Other popular universes might be Star Wars, Star Trek, the Discworld etc etc. How many of these have books published that are NOT sanctioned by the original copyright holder?
Answer: any of them that have mainstream popularity. So, not Discworld, but pretty much any TV series that people have heard of. Star Trek, the X-Files, even teen dramas.
Do a search for "Unauthorized X". Heck, even searching for "unauthorized Discworld guide" brings up an unsanctioned Voyager book! Unsanctioned media tie-ins tend to be less popular than licensed media tie-ins, but they have existed for decades. "Encyclopedias" like this about particular media phenomena are extremely well-established.
Most bookstores carry unauthorized episode guides right along side the licensed ones. There are also Cliff's Notes-type series that aren't authorized (I don't know if Cliff's Notes itself ever is or not).
TCP packets by definition contain every datum sent over a TCP/IP connection. A TCP packet contained your post while it was in transit to Slashdot.
If you replace the word "packet" in your argument with "headers", it makes a little more sense. But I still do not agree. The contents of a letterhead are often very important, because people use them to determine what to do with the material. In the case, Comcast is altering other people's communication with their customers and making it look like they asked for it. Technically, that's impersonation.
Really.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled (very recently, so of course there were fines last year) that people can pay for expedited private health care if their human rights are endangered by the wait for public care.
Oh, wow, Real has given poor USians a way out of the broken patent system. As for "gray market software", I prefer to think of it as "dissident innovation".
The sad thing is, this is actually the most useful thing Real has done on Linux to date. Why can't we get a little of that independent spirit you showed when you cracked FairPlay?
Hi, I'm an E user, too. I don't see how you can call GNOME hard to compile if you've ever tried building E (E16 not so much anymore, but E17 definitely so).:)
GNOME has this reputation because it's split into many tarballs (like E17 and unlike KDE). There are advantages to both approaches, IMHO neither is really "better".
Anyway, there's a simple list anyone can go down in order (or even mostly out of order). Or you can do like most people and use jhbuild or garnome.
Pat's reasons have less to do with this and more to do with the design of several GNOME features (like GConf). Long story short, they're great for sysadmins but somewhat hard to package.
Yes, but that requires someone who a) wants pure Fortran and b) uses a compiler other than GCC. See this slashdot article.
Realistically, people writing Fortran in modern times only use it for the backend/"number crunching" parts. All the languages likely to be used for the UI have GTK bindings, even Ada.
Actually, I'd say that's one of Java's strengths: it brought useful
concepts and features to mainstream coders that used to only be in non-mainstream languages. C++ did the same thing.
Sure, they're both far from ideal, but for whatever reason the more
perfect languages have (sadly) not succeeded in business. Since I have
use an imperfect language on the job, I'm glad there are these less
painful compromises.
We had to make hard choices about what to fix before releasing it.
And you're right: we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers;
we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them
about halfway to Lisp. Aren't you happy?
The main strength of the EFL isn't the widget set. The EFL does a lot of cool things that Qt and GTK programs can't. For example, everything is based around Evas canvas(es), an EFL desktop can use all the cool eye-candy effects that the rest of X is still waiting on.
And it's all written in Raster's hand-optimized code, so it's quite a bit faster than current XRender. And it runs on handhelds, too, so you can take all that with you on your iPAQ.
He addresses this, and says it doesn't work because typing a second letter selects something you don't want:...people who want to enter "California" will end up with "Alabama" because the menu kind of first goes to C, but then it goes back to A.
I don't think Linux or NetBSD supports it. Many of the machines ran commecial Unix, though, so you'd have a shot at compiling Linux apps (Concentrix on Alliant FX/2800, OSF/1 on the Intel Paragon, etc).
As far as I know, the GNU toolchain doesn't have very good support for this architecture (all remaining i860 stuff was obsoleted in gcc 3.1). You'd need to work on that before you could run a free *nix on it.
Ingres is a backronym for "Interactive Graphics REtrieval System" (the task from which Stonebraker got his original funding). It was named after French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
Edgar F. Codd came up with the "relational model" while working at IBM San Jose after becoming dissatisfied with every other DB ever written.
Codd immediately became mired in internal politics (one of the DBs Codd was dissatisfied with was IBM's own:). But an IBM research group at San Jose created System R anyway,. That was the first relational database in the early 70's. Ingres came almost right after, when some Berkley scientists decided it might be fun to play with the ideas that were slowly filtering out of IBM.
dBase came out of a JPL (Jeb Long) engineer's work, and the first versions did owe a lot to earlier mainframe DBs. The first relational DB for home computers, maybe, but not the first relational database.
Neal has, in my opinion, a loooooonnggggg loonnggg way to go to reach this level of mastery. Heck, I shouldn't even try to compare him with Dumas, they don't play in the same leage.
Actually, as someone who has read the complete works of both, I think the comparison is quite apt. Have you read Dumas's Twenty Years After or Ten Years Later?
If The Count of Monte Cristo is Dumas's Snow Crash and The Three Musketeers is the Cryptonomicon, those two1 are his Baroque Cycle. More or less bearable, and in parts quite interesting, but... lacking. And for the same reason: too many digressions into the corners of the past the author is emotionally attached to.
1: or three or four or however many volumes a given edition is split into.
Evo 0.x had half-working newsgroup support, but that code became unmaintained and isn't built by default.
Recently, an outside developer has taken over and gotten it mostly functional again, so maybe NNTP will be in future versions of Evo. Search the evolution-hackers archives for Meilof or see here for the latest patch.
Dropline Gnome, which packages GNOME stuff for Slackware. For a while, this was because Pat didn't include any GNOME 2 stuff. Now Dropline's packages are a replacement for the base Slack GNOME. Sometimes they're more up to date.
Of course, there is the infamous alt.os.linux.slackware. It's not as hostile as some people say, as long as you try Google first.
I'd be angry at the ISPs who canceled my posts at first, but once I learned more about why they did it I'd just be angry at my ISP. It got itself into the situation in the first place.
I don't like the idea of blaming users for choosing the "wrong" ISP, which is why I put "wrong" in quotes. I'm not saying "you're either for us or against us," but if an ISP is causing a problem and the users who are aware of the problem support its misbehavior, they are a part of the problem.
BTW, UDPs don't happen just because other people didn't like a user. The ISP has to have a consistent record of polluting or damaging Usenet and not caring about the communal resource. If you found out that your ISP was valued their bottom line over providing good service to their customers and the integrity of the network, would you not feel anything had been done to you?
it's not moral to punish the innocent to get at the guilty
A UDP doesn't directly punish users, guilty or innocent. It punishes the ISP, who is guilty of harboring spammers. The users choose to do business with that ISP, and if they choose "wrong" they should either switch or put pressure on the ISP to change. This is exactly what happens.
Nor does it indirectly punish innocent users. Historically, it's just a temporary inconvenience: a few days without Usenet. This is traded for a universal long-term benefit. Non-spamming users of an ISP benefit as much or more after the ISP has kicked out the spammers because their servers have a lighter load.
Simplicity, in the current Gnome way of thinking, means treat the user as an imbicile, and take away the users options.
Too wrong. I've been a Linux and gnome user for a long time, and that was my reaction at first, too. But I kept an open mind, and after a year of using Gnome 2 releases I've got to admit I was wrong.
I find that the changes in the name of simplicity fall into two categories: things that haven't actually been removed, just moved so hapless mortals don't get confused (the fewer twiddles these people have to play with the better, in my experience), and a very few things actually removed that I am happier without, once I got used to it. As to the UI rules, these follow the Mac, and I've always been a big fan of the Mac. In fact, I wish they'd copy it a bit more and put the icons on the right side of the desktop where they belong. It's a pain to do it manually.
The idea of simplifying things still scares me, but in practice it's only made gnome better. I still don't know if I'll be using Galeon or Epiphany, though....
First I discover that gnome-terminal no longer works.
Well, the old G-T w/zvt was even more broken, so at least it's gone. VTE is much better, even if you don't care about i18n. I don't have your problems with it. Tab completion WFM. Are you confusing it with CTRL-TAB?
Then I notice I cannot any longer put menus onto the panel, only useless (because I can't label them) drawers.
1.4 used drawers, too, and I use the same ones under 2.2 as I did under 1.2. I can put launchers outside of drawers but I don't want to.
Next thing they only allow one window list, and it doesn't have the option of 'close all' for stacked windows
I can have more than one window list on my gnome 2.2. "Close All" sounds like something the gnome people might add. They don't bite your head off if you're polite and don't act like gnome owes you custom-written software for free. If worst comes to worst, libwnck has a simple api, so you could write your own power-window-list if you wanted.
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Answer: any of them that have mainstream popularity. So, not Discworld, but pretty much any TV series that people have heard of. Star Trek, the X-Files, even teen dramas.
Do a search for "Unauthorized X". Heck, even searching for "unauthorized Discworld guide" brings up an unsanctioned Voyager book! Unsanctioned media tie-ins tend to be less popular than licensed media tie-ins, but they have existed for decades. "Encyclopedias" like this about particular media phenomena are extremely well-established.
Most bookstores carry unauthorized episode guides right along side the licensed ones. There are also Cliff's Notes-type series that aren't authorized (I don't know if Cliff's Notes itself ever is or not).
TCP packets by definition contain every datum sent over a TCP/IP connection. A TCP packet contained your post while it was in transit to Slashdot.
If you replace the word "packet" in your argument with "headers", it makes a little more sense. But I still do not agree. The contents of a letterhead are often very important, because people use them to determine what to do with the material. In the case, Comcast is altering other people's communication with their customers and making it look like they asked for it. Technically, that's impersonation.
Really. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled (very recently, so of course there were fines last year) that people can pay for expedited private health care if their human rights are endangered by the wait for public care.
It doesn't matter if I want to influence the survey or not. Nielsen has to choose to include me.
Oh, wow, Real has given poor USians a way out of the broken patent system. As for "gray market software", I prefer to think of it as "dissident innovation".
The sad thing is, this is actually the most useful thing Real has done on Linux to date. Why can't we get a little of that independent spirit you showed when you cracked FairPlay?
Hi, I'm an E user, too. I don't see how you can call GNOME hard to compile if you've ever tried building E (E16 not so much anymore, but E17 definitely so). :)
GNOME has this reputation because it's split into many tarballs (like E17 and unlike KDE). There are advantages to both approaches, IMHO neither is really "better".
Anyway, there's a simple list anyone can go down in order (or even mostly out of order). Or you can do like most people and use jhbuild or garnome.
Pat's reasons have less to do with this and more to do with the design of several GNOME features (like GConf). Long story short, they're great for sysadmins but somewhat hard to package.
Are you talking about the Office indexer? (Search tool)
Yes, but that requires someone who a) wants pure Fortran and b) uses a compiler other than GCC. See this slashdot article.
Realistically, people writing Fortran in modern times only use it for the backend/"number crunching" parts. All the languages likely to be used for the UI have GTK bindings, even Ada.
Fortran didn't have dynamic memory allocation before F90, so GTK bindings are probably impossible until GCC 4.0.
Actually, I'd say that's one of Java's strengths: it brought useful concepts and features to mainstream coders that used to only be in non-mainstream languages. C++ did the same thing.
Sure, they're both far from ideal, but for whatever reason the more perfect languages have (sadly) not succeeded in business. Since I have use an imperfect language on the job, I'm glad there are these less painful compromises.
As Guy Steele (one of those Lisp-loving geeks) says about his work on Java:
The main strength of the EFL isn't the widget set. The EFL does a lot of cool things that Qt and GTK programs can't. For example, everything is based around Evas canvas(es), an EFL desktop can use all the cool eye-candy effects that the rest of X is still waiting on.
And it's all written in Raster's hand-optimized code, so it's quite a bit faster than current XRender. And it runs on handhelds, too, so you can take all that with you on your iPAQ.
For example: DVD player in 18 lines of C, RSS feeds embedded in the desktop.
He addresses this, and says it doesn't work because typing a second letter selects something you don't want: ...people who want to enter "California" will end up with "Alabama" because the menu kind of first goes to C, but then it goes back to A.
I don't think Linux or NetBSD supports it. Many of the machines ran commecial Unix, though, so you'd have a shot at compiling Linux apps (Concentrix on Alliant FX/2800, OSF/1 on the Intel Paragon, etc). As far as I know, the GNU toolchain doesn't have very good support for this architecture (all remaining i860 stuff was obsoleted in gcc 3.1). You'd need to work on that before you could run a free *nix on it.
Ingres is a backronym for "Interactive Graphics REtrieval System" (the task from which Stonebraker got his original funding). It was named after French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
Edgar F. Codd came up with the "relational model" while working at IBM San Jose after becoming dissatisfied with every other DB ever written.
Codd immediately became mired in internal politics (one of the DBs Codd was dissatisfied with was IBM's own :). But an IBM research group at San Jose created System R anyway,. That was the first relational database in the early 70's. Ingres came almost right after, when some Berkley scientists decided it might be fun to play with the ideas that were slowly filtering out of IBM.
dBase came out of a JPL (Jeb Long) engineer's work, and the first versions did owe a lot to earlier mainframe DBs. The first relational DB for home computers, maybe, but not the first relational database.
Actually, as someone who has read the complete works of both, I think the comparison is quite apt. Have you read Dumas's Twenty Years After or Ten Years Later?
If The Count of Monte Cristo is Dumas's Snow Crash and The Three Musketeers is the Cryptonomicon, those two1 are his Baroque Cycle. More or less bearable, and in parts quite interesting, but... lacking. And for the same reason: too many digressions into the corners of the past the author is emotionally attached to.1: or three or four or however many volumes a given edition is split into.
Evo 0.x had half-working newsgroup support, but that code became unmaintained and isn't built by default.
Recently, an outside developer has taken over and gotten it mostly functional again, so maybe NNTP will be in future versions of Evo. Search the evolution-hackers archives for Meilof or see here for the latest patch.
This is installed with intltools. Upgrade to 0.28 and make sure OrigTree.pm is OK.
- LinuxPackages (formerly LinuxMafia), for user-contributed binaries not in the base distribution
- UserLocal is a 100% lynx compatible user community for Slackware.
- LinuxQuestions has a Slackware forum.
- Dropline Gnome, which packages GNOME stuff for Slackware. For a while, this was because Pat didn't include any GNOME 2 stuff. Now Dropline's packages are a replacement for the base Slack GNOME. Sometimes they're more up to date.
Of course, there is the infamous alt.os.linux.slackware. It's not as hostile as some people say, as long as you try Google first.If Trillian Pro can reverse-engineer it, why not someone else?
Older eMachines? Stay away.
Yes, they had a management change in 2001 and cleaned up their issues.
I'd be angry at the ISPs who canceled my posts at first, but once I learned more about why they did it I'd just be angry at my ISP. It got itself into the situation in the first place.
I don't like the idea of blaming users for choosing the "wrong" ISP, which is why I put "wrong" in quotes. I'm not saying "you're either for us or against us," but if an ISP is causing a problem and the users who are aware of the problem support its misbehavior, they are a part of the problem.
BTW, UDPs don't happen just because other people didn't like a user. The ISP has to have a consistent record of polluting or damaging Usenet and not caring about the communal resource. If you found out that your ISP was valued their bottom line over providing good service to their customers and the integrity of the network, would you not feel anything had been done to you?
it's not moral to punish the innocent to get at the guilty
Simplicity, in the current Gnome way of thinking, means treat the user as an imbicile, and take away the users options.
Too wrong. I've been a Linux and gnome user for a long time, and that was my reaction at first, too. But I kept an open mind, and after a year of using Gnome 2 releases I've got to admit I was wrong.
I find that the changes in the name of simplicity fall into two categories: things that haven't actually been removed, just moved so hapless mortals don't get confused (the fewer twiddles these people have to play with the better, in my experience), and a very few things actually removed that I am happier without, once I got used to it. As to the UI rules, these follow the Mac, and I've always been a big fan of the Mac. In fact, I wish they'd copy it a bit more and put the icons on the right side of the desktop where they belong. It's a pain to do it manually.
The idea of simplifying things still scares me, but in practice it's only made gnome better. I still don't know if I'll be using Galeon or Epiphany, though....
First I discover that gnome-terminal no longer works.
Well, the old G-T w/zvt was even more broken, so at least it's gone. VTE is much better, even if you don't care about i18n. I don't have your problems with it. Tab completion WFM. Are you confusing it with CTRL-TAB?
Then I notice I cannot any longer put menus onto the panel, only useless (because I can't label them) drawers.
1.4 used drawers, too, and I use the same ones under 2.2 as I did under 1.2. I can put launchers outside of drawers but I don't want to.
Next thing they only allow one window list, and it doesn't have the option of 'close all' for stacked windows
I can have more than one window list on my gnome 2.2. "Close All" sounds like something the gnome people might add. They don't bite your head off if you're polite and don't act like gnome owes you custom-written software for free. If worst comes to worst, libwnck has a simple api, so you could write your own power-window-list if you wanted.