I'm not as impressed with M11 as I was with a nightly build I downloaded a couple of days ago. M11 crashes more often and it crashes harder, sprawling itself all over Windows, even corruping the display as it dies.
Also, it's much slower than recent nightly builds. I think it's just extra debug stuff, so that people reporting errors will be able to give more information, but I dunno.
I find it rather curious that there is a post about a beta starting up and no word about a project aimed at the same goal with finished software going up.
I find it curious that you didn't bother to name the project or provide a link to it. Is it the CSC one that's already been mentioned earlier, or another (possibly OGR)?
I don't need to be babied (I'm sure the AC trolls will disagree on this one, but then, ``Coward'' is the key part of that equation, mmm?)
On the other hand, utter boredom is the key part of the equation that shallow, one-note, anti-MS commenters insist upon solving again and again (for, presumably, their own amusement) -- in tremendous numbers.
No, I don't particularly like Mickeysoft, but how many tiresomely hyperbolic declarations of the instability of Win95 do we need?
Re:How to set up multiple mail folders in mutt?
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When when you want to access that mailbox, just run
mutt -f.
Kluuuuuuudge! Who wants to restart their MUA with a switch every time they want to check out a different folder?
But are you sure that's necessary? In playing with semi-recent versions of Mutt, I've found that it will let me poke around my Pine-made folders. I'd assumed that my difficulties in getting it to save to them were due to bugs or misconfiguration.
This is nice to hear, but in the press release, they only mention "Rage" chips(ets?) more recent than mine (a Rage + or something). Surely they'll publish the specs for the old stuff, too? I hope so.
Soon as I can, I'm gonna dash out and download all of that stuff that has "...and OpenGL." at the end of its requirements list.
MARS.EXE is cool. The terrain is a little repetitive, but you're right about the speed of it. And it's very pretty.
This "revolutionary" demo has nothing on it, and, as others have noted, stuff that's 5-10 years old beats this "Psi" stuff handily. I've seen better (voxel-based) work done in Turbo Pascal (no lie -- in one of the SWAG collections), and the frame-rate on my P166 is nothing to write home about.
There may be something interesting behind this demo, but, boy, it's sure not visible.
Digression:
Remember TIE Fighter, with the Gouraud-shaded, untextured polygon ships? If you ask me, framerate beats detail every time...
Note that after honking about how "Linux Needs Real World Proof Points Rather than Anecdotal Stories," they cheerfully present "Customer Testimonials" -- anecdotes, in other words.
"Real world proof points" isn't even English, and "Boeing uses it!" isn't proof of anything.
I think we should mass produce this device and sell it to every country in the world.
I was thinking along the same lines, but, really, why bother selling? Just give it away. Install a network of the things all over the world such that any missile launched from anywhere gets knocked out.
Washing is in fact very important, because the last thing you want to have happen is have some piece of radioactive dust fall on you and lodge in your skin.
No, the last thing you want to have happen is to inhale it deep into your lungs. Since it's probably only emitting alpha particles, getting it on your skin isn't terribly dangerous (though not, of course, at all desirable). The radiation is blocked by the outer layers of your skin, including the part that you'd ordinarily shed in short order anyway, and never makes it into your body where it can cause more serious trouble.
Since's its continuously generating radioactivity, you're almost guaranteed to have cancer in very short order
My, that's a large piece of dust you must be thinking about. The effects of such things are generally measured by the increased risk of developing cancer within your lifetime, however, rather than weeks until tumours develop... not a happy thing either way, but fallout sure ain't gonna melt your face off in the street.
we could build totally fail-safe plants today if we could get past the political obstacles.
Do tell.
We could also have disposed of all the spent fuel sitting in pools at nuclear plants by now, except for the anti-nuke political activists who do not
want to admit that the technical solutions will work
The only "technical solutions" I've ever heard of involve digging a really big hole, and I'm afraid that I don't trust the stuff to stay buried long enough. If we have to keep it around, I'm for keeping a close watch on it, not hiding it...
It then falls to Ivan to decide what to do next, according to my (wildly limited) understanding of the way they've got things set up. The warning system tells Ivan how many missiles are flying, and from where. If it looks plausible, he presses a button to set things in motion on his end.
This button, I understand, is labelled "Start."
After he clicks "Start," he chooses "Programs" from the resulting menu, then "Applications" from the submenu, then "ICBM Manager."
Now that we've got this giant "library-in-a-second" capacity, we've got to fill it with piles of encrypted traffic. The spy agencies will feel compelled to log, crack, and filter it all, thus consuming more resources and reducing the chance that they'll get up to naughty tricks in their (vastly reduced) spare time.
I think it's safe to say that they've got their listening devices hooked up. It'd be fun to turn on the firehose and rip their lips off.
Canada's national human genome project, an effort to map all the DNA in the human body, is using CA*Net3 to link 40 powerful computers to perform necessary calculations.
I hope this increases our chances of getting our genes into the public domain before one of the private efforts succeeds and claims the inevitable patents.
Re:2.0.38? What happened to the 2.2 tree?
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You say 2.2 is not stable enough for a server?
If my business depended upon a machine that was already running a working kernel, why would I install a newer one? Your anecdote wouldn't convince me it was safe, even if I wanted to.
The latest often turns out not to be the greatest. It's best not to discover this first hand with something important.
The VT-200 and VT-300 have a RETURN key on the "main keyboard" and an ENTER key on the numeric keypad. When you go to change the setup of one of these terminals (by pressing F3), you navigate various menus by using the arrow keys and the ENTER key. It says so right on the screen, but it confused me for months, because I'm used to just pressing the "big key on the right" when documentation specifies ENTER, RETURN, or NEWLINE (not that the latter is terribly commonly mentioned these days).
Must've read too many of those old multiplatform Usborne books -- Basic programs for ZX Spectrum, ZX81, BBC, TRS-80, Apple, VIC 20, and PET micros.
Wonder what that could be.. 256k memory expansion slot?
The upgrade'll include a real, battery-powered clock, I bet.
While it's still not to my taste, I think that the mockup in the pictures you've pointed us to is much less ugly.
Hmm. The monitor looks suspicously like an NEC model I've seen, with the huge square front, integrated speakers (?) and then the long, barrel-shaped back.
This new Amiga looks like something you'd find in the batcave.
I was thinking that I could fix some popcorn in it.
Looks like all of those ugly "interactive multimedia" CD boxes from several years ago (though I hope it has a keyboard and not just an overgrown remote control).
Or maybe it looks like some kind of alien death machine -- but not in a good way.
Nevertheless, IE deals with that problem quite effectively by rendering a small placeholder where the image would go, then redoing the layout when it gets enough of the image to determine the size.
...thus causing the text to lurch and jump all over the page as it resizes the placeholders when it finally does get the true image sizes. Sounds nice on paper, drives me to distraction in practice.
Who poured cornflakes in your chamber pot? Put down yer spoon for a second and stop chewing, in any case.
Look at these M releases so far. The priority is including more and more features - sidebars, panels, icons for this or that (most of which don't work or only partially work so far).
Yet the browser is more usable each time, as well. It used to be that I couldn't get the darn thing to load and render a Slashdot page without it choking; it's better at that these days. I suspect that your analysis of the development team's priorities is poor: if the true, number-one job were the inclusion of non-working useless features, I wouldn't expect much improvement in the ones that are already there.
I would say that compared to other beta software I've tried (for both Linux and Windows) Mozilla is very substandard given the number of releases.
But it's not beta. They're barely even releases.
Yes, I know they call them "Alpha" releases but after this amount of time that is only a label to cover up the bugginess of the code.
Uh, no, monkey. You can't summarily re-characterize the state of the project based upon your own impatience.
Most Beta and even Alpha software works much better than Mozilla - it just works.
What dream universe did you write that assertion from?
And, most companies or teams producing Alpha and Beta products for public release do not have the billions of dollars the AOL/Netscape has to pump into such projects.
You're stretching. I suspect that you're confusing pseudo-beta-test exercises like Microsoft's promotional Windows pre-releases with open development. Or trying to.
Mozilla is under heavy development. The recent milestone builds are surprisingly usable but really just progress reports. You're pissing and moaning that it's not perfect when it's not finished.
If NS 5.0 comes out before it's finished, then that's the time to trot out the trite complaints you're making here. Could happen...
ObNetscapeHorrorStory: My ISP's storefront has a copy of Communicator in a shrinkwrapped box on one of its shelves (presumably version 4.x for low values of x). For sale. For money. The price? Over a hundred dollars.
From the eye-have-a-spelling-chequer department: "an editor provided synapses of articles." That'd be synopses, surely.
So, how is something like Slashdot different from, say, a newsgroup? Why is this worth talking about?
I'd suggest that it's the topics (articles) provided by the maintainer of the site that provide a focus for discussion. Sure, things diverge, but people aren't compelled (or, rather, don't feel compelled) to make their own entertainment. Consider the quality of discourse on a newsgroup devoted to a TV show during (a) the regular season, and (b) the summer hiatus. When there isn't a new episode to discuss every week, things can get a bit strange.
Then there are the impenitrably tiresome interpersonal disputes that crop up on newsgroups. Here, since threads of comments are collected in bunches under different articles, last week's deathless flamefest is buried deep in the old articles. On a newsgroup, threads go on for months, sometimes...
That said, I prefer trn's interface to this one. But it's still the best of the Web discussion forum designs that I've seen, especially with the nested display (though it doesn't quite work in Lynx...).
One further nit: Mr. Katz is still using question marks for apostrophes. At least, that's how it turns out on my screen. Surely there's a filter that could be run?
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I'm not as impressed with M11 as I was with a nightly build I downloaded a couple of days ago. M11 crashes more often and it crashes harder, sprawling itself all over Windows, even corruping the display as it dies.
Also, it's much slower than recent nightly builds. I think it's just extra debug stuff, so that people reporting errors will be able to give more information, but I dunno.
I find it curious that you didn't bother to name the project or provide a link to it. Is it the CSC one that's already been mentioned earlier, or another (possibly OGR)?
On the other hand, utter boredom is the key part of the equation that shallow, one-note, anti-MS commenters insist upon solving again and again (for, presumably, their own amusement) -- in tremendous numbers.
No, I don't particularly like Mickeysoft, but how many tiresomely hyperbolic declarations of the instability of Win95 do we need?
Kluuuuuuudge! Who wants to restart their MUA with a switch every time they want to check out a different folder?
But are you sure that's necessary? In playing with semi-recent versions of Mutt, I've found that it will let me poke around my Pine-made folders. I'd assumed that my difficulties in getting it to save to them were due to bugs or misconfiguration.
This is nice to hear, but in the press release, they only mention "Rage" chips(ets?) more recent than mine (a Rage + or something). Surely they'll publish the specs for the old stuff, too? I hope so.
Soon as I can, I'm gonna dash out and download all of that stuff that has "...and OpenGL." at the end of its requirements list.
Smack this link instead: http://www.nervana.com/docs/index.html
MARS.EXE is cool. The terrain is a little repetitive, but you're right about the speed of it. And it's very pretty.
This "revolutionary" demo has nothing on it, and, as others have noted, stuff that's 5-10 years old beats this "Psi" stuff handily. I've seen better (voxel-based) work done in Turbo Pascal (no lie -- in one of the SWAG collections), and the frame-rate on my P166 is nothing to write home about.
There may be something interesting behind this demo, but, boy, it's sure not visible.
Digression:
Remember TIE Fighter, with the Gouraud-shaded, untextured polygon ships? If you ask me, framerate beats detail every time...
Note that after honking about how "Linux Needs Real World Proof Points Rather than Anecdotal Stories," they cheerfully present "Customer Testimonials" -- anecdotes, in other words.
"Real world proof points" isn't even English, and "Boeing uses it!" isn't proof of anything.
I was thinking along the same lines, but, really, why bother selling? Just give it away. Install a network of the things all over the world such that any missile launched from anywhere gets knocked out.
Practical problems aside, of course...
No, the last thing you want to have happen is to inhale it deep into your lungs. Since it's probably only emitting alpha particles, getting it on your skin isn't terribly dangerous (though not, of course, at all desirable). The radiation is blocked by the outer layers of your skin, including the part that you'd ordinarily shed in short order anyway, and never makes it into your body where it can cause more serious trouble.
My, that's a large piece of dust you must be thinking about. The effects of such things are generally measured by the increased risk of developing cancer within your lifetime, however, rather than weeks until tumours develop ... not a happy thing either way, but fallout sure ain't gonna melt your face off in the street.
Do tell.
The only "technical solutions" I've ever heard of involve digging a really big hole, and I'm afraid that I don't trust the stuff to stay buried long enough. If we have to keep it around, I'm for keeping a close watch on it, not hiding it...
It then falls to Ivan to decide what to do next, according to my (wildly limited) understanding of the way they've got things set up. The warning system tells Ivan how many missiles are flying, and from where. If it looks plausible, he presses a button to set things in motion on his end.
This button, I understand, is labelled "Start."
After he clicks "Start," he chooses "Programs" from the resulting menu, then "Applications" from the submenu, then "ICBM Manager."
No, I'm lying. But it is labelled "Start."
Northern Light, as I recall. I don't know that that claim is verified in any credible way, however.
Now that we've got this giant "library-in-a-second" capacity, we've got to fill it with piles of encrypted traffic. The spy agencies will feel compelled to log, crack, and filter it all, thus consuming more resources and reducing the chance that they'll get up to naughty tricks in their (vastly reduced) spare time.
I think it's safe to say that they've got their listening devices hooked up. It'd be fun to turn on the firehose and rip their lips off.
I hope this increases our chances of getting our genes into the public domain before one of the private efforts succeeds and claims the inevitable patents.
If my business depended upon a machine that was already running a working kernel, why would I install a newer one? Your anecdote wouldn't convince me it was safe, even if I wanted to.
The latest often turns out not to be the greatest. It's best not to discover this first hand with something important.
The VT-200 and VT-300 have a RETURN key on the "main keyboard" and an ENTER key on the numeric keypad. When you go to change the setup of one of these terminals (by pressing F3), you navigate various menus by using the arrow keys and the ENTER key. It says so right on the screen, but it confused me for months, because I'm used to just pressing the "big key on the right" when documentation specifies ENTER, RETURN, or NEWLINE (not that the latter is terribly commonly mentioned these days).
Must've read too many of those old multiplatform Usborne books -- Basic programs for ZX Spectrum, ZX81, BBC, TRS-80, Apple, VIC 20, and PET micros.
The upgrade'll include a real, battery-powered clock, I bet.
While it's still not to my taste, I think that the mockup in the pictures you've pointed us to is much less ugly.
Hmm. The monitor looks suspicously like an NEC model I've seen, with the huge square front, integrated speakers (?) and then the long, barrel-shaped back.
The main case looks more like a VCR than ever.
Looks like all of those ugly "interactive multimedia" CD boxes from several years ago (though I hope it has a keyboard and not just an overgrown remote control).
Or maybe it looks like some kind of alien death machine -- but not in a good way.
...thus causing the text to lurch and jump all over the page as it resizes the placeholders when it finally does get the true image sizes. Sounds nice on paper, drives me to distraction in practice.
Who poured cornflakes in your chamber pot? Put down yer spoon for a second and stop chewing, in any case.
Yet the browser is more usable each time, as well. It used to be that I couldn't get the darn thing to load and render a Slashdot page without it choking; it's better at that these days. I suspect that your analysis of the development team's priorities is poor: if the true, number-one job were the inclusion of non-working useless features, I wouldn't expect much improvement in the ones that are already there.
But it's not beta. They're barely even releases.
Uh, no, monkey. You can't summarily re-characterize the state of the project based upon your own impatience.
What dream universe did you write that assertion from?
You're stretching. I suspect that you're confusing pseudo-beta-test exercises like Microsoft's promotional Windows pre-releases with open development. Or trying to.
Mozilla is under heavy development. The recent milestone builds are surprisingly usable but really just progress reports. You're pissing and moaning that it's not perfect when it's not finished.
If NS 5.0 comes out before it's finished, then that's the time to trot out the trite complaints you're making here. Could happen...
ObNetscapeHorrorStory: My ISP's storefront has a copy of Communicator in a shrinkwrapped box on one of its shelves (presumably version 4.x for low values of x). For sale. For money. The price? Over a hundred dollars.
X fonts less ugly than Win fonts? I'll give you some shiny beads if you perform the magic on my machine that you must've done on yours...
The only difference between the MacOS UI and the Windows UI in this case is whether the clicky-buttons have round corners or square ones.
Yes, and your post was probably interpreted as a shot at FreeBSD.
From the eye-have-a-spelling-chequer department: "an editor provided synapses of articles." That'd be synopses, surely.
So, how is something like Slashdot different from, say, a newsgroup? Why is this worth talking about?
I'd suggest that it's the topics (articles) provided by the maintainer of the site that provide a focus for discussion. Sure, things diverge, but people aren't compelled (or, rather, don't feel compelled) to make their own entertainment. Consider the quality of discourse on a newsgroup devoted to a TV show during (a) the regular season, and (b) the summer hiatus. When there isn't a new episode to discuss every week, things can get a bit strange.
Then there are the impenitrably tiresome interpersonal disputes that crop up on newsgroups. Here, since threads of comments are collected in bunches under different articles, last week's deathless flamefest is buried deep in the old articles. On a newsgroup, threads go on for months, sometimes...
That said, I prefer trn's interface to this one. But it's still the best of the Web discussion forum designs that I've seen, especially with the nested display (though it doesn't quite work in Lynx...).
One further nit: Mr. Katz is still using question marks for apostrophes. At least, that's how it turns out on my screen. Surely there's a filter that could be run?