In reply to your footnote, he wrote about it as the intro to the "ongoing history"/blog of what's going on in his club.
I've been following the blog since before the club was open, if he's profitable he hasn't mentioned it, but I guess he just moans when he's losing money.
We have 17" LCD's at work with 1280x1024 resolution, and they really have the 5:4 physical ratio, which is correctly represented with 1280x1024, meaning the pixels are still rectangular.
In 4:3, a 1280px-wide display has a height of 960px, (1024-960)/960 is 0.0667, meaning it's 6.67% taller than what it would be if it were 4:3. I didn't even realise for a while that it wasn't 4:3. Of course if you watch 16:9 DVDs have more black bars at the top and bottom, but if you want to prevent that it'd be better to use a 16:9 monitor anyway.:)
Heh, by the book. I believe they're really sorry, they were probably just minimum-wagers following a procedures list, any deviation from which would incure their PHB's wrath, whos's also just a little guy afraid of what would happen to his job if the MIB hear of said deviation.
What a sorry little world we live in. Who wants to hitch a ride outta here, the next spaceship is flying by next Thursday.
If the toolbar goes to Netcraft's server to query its DB if such-and-such is a bad site for every URL it visits, I can't imagine how slow it would run and how expensive their bandwidth bill would become, not to mention the privacy issues of telling Netcraft your every move on the web. Perhaps it works like antiviruses, with regular updates posted on the server that can (or should) be automatically downloaded. That should make it easy for bandwidth, and the updates can be made incremental so that you only have to download what you don't already have.
Another problem I've noticed, the font size can suddenly change depending what window manager - KDE vs Gnome I was using. When I start a KDE program in Gnome, the fonts would get bigger. Looking at the Control Center, it still says 10 points, but the problem was Gnome and KDE had differing DPI settings. One way to fix this is to specify
DisplaySize 400 300
in the monitor section of xorg.conf so that the DPI can be properly determined. The sizes (in millimeters) doesn't have to be your monitor size, I preferred to have a round, square DPI number (96x96 DPI) than an actual calculation of how many DPI my monitor really has, because I think the font server does some funny calculation using them, and it'll probably be distorting if they're not square (though I'm not really sure).
For a resolution of 1280x960, aiming for 96 DPI gets you 25.4*1280/96 = 339 mm and 25.4*960/96 = 254 mm (gee, that was a hard equation!:p), which are pretty close numbers to the real screen size of monitor advertised as 19".
To see your current DPI settings, open an xterm and type "xdpyinfo|grep inch" (or is it "Inch"?)
And I wonder if the test program clicks "Yes" when asked "Do you trust this web site to install software on your computer?", the way IE users do.
Sigh, people are dumb, even when the dialog box says "this may be dangerous!", people keep clicking on "Yes" or "Open attachment". Maybe a new OS/browser should have a quiz when you install/use it for the first time.. when the user is dumb, make it real hard to do something stupid, and when the user is a pro, make it real easy. Maybe the lusers should be put in a sandbox that prevents stupid changes to be permanently made.
Use Proxomitron (on Windows) or Privoxy (Unix/Windows too) to block ads.. They work great -- configure one of them once, point all your browsers to use their localhost proxy port (or your router if you're on a home network), and you get ad-blocking for any browser you use.
Opera also uses Ctrl-Z as a shortcut for this feature (at least in 7.54, it's Ctrl-Alt-Z in 8.0 I think, but Ctrl-Z still works), pretty intuitive, IMO.
They also have a usable hotplug-system, I plugged in my camera and I could browse the images in it right away in Konqueror (I have Kubuntu), and more impressively my camera isn't one that pretends to be a USB storage device, it requires a different driver -- it works because gphoto2 has a lot of drivers for different camera models.
Win2000 was great, it was really stable, it doesn't have candy GUI and activation and other bullshit. But everything afterward has been bad. WinME (hahaha), and XP with its CPU-eating candy GUI, activation, and many many worms.
I find Firefox slow too, and the fastest and most efficient browser I've found (and use) is Opera, yeah the one whose CEO is going to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. I multi-task too much and usually have 30 tabs open after a short time surfing. Opera manages this with no problem. I don't think Firefox would manage this, I find it getting slower the longer it is open. I'm not even going to consider IE in this, because it lacks the features I want..
This looks like fun, let's compare those with features in Linux.. Scripting -- Even the basic UI (Bash) in Linux is capable of interpreting Assembler, then there's Perl, or Python, or PHP..Mac -- rsync, ssh, or even uucp Quicktime 7 Pro -- mplayer, vlc iChat -- Gaim baby... Mail Search -- Wow you can search mail now? Safari RSS -- Firefox can do that, by the way, you write "Another FREE download!", what's the product called? VoiceOver -- SuSE Linux 7 came with support for BraileTTY.
And one thing you failed to mention: Security -- Only in SP2 did they enable the firewall by default. A standard install of XP is as secure as an American in Iraq. Whereas with Mac OS X it's "who needs firewalls, we're secure baby". Stability -- There was a/. article last week or so about Admins not wanting to install SP2 because it f---s up their system.
The difference between OS X and Windows and Linux is the difficulty and convinience level each. Linux is really hard, OS X is really easy and Windows is just annoying because it tries to be easy but fails. You end up with spy- and adware that can install themselves so easily into your computer.
It's opening April 28th - co-incidentally a Thursday - a couple of weeks earlier than Episode III. Some part of me wishes Disney had the guts to release it the same weekend as EpIII, where it should (as part of my wish) then win the box-office-numbers-penis-size-competition. That would be a great way of showing Lucas what the viewing public thinks of him.
OTOH, there must be millions of geeks out there who know Star Wars but don't know HHGTG, so the movie can't win the numbers. Still, it should be a good fun movie for the droves of viewers who will be disappointed by EpIII. (Getting my hopes up, the trailer seems ass-kicking enough.)
What sort of a weird-ass office/dorm do you work/live in? Only the Uber of Ubergeeks would still be raving about Star Wars after the last 2 films, and if you happen to socialize with them, you need to mingle with "normal" people more.
How your heart went hay-wired sounds freaky. But, what does putting one hand behind your back accomplish?
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I guess they can just look-up his borrowing history, and see which books are really there, and which aren't. But then some libraries don't want to play Big Brother or that the real Big Brother get their records, so they might not have the history stored anywhere.
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I'll assume you're American... so how's it going in Iraq?
you got a hatrick on slashdot. Now get your butt upstairs, your mom needs help with the dishes!
Woah, and the Wiki page has been updated with 1 extra paragraph:
In June of 2005, Jamie made the switch to OSX by buying a iMac.
Is it really *that* significant?
Which reminds me, Linus Torvalds has also been using a G5, right (/. mentioned it), Apple is taking over the Linux community!
In reply to your footnote, he wrote about it as the intro to the "ongoing history"/blog of what's going on in his club.
I've been following the blog since before the club was open, if he's profitable he hasn't mentioned it, but I guess he just moans when he's losing money.
We have 17" LCD's at work with 1280x1024 resolution, and they really have the 5:4 physical ratio, which is correctly represented with 1280x1024, meaning the pixels are still rectangular.
:)
In 4:3, a 1280px-wide display has a height of 960px, (1024-960)/960 is 0.0667, meaning it's 6.67% taller than what it would be if it were 4:3. I didn't even realise for a while that it wasn't 4:3. Of course if you watch 16:9 DVDs have more black bars at the top and bottom, but if you want to prevent that it'd be better to use a 16:9 monitor anyway.
Heh, by the book. I believe they're really sorry, they were probably just minimum-wagers following a procedures list, any deviation from which would incure their PHB's wrath, whos's also just a little guy afraid of what would happen to his job if the MIB hear of said deviation.
What a sorry little world we live in. Who wants to hitch a ride outta here, the next spaceship is flying by next Thursday.
If the toolbar goes to Netcraft's server to query its DB if such-and-such is a bad site for every URL it visits, I can't imagine how slow it would run and how expensive their bandwidth bill would become, not to mention the privacy issues of telling Netcraft your every move on the web. Perhaps it works like antiviruses, with regular updates posted on the server that can (or should) be automatically downloaded. That should make it easy for bandwidth, and the updates can be made incremental so that you only have to download what you don't already have.
Shouldn't that be a million years? :)
For a resolution of 1280x960, aiming for 96 DPI gets you 25.4*1280/96 = 339 mm and 25.4*960/96 = 254 mm (gee, that was a hard equation!
To see your current DPI settings, open an xterm and type "xdpyinfo|grep inch" (or is it "Inch"?)
And I wonder if the test program clicks "Yes" when asked "Do you trust this web site to install software on your computer?", the way IE users do.
Sigh, people are dumb, even when the dialog box says "this may be dangerous!", people keep clicking on "Yes" or "Open attachment". Maybe a new OS/browser should have a quiz when you install/use it for the first time.. when the user is dumb, make it real hard to do something stupid, and when the user is a pro, make it real easy. Maybe the lusers should be put in a sandbox that prevents stupid changes to be permanently made.
Use Proxomitron (on Windows) or Privoxy (Unix/Windows too) to block ads.. They work great -- configure one of them once, point all your browsers to use their localhost proxy port (or your router if you're on a home network), and you get ad-blocking for any browser you use.
Using Opera 8 final on Kubuntu here, and it's not crashing on me... even with my 30+ tabs open as my standard way of surfing.
Opera also uses Ctrl-Z as a shortcut for this feature (at least in 7.54, it's Ctrl-Alt-Z in 8.0 I think, but Ctrl-Z still works), pretty intuitive, IMO.
They also have a usable hotplug-system, I plugged in my camera and I could browse the images in it right away in Konqueror (I have Kubuntu), and more impressively my camera isn't one that pretends to be a USB storage device, it requires a different driver -- it works because gphoto2 has a lot of drivers for different camera models.
To quote the holy jwz (the Netscape hacker) about Netscape's takeover by AOL: "My friends keep saying ``jwz@aol.com'' and then laughing uncontrollably.".
Ah the good old days, where everybody was wondering if Mozilla 1.0 was going to suffer the same fate like Duke Nukem Forever.
Win2000 was great, it was really stable, it doesn't have candy GUI and activation and other bullshit. But everything afterward has been bad. WinME (hahaha), and XP with its CPU-eating candy GUI, activation, and many many worms.
Yeah, right.
They changed something to make it more manouverable than the Concorde, and in the process wired a wire wrong, so it crashed (from Wikipedia).
Too bad. But don't dismiss the Russians, they did manage to keep up a space station many many years longer than its planned lifespan.
I find Firefox slow too, and the fastest and most efficient browser I've found (and use) is Opera, yeah the one whose CEO is going to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. I multi-task too much and usually have 30 tabs open after a short time surfing. Opera manages this with no problem. I don't think Firefox would manage this, I find it getting slower the longer it is open. I'm not even going to consider IE in this, because it lacks the features I want..
As the local go-to guy with all PC problems, my motto is: "It should (have) work(ed)".
This looks like fun, let's compare those with features in Linux.. .Mac -- rsync, ssh, or even uucp
/. article last week or so about Admins not wanting to install SP2 because it f---s up their system.
Scripting -- Even the basic UI (Bash) in Linux is capable of interpreting Assembler, then there's Perl, or Python, or PHP.
Quicktime 7 Pro -- mplayer, vlc
iChat -- Gaim baby...
Mail Search -- Wow you can search mail now?
Safari RSS -- Firefox can do that, by the way, you write "Another FREE download!", what's the product called?
VoiceOver -- SuSE Linux 7 came with support for BraileTTY.
And one thing you failed to mention:
Security -- Only in SP2 did they enable the firewall by default. A standard install of XP is as secure as an American in Iraq. Whereas with Mac OS X it's "who needs firewalls, we're secure baby".
Stability -- There was a
The difference between OS X and Windows and Linux is the difficulty and convinience level each. Linux is really hard, OS X is really easy and Windows is just annoying because it tries to be easy but fails. You end up with spy- and adware that can install themselves so easily into your computer.
It's opening April 28th - co-incidentally a Thursday - a couple of weeks earlier than Episode III. Some part of me wishes Disney had the guts to release it the same weekend as EpIII, where it should (as part of my wish) then win the box-office-numbers-penis-size-competition. That would be a great way of showing Lucas what the viewing public thinks of him.
OTOH, there must be millions of geeks out there who know Star Wars but don't know HHGTG, so the movie can't win the numbers. Still, it should be a good fun movie for the droves of viewers who will be disappointed by EpIII. (Getting my hopes up, the trailer seems ass-kicking enough.)
What sort of a weird-ass office/dorm do you work/live in? Only the Uber of Ubergeeks would still be raving about Star Wars after the last 2 films, and if you happen to socialize with them, you need to mingle with "normal" people more.
How your heart went hay-wired sounds freaky. But, what does putting one hand behind your back accomplish?
I guess they can just look-up his borrowing history, and see which books are really there, and which aren't. But then some libraries don't want to play Big Brother or that the real Big Brother get their records, so they might not have the history stored anywhere.