer.
1) Install SuSE.
2) Plug in speakers, turn on. *Critical Step*
3) Increase volume until we can't hear you whine.
No, really - sound in KDE has always 'just worked'. To be fair, artsd dosen't (seems to be better these days) always play nice with the G-apps, but hey.
OK, you did it for the wrong reason, but you hit the nail on the head -
Rich people (well, the self made ones anyway) got that way for basically one of two reasons:
1) They got lucky.
2) They are cheap bastards, where it counts.
I work in the same building as Warren Buffett. I've been in the elevator with him in the morning, and he's wearing a polo shirt and carrying a six-pack of coke. That's right, the second-richest man in the country is too cheap to buy the $.90 cokes from the cafeteria. Right product (since he basically owns Coke) at the right price. Warren's about as common as it gets, except for being f-ing smart and richer than everybody but Bill.
This man also gives democratic, according to opensecrets.org.
It's redundant because the 0th comment (the f-ing article) covered it.
From the NYT link:
Told that the Democratic National Committee Web site runs on open-source software, Tony Welch, the national committee's press secretary, replied, "Oh, thanks for telling me." Later, after checking with his technical staff, Mr. Welch called back to say that open-source software was "the right technology at the right price."
Besides, if you can't figure out how to register with the NYT w/o giving up any real info, you've got bigger problems.
True.
Vector-based drawing is worth waiting for.
What the original asshat said was relies on bitmaps. It's inherently impossible to not rely on bitmaps, since the output is a bitmap - even if it was generated by a vector algorithm. He was so far in the buzzword forest that he couldn't see the pixelated trees.
It's one thing to predict great new features that don't actually exist, and yet quite another to do it.
By your logic, Duke Nukem Forever is the leading edge in games I can buy today.
Also, what's with the hangup on vectors? Don't know about you, but I've still got a bitmap monitor (i.e, a grid of pixels).
I call BS.
I effectively use multiple desktops AND taskbar grouping.
I like being able to close all of my Kuickshow windows at once, or move all bazilion Gimp windows to another desktop at once. Task grouping is an effective tool for managing multiple desktops.
Just because you don't (or can't) use task grouping, doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to.
If somebody talked about needing to do something gLabels excels at, would you suggest anything else?
Yeah, KBarcode.
True.
However, if this sort of thing wasn't reliable, it probably wouldn't be so effective with dogs.
Another idea for the 'fence' - it can be an electronic fence, kind of like electronic dog collars.
The supermarket near where I went to college installed this electric fence for the shopping carts, where one of the wheels would lock up when it sensed that the line was crossed.
So, bury some wire, and off you go.
"The fact is, Linux distros like Fedora, SuSE, and Mandrake are resource hogs, particularly running a big desktop environment like KDE or GNOME. So, you've got the following options: 1) upgrade your hardware, 2) use a slimmer window manager, 3) try Gentoo (compiled specifically for your HW), or 4) live with it."
.00001% of the time the computer is waiting on ME.
No, No, No!!
I've been using SuSE since 6.1 (and therefore KDE 1.x) on the same P2-400, and it keeps getting faster. (except for KDE 2.0. That one kind of sucked.) I put in more RAM about three years ago (cut out the swapping) and that's about it.
How is Gentoo any faster than all of the i586 binaries and the customized kernel that SuSE ships? Can't be more than
Shit, if I tried to compile everything myself I'd damn near need a faster box.
Yep.
It's missing for a reason.
Seriously.
Hopefully (but not that likely) they have to get approval from one of those secret wiretap judges (forget their real title) and there should be some sort of personal responsibility for the 'director.'
F-in A.
The military-industrial complex gets all of the best toys.
No, seriously, war profiteering used to be the main reason for wars. (see: Khan, Genghis; Bonaparte, Napoleon) The fact that it has moved to side effect over the years is a good trend. These things don't just stop.
F'in-A.
You sir, are correct.
I spoke without looking, figuring that somewhere in the gajillion mime types that show up, ogg could get at least two.
Seems that we need a few more mime types.
Or, maybe we do it that way because common anything, be it courtesy or sense, isn't that common.
3000 users is a little big to know each by name and have a personal relationship. Hell, I'd bet that most of these people didn't even know who Mr. Winer was.
If it is not allowed by the TOS than users have a right to be outraged.
No.
IANAL, but for any sort of agreement to be binding, there has to be some 'consideration'. What does the host get for hosting your blog? Nothing? Then the response - the only one that should be expected- is 'sucks to be you.'
But.......my file manager (and sometimes my browser) is launching the player based on the file extension.
What the hell do you use?
MIME-types, baby.
Extensions are for suckers. I mean, even Windows gets it now.
It's not that KDE and Windows offer a spacial-ish mode that makes it bad, it's that the GNOME people are foisting a method on users that they may not want - all in the name of useability. The fact that you have to use Gconf to turn it off makes it bad. The fact that the message sent by the developers (whether they mean it or not) is that deep trees are for losers, and we should all be like them.
I've never been a programmer; I've been a linux user since 1999.
I'm that end user you all keep hearing about.
Yes, the KDE way does have more options on by default. This is not a bad thing.
If you are building a computer for Mom or distributing a corporate desktop, you can turn off the features that aren't needed. There. Simple, done. Funny thing is, Mom and the corporate desktop probably don't need the same feature set, so they should have all of the options to pick from. KDE gives you all of the features and the power to do both.
As far as XP (can't verify this right now, since I only use Windows at work), the list of things in My computer is short - Physical Drives, Mounted shares, and the My documents folder. Control panel, et al, are hyperlinks on the sidebar (that you can't get rid of, arrggh.). The list is clear, and even warns you when you go trolling about in C: that you shouldn't be messing with it.
OK, have you used KDE or WinXP lately?
They both do this.
KDE - In the file manager mode of Konqueror, there is a little sidebar with seven icons - Bookmarks, Devices, History, Home, Network, Root, and Services. First, if you want to turn some of these off for your mom, you can right click and make the icon go away. By clicking back and forth between the Home and Devices tabs, she can move stuff just as easy, if not easier - she doesn't have to go and find the damn USB Stick window and move it to where she can drag to it, since it's all one window.
Besides, there's also a "open folders in separate windows" checkbox in the first configure screen for Konqueror.
Windows- when you click on the my computer icon, you get a few icons, included within are the My Documents, My Pictures, CD-ROM (or burner, or DVD..) and an icon for the USB stick pops up when I stick it in. Never need to click on the C Drive link.
Seriously - the GNOME team took an old cow (open in new window), put on a wig (remember where the window was) and wondered why nobody wanted to take her to the prom.