That was the point of the first half of the reply.
I generally use f3 for find and crtl+insert shift+insert for copy paste. (since crtl+c is break and I don't want ftp on windows or any app on linux to termniate instead of copy)
f3 well it works sometimes, other times I have to use ctrl+f. ctrl+insert shift+insert are working less and less as microsofties forget that the key combinations exist and write there own implementation of copy and paste.
Now I don't really give two fucks about windows, the only time I use it is to reverse enginere drivers, and try to get applications working under wine.
I would prefer if my os of choice was the most modern and standards based out there, and that means: putting a light xml parser into glibc and getting everyone to switch there configuration files over to xml. Why XML well it's a sensible standard and has shit loads of tools and other technologies build around it, my configuration file format is just that my format. xml + xforms + xsl = web based configuration (with the documentation stored in the xsd's for the configuration file). my format + a possibly cluged togeter perl script + some php or maybe more perl = webmin with some documentation?
You could even store command line parameters in XML format, just to make it really hard for people to fix somebodies idea of what verbose should be.
Anyhow, I've started converting a few files over to xml, and intend to set up a site dedicated to converting linux configuration files over to xml (probably by using a #xml comment at the top of the standard configuration file until everything ported).
Most windows apps, even the ones out of redmond, have well kinda the same UI, but with a weird mishmash of funcationalty and styling.
Dockable menus, or non-dockable menus? does crtl+insert work in this edit box, can I copy that text? Try changing you background to something other that white, or deleting a default font and seeing how windows apps cope then windows is just as crap.
What do I think should be done, well, standards need to be written and addeared to, a light xml parser needs to be put into stdc libraries allconfiguration files need to be moved to XML using dtd's (yuck) or xsd's to document and validate the format that those XML files must be in, no more/etc/init.d/mydeamon restart to find out that there's a typo in the config file, since you can validate it against the dtd/xsd first.
Command line apps also need standards, is that -v -V --version -version, is that -help --help -help something. is the help myapp -xyzABC or is the help myapp -x --xsomething here is a description of what the flag does.
is that quit, exit, crtl+c, escape ahh...
Linux, GNU et all need a kick up the arse, standards need to be written, and everything needs to be harmonized.
My pocket PC: There are no usb drivers for ActiveSync compatability. Bluetooth chokes and doesn't transfer files properly, OBEX FTP is a pain to set up and buggy. I end up using a digital camera as an SD card reader to transfer files.
A digital camera(or two), Well, I can goto camera:// in konqurorm, but there's no kind of active feedback when I plug the cameras in. One of them mounts as a scsi device and doesn't appear in camera:// at all.
oh and that scsi device, it created a new bus and nocked my cdrw on to a new bus so I've had to re-configure my cdrw software.
And while were on the subject, cdrecord has supported native ide for way over a year, most GUI's only support scsi devices so I'm having to use ide-scsi.
Oh, and my modem, I've set it up using kppp which is just buggy as hell, and how the hell is my mum supposed to know which of the 1001 tty options to choose.
And my keyboard, I had to create my own xkb file for the internet keys, infact I've ended up writing a tool to create xkb files for internet keys.
Ok, enough of the hardware issues, lets look at software.
Development tools, Gambas: well it's just gone 1 so I'm not going to be too hard on it, but it looks and feels like a bit of a hack, eveythings a little bit flakey and inconsistant.
QT designer, &co... not too bad, they've been about for donkeys years and still arn't properly rad though, kdevelop seems to have turned into a mess. and have you ever looked at the source code for qt... jesus I'd have been sacked for writing code like that. d, i, ct, ed well, I suppose it makes it just as hard for english speekers to read as non english speekers. "d->completeNow = FALSE; if ( !d->ed->text().isNull() &&
d->ed->cursorPosition() > d->completeAt &&
d->ed->cursorPosition() == (int)d->ed->text().length() ) { QString ct( d->ed->text() ); int i = completionIndex( ct, currentItem() ); if ( i > -1 ) {
QString it = text( i );
d->ed->validateAndSet( it, ct.length(),ct.length(), it.length() );
d->current = i;"
OO, is big and clunky, koffice is just a bit flakey. mplayer exibits some weird behaviour with some ok files, xmms has poor video support and it's playlist support is almost non-existant.
The apps are there, they just don't work or do what I want.
Well, I'm looking at setting up a company to do just that. The support model will spread the cost out between users and manufacturers with the possibility of mixed licensing models.
Yep, and that's what it's still used for. It's more effective when written down, since most gypos can't read for shit and will probably think it's money.
Open two tabs. In one tab open a url, and wait for it to load. Then open another URL that you know will take a while to load,firefox displayes the url you've just typed in the address bar.
Switch to the other tab and back again. Firefox now displays the url of the old page in the address bar.
Way to go, maybe try mistyping the url in a blank tab, switch to another tab, switch back... wow it's blank, cheers for blanking out my typo firefox.
By taking the software back you have legitimised the licensing terms.
Perhaps you should send a letter to Microsoft, something to the effect of. By reading this letter you here by agree that I may use, copy, modify and reverse engineer you software to my hearts content. If you do not agree don't read this letter.
Then when they sue you for breach of there contract you've got a counter claim.
"They've got similar items, that have been featured on Slashdot in the past. The whole unit fits where your radio would normally go. I haven't seen any in the wild yet, and it's been a few years."
You can get them, £500, propriotry.
Why would you want it where the old radio goes, why not hide it somewhere where it's not going to get stolen.
You can get PDA's with Compac Flash and SD, a sony microdrive's go upto well over 1GB, and SD cards go upto 1GB.
That's enough for a portable device, about 200 tracks, 15hours, and easly swapable for another card. Now If I get mobile broadband (3g) I can just pull the any new music I want from my 1TB at home and store it on my measly 1gb portable storage. I can now use solid state memory that doesn't fuck up whe I drop it or go for a bungy jump.
Incedently you can get pub juke boxes that claim to have more than a million tracks. Lets say they have a 1tb of hdd, that's only 1mb per track which means they must be streaming of the internet, or be playing at drunken quality.
1: the dvd.... people were pissed off with tapes jaming and pops and hisses on vinal. They liked the compact medium and durability of cd. DVD was ripe for the picking, it had already been sold when they sold the CD. For next gen (bluRay/holodisk) to take of there will either have to be a huge improvement in quality, drop in cost, or some other compelling reason to switch. (how may music albums are sold on dvd?)
2:... Satalite radio, never heard of it, sounds crap, I have an Ipod with shite loads of music, I have internet radio piss off I'm not buying that crap.
3: Ipod £200, a bit expensive, I'm going to wait for the price to come down. Maybe I'll get a pda.
Top tip if you want to make a few bucks. Ipod x ICE (in car entertainment).
1 micro pc case (£40) 1 mothor board (£40) 1 100 gb hdd drive (£50) 1 amp or two (£80) 1 display, 1 wifi usb card. (unknown)
~£300, or about the same price as a crap incar multi change unit with mp3 support.
If it runs linux then...
You should be able to link up usb or bluetooth to you phone for hands free.
Link to you ipod, portable mp3 player, usb keyring etc..
Link to the house, or another car, or the internet with WiFi.
Add a usb CD drive if you like, inface add just about any usb device you can think of.
It's a killer because:
It's the same price as current munti changer systems.,
It's interoperable (try mixing and matching current ICE components).
Current systems in the market are crap.
Mp3 playes are just taking off.
Do it well, and no-one will have a standard radio or cd/tape player in the car in 5 years time.
Linux is now good at reading NTFS and can write NTFS inplace without problems, so..
Create a file on the NTFS drive from Windows to hold linux
e.g. in qbasic (so it'll take a while)...
open "linux.part" for output binary as #1
for n = 0 to howmanybytes
put #1,,0 next
then format the linux.part to be reiserfs4 or ext3 or whatever (you can do this under windows, you can access the file from linux and do it there) and install linux on it using loopback so there's no need to re-partition you HDD.
I think mandrake can install out of the box using this method.
Oh, and if you ment 'read the reg files', I'm working on that one.
If I'd have said apples answer to the table PC then maybe you have a point.
I Just said that Apple 'coppied' the design, now all Apple has to(and likes to) do is whip out any patents it's got and take on the table pc.
Anyhow, I'm going to buy a micro case and an LCD monitor (with digital input so I can use a longer lead), and a wireless keyboard and mouse.
I don't use CD's on my pc anymore, well not since Gentoo for apps and Kazaa/Napster because I can't be bothered to spend the time ripping my cds, so there's no need to access my case which means it can be hidden away, somewhere where it's a lot quieter.
I suppose I could always get a USB2 CD drive if I really needed one.
KDE comes with KOffice (not the sharpest tool in the box but ok). Windows comes with notepad and wordpad.
KDE comes with Konquror, and all kinds of network access directly supported by every kde application (that bothers to) via kio.
Windows comes with IE, ftp (from command line), telnet and hyperterminal.
KDE comes with KMail, PGP support for those emails you must sign (tax returns), and a whole host of other PIM goodies.
Windows comes with the Outlook express, and as many viruses and trojons as you want.
KDE comes with a ton of games , maybe not Doom3, but better than... minesweeper, solitare, Freecell and maybe not pinball.
Does you grandmother realy play pinball so much that she needs windows? if so, it will probably run under wine.
I was seriously thinking about putting togeter a joe public live CD, possibly with some of the more 'fancy under-the-hood features' farmed off to a powertools sub menu.
The distro would come with Wine, and if it finds windows installed on the pc then it will pull as many settings from the regerstry as possible, and could even try to match the start menu order.
Help is never perfect or complete and there are always going to be support calls, just charge for the extra support.
Maybe they want translations, maybe they want more detail in and area.
Now at the moment options for that kind of support are limited, your stuck with what the project provides, but if you could put a bounty on support, or pay someone to gaurentee that they will support you.
What if someone wants a how to on using xyz with abc, now I could write that, or the how to on using xyz with 123 that someone will pay me for, capatilism wins, well until I write xyz -> abc in my free time.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh comeon, gcc's well, just slow.
Slow to compile, slow when compiled.
That was the point of the first half of the reply.
I generally use f3 for find and crtl+insert shift+insert for copy paste. (since crtl+c is break and I don't want ftp on windows or any app on linux to termniate instead of copy)
f3 well it works sometimes, other times I have to use ctrl+f.
ctrl+insert shift+insert are working less and less as microsofties forget that the key combinations exist and write there own implementation of copy and paste.
Now I don't really give two fucks about windows, the only time I use it is to reverse enginere drivers, and try to get applications working under wine.
I would prefer if my os of choice was the most modern and standards based out there, and that means:
putting a light xml parser into glibc and getting everyone to switch there configuration files over to xml. Why XML well it's a sensible standard and has shit loads of tools and other technologies build around it, my configuration file format is just that my format. xml + xforms + xsl = web based configuration (with the documentation stored in the xsd's for the configuration file). my format + a possibly cluged togeter perl script + some php or maybe more perl = webmin with some documentation?
You could even store command line parameters in XML format, just to make it really hard for people to fix somebodies idea of what verbose should be.
Anyhow, I've started converting a few files over to xml, and intend to set up a site dedicated to converting linux configuration files over to xml (probably by using a #xml comment at the top of the standard configuration file until everything ported).
Most windows apps, even the ones out of redmond, have well kinda the same UI, but with a weird mishmash of funcationalty and styling.
.
/etc/init.d/mydeamon restart to find out that there's a typo in the config file, since you can validate it against the dtd/xsd first.
Dockable menus, or non-dockable menus?
does crtl+insert work in this edit box, can I copy that text?
Try changing you background to something other that white, or deleting a default font and seeing how windows apps cope then windows is just as crap.
Oh, and take a look here
What do I think should be done, well, standards need to be written and addeared to, a light xml parser needs to be put into stdc libraries allconfiguration files need to be moved to XML using dtd's (yuck) or xsd's to document and validate the format that those XML files must be in,
no more
Command line apps also need standards, is that -v -V --version -version, is that -help --help -help something.
is the help myapp -xyzABC or is the help
myapp
-x --xsomething here is a description of what the flag does.
is that quit, exit, crtl+c, escape ahh...
Linux, GNU et all need a kick up the arse, standards need to be written, and everything needs to be harmonized.
My pocket PC:
There are no usb drivers for ActiveSync compatability.
Bluetooth chokes and doesn't transfer files properly, OBEX FTP is a pain to set up and buggy.
I end up using a digital camera as an SD card reader to transfer files.
A digital camera(or two),
Well, I can goto camera:// in konqurorm, but there's no kind of active feedback when I plug the cameras in. One of them mounts as a scsi device and doesn't appear in camera:// at all.
oh and that scsi device, it created a new bus and nocked my cdrw on to a new bus so I've had to re-configure my cdrw software.
And while were on the subject, cdrecord has supported native ide for way over a year, most GUI's only support scsi devices so I'm having to use ide-scsi.
Oh, and my modem, I've set it up using kppp which is just buggy as hell, and how the hell is my mum supposed to know which of the 1001 tty options to choose.
And my keyboard, I had to create my own xkb file for the internet keys, infact I've ended up writing a tool to create xkb files for internet keys.
Ok, enough of the hardware issues, lets look at software.
Development tools,
Gambas: well it's just gone 1 so I'm not going to be too hard on it, but it looks and feels like a bit of a hack, eveythings a little bit flakey and inconsistant.
QT designer, &co...
not too bad, they've been about for donkeys years and still arn't properly rad though, kdevelop seems to have turned into a mess. and have you ever looked at the source code for qt... jesus I'd have been sacked for writing code like that.
d, i, ct, ed well, I suppose it makes it just as hard for english speekers to read as non english speekers.
"d->completeNow = FALSE;
if ( !d->ed->text().isNull() &&
d->ed->cursorPosition() > d->completeAt &&
d->ed->cursorPosition() == (int)d->ed->text().length() ) {
QString ct( d->ed->text() );
int i = completionIndex( ct, currentItem() );
if ( i > -1 ) {
QString it = text( i );
d->ed->validateAndSet( it, ct.length(),ct.length(), it.length() );
d->current = i;"
OO, is big and clunky, koffice is just a bit flakey. mplayer exibits some weird behaviour with some ok files, xmms has poor video support and it's playlist support is almost non-existant.
The apps are there, they just don't work or do what I want.
Well, I'm looking at setting up a company to do just that. The support model will spread the cost out between users and manufacturers with the possibility of mixed licensing models.
Yep, and that's what it's still used for.
It's more effective when written down, since most gypos can't read for shit and will probably think it's money.
Open two tabs. ,firefox displayes the url you've just typed in the address bar.
In one tab open a url, and wait for it to load.
Then open another URL that you know will take a while to load
Switch to the other tab and back again.
Firefox now displays the url of the old page in the address bar.
Way to go, maybe try mistyping the url in a blank tab, switch to another tab, switch back... wow it's blank, cheers for blanking out my typo firefox.
By taking the software back you have legitimised the licensing terms.
Perhaps you should send a letter to Microsoft, something to the effect of. By reading this letter you here by agree that I may use, copy, modify and reverse engineer you software to my hearts content. If you do not agree don't read this letter.
Then when they sue you for breach of there contract you've got a counter claim.
There you go little kittie, not those rude bits won't be bothering you anymore.
It's like the binary only version of a cat.
Hundreds of people with mobile phones and video cameras who attend free partys eery weekend in the uk know that it doesn't mean shit.
Hey just look at Iraq, there's tones of footage and Bush still gets 50% ofthevote.
just use embed instead.
This was posted earlier today.
"They've got similar items, that have been featured on Slashdot in the past. The whole unit fits where your radio would normally go. I haven't seen any in the wild yet, and it's been a few years."
You can get them, £500, propriotry.
Why would you want it where the old radio goes, why not hide it somewhere where it's not going to get stolen.
You can get PDA's with Compac Flash and SD, a sony microdrive's go upto well over 1GB, and SD cards go upto 1GB.
That's enough for a portable device, about 200 tracks, 15hours, and easly swapable for another card. Now If I get mobile broadband (3g) I can just pull the any new music I want from my 1TB at home and store it on my measly 1gb portable storage. I can now use solid state memory that doesn't fuck up whe I drop it or go for a bungy jump.
Incedently you can get pub juke boxes that claim to have more than a million tracks. Lets say they have a 1tb of hdd, that's only 1mb per track which means they must be streaming of the internet, or be playing at drunken quality.
And then there are those who play with themselfs at night, just for fun.
Seriously, try it, you won't go blind and it's loads of fun trying to find good free porn. much more fun than Shrek 2.
I know enough pop stars to know thats not the case. (well at least a couple).
Some of them have realy bad taste, others just copy the fashion. There all molded and sold of the shelf like everything else.
are we still waiting for MSFT
p.s. look at the volume activity at the bottom of the chart , it's quite high even though MSFT is flatish.
1: the dvd.... people were pissed off with tapes jaming and pops and hisses on vinal. They liked the compact medium and durability of cd. DVD was ripe for the picking, it had already been sold when they sold the CD.
For next gen (bluRay/holodisk) to take of there will either have to be a huge improvement in quality, drop in cost, or some other compelling reason to switch.
(how may music albums are sold on dvd?)
2:... Satalite radio, never heard of it, sounds crap, I have an Ipod with shite loads of music, I have internet radio piss off I'm not buying that crap.
3: Ipod £200, a bit expensive, I'm going to wait for the price to come down. Maybe I'll get a pda.
Top tip if you want to make a few bucks. Ipod x ICE (in car entertainment).
1 micro pc case (£40)
1 mothor board (£40)
1 100 gb hdd drive (£50)
1 amp or two (£80)
1 display, 1 wifi usb card. (unknown)
~£300, or about the same price as a crap incar multi change unit with mp3 support.
If it runs linux then...
You should be able to link up usb or bluetooth to you phone for hands free.
Link to you ipod, portable mp3 player, usb keyring etc..
Link to the house, or another car, or the internet with WiFi.
Add a usb CD drive if you like, inface add just about any usb device you can think of.
It's a killer because:
It's the same price as current munti changer systems.,
It's interoperable (try mixing and matching current ICE components).
Current systems in the market are crap.
Mp3 playes are just taking off.
Do it well, and no-one will have a standard radio or cd/tape player in the car in 5 years time.
If you really really want to...
Linux is now good at reading NTFS and can write NTFS inplace without problems, so..
Create a file on the NTFS drive from Windows to hold linux
e.g. in qbasic (so it'll take a while)...
open "linux.part" for output binary as #1
for n = 0 to howmanybytes
put #1,,0
next
then format the linux.part to be reiserfs4 or ext3
or whatever (you can do this under windows, you can access the file from linux and do it there) and install linux on it using loopback so there's no need to re-partition you HDD.
I think mandrake can install out of the box using this method.
Oh, and if you ment 'read the reg files', I'm working on that one.
If I'd have said apples answer to the table PC then maybe you have a point.
I Just said that Apple 'coppied' the design, now all Apple has to(and likes to) do is whip out any patents it's got and take on the table pc.
Anyhow, I'm going to buy a micro case and an LCD monitor (with digital input so I can use a longer lead), and a wireless keyboard and mouse.
I don't use CD's on my pc anymore, well not since Gentoo for apps and Kazaa/Napster because I can't be bothered to spend the time ripping my cds, so there's no need to access my case which means it can be hidden away, somewhere where it's a lot quieter.
I suppose I could always get a USB2 CD drive if I really needed one.
looks just like something Microsoft is trying to push... oh yeh the tablet pc
Wait for the patents from Apple?
Oh, come on, give the man some money
Ok, not being stupid but.
KDE comes with KOffice (not the sharpest tool in the box but ok).
Windows comes with notepad and wordpad.
KDE comes with Konquror, and all kinds of network access directly supported by every kde application (that bothers to) via kio.
Windows comes with IE, ftp (from command line), telnet and hyperterminal.
KDE comes with KMail, PGP support for those emails you must sign (tax returns), and a whole host of other PIM goodies.
Windows comes with the Outlook express, and as many viruses and trojons as you want.
KDE comes with a ton of games
, maybe not Doom3, but better than... minesweeper, solitare, Freecell and maybe not pinball.
Does you grandmother realy play pinball so much that she needs windows? if so, it will probably run under wine.
I was seriously thinking about putting togeter a joe public live CD, possibly with some of the more 'fancy under-the-hood features' farmed off to a powertools sub menu.
The distro would come with Wine, and if it finds windows installed on the pc then it will pull as many settings from the regerstry as possible, and could even try to match the start menu order.
Advertise? that helps you competitors as well as you.
You don't work for one of those companies that only hold patents do you, or the republican party?
It's the difference between building a house, and making the bricks build the house for you.
Help is never perfect or complete and there are always going to be support calls, just charge for the extra support.
Maybe they want translations, maybe they want more detail in and area.
Now at the moment options for that kind of support are limited, your stuck with what the project provides, but if you could put a bounty on support, or pay someone to gaurentee that they will support you.
What if someone wants a how to on using xyz with abc, now I could write that, or the how to on using xyz with 123 that someone will pay me for, capatilism wins, well until I write xyz -> abc in my free time.