I know - it's a workaround for the Mac machines. If you click and hold in roughly the same spot for about 3 seconds, it acts as if you tapped the right mouse button. It's for context menu usage only. Drawing/CAD programs would override this functionality (likely) and leave you SOL.
Second button on a one-button mouse. I'm thinking of seeing if there'd be a simple mod to GTK+ or GNOME that would let it use this. That way, your mouse troubles under Linux/PPC are over.
I noticed that Telenet systems seems to make x86 servers only. What does this bode for the future of FreeBSD on Sparc, or other ports? Will this become yet-another x86-only OS? I surely hope not.
While I'm not just another whiner about x86-only software, I think that it'd be good to have FreeBSD continue on multiple platforms - it could be a serious competitor to Solaris and Linux on Sparc.
Does this also mean that Telenet will be ditching their NT 5 servers?
Or the MacIntosh speaker company vs. Apple Computer? It happened. A company called MacIntosh speakers sued Apple because of the use of McIntosh name (note the different speeling), and Apple had to hand over a whole wad of money.
Actually, no it isn't. X is acutally simpler than most for opening up a window and drawing arbitrary pixels. What you're probably used to is a toolkit implementation of the same thing. If you actually tried to do programming in the Windows GDI interface or in raw Macintosh QuickDraw, you'd quickly agree with me. You might try gdk, the drawing kit for gtk+. It's closer to what you want.
I think the best solution for anti-aliasing these thing is simply to use fnlib to render fonts, like enlightenment does. Notice how nice fonts look in dox? That's the stuff. X doesn't do anti ailiasing, sorry.
This book proudly sits on my bookshelf, right between Unix in a Nutshell and Programming Perl. It's kind of funny when people look at the shelf (at work) and see a dust puppy book in the middle of all of the other animal books.
Harumph - does this include the patch for the meta-moderation bug I flamed you (pudge) about? It was somewhere on the beta site, and the comments are probly gone now. At least I can meta-moderate now.
Haven't we seen this NewOS thing before? "Unix is not my ideal system, but it is not too bad. The essential features of Unix seem to be good ones, and I think I can fill in what Unix lacks without spoiling them. And a system compatible with Unix would be convenient for many other people to adopt."
Ok, now I think you're trolling. Y'know all those gotos? Y'know what Linus said about them? They translate directly into a jmp (or your local equvalent) call. It makes for much cleaner assembly, and better speed. Go ahead. Clean up those gotos. Then benchmark it against a regular kernel. Hah.
At Apple's site they clearly state that MacOS X will be out. Commercialy. No more waiting. Now, what's that about MP mac's?
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Eerg - to all the replyers - the point is that I don't want to boot my system and see GNU/XFree86/MIT/BSD/Linux! I wanna see Linux! I know there's GNU software in it. I also know there's GNU software in BeOS, my OS of choice. Do I call it GNU/BeOS? NO!
Konqi is really cool as a web browser - I use it as browser of choice when I'm in Linux. It's at least 200x faster than NS4.x, which is a dog. My question is about multi-threading. I'm used to BeOS (it's dangerous) and used to doing crazy things like browsing multiple windows at once, because each is in a different thread. Konqi doesn't seem to be as responsive with multiple windows. Do you plan to add any mulitthreading soon? Sometimes I feel like one out of two processors is going to waste...
I was actually thinking of something like this, but on a different line - what about a linux distrobution supported by advertising during the install sequence? It'd be a way for comapines who don't want to support themselves based upon boxed sales to still make money through linux...
I'm a guy with some pretty radical views about freedom. I write open-source code. I wear a DeCSS T-Shirt. I spread illegal cryptography routines. I'll think you'll notice my.sig says something different than what RMS says (ideas, not implementations, want to be free). Here's an example of where I stand.
Somebody publishes information about a new cryptography routine in a book. I'd like to tell my friends/the internet/slapdash about it. What do I do?
Read the book, understand the algorithm, and make up a seperate writeup describing the algorithm, the principle behind it, and maybe some code that I wrote.
Photocopy the book (or scan it in) and send out what the author said - all 200 pages.
It sounds to me like RMS would do number 2 - or at least see nothing wrong with it. I see something wrong with it - I'm not gonna copy all of his explanation. I'll quote one or two paragraphs at most, but I won't jip the author for his hard work at explaining his idea. Ideas, not implementations, want to be free. This was the original point of copyright law.
Now maybe I'm not as radical as RMS, bt I'm not the kind of guy that advocates promiscuous copying of material.
The entire GNU/Linux naming thing gets me upset - there's nothing on my Linux partition that couldn't be replaced by something non-GNU. bash? Replace that with ksh. GNOME? Replace that with KDE/QT! Poof. Problem solved. If RMS wants to be an ass about it, I'll delete his software.
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I know - it's a workaround for the Mac machines. If you click and hold in roughly the same spot for about 3 seconds, it acts as if you tapped the right mouse button. It's for context menu usage only. Drawing/CAD programs would override this functionality (likely) and leave you SOL.
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Not to nitpick, but BeOS does definitely have PostScript font support.
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Second button on a one-button mouse. I'm thinking of seeing if there'd be a simple mod to GTK+ or GNOME that would let it use this. That way, your mouse troubles under Linux/PPC are over.
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Click-hold seems to be the solution to what you want. If only more X programs would adapt just like BeOS did to that metaphor.
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For the SparcStation 5 I'm sitting in front of, I'd rather have Linux than Solaris.
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While I'm not just another whiner about x86-only software, I think that it'd be good to have FreeBSD continue on multiple platforms - it could be a serious competitor to Solaris and Linux on Sparc.
Does this also mean that Telenet will be ditching their NT 5 servers?
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Or the MacIntosh speaker company vs. Apple Computer? It happened. A company called MacIntosh speakers sued Apple because of the use of McIntosh name (note the different speeling), and Apple had to hand over a whole wad of money.
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Actually, no it isn't. X is acutally simpler than most for opening up a window and drawing arbitrary pixels. What you're probably used to is a toolkit implementation of the same thing. If you actually tried to do programming in the Windows GDI interface or in raw Macintosh QuickDraw, you'd quickly agree with me. You might try gdk, the drawing kit for gtk+. It's closer to what you want.
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I think the best solution for anti-aliasing these thing is simply to use fnlib to render fonts, like enlightenment does. Notice how nice fonts look in dox? That's the stuff. X doesn't do anti ailiasing, sorry.
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Mod this up! Now!
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Thanks. I've been amused. Now back to hacking perl for work.
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Well, if you recall, I flamed you on the beta server about it and you fixed the bug. I'm just wondering if it's in 1.0.3 now.
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This book proudly sits on my bookshelf, right between Unix in a Nutshell and Programming Perl. It's kind of funny when people look at the shelf (at work) and see a dust puppy book in the middle of all of the other animal books.
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Harumph - does this include the patch for the meta-moderation bug I flamed you (pudge) about? It was somewhere on the beta site, and the comments are probly gone now. At least I can meta-moderate now.
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Richard Stallman, in the GNU manifesto.
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I don't think that Gassee said those. I think that BeDope made those up.
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Ok, now I think you're trolling. Y'know all those gotos? Y'know what Linus said about them? They translate directly into a jmp (or your local equvalent) call. It makes for much cleaner assembly, and better speed. Go ahead. Clean up those gotos. Then benchmark it against a regular kernel. Hah.
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At Apple's site they clearly state that MacOS X will be out. Commercialy. No more waiting. Now, what's that about MP mac's?
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Eerg - to all the replyers - the point is that I don't want to boot my system and see GNU/XFree86/MIT/BSD/Linux! I wanna see Linux! I know there's GNU software in it. I also know there's GNU software in BeOS, my OS of choice. Do I call it GNU/BeOS? NO!
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Konqi is really cool as a web browser - I use it as browser of choice when I'm in Linux. It's at least 200x faster than NS4.x, which is a dog. My question is about multi-threading. I'm used to BeOS (it's dangerous) and used to doing crazy things like browsing multiple windows at once, because each is in a different thread. Konqi doesn't seem to be as responsive with multiple windows. Do you plan to add any mulitthreading soon? Sometimes I feel like one out of two processors is going to waste...
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It'll be called qt-copy, and you can find it on any of a number of mirror sites (including KDE's own web page, in convieninent RPM format.)
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I was actually thinking of something like this, but on a different line - what about a linux distrobution supported by advertising during the install sequence? It'd be a way for comapines who don't want to support themselves based upon boxed sales to still make money through linux...
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Somebody publishes information about a new cryptography routine in a book. I'd like to tell my friends/the internet/slapdash about it. What do I do?
It sounds to me like RMS would do number 2 - or at least see nothing wrong with it. I see something wrong with it - I'm not gonna copy all of his explanation. I'll quote one or two paragraphs at most, but I won't jip the author for his hard work at explaining his idea. Ideas, not implementations, want to be free. This was the original point of copyright law.
Now maybe I'm not as radical as RMS, bt I'm not the kind of guy that advocates promiscuous copying of material.
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Actually, isn't it because some people (like me on the last one, sorry) started complaining when their +5 comment didn't get submitted?
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The entire GNU/Linux naming thing gets me upset - there's nothing on my Linux partition that couldn't be replaced by something non-GNU. bash? Replace that with ksh. GNOME? Replace that with KDE/QT! Poof. Problem solved. If RMS wants to be an ass about it, I'll delete his software.
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