worst bug I stumbled upon twice: if you happen to hard-reset a comp with FF open you may lose all your bookmarks.
You *may* loose a lot of other things as well. It's probably the filesystems fault anyway, I know reiserfs (v3) doesn't deal with sudden hard-resets very well.
The ability for OS/2 to run Windows 16 and 32bit code was because IBM did a great job at the DOS virtual machine.
Also IBM and M$ crosslicensed their os code up to 1993 (or something like that) so IBM had access to the windows 3 series source code but not to the windows 95 source code. So it was not just the good vm. Anyway, I used OS/2 Warp and liked it very much.
WHY, WHY, WHY would any sane person spend time optimizing something that doesn't do anything at all? Really, think about it. And then think about the reference to "Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time" at the bottom of the article.
Yes, but the license states that the source only has to be made available to those who also receive the binaries. If you develop an in-house app using GPLd code you never distribute the binaries to a 3rd party and thus have no obligation to give away the source code either.
You're right. Having devs implement stuff the donät want and not getting paid for it is more like slave labour than oss development. What needs to be done is teach more devs to want to implement popular requests. This kind of flaming doesn't do that.
I really, really think that kick-ass cut and paste (think on the lines of m$ offices internal clipboard) across the entire gnome platform would be *the* killer feature for any release.
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Given any particular male in IT, and any particular female in IT, the male is much more likely to be proficient in what he is doing.
Yes, the male is much more likely to be proficient in what *he* is doing. But is he more proficient in what *she* is doing? Women tend to prefer information management rather than information technology or algorithmics. My experience tells me that women are often better getting the "big picture" in IM than men who just like cut the crap and go write some code.
Then again my sample of fellow geeks is too small for my observations to carry any real weight.
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Yes! Excellent idea for a poll. Simple and intresting. Please, mod parent up or even better, submit the idea to the editors.
an you name the parts of GTK+ which were added recently and would count as fundamental for a desktop environment, but go beyond the scope of a widget set?
I can't say exactly what the scope of a widget set is, but the GTK+ 2.6 gives some pointers to what kind of things are happening:
"New about dialog widget. The GtkAboutDialog widget is a replacement for the GnomeAbout dialog in the libgnomeui library"
"New file chooser button. The GtkFileChooserButton widget can be embedded in a dialog to allow the user to select a file or folder. It replaces the GnomeFileEntry widget in the libgnomeui library"
There's additional stuff like gnome-vfs support for the filechooser widget (which is in GTK+).
Many KDE apps provide embeddable as KParts for example. What are the equivalents in GNOME and how many apps actually use them?
I don't know what KParts does. Bonobo provides a corba-implementation for gnome if that's what you mean. Bonobo is used by evolution and gnumeric at least, but I don't know how widely it's really used.
The Zalman coolers or something like Arctic coolings new offerings are either silent or very quiet. They are *not* as expensive as you want them to sound. The Zalman ZM80C-HP costs less than $25. Hardly the difference between a crappy and a good graphics card.
Hard drives can be suspended. You can even DIY something here using rubber bands or foam or both. Also "silent" hard drives don't cost more. Some are just quieter than others.
As for PSUs..well you haven't really tried stuff out have you? The differences can be huge. The trick is having the fan spin slower when the psu is not under pressure.
Also: so what if you have to spend 100-150$ extra on your pc? If the payoff is 20dB lower noise, I'd do it every time.
"EM64T is nearly completely compatible with AMD64 technology"
Wow, nicely said. Is this close enough to make binaries interchangable or are they two separate platforms? Either way I am 100% sure that things are exactly as they are.
You mean the "I will sell you the soul of my firstborn child" EULA? EULAs don't count unless you accept the whole argeement. If parts of the agreements are legal bullshit, the the rest doesn't apply either.
I wonder.. IANAL, but I think in Finland "fair use" only applies if you purchased or otherwise obtained a license to the work. It's fair use for me to lend my cds to you, or copy them and lend you one of my copies. You don't get a license by borrowing the work though, so you can't copy the work for yourself. Or certainly not keep the copy once you return the original.
The ingredients marked with an asterisk are optional and you *can* of course add some anise or sugar syrup to make it less nasty. Place vodka in large jar with tight fitting lid. Add wormwood and shake well; steep 48 hrs and strain out. Crush seeds and pods in mortar. Add them and all remaining spices to vodka and steep in a warm place 1 week. Filter and drink.
Absinthe? No, no, no. Real absinthe has wormwood in it and is therefore outlawed in most countries. *Pernod* has the wormwood substituted with anise.
Here is one recipe (Bluehouse Recipe): 1.5 oz Wormwood 1/3 oz Hyssop 1/3 oz Calamus Root 1/8 oz Fennel Seed 1 tsp Mint * 1 tsp cloves * 1 tsp coriander * 1/2 tsp Nutmeg *
Don't forget the to soak the stuff in some strong alcohol before you drink it:)
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It's Turing-complete and therefore has a Context Free Grammar just like every other useful programming language on the planet.
I like Delphi. Or rather I like Borlands Delphi development environment and the great help system that comes with it.
worst bug I stumbled upon twice: if you happen to hard-reset a comp with FF open you may lose all your bookmarks.
You *may* loose a lot of other things as well. It's probably the filesystems fault anyway, I know reiserfs (v3) doesn't deal with sudden hard-resets very well.
Brilliant! It can potentially sort anything in O(n) time! Time to apply for a Nobel prize!
Also IBM and M$ crosslicensed their os code up to 1993 (or something like that) so IBM had access to the windows 3 series source code but not to the windows 95 source code. So it was not just the good vm. Anyway, I used OS/2 Warp and liked it very much.
..but Windows has the market share so it's Linux that will have to be better.
WHY, WHY, WHY would any sane person spend time optimizing something that doesn't do anything at all? Really, think about it. And then think about the reference to "Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time" at the bottom of the article.
It's "beware of the leopard". Get your facts right. :)
And here's the link I should have attached to my original post:
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http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.htm
Yes, but the license states that the source only has to be made available to those who also receive the binaries. If you develop an in-house app using GPLd code you never distribute the binaries to a 3rd party and thus have no obligation to give away the source code either.
He can dual-license it like the Mozilla project does, can't he?
Considering that undeleting on a typical Linux system is hard, trashcans are ok. I'd like them to automatically empty when I logout, though.
You're right. Having devs implement stuff the donät want and not getting paid for it is more like slave labour than oss development. What needs to be done is teach more devs to want to implement popular requests. This kind of flaming doesn't do that.
I really, really think that kick-ass cut and paste (think on the lines of m$ offices internal clipboard) across the entire gnome platform would be *the* killer feature for any release.
Given any particular male in IT, and any particular female in IT, the male is much more likely to be proficient in what he is doing.
Yes, the male is much more likely to be proficient in what *he* is doing. But is he more proficient in what *she* is doing? Women tend to prefer information management rather than information technology or algorithmics. My experience tells me that women are often better getting the "big picture" in IM than men who just like cut the crap and go write some code.
Then again my sample of fellow geeks is too small for my observations to carry any real weight.
Yes! Excellent idea for a poll. Simple and intresting. Please, mod parent up or even better, submit the idea to the editors.
an you name the parts of GTK+ which were added recently and would count as fundamental for a desktop environment, but go beyond the scope of a widget set?
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I can't say exactly what the scope of a widget set is, but the GTK+ 2.6 gives some pointers to what kind of things are happening:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-l
"New about dialog widget. The GtkAboutDialog widget is a replacement for the GnomeAbout dialog in the libgnomeui library"
"New file chooser button. The GtkFileChooserButton widget can be embedded in a dialog to allow the user to select a file or folder. It replaces the GnomeFileEntry widget in the libgnomeui library"
There's additional stuff like gnome-vfs support for the filechooser widget (which is in GTK+).
Many KDE apps provide embeddable as KParts for example. What are the equivalents in GNOME and how many apps actually use them?
I don't know what KParts does. Bonobo provides a corba-implementation for gnome if that's what you mean. Bonobo is used by evolution and gnumeric at least, but I don't know how widely it's really used.
So you are basically saying that there are few genuine Gnome apps.
..snip.. Try to install these on a KDE-only system and you'll see.
No, he's saying that newer GTK+ apps are really Gnome apps. GTK+ has been getting a lot of new features lately.
True Gnome apps come with a load of dependencies, as well
And on KDE I get the super-mega-huge-takes-eons-to-compile kde-libs as a dependency.
Soon. But not from Google. Check out Beagle . Beagle is available for testing now.
The Zalman coolers or something like Arctic coolings new offerings are either silent or very quiet. They are *not* as expensive as you want them to sound. The Zalman ZM80C-HP costs less than $25. Hardly the difference between a crappy and a good graphics card.
Hard drives can be suspended. You can even DIY something here using rubber bands or foam or both. Also "silent" hard drives don't cost more. Some are just quieter than others.
As for PSUs..well you haven't really tried stuff out have you? The differences can be huge. The trick is having the fan spin slower when the psu is not under pressure.
Also: so what if you have to spend 100-150$ extra on your pc? If the payoff is 20dB lower noise, I'd do it every time.
Wow, nicely said. Is this close enough to make binaries interchangable or are they two separate platforms? Either way I am 100% sure that things are exactly as they are.
You mean the "I will sell you the soul of my firstborn child" EULA? EULAs don't count unless you accept the whole argeement. If parts of the agreements are legal bullshit, the the rest doesn't apply either.
I wonder.. IANAL, but I think in Finland "fair use" only applies if you purchased or otherwise obtained a license to the work. It's fair use for me to lend my cds to you, or copy them and lend you one of my copies. You don't get a license by borrowing the work though, so you can't copy the work for yourself. Or certainly not keep the copy once you return the original.
The ingredients marked with an asterisk are optional and you *can* of course add some anise or sugar syrup to make it less nasty. Place vodka in large jar with tight fitting lid. Add wormwood and shake well; steep 48 hrs and strain out. Crush seeds and pods in mortar. Add them and all remaining spices to vodka and steep in a warm place 1 week. Filter and drink.
Absinthe? No, no, no. Real absinthe has wormwood in it and is therefore outlawed in most countries. *Pernod* has the wormwood substituted with anise.
:)
Here is one recipe (Bluehouse Recipe):
1.5 oz Wormwood
1/3 oz Hyssop
1/3 oz Calamus Root
1/8 oz Fennel Seed
1 tsp Mint *
1 tsp cloves *
1 tsp coriander *
1/2 tsp Nutmeg *
Don't forget the to soak the stuff in some strong alcohol before you drink it