Is it? Well I know the RMS talk never made it to the front page, but it might have been mentioned in comments... Hmm actually (*searches*) nothing there. Dunno how far back the search goes.
Aber was kinda referenced by association with the mention of the Adminspotting T-shirt.
Their robot lab is, sure. But I can't say I liked the course much. Too much paperwork, not enough coding. Sets you up well for a job somewhere like EDS, I guess, but not too good for the sort of thing I enjoy doing. That said, the environment is great, and if you do the bare minimum for the course, that leaves you plenty of time to teach yourself the interesting stuff (of course I only realise that this is what I was doing in retrospect). And they were heavily Unix-based when I went, which is nice.
How the hell did this get to 300+ replies? I thought this was a technical site...
Lithium polymer > Lithium Ion > Nickel Metal Hydride > Nickel Cadmium. Lithium Ion is unlikely to ever make it to an AA cell, but I see no reason lithium polymer can't (among its many advantages are adaptable form factor). NiMH is the best you can get at the moment though (and will be until battery manufacturers reckon they'll make a profit producing polymer AAs).
You really shouldn't have to do this. How many little laws have to be created to sidestep 'unintended' consequences of the one law to rule them all before it can be declared a Bad Law?
Having some problems with it here. Dropping NS4 support, I've moved to using CSS for pretty much everything. The CSS makes heavy use of position: absolute, and renders fine in Mozilla, Opera, IE, NS6+. Only problem is the Windows version of NS6 takes *ages* loading the background images. It's like it loads the HTML and a few images and then sits there for a minute thinking to itself "ah it's ok, no rush...". The end result looks great, it just takes ages getting there. No problem at all in the Linux version.
Is this a known problem? Annoyingly, this place seems to be rolling out NS6 (upgrading from NS4) as the standard browser instead of NS7, so this is a real issue.
Well I'm not one to upgrade needlessly, so actually it's currently an Athlon (pre-Tbird) 1.2GHz with 256M RAM. But I still use evil, as I like the environment.
What is wrong with icons? Really.. icons are a perfectly good way to launch applications that you use often. The desktop isn't doing anything else, so why not put some icons on there.
I found in my day-to-day use that I personally never used them. Having something iconised almost always meant I'd forget it was there. This is the same reason I don't use virtual desktops, but in that case the demand for them was so great that I thought I'd have a go at implementing them.
Whats up with 1px borders? Those must be easy to grab onto and manipulate at high resolutions.. oh yeah you can use the keyboard. Whats the point of having borders that you can manipulate if you can't really do anything with out using the keyboard.
The borders are there so that the current active window is obvious, and so that there is a nice visible divider between windows. That's all. But it happens that I tend to tile my windows, keeping the browser in the bottom right. To cycle through browser windows, I just fling the mouse to the bottom-right and hit the right mouse button (send to back) - as it's on the 1 pixel border due to being at the edge, it works nicely. I guess this is what people use 'tabs' in their browser for today, but I got used to this method first.
Minimalistic wm's would be great if the designers actually took gui concepts into account instead of trying to emulate the console.
The twm config that evilwm eventually grew to replace was based on the operations of RiscOS, of all things. I can't even remember what those decisions were, but the rest (keyboard controls, refining the mouse controls) grew on top of that to be what I consider to be a nice efficient control mechanism. Some people find it clicks with them, and love it. Others no doubt don't. Each to their own, eh? It seems to be particularly popular with laptop users.
Actually I did extra work to make it so that NumLock *didn't* disable that functionality! The number one complaint used to be that controls would 'just stop working' (because some apps seem to randomly affect NumLock).
Of course, the real solution will be the ability to map it to whatever unused modifier you like. Some day...
Well, nice to see this is considered worth a story. I think the fact that most of the replies are "Actually, I really like this other WM..." is quite telling though. Everyone likes something different...
The environment that is evilwm was seeded a twm config I crafted in 1995. The code started out being based on aewm, a damn fine base by Decklin Foster. I have a patch from Per Weijnitz that implements snap-to-border which, in my mind, will make it functionally *complete* - just waiting on me having time to look through it. Other things remaining to do in the times I think about what *other* people want:
User-configurable key bindings
Basic ability to start particular apps on set vdesks
As with all Free Software/OSS projects, this wouldn't have been possible without all the fluffy feedback from lovely users, maybe like you, with suggestions and patches.
Personally I'm looking forward to Unity - a Llamasoft development (being paid for by Lionhead). Tasty VLM goodness with Minter gameplay - gotta be good! And prettier than Rez, if the really early-in-development VLM3 demo DVD is anything to go by.
If slashdot set a character set in their HTML, everything would, presumably, work nicely (because it would tell your browser how to display stuff). But they don't. So it doesn't.
Well canvas isn't considered 'art', nor is paint. HTML is just the tool used by the artists. What they come up with can easily be considered art.
Examples.
"Under Linux, many of the libraries are released as LGPL software... This [software linking to such libraries] can remain as proprietary, non-Open Source software, even though it directly links to GPL software," the study pointed out, effectively killing the idea that the GPL has some kind of viral properties.
It got out of hand ages ago. The question is, will our governments (I include the UK govt here) be able to keep the people believing that this is not the case?
As for the OpenBSD story, this site quotes Theo as saying "If they take the money away, then it was blood money, and I don't want it. I actually feel redeemed".
Yes I did - I was going to express a similar reaction, but I found your comment. Here is a case where the truth has started to win out, perhaps?
I know Stallman advocates the use of the alternate and more accurate term, but does anyone know who originally thought it up? Maybe it's just 'obvious', and entered the collective conciousness spontaneously.
Well I just tried that by fullsizing Mozilla (easiest example to hand) using Ctrl+Alt+X, and whacking the mouse up to the top takes it outside of the click region on the menus anyway. Ho hum.
Oddly, I got a sense of Deja Vu from his post - I've seen someone make exactly the same mistake before. If I see anyone else claiming Opera is Free Software, I think I'll start suspecting a conspiracy. Though Bob knows what anyone would gain from that...
Ok, not a very useful comment I guess, but I survived the commercial breakdown by just not doing it in the first place. I currently work for a library, and previous to that for a public service broadcaster. Yay me!;)
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Is it? Well I know the RMS talk never made it to the front page, but it might have been mentioned in comments... Hmm actually (*searches*) nothing there. Dunno how far back the search goes. Aber was kinda referenced by association with the mention of the Adminspotting T-shirt.
Their robot lab is, sure. But I can't say I liked the course much. Too much paperwork, not enough coding. Sets you up well for a job somewhere like EDS, I guess, but not too good for the sort of thing I enjoy doing. That said, the environment is great, and if you do the bare minimum for the course, that leaves you plenty of time to teach yourself the interesting stuff (of course I only realise that this is what I was doing in retrospect). And they were heavily Unix-based when I went, which is nice.
How the hell did this get to 300+ replies? I thought this was a technical site...
Lithium polymer > Lithium Ion > Nickel Metal Hydride > Nickel Cadmium. Lithium Ion is unlikely to ever make it to an AA cell, but I see no reason lithium polymer can't (among its many advantages are adaptable form factor). NiMH is the best you can get at the moment though (and will be until battery manufacturers reckon they'll make a profit producing polymer AAs).
No need to use a commercial ssh client now that PuTTY has been released for it. Yay!
You really shouldn't have to do this. How many little laws have to be created to sidestep 'unintended' consequences of the one law to rule them all before it can be declared a Bad Law?
Actually the original post doesn't claim that Vorbis is a result of reverse engineering, although it could be phrased better. Look for the word 'and'.
Netscape 6 is decent
Having some problems with it here. Dropping NS4 support, I've moved to using CSS for pretty much everything. The CSS makes heavy use of position: absolute, and renders fine in Mozilla, Opera, IE, NS6+. Only problem is the Windows version of NS6 takes *ages* loading the background images. It's like it loads the HTML and a few images and then sits there for a minute thinking to itself "ah it's ok, no rush...". The end result looks great, it just takes ages getting there. No problem at all in the Linux version.
Is this a known problem? Annoyingly, this place seems to be rolling out NS6 (upgrading from NS4) as the standard browser instead of NS7, so this is a real issue.
Well I'm not one to upgrade needlessly, so actually it's currently an Athlon (pre-Tbird) 1.2GHz with 256M RAM. But I still use evil, as I like the environment.
What is wrong with icons? Really.. icons are a perfectly good way to launch applications that you use often. The desktop isn't doing anything else, so why not put some icons on there.
I found in my day-to-day use that I personally never used them. Having something iconised almost always meant I'd forget it was there. This is the same reason I don't use virtual desktops, but in that case the demand for them was so great that I thought I'd have a go at implementing them.
Whats up with 1px borders? Those must be easy to grab onto and manipulate at high resolutions.. oh yeah you can use the keyboard. Whats the point of having borders that you can manipulate if you can't really do anything with out using the keyboard.
The borders are there so that the current active window is obvious, and so that there is a nice visible divider between windows. That's all. But it happens that I tend to tile my windows, keeping the browser in the bottom right. To cycle through browser windows, I just fling the mouse to the bottom-right and hit the right mouse button (send to back) - as it's on the 1 pixel border due to being at the edge, it works nicely. I guess this is what people use 'tabs' in their browser for today, but I got used to this method first.
Minimalistic wm's would be great if the designers actually took gui concepts into account instead of trying to emulate the console.
The twm config that evilwm eventually grew to replace was based on the operations of RiscOS, of all things. I can't even remember what those decisions were, but the rest (keyboard controls, refining the mouse controls) grew on top of that to be what I consider to be a nice efficient control mechanism. Some people find it clicks with them, and love it. Others no doubt don't. Each to their own, eh? It seems to be particularly popular with laptop users.
Actually I did extra work to make it so that NumLock *didn't* disable that functionality! The number one complaint used to be that controls would 'just stop working' (because some apps seem to randomly affect NumLock). Of course, the real solution will be the ability to map it to whatever unused modifier you like. Some day...
I even put evilwm into the "base system" of the OpenBSD fork I maintain.
Coo, cheers matey! Reminds me, must get the latest version sponsored into Debian some time...
He's right, you know.
... with big winking smiley type affair.
Well, nice to see this is considered worth a story. I think the fact that most of the replies are "Actually, I really like this other WM..." is quite telling though. Everyone likes something different...
The environment that is evilwm was seeded a twm config I crafted in 1995. The code started out being based on aewm, a damn fine base by Decklin Foster. I have a patch from Per Weijnitz that implements snap-to-border which, in my mind, will make it functionally *complete* - just waiting on me having time to look through it. Other things remaining to do in the times I think about what *other* people want:
As with all Free Software/OSS projects, this wouldn't have been possible without all the fluffy feedback from lovely users, maybe like you, with suggestions and patches.
"Try it. You might like it."
"Die, GANON, die!"
Personally I'm looking forward to Unity - a Llamasoft development (being paid for by Lionhead). Tasty VLM goodness with Minter gameplay - gotta be good! And prettier than Rez, if the really early-in-development VLM3 demo DVD is anything to go by.
"you'll rue the day" who talks like that?
We (the British) do, for a start. That term didn't seem out of place at all to me.
If slashdot set a character set in their HTML, everything would, presumably, work nicely (because it would tell your browser how to display stuff). But they don't. So it doesn't.
Well canvas isn't considered 'art', nor is paint. HTML is just the tool used by the artists. What they come up with can easily be considered art. Examples.
"Under Linux, many of the libraries are released as LGPL software ... This [software linking to such libraries] can remain as proprietary, non-Open Source software, even though it directly links to GPL software," the study pointed out, effectively killing the idea that the GPL has some kind of viral properties.
That's just dumb and misleading.
It got out of hand ages ago. The question is, will our governments (I include the UK govt here) be able to keep the people believing that this is not the case?
As for the OpenBSD story, this site quotes Theo as saying "If they take the money away, then it was blood money, and I don't want it. I actually feel redeemed".
Did anyone else notice this?
Yes I did - I was going to express a similar reaction, but I found your comment. Here is a case where the truth has started to win out, perhaps?
I know Stallman advocates the use of the alternate and more accurate term, but does anyone know who originally thought it up? Maybe it's just 'obvious', and entered the collective conciousness spontaneously.
He didn't smell of anything noticable when he did a talk here. No-one else commented on anything like that either.
In short, if you're out in the field touching customers, a PDA is invaluable.
Do PDAs come with a vibrate function these days, then?
Well I just tried that by fullsizing Mozilla (easiest example to hand) using Ctrl+Alt+X, and whacking the mouse up to the top takes it outside of the click region on the menus anyway. Ho hum.
Oddly, I got a sense of Deja Vu from his post - I've seen someone make exactly the same mistake before. If I see anyone else claiming Opera is Free Software, I think I'll start suspecting a conspiracy. Though Bob knows what anyone would gain from that...
Ok, not a very useful comment I guess, but I survived the commercial breakdown by just not doing it in the first place. I currently work for a library, and previous to that for a public service broadcaster. Yay me! ;)