The announcement/press release is here, source code here, and binary packages (only RH/Mandrake so far) here. The beta also includes KOffice. There will be two more betas before the final release in September. --
The ONLY use for a scripting language in an email client is to spread virii or trojan horses.
Don't forget scripted MUAs also allows for easier spamming. Gather up a list of addresses from usenet, write a quick script to send out an e-mail to all of them "personally" so that it passes spam filters, and if you're clever, you can write the script so that the spam starts with personal info ("Hi, Bob Doe, blablabla..."). A guarranteed favorite if your "prospects" are the general dumb masses. --
Although I'm not in favor of all this Gnome hype, I thought I'd gather up some Karma by mentioning TradeClient, which is YAOC (yet another Outlook clone). Looks like it's already usable (no imap support). It's been recently GPLed. --
The boys [/. authors] do have some adult supervision: Robin Miller, managing editor of all Andover sites, makes sure that Slashdot's articles are grammatical and libel-free, and not spelled with the numeric-letter mixture ("D00D!!! LET'S RIP SOME WAREZZZ!") that characterizes much geek typing.
It's nice to hear that w/o Andover,/. would fast become a warez trading site if Rob had his way;) --
I have an idea. We should build a really big, really smart computer (maybe using a beowulf cluster?). Then we let that computer have total control of all space expeditions we send out. I think it would work very well.
I'm sorry, I cannot allow you to do that, PhoboS. --
SourceForge is a great boost to many open source projects, especially in providing CVS servers, mailing lists, web hosting, patch management, bug databases etc etc... Their service is fast and reliable, and you even get technical support from people who knows how to help.
SourceForge is probably doing more for the open source movement than any other single entity. They could change money for it and nobody would question it because their service is so great. But they don't. They could be proprietary, but instead they use only free software. And on top of all this, they even release their sourcecode for the project, as if they had to!
And then what: people complaining that "SourceForge doesn't help the open source movement because they release their source as a badly organized tarball and they didn't include my patch"! I mean, WTF! Fscking whining maggots!
SourceForge now hosts the entire KDE CVS. They gave it a dedicated box, and they don't even ask for a single mention of this in return. Think about that the next time you use KDE.
I can see why the poster would choose to be anonymous -- most trolls do!
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For "code insight", you could try KDE Studio, although that requires KDE2 and isn't quite as stable. --
If you use the KDE2 alphas, remember to report any bugs you can (after checking the bugs aren't already fixed). All KDE apps have a bug reporting form in their Help menus. --
You're seriously misinformed. Konqueror is not "one gigantic app". In fact, the executable is but a few hundred Kb. Almost *everything* in Konqueror is a component, even the file manager and the web browser if I'm not mistaken. This is the same with IE, Nautilus, Mozilla etc. This breaking-down of functionality actually facilitates debugging, not the opposite as you seem to think:-)
The study claims, as I understand it, that violent behaviour can be caused by playing computer games not because of the games themselves, but because the player doesn't understand that the game increases his affective arousal.
In other words, NN plays a game of Quake, which he thinks is fun, and after that he feels a lot of anger inside him, which he can't understand where comes from. He definitely will not blame Quake, so he finds something else to blame. Be it an innocent person, to whom he attributes his anger, and frags him. Ugh.
Those who want to run a weblog like/. but don't have access to database servers could try out sips. It's written in PHP and doesn't need anything beyond a php enabled web-server. The trade-off is you don't get half of the features of/., and it's only in version 0.1, but this looks like a really interesting project. I'm going to follow it closely (esp. since I'm the developer!:-D);)
Katz mentions geeks because the stereotypical "geek" is a social misfit, an anti-social outsider, and hence a typical victim of the W.A.V.E.
Stereotype or not, geeks stand out, and in essence, W.A.V.E. seems to be all about conforming and promoting a public pathological fear being different. </deepbreath>
I remember "The Wave" now! We were shown it in school some 8-10 years ago. I can't believe they chose the same name for their insane campaign! (wow, I sound like a rapper:/)
While I don't think WordPerfect Office does e-mail, Magellan does most of the things you describe. It's still in development, but it's going to be very cool:)
It's a tragedy that you hold all these brilliant ideas inside of you. You should let them out, get heard. Join the mailinglists. Commit your changes to the CVS or send the patches that you already must have (I presume) to the core developers.
Having had a look at the release notes for the final xfree86 4.0, I'm left with a feeling of just having read the usual "this is pre-alpha, you shouldn't even be reading THIS!". It says blatantly that if you don't want trouble, you shouldn't try 4.0.
I'm for one is amazed at how fast the 4.0 release came. I'd expect many more 3.9 pre-releases. I fear it probably hasn't been tested as well, and it is a fact that it doesn't support all the hardware that 3.3 does.
I do hope that 4.0 is usable, and if so, perhaps new distributions may pick it up. Linux projects (with a few exceptions) have traditions of releasing software "when it's ready", no matter how much delay that means. This has given Linux it's reputation as a solid OS. I hope xfree86 4.0 will be no exception...
I was meaning to keep my mouth shut on this, but I've seen it one time too many lately: The editors of/. are obviously not very aware of the differences between "than" and "then". I've also seen "your" instead of "you're", "to" instead of "too".. I'm holding my breath waiting for "there's" instead of "theirs":)
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If you'd bothered to look twice, you'd see that the beta actually is versioned 1.90, aka 2.0 Beta 1.
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The announcement/press release is here, source code here, and binary packages (only RH/Mandrake so far) here. The beta also includes KOffice. There will be two more betas before the final release in September.
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Don't forget scripted MUAs also allows for easier spamming. Gather up a list of addresses from usenet, write a quick script to send out an e-mail to all of them "personally" so that it passes spam filters, and if you're clever, you can write the script so that the spam starts with personal info ("Hi, Bob Doe, blablabla..."). A guarranteed favorite if your "prospects" are the general dumb masses.
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Have a look at KMail in KDE2 Beta 1. It has been through a lot of work and is *really* cool now, and it does unarguably resemble Eudora :)
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Although I'm not in favor of all this Gnome hype, I thought I'd gather up some Karma by mentioning TradeClient, which is YAOC (yet another Outlook clone). Looks like it's already usable (no imap support). It's been recently GPLed.
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The boys [/. authors] do have some adult supervision: Robin Miller, managing editor of all Andover sites, makes sure that Slashdot's articles are grammatical and libel-free, and not spelled with the numeric-letter mixture ("D00D!!! LET'S RIP SOME WAREZZZ!") that characterizes much geek typing.
It's nice to hear that w/o Andover, /. would fast become a warez trading site if Rob had his way ;)
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Oh my god.. I think I need to get some sleep...
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I need to moderate this up. No wait, it has to be a lie, 33% of human kind _can't_ be that stupid. :/
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I'm sorry, I cannot allow you to do that, PhoboS.
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SourceForge is a great boost to many open source projects, especially in providing CVS servers, mailing lists, web hosting, patch management, bug databases etc etc... Their service is fast and reliable, and you even get technical support from people who knows how to help.
SourceForge is probably doing more for the open source movement than any other single entity. They could change money for it and nobody would question it because their service is so great. But they don't. They could be proprietary, but instead they use only free software. And on top of all this, they even release their sourcecode for the project, as if they had to!
And then what: people complaining that "SourceForge doesn't help the open source movement because they release their source as a badly organized tarball and they didn't include my patch"! I mean, WTF! Fscking whining maggots!
SourceForge now hosts the entire KDE CVS. They gave it a dedicated box, and they don't even ask for a single mention of this in return. Think about that the next time you use KDE.
I can see why the poster would choose to be anonymous -- most trolls do!
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For "code insight", you could try KDE Studio, although that requires KDE2 and isn't quite as stable.
--
If you use the KDE2 alphas, remember to report any bugs you can (after checking the bugs aren't already fixed). All KDE apps have a bug reporting form in their Help menus.
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You're seriously misinformed. Konqueror is not "one gigantic app". In fact, the executable is but a few hundred Kb. Almost *everything* in Konqueror is a component, even the file manager and the web browser if I'm not mistaken. This is the same with IE, Nautilus, Mozilla etc. This breaking-down of functionality actually facilitates debugging, not the opposite as you seem to think :-)
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It's not complete and bugfree, and it has several flaws, but trying it out just to see the huge improvements from KDE1 is fun! :-)
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The study claims, as I understand it, that violent behaviour can be caused by playing computer games not because of the games themselves, but because the player doesn't understand that the game increases his affective arousal.
In other words, NN plays a game of Quake, which he thinks is fun, and after that he feels a lot of anger inside him, which he can't understand where comes from. He definitely will not blame Quake, so he finds something else to blame. Be it an innocent person, to whom he attributes his anger, and frags him. Ugh.
ftp://ftpX.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR 1
Replace the X with any number from 1 to 8, and there you go.
Those who want to run a weblog like /. but don't have access to database servers could try out sips. It's written in PHP and doesn't need anything beyond a php enabled web-server. The trade-off is you don't get half of the features of /., and it's only in version 0.1, but this looks like a really interesting project. I'm going to follow it closely (esp. since I'm the developer! :-D) ;)
Katz mentions geeks because the stereotypical "geek" is a social misfit, an anti-social outsider, and hence a typical victim of the W.A.V.E.
Stereotype or not, geeks stand out, and in essence, W.A.V.E. seems to be all about conforming and promoting a public pathological fear being different.
</deepbreath>
http://www.waveamerica.com/.
;-)
Now, gimme the moderation this incredibly Informative (hint-hint) posting deserves!
I remember "The Wave" now! We were shown it in school some 8-10 years ago. I can't believe they chose the same name for their insane campaign! (wow, I sound like a rapper :/)
While I don't think WordPerfect Office does e-mail, Magellan does most of the things you describe. It's still in development, but it's going to be very cool :)
If you'd bothered to read this review before posting, you'd see they have screenshots.
It's a tragedy that you hold all these brilliant ideas inside of you. You should let them out, get heard. Join the mailinglists. Commit your changes to the CVS or send the patches that you already must have (I presume) to the core developers.
I'm for one is amazed at how fast the 4.0 release came. I'd expect many more 3.9 pre-releases. I fear it probably hasn't been tested as well, and it is a fact that it doesn't support all the hardware that 3.3 does.
I do hope that 4.0 is usable, and if so, perhaps new distributions may pick it up. Linux projects (with a few exceptions) have traditions of releasing software "when it's ready", no matter how much delay that means. This has given Linux it's reputation as a solid OS. I hope xfree86 4.0 will be no exception...
I was meaning to keep my mouth shut on this, but I've seen it one time too many lately: The editors of /. are obviously not very aware of the differences between "than" and "then". I've also seen "your" instead of "you're", "to" instead of "too".. I'm holding my breath waiting for "there's" instead of "theirs" :)