I use evolution an I am unhappy with it... well I use kmail now.
KDE 3.1 version of Kalendar has an exchange plugin, and is better than Evolution calender. Kmail is nice and clean, quick and not as quirky as evolution.
If you wan't linux on the desktop use the 2.5 kernel,(i've been using 2.5.54 for a few weeks no problems), it's a lot faster/smoother than 2.4, like shit loads....
now, if only they could sort out cut'n'paste.......
gentoo comes with openoffie to provide office compatibility. xine/mplayer to provide media format compatability. etc.... Hey look Linux can run office isn't a big selling point, you still have to pay a mint for office, and it's still office.
Hey look Linux can run openoffice and it works fine with office is. oh and here's wine/crosover etc.. so you can run any windows apps you need,
Because you can JIT compile it and profile the code and easly(he says) optermize the code. Intel spent a hell of a lot of money making a C compiler when they should have made a good Java VM and tried to take the SUN/IBM business away from banks running java.
Things get funny when you start to use small Icons. Just look at the way fonts render with freetype or AA switched on. There just SVG's with a different name.
Hey, I only run Linux at home, but there is a growing trend to even less understandable, far to pretty icons. I havn't seen what XP looks like, don't really care either.
Comeon, havn't you seem KDE3.1 or Gnome Or OS X , Nice big fat ICONS with frilly bits on the side, even though there an inch and a half square you still can't work out what there ment to represent.
Think I'm joking? KDE 3.1 Gnome Mac OS X (couldn't find non-quicktime screen shorts!
ohh and this mac[dot]com possibly the worst designed website in the world.... Nothing's hot so you have to move the mouse randomly around the screen looking for an address poping up in the status bar.... Backup == Umbrella? Well done, top marks.
The three speed cameras I pass on the 2 miles to work. the 4 cameras in the car park 2 upto the entrance and 1 in the lobby
That's 10 so far
Then there's the bomb factory I live next to, 1 camera every 30 feet or so. I don't need to keep a photo album. I get my picture taken by at least 30 different cameras every day even before I've gone into town
I always find that funny, Robbie wiliams who said P2P networks were great, got hammered for promoting "Drugs and Prostitution". WTF/
Anyhow, there are four systems, 1: The controled market (that the goverment loves) 2: The free market (the odd job on the side etc.. not taxed) 3: The black market (selling things that are illeagal) 4: and fraud.
So yeh, I like drugs... , I never quite understood pating for sex? maybe if it was a bit more kinky than your partner would do... Do I give a fuck about the government.... umm..... nope.
You can profile and reoptimise using JIT, so a JIT VM should always be faster than a precompiled binary (after the application/library has been used a few times)
My two quirks are: 1: why to they scroll of the end of the window, tabs should shrink like moz (though possible more inteligently). 2: The scrole left right arrows are messed up some of the time.
So, the ket reason you belive I should want an ID card is that: fraudsters and dishonist people would not be able to hide there identity.
Well I'll start by saying there DISHONEST, you have to get there correct details in the first place and they will forge ID cards. Give the high value you are placing on the ID card you would have been happy that the guy who hit your car gave you the correct details. and blown away when you found out he had given false details when applying for his ID card.
What about all those good, honest people out there that now have to provide ID cards for all sorts of things? I would have given you correct details if I had hit your car, I would probably have fixed you car for you; but I'm not on the electoral register (I'm bad boy), I have no previous address, I don't exist so far as the 'corporate' world is concerned. I work, I pay my tax, I help people out, I'm good and honest, I'm a hermit not a number and I will not be forced into being counted.
So, ID cards do little to protect people against black markets or underground society, they already operate outside of the governments control and it will force more honest people into counter culture against the opression of the government.
The government is worried, if you don't believe me take a look at some of the laws that have been introduced over the last few years, and some of the consultations that are being put through.
Two weeks ago there wree 69696 people in prisson (that was the real number) today there are 70900 Prisson population and things arn't getting a little out of hand?
It's great, (took a while to download and install on a clean Gentoo system though).
My only gripes are, The media players (based on xine) don't seem to work properly, so I use xine.
Ahhhh those horrible buttons and icons , the KDE team should have picked a cleaner default configuration, colours, buttons and window decoration.
I've had a couple of quirky tab issues, but nothing too bad.
No Image editor, I use kio slaves to directly access images from my digital camera, this only works in KDE, so I have to retrieve images from my camera to edit them.
Umm... that's about it. Quick, come with more apps than I could throw a corporate developer at.
Evolution 1.2 was a nightmare, not being able to access setup details because for a mail account because that mail account was 'busy' ahhhh...... And don't even bother editing the XML files.
1.2 was better but still a right pain, things went funny all the time, I never found out how to prevent line truncation and well, and it doesn't work on the 2.5 kernel..
Anyhow I though I'd give kmail another go, the last time I used it was more than a year ago and it qas quite poor. kmail is great, there are a couple of quirks, but it's quick and easy to use/configure.
I never used the desktop and I don't intend to use evolution again, unless it get a re-write.
When it came out of the replicator I was so excited, (Angel looked so hot on the cover). I opened the book for a good read, and, too my Horror, found a woman swallowing a 9'' trogon.
What plannet are you on? There's the USB spec, if you follow the spec you can find out information about any device you plug in. (like PCI) This has nothing to do with actually using the device
A USB device will still require the device specific control, data and interrupt messages to function propaly. Thease are put into a driver, and that driver 9/10 is OS specific.
Hey, I've just been through the 'pain' of installing gentoo, why the hell can't they use P2P stile downloads spanned accross the mirrors. That 40MB file downloading at a painfull 2k because the mirror you picked is abit bussy at the moment.
And why doesn't it continue to download while compiling. P2P networks let you play a file and download at the same time.
Many more OT gripes about emerge... but I'll save them for a patch.
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Everyone in the country you plan to passively attack with a really nasty(but not fatal) common cold, significantly reducing the life cost of war.
Held up for contravening BIO weapons agreements.
Why can't we develop low cost (life and money) disabling BIO weapons?
$600bn over 10 years.
I use evolution an I am unhappy with it... well I use kmail now.
KDE 3.1 version of Kalendar has an exchange plugin, and is better than Evolution calender.
Kmail is nice and clean, quick and not as quirky as evolution.
If you wan't linux on the desktop use the 2.5 kernel,(i've been using 2.5.54 for a few weeks no problems), it's a lot faster/smoother than 2.4, like shit loads....
now, if only they could sort out cut'n'paste.......
gentoo comes with openoffie to provide office compatibility.
xine/mplayer to provide media format compatability.
etc....
Hey look Linux can run office isn't a big selling point, you still have to pay a mint for office, and it's still office.
Hey look Linux can run openoffice and it works fine with office is. oh and here's wine/crosover etc.. so you can run any windows apps you need,
XP Icons
Seems like microsoft only have two Icons.
Recycle Bin sounds like an emerge command on gentoo.
Because you can JIT compile it and profile the code and easly(he says) optermize the code.
Intel spent a hell of a lot of money making a C compiler when they should have made a good Java VM and tried to take the SUN/IBM business away from banks running java.
Things get funny when you start to use small Icons. Just look at the way fonts render with freetype or AA switched on. There just SVG's with a different name.
Hey, I only run Linux at home,
but there is a growing trend to even less understandable, far to pretty icons. I havn't seen what XP looks like, don't really care either.
This is a nice tactile desktop though.
Comeon, havn't you seem KDE3.1 or Gnome Or OS X , Nice big fat ICONS with frilly bits on the side, even though there an inch and a half square you still can't work out what there ment to represent.
Think I'm joking?
KDE 3.1
Gnome
Mac OS X (couldn't find non-quicktime screen shorts!
ohh and this mac[dot]com possibly the worst designed website in the world.... Nothing's hot so you have to move the mouse randomly around the screen looking for an address poping up in the status bar....
Backup == Umbrella?
Well done, top marks.
The three speed cameras I pass on the 2 miles to work.
the 4 cameras in the car park
2 upto the entrance
and 1 in the lobby
That's 10 so far
Then there's the bomb factory I live next to, 1 camera every 30 feet or so.
I don't need to keep a photo album. I get my picture taken by at least 30 different cameras every day even before I've gone into town
Didn't go and blow holy fucking shit out of every country that's got a slightly different culture we might have a leg to stand on.
Why do you think we get all the greedy, right wing, imigrants come to the country? well maybe because it looks far too much like home.
Well current counts are about 8000 against 2000 in faviour, I think the card makers got the stats back to front.
At least It puts a limit on my MP3 collection
I always find that funny, Robbie wiliams who said P2P networks were great, got hammered for promoting "Drugs and Prostitution". WTF/
Anyhow, there are four systems,
1: The controled market (that the goverment loves)
2: The free market (the odd job on the side etc.. not taxed)
3: The black market (selling things that are illeagal)
4: and fraud.
So yeh, I like drugs... , I never quite understood pating for sex? maybe if it was a bit more kinky than your partner would do...
Do I give a fuck about the government.... umm..... nope.
You can profile and reoptimise using JIT, so a JIT VM should always be faster than a precompiled binary (after the application/library has been used a few times)
Umm. doesn't work with 2.5.54, Kmails fine by me, and doesn't leave crap around when it doesn't crash.
My two quirks are:
1: why to they scroll of the end of the window, tabs should shrink like moz (though possible more inteligently).
2: The scrole left right arrows are messed up some of the time.
So, the ket reason you belive I should want an ID card is that: fraudsters and dishonist people would not be able to hide there identity.
Well I'll start by saying there DISHONEST,
you have to get there correct details in the first place
and they will forge ID cards.
Give the high value you are placing on the ID card you would have been happy that the guy who hit your car gave you the correct details. and blown away when you found out he had given false details when applying for his ID card.
What about all those good, honest people out there that now have to provide ID cards for all sorts of things?
I would have given you correct details if I had hit your car, I would probably have fixed you car for you; but I'm not on the electoral register (I'm bad boy), I have no previous address, I don't exist so far as the 'corporate' world is concerned.
I work, I pay my tax, I help people out, I'm good and honest, I'm a hermit not a number and I will not be forced into being counted.
So, ID cards do little to protect people against black markets or underground society, they already operate outside of the governments control and it will force more honest people into counter culture against the opression of the government.
The government is worried, if you don't believe me take a look at some of the laws that have been introduced over the last few years, and some of the consultations that are being put through.
Two weeks ago there wree 69696 people in prisson (that was the real number)
today there are 70900
Prisson population and things arn't getting a little out of hand?
It's great, (took a while to download and install on a clean Gentoo system though).
My only gripes are,
The media players (based on xine) don't seem to work properly, so I use xine.
Ahhhh those horrible buttons and icons , the KDE team should have picked a cleaner default configuration, colours, buttons and window decoration.
I've had a couple of quirky tab issues, but nothing too bad.
No Image editor, I use kio slaves to directly access images from my digital camera, this only works in KDE, so I have to retrieve images from my camera to edit them.
Umm... that's about it.
Quick, come with more apps than I could throw a corporate developer at.
Evolution 1.2 was a nightmare,
not being able to access setup details because for a mail account because that mail account was 'busy' ahhhh...... And don't even bother editing the XML files.
1.2 was better but still a right pain, things went funny all the time, I never found out how to prevent line truncation and well, and it doesn't work on the 2.5 kernel..
Anyhow I though I'd give kmail another go, the last time I used it was more than a year ago and it qas quite poor.
kmail is great, there are a couple of quirks, but it's quick and easy to use/configure.
I never used the desktop and I don't intend to use evolution again, unless it get a re-write.
I brought the Buffy annual the other day
When it came out of the replicator I was so excited, (Angel looked so hot on the cover).
I opened the book for a good read, and, too my Horror, found a woman swallowing a 9'' trogon.
Now All I need is one of These to remove the adverts.
No Radio, No Papers, No TV, No Computer Games, No Flash, No images what next, how can I get away from the advertising hellll......
How much did Apple give back to the BSD peeps, that's the real test.
Also, is Apple going to sue KDE for lookie likie themes
What plannet are you on?
There's the USB spec, if you follow the spec you can find out information about any device you plug in.
(like PCI)
This has nothing to do with actually using the device
A USB device will still require the device specific control, data and interrupt messages to function propaly. Thease are put into a driver, and that driver 9/10 is OS specific.
Hey, I've just been through the 'pain' of installing gentoo, why the hell can't they use P2P stile downloads spanned accross the mirrors.
That 40MB file downloading at a painfull 2k because the mirror you picked is abit bussy at the moment.
And why doesn't it continue to download while compiling. P2P networks let you play a file and download at the same time.
Many more OT gripes about emerge... but I'll save them for a patch.