Last week it was reported on local TV (AT5) that only a few kilometers from here, a new appartment complex is being built with glass fiber to every front door. Yummy.
FYI, AmiPro still exists under the name Lotus WordPro, as a part of SmartSuite.
I used GeoWorks on my XT back in 1989. It also had a WYSIWYG word processor, usable for day-to-day purposes, and pushed better print quality out of my 9-pin matrix printer than I ever thought possible (although printing in that quality was unbearably slow).
Score: 3, insightful?? If anything the above post is flamebait.
Anyway, DS9 has been the ST show I enjoyed most, and I find TOS boring. But then, I only started to watch ST when TNG was halfway.
The only point I agree on with the author is that the new show will have to be pretty surprising to attract some viewers. I'll stick with Farscape in the mean time!
I disagree about the bit that Gnome sucks in 8 bit. Actually it must do something right: when I run Mozilla under plain IceWM with lots of other color-intensive apps loaded (e.g. RealPlayer), it's too ugly too look at.[1]
However when I run it under Gnome + IceWM, it looks just about OK (even with Modern skin)! I can't imagine why this is, but I won't complain if all I can have is this Ultra 1 workstation I use at the university...
[1] see
bugzilla, please vote for this one!
In The Netherlands we have freely available stickers to put on your mailbox, to indicate if you want flyers or free local newspapers. IIRC, the delivery people are legally required to respect those stickers. Otherwise their employer can be fined.
I'm a Dutch citizen and pretty happy to be one at that - but I'm a bit puzzled as to what rights exactly you are referring to. I mean, sure you don't have to be afraid of being treated like a criminal for smoking weed. And sure all people get equal chances in education. But there are lots of other countries in Europe where this is the case.
So what does The Netherlands have that makes it stand out?
They have a feedback address you know, and I've used it and asked if they were going to bring out the toolbar as a XP "applet" to integrate in Mozilla.
I actually got a reply, and this lady wrote that they are investigating the possibility, and that the IE requirement was mostly because it is still a project in beta status.
I've already contacted people of the green fraction in the European Parliament. They didn't know this was going on but they'll watch the issue and promised me to contact the Dutch representation in Brussels about this.
The real reason for the Dutch edition is that a Dutch publisher of technical magazines saw a business opportunity in a Dutch version. The German and Dutch editions are not 1-on-1, the German edition comes out with 2x the frequency of the Dutch edition. (and contains 2x as much. advertisements;-). Also, some articles are Dutch-only and others are translated.
True, there is virtually no other competition in The Netherlands in the field of *techical* computer magazines. Plenty of magazines for moron users though.
...and OS/2's HPFS has been using Extended Attributes for about, say, 8 years now. It can be (and is) used for exactly the kind of thing you're proposing.
Oh, and HPFS fragmentation is negligable (sp?).
By the way, did anyone hear of HPUFS? I hear the FreeBSD guys are working on it, seems to be an interesting project too.
In The Netherlands we have a lot of public broadcast organizations. One of those, the VPRO, has a internet radio station where its radio broadcasts are available on demand. It's called Radio 3voor12 and it's pretty innovative for Dutch standards.
The thing is, recently Sony has asked the VPRO to refrain from putting music from its artists online. In response, the VPRO has banned Sony artists from all their TV and radio broadcasts! If you understand Dutch, check out: this article with RealAudio interview for more info.
In Java you can have interfaces which can only contain method declarations, not implementations; abstract classes, whcih may implement some methods but not others; and full-blown classes that can implement resp. extend the former types.
For a better explanation I suggest you download Thinking in Java 2nd ed. at Bruce Eckels' website and read Chapters 6-8.
I am so used to it, that I never really bother to use gmc for anything
I don't often say it about a piece of software, but gmc sucks so bad, it's not even funny. The fact alone that it's so easy to accidentally drag-n-drop a directory to somewhere else while you thought you were just selecting a directory is enough to drive me mad. And on top of that it doesn't make good use of the right mouse button, but uses the left button for almost everything (a la windoze). I just hope Nautilus will do this better.
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If I understand you correctly, much of what you're saying here was incorporated in the Apple/IBM OpenDoc specification. It also screams 'Object Oriented User Interface!' to me, something that the OS/2 WPS was a fairly good implementation of.
Most unfortunately, they killed off OpenDoc around '97 IIRC.
I also remember that other programs were giving PK a run for his money, such as ARJ and LHARC, but they never achieved the overall speed/performance/compression that PKZIP ever did (they were often better in one thing or another but not overall). Then WINZIP came out, and I kind lost sight of PK.
ARJ was brilliant in its time and was absolutely king in terms of features. ARJ also was the first archiver I know of that supported multiple-volume archives, something that PKZIP didn't have until much later (we're talking about PKZIP 1.1 era). ARJ had like about 4 screens full of parameters if you did arj -? and I remember I knew and used a lot of them. It also had better compression than PKZIP had, which is why it was very popular on BBS's.
However, the ZIP format stuck around and the 'new' deflation algorithm was quite good. Nowadays I use InfoZIP's zip/unzip most of the time on all platforms, I find GUI archiving tools a nuisance.
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Last week it was reported on local TV (AT5) that only a few kilometers from here, a new appartment complex is being built with glass fiber to every front door. Yummy.
FYI, AmiPro still exists under the name Lotus WordPro, as a part of SmartSuite.
I used GeoWorks on my XT back in 1989. It also had a WYSIWYG word processor, usable for day-to-day purposes, and pushed better print quality out of my 9-pin matrix printer than I ever thought possible (although printing in that quality was unbearably slow).
Will someone, ANYONE, explain to me what this 'all your [something] are belong to us' phrase, that everyone seems to find so funny, means?
That is, if it actually means anything?
Score: 3, insightful?? If anything the above post is flamebait.
Anyway, DS9 has been the ST show I enjoyed most, and I find TOS boring. But then, I only started to watch ST when TNG was halfway.
The only point I agree on with the author is that the new show will have to be pretty surprising to attract some viewers. I'll stick with Farscape in the mean time!
Did you know that the library Mozilla uses for animated gifs is in fact called 'libpr0n' ? :)
I disagree about the bit that Gnome sucks in 8 bit. Actually it must do something right: when I run Mozilla under plain IceWM with lots of other color-intensive apps loaded (e.g. RealPlayer), it's too ugly too look at.[1]
However when I run it under Gnome + IceWM, it looks just about OK (even with Modern skin)! I can't imagine why this is, but I won't complain if all I can have is this Ultra 1 workstation I use at the university... [1] see bugzilla, please vote for this one!
In The Netherlands we have freely available stickers to put on your mailbox, to indicate if you want flyers or free local newspapers. IIRC, the delivery people are legally required to respect those stickers. Otherwise their employer can be fined.
If only this were true for spam...
I'm a Dutch citizen and pretty happy to be one at that - but I'm a bit puzzled as to what rights exactly you are referring to. I mean, sure you don't have to be afraid of being treated like a criminal for smoking weed. And sure all people get equal chances in education. But there are lots of other countries in Europe where this is the case.
So what does The Netherlands have that makes it stand out?
Wasn't FrameMaker supposed to be superseded (sp?) by InDesign? (Which happens to be a win32-only product for now)
Or am I confusing things here?
Unless today's word processors can load & save PDF as if it were their native format, I don't see PDF as a solution here.
They have a feedback address you know, and I've used it and asked if they were going to bring out the toolbar as a XP "applet" to integrate in Mozilla.
I actually got a reply, and this lady wrote that they are investigating the possibility, and that the IE requirement was mostly because it is still a project in beta status.
I've already contacted people of the green fraction in the European Parliament. They didn't know this was going on but they'll watch the issue and promised me to contact the Dutch representation in Brussels about this.
The real reason for the Dutch edition is that a Dutch publisher of technical magazines saw a business opportunity in a Dutch version. The German and Dutch editions are not 1-on-1, the German edition comes out with 2x the frequency of the Dutch edition. (and contains 2x as much. advertisements ;-). Also, some articles are Dutch-only and others are translated.
True, there is virtually no other competition in The Netherlands in the field of *techical* computer magazines. Plenty of magazines for moron users though.
Dutch c't : http://www.fnl.nl/
...and OS/2's HPFS has been using Extended Attributes for about, say, 8 years now. It can be (and is) used for exactly the kind of thing you're proposing.
Oh, and HPFS fragmentation is negligable (sp?).
By the way, did anyone hear of HPUFS? I hear the FreeBSD guys are working on it, seems to be an interesting project too.
The thing is, recently Sony has asked the VPRO to refrain from putting music from its artists online. In response, the VPRO has banned Sony artists from all their TV and radio broadcasts! If you understand Dutch, check out: this article with RealAudio interview for more info.
Reinout
In Java you can have interfaces which can only contain method declarations, not implementations; abstract classes, whcih may implement some methods but not others; and full-blown classes that can implement resp. extend the former types.
For a better explanation I suggest you download Thinking in Java 2nd ed. at Bruce Eckels' website and read Chapters 6-8.
I don't often say it about a piece of software, but gmc sucks so bad, it's not even funny. The fact alone that it's so easy to accidentally drag-n-drop a directory to somewhere else while you thought you were just selecting a directory is enough to drive me mad. And on top of that it doesn't make good use of the right mouse button, but uses the left button for almost everything (a la windoze). I just hope Nautilus will do this better.
Reinout
If I understand you correctly, much of what you're saying here was incorporated in the Apple/IBM OpenDoc specification. It also screams 'Object Oriented User Interface!' to me, something that the OS/2 WPS was a fairly good implementation of.
Most unfortunately, they killed off OpenDoc around '97 IIRC.
Yeah, I've had the exact same problem.
It was discussed in alt.os.linux.mandrake . Hopefully 7.1 doesn't suffer from it anymore!
The solution I found for this is to distribute your documents to your clients as PDF (provided they don't have to edit it anymore).
PDF is both a *ix-friendly format and a document type that can be read by nearly all users.
It's a nameless motherboard, I set it at 40MHz clock, 4x multiplier. I can't recall if there was an option to set the voltage...
:-)
IIRC the 5x86 was designed to cope with 4x40 MHz but AMD decided, to be sure of stability, to make 4x33MHz the offical speed.
Only one month ago I bought a new PC - typing this on my brand new Athlon 600 system with Warp 4/FP12
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Funny - my 5x86, clocked at 160MHz, has been performing like a P90 for quite a few years now...
ARJ was brilliant in its time and was absolutely king in terms of features. ARJ also was the first archiver I know of that supported multiple-volume archives, something that PKZIP didn't have until much later (we're talking about PKZIP 1.1 era).
ARJ had like about 4 screens full of parameters if you did arj -? and I remember I knew and used a lot of them. It also had better compression than PKZIP had, which is why it was very popular on BBS's.
However, the ZIP format stuck around and the 'new' deflation algorithm was quite good. Nowadays I use InfoZIP's zip/unzip most of the time on all platforms, I find GUI archiving tools a nuisance.
Reinout
Er, no. You see - OS/2 up until version 1.3 was *written by* microsoft!
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There are OS/2 USB drivers for many devices.
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