Q. Why the name 'Theora?' Like other Xiph.org Foundation codec projects such as Vorbis or Tarkin, Theora is named after a fictional character. Theora Jones was the name of Edison Carter's 'controller' on the television series Max Headroom. She was played by Amanda Pays.
The drop-down menu history is VERY useful as a temporary set of bookmarks which you will only need for a short period (say a month) and don't want to litter your real bookmarks with.
That is what I have a tmp folder on my bookmark toolbar for. Alternatively, if you use the awesome bar regularly, it should work fine for that use case.
The awesomebar learns, and if you use it for a while, the sites you use most will move up the list.
Anyway, if you had about 20 entries you used in the dropdown list, why not use bookmarks on the toolbar? Keep the titles short, and you can fit in a fair number, and a folder or two goes a long way. If sites have recognizable favicons, you could even remove the titles and fit in a lot more.
*There's one exception to this. I saw part of the American adaptation of Planet Earth last week. David Attenborough's voice had been dubbed over. Shameful.
I know. I mean really, who thought it would be a good idea to replace David Attenborough with Sigourney Weaver?
But in defense of Windows (and Mac OS X by extension), do most Linux users rely on the applications included with their distros?
I think they do (expecting media codecs and such, but that is usually a single external repo that is easy enough to add once and forget about), unless they are really bleeding-edge types, like me. Personally, I always run Wine from an upstream repo and Mozilla (SeaMonkey) nightly builds (as well as media stuff from debian-multimedia).
Right at the moment, I am also running upstream alsa, (for a workaround) and the Awesome WM 3.0 pre-alphas, and a little while ago, I was using xmms2 0.6 from upstream (now in Sid). And even further back I was using Ubuntu's Gnome and Cups packages that where newer than Sid's.
*However*, if I was not a crazy upgrade junky, the debian repos would have everything I would want. Even the Ubuntu or Fedora repos don't seem to be missing much that I would want.
On top of that you have Aaron Segio now suggesting that users should have less control over configuration, fewer choices, and saying that end users are dumb. He also has suggested repeatedly lately that if you're not a coder, then you can't comment on UI issues.
I keep Treehugger for completeness, but I mark 90% of their posts as read without looking at them. Really too "light green/consumer green" for me http://www.treehugger.com/index.xml
"Your comment has too few characters per line" - what a load of bull. Taco, I know this and the timer are supposed to cut down on spam, but I think they annoy legitimate posters more than they reduce spam. You should really reconsider these "features".
Re:Finally, developers' ignorance and childish
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I personally wish they would put a lot more work into the transition to evdev and HAL, so we can get rid of xorg.conf and finally make strides to being as user friendly as "the other" OSes. Well, a fair amount has already been done on improving the configuration system. With the current release of Xorg, and a standard enough system, you can delete your xorg.conf and X will work just fine. And even when you have a non-standard system, a properly configured xorg.conf is probably around a quarter or less of the size of xorg.conf from say, xorg 6.8.
Why the nonstandard build system? since 7.0 Xorg uses autotools, which, you may argue, still isn't ideal, but it is certainly standard.
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If you mean "take out the tcp/ip part", that wouldn't really change anything. If you mean "take out everything that enables networking" that would be a lot of work, and it still wouldn't get you very much. The hard part of maintaining and working on X internals doesn't really come from the network transparency stuff itself.
Now, if you have to deal with xlib for the X protocol, that can be a pain. But that is why XCB (X C Bindings) was invented.
XCB is apparently very nice to work with, and it has "a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility". The most recent distros are using XCB/xlib which uses XCB internal, while allowing xlib apps to function without changing anything. When XCB is standard in enough installed systems, apps and toolkits can begin migrating to native XCB. When the Awesome window manager 3.0 comes out, it will be the first WM to use XCB directly.
As for NX, it is really just compresses the X protocol and encrypts it. If you remove X network transparency, NX is useless. I, and I suspect many *nix admins, vastly prefer NX or X over SSH to VNC, RDP, etc (of course plain ssh probably gets used more than all of those put together on *nix).
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X.org began a long boring process of breaking X into smaller modules which will accelerate overall development. The problem is that process is still on going, and will take a few more years before any major upgrades can take place. X.org has been modular for several releases now. I don't remember for sure now, but if 100% of the modularization wasn't done in 7.0, then 90%+ was, and the rest was done in 7.1.
Think about the Mozilla project. They spent years cleaning out the core codebase and upgrading the core gecko engine from Netscape before they even had a decent beta. No, they didn't. They threw out the original Netscape 5 code (evolved Netscape 4) and started completely from scratch to make gecko and everything else.
I think there is still a flash version, I know there is for gameday audio, but it still doesn't work right. I just started using mlbviewer.py - it is pretty basic, but still a much better interface than anything MLB has come up with.
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MPEG2 and MPEG3 are the ISO standard and the de facto free standard for most high bandwidth video apps these days
Most everything has moved, is moving, or plans to move to MPEG-4...
From the Theora FAQ:
Q. Why the name 'Theora?'
Like other Xiph.org Foundation codec projects such as Vorbis or Tarkin, Theora is named after a fictional character. Theora Jones was the name of Edison Carter's 'controller' on the television series Max Headroom. She was played by Amanda Pays.
A Pak Protector loosing some of it's cognitive functions? You must be *really* old for that to happen!
The drop-down menu history is VERY useful as a temporary set of bookmarks which you will only need for a short period (say a month) and don't want to litter your real bookmarks with.
That is what I have a tmp folder on my bookmark toolbar for. Alternatively, if you use the awesome bar regularly, it should work fine for that use case.
The awesomebar learns, and if you use it for a while, the sites you use most will move up the list.
Anyway, if you had about 20 entries you used in the dropdown list, why not use bookmarks on the toolbar? Keep the titles short, and you can fit in a fair number, and a folder or two goes a long way. If sites have recognizable favicons, you could even remove the titles and fit in a lot more.
Source? I am not seeing that anywhere on the net. All I see are references to a place in Japan.
Bah, I have run the nightly builds of SeaMonkey over a year. Even with the nightlies, there are rarely any really serious problems.
thankfully, no
*There's one exception to this. I saw part of the American adaptation of Planet Earth last week. David Attenborough's voice had been dubbed over. Shameful.
I know. I mean really, who thought it would be a good idea to replace David Attenborough with Sigourney Weaver?
But in defense of Windows (and Mac OS X by extension), do most Linux users rely on the applications included with their distros?
I think they do (expecting media codecs and such, but that is usually a single external repo that is easy enough to add once and forget about), unless they are really bleeding-edge types, like me. Personally, I always run Wine from an upstream repo and Mozilla (SeaMonkey) nightly builds (as well as media stuff from debian-multimedia).
Right at the moment, I am also running upstream alsa, (for a workaround) and the Awesome WM 3.0 pre-alphas, and a little while ago, I was using xmms2 0.6 from upstream (now in Sid). And even further back I was using Ubuntu's Gnome and Cups packages that where newer than Sid's.
*However*, if I was not a crazy upgrade junky, the debian repos would have everything I would want. Even the Ubuntu or Fedora repos don't seem to be missing much that I would want.
interesting
On top of that you have Aaron Segio now suggesting that users should have less control over configuration, fewer choices, and saying that end users are dumb. He also has suggested repeatedly lately that if you're not a coder, then you can't comment on UI issues.
Citation needed
Yes, yes it does.
Just undoing a slip of the mouse moderation.
That's one disadvantage of the current mod system - no chance to fix mistakes
If you like the CLI, try newsbeuter
http://www.phpied.com/files/opml2html/opml2html.html
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/misc/opml2html.pl.txt
News feeds:
IE Blog - for keeping track of what MS is up to on the browser front
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/atom.xml
Standards Blog - not as many posts now days, was very important during the height of the ooxml/odf war
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/backend/geeklog.rss
I keep OSNews for completeness, but it is pretty useless - software news
http://osnews.com/files/recent.xml
Anandtech - hardware news and reviews
http://www.anandtech.com/rss/articlefeed.aspx
Ars Technica - tech news and commentary
http://arstechnica.com/index.rssx
Phoronix - linux graphics news and info
http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php
Linux Weekly News
http://lwn.net/headlines/rss
KDE announcements
http://www.kde.org/dotkdeorg.rdf
Open Source Software Planets:
http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml
http://planet.fedoraproject.org/atom.xml
http://planet.ubuntu.com/rss20.xml
http://planet.gnome.org/atom.xml
http://planetkde.org/rss20.xml
http://planet.freedesktop.org/rss20.xml
http://planet.mozilla.org/atom.xml
http://planet.jabber.org/atom.xml
mostly software releases and XEP updates
http://planet.jabber.org/news/atom.xml
http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/atom.xml
environment feeds:
Good Pacific Northwest environmental news
http://www.sightline.org/daily_score/rss
Best environmental news and discussion on the web
http://www.worldchanging.com/index.xml
I keep Treehugger for completeness, but I mark 90% of their posts as read without looking at them.
Really too "light green/consumer green" for me
http://www.treehugger.com/index.xml
other feeds:
Dive into Mark - not what once was, but good enough to keep around
http://diveintomark.org/feed/
Loooong posts on software
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Bruce Scheier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret
http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf
The intersection of Science (especially Evolution), Liberalism, Atheism, and Squid
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/index.xml
"Your comment has too few characters per line" - what a load of bull. Taco, I know this and the timer are supposed to cut down on spam, but I think they annoy legitimate posters more than they reduce spam. You should really reconsider these "features".
Thank you very much!
:-)
This was a nice surprise
It is clearly not dead since xcb/xlib is the standard in recent distros, and a WM is being written to use it directly.
As for xcb-glx, see:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xorg/appinfo.html?csaid=663004BBF9DE45A1
If you mean "take out the tcp/ip part", that wouldn't really change anything. If you mean "take out everything that enables networking" that would be a lot of work, and it still wouldn't get you very much. The hard part of maintaining and working on X internals doesn't really come from the network transparency stuff itself.
Now, if you have to deal with xlib for the X protocol, that can be a pain. But that is why XCB (X C Bindings) was invented.
XCB is apparently very nice to work with, and it has "a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility". The most recent distros are using XCB/xlib which uses XCB internal, while allowing xlib apps to function without changing anything. When XCB is standard in enough installed systems, apps and toolkits can begin migrating to native XCB. When the Awesome window manager 3.0 comes out, it will be the first WM to use XCB directly.
As for NX, it is really just compresses the X protocol and encrypts it. If you remove X network transparency, NX is useless. I, and I suspect many *nix admins, vastly prefer NX or X over SSH to VNC, RDP, etc (of course plain ssh probably gets used more than all of those put together on *nix).
Cocoa is not a language, just as Win32, GTK and QT are not languages.
I think there is still a flash version, I know there is for gameday audio, but it still doesn't work right. I just started using mlbviewer.py - it is pretty basic, but still a much better interface than anything MLB has come up with.