You can buy a footswitch from Kinesis. Their programmable 3-pedal switch works with any PS/2-style keyboard (or AT-style with an appropriate adaptor). You can program each of the switches to almost any macro (within some memory limit). The default is Shift (center), Control (left), and Alt (right).
The latest versions of Opera (at least for Linux and Windows) are free (as in beer), as long as you don't mind having a random banner ad at the top of your screen.
Re:Spelling/Grammer Nazis...
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If her grammar and spelling is bad, and she can't do any better, the least she can do is to get someone else to read it over and fix the mistakes. All paper-based news sources have editors whose job it is to do this. At least the reputable ones do. Some online sources do too. (/. apparently does not.) OSNews should have the same, especially if they know that one of their submitters has a particularly tough time with English.
On the one hand, you can pay CodeWeavers $20 and let them improve Wine. On the other hand, you can pay MS over $100 (I'm not keeping up with Windows prices. What's the going rate for the latest versions?). Either way, you need to pay something in order to use the "free" plugins. Might as well give money to someone who wants to help you out. (And pay less money too.)
Have you taken a look at ReiserFS? It's not "just a journaling filesystem". Read Hans Reiser's "Future Vision" paper on the Namesys web page. It is truly fascinating what they have planned.
Re:Isn't woody testing now?
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Well, you're both wrong. Potato was never "testing" because they only created the testing branch after Potato was released. Prior to this, Sid was for architectures that were not fully supported. Woody was labelled unstable once: between the time that they opened the Woody branch and the time that they opened the unstable branch.
newgrp is used to change the current group ID during a login session. If the optional - flag is given, the user's environment will be reinitialized as though the user had logged in, otherwise the current environment, including current working directory, remains unchanged.
newgrp changes the current real group ID to the named group, or to the default group listed in/etc/passwd if no group name is given. The user will be prompted for a password if they do not have a password and the group does, or if the user is not listed as a member and the group has a password. The user will be denied access if the group password is empty and the user is not listed as a member....
If you're listed under several groups, you use newgrp to change to a different one.
Hmm. "sfotware bugs". Which brings up another point that typo bugs can sometimes be avoided by looking over what you wrote. But anyways, that's not my main point.
Right now, I'm in the middle of marking a stack of assignments for a theory of computation course. DFA's, NFA's, and all that fun stuff. And I must say that with some of these answers, there's no wonder we have buggy software. Some of these finite automata are the ugliest things that I have ever seen. I don't even know if the students understand what they wrote down. They are adding states and transitions that are completely unnecessary, reasoning by cases when there is absolutely no reason to do so (and often getting it wrong by forgetting a case), adding constraints which should not be there, very sloppy proofs, etc. I can only imagine that their programming is the same way.
On the other hand (I'm not trying to brag or anything, I'm just using this as an anecdote), I coded up an assignment over the weekend, going over it carefully, and making sure that, in my mind, everything worked correctly. Then yesterday (it was due today), I decided that I should actually test it to make sure that it worked. There were exactly three problems, two of which were my fault: the compiler produced erroneous code on a sufficiently large switch statement (this is in C), I had a typo (a 2 instead of a 1), and I expanded the size of an array but forgot to initialize the rest of it (still smacking myself for that).
Users are encouraged to make their own, unique homebrew versions of Malbolge and Dis, in order to achieve the kind of portability problems normally associated with major languages; therefore, I renounce copyright on everything on this page, all the archives, the languages, and related materials. They are all officially public domain--do whatever you want with them.
My personal thoughts on Digital Rights Management (copy protection, for laymen)...
Stop calling it "copy protection". It is not protecting anyone except for the big companies. If you want to dumb it down to laymen terms, use "copy prevention". It's scary when even/. editors call it copy protection.
Anyways, I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but the way that artists make money with the internet is pay-per-download. We need an easy payment system -- one or two cents per file.
This solves the Napster problem. How? You'd be downloading straight from the author. If the artist is putting his songs up, it likely that he'll put up all (or most) of them. This means you have a better chance of finding what you're looking for. You also get guaranteed quality. You don't have to worry about spending half an hour downloading a song that might be really noisy, or even the wrong song. Plus you get the warm fuzzy feeling of putting two cents straight into an artist's pockets.
Misspelling words is fine for Slashdot posts, but make sure you spellcheck your letters before you send them. If your letter looks like it's from a 1337 h4x0r wanna-be, it will most likely be ignored.
And don't forget to check the grammar. Computer grammar checking is worthless, so you'll have to get a human to do that. (It's also a good way to spread the word, by getting more people exposed.)
I'll have to add my "Me too!" here. The panel was the feature that made me choose GNOME over KDE. The KDE panel didn't seem to want to let me set it up the way I wanted it.
As an add-on to my last post, this also seems to be quite different from the Power-Glove. IIRC, the Power-Glove used metal strips to detect the bending of the fingers. It also required an L-shaped set of three receivers to be attached to the side of your TV, and used audio signals (sub-sonic frequencies, IIRC) to determine the location of the hand in 3-space.
This thing, on the other hand (no pun intended, honest!), uses accelerometers, which are probably more reliable than the metal strips, and don't require any receivers. The down-side is that it won't give you an absolute position, unless you do some calibration (but the Power-Glove didn't do that either).
Close. You had to hook it up to the parallel port, though. The Power-Glove transmits at a different speed than what you can get with a serial port. You could only get it to talk to the parallel port with some hacking (they called it "bit banging").
I tried it out. It seemed to have a lot of trouble detecting what I was actually doing. Perhaps it was because the receivers were so close to a wall, that it was getting echoes.
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How about voice recording? Record a few seconds of audio, and then transcribe it into a real PDA later. And then sync it back to the watch...
You can buy a footswitch from Kinesis. Their programmable 3-pedal switch works with any PS/2-style keyboard (or AT-style with an appropriate adaptor). You can program each of the switches to almost any macro (within some memory limit). The default is Shift (center), Control (left), and Alt (right).
Nitpick:
The latest versions of Opera (at least for Linux and Windows) are free (as in beer), as long as you don't mind having a random banner ad at the top of your screen.
If her grammar and spelling is bad, and she can't do any better, the least she can do is to get someone else to read it over and fix the mistakes. All paper-based news sources have editors whose job it is to do this. At least the reputable ones do. Some online sources do too. (/. apparently does not.) OSNews should have the same, especially if they know that one of their submitters has a particularly tough time with English.
But at least she spelled grammar correctly.
On the one hand, you can pay CodeWeavers $20 and let them improve Wine. On the other hand, you can pay MS over $100 (I'm not keeping up with Windows prices. What's the going rate for the latest versions?). Either way, you need to pay something in order to use the "free" plugins. Might as well give money to someone who wants to help you out. (And pay less money too.)
Have you taken a look at ReiserFS? It's not "just a journaling filesystem". Read Hans Reiser's "Future Vision" paper on the Namesys web page. It is truly fascinating what they have planned.
Well, you're both wrong. Potato was never "testing" because they only created the testing branch after Potato was released. Prior to this, Sid was for architectures that were not fully supported. Woody was labelled unstable once: between the time that they opened the Woody branch and the time that they opened the unstable branch.
Slashdot msn.com with Mozilla/"incompatible" browsers, and see if MS backs down when they see the number of Mozilla hits suddenly jump up!
I don't think it has a paperclip yet, but it does have a built-in psychiatrist. Just in case you go crazy trying to remember the keybindings.
Escape
Meta
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So you've never heard of Braille, or text-to-speach, then?
And deaf users should get with the program and install a new pair of ears, right?
Text is good because nearly everyone can use it one way or another.
man newgrp
If you're listed under several groups, you use newgrp to change to a different one.
Hmm. "sfotware bugs". Which brings up another point that typo bugs can sometimes be avoided by looking over what you wrote. But anyways, that's not my main point.
Right now, I'm in the middle of marking a stack of assignments for a theory of computation course. DFA's, NFA's, and all that fun stuff. And I must say that with some of these answers, there's no wonder we have buggy software. Some of these finite automata are the ugliest things that I have ever seen. I don't even know if the students understand what they wrote down. They are adding states and transitions that are completely unnecessary, reasoning by cases when there is absolutely no reason to do so (and often getting it wrong by forgetting a case), adding constraints which should not be there, very sloppy proofs, etc. I can only imagine that their programming is the same way.
On the other hand (I'm not trying to brag or anything, I'm just using this as an anecdote), I coded up an assignment over the weekend, going over it carefully, and making sure that, in my mind, everything worked correctly. Then yesterday (it was due today), I decided that I should actually test it to make sure that it worked. There were exactly three problems, two of which were my fault: the compiler produced erroneous code on a sufficiently large switch statement (this is in C), I had a typo (a 2 instead of a 1), and I expanded the size of an array but forgot to initialize the rest of it (still smacking myself for that).
As an intellectual challenge, rewrite DeCSS in any of these languages. Feel free to share your results with us.
Stop calling it "copy protection". It is not protecting anyone except for the big companies. If you want to dumb it down to laymen terms, use "copy prevention". It's scary when even /. editors call it copy protection.
Anyways, I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but the way that artists make money with the internet is pay-per-download. We need an easy payment system -- one or two cents per file.
This solves the Napster problem. How? You'd be downloading straight from the author. If the artist is putting his songs up, it likely that he'll put up all (or most) of them. This means you have a better chance of finding what you're looking for. You also get guaranteed quality. You don't have to worry about spending half an hour downloading a song that might be really noisy, or even the wrong song. Plus you get the warm fuzzy feeling of putting two cents straight into an artist's pockets.
Misspelling words is fine for Slashdot posts, but make sure you spellcheck your letters before you send them. If your letter looks like it's from a 1337 h4x0r wanna-be, it will most likely be ignored.
And don't forget to check the grammar. Computer grammar checking is worthless, so you'll have to get a human to do that. (It's also a good way to spread the word, by getting more people exposed.)
They would get more people clicking if they labelled the button "Don't click here."
I'll have to add my "Me too!" here. The panel was the feature that made me choose GNOME over KDE. The KDE panel didn't seem to want to let me set it up the way I wanted it.
I think they really meant hackers i.e. people trying to chop up your computer with an axe.
You could be right. I might have been thinking about the SEGA glasses, that had a build-your-own interface in the same book.
This thing, on the other hand (no pun intended, honest!), uses accelerometers, which are probably more reliable than the metal strips, and don't require any receivers. The down-side is that it won't give you an absolute position, unless you do some calibration (but the Power-Glove didn't do that either).
I tried it out. It seemed to have a lot of trouble detecting what I was actually doing. Perhaps it was because the receivers were so close to a wall, that it was getting echoes.
Well, this keyboard gives you half of what you asked for.