Sure is. I do it myself, as I don't like to squint when browsing - I have a desktop resolution of 1600x1200. Add the following line to your prefs.js file - it's in ~/.mozilla/default/XXX.slt/, where XXX is something unique to the user:
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 18); You can replace 18 with whatever you like, of course. Enjoy!
Actually, it looks like that option made it into the preferences dialog in the latest builds.
That's more or less what I do, except I'm trying to apply visibility to a
section. My understanding is that it should make the whole section invisible, which works in IE, but not in Mozilla.
Well...by that logic, WTF won't IE honor a BODY style that sets a width, instead forcing you to wrap everything in friggin' DIV tags??? Huh? Mozilla does it as expected, applying CSS style to the elements specified. IE doesn't allow it, forcing the use of DIV tags for almost everything.
They kill the bugs they introduced in the latest release + nightlies in linux:
Click Tasks
Click Privacy and Security
Click any option...password crap comes up and persists
Another annoying one I discovered on a page I am writing. Have 3 password fields (common to have user type old password, then new one twice to confirm) and moz's password manager dialog comes up with the option to change the password FOR OTHER SITES, NOT THE ONE YOU ARE ON!...don't dare click OK, or your passwords for another site will be reset!
Because I already own a palm and can't justify spending the money. All I really need is the ability to telnet to my mailserver and jukebox, and I can do that once I figure out how to hack a serial cable for the clie.
I'm sorry, but Redhat wasn't even a company, AFAIK, when Micro$oft did most of the things that they are on trial for (OEM stuff that killed OS/2, Be, etc. for example).
# Telnet, ssh: command line computing. Many people at slashdot will testify by it, and to be sure; once you mastered the tools they can be just as useful as their graphical counterparts. VI, gcc, and mutt can be just as productive as Word, Visual Studio and Outlook, it just takes some getting used to. However the tools can be limiting, you can't work with MSWord documents in VI, and you can't compile Win32 apps in gcc, so it depends greatly in the context of your work.
The main advantage to command line apps are there very low bandwidth requirements and portability. Machines from the 80's can support a telnet connection over a 300baud modem, so you have no need for a modern windows machine to connect to home. For some, this is more important then being able to use GUI based apps.
Ummm.
ssh sporky
gqview -s pr0ndirectory
wow..magically I get a slideshow, running on sporky but displaying on the one I'm sitting at.
In other words, do your homework, kid. SSH r00x for textmode AND X forwarding.
Just ssh to your boxen. If you have X libraries on them, X stuff is automatically displayed on your local display (or just use vi, pine, text configs, etc). I did this on occasion from work, and all the time at home when I was stuck in the bedroom with just a laptop recovering from a severely broken ankle.
Windoze? I dunno, that crap never did network well, now, did it?
While I applaud the government's efforts in attempting to stop those who spread child pornography, I believe that the proposed methods are ineffective, and have the potential to destroy some of the civil liberties this nation is founded upon.
Please read people's (including your constituents such as myself) views on this law at the following URL. It may help to illustrate some of the issues with this type of government mandated technology.
Where are my moderator points when I really need them? Somebody mod the parent up, please!!!!
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I don't have certifications in anything. And having the experience, I knew enough to get a job where I would NOT be an administrator of products I hate to use.
I now have a great job, doing the stuff I know and love, and was actually sent to school by the new company to learn the tools I'll be using 'proper' (I didn't bother getting certified, however)
Maybe some day I will get a CISSP, but certifications on products are a stupid thing IMNSHO. A certification should be more general, demonstrating you know something about a piece of the industry, not that you know how to do it with product X.
You don't go to college to get an advanced degree in 'using matlab' You go to become an engineer.
...is that you can start watching the big fight, miss a few weeks of episodes, and not really miss a thing.
Lots of AAaAAaaaaaaaaargh...Pant..Pant....superfastpunchin gkickingwhileflying...
repeat a few hundred times, then decide to have somebody die after destroying a planet or two.
I had a science teacher who, among other things, would wake up a sleeping student by swooshing the fire extinguisher under their feet. Woke them up quickly enough:)
Back then, paddling was still accepted in my high school. He had the symbolic "two jap flags" flag hanging in the corner (two big red circles, get it?)
Ahhh...if only educators could get away with that stuff these days.
It's funny that microsoft is working on a filesystem to 'help users find stuff faster' when they have been so adamant about hiding the file system from users for quite awhile.
Instead of learning how to use a computer or device, these days, it's all being hidden from the end users. I remember my first computer, the TRS-80 color computer, came with a book on how to PROGRAM it. Same goes for electronics. It used to be you could buy a kit, build something yourself, and learn something in the process. Today you just buy something.
You can't simply blame the users for not knowing how things work. You also have to blame the people creating the technology for not encouraging them to understand the stuff in the first place (M$ constantly trying to hide the file system from users is a good example of this). Any piece of equipment that could be tweaked, configured, or modified SHOULD come with books on how to do so.
Another excellent example that just sprang to mind is printers. When I purchased my first printer (A radio shack dmp130 dot matrix) it came with a book describing EXACTLY how to talk to it to use fonts, or address graphics. In other words, everything needed to write a printer driver (not really such a thing back then, but) came with the printer. You simply don't see these manuals and specs being shipped with modern day stuff, so even those who are curious about things don't have their curiosity encouraged by the manufacturers.
I don't know. The battery in my Sony Clie is pretty spiffy. Also I am getting longer burn times with a lighter battery with the nightrider digital pro I bought last year. Batteries are getting better, you just have to find companies that actually care enough to use them in their products.
I recently set up a epson stylus c60 for my g/f. It works great, but... She is on redhat 7.2, and I used printtool with the latest packages from the redhat site to configure everything.
It looks like when I print plaintext, the printer does a great job, printing using the black cartridge and doing it very fast.
For ANYTHING postscript (ie, web pages from mozilla, or text from abiword), the printer makes black by mixing color, even if there is NO COLOR on the page (hell, even if there is, if the text is black, print it with black ink, dammit!!! (it did this with the redhat postscript test page too). Is there a way around this stupid behavior short of creating a 'black-only' print queue?? Never mind that solution too, since many times I want color, but I want anything black to print using BLACK!
I am using the stp driver for the Stylus 760, since there wasn't a C60 specific driver listed. Would switching over to cups solve my problem? Is there a way to get this working with the current LPRng supplied with redhat?
Exactly. Not to mention rain, mud, road scum, etc.
I go through at least a computer a year on my roadbike, for some reason or other. Mountain bike I've given up and just ride it and always just have to wonder how much more suffering until the end of the race.
That's because linux is meant to be administered. A skilled administrator sets it up...ONCE...and it just works. Users are happy. Something goes wrong, admin fixes problem.
My g/f and her 2 children are happily chugging along on an old P233 with Windowmaker and ROX and couldn't be happier. YAWMPPP makes dialing their ISP cake. They have mozilla for browsing, sylpheed for mail, everybuddy for chat, and all the gnome games for the kids. It just works.
/etc/skel sets up a very nice, easy to understand desktop using windowmaker and rox. It also has a 'change your password' script that runs on first login.
This is how it is meant to be. Doing similar things in windoze is a NIGHTMARE. I tried doing security properly on my win2000 machine at work and gave up...BY DEFAULT NOTHING WORKS WHEN YOU AREN'T A FRIGGIN' ADMINISTRATOR. The problem is that most windoze software was never written with a multi-user system in mind. Pretty much any worthwhile software for linux (even RTCW and Quake3, and UT!!!) was.
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Actually, it looks like that option made it into the preferences dialog in the latest builds.
Well...by that logic, WTF won't IE honor a BODY style that sets a width, instead forcing you to wrap everything in friggin' DIV tags??? Huh? Mozilla does it as expected, applying CSS style to the elements specified. IE doesn't allow it, forcing the use of DIV tags for almost everything.
Another annoying one I discovered on a page I am writing. Have 3 password fields (common to have user type old password, then new one twice to confirm) and moz's password manager dialog comes up with the option to change the password FOR OTHER SITES, NOT THE ONE YOU ARE ON!...don't dare click OK, or your passwords for another site will be reset!
Because I already own a palm and can't justify spending the money. All I really need is the ability to telnet to my mailserver and jukebox, and I can do that once I figure out how to hack a serial cable for the clie.
All I want is 802.11 so I can put my clie on the home lan.
Now if only the developer would release the source, or re-compile to take advantage of the 320x320 resolution of my Clie...Mmmmmm.
I'm sorry, but Redhat wasn't even a company, AFAIK, when Micro$oft did most of the things that they are on trial for (OEM stuff that killed OS/2, Be, etc. for example).
Oh great. We got a 'truth' person on slashdot. Couldn't you guys have come up with a better use for the money?
Windoze? I dunno, that crap never did network well, now, did it?
I actually use a couple of gnome apps, and have the g/f on a very low end system (pentium 1 233).
WM = Windowmaker
Filer/Desktop = ROX
Works great!
Here's what I sent to both the governor's office and to my representatives, both in email and in a printed letter:
1 /0 /HB1333.HTM8 /child_porn/i ndex.html
1 21 0
House Bill 1333.
Hello,
I recently came across these articles describing government mandated filtering by ISP's:
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/ALL/200
http://salon.com/tech/wire/2002/03/1
While I applaud the government's efforts in attempting to stop those who spread child pornography, I believe that the proposed methods are ineffective, and have the potential to destroy some of the civil liberties this nation is founded upon.
Please read people's (including your constituents such as myself) views on this law at the following URL. It may help to illustrate some of the issues with this type of government mandated technology.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/19/184
Thank you for your time,
-- Greg
So...if I am an ISP, and the government doesn't give me a list, I can fine the government and toss it in jail?!? COOL!
Where are my moderator points when I really need them? Somebody mod the parent up, please!!!!
I now have a great job, doing the stuff I know and love, and was actually sent to school by the new company to learn the tools I'll be using 'proper' (I didn't bother getting certified, however)
Maybe some day I will get a CISSP, but certifications on products are a stupid thing IMNSHO. A certification should be more general, demonstrating you know something about a piece of the industry, not that you know how to do it with product X.
You don't go to college to get an advanced degree in 'using matlab' You go to become an engineer.
Lots of AAaAAaaaaaaaaargh...Pant..Pant....superfastpunchin gkickingwhileflying...
repeat a few hundred times, then decide to have somebody die after destroying a planet or two.
Back then, paddling was still accepted in my high school. He had the symbolic "two jap flags" flag hanging in the corner (two big red circles, get it?)
Ahhh...if only educators could get away with that stuff these days.
It's funny that microsoft is working on a filesystem to 'help users find stuff faster' when they have been so adamant about hiding the file system from users for quite awhile.
You can't simply blame the users for not knowing how things work. You also have to blame the people creating the technology for not encouraging them to understand the stuff in the first place (M$ constantly trying to hide the file system from users is a good example of this). Any piece of equipment that could be tweaked, configured, or modified SHOULD come with books on how to do so.
Another excellent example that just sprang to mind is printers. When I purchased my first printer (A radio shack dmp130 dot matrix) it came with a book describing EXACTLY how to talk to it to use fonts, or address graphics. In other words, everything needed to write a printer driver (not really such a thing back then, but) came with the printer. You simply don't see these manuals and specs being shipped with modern day stuff, so even those who are curious about things don't have their curiosity encouraged by the manufacturers.
I'm glad I'm not the Network Security Analyst at your company.
It would make more sense for McD's to start taking debit/credit cards first.
I never have cash on hand, and it's wasteful to pull out $20, along with the usual ATM fee just to buy a couple of cheeseburgers.
I don't know. The battery in my Sony Clie is pretty spiffy. Also I am getting longer burn times with a lighter battery with the nightrider digital pro I bought last year. Batteries are getting better, you just have to find companies that actually care enough to use them in their products.
I recently set up a epson stylus c60 for my g/f. It works great, but... She is on redhat 7.2, and I used printtool with the latest packages from the redhat site to configure everything.
It looks like when I print plaintext, the printer does a great job, printing using the black cartridge and doing it very fast.
For ANYTHING postscript (ie, web pages from mozilla, or text from abiword), the printer makes black by mixing color, even if there is NO COLOR on the page (hell, even if there is, if the text is black, print it with black ink, dammit!!! (it did this with the redhat postscript test page too). Is there a way around this stupid behavior short of creating a 'black-only' print queue?? Never mind that solution too, since many times I want color, but I want anything black to print using BLACK!
I am using the stp driver for the Stylus 760, since there wasn't a C60 specific driver listed. Would switching over to cups solve my problem? Is there a way to get this working with the current LPRng supplied with redhat?
I go through at least a computer a year on my roadbike, for some reason or other. Mountain bike I've given up and just ride it and always just have to wonder how much more suffering until the end of the race.
My g/f and her 2 children are happily chugging along on an old P233 with Windowmaker and ROX and couldn't be happier. YAWMPPP makes dialing their ISP cake. They have mozilla for browsing, sylpheed for mail, everybuddy for chat, and all the gnome games for the kids. It just works.
/etc/skel sets up a very nice, easy to understand desktop using windowmaker and rox. It also has a 'change your password' script that runs on first login.
This is how it is meant to be. Doing similar things in windoze is a NIGHTMARE. I tried doing security properly on my win2000 machine at work and gave up...BY DEFAULT NOTHING WORKS WHEN YOU AREN'T A FRIGGIN' ADMINISTRATOR. The problem is that most windoze software was never written with a multi-user system in mind. Pretty much any worthwhile software for linux (even RTCW and Quake3, and UT!!!) was.