Well I assume that even if there is not important data on the system, you want to keep your system functional. The likelyhood of screwing something up as root is much higher. Additionally, if you are logged in as root, processes that run wild can easily take down the whole system.
Conversely, sinse you are the one starting with a questionable premise, why _would_ you? It's not as though you need to have access to config files constantly,or run only apps that require root access, is it?
While reading the KDE article, I did not necessarily agree with every suggestion that the author made, but felt that they were all well supported right up until the end. She was even careful in parts to point out that some flaws were the fault of QT and not KDE, but then she decided to pontificate on the readiness of things like kernel drivers, plug n' play and compilation issues.
I wish I could see one review/reccomendation that did not feel the need to either start off with a complaint about the difficulty of compiling from scratch/downloading sooo many RPM's or trail off in a rant about kernel development and such nonsense.
Oh well, other than that though, an interesting piece.
Who in the world is running KDE as root? I can understand running some _applications_ as root, eg package/user management but come on, the whole of KDE? That is a no-no.
Besides that, I don't think that kde should be hard-coding any settings for a particular user anyway.
For the love of God, how many times are you going to repeat your burning desire for a spinny CD?
Yes, a spinny CD would be nice. Please, somebody make this poor man a spinny CD icon so he can know when his CD is spinning. Now THAT would be a use of animation that is not pointless flash.
<to moderators: look how many times this guy is getting modded up for OT and repetetive posts>
Umm, either I am completely mistaken, or this is a bunch of FUD. I did google searches on each of these bills, and this is what I found:
HR 4239 To revise the banking and bankruptcy insolvency laws with respect to the termination and netting of financial contracts
HR 4551 : To repeal the 1993 increase in tax on Social Security benefits and to develop and apply a Consumer Price Index that accurately reflects the cost-of-living for older Americans who receive Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act.
HR 4608To designate the United States courthouse located at 220 West Depot Street in Greeneville, Tennessee, as the "James H. Quillen United States Courthouse".To designate the United States courthouse located at 220 West Depot Street in Greeneville, Tennessee, as the "James H. Quillen United States Courthouse".
HR 4277: the "Quality Health-care Coalition Act of 1998"
Like I say, I may be mistaken, maybe they don't use unique ID's for the bill numbers, but my skeptic alert went off when I read this post that contained zero links to any reputable site.
Perhaps if you had read the article (or for that matter any number of previous posts) which clearly pointed out that this bill will have no impact on the rights of the private sector to use any software they see fit, you would not be reacting this way.
If you *did* understand this, then you must not realize that the "Open Source movement" does *not* actually run the government of Peru (I know, a lot of people make this mistake).
> Maybe that option is there, but I haven't found > it yet through trial and error, reading the > documentation, or consulting with Miss Cleo.
hmmm, let's see...
~$ mozilla --help
... -addressbook Start with the adressbook. -news Start with news. -jsconsole Start with Javascript Console -edit Start with editor. -chrome Load the specified chrome. -mail Start with mail.
I actually posted this bug twice. The first time it was closed because they thought I had failed to install with the -net option.
Here is the response to the second time I posted.
(you can find it here.)
------ Additional Comments From of@openoffice.org 2002-02-01 03:10 PST -------
The soffice process can only be started once.
It's not possible to start a second
process on a second teminal. This process will be automatically associated to the
running process. In this way you are provided for destroying your configuration
files.
We don't see this as an issue, it's the implemented behaviour of OOo.
I
don't se that we will change this in the near future, but I will reassign this to the
responsible person as a new 'feature'.
Kind of a shame as this could prevent OOo from being a viable replacement to MSO for some people.
We tested one of these devices and it was a complete PITA. It completely locked up 4 times in a month, and the only way to revive it was to pull the battery which kills the NIC driver and the citrix sessions we had set up. Needless to say, we are not giving it to our users
256 colors
on
Netscape 6.2
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
My only access to a windows system is over Citrix at 256 colors, and at that color depth kmeleon/gecko looks terrible compared to IE. all the colors look washed out, and images are blurry.
Anyone know why this is? I haven't tried mozilla under windows, does it suffer from the same problem?
(mostly unrelated, gtk+ for windows doesn't work in 256 colors either, so no gtk/citrix/windows apps without paying Citrix for a 16bit color license.)
my beliefs is that 4-5 cells do not constitue life, if that is the beginnings of life then sue me for masturbating away billions of cells that would HAVE or COULD have brought "life".
So this is (as you say) your Belief. That means that you are aware that this has not been proven. In fact the belief that two cells constitutes a life is based on just as much sound reasoning as has gone into this. You are dealing with the logical "problem of the beard" you have a continuum(sp?) along which, life occurs at some point, unfortunately, life is so ill-defined as to make it quite difficult (if not impossible) to determine where life begins... 50 cells? what about 49? what about 48? etc.
belief in God has nothing to do with it. I am quite sure that you will find many atheists who actually
1. believe that human life is valuable
2. believe that we cannot accurately determine when human life begins
3. Based on 1 and 2, believe we would be (I know this word is unamerican, but) Wrong to destroy something that may or may not be a human life.
OK, I'll bite, "die hard Religious groups (won't be specific, you know who you are) will support sending our young people to war for beliefs in the country"
WTF. Who is sending their children to war? Who is sacrificing their children for America? Last time I checked, you have to be 18 (An adult supposedly) to fight for the country.
Do you REALLY not see a difference between an adult choosing to risk his life for what he believes to be the Greater Good and what-may-be-a-child having his life sacrificed for him?
How many cells have to be clumped together before it is a "fetus"? That is the REAL issue, not your disdain for religion.
if someone posts an obviously copyrighted commercial software package to USENET, I think he deserved to lose access to the ISP
How do you propose we decide what is obvious and what is not? Here's a thought, let's create an impartial system of citizens to judge whether or not someone is "obviously guilty"...we can call them a "Jury". Both sides can come to the "Jury" and present their side, then depending on what the "Jury" says, appropriate action can be taken... call me crazy
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Well I assume that even if there is not important data on the system, you want to keep your system functional. The likelyhood of screwing something up as root is much higher. Additionally, if you are logged in as root, processes that run wild can easily take down the whole system.
Conversely, sinse you are the one starting with a questionable premise, why _would_ you? It's not as though you need to have access to config files constantly,or run only apps that require root access, is it?
While reading the KDE article, I did not necessarily agree with every suggestion that the author made, but felt that they were all well supported right up until the end. She was even careful in parts to point out that some flaws were the fault of QT and not KDE, but then she decided to pontificate on the readiness of things like kernel drivers, plug n' play and compilation issues.
I wish I could see one review/reccomendation that did not feel the need to either start off with a complaint about the difficulty of compiling from scratch/downloading sooo many RPM's or trail off in a rant about kernel development and such nonsense.
Oh well, other than that though, an interesting piece.
Who in the world is running KDE as root? I can understand running some _applications_ as root, eg package/user management but come on, the whole of KDE? That is a no-no.
Besides that, I don't think that kde should be hard-coding any settings for a particular user anyway.
For the love of God, how many times are you going to repeat your burning desire for a spinny CD?
Yes, a spinny CD would be nice. Please, somebody make this poor man a spinny CD icon so he can know when his CD is spinning. Now THAT would be a use of animation that is not pointless flash.
<to moderators: look how many times this guy is getting modded up for OT and repetetive posts>
Wow. Moderators, at least take a moment to verify the accuracy of trolls before modding them up please.
from http://packages.debian.org/
kernel-image-2.4.18-386 2.4.18-5 (8585.4k)
Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on 386.
kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc 2.4.18-5 (8497.2k)
Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on Pentium-Classic.
kernel-image-2.4.18-686 2.4.18-5 (8492k)
Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp 2.4.18-5 (8743.8k)
Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP.
kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 2.4.18-5 (6269.6k)
Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 (bf variant) on 386.
kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 2.4.18-5 (8450k)
Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III
kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 2.4.18-5 (8649.3k)
Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on AMD K7
Umm, either I am completely mistaken, or this is a bunch of FUD. I did google searches on each of these bills, and this is what I found:
HR 4239 To revise the banking and bankruptcy insolvency
laws with respect to the termination and netting of financial contracts
HR 4551 : To repeal the 1993 increase in tax on Social Security benefits and to develop and apply a Consumer Price Index that accurately reflects the cost-of-living for older Americans who receive Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act.
HR 4608To designate the United States courthouse located at 220 West Depot Street in Greeneville, Tennessee, as the "James H. Quillen United States Courthouse".To designate the United States courthouse located at 220 West Depot Street in Greeneville, Tennessee, as the "James H. Quillen United States Courthouse".
HR 4277: the "Quality Health-care Coalition Act of 1998"
Like I say, I may be mistaken, maybe they don't use unique ID's for the bill numbers, but my skeptic alert went off when I read this post that contained zero links to any reputable site.
Perhaps if you had read the article (or for that matter any number of previous posts) which clearly pointed out that this bill will have no impact on the rights of the private sector to use any software they see fit, you would not be reacting this way.
:)
If you *did* understand this, then you must not realize that the "Open Source movement" does *not* actually run the government of Peru (I know, a lot of people make this mistake).
Hope that helps
> Maybe that option is there, but I haven't found
> it yet through trial and error, reading the
> documentation, or consulting with Miss Cleo.
hmmm, let's see...
~$ mozilla --help
...
-addressbook Start with the adressbook.
-news Start with news.
-jsconsole Start with Javascript Console
-edit Start with editor.
-chrome Load the specified chrome.
-mail Start with mail.
so to start with mail, you run "mozilla -mail"
wow, go figure
The default format is just a zip file. 'unzip' is a great tool for uncompressing this :)
content.xml, strangely enough, holds the content
Here is the response to the second time I posted. (you can find it here.)
Kind of a shame as this could prevent OOo from being a viable replacement to MSO for some people.
We tested one of these devices and it was a complete PITA. It completely locked up 4 times in a month, and the only way to revive it was to pull the battery which kills the NIC driver and the citrix sessions we had set up. Needless to say, we are not giving it to our users
My only access to a windows system is over Citrix at 256 colors, and at that color depth kmeleon/gecko looks terrible compared to IE. all the colors look washed out, and images are blurry.
Anyone know why this is? I haven't tried mozilla under windows, does it suffer from the same problem?
(mostly unrelated, gtk+ for windows doesn't work in 256 colors either, so no gtk/citrix/windows apps without paying Citrix for a 16bit color license.)
So this is (as you say) your Belief. That means that you are aware that this has not been proven. In fact the belief that two cells constitutes a life is based on just as much sound reasoning as has gone into this. You are dealing with the logical "problem of the beard" you have a continuum(sp?) along which, life occurs at some point, unfortunately, life is so ill-defined as to make it quite difficult (if not impossible) to determine where life begins... 50 cells? what about 49? what about 48? etc.
belief in God has nothing to do with it. I am quite sure that you will find many atheists who actually
1. believe that human life is valuable
2. believe that we cannot accurately determine when human life begins
3. Based on 1 and 2, believe we would be (I know this word is unamerican, but) Wrong to destroy something that may or may not be a human life.
OK, I'll bite, "die hard Religious groups (won't be specific, you know who you are) will support sending our young people to war for beliefs in the country"
WTF. Who is sending their children to war? Who is sacrificing their children for America? Last time I checked, you have to be 18 (An adult supposedly) to fight for the country.
Do you REALLY not see a difference between an adult choosing to risk his life for what he believes to be the Greater Good and what-may-be-a-child having his life sacrificed for him?
How many cells have to be clumped together before it is a "fetus"? That is the REAL issue, not your disdain for religion.
if someone posts an obviously copyrighted commercial software package to USENET, I think he deserved to lose access to the ISP
...we can call them a "Jury". Both sides can come to the "Jury" and present their side, then depending on what the "Jury" says, appropriate action can be taken... call me crazy
How do you propose we decide what is obvious and what is not? Here's a thought, let's create an impartial system of citizens to judge whether or not someone is "obviously guilty"