I think the new killer app has become Instant Messagine (ala yahoo, msn, aol, icq, etc.) I know that email has it's history but I know I use IM much more than email. Plus I get much less spam through it, none! ICQ has it's spam problems and AOL has it's own, but it pales in comparison. I can't be the only one who sees it this way. Large number theory is behind me on this one. Maybe I just like instant gratification =)
The whole point about patents is that it costs a lot of money to get one. Paying patent lawyers to do reserch, etc. to make sure your product is unique and deserves a patent isn't cheap. For the majority of the "little guys" this is just not feasable. Thats why corporations (Lots of money) have an advantage over the little guy (no money).
I liked scott as the captain. The rehash of the standard trek technology into older, original types is interesting. My first reaction was that the theme song just plain sucked. The intro images fits in with the overall theme nicely. I think it has some problems, all mentioned in the story, but it has promise. When did kingons and humans start hating each other? I know they had to meet first, but throughout the original series, they were the above all enemies. I'm going to keep on watching it for a couple of weeks and see how it goes. It wasn't the series premiere that I'd hoped for. My fav premiere is still TNG one, great characters, great story, with a good twist.
Trek seems to be de-evolving into soft porn. From 7of9, we all know what the whole point of her character was, now to this. It doesn't really fit into the series about exploration and discovery. I don't know, do we really need it? (after all, what's the internet here for anyway?)
Does this mean that every student will be required to install the universities screen saver program? What kind of consequences would a student face if he/she refused to do so? And since the computers of these students donot belong to the university, do they have any right to demand so?
I bet that neat intelimouse with 5 buttons didn't come with your computer, you bought it because you wanted all those features. You can do the same with a mac. Stop complaining, if you want a mouse with 6 billion buttons go out and buy one. Remember, a majority of apple customers have never used a computer before, one button is just easier to learn. Anyone that has tried to teach someone who has never used a computer before knows that they get the buttons mixed up.
Ingenuity. Thats all you need. Construx was a great toy and it had no fancy AI programability or motors. It had glow in the dark, and boy was that fancy! Another great non-powered toy was kinex. It had some great plans for cars, the only thing was it had no motor. I spent my time with the large rubber band that came in the kit and made my own windup powered car. The only thing was that I would wind it up so tight that the plastic parts would snap. The best part was getting as much power out of the plastic before it would snap.
Why would you ever want your code removed from the project? If there are no problems with your code, then wouldn't you be helping this project become better? If you cared so little about it so as to want your code removed making it worse, then why complain about it at all?
Changes between 2.2 and 2.2.1
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Changes between KDE 2.2 and KDE 2.2.1
This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem
corrections that occurred in KDE between the 2.2 and 2.2.1 releases.
The primary goals of the 2.2.1 release being more complete documentation
and translations, the amount of code change is quite minimal - only the
most critical bugs have been fixed, the rest of the development is
currently being done in the branch that will lead to the KDE 3.0 release.
General
Many improvements to translations and documentation
kdelibs
arts: compile fixes, single threaded option.
KRFCDate: fix for eastern timezones.
KTempFile: fix for problem when fileExtension contained "X".
Improved checking for IPv6 support.
KPasswordEdit: slightly better in understanding non-ASCII characters.
KXMLGUI: fix for problem with reading xml file completely.
KFile: file preview fixes.
KHTML: Various html & CSS fixes.
Improved large file support.
HTTP: Better support for https through proxy.
HTTP: Improved handling of HTTP-cookies.
HTTP: Fixed security problem with abuse of HTTP POST.
Optimisations to improve KDE startup time.
KDED: All tasks can now be disabled through config file.
KSpell: support for Lithuanian and Belarusian.
KSSL: OpenBSD fixes.
kdeaddons
User Agent plugin: various fixes.
Kate Plugins: made translatable.
kdeadmin
KPackage: various fixes.
Kwuftpd: various fixes.
kdeartwork
No changes
kdebase
Kate: corrected bug wrt last line.
Desktop Wallpaper: small fixes.
KControl: fixes for NetBSD & OpenBSD info.
KDesktop: fix problem with icon positions on desktop.
KDesktop: fixed sever bug where renaming a file on the desktop would destroy it.
Kicker: mini-pager can be used to switch desktop during drag&drop.
AudioCD: Vorbis fixes.
IMAP: Handle folders that contain # or ? in their names correctely.
SMB: Better error reporting.
Thumbnail io-slave: fixes.
klipper: changes in configuration file format.
Konqueror: compile fixes.
Konqueror:minor fixes.
Konsole: many fixes.
Konsole: added --noxft option to disable AA.
Konsole: added "tripple click" support.
KPersonalizer: Fixed bug that inadvertently turned "shade hover" on.
(This makes the window roll up till only the title bar is left when the
mouse is over the title bar for some time)
ScreenSavers: show screen saver in front of the desktop instead of behind it.
KSMServer: Provide error diagnostics for common KDE instalation problems.
KSysGuard: various fixes.
KWin B2 decration: fixes.
KWin: Fix for freeze with CDE-style alt-tab.
Netscape Plugin Scan: Don't crash on incompatible libs.
kdebindings
Many updates.
kdegames
KAtomic: Fixed various incorrect chemical names.
kdegraphics
kdvi: various fixes.
kgv: small fixes.
kview: various fixes.
kdemultimedia
Some compile fixes.
noaun: small fix.
kdenetwork
KMail: various fixes.
KNode: Fix 1e9 problem.
KPgp: various fixes.
KDEPIM
korganizer: small fix.
kpilot: fix syncing problems.
KDESDK
kbabel: small fix.
KDEToys
KScore: small fix.
KDEUtils
Kab: compile fix.
Kpm: fix for Linux 2.4.
KDdevelop
kdevelop: avoid khtml crash on restoring files also with KDE-2.2.0
Theregister says the G5 has trice as many transistors as the G4, they wonder what motorola will do with all the new ones. Wouldn't moving from 32bit addressing to 64bit account for a majority of those new transistors?
Seems to me that AOL would be one of the first companies to install carnivore. It's just another way for them to screw over their customers. First with their bad software, next with overwhelming SPAM, and with high prices. It's just the next step in their evolution to deny privacy as well. AOL is just a test of how much customers will take, while they make tons of money off them.
A third plane was confirmed to have crashed into the heliport of the Pentagon. It's surreal. Nobody knows who's behind it, but there are shaky reports of some group to liberate palastine claiming responsibility. Lets go kick some ass USA. Disregard my.sig, I care alot about this.
These guys are going for full compatability with win32 binaries. With all this experience with hacking away at them, could the knowledge they gain be wrpaed into the wine project? I know it wouldn't be the profit minded thing to do, but if the OS goes flop as most people here seem to think so, then why couldn't it be spread around?
P.S. - I'm all for this project. Complete compatability with win32 binaries is a great edge. A fast stable OS that still can run ALL of your programs? Why not?
Not that I am, or ever will be a proponent of drinking and driving, but there are several concerns about this new device. Mainly the DUI laws are based upon a certain BAC limit. The ammount of alchohol as a percent of your blood level. How much does it take to set the sensor off? A very large person having a glass of wine right before driving, say from a restaurant, will have a very small ammount of alchohol content, but could be still detected on your breath. Likewise, a very small person could possibly be over the limit, and the small ammount on their breath would not set it off. It all depends on the person, and being generalized on a detector built to be a feature of a car at low price probubly could not be made well enough to adjust. Also, the people who do drink and drive will catch wind of this and not buy any car with it installed. It's like the drug assemblys in schools, their optional. The people who they need to be lecturing to opt-out.
You are forgetting that Be Inc. changed it's buisness plan to BeIA, a version of BeOS meant for embedded applications such as Internet Appliances. (hence the name). The site also states that it runs on Pentium class processors and all Power PC chips. If I'm not mistaked, correct me if I am, motorola's Dragonball processors used in Palm's products are a branch of Power PC. So the chalenge of porting to this platform is not hard at all. The real question is, whether this is the right move for the platform. Palm OS is tested, tried, and true. It works just the way it was intended. I believe that the BeOS platform would need much more extensive testing than the company has had a chance to perform before it could be released for Palm's products. If it isn't broken, why try and fix it? Palm OS is wonderful. Mainly, it works and is easy to use.
But I don't see USB 2.0 succeding Firewire. With the second generation Firewire 2.0 comming out soon with 800Mb/s, I would think that many manufacturers already with products connecting with Firewire(orig) would more easily switch to Firewire 2. I see each product filling the respective roles right now, but just with a speed bump. Digital cameras with USB 2.0 and high end digital camcorders with Firewire 2.0.
I'm really a newbie. I'm not newest of the new, I can compile and have my own kernels/etc, but I still feel I have alot to learn before I can pull myself out of the newbie catagory, maybe low middle user or whatever...
I have used mandrake since 7.0, bought the power pack and upgraded since all the way to 8.0 every increment. Mandrake allways gave me a feeling of bloat and being unfinished. The install was nice, but all the setup and configure tools afterward seemed half done. They would work some of the time but not allways and not ever flawlessly. I allways ended up going and configuring everything manually. It also filled up my HD with programs that weren't documented or linked to anywhere. Just wasting space, not letting me know they were there or what they could do for me.
Also has anyone tried compiling a new kernel on a mandrake machine? It's a pain. They include all these extras in the kernel that if you give the system a new one it craps it's pants. I applaud their efforts in making a newbie distro, but I love my Slackware. The install is slightly less user friendly, but it is easy, quick and best of all it works. The system runs perfectly and it has just the software that I want and use, no crap . I have recompiled many kernels on it, mostly recompiles because I have forgotten something or another, and never have had any problems. It's also the little things, like having fortune run in the login script. It's just a slick and wonderful distro.
As soon as anyone gets their feet wet with Mandrake I highly recomend using Slackware. The best distro.
I don't really get all the outrage. I mean, I hate the idea of licensing rather than owning as much as the next guy, but just because of the advent of e-books and these restrictive terms does not mean you can no longer buy the real book and have it forever. It all boils down to basic economics; if you don't like it, do as I do and don't buy it. The product will fail in comparison to the actual books and will fade away. I have to say that my leather bound books that I can read anytime I want look alot more impressive than any file on a HD that you can no longer access.
The Athlon MP is actually the same core (palamino) as the upcoming Athlon 4, the only difference is that the athlon MP has been 'certified' by AMD to run in SMP configurations. There is no change in the socket or connections, all AMD socket A processors are compatible with the AMD 760(MP) based boards and will be compatible with the Athlon 4.
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Some of us younger folks may remember this as a Less Than Jake song. Great tune.
2001-10-01 20:33:47 Nvidia Launches GeForce Titanium Line (articles,hardware)(rejected)
I think the new killer app has become Instant Messagine (ala yahoo, msn, aol, icq, etc.) I know that email has it's history but I know I use IM much more than email. Plus I get much less spam through it, none! ICQ has it's spam problems and AOL has it's own, but it pales in comparison. I can't be the only one who sees it this way. Large number theory is behind me on this one. Maybe I just like instant gratification =)
The whole point about patents is that it costs a lot of money to get one. Paying patent lawyers to do reserch, etc. to make sure your product is unique and deserves a patent isn't cheap. For the majority of the "little guys" this is just not feasable. Thats why corporations (Lots of money) have an advantage over the little guy (no money).
I liked scott as the captain. The rehash of the standard trek technology into older, original types is interesting. My first reaction was that the theme song just plain sucked. The intro images fits in with the overall theme nicely. I think it has some problems, all mentioned in the story, but it has promise. When did kingons and humans start hating each other? I know they had to meet first, but throughout the original series, they were the above all enemies. I'm going to keep on watching it for a couple of weeks and see how it goes. It wasn't the series premiere that I'd hoped for. My fav premiere is still TNG one, great characters, great story, with a good twist.
Trek seems to be de-evolving into soft porn. From 7of9, we all know what the whole point of her character was, now to this. It doesn't really fit into the series about exploration and discovery. I don't know, do we really need it? (after all, what's the internet here for anyway?)
Does this mean that every student will be required to install the universities screen saver program? What kind of consequences would a student face if he/she refused to do so? And since the computers of these students donot belong to the university, do they have any right to demand so?
Lemme see... eighteen, nineteen. it seems to me that both these ages are spelled with the word 'teen'. Hmm, could that be where teenager comes from?
I'm a teenager. And wow, most of my friends are too! You know what? We teenagers aren't keen to having our rights taken away.
I bet that neat intelimouse with 5 buttons didn't come with your computer, you bought it because you wanted all those features. You can do the same with a mac. Stop complaining, if you want a mouse with 6 billion buttons go out and buy one. Remember, a majority of apple customers have never used a computer before, one button is just easier to learn. Anyone that has tried to teach someone who has never used a computer before knows that they get the buttons mixed up.
Ingenuity. Thats all you need. Construx was a great toy and it had no fancy AI programability or motors. It had glow in the dark, and boy was that fancy! Another great non-powered toy was kinex. It had some great plans for cars, the only thing was it had no motor. I spent my time with the large rubber band that came in the kit and made my own windup powered car. The only thing was that I would wind it up so tight that the plastic parts would snap. The best part was getting as much power out of the plastic before it would snap.
News for Nerds. Stuff you can never get to.
Maybe I'll get through in a week.
Why would you ever want your code removed from the project? If there are no problems with your code, then wouldn't you be helping this project become better? If you cared so little about it so as to want your code removed making it worse, then why complain about it at all?
This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem corrections that occurred in KDE between the 2.2 and 2.2.1 releases. The primary goals of the 2.2.1 release being more complete documentation and translations, the amount of code change is quite minimal - only the most critical bugs have been fixed, the rest of the development is currently being done in the branch that will lead to the KDE 3.0 release.
General- Many improvements to translations and documentation
kdelibs- arts: compile fixes, single threaded option.
- KRFCDate: fix for eastern timezones.
- KTempFile: fix for problem when fileExtension contained "X".
- Improved checking for IPv6 support.
- KPasswordEdit: slightly better in understanding non-ASCII characters.
- KXMLGUI: fix for problem with reading xml file completely.
- KFile: file preview fixes.
- KHTML: Various html & CSS fixes.
- Improved large file support.
- HTTP: Better support for https through proxy.
- HTTP: Improved handling of HTTP-cookies.
- HTTP: Fixed security problem with abuse of HTTP POST.
- Optimisations to improve KDE startup time.
- KDED: All tasks can now be disabled through config file.
- KSpell: support for Lithuanian and Belarusian.
- KSSL: OpenBSD fixes.
kdeaddons- User Agent plugin: various fixes.
- Kate Plugins: made translatable.
kdeadmin- KPackage: various fixes.
- Kwuftpd: various fixes.
kdeartwork No changes kdebase- Kate: corrected bug wrt last line.
- Desktop Wallpaper: small fixes.
- KControl: fixes for NetBSD & OpenBSD info.
- KDesktop: fix problem with icon positions on desktop.
- KDesktop: fixed sever bug where renaming a file on the desktop would destroy it.
- Kicker: mini-pager can be used to switch desktop during drag&drop.
- AudioCD: Vorbis fixes.
- IMAP: Handle folders that contain # or ? in their names correctely.
- SMB: Better error reporting.
- Thumbnail io-slave: fixes.
- klipper: changes in configuration file format.
- Konqueror: compile fixes.
- Konqueror:minor fixes.
- Konsole: many fixes.
- Konsole: added --noxft option to disable AA.
- Konsole: added "tripple click" support.
- KPersonalizer: Fixed bug that inadvertently turned "shade hover" on.
(This makes the window roll up till only the title bar is left when the
mouse is over the title bar for some time)
- ScreenSavers: show screen saver in front of the desktop instead of behind it.
- KSMServer: Provide error diagnostics for common KDE instalation problems.
- KSysGuard: various fixes.
- KWin B2 decration: fixes.
- KWin: Fix for freeze with CDE-style alt-tab.
- Netscape Plugin Scan: Don't crash on incompatible libs.
kdebindings- Many updates.
kdegames- KAtomic: Fixed various incorrect chemical names.
kdegraphics- kdvi: various fixes.
- kgv: small fixes.
- kview: various fixes.
kdemultimedia- Some compile fixes.
- noaun: small fix.
kdenetwork- KMail: various fixes.
- KNode: Fix 1e9 problem.
- KPgp: various fixes.
KDEPIM- korganizer: small fix.
- kpilot: fix syncing problems.
KDESDK- kbabel: small fix.
KDEToys- KScore: small fix.
KDEUtils- Kab: compile fix.
- Kpm: fix for Linux 2.4.
KDdevelop- kdevelop: avoid khtml crash on restoring files also with KDE-2.2.0
- kdevelop: gcc 3.0 compile fix.
- kdevelop: Fix find dialog.
- kdevelop: Various fixes.
KDoc No changes.Theregister says the G5 has trice as many transistors as the G4, they wonder what motorola will do with all the new ones. Wouldn't moving from 32bit addressing to 64bit account for a majority of those new transistors?
Seems to me that AOL would be one of the first companies to install carnivore. It's just another way for them to screw over their customers. First with their bad software, next with overwhelming SPAM, and with high prices. It's just the next step in their evolution to deny privacy as well. AOL is just a test of how much customers will take, while they make tons of money off them.
A third plane was confirmed to have crashed into the heliport of the Pentagon. It's surreal. Nobody knows who's behind it, but there are shaky reports of some group to liberate palastine claiming responsibility. Lets go kick some ass USA. Disregard my .sig, I care alot about this.
These guys are going for full compatability with win32 binaries. With all this experience with hacking away at them, could the knowledge they gain be wrpaed into the wine project? I know it wouldn't be the profit minded thing to do, but if the OS goes flop as most people here seem to think so, then why couldn't it be spread around?
P.S. - I'm all for this project. Complete compatability with win32 binaries is a great edge. A fast stable OS that still can run ALL of your programs? Why not?
The difference is in 2 things, A) lawyers and B) money. Microsoft has alot of both. It's all you need to make the law how you want it.
Not that I am, or ever will be a proponent of drinking and driving, but there are several concerns about this new device. Mainly the DUI laws are based upon a certain BAC limit. The ammount of alchohol as a percent of your blood level. How much does it take to set the sensor off? A very large person having a glass of wine right before driving, say from a restaurant, will have a very small ammount of alchohol content, but could be still detected on your breath. Likewise, a very small person could possibly be over the limit, and the small ammount on their breath would not set it off. It all depends on the person, and being generalized on a detector built to be a feature of a car at low price probubly could not be made well enough to adjust. Also, the people who do drink and drive will catch wind of this and not buy any car with it installed. It's like the drug assemblys in schools, their optional. The people who they need to be lecturing to opt-out.
You are forgetting that Be Inc. changed it's buisness plan to BeIA, a version of BeOS meant for embedded applications such as Internet Appliances. (hence the name). The site also states that it runs on Pentium class processors and all Power PC chips. If I'm not mistaked, correct me if I am, motorola's Dragonball processors used in Palm's products are a branch of Power PC. So the chalenge of porting to this platform is not hard at all. The real question is, whether this is the right move for the platform. Palm OS is tested, tried, and true. It works just the way it was intended. I believe that the BeOS platform would need much more extensive testing than the company has had a chance to perform before it could be released for Palm's products. If it isn't broken, why try and fix it? Palm OS is wonderful. Mainly, it works and is easy to use.
But I don't see USB 2.0 succeding Firewire. With the second generation Firewire 2.0 comming out soon with 800Mb/s, I would think that many manufacturers already with products connecting with Firewire(orig) would more easily switch to Firewire 2. I see each product filling the respective roles right now, but just with a speed bump. Digital cameras with USB 2.0 and high end digital camcorders with Firewire 2.0.
11 digit sequential numbers as e-mail for everyone in US? I thought AOL was bad with spam.
for(x,x++,x99999999999;)
{
cout "mailto:" + x + "@resedent.usa.gov SUBJECT='Hi' BODY='I'm a sweet 18yr old...'";
}
not hard at all...
I'm really a newbie. I'm not newest of the new, I can compile and have my own kernels/etc, but I still feel I have alot to learn before I can pull myself out of the newbie catagory, maybe low middle user or whatever...
I have used mandrake since 7.0, bought the power pack and upgraded since all the way to 8.0 every increment. Mandrake allways gave me a feeling of bloat and being unfinished. The install was nice, but all the setup and configure tools afterward seemed half done. They would work some of the time but not allways and not ever flawlessly. I allways ended up going and configuring everything manually. It also filled up my HD with programs that weren't documented or linked to anywhere. Just wasting space, not letting me know they were there or what they could do for me.
Also has anyone tried compiling a new kernel on a mandrake machine? It's a pain. They include all these extras in the kernel that if you give the system a new one it craps it's pants. I applaud their efforts in making a newbie distro, but I love my Slackware. The install is slightly less user friendly, but it is easy, quick and best of all it works. The system runs perfectly and it has just the software that I want and use, no crap . I have recompiled many kernels on it, mostly recompiles because I have forgotten something or another, and never have had any problems. It's also the little things, like having fortune run in the login script. It's just a slick and wonderful distro.As soon as anyone gets their feet wet with Mandrake I highly recomend using Slackware. The best distro.
I don't really get all the outrage. I mean, I hate the idea of licensing rather than owning as much as the next guy, but just because of the advent of e-books and these restrictive terms does not mean you can no longer buy the real book and have it forever. It all boils down to basic economics; if you don't like it, do as I do and don't buy it. The product will fail in comparison to the actual books and will fade away. I have to say that my leather bound books that I can read anytime I want look alot more impressive than any file on a HD that you can no longer access.
The Athlon MP is actually the same core (palamino) as the upcoming Athlon 4, the only difference is that the athlon MP has been 'certified' by AMD to run in SMP configurations. There is no change in the socket or connections, all AMD socket A processors are compatible with the AMD 760(MP) based boards and will be compatible with the Athlon 4.