is the desktop environment that KDE/Gnome should be trying to emulate. Real objects which interact with each other. Consistent. Intuitive. Simple. Elegant.
WTF is it so damned hard for the Open Source community to come up with something like the WPS, which is arguably the most efficient interface in existence...and it ran FINE on a 486 with 8MB of ram???
Note, I talked about johnny screwing up Dad's files originally. If he had screwed up Mom's files, I'd have used her as the administrator in illustrating the system trashing:)
I use this example because my dad used to constantly complain about my little brother installing stuff on the family computer, after I had gone to college and could no longer be the 'sysadmin' of the house.
Most households only have one computer. No network. no multiple machines. Johnny, Dad, Mom, and Suzie all use the same computer. A multi-user OS is the proper way to do this, so that Dad doesn't have to worry about Johnny fscking up his files, or if dad is the administrator, of johnny, suzie, or mom fscking up the computer system files.
Unfortunately, Lusers have been trained that it is 'ok' to trample all over the system, fscking up the settings for everybody. Linux has always been a multi-user system, so it is TRIVIAL to have several people in the household share a single computer, yet all have their own environment to work in. My ex-g/f and her two children certainly have no problems with the linux box I built for them.
Win2k was a step in the right direction, but most windoze programs are not multi-user aware still.
I disagree. Wardriving is more like one of those police / fire band scanners (to me at least). It's just neat to see what netorks are around, what people are naming them, whatever. It's hard to explain.
Plus, passive stumblers like kismet never connect to the networks in question. You are never really 'on' the network unless you choose to do so. That, I agree, is potentially immoral. But what if I have my windoze box set to SSID "any" and I connect to one of these, with 0 reconfiguration of my client? Is that "breaking into" their wide open network? I think not. And that is what this law is all about, from what I am reading.
Did you read the whole post? Most of the stuff you download from a p2p network or an FTP site sounds terrible. Yes, most people can tell the difference between a CD and a poorly done mp3 of the same track. The stuff I rip myself, however, I am satisfied with. That's one of the reasons I want the original data.
It's not just the VBR stuff either. I want my tunes to all have specific names and ID3 tags...ie, I have a directory structure for artist/album/song, and then ID3 tags...I do NOT want all that shit, along with spaces in the file names. You download from somewhere and you have to go through the extra effort to fix those things too. If CD's were more reasonably priced, I'd be more than happy to buy more new music.
Additionally, they need to get rid of the DRM crap so that when I DO buy an album, I can easily put the music into a format that is convenient for ME to listen to.
Because perhaps the machines wished revenge and imprisonment of the humans. Dogs and elk weren't the ones that enslaved/pissed off the machines. Just a thought.
It all reminds me very much of "The Deathgate Cycle", a 7 book series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Although, throughout those books, as Haplo becomes less of a mystery, he also seems to become less godlike. Neo, on the other hand, is the opposite.
Except, I don't trust the quality. I want the original uncompressed music. The solution, of course, is to get rid of the ridiculous pricing on CD's...or better yet, let you make your own mix while at the store. Unfortunately, it won't happen any time soon.
Lucky for me we have a store called cd warehouse nearby that buys the crap I don't listen to anymore, and sells me used CD's for $5-$9. That's at least a reasonable price to pay. I then go home and immediately rip to the jukebox, using high quality VBR, not fixed 128 bit garbage.
Not really. Most of the gui's mentioned (kde font installer, gnome, drakfont) do the same thing in the background. It's nice having the flexibility to do things the way that works for you, no?
This *is* a nice fontset, I didn't mean to slam it. I just prefer what was already available on the linux boxen I use. Now for windows, this will be great, since I have yet to find a decent monospace font on that platform. I will be trying it the next time I have to sit in front of one of those awful things.
I'm not incredibly impressed. I think the Adobe-Helvetica family is much easier to read, and it's been a part of XFree for as long as I have used it.
These are too wide. For fixed-width terminal fonts, I like the jmk collection. I haven't looked at the serif vera, so maybe it is better than, say, Times, but I don't tend to use serif on screen anyway.
is if they'd come up with an 802.11 X11 over SSH with public keys version of this. Of course, it wouldn't need much processor at all, just some display ability and networking. It should be inexpensive, no?
But I'm not sure what the point would be. Once you took away all of my Adobe/Macromedia programs and my Win32 Quake 3, there isn't a whole lot appealing about running a *nix
In my experience, quake 3 runs much better under linux than it ever did in windoze. If you aren't willing to learn just a little bit, and understand the reasons for using linux over that other OS, that's too bad for you. I prefer to be productive with my machines, rather than me having to serve them. This is why I use linux, and before that OS/2. I've been windoze free since 1994.
Once you understand how to use the tool (linux is a tool, nothing more), you would realize that it is much more powerful, easier to use, easier to maintain and easier to customize to specific tasks than windoze can ever hope to be.
I run a mail server that among other things, hosts mailing lists for my cycling team. If anything were bouncing, I'd know about it. I haven't gotten any errors from AOL...although I have gotten a few "This message cannot be delivered because 'foo@aol.com' is not accepting mail from that address" I'm assuming that's some personal user filter. I can also send mail to AOL users without a problem.
except for the fact that it is usually quite difficult to get some things to run under non-privileged accounts, or to quickly switch to another user to do an install. Much of the software for windows simply isn't multi-user-environment aware. So most people, rather than deal with the hassle, run with admin priviledges at all times.
I say that yes, microsoft is to blame for this behavior by not making it easy and intuitive to run as an unpriviledged user.
Notice that microsoft never refers to it as a 'java vm' They call it the 'microsoft vm' When I first read it, I was thinking that they were talking about some sort of windoze subsytem that virtualized the hardware like a mainframe does. It took reading most of the advisory before I realized they were even talking about java.
IBM's configuration tools for their firewalls and VPN's are java apps, and they work quite well. The AIX firewall/vpn config program is also java, IIRC. Makes sense, since you'd want to be able to manage your appliances no matter what OS you used for your desktop. I'm sure there are many other examples. Java is a great way to create management applications. I'm surprised more companies don't do it, as embedded web servers are tough to write secure code for.
While google is without a doubt now the best search engine, Yahoo is a great way to check the weather, movie listings, tv listings, etc. I think yahoo should focus on providing the nice lightweight easy to browse content that they do, while google continue to focus on being a search engine and not try to be a portal.
Remind me again how much money you get for a pirated version of your software?
You get a monopoly in the industry b/c the kids who are stealing your software will insist on using it when they are the ones in charge at companies who can actually afford to pay the ridiculous prices.
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That's like me trying to patent system(). Dumb.
WTF is it so damned hard for the Open Source community to come up with something like the WPS, which is arguably the most efficient interface in existence...and it ran FINE on a 486 with 8MB of ram???
Nautilus? Give me a fscking break!
Note, I talked about johnny screwing up Dad's files originally. If he had screwed up Mom's files, I'd have used her as the administrator in illustrating the system trashing :)
I use this example because my dad used to constantly complain about my little brother installing stuff on the family computer, after I had gone to college and could no longer be the 'sysadmin' of the house.
Most households only have one computer. No network. no multiple machines. Johnny, Dad, Mom, and Suzie all use the same computer. A multi-user OS is the proper way to do this, so that Dad doesn't have to worry about Johnny fscking up his files, or if dad is the administrator, of johnny, suzie, or mom fscking up the computer system files.
Unfortunately, Lusers have been trained that it is 'ok' to trample all over the system, fscking up the settings for everybody. Linux has always been a multi-user system, so it is TRIVIAL to have several people in the household share a single computer, yet all have their own environment to work in. My ex-g/f and her two children certainly have no problems with the linux box I built for them.
Win2k was a step in the right direction, but most windoze programs are not multi-user aware still.
Plus, passive stumblers like kismet never connect to the networks in question. You are never really 'on' the network unless you choose to do so. That, I agree, is potentially immoral. But what if I have my windoze box set to SSID "any" and I connect to one of these, with 0 reconfiguration of my client? Is that "breaking into" their wide open network? I think not. And that is what this law is all about, from what I am reading.
I disagree. Good HTML itself *IS* artistic. The medium would actually be your text editor and the file on your hard drive.
if not, no money from me, sorry :(
It's not just the VBR stuff either. I want my tunes to all have specific names and ID3 tags...ie, I have a directory structure for artist/album/song, and then ID3 tags...I do NOT want all that shit, along with spaces in the file names. You download from somewhere and you have to go through the extra effort to fix those things too. If CD's were more reasonably priced, I'd be more than happy to buy more new music.
Additionally, they need to get rid of the DRM crap so that when I DO buy an album, I can easily put the music into a format that is convenient for ME to listen to.
It all reminds me very much of "The Deathgate Cycle", a 7 book series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Although, throughout those books, as Haplo becomes less of a mystery, he also seems to become less godlike. Neo, on the other hand, is the opposite.
Lucky for me we have a store called cd warehouse nearby that buys the crap I don't listen to anymore, and sells me used CD's for $5-$9. That's at least a reasonable price to pay. I then go home and immediately rip to the jukebox, using high quality VBR, not fixed 128 bit garbage.
Not really. Most of the gui's mentioned (kde font installer, gnome, drakfont) do the same thing in the background. It's nice having the flexibility to do things the way that works for you, no?
This *is* a nice fontset, I didn't mean to slam it. I just prefer what was already available on the linux boxen I use. Now for windows, this will be great, since I have yet to find a decent monospace font on that platform. I will be trying it the next time I have to sit in front of one of those awful things.
Untar, run 'drakfont', click on the directory containing the unarchived fonts. Click install.
These are too wide. For fixed-width terminal fonts, I like the jmk collection. I haven't looked at the serif vera, so maybe it is better than, say, Times, but I don't tend to use serif on screen anyway.
is if they'd come up with an 802.11 X11 over SSH with public keys version of this. Of course, it wouldn't need much processor at all, just some display ability and networking. It should be inexpensive, no?
In my experience, quake 3 runs much better under linux than it ever did in windoze. If you aren't willing to learn just a little bit, and understand the reasons for using linux over that other OS, that's too bad for you. I prefer to be productive with my machines, rather than me having to serve them. This is why I use linux, and before that OS/2. I've been windoze free since 1994.
Once you understand how to use the tool (linux is a tool, nothing more), you would realize that it is much more powerful, easier to use, easier to maintain and easier to customize to specific tasks than windoze can ever hope to be.
I run a mail server that among other things, hosts mailing lists for my cycling team. If anything were bouncing, I'd know about it. I haven't gotten any errors from AOL...although I have gotten a few "This message cannot be delivered because 'foo@aol.com' is not accepting mail from that address" I'm assuming that's some personal user filter. I can also send mail to AOL users without a problem.
I say that yes, microsoft is to blame for this behavior by not making it easy and intuitive to run as an unpriviledged user.
Notice that microsoft never refers to it as a 'java vm' They call it the 'microsoft vm' When I first read it, I was thinking that they were talking about some sort of windoze subsytem that virtualized the hardware like a mainframe does. It took reading most of the advisory before I realized they were even talking about java.
IBM's configuration tools for their firewalls and VPN's are java apps, and they work quite well. The AIX firewall/vpn config program is also java, IIRC. Makes sense, since you'd want to be able to manage your appliances no matter what OS you used for your desktop. I'm sure there are many other examples. Java is a great way to create management applications. I'm surprised more companies don't do it, as embedded web servers are tough to write secure code for.
While google is without a doubt now the best search engine, Yahoo is a great way to check the weather, movie listings, tv listings, etc. I think yahoo should focus on providing the nice lightweight easy to browse content that they do, while google continue to focus on being a search engine and not try to be a portal.
You get a monopoly in the industry b/c the kids who are stealing your software will insist on using it when they are the ones in charge at companies who can actually afford to pay the ridiculous prices.
Microsoft loves piracy. Young indoctrination.
Programming is just a tool to an engineer.
Wow. I never thought I'd see someone call win2k relatively 'unbloated'