Then there's always Control+Tab/Shift Tab or Control+PageUp/Down to go to next/previous tabs.
Problem is that when you switch tabs with the keyboard, the focus stays on the old tab if it has a form in it. This is very annoying, because it means you cannot scroll the tab you've switched to without using the mouse.
I've reported it as a bug, but apparently this is "correct" behaviour, and the dev. team aren't going to fix it. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253228
(and yes, putting memtest86 on a CDR also makes me cringe at the waste of space)
Well, it's a possibility. Last I saw, though, the memtest86 people didn't provide an ISO image, and making bootable CDs from a floppy image is something that a lot of people have trouble with, particularly using standard Windows tools. E.g. Roxio EasyCD creator, which is supplied with many CD writers, cannot do it. Nero can do it -- but apparently the recommended way is to write a floppy and then let Nero make a copy of that. I haven't tried it myself, just read a "howto".
Debian is several times the size of either RedHat or Suse. We don't want to spend time compiling software and building RPMs, we just want to get on with doing our job.
As someone who runs an office with SuSE servers, I'll tell you its been a while since we've had a requirement for anything that wasn't available precompiled as an RPM for our environment. The last thing was Xvnc back in the 6.3 days, but that's part of the standard distribution now.
If you go with RedHat, almost every free software project out there will provide you with an RPM that will work. Its part of the standard release procedure these days --.tar.gz for the source, RedHat.rpm for the binary version.
But seriously, what software do you need to use that is included with Debian but isn't with SuSE or RedHat?
I've never used any of the IBM software the poster relies on, but I've had enough trouble lately with installing the informix client libraries on SuSE to suggest that Redhat is the only way to go.
I actually had to edit their installation scripts to "fix" the command line to cpio, which it seems was a slightly different on SuSE to what they expected.
Here in the UK, laws were brought in just after 9/11 that allowed the British Government to do a number of things:
* Hold suspects on terrorism charges for long periods of time or indefinately without trial
This is actually nothing new. The Prevention of Terrorsim Act 1974 permitted terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for long periods. I think the only difference is that it is now indefinitely.
Present secret evidence to the court, without the defendant or the public knowing what that evidence was or even that it was presented
This is new, and is news to me. I find it incredible that the British legal system tolerates such abuses of due process. But it is amazing the power the phrase "national security" holds.
It comes down to this: Ignorance of a law is no excuse for violating the law. The only way that postulate of the legal system works is because all laws have to be published in specific ways, like the Federal Register. If there are "secret laws" that can't be read, then you could be violating it.
They don't tell you what the law is that requires ID checks. They tell you that the law requires it, but they don't tell you exactly what law requires it, the penalties for noncompliance, or even the agency responsible for enforcement of the law (is it DHS, FAA, NTSB, TSA?).
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."
Have you noticed how USB flash memory keyring devices are exactly the right size and shape that you could imagine a small-yappy-type dog attempting to swallow them, but choking instead?
No. They're not. Using a floppy disk to store data is like storing your possessions outside under a 6-foot-by-6-foot blue tarp with a rock on each corner--you could, and tarps are readily available, but with so many more convenient, safer, and more capacious places to put your data, why would you?
Get a USB key (under $30). Let me know next time you need a floppy disk.
Until most computers have a USB port on the front (every computer I use regularly has them on the back; I even use a few machines that are old enough not to have USB at all), floppy disks are more convenient for small units of data transfer. Anything much larger and CDRW is more convenient.
Also, you can't boot of USB keys, so a floppy drive is pretty much essential for the purpose of running stuff like memtest86.
now please tell me why, apart from the obvious lock in strategy, microsoft had to reinvent a completely new 3d api when there was already a good, stable, used, more advanced api that developers asked for?
Because they couldn't buy an existing implementation of it and call it their own, which is exactly what they did with DirectX.
Because it didn't fit with the 'everythings a COM object' programming model they were openly moving towards
Because they couldn't trademark it and use it as a differentiation between their product and everyone elses
Because they felt that if they were in control, they could eventually produce something better.
If they say "no more graphics driver related BSODs", the *only* possibility is that the driver now sits on ring 3...
No, one possibility is that any exception that occurs while executing graphics driver code is caught and handled cleanly, possibly by reverting to a "known safe" driver (e.g. VGA mode).
Linux framebuffer devices run in ring 0. When was the last time you saw Linux completely suspend operations and require a reboot because of a bug in a display driver?
But if you're a guy who actually does like solving math problems, and someone comes along and offers you $1 million, it's probably pretty useless to you, sine it doesn't help you solve math problems.
Yes it does. You invest it wisely and it means that you never have to worry again about whether someone will give you a grant to work on the problems you want to work on. The money represents freedom.
I'm not sure what Post Code Modulation is (unless it's the analogue to digital encoding technique known by the initials PCM, in which case it has _nothing_ to do with this patent), but I don't think this patent covers anything that could be reasonably described as a modulation technique.
It seems to me to be a technique for generating an automatic preview of a piece of music by automatically extracting a short phrase of it that is the most "salient", whatever that means.
The patent is invalid, of course, because its method is to divide the track into sections, choose the most "salient" and then cut out a bit that contains that section, but it doesn't tell you _how_ to choose the most salient. Patents must be accompanied with enough information for an expert in the field to reimplement them; I'd say the method of choosing a salient section is the most difficult part of this, and I see no easy way of doing it (although I'll admit to not being an expert in DSP).
Hopefully this happened just in time to show the EU the sillyness of the patent system.
Sorry, this has been tried many times before with other ridiculous patents. They just laugh it off, and say "that's because the American's don't know how to run a patent system".
Perhaps someone can shed a little more light on how lynx decideds which link to jump to next.
The logical way of doing this is to build a list that has the hyperlinks ordered according to their position in the document, and then move on to the one in the list after the one which currently has the focus.
I don't suspect the military could commit to something that far in advance. What would happen if a war broke out a few days before it was due to return?
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You were so close. Control+[1-9] goes to tab 1-9.
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Then there's always Control+Tab/Shift Tab or Control+PageUp/Down to go to next/previous tabs.
Problem is that when you switch tabs with the keyboard, the focus stays on the old tab if it has a form in it. This is very annoying, because it means you cannot scroll the tab you've switched to without using the mouse.
I've reported it as a bug, but apparently this is "correct" behaviour, and the dev. team aren't going to fix it. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25322
couldn't you also boot from a cdrom?
(and yes, putting memtest86 on a CDR also makes me cringe at the waste of space)
Well, it's a possibility. Last I saw, though, the memtest86 people didn't provide an ISO image, and making bootable CDs from a floppy image is something that a lot of people have trouble with, particularly using standard Windows tools. E.g. Roxio EasyCD creator, which is supplied with many CD writers, cannot do it. Nero can do it -- but apparently the recommended way is to write a floppy and then let Nero make a copy of that. I haven't tried it myself, just read a "howto".
Go HP, they support Debian.
Don't go HP. They acquire patents on technologies that may be useful for Linux and prevent innovation.
Debian is several times the size of either RedHat or Suse. We don't want to spend time compiling software and building RPMs, we just want to get on with doing our job.
.tar.gz for the source, RedHat .rpm for the binary version.
As someone who runs an office with SuSE servers, I'll tell you its been a while since we've had a requirement for anything that wasn't available precompiled as an RPM for our environment. The last thing was Xvnc back in the 6.3 days, but that's part of the standard distribution now.
If you go with RedHat, almost every free software project out there will provide you with an RPM that will work. Its part of the standard release procedure these days --
But seriously, what software do you need to use that is included with Debian but isn't with SuSE or RedHat?
Your best bet is either:
1. Use Redhat or Suse
I've never used any of the IBM software the poster relies on, but I've had enough trouble lately with installing the informix client libraries on SuSE to suggest that Redhat is the only way to go.
I actually had to edit their installation scripts to "fix" the command line to cpio, which it seems was a slightly different on SuSE to what they expected.
Here in the UK, laws were brought in just after 9/11 that allowed the British Government to do a number of things:
* Hold suspects on terrorism charges for long periods of time or indefinately without trial
This is actually nothing new. The Prevention of Terrorsim Act 1974 permitted terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for long periods. I think the only difference is that it is now indefinitely.
Present secret evidence to the court, without the defendant or the public knowing what that evidence was or even that it was presented
This is new, and is news to me. I find it incredible that the British legal system tolerates such abuses of due process. But it is amazing the power the phrase "national security" holds.
It comes down to this: Ignorance of a law is no excuse for violating the law. The only way that postulate of the legal system works is because all laws have to be published in specific ways, like the Federal Register. If there are "secret laws" that can't be read, then you could be violating it.
They don't tell you what the law is that requires ID checks. They tell you that the law requires it, but they don't tell you exactly what law requires it, the penalties for noncompliance, or even the agency responsible for enforcement of the law (is it DHS, FAA, NTSB, TSA?).
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."
"What law says they don't have to?"
"Catch-22"
And I can never figure out where the Libertarians go. I think they're somewhere on the imaginary axis.
So, essentially, you imagined that there's a third party, and that they are called Libertarians.
Sounds about right from where I'm sitting (the UK).
Have you noticed how USB flash memory keyring devices are exactly the right size and shape that you could imagine a small-yappy-type dog attempting to swallow them, but choking instead?
No. They're not. Using a floppy disk to store data is like storing your possessions outside under a 6-foot-by-6-foot blue tarp with a rock on each corner--you could, and tarps are readily available, but with so many more convenient, safer, and more capacious places to put your data, why would you?
Get a USB key (under $30). Let me know next time you need a floppy disk.
Until most computers have a USB port on the front (every computer I use regularly has them on the back; I even use a few machines that are old enough not to have USB at all), floppy disks are more convenient for small units of data transfer. Anything much larger and CDRW is more convenient.
Also, you can't boot of USB keys, so a floppy drive is pretty much essential for the purpose of running stuff like memtest86.
We keep hearing this. I still see a floppy in almost every computer I deal with. They're a useful tool.
Real admins plug the network cable directly into their brains to perform packet analysis
You mean like this?
Name me one decent Star Trek game.
/usr/games/bin/trek on my Linux box.
Just one.
I kind of like
It isn't portable to MacOSX or Linux if Microsoft decides it doesn't want it to be.
There's nothing stopping these operating systems from implementing a compatible API.
now please tell me why, apart from the obvious lock in strategy, microsoft had to reinvent a completely new 3d api when there was already a good, stable, used, more advanced api that developers asked for?
Because they couldn't buy an existing implementation of it and call it their own, which is exactly what they did with DirectX.
Because it didn't fit with the 'everythings a COM object' programming model they were openly moving towards
Because they couldn't trademark it and use it as a differentiation between their product and everyone elses
Because they felt that if they were in control, they could eventually produce something better.
All of these are good reasons.
If they say "no more graphics driver related BSODs", the *only* possibility is that the driver now sits on ring 3...
No, one possibility is that any exception that occurs while executing graphics driver code is caught and handled cleanly, possibly by reverting to a "known safe" driver (e.g. VGA mode).
Linux framebuffer devices run in ring 0. When was the last time you saw Linux completely suspend operations and require a reboot because of a bug in a display driver?
But if you're a guy who actually does like solving math problems, and someone comes along and offers you $1 million, it's probably pretty useless to you, sine it doesn't help you solve math problems.
Yes it does. You invest it wisely and it means that you never have to worry again about whether someone will give you a grant to work on the problems you want to work on. The money represents freedom.
Yep. I suspect that's a bad translation. They havent'd done it _by_ getting rid of ghosts, they've done it _so that they can_ get rid of ghosts.
s/American's/Americans/
Doh!
I'm not sure what Post Code Modulation is (unless it's the analogue to digital encoding technique known by the initials PCM, in which case it has _nothing_ to do with this patent), but I don't think this patent covers anything that could be reasonably described as a modulation technique.
It seems to me to be a technique for generating an automatic preview of a piece of music by automatically extracting a short phrase of it that is the most "salient", whatever that means.
The patent is invalid, of course, because its method is to divide the track into sections, choose the most "salient" and then cut out a bit that contains that section, but it doesn't tell you _how_ to choose the most salient. Patents must be accompanied with enough information for an expert in the field to reimplement them; I'd say the method of choosing a salient section is the most difficult part of this, and I see no easy way of doing it (although I'll admit to not being an expert in DSP).
Hopefully this happened just in time to show the EU the sillyness of the patent system.
Sorry, this has been tried many times before with other ridiculous patents. They just laugh it off, and say "that's because the American's don't know how to run a patent system".
Perhaps someone can shed a little more light on how lynx decideds which link to jump to next.
The logical way of doing this is to build a list that has the hyperlinks ordered according to their position in the document, and then move on to the one in the list after the one which currently has the focus.
Ahem.
Actually, I think there is. Just nobody's done it in America yet.
I don't suspect the military could commit to something that far in advance. What would happen if a war broke out a few days before it was due to return?
My Trident 8900cl seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth
Yikes. I had one of those, back in '94 (I think). If memory serves, it was the last video card I ever saw that didn't support 24 bit colour.