Design-wise, I don't really notice a difference on Firefox, at least on the home page (I see the comment post page is different). On Opera 8.5 (Windows), Slashdot now takes about 60 seconds or more to load (with broadband).
From http://www.icee.com/ In the late1950's a man named Omar Knedlik owned a Dairy Queen in Coffeyville, Kansas. He didn't have a soda fountain in the store so he took bottles of soda and put them in the freezer. He kept them in the freezer until the soda in the bottles became frozen. He served this frozen drink to his customers and they loved it!
He thought it would be great if there was a machine to make this unique frozen drink and began to build the machine himself. It took five years for Mr. Knedlik to build the first ICEE® machine. When he finally finished, he had just what he dreamed of, a machine that could pour a frozen, carbonated drink. By the mid 60's, about 300 ICEE® machines had been manufactured.
Wow, 40 years, didn't realize that. It wasn't until the late 70's I lived where Slurpees were available. Before that, I enjoyed Icees with the polar bear mascot. Or Chillie Willies (now there's a funny name in retrospect). Icees are the same as Slurpees, I believe, and had collectible stuff and points on the cups.
Actually, I don't like that about Safari. On several occassions when I've had many tabs open, when I quickly clicked a tab to choose it I clicked not just on the tab, but on the X, and the page I wanted to read is then gone. Then it's "Argh!" and History->blah blah.
Middle-clicking on a tab to close it is my preference in Firefox, and I use the same technique when closing tabbed buffers in jEdit, when editing files.
My wife always did similar with an old crap PC I had dual-partitioned with Win98 and Linux. She used Windows, and it gave no end of trouble, to which she would occassionally remark "I bet it's because you put Linux on here." Now she's a reluctant OS X user ("where's the taskbar? This computer can't do anything!"). Pity me;)
The pydev plugin for Eclipse has gotten good enough for me to use Eclipse in my next Python project. I don't know if I could convince my work to pay for Wing IDE when the Java programmers are using free Eclipse, and they probably have a good deal on Visual Studio for the MS coders.
Removable disk packs that lock into the case and can be taken out and put into a safe. Red Classified stickers on the case and the disk packs. Is there a designated security officer in your workplace you can check with? The right computer brand? I don't know how that fits in with physical security, but I've had Dell, Gateway, and Sun.
I've just run into the same issue with needing authenticated and encrypted XML-RPC between servers, using Python. First was the issue of non-authenticating xmlrpclib, then discovering the lack of built-in SSL support. What have you come up with? (and not M2Crypto).
And now? CherryPy has been around for a couple of years at least. When I started my excursions outside of Zope back then, I had the option of using CherryPy, Albatross, SkunkWeb, Quixote, WebWare, and more I've forgotten. Apparently lot of people have that web framework itch.
Plus, it's been around for quite some time, as have been many other Python web frameworks (look for the Python framework shoot-out if interested). I evaluated it more than a year ago but didn't go with it.
Anyway, what's "hot" in Python for web currently is Django.
I'd hardly point to this site as a poster child for Perl. Can we some day get meaningful page batching (so that when I click '2', I don't then have to read an almost-full screen of what was on page1 before getting to the next posts)? Not that it's Perl's fault.
That's absurd, not insightful. I hardly think right-click context menus is up there with your examples, nor that not feeling a pressing need for it makes one a Luddite.
So you're saying that people who haven't been conditioned by right-click context menus are perfectly content with their computer and how to use it, until they become exposed to a Windows (or Windows-like) interface where they must learn to rely on right clicking?
And you're saying it's great to hear your wife complain bitterly about something when she used to blithely use the computer with no idea that "something was wrong"?
Long story short, I think the other person wondering what the heck your wife is talking about is doing fine.
BTW, I just switched to OS X and got a Kensington scroll mouse instead of the Mac mouse, but I'm trying to wean myself from excessive right clicking.
That's curious about WMP on OS X. I recently got a Mac mini, installed Windows Media Player on it, and haven't noticed problems. I can watch CNN video with an embedded WM player, the included sample video plays, and content from WindowsMedia.com works.
OTOH, my Slackware 10.1 install (default, no multimedia tweaks) can play about a quarter of windows media files through Totem (xine). Mostly, though, they throw a codec error.
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Isn't that in the MG user manual? I sure know I perfected that technique with my Spridget way back when.
If I give my valuables to someone who puts them in his unlocked car, and they are subsequently stolen, you can bet I'm going to be pissed at him despite his protestations that he should be allowed to park his car without locking it. We all know the ultimate wrong-doer is the person who broke in. That doesn't excuse the person who was lax in protecting valuables.
Right, I was wondering how your muscles can memorize something that's semi-random. Windows' examples: Wordpad, choose File>Close with unsaved content: Default (Save) button on farthest left, buttons horizontal. Ok, so I should always mouse over to the far left of a dialog box. But wait - same application, Find dialog: buttons on right, stacked vertically. Open file: buttons on lower right, vertically, default button on top. How can I memorize something that keeps changing, unless I've also memorized every single dialog box for every situation ("now I'm about to open, so my mouse goes down here and a little bit up"). Internet Options in IE - the OK button is on the left, but not on the left border, it's more like centered. It's not muscle memory people have built up, it's just habit so that anything different looks odd.
I had no problems installing and using Slackware current on a 5+ year-old box with a Celeron 333 and 96 MB RAM. I have sound, modem works, setting up DSL was braindead easy, and it runs fast with XFCE for the desktop. I don't currently use package management tools other than downloading what I need and using pkgtool, but swaret and others are available. I used to run Mandrake and BlackBox on a Pentium 133. And I even run Slackware current and Fluxbox on an old Pentium 75 HP laptop! (but that's pushing it).
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Sorry, too late. Being first on the /. dupe doesn't count.
Mod as FUD. Give specific examples.
Hmm, wonder what it is, then. The top banner and left column load instantly, but the main area is solid black for an eternity.
Design-wise, I don't really notice a difference on Firefox, at least on the home page (I see the comment post page is different). On Opera 8.5 (Windows), Slashdot now takes about 60 seconds or more to load (with broadband).
From http://www.icee.com/ In the late1950's a man named Omar Knedlik owned a Dairy Queen in Coffeyville, Kansas. He didn't have a soda fountain in the store so he took bottles of soda and put them in the freezer. He kept them in the freezer until the soda in the bottles became frozen. He served this frozen drink to his customers and they loved it!
He thought it would be great if there was a machine to make this unique frozen drink and began to build the machine himself. It took five years for Mr. Knedlik to build the first ICEE® machine. When he finally finished, he had just what he dreamed of, a machine that could pour a frozen, carbonated drink. By the mid 60's, about 300 ICEE® machines had been manufactured.
Wow, 40 years, didn't realize that. It wasn't until the late 70's I lived where Slurpees were available. Before that, I enjoyed Icees with the polar bear mascot. Or Chillie Willies (now there's a funny name in retrospect). Icees are the same as Slurpees, I believe, and had collectible stuff and points on the cups.
Well, then he could take a page from Vim and rename it "Gimproved".
Actually, I don't like that about Safari. On several occassions when I've had many tabs open, when I quickly clicked a tab to choose it I clicked not just on the tab, but on the X, and the page I wanted to read is then gone. Then it's "Argh!" and History->blah blah.
Middle-clicking on a tab to close it is my preference in Firefox, and I use the same technique when closing tabbed buffers in jEdit, when editing files.
And my Assembly prof put it down as "Perl is just a bag of tricks."
My wife always did similar with an old crap PC I had dual-partitioned with Win98 and Linux. She used Windows, and it gave no end of trouble, to which she would occassionally remark "I bet it's because you put Linux on here." Now she's a reluctant OS X user ("where's the taskbar? This computer can't do anything!"). Pity me ;)
Have course he would of offended you.
The pydev plugin for Eclipse has gotten good enough for me to use Eclipse in my next Python project. I don't know if I could convince my work to pay for Wing IDE when the Java programmers are using free Eclipse, and they probably have a good deal on Visual Studio for the MS coders.
Removable disk packs that lock into the case and can be taken out and put into a safe. Red Classified stickers on the case and the disk packs. Is there a designated security officer in your workplace you can check with? The right computer brand? I don't know how that fits in with physical security, but I've had Dell, Gateway, and Sun.
I've just run into the same issue with needing authenticated and encrypted XML-RPC between servers, using Python. First was the issue of non-authenticating xmlrpclib, then discovering the lack of built-in SSL support. What have you come up with? (and not M2Crypto).
I love all this "x has that already" talk when CherryPy has been around for years before some of the x's.
And now? CherryPy has been around for a couple of years at least. When I started my excursions outside of Zope back then, I had the option of using CherryPy, Albatross, SkunkWeb, Quixote, WebWare, and more I've forgotten. Apparently lot of people have that web framework itch.
Plus, it's been around for quite some time, as have been many other Python web frameworks (look for the Python framework shoot-out if interested). I evaluated it more than a year ago but didn't go with it.
Anyway, what's "hot" in Python for web currently is Django.
I'd hardly point to this site as a poster child for Perl. Can we some day get meaningful page batching (so that when I click '2', I don't then have to read an almost-full screen of what was on page1 before getting to the next posts)? Not that it's Perl's fault.
That's absurd, not insightful. I hardly think right-click context menus is up there with your examples, nor that not feeling a pressing need for it makes one a Luddite.
So you're saying that people who haven't been conditioned by right-click context menus are perfectly content with their computer and how to use it, until they become exposed to a Windows (or Windows-like) interface where they must learn to rely on right clicking?
And you're saying it's great to hear your wife complain bitterly about something when she used to blithely use the computer with no idea that "something was wrong"?
Long story short, I think the other person wondering what the heck your wife is talking about is doing fine.
BTW, I just switched to OS X and got a Kensington scroll mouse instead of the Mac mouse, but I'm trying to wean myself from excessive right clicking.
That's curious about WMP on OS X. I recently got a Mac mini, installed Windows Media Player on it, and haven't noticed problems. I can watch CNN video with an embedded WM player, the included sample video plays, and content from WindowsMedia.com works.
OTOH, my Slackware 10.1 install (default, no multimedia tweaks) can play about a quarter of windows media files through Totem (xine). Mostly, though, they throw a codec error.
Isn't that in the MG user manual? I sure know I perfected that technique with my Spridget way back when.
If I give my valuables to someone who puts them in his unlocked car, and they are subsequently stolen, you can bet I'm going to be pissed at him despite his protestations that he should be allowed to park his car without locking it. We all know the ultimate wrong-doer is the person who broke in. That doesn't excuse the person who was lax in protecting valuables.
Right, I was wondering how your muscles can memorize something that's semi-random. Windows' examples: Wordpad, choose File>Close with unsaved content: Default (Save) button on farthest left, buttons horizontal. Ok, so I should always mouse over to the far left of a dialog box. But wait - same application, Find dialog: buttons on right, stacked vertically. Open file: buttons on lower right, vertically, default button on top. How can I memorize something that keeps changing, unless I've also memorized every single dialog box for every situation ("now I'm about to open, so my mouse goes down here and a little bit up"). Internet Options in IE - the OK button is on the left, but not on the left border, it's more like centered. It's not muscle memory people have built up, it's just habit so that anything different looks odd.
I had no problems installing and using Slackware current on a 5+ year-old box with a Celeron 333 and 96 MB RAM. I have sound, modem works, setting up DSL was braindead easy, and it runs fast with XFCE for the desktop. I don't currently use package management tools other than downloading what I need and using pkgtool, but swaret and others are available. I used to run Mandrake and BlackBox on a Pentium 133. And I even run Slackware current and Fluxbox on an old Pentium 75 HP laptop! (but that's pushing it).