The fact that I cannot select a portion of picture in the Gimp, press CTRL-C to copy it, then paste it witvc CTRL-V in KWrite is the worst thing in Linux desktop currently.
Printing problems are a common thing too... I frequently need to copy text on webpage from Mozilla to kedit to print it as Mozilla doesn't see any of CUPS printers wouthout installing xprint-mozdev package. Xprint-mozdev is also still a bit immature, has problems with regional characters.
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How many of you use google to lookup resources these days? I find it much more convenient to look through a website using google to search on specific terms. Your answer shows lack of insight into the situation.
Then why use DNS at all? It's a service which has only one aim: to substitute IP addresses hard to remember by humans with something more memorizable (Well, you can say "Round-robin DNS records for providing clusters", but there are better ways for providing redundance).
DJB's proposed solution is worse than getting rid of DNS and using v4 or even v6 IP's in yperlinks and bookmarks.
The fact is, when I want to go to slashdot.org, openoffice.org or mozilla.org I type them into location bar (and the browser usually autocompletes them from history if I were working on that machine before).
I've run a scanner from CERT on our corporate servers and discovered that most of them were vulnerable.
I've pointed out the fact to our sysadmins, and the reply was something along the lines:
"Yes, we know that, but unfortunately installing W2K Service Pack 2 on a server in the past screwed lots of things up, the application became a mess and we had to install it on unpatched server to get it working, so we don't risk updating anymore."
Just yesterday I had this experience on Mandrake 9.1 (it uses supermount for CD-ROMs and floppies, and causes some OPEN syscalls to return results which make many apps go belly-up):
I've run XMMS 1.2.7, wanted to add a directory of files to the playlist. Later, when I analyzed the problem with strace, it came out that XMMS tried to access/mnt/floppy handled by Mandrake's supermount. Had it been/mnt/cdrom, it would block/mnt/cdrom.
Anyway, XMMS instantly crashed after I clicked "Add dir".
I re-run XMMS, and did the same thing. Now XMMS hung, left the window open. Xkill didn't close it. Running kill didn't kill the process, kill -9 too.
One of xmms processes was left defunct, as "ps xuwa" has shown. I had to _reboot the system_ to get rid of that hanging XMMS. It blocked the soundcard device, so I couldn't just launch another instance to play music.
To submit your idea you will have to write your idea in a file and add it to PADB using CVS. If you do not have access to CVS you can simply mail the ideas to a human that has access to CVS
What CVS? To which human? A contact address and CVS access instructions are needed on that site. This project does not lie in my definition of "organized":(
The different components have different strengths. I rate Star / Open Office Writer very highly, it does allow you to structure documents well and it's support for tables is excellent, one of the few areas where it betters Microsoft office.
I'd disagree with that. Table subsystem in OpenOffice Writer has a critical architectural design issue which makes it impossible for a single table cell's contents to flow between pages. Most corporate documents I've seen intensively use tables in their layout and cells that need to span multiple pages are quite common.
Most web pages use tables for layout too and when imported into Writer they suffer badly from this bug.
OpenOffice Writer tries to accomodate each table cell within boundaries of one page. If a cell is too long, its contents overflow below the bottom margin of that page and become invisible, while instead they should be taken to the next page.
This problem has been known in OpenOffice IssueZilla for a very long time in the form of two bugs and their multiple duplicates: issue 2913 and issue 4746.
It was present in StarOffice before OpenOffice.org has been launched and is still present now in OpenOffice 1.1 Beta2 and StarOffice 6.
They plan to fix it with a rewrite of Writer's table subsystem, but it is planned for OpenOffice 2 which stands for undefined future.
Yes, server to server connections are a normal thing in Jabber. In fact, a jabber userID (the JID which identifies a user or a service on a server) resembles an e-mail address - it has a form of: user@domain.
For example I've created a simple HOWTO on setting up server to server connections with Jabberd 1.4.2 on OpenBSD, you can read it here.
Moreover, Jabber protocol uses UTF-8 encoding for all communication and config files, so there are no problems with different character encodings - you don't have to mess with anything to write messages with polish diacritical characters, chinese, cyrillic or arabic!
Actually, the Jabber protocol is gaining quite a big popularity here in Poland as more people are getting tired with local proprietary IM system called GaduGadu which provides the official client only for windows (although multiple unofficial have been created for Linux and BSD).
There's also a central web site for Jabber in Poland, and already there are multiple public servers like chrome.pl or jabber.atman.pl.
The largest polish web portal, Wirtualna Polska has even provided its own public Jabber server and has developed official client that supports voice and video chat through Jabber!
It's good to see Australia go in the same direction!
So, Outlook is this huge pipe for virii, worms and spam leading me to wonder.....why is anyone still using Outlook?
Excellent point. Especially amazing when so many free Windows alternatives exist:
Pegasus Mail does much more than Outlook...
PocoMail does everything you need, and is secure
The Bat is used by many, as a secure alternative
Personally, I use only JBMail, which strips out HTML and has no scripting
Sorry, but this is untrue that those clients do much more than Outlook - you're only thinking about e-mail, while Outlook+MS Exchange is a fully featured personal information system. Can any of the programs you've mentioned do the following:
Shared multi-user calendar, tasks, notes, journal folders
Delegation of rights (so you can post messages in someone else's name)
Easy to use server-side message filters (rules) and out-of-office assistant
Server-side public folders and easy to use UI to set permissions on them
Palm sync of address book, calendar and tasks
Automated message status tracking (e.g. summaries for messages that arranged a voting)
Server-side mail folder views (so you can create a view for you inbox to e.g. show only the messages you've replied to on a timeline instead of a table)
BTW, I don'te really need those features, so I use Mozilla on Linux, but our company's president doesn't have much choice...
You can copy the training.dat file that lives in your Mozilla profile directory, take it with you and place it on the new machine in addition to configuring IMAP account.
The training.dat file contains all the training data so far. Mine is about 800 KB now and doesn't grow significantly anymore - its size stabilised.
I believe the holdup was developing an integer only arithmetic implementation. Embedded devices don't usually have that powerful an fpu.
Anybody know how much progress has been made in this area?
See the mailing list here. There are people who try to optimize the Tremor codec to fit the power of popular embedded hardware, and one japanese guy from a hardwre manufacturer in Japan was asking in October for info about hardware requirements. So progress is definately being made.
I've bought my girlfriend a Nokia 5510 recently. It's great and has a radio and MP3 player, but it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis yet.
If there's any insider from Nokia here, can he/she shed some light on future plans? Does Nokia plan adding OGG support to phones that currently support MP3 playback?
I've tried to mark a portion of image in the Gimp, copy it to clipboard, and paste it in KPaint.
It failed.
BTW, Jamie zawinsky has written good article on X clipboard interoperability WRT different data types (text, image, audio...), titled "How cutting and pasting really works in X Windows, what Selections and Cut Buffers are, and how Emacs fits into the picture."
You can read it here: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Everything you need to be a certifying authority comes with openssl [openssl.org]. It even has a nice perl script to make it easy.
What Verisign and co have that you don't is their root certificates installed with the browsers by default.
Not really. OpenSSL lacks a robust OCSP server (the built-in one can only serve one connection at a time!) and relational database integration tools.
I know in my heart that there's no need for this on Unix, because you shouldn't run as root AND use rm -rf and THE decide that you shouldn't have done that. There are safeguards in place and, after all, since you're a Linux superuser, you're either good enough that you don't make that kind of mistake or the system isn't important enough for it to really matter.
You're apparently looking from a sysadmin's prespective, where the thing what matters is the all-important system installation and things in people's homedirs aren't as important (and your homedir only contains tarballs and other stuff you wouldn't miss hard since you backup those things on a regular basis).
But you missed the point of all that. Imagine that you're an ordinary user, working on your workstation and having lots of documents there. All your work work, worth a year of sitting at the desk, resides in a single directory tree you've called "docs".
If you delete it, you've lost a year of your work. What value in comparison has a system configuration in/etc, or the whole/usr tree, which can be restored in an hour just by reinstalling the desktop distro from CDs?
UNIX file permissions mean nothing here, they are not safeguards from yourself. Things you value most on your computers HDD are the things you have created - things that you have full write (and delete) access to!
But no, I don't read bugtraq for the sheer joy and I usually wait for RPMs to come out before I install a patch.
But you know, there's one easy method to be notified: almost all opensource server projects have an announce or security-announce mailing list. For each daemon you run that listens on a network port, find the announce mailing list, subscribe to it, and you won't have to read Bugtraq - you'll be notified of security vulnerabilities only when they apply to you.
It would be the equivalent of Microsoft giving away a Linux distribution "MS Linux" that crashes often, doesn't run most of the GNU programs (gcc included), has a different set of C libraries with their own quirks, and uses a really old version of Gnome as a fixed, non-configurable GUI.
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The fact that I cannot select a portion of picture in the Gimp, press CTRL-C to copy it, then paste it witvc CTRL-V in KWrite is the worst thing in Linux desktop currently.
Printing problems are a common thing too... I frequently need to copy text on webpage from Mozilla to kedit to print it as Mozilla doesn't see any of CUPS printers wouthout installing xprint-mozdev package. Xprint-mozdev is also still a bit immature, has problems with regional characters.
Then why use DNS at all? It's a service which has only one aim: to substitute IP addresses hard to remember by humans with something more memorizable (Well, you can say "Round-robin DNS records for providing clusters", but there are better ways for providing redundance).
DJB's proposed solution is worse than getting rid of DNS and using v4 or even v6 IP's in yperlinks and bookmarks.
Surely http://66.35.250.150 is better than, say, http://weoir123623tt23u4tgd2uwmnfskmhrlwhrjkqshfwh riwwyhwpurhuihrkjwehwhfh237wuhr4r272.slashdot.org?
The fact is, when I want to go to slashdot.org, openoffice.org or mozilla.org I type them into location bar (and the browser usually autocompletes them from history if I were working on that machine before).
I've run a scanner from CERT on our corporate servers and discovered that most of them were vulnerable.
I've pointed out the fact to our sysadmins, and the reply was something along the lines:
"Yes, we know that, but unfortunately installing W2K Service Pack 2 on a server in the past screwed lots of things up, the application became a mess and we had to install it on unpatched server to get it working, so we don't risk updating anymore."
Just yesterday I had this experience on Mandrake 9.1 (it uses supermount for CD-ROMs and floppies, and causes some OPEN syscalls to return results which make many apps go belly-up):
/mnt/floppy handled by Mandrake's supermount. Had it been /mnt/cdrom, it would block /mnt/cdrom.
I've run XMMS 1.2.7, wanted to add a directory of files to the playlist. Later, when I analyzed the problem with strace, it came out that XMMS tried to access
Anyway, XMMS instantly crashed after I clicked "Add dir".
I re-run XMMS, and did the same thing. Now XMMS hung, left the window open. Xkill didn't close it.
Running kill didn't kill the process, kill -9 too.
One of xmms processes was left defunct, as "ps xuwa" has shown. I had to _reboot the system_ to get rid of that hanging XMMS. It blocked the soundcard device, so I couldn't just launch another instance to play music.
The subject says it all.
http://www.nongnu.org/padb/
What CVS? To which human? A contact address and CVS access instructions are needed on that site. This project does not lie in my definition of "organized" :(
Opensource implementations will probably need to play catch-up to maintain interoperability. You can help too!
On this page there is centralised effort in reverse-engineering and documenting the protocol: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uck4/ICQ/. Get your packet sniffer running!
This SourceForge project is a library that implements the protocol, however, its development has stalled: http://libicq2000.sourceforge.net. It could really use implementation of new features, like support for per-message encoding TLV (Type-Length-Value).
That's understatement. In socialist Poland (e.g in 1970s/80s) waiting for a phone line could take years, sometimes more than twenty years!
I'd disagree with that. Table subsystem in OpenOffice Writer has a critical architectural design issue which makes it impossible for a single table cell's contents to flow between pages. Most corporate documents I've seen intensively use tables in their layout and cells that need to span multiple pages are quite common.
Most web pages use tables for layout too and when imported into Writer they suffer badly from this bug.
OpenOffice Writer tries to accomodate each table cell within boundaries of one page. If a cell is too long, its contents overflow below the bottom margin of that page and become invisible, while instead they should be taken to the next page.
This problem has been known in OpenOffice IssueZilla for a very long time in the form of two bugs and their multiple duplicates: issue 2913 and issue 4746.
It was present in StarOffice before OpenOffice.org has been launched and is still present now in OpenOffice 1.1 Beta2 and StarOffice 6.
They plan to fix it with a rewrite of Writer's table subsystem, but it is planned for OpenOffice 2 which stands for undefined future.
Yes, server to server connections are a normal thing in Jabber. In fact, a jabber userID (the JID which identifies a user or a service on a server) resembles an e-mail address - it has a form of: user@domain.
For example I've created a simple HOWTO on setting up server to server connections with Jabberd 1.4.2 on OpenBSD, you can read it here.
Moreover, Jabber protocol uses UTF-8 encoding for all communication and config files, so there are no problems with different character encodings - you don't have to mess with anything to write messages with polish diacritical characters, chinese, cyrillic or arabic!
Actually, the Jabber protocol is gaining quite a big popularity here in Poland as more people are getting tired with local proprietary IM system called GaduGadu which provides the official client only for windows (although multiple unofficial have been created for Linux and BSD).
There's also a central web site for Jabber in Poland, and already there are multiple public servers like chrome.pl or jabber.atman.pl.
The largest polish web portal, Wirtualna Polska has even provided its own public Jabber server and has developed official client that supports voice and video chat through Jabber!
It's good to see Australia go in the same direction!
Sorry, but this is untrue that those clients do much more than Outlook - you're only thinking about e-mail, while Outlook+MS Exchange is a fully featured personal information system. Can any of the programs you've mentioned do the following:
BTW, I don'te really need those features, so I use Mozilla on Linux, but our company's president doesn't have much choice...
... but I receive daily literally tons of e-mail offers about working at home, and for Real Money, That Really Works, you know?
the *best* car insurance is a to drive slowly...
You can copy the training.dat file that lives in your Mozilla profile directory, take it with you and place it on the new machine in addition to configuring IMAP account.
The training.dat file contains all the training data so far. Mine is about 800 KB now and doesn't grow significantly anymore - its size stabilised.
See the mailing list here. There are people who try to optimize the Tremor codec to fit the power of popular embedded hardware, and one japanese guy from a hardwre manufacturer in Japan was asking in October for info about hardware requirements. So progress is definately being made.
Look at bug 169638, comment #125.d =169638 #c125
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i
I've bought my girlfriend a Nokia 5510 recently. It's great and has a radio and MP3 player, but it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis yet.
If there's any insider from Nokia here, can he/she shed some light on future plans? Does Nokia plan adding OGG support to phones that currently support MP3 playback?
Isn't it a problem with design that it is misunderstood?
When you suprise the user, it's your design at fault, not the user.
Read Joel Spolsky's "User interface design for programmers".
I'm on Mandrake 9.0 - I have KDE 3 and Gnome 2.
I've tried to mark a portion of image in the Gimp, copy it to clipboard, and paste it in KPaint.
It failed.
BTW, Jamie zawinsky has written good article on X clipboard interoperability WRT different data types (text, image, audio...), titled "How cutting and pasting really works in X Windows, what Selections and Cut Buffers are, and how Emacs fits into the picture."
You can read it here:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
OK.
Use gpm to copy a fragment of a picture from Gimp into a text document in OpenOffice Writer.
Good luck.
Not really. OpenSSL lacks a robust OCSP server (the built-in one can only serve one connection at a time!) and relational database integration tools.
You're apparently looking from a sysadmin's prespective, where the thing what matters is the all-important system installation and things in people's homedirs aren't as important (and your homedir only contains tarballs and other stuff you wouldn't miss hard since you backup those things on a regular basis).
But you missed the point of all that. Imagine that you're an ordinary user, working on your workstation and having lots of documents there.
All your work work, worth a year of sitting at the desk, resides in a single directory tree you've called "docs".
If you delete it, you've lost a year of your work. What value in comparison has a system configuration in /etc, or the whole /usr tree, which can be restored in an hour just by reinstalling the desktop distro from CDs?
UNIX file permissions mean nothing here, they are not safeguards from yourself. Things you value most on your computers HDD are the things you have created - things that you have full write (and delete) access to!
Sssssh... Don't give them such ideas...
reminds me of a Dilbert strip.
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert- 20020819.html