For a while I was obsessed with non-overlapping window managers, and ran a window manager called Ion for a while. It lets you split the screen into resizable panes, each with a tab. I actually ran this under Solaris with two monitors (not xinerama however). Screenshots here and here.
This may not be exactly what you want, but it's worth trying out especially on a limited sized screen.
Does Apple OSX count as UNIX? I use iPhoto which comes with OSX.
Ok, so it's not available on any other unix platform, but it employes a nice design for storing images that takes advantage of simple UNIX symbolic links. All images are stored in a hierarchy based on the import date. Then, Albums are created, which contain symbolic links to the real image files.
Of course, if all the phone companies upgraded their equipment to some different standard, they could probably support significantly higher data rates. But then again, isn't that called DSL?
I don't want to start some flame war, but telcos can't simply upgrade equipment to get higher bandwidth from pots lines. The entire phone system is based on these 64kbit blocks, which are time division channels that make up T1-T3 (and higher) circuits. It would be more a matter of rewriting telco standards that date back many centuries, and getting *all* national and international phone companies to coordinate adoption. Could you imagine? Easier to create a new technology like xDSL from scratch.
Display compositing isn't rocket science. It's feasible now that video hardware with a lot of memory is common.
What is almost rocket science is fine-tuning an OS's user experience. I use Windows, OSX, and X11 (xfce currently, but I switch every few weeks), and OSX has some of the most consistent user designs ever. Preferences each application is in the same place (both file-wise and in the menu).
All I see in windows is an onion-skin of new UI elements being added onto old ones. Someone at work has Longhorn (he's an official MS tester), and the "My Computer" now has everything all lumped into it -- devices, addresses, etc. It's just plain confusing.
So my point is, while OS X is getting simpler to use, Windows, and I fear even some X11 desktops/window managers are getting more complicated. I feel bad for the windows users I know that can't even tell that IE is a browser!
I can just see the people that say the moon landings were fake now... "Those images of Jupiter can't be real. There aren't any stars in the background!"
I can't remember exactly, but it's somthing like: (BTW, Please be careful -- back up files and tread lightly. if unsure about any of this, verify my advice with experts, online posts, etc.)
you first use openssl to grab the certificate in base64 form like this:
As silly as the law is let's hope that it's repealed/reformed and soon.
Well if the DMCA was repealed, another would sprout up in it's place. That cycle would continue until the DMCA itself was encrypted, and any attempt to repeal it would result in jail time!
Wedding photographers! My god what a racket. I worked for a online wedding photography company and the top photographers contracted with us made $40-60k PER EVENT. One photographer I won't name routinely charged $40k for events that he didn't even bother to show up at. He sent an assistant. I am not making that up.
And what do you get for that price? That's right. NOTHING. They show up and shoot. But they make you pay for the prints. >$10 a pop. And if you want an album? Well...thats gonna cost extra.
This will be true until this article goes around the net, resulting in tens of thousands of people taking photography courses and becomming wedding photographers, glutting the market.
This helps back my (otherwise unfounded) theory that too many of these anti-bacterial cleaning supplies will doom the human race. Of course, I was looking at it from the point of view that if we raise children unexposed to filth they'll be far more susceptible once they are exposed. This study gives the possibility that there may be more naturally occuring aids that we are destroying through our ignorance.
It's not entirely unfounded. Polio was called 'the middle-class disease' because it mostly hit middle-class children. Why? Because their environment was very clean compared to that of lower-income children. Those lower-income children had developed normal immune systems and resistance to viri right from the start, while moddle-class kids never had a chance.
(BTW, My mom contracted Polio when she was about 2 years old. Our family is pretty familiar with the subject.)
Ok, I am not a biologist, and have no scientific basis for this, but...
According to the FAQ:
4. Where does the reovirus come from?
Reovirus is found naturally in shallow pools of water, lakes or streams or in the sewage system.
So assuming that we could naturally ingest these Reoviri, would someone in a cleaner environment be at a higher risk for cancer (or more to the point, a higher risk from dieing before the Reovirus healed them)? It would be really interesting to find out that drinking bottled water and organtic foods is actually increasing the risk of death from cancer.
Workaround: "Hey Sandy, if you carry my tag to English today, I'll carry yours on Thursday."
Until it becomes manditory to have RFID's embedded somewhere in out bodies (like maybe our fillings, or surgically implaneted into the back of our neck)
I wonder how he would feel if the phone company changed it's infrastructure so that wrong numbers to Verisign were redirected to a compeditor. Or better yet, wrong numbers to his house were redirected to a sex shop.
A few years ago I was in a dry cleaners in Midtown Manhattan. While I waited for my clothes I noticed dusty old "CP/M" boxes on a high shelf. Despite a language barrier, I managed to find out from the owner that the POS system did in fact run under CP/M.
When I asked him why not upgrade, he said "Why?" Smart man.
I'm assuming under the loose definitions of the DMCA, that this is considered a copyright protection device. Ok. So what happens if any system, i.e.: Mac's built-in CD ripper, can still rip the CD? Will the RIAA use the DMCA to get rid of any software that can rip a CD?
I know it's far-fetched, but then who could've predicted that the RIAA would have the stupidity to sue a 12 year-old?
Amit Yoran is of course, a VP at Symantec. That would be the same company whose COO, John Schwartz, recently caused a storm [smh.com.au] by calling for laws to make it a criminal offence to share information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers.
Am I alone in putting two and two together and becoming alarmed at the implication?
Is it too cynical of me to think that nobody financially connected with an online security company would actually want to limit technology that enables malicious hackers and virus authors? Why would they want to put themselves out of business?
If anything, I'd imagine they would want to make it illegal to share information online which could be used by a competing security company!
Slashdot Mirror
not that you're going to read this, but look who's talking.
For a while I was obsessed with non-overlapping window managers, and ran a window manager called Ion for a while. It lets you split the screen into resizable panes, each with a tab. I actually ran this under Solaris with two monitors (not xinerama however). Screenshots here and here.
This may not be exactly what you want, but it's worth trying out especially on a limited sized screen.
Does Apple OSX count as UNIX? I use iPhoto which comes with OSX.
Ok, so it's not available on any other unix platform, but it employes a nice design for storing images that takes advantage of simple UNIX symbolic links. All images are stored in a hierarchy based on the import date. Then, Albums are created, which contain symbolic links to the real image files.
Never mind that the default install is basically useless.
Define useless. It comes with a compiler, make & other build tools, and an ftp client. What more would a real unix user need?
Of course, if all the phone companies upgraded their equipment to some different standard, they could probably support significantly higher data rates. But then again, isn't that called DSL?
I don't want to start some flame war, but telcos can't simply upgrade equipment to get higher bandwidth from pots lines. The entire phone system is based on these 64kbit blocks, which are time division channels that make up T1-T3 (and higher) circuits. It would be more a matter of rewriting telco standards that date back many centuries, and getting *all* national and international phone companies to coordinate adoption. Could you imagine? Easier to create a new technology like xDSL from scratch.
Perhaps if people in America actually bothered to vote you would see the politicians taking more notice of the people than the corporates.
Hey, don't blame me. I voted for Clinton in 2000, along with the majority of other voters. Oh shi-
You, sir, are my hero.
SBC?
Display compositing isn't rocket science. It's feasible now that video hardware with a lot of memory is common.
What is almost rocket science is fine-tuning an OS's user experience. I use Windows, OSX, and X11 (xfce currently, but I switch every few weeks), and OSX has some of the most consistent user designs ever. Preferences each application is in the same place (both file-wise and in the menu).
All I see in windows is an onion-skin of new UI elements being added onto old ones. Someone at work has Longhorn (he's an official MS tester), and the "My Computer" now has everything all lumped into it -- devices, addresses, etc. It's just plain confusing.
So my point is, while OS X is getting simpler to use, Windows, and I fear even some X11 desktops/window managers are getting more complicated. I feel bad for the windows users I know that can't even tell that IE is a browser!
I can just see the people that say the moon landings were fake now... "Those images of Jupiter can't be real. There aren't any stars in the background!"
It's a pain in the neck, but works perfectly for me. This also works for adding self-signed certs and such.
As silly as the law is let's hope that it's repealed/reformed and soon.
Well if the DMCA was repealed, another would sprout up in it's place. That cycle would continue until the DMCA itself was encrypted, and any attempt to repeal it would result in jail time!
Wedding photographers! My god what a racket. I worked for a online wedding photography company and the top photographers contracted with us made $40-60k PER EVENT. One photographer I won't name routinely charged $40k for events that he didn't even bother to show up at. He sent an assistant. I am not making that up.
And what do you get for that price? That's right. NOTHING. They show up and shoot. But they make you pay for the prints. >$10 a pop. And if you want an album? Well...thats gonna cost extra.
This will be true until this article goes around the net, resulting in tens of thousands of people taking photography courses and becomming wedding photographers, glutting the market.
This helps back my (otherwise unfounded) theory that too many of these anti-bacterial cleaning supplies will doom the human race. Of course, I was looking at it from the point of view that if we raise children unexposed to filth they'll be far more susceptible once they are exposed. This study gives the possibility that there may be more naturally occuring aids that we are destroying through our ignorance.
It's not entirely unfounded. Polio was called 'the middle-class disease' because it mostly hit middle-class children. Why? Because their environment was very clean compared to that of lower-income children. Those lower-income children had developed normal immune systems and resistance to viri right from the start, while moddle-class kids never had a chance.
(BTW, My mom contracted Polio when she was about 2 years old. Our family is pretty familiar with the subject.)
Ok, I am not a biologist, and have no scientific basis for this, but...
According to the FAQ:
4. Where does the reovirus come from?
Reovirus is found naturally in shallow pools of water, lakes or streams or in the sewage system.
So assuming that we could naturally ingest these Reoviri, would someone in a cleaner environment be at a higher risk for cancer (or more to the point, a higher risk from dieing before the Reovirus healed them)? It would be really interesting to find out that drinking bottled water and organtic foods is actually increasing the risk of death from cancer.
Workaround: "Hey Sandy, if you carry my tag to English today, I'll carry yours on Thursday."
Until it becomes manditory to have RFID's embedded somewhere in out bodies (like maybe our fillings, or surgically implaneted into the back of our neck)
As a consultant that fixes a lot of family PCs with "spyware" on it, I prefer to call Gator & co. "Billable Hours-Ware"
Someone should prepare the robots for the day when their jobs go overseas to India.
I wonder how he would feel if the phone company changed it's infrastructure so that wrong numbers to Verisign were redirected to a compeditor. Or better yet, wrong numbers to his house were redirected to a sex shop.
A few years ago I was in a dry cleaners in Midtown Manhattan. While I waited for my clothes I noticed dusty old "CP/M" boxes on a high shelf. Despite a language barrier, I managed to find out from the owner that the POS system did in fact run under CP/M.
When I asked him why not upgrade, he said "Why?" Smart man.
I'm assuming under the loose definitions of the DMCA, that this is considered a copyright protection device. Ok. So what happens if any system, i.e.: Mac's built-in CD ripper, can still rip the CD? Will the RIAA use the DMCA to get rid of any software that can rip a CD?
I know it's far-fetched, but then who could've predicted that the RIAA would have the stupidity to sue a 12 year-old?
1. Line up your toes in the gun site
2. Pull trigger
3. ?
4. Profit!
Is it too cynical of me to think that nobody financially connected with an online security company would actually want to limit technology that enables malicious hackers and virus authors? Why would they want to put themselves out of business?
If anything, I'd imagine they would want to make it illegal to share information online which could be used by a competing security company!
I think we found our new outlawed ROT13.
Sure, this will be legal until DMCA 2.0 comes out. Let's help the lobbyists name it: Digital Millenium Anti Inventory Tamper Act (DMAITA).