Ah... thanks for the information. Is there a more formal name for "limp mode" so I can Google more successfully? There are only a handful of '"limp mode" sportage' hits, and most are forums where the terms are not related in context.
I'm going through this with my 100k mile Kia Sportage. I'd had no problems until last week when the check engine light came on and it suddenly started idling very rough (as in two stroke rough), and couldn't get above 60mph. Turns out the computer detected a misfire and put it into "limp mode", which I'm guessing isn't that far from two stroke.
The dealership charged $650 to reset the computer and fix the issue - a oil leak onto the coil, which caused problems (we'll ignore the engineering issue; it's a cheap truck, I'm happy with 100k miles trouble free).
That was Friday. Yesterday, on the way back from Baycon, I was climbing a pass when the check engine light came on again and it went into limp mode... I think... as when I pulled over and restarted the engine, it was fine for the rest of the hour and a half trip. It's been fine since, but the check engine light is on. I think it just needs to be reset, but...
$98 to diagnose it from PepBoys, the dealer or the Mom and Pop down the street. Dammit. I'm thinking of disconnecting the battery a day and seeing if that resets it.
Does that mean they don't tell dirty jokes at the office?
Seriously, "respectful" is a very odd word to use there. If you're talking about "they are recyclable", or "they can be disposed of without leaching chemicals bad for [people, plants, animals] into the water table", then say so. Inanimate objects do not feel nor care about the welfare of life on earth.
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It's impossible to keep an analog VCR tape forever because it will age and degrade over time,
Whereas in reality, we watch tapes from the early 80s with decent quality. So that's not quite true. Sure, to a cinephile, it's lost, but to the average consumer, VHS is eternal until destroyed.
and analog copies are always lossy as well.
We're not talking copies... we're talking home use of TV signals. Let's not cloud the issue for the moment.
However, a digital copy that you can recopy to avoid media-aging issues can in fact be kept forever.
But most consumers don't recopy their media. They just use it until it doesn't work anymore. Thus, it is (from a consumer standpoint), eternal until destroyed. As far as Mr. and Mrs. Consumer see it, they are identical. As such, should they not have identical rights?
To Bob the Bootlegger, they are different, but what Bob is doing is equally as illegal on VHS as on any other media. City sidewalks are full of bootleggers selling very good VHS copies.
So, in theory, they are different. In practice, they are the same. And selling copies (and public performance, etc) are all already illegal.
No, but Helium, having a filled outer electron shell, is *very* stable, and since the comparison was between Hydrogen and Helium, the fact that Hydrogen is unstable is applicable.
Which brings up the interesting question of what there is in the upper atmosphere... is there enough oxygen for hydrogen to burn?
However, for a number of other reasons, I doubt if this kind of car would catch on in this century.
In 1904, cars weren't practical, horses were the norm, and very few people had ever seen the aircraft that had flown less than a year ago. Steamships were the fast way to cross the ocean. I'd be careful about what you predict for this century. For life in 2100, a mix between a motorcycle and car seems pretty mundane.
The whole thing is... note the lyrics. Funny, I thought I mentioned that in the original post about it. I may be misremembering, but I think there's a longer version of the song (this version).
Found it. 'Animated IBM Linux' returns stuff about animation using Linux. Should have done 'Animated IBM Tux'. It's Free the Code. Anybody know how to rip the song from the flash?
IBM has done this. They have a handful of ads with an animated tux. In one, a biker tux wearing leather busts out a bunch of imprisoned penguins to a grungy, bluesy rock and roll version of RMS's Free Software Song.
No, really. Somebody find a link (bonus points if you can find an MP3 of the song).
Because "Apple" is a trademark - they consider it, in the realm of computers, to be a name that they go by. They may go by 'Apple Computer, Inc' officially for legal purposes, but most people, and the brand they attempt to be, is "Apple", the Apple Logo and "Think Different", which are all trademarks. Similar to how very few people think of 'Yum! Brands, Inc.' when they think of eleven herbs and spices and chicken. Instead they think of the trademarks, the brands that 'Yum! Brands, Inc' uses - "KFC" and "Kentucky Fried Chicken".
Apple Computer, Inc. does officially go by "Apple". That's why it's a registered trademark; it is their mark of trade. Flipping it around gets "'Apple' does officially go by 'Apple Computer, Inc.. It is their registered corporate name'. Both are true.
"Windows" is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. That doesn't mean that Microsoft has to go by the name "Windows". "Apple" is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.. That does not mean they have to go by "Apple".
See the separation? A company that makes computers can't use the term "Apple", "PowerBook" or "iMac" for their computers, since that those are marks of trade for Apple Computer, Inc.. Right now, "Windows" can't be used either, as that is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. That's in dispute, which is what this article is about. Since the term "Windows" was in common usage before Microsoft started using it, it would be like Pepsi trying to trademark "Soda" today.
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C'mon... *please* don't post when less than 30 seconds of surfing can show that you're wrong. Apple Computer, Inc. lists both the word "Apple" and their Apple Logo as trademarks in their list of trademarks. They even tell you that it's trademarked in the field of "computers, computer software, computer peripherals, etc.".
30 more seconds (and the same exact link off their homepage in the same location) shows that Microsoft has "Windows" and the Windows Logo both registered. They don't list what fields it's registered for, and Google doesn't find a quick and easy interface to search for registered trademarks.
Yes, but Apple, Borland, Xerox and others referred to the visible part of their software product as "windows" for many years prior to Microsoft's product. I don't think Coca-cola or Pepsi can trademark the term "soda" in 2004. "Soda" is a generic term used by many manufacturers, and "windows" was a generic term used by many manufacturers when Microsoft entered the market.
"Apple" or "Excel" are generic words, yes, but they hadn't been applied to the use of a computer company or spreadsheet before. Apple did have an issue using their name in relation to music, since there is the Apple record label (trademarked as a record label) *and* a popular brand of musicians equipment (notable for their amps) trademarked as McIntosh. Thus the name of their first sound sample: sosumi.
Florida has a large elderly population which is very susceptable to scams. If you think that large scale, organized ripping off of grandparents who are slowly going senile isn't common, read the Palm Beach Post for a couple months. Some pretty nasty things go on.
Basically, the state of Florida requires all prizes to have a state bond posted that equals the value of the prize. That eliminates the majority of the "win a million dollars" scams. They are also pretty agressive about pursuing those who don't post a bond.
I've also noticed that Tennessee and New York seem to be other two states that are commonly excluded from prizes. New York, I believe, has a similar anti-scam law that requires some hoops to jump through. I have no idea about Tennessee.
I didn't mean to imply that modern == dhtml, DOM usage. I just meant things like the way Yahoo Maps has a two part popup for when you map an area and then pick a type of restaurant (which works well in all browsers). Little things like that increase the usability of the site but are difficult to keep the same on all browsers.
And I'll gladly second that much of the client side stuff is "flare". There is quite a bit that is useful, however, especially things that prevent having to load a new page just to drill down (menus, the above Yahoo Maps info popups, etc).
From what I've gathered, SBC is the major local telco for everywhere in the United States except the east coast. There are competitors, but SBC pretty much owns the majority of US local loops from the midwest through to the west coast. They are the equivelent of the Northeast's Verizon (I think; never lived or done business in the NE) and the South's BellSouth (who cuddled with AT&T awhile back).
I'll freely admit I gave up on tracking the buyouts and mergers, but that seems to be the layout of the local carriers in the US. SBC is a biggie, at least by geography.
It's a lot easier to write a cross-platform website than it is to write cross-platform applications.
Having done quite a bit of both in the past several years, I'd highly disagree. There are plenty of off the shelf products or methods to create cross-platform applications and very very few (and generally poor in quality) tools or even documentation to write cross-platform websites (modern ones, with dhtml and heavy usage of DOM).
But a lot of the code (particularly for interacting with the file system and the GUI bits) will be platform-specific.
Nope, that's pretty much been standardized, assuming you're writing from scratch. Now porting an application written platform specific is a completely different story. But this example is an application written from scratch.
And as for filesystems, well... nowadays filesystems are much more consistant than, say, SysV versus VMS versus the dozen variants of CP/M. Subdirectories and pretty consistant meta information (date created, date modified, date accessed, etc) on every file is the accepted standard. They may do things different under the hood, but (at this time) they are all pretty much POSIX.
Heh. When I installed 8.2, my PSC2110 wasn't picked up on either.
SUSE 9.1 autoinstalled it as a printer and scanner. I was kinda shocked. Their CUPS integration (and the autoinstallation of the HP ptal tools from the first boot) blew my mind.
In your Bios, turn off Plug and Play. Tell it you don't have a Plug and Play OS, and let it assign based on position. You may have to move the sound card to a different slot (although I never have).
That should work. I get the feeling that it's a perfectly fine chipset (name brand Creative), but the logic glue on the card itself that handles IRQ assignment and such sucks bigtime.
If the Dell bios doesn't allow you to do that, you're stuck, I believe.
Supposedly 9.1 really polishes the Gnome desktop. KDE is still default, but things like Evolution are in the standard install. Sodipodi, the Gimp and XMMS all load with GTK themes and/or skins that match the KDE look (and presumably visa-versa if you were in Gnome loading KDE).
Karbon14, although still in beta, really surprised me by loading a autotrace'd Postscript file that Sodipodi wouldn't touch. If Juk did streaming better, that would limit my non KDE apps that I use to Gimp (plus loads of CLI apps).
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How does SuSE compare on some of these points?
Beautiful boot screen and polished feel.
SUSE has a nice soothing look, rounded curves, synced Qt, GTK and framebuffer looks. Theres a simple progressbar with a "Press F2 for details", and even the detail view of boot is on a subtle pattered background and rounded corner view. Very nice.
Easy installation from freely available CD-ROM images.
SUSE has a downloadable Live CD (like Knoppix) or a FTP install disk. In the case of the latter, you download packages on demand rather than downloading all the packages. Considering the professional version weighs in at 8 CDs and 4 DVDs, there's a damn good reason (actually, 2 double sided DVDs, one side is 64bit, the other is 32bit).
The professional edition comes with quite a bit of commercial software. A DVD video editor, SQL Anywhere Studio, etc. That version is not downloadable, of course. That's pretty much the difference between personal and pro.
Automatic hardware detection via kudzu, at install time and when adding new devices.
SUSE uses yast, which does the same thing. I recently swapped a hard drive from a dead laptop into a completely different brand, and upon bootup, it found everything from the correct video and sound settings to the modem and network.
One nice thing is that yast embeds in the KDE Control Center and has a standalone X and curses version... all with the exact same menu and interface layout. If KDE+X or just X is available, it uses it, if not, it runs just fine. Handy when you're using the same tool to poke around your desktop in the Control Center and then later to work on a server.
Updates released regularly with the Fedora Legacy Project [fedoralegacy.org] providing updates for older distributions.
I'm not sure how EOL works. I was running 8.2 (still am, on the non-dev servers), and online_update works just fine.
Many pre-built RPM packages are available on-line from projects such as Samba and otherwise.
SUSE uses rpm.
Many great console & X11-based applications included by default.
Ditto. I've been using the professional version since I moved from Red Hat (server) and Mandrake (desktop), and I've set everything up for a workgroup, web and mail servers, my system and a fileserver right from the packages available on the disks. With two exceptions. lame and MPlayer are missing and not complete (respectively). You get a warning when running the latter, telling you about that, and when you run anything that wants lame, they've patched it so it tells you about Qgg and explains that, due to patent reasons, they can't include lame. And they give you the URL for "more information"... which is where you can download it. I used Packman for rpms for both. All codecs for MPlayer and a nice working lame. I note that the SUSE notices silently disappear after lame is installed. Slick, and a nice solution for a frustrating situation.
Files and configurations are in logical places.
SUSE was the first LSB certified distro. I've been using *nix for a little over two decades now. It feels perfectly fine. YMMV, but I'd imagine that RH is LSB by now.
Interesting story; I was installing 9.1, and a friend called. I told him that I had just started the install, and he we chatted about Linux for a bit. He said that he had to reinstall Windows about a week ago. As I was getting off the phone, I mentioned that I had about 45 minutes left on the install. He was surprised and a little smug as he told me that it took only half an hour to install Windows, versus about an hour for SUSE. I told him that in that hour, all my office software, development platform, some games and a web and database server would be installed off a DVD packed with software. I asked him how long it took to install Windows, plus Office, plus his games, plus everything else.
He was still installing his software, a week later. He had lost some of CD keys, and/or missing some CDs.
Yes. That's what I'm saying. Substitute translucency whereever I said transparency. For awhile now, various variants of X support have had a common API for transparency. Or the illusion of it, just as it supports the illusion of having things like "windows" and a "mouse pointer" on the screen.
Plenty of X servers don't support 3D or a video overlay. That doesn't mean that X doesn't. X is an extendable protocol, and there's a generally recognized standard extension for transparency.
The way that the fake transparency works is that it takes a picture of your background and sets that as the background for that particular window. Thereby giving the illusion of transparency. The fd.o Xserver supports true transparency.
And the fd.o fakes transparency as well. The end result looks and feels better, but it uses the same API. And it's not "real" transparency, since you can't do "real" transparency on a 2d screen. You're always going to be mathematically combining two sets of values somewhere.
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The dealership charged $650 to reset the computer and fix the issue - a oil leak onto the coil, which caused problems (we'll ignore the engineering issue; it's a cheap truck, I'm happy with 100k miles trouble free).
That was Friday. Yesterday, on the way back from Baycon, I was climbing a pass when the check engine light came on again and it went into limp mode... I think... as when I pulled over and restarted the engine, it was fine for the rest of the hour and a half trip. It's been fine since, but the check engine light is on. I think it just needs to be reset, but...
$98 to diagnose it from PepBoys, the dealer or the Mom and Pop down the street. Dammit. I'm thinking of disconnecting the battery a day and seeing if that resets it.
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Seriously, "respectful" is a very odd word to use there. If you're talking about "they are recyclable", or "they can be disposed of without leaching chemicals bad for [people, plants, animals] into the water table", then say so. Inanimate objects do not feel nor care about the welfare of life on earth.
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Whereas in reality, we watch tapes from the early 80s with decent quality. So that's not quite true. Sure, to a cinephile, it's lost, but to the average consumer, VHS is eternal until destroyed.
and analog copies are always lossy as well.
We're not talking copies... we're talking home use of TV signals. Let's not cloud the issue for the moment.
However, a digital copy that you can recopy to avoid media-aging issues can in fact be kept forever.
But most consumers don't recopy their media. They just use it until it doesn't work anymore. Thus, it is (from a consumer standpoint), eternal until destroyed. As far as Mr. and Mrs. Consumer see it, they are identical. As such, should they not have identical rights?
To Bob the Bootlegger, they are different, but what Bob is doing is equally as illegal on VHS as on any other media. City sidewalks are full of bootleggers selling very good VHS copies.
So, in theory, they are different. In practice, they are the same. And selling copies (and public performance, etc) are all already illegal.
So why block this?
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Which brings up the interesting question of what there is in the upper atmosphere... is there enough oxygen for hydrogen to burn?
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In 1904, cars weren't practical, horses were the norm, and very few people had ever seen the aircraft that had flown less than a year ago. Steamships were the fast way to cross the ocean. I'd be careful about what you predict for this century. For life in 2100, a mix between a motorcycle and car seems pretty mundane.
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No, really. Somebody find a link (bonus points if you can find an MP3 of the song).
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Apple Computer, Inc. does officially go by "Apple". That's why it's a registered trademark; it is their mark of trade. Flipping it around gets "'Apple' does officially go by 'Apple Computer, Inc.. It is their registered corporate name'. Both are true.
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See the separation? A company that makes computers can't use the term "Apple", "PowerBook" or "iMac" for their computers, since that those are marks of trade for Apple Computer, Inc.. Right now, "Windows" can't be used either, as that is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. That's in dispute, which is what this article is about. Since the term "Windows" was in common usage before Microsoft started using it, it would be like Pepsi trying to trademark "Soda" today.
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30 more seconds (and the same exact link off their homepage in the same location) shows that Microsoft has "Windows" and the Windows Logo both registered. They don't list what fields it's registered for, and Google doesn't find a quick and easy interface to search for registered trademarks.
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Hell, 20 years ago, one of the major selling points of home computers were that you could keep all your recipes on them.
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"Apple" or "Excel" are generic words, yes, but they hadn't been applied to the use of a computer company or spreadsheet before. Apple did have an issue using their name in relation to music, since there is the Apple record label (trademarked as a record label) *and* a popular brand of musicians equipment (notable for their amps) trademarked as McIntosh. Thus the name of their first sound sample: sosumi.
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Florida has a large elderly population which is very susceptable to scams. If you think that large scale, organized ripping off of grandparents who are slowly going senile isn't common, read the Palm Beach Post for a couple months. Some pretty nasty things go on.
Basically, the state of Florida requires all prizes to have a state bond posted that equals the value of the prize. That eliminates the majority of the "win a million dollars" scams. They are also pretty agressive about pursuing those who don't post a bond.
I've also noticed that Tennessee and New York seem to be other two states that are commonly excluded from prizes. New York, I believe, has a similar anti-scam law that requires some hoops to jump through. I have no idea about Tennessee.
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And I'll gladly second that much of the client side stuff is "flare". There is quite a bit that is useful, however, especially things that prevent having to load a new page just to drill down (menus, the above Yahoo Maps info popups, etc).
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I'll freely admit I gave up on tracking the buyouts and mergers, but that seems to be the layout of the local carriers in the US. SBC is a biggie, at least by geography.
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Having done quite a bit of both in the past several years, I'd highly disagree. There are plenty of off the shelf products or methods to create cross-platform applications and very very few (and generally poor in quality) tools or even documentation to write cross-platform websites (modern ones, with dhtml and heavy usage of DOM).
But a lot of the code (particularly for interacting with the file system and the GUI bits) will be platform-specific.
Nope, that's pretty much been standardized, assuming you're writing from scratch. Now porting an application written platform specific is a completely different story. But this example is an application written from scratch.
And as for filesystems, well... nowadays filesystems are much more consistant than, say, SysV versus VMS versus the dozen variants of CP/M. Subdirectories and pretty consistant meta information (date created, date modified, date accessed, etc) on every file is the accepted standard. They may do things different under the hood, but (at this time) they are all pretty much POSIX.
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SUSE 9.1 autoinstalled it as a printer and scanner. I was kinda shocked. Their CUPS integration (and the autoinstallation of the HP ptal tools from the first boot) blew my mind.
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In your Bios, turn off Plug and Play. Tell it you don't have a Plug and Play OS, and let it assign based on position. You may have to move the sound card to a different slot (although I never have).
That should work. I get the feeling that it's a perfectly fine chipset (name brand Creative), but the logic glue on the card itself that handles IRQ assignment and such sucks bigtime.
If the Dell bios doesn't allow you to do that, you're stuck, I believe.
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Supposedly 9.1 really polishes the Gnome desktop. KDE is still default, but things like Evolution are in the standard install. Sodipodi, the Gimp and XMMS all load with GTK themes and/or skins that match the KDE look (and presumably visa-versa if you were in Gnome loading KDE).
Karbon14, although still in beta, really surprised me by loading a autotrace'd Postscript file that Sodipodi wouldn't touch. If Juk did streaming better, that would limit my non KDE apps that I use to Gimp (plus loads of CLI apps).
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Beautiful boot screen and polished feel.
SUSE has a nice soothing look, rounded curves, synced Qt, GTK and framebuffer looks. Theres a simple progressbar with a "Press F2 for details", and even the detail view of boot is on a subtle pattered background and rounded corner view. Very nice.
Easy installation from freely available CD-ROM images.
SUSE has a downloadable Live CD (like Knoppix) or a FTP install disk. In the case of the latter, you download packages on demand rather than downloading all the packages. Considering the professional version weighs in at 8 CDs and 4 DVDs, there's a damn good reason (actually, 2 double sided DVDs, one side is 64bit, the other is 32bit).
The professional edition comes with quite a bit of commercial software. A DVD video editor, SQL Anywhere Studio, etc. That version is not downloadable, of course. That's pretty much the difference between personal and pro.
Automatic hardware detection via kudzu, at install time and when adding new devices.
SUSE uses yast, which does the same thing. I recently swapped a hard drive from a dead laptop into a completely different brand, and upon bootup, it found everything from the correct video and sound settings to the modem and network.
One nice thing is that yast embeds in the KDE Control Center and has a standalone X and curses version... all with the exact same menu and interface layout. If KDE+X or just X is available, it uses it, if not, it runs just fine. Handy when you're using the same tool to poke around your desktop in the Control Center and then later to work on a server.
Updates released regularly with the Fedora Legacy Project [fedoralegacy.org] providing updates for older distributions.
I'm not sure how EOL works. I was running 8.2 (still am, on the non-dev servers), and online_update works just fine.
Many pre-built RPM packages are available on-line from projects such as Samba and otherwise.
SUSE uses rpm.
Many great console & X11-based applications included by default.
Ditto. I've been using the professional version since I moved from Red Hat (server) and Mandrake (desktop), and I've set everything up for a workgroup, web and mail servers, my system and a fileserver right from the packages available on the disks. With two exceptions. lame and MPlayer are missing and not complete (respectively). You get a warning when running the latter, telling you about that, and when you run anything that wants lame, they've patched it so it tells you about Qgg and explains that, due to patent reasons, they can't include lame. And they give you the URL for "more information"... which is where you can download it. I used Packman for rpms for both. All codecs for MPlayer and a nice working lame. I note that the SUSE notices silently disappear after lame is installed. Slick, and a nice solution for a frustrating situation.
Files and configurations are in logical places.
SUSE was the first LSB certified distro. I've been using *nix for a little over two decades now. It feels perfectly fine. YMMV, but I'd imagine that RH is LSB by now.
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Interesting story; I was installing 9.1, and a friend called. I told him that I had just started the install, and he we chatted about Linux for a bit. He said that he had to reinstall Windows about a week ago. As I was getting off the phone, I mentioned that I had about 45 minutes left on the install. He was surprised and a little smug as he told me that it took only half an hour to install Windows, versus about an hour for SUSE. I told him that in that hour, all my office software, development platform, some games and a web and database server would be installed off a DVD packed with software. I asked him how long it took to install Windows, plus Office, plus his games, plus everything else.
He was still installing his software, a week later. He had lost some of CD keys, and/or missing some CDs.
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Plenty of X servers don't support 3D or a video overlay. That doesn't mean that X doesn't. X is an extendable protocol, and there's a generally recognized standard extension for transparency.
The way that the fake transparency works is that it takes a picture of your background and sets that as the background for that particular window. Thereby giving the illusion of transparency. The fd.o Xserver supports true transparency.
And the fd.o fakes transparency as well. The end result looks and feels better, but it uses the same API. And it's not "real" transparency, since you can't do "real" transparency on a 2d screen. You're always going to be mathematically combining two sets of values somewhere.
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