Using Rox Filer, I can hide the dot files by default. As soon as I begin a "find action" (I have it bound to my "/" key), it will automatically reveal all dot files and find the dot file I am looking for, and go right there. For example, to open my ~/.mozilla directory, I just click on my home directory icon (which is on my desktop via ROX-Filer's pinboard), then type/.mo + <Enter>. Voila!
This is only a very simple example of the beautiful way in which ROX combines GUI + Command line in a truly elegant way. Go get a copy and try it for yourself. You may start questioning the overhead of all that crap that KDE runs in the background to...hmmm..what exactly does all that stuff do that resembles usefulness anyway?
Really nice stuff! If you want to see a screenshot of my Windowmaker desktop running with ROX filer, check out http://freefall.homeip.net/temp/gregdesktop.jpg and http://freefall.homeip.net/temp/gregdesktop2.jpg
How can you possibly do a 'visual' comparison of a linux distro vs. anything? And that begs the question who really cares about a visual comparison? I'd rather see a comparison at how elegantly and efficiently each UI does a particular task. IMNSHO, OS/2's WPS has them all beat, and did it back in 1993 with 486's on 8MB of RAM!
I'm on Mandrake 7.2 here, running Windowmaker + ROX-Filer. I hate any UI that depends on a braindead 'task bar' somewhere on the screen. Either I'm smoking crack, or what I'm running must not be Mandrake, eh?
My preferred UI stays the hell out of my way, but is pretty enough to show off at the same time.
Well then they damned well BETTER shut it down, b/c in the state it is in, it is CERTAINLY a larger threat to that person's life, being able to be fucked with!
Just download the socks package, and then you can socksify any application using 'runsocks appname'
I do it this way so that I can do it conditionally depending on whether I am at home or at work with my laptop. My ROX app scripts simply look at my hostname and do the proper thing accordingly.
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The only thing it doesn't do yet that I'd like is allow the user to use a helper app to handle things (jpeg images, specifically) that the browser normally handles itself.
Has anybody gotten that to work yet?
BTW, in addition to everything they tell you to disable in javascript on the compenent security page, I've also disallowed the irritating window status changes (remove the space after 'status'):
For something that already works, and I can get upgrades to specific packages (slrn, apache, mysql, staroffice, etc) from the creators themselves, it is not worth it to spend that kind of money on what amounts to pretty packaging and an installation script.
Perhaps if they did their own cheap-bytes type service, then yes, people would be more likely to spend the money on a full distribution more often. $30-$50 for a distribution that doesn't really give you much more than what you could piece together yourself isn't worth it for simply the convenience. $10, maybe. After buying the full distro the first time around, you aren't likely to want or need the outdated books coming with the new one.
In other words, people would simply do what they do with windows. Not upgrade at all, because it is too expensive.
I have one copy of 98 that came with a computer. The last time I even booted that partition was to finish playing half-life (over a year ago).
Before switching to linux, I was an OS/2 user. I paid for that software, and registered many programs under it because it was useful. I never registered any windoze programs.
As far as linux goes, before I had bandwidth, I used to simply buy the cheap bytes CD's ($2-$3). Nowadays I simply suck down a distro when I want to upgrade, archive it on one of my 'always on' machines, and perform an FTP install on the workstation.
But I don't do that often. If the software is doing the job, and doing it well, why fuck with it?
There really isn't much of a need to buy a linux distro 'off-the-shelf' for most people who use it (maybe the first time). All documentation is online, and you can download the software as well. Why spend $30-$50 on something I can download in a few hours over the cablemodem?
I think people may buy a shrinkwrapped distro once, and if they are smart enough to actually learn how to use it, they will use cheapbytes, or download it themselves from that point forward.
People might not be filtering them out if they weren't all friggin' ANIMATED!!!!
I really don't mind a little space at the top of the browser for a small ad. The animation, however, drove me to filter it.
Now that I'm using mozilla and can display the image but kill its animation, I don't filter them anymore. I may even be inclined to click on interesting ones now.
Kill the animation, and maybe people wouldn't need to kill your ad!
I want to be able to plug my palm into a hub at home and then use ptelnet to get to a real computer to browse news, check mail, etc (all textmode...slrn, pine), or use the jukebox controller I am working on without having to drag the single serial line to my server all over the house. Having to use a PPP serial connection is a pain when you have hubs in every room and could just plug into one of them instead.
Standard 802.11 would be nice, but I can live with a regular cat5 cable connection for now. The networking doesn't even need to be fast (burning the batteries) Just functional.
And the display. I can get 40 columns right now using ptelnet, and it is readable. 60-80 columns would be sweet.
Palm has a TCP/IP stack already. Get the standard hardware as well, and the device becomes that much more useful to me.
I'd hate to think of all of the people sitting around in a jail somewhere, having been wrongly accused of a crime. Or better yet, sitting in jail for doing something else that broke some idiotic law.
We have people who have killed other people in a DUI not only free, but DRIVING AGAIN WITHIN A YEAR!! while others are paying hefty fines and even sitting in prison for a few months for doing something as ghastly as not paying a car registration on time.
There are all kinds of people having their rights trampled, and others who should have their freedoms taken away who don't. Dmitry is just another statistic. If you want to help him you should want to help all the other poor bastards as well. I don't see you bitching about that though.
If all you need is a small window displaying a bit of informatin, hrefs don't work, since all the buttons, location area, etc, are all in the new window.
What would be great is if the target keyword had all the functionality that the javascript window.open has. Then you could bring up useful little windows without having to rely on javascript at all. Oh well:(
The apes talked just like star-trek's klingons. That kindof ruined a lot of the movie for me. Ok. No Kindof. It made it downright painful!!
If the apes evolved from the monkeys that came from the crashed ship (sheesh...I figured that out in the first 10 minutes of the movie. No surprises there!), where did the humans inhabiting the planet come from? Or are these humans 'leftovers' from us destroying the planet?
The ending was far too abrupt. One minute you have every army-ape in the world against the humans, and the next they're all buddies. Especially the big guy (2nd in command?). It just wasn't believeable that their acidic hatred of humans would disappear just like that.
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Oh well.
This is only a very simple example of the beautiful way in which ROX combines GUI + Command line in a truly elegant way. Go get a copy and try it for yourself. You may start questioning the overhead of all that crap that KDE runs in the background to...hmmm..what exactly does all that stuff do that resembles usefulness anyway?
If you like DFM, you will absolutely LOVE ROX-Filer:
http://rox.sourceforge.net/
Really nice stuff! If you want to see a screenshot of my Windowmaker desktop running with ROX filer, check out http://freefall.homeip.net/temp/gregdesktop.jpg and http://freefall.homeip.net/temp/gregdesktop2.jpg
I've used everything from the Tecra 730, up to the Satellite Pro 8100. Beautiful machines, and they run linux flawlessly.
How can you possibly do a 'visual' comparison of a linux distro vs. anything? And that begs the question who really cares about a visual comparison? I'd rather see a comparison at how elegantly and efficiently each UI does a particular task. IMNSHO, OS/2's WPS has them all beat, and did it back in 1993 with 486's on 8MB of RAM!
I'm on Mandrake 7.2 here, running Windowmaker + ROX-Filer. I hate any UI that depends on a braindead 'task bar' somewhere on the screen. Either I'm smoking crack, or what I'm running must not be Mandrake, eh?
My preferred UI stays the hell out of my way, but is pretty enough to show off at the same time.
Well then they damned well BETTER shut it down, b/c in the state it is in, it is CERTAINLY a larger threat to that person's life, being able to be fucked with!
Since when does TruSecure and ICSA Labs make official statements via slashdot? I sure hope you talked to some people before you posted this.
And it supports ESD properly now too, so I don't have to disable my esound daemon just to go check out joe cartoon when I need a laugh.
I've been playing the joecartoon stuff on mozilla all day, no problems :)
http://www.joecartoon.com/
http://www.muhri.net/pronto/
It's a pain to install the first time, but a joy to use. Try it. You'll like it.
I do it this way so that I can do it conditionally depending on whether I am at home or at work with my laptop. My ROX app scripts simply look at my hostname and do the proper thing accordingly.
Has anybody gotten that to work yet?
BTW, in addition to everything they tell you to disable in javascript on the compenent security page, I've also disallowed the irritating window status changes (remove the space after 'status'):
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.status ", "noAccess");
Perhaps if they did their own cheap-bytes type service, then yes, people would be more likely to spend the money on a full distribution more often. $30-$50 for a distribution that doesn't really give you much more than what you could piece together yourself isn't worth it for simply the convenience. $10, maybe. After buying the full distro the first time around, you aren't likely to want or need the outdated books coming with the new one.
In other words, people would simply do what they do with windows. Not upgrade at all, because it is too expensive.
Before switching to linux, I was an OS/2 user. I paid for that software, and registered many programs under it because it was useful. I never registered any windoze programs.
As far as linux goes, before I had bandwidth, I used to simply buy the cheap bytes CD's ($2-$3). Nowadays I simply suck down a distro when I want to upgrade, archive it on one of my 'always on' machines, and perform an FTP install on the workstation.
But I don't do that often. If the software is doing the job, and doing it well, why fuck with it?
There really isn't much of a need to buy a linux distro 'off-the-shelf' for most people who use it (maybe the first time). All documentation is online, and you can download the software as well. Why spend $30-$50 on something I can download in a few hours over the cablemodem?
I think people may buy a shrinkwrapped distro once, and if they are smart enough to actually learn how to use it, they will use cheapbytes, or download it themselves from that point forward.
I've run linux on everything from the old Tecra 730, to the Satellite Pro 8100. They are beautiful laptops and linux has no problems with them.
People might not be filtering them out if they weren't all friggin' ANIMATED!!!!
I really don't mind a little space at the top of the browser for a small ad. The animation, however, drove me to filter it.
Now that I'm using mozilla and can display the image but kill its animation, I don't filter them anymore. I may even be inclined to click on interesting ones now.
Kill the animation, and maybe people wouldn't need to kill your ad!
I browse news, check mail, IRC, etc, all from my palm while lounging around on the sofa at home.
Standard 802.11 would be nice, but I can live with a regular cat5 cable connection for now. The networking doesn't even need to be fast (burning the batteries) Just functional.
And the display. I can get 40 columns right now using ptelnet, and it is readable. 60-80 columns would be sweet.
Palm has a TCP/IP stack already. Get the standard hardware as well, and the device becomes that much more useful to me.
We have people who have killed other people in a DUI not only free, but DRIVING AGAIN WITHIN A YEAR!! while others are paying hefty fines and even sitting in prison for a few months for doing something as ghastly as not paying a car registration on time.
There are all kinds of people having their rights trampled, and others who should have their freedoms taken away who don't. Dmitry is just another statistic. If you want to help him you should want to help all the other poor bastards as well. I don't see you bitching about that though.
What would be great is if the target keyword had all the functionality that the javascript window.open has. Then you could bring up useful little windows without having to rely on javascript at all. Oh well :(
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/component s/configPolicy.html
How did they manage to get access to the computer to bug it in the first place?
That's why it didn't make sense to me. The crew wasn't that big, was it? And the odds of a guy and a girl who breed...well..
or for newbies, even better to use mtools: mcopy a:\whatever /home/myuser/wherever
This solution keeps that crap from happening.