First let me say that ROX is my favorite graphical
file manager for X. With that said, let me
tell you why I don't use it. It lacks the ability
to save view preferences on a per-directory basis.
A directory with one file opens up with the same
default view preferences as a directory with 200
files. There needs to be a way to save window
size, icon size, sort order, etc.
Agreed.
Actually, the real reason I don't use it, is
because a modern shell seems so much more
efficient at file operations than any
graphical file manager could be.
Umm...ROX integrates BEAUTIFULLY with command shells. Try WIndow->Shell Command... You'll like it. You can also 'select if...' etc. VERY powerful.
Rox is SOOoooo easily extensible!
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Here's a neat one I wrote to create 'filter folders' Basically a ROX object that will show stuff in a folder based on a perl regexp using symlinks. Check it out:
Yes. ~/Choices/Templates. And it does even better than OS/2 did. That directory automatically comes up in the "new" flyout when RMB clicking a filer window! Good stuff!
The thing that is missing, and I'm sure will be fixed in later releases, is that if a file, say on your pinboard, moves, the pinboard doesn't know about it (other than it is now missing). Then again this trivial thing with WPS, PM, and SOM isn't quite as easily accomplished in the environment ROX runs in.
Did you read the article? The measures being taken are against:
1) pyramid schemes and such
2) (and this is the important one) forged headers.
This is a good thing. Yes, technical means *should* be taken against unsolicited mail. That other crap has absolutely no business coming to me, however, and in real life would be prosecuted.
So, does the FTC have a place to forward unsolicited crap so it can be taken care of? It's about time, but they need to actually hold to their promise.
Tell that to my g/f who is now happily plugging away on a linux box that I set up for her over xmas. I even took the time to customize/etc/skel so adding new users (her son and daughter) was a snap. They both love it too, and we don't have the problems they did on windoze98.
Here's what I set up for them:
Window Manager = windowmaker
Filer & desktop Icons = Rox
WIndowmaker + Rox are integrated with Windowmaker's root menu using a couple of simple perl scripts I wrote. Same goes for icons indicating status of certain things (new mail for example...just a short script running in the background watching the spool file)
Gave them some nice dock apps...cpu monitor, clock, PPP Dialer, etc.
Most used apps on the desktop (web, mail, irc, aim, jpilot)
All apps configured in a/usr/local/share/Apps directory so they don't accidentally get changed or deleted (ROX Apps are simply directories with a specific icon/script in them)
Icons on desktop for floppy, cdrom, printer. Printer just runs a script to either show status if nothing dragged to it, or prints via cups if dragged.
All the gnome games are in a "games" fly-out on the Windowmaker menu
Apps I set up for them and gave them on the desktop or in the menus: Sylpheed, Everybuddy, Mozilla, XChat, Gnumeric, Abiword, ROX-Filer
I run sshd with RSA authentication on that box, along with a dyndns updater. If they have problems, or want anything else installed, I just ssh in and do it for them remotely(until g/f feels she wants to be a linux admin:)
Yes, this took some effort on my part, but there's nothing stopping anybody from making a distro with this easy setup. I literally dropped the machine off at her house, plugged it in, and it just WORKED. Her and her children couldn't be happier, as the machine is stable, consistent, and really easy to use and customize.
They like it much better than their windoze setup on the same box, and don't even boot the windoze partition anymore. They LOVE that when one logs off and another logs in, they no longer have the headache of having to redial the ISP, as PPP just keeps running, if wanted.
Did I mention this is all running on an old Pentium 233 with 128MB Ram?
I use Windows when I have to, such as syncing my Sony Clie (pilot-xfer is working on supporting it)
Dude. Go to the pilot-link site, download the CVS build, and enjoy pilot-xfer syncing via USB. Not everything is done yet, but you can install databases and back them up. For calendar stuff, I'm stuck with lotus notes anyway.
Unless the thing supports IPSec, it would be 100% useless for business travelers, who would be the ones using it. So that would be in fact the worst practice possible.
Any business traveller for a company with an IT department worth anytyhing will have an IPSec client with either PKI or RSA SecurID authentication on their laptop, and that is the ONLY way they can possibly access the company infrastructure. How the hell else would you do it in a public place like an airport? Unless by support you mean "The firewall/router is configured to properly pass IPSec and IKE traffic"
Ok, so what happened to the country's paranoia about nasty terrorists?
Now all they have to do is sit at the airport with their trusty wireless laptop and sniff corporate IDs and passwords to their heart's content. At least the company I work for only allows wireless access through a VPN!
People who can't spend the few minutes needed to read the comments in smbd.conf, should NOT be able to simply share something. This is how systems get owned.
Yes, it is nice. But making it a little 'harder' helps insure that somebody actually understands what they are doing before they do it.
People need to visit one another for a good game of chess on a real chessboard every now and then.
That's what I did as a kid, and just started again recently. It's amazing how society has changed since nobody is required to be face-to-face or even on the phone to communicate anymore.
Well, I'd write more, but I'm off to teach my g/f and her children some more about the game.
I was just about to try the mp demo (now I won't bother:), and noticed you had to have the junk extracted under windoze first.
Does the new installer for linux require an existing windoze install, or is there a way I can play this thing without having to boot to windoze and install it there first?
I know that when I upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4 (Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1), I had (still have) many stability problems, especially with running multiple X sessions (I do...or did...this frequently when playing quake and UT).
I can live with it, but yes, my system was more stable before. USB-storage is also quite quirky with the new kernel, whereas with the backport into 2.2 I never had problems. I've also been having problems with USB HID (Mouse) since the change.
We really need fair competition in computer software again. If there were reasonable alternatives (yes *we* know there are, but most companies are pretty clueless wrt actual computer-based solutions), there would be NO NEED for this law, as the better software *should* do better in the marketplace.
"Tom Murphy at UW is attempting to measure the distance between the Earth and The Moon to the nearest millimetre
That's pretty stupid, considering the distance will obviously change more than a millimeter all the time. Hell even the astronaut's footprints will be several millimeters thick, assuming they are undisturbed still. So...within a millimeter of *what*, exactly?
You have to admit that both IIS and Apache are both good webservers, its just that IIS gets a lot of flak for having holes in it that admins were not quick to patch
That's because it is a PITA to patch anything on microsoft platforms. Installation is even worse with all the bullshit licensing checks they do in the install scripts.
Could you imagine having to patch a large hosting facility (I dunno...500-1000 IIS servers)? No thanks. And that's why it doesn't get done.
(and btw, probably yes, there's working Unreal/Unreal Tourny ports in Linux already.. although according to Tim Sweeny Epic are taking a DirectX centric approach to the Unreal engine these days, so I'm not sure if a port would be as easy to implement.)
That's too bad, because I'll only buy a linux version. I'm still waiting for the single player version of Wolfenstein before I buy that. Until then, I guess I'll have to settle for UT and Quake3.
Wait a second.... How is my mother going to get a Macro Virus when I send her the letter I wrote in MS Word, printed out, put in an envelope and mailed to her?
I'd be pretty hurt if I were your mother. Having a son who is too lazy to hand-write a letter to mom.
Actually, my resume is the one thing I don't use LaTeX for, since a resume format isn't exactly a long document with any specific format (resumes need to be individualized to an extent...but we don't need to go into that argument).
For PDF's, just print to a file (postscript), then run ps2pdf on it. I did my resume with staroffice this way.
The original question stands: what the heck software is written for GNUStep that makes this compelling? With KDE's Konqueror, KMail, and KOffice suite, I sure know why a lot of people would choose that system. With Gnome's Galeon, Gnumeric, and Evolution, I sure know why a lot of other people would choose that system. But why GNUStep?
Umm...I think you just answered your own question. WTF does something as simple as a mail client or a FILE MANAGER, for crying out loud, have to have a @#$%! GHz machine + 256+MB of ram just to work, and work like shit at that??? And the shit STILL doesn't do everything OS/2's WPS did on a 486 with 8MB of ram in 1993!!!
I use WindowMaker + ROX-Filer, and love it. Very lightweight, configurable, light, and FAST! I use some gnome apps, but none of the so-called integration. They all work and work well here. I keep trying KDE every now and then, and every time I do I am fully unimpressed. XDND is a great standard. All that other crap is not.
I agree that the software written for gnustep is pretty icky to use though (exception being the wm config tools). I much prefer GTK+ apps with XDND support.
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Agreed.
Actually, the real reason I don't use it, is because a modern shell seems so much more efficient at file operations than any graphical file manager could be.
Umm...ROX integrates BEAUTIFULLY with command shells. Try WIndow->Shell Command... You'll like it. You can also 'select if...' etc. VERY powerful.
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The thing that is missing, and I'm sure will be fixed in later releases, is that if a file, say on your pinboard, moves, the pinboard doesn't know about it (other than it is now missing). Then again this trivial thing with WPS, PM, and SOM isn't quite as easily accomplished in the environment ROX runs in.
And all this praise from a WPS bigot (you guys are getting there!)
Congrats again. Here's to doing it the right way (not following micro$loth, KDE, Gnome crap).
I know that formmail.pl has some vulnerabilities, and figured people were just probing me.
This would explain where it is coming from. Add this to the code red etc that my poor little web server on DSL has to deal with
1) pyramid schemes and such 2) (and this is the important one) forged headers.
This is a good thing. Yes, technical means *should* be taken against unsolicited mail. That other crap has absolutely no business coming to me, however, and in real life would be prosecuted.
So, does the FTC have a place to forward unsolicited crap so it can be taken care of? It's about time, but they need to actually hold to their promise.
Here's what I set up for them:
Yes, this took some effort on my part, but there's nothing stopping anybody from making a distro with this easy setup. I literally dropped the machine off at her house, plugged it in, and it just WORKED. Her and her children couldn't be happier, as the machine is stable, consistent, and really easy to use and customize.
They like it much better than their windoze setup on the same box, and don't even boot the windoze partition anymore. They LOVE that when one logs off and another logs in, they no longer have the headache of having to redial the ISP, as PPP just keeps running, if wanted.
Did I mention this is all running on an old Pentium 233 with 128MB Ram?
Dude. Go to the pilot-link site, download the CVS build, and enjoy pilot-xfer syncing via USB. Not everything is done yet, but you can install databases and back them up. For calendar stuff, I'm stuck with lotus notes anyway.
Any business traveller for a company with an IT department worth anytyhing will have an IPSec client with either PKI or RSA SecurID authentication on their laptop, and that is the ONLY way they can possibly access the company infrastructure. How the hell else would you do it in a public place like an airport? Unless by support you mean "The firewall/router is configured to properly pass IPSec and IKE traffic"
Now all they have to do is sit at the airport with their trusty wireless laptop and sniff corporate IDs and passwords to their heart's content. At least the company I work for only allows wireless access through a VPN!
This is just beautiful.
People who can't spend the few minutes needed to read the comments in smbd.conf, should NOT be able to simply share something. This is how systems get owned.
Yes, it is nice. But making it a little 'harder' helps insure that somebody actually understands what they are doing before they do it.
That's what I did as a kid, and just started again recently. It's amazing how society has changed since nobody is required to be face-to-face or even on the phone to communicate anymore.
Well, I'd write more, but I'm off to teach my g/f and her children some more about the game.
Does the new installer for linux require an existing windoze install, or is there a way I can play this thing without having to boot to windoze and install it there first?
I can live with it, but yes, my system was more stable before. USB-storage is also quite quirky with the new kernel, whereas with the backport into 2.2 I never had problems. I've also been having problems with USB HID (Mouse) since the change.
On the plus side I gained ext3.
We really need fair competition in computer software again. If there were reasonable alternatives (yes *we* know there are, but most companies are pretty clueless wrt actual computer-based solutions), there would be NO NEED for this law, as the better software *should* do better in the marketplace.
That's pretty stupid, considering the distance will obviously change more than a millimeter all the time. Hell even the astronaut's footprints will be several millimeters thick, assuming they are undisturbed still. So...within a millimeter of *what*, exactly?
Just from the advertising I'm sick of this obviously lame piece of crap. I can't believe somebody here went to see it, let alone REVIEWED it!
That's because it is a PITA to patch anything on microsoft platforms. Installation is even worse with all the bullshit licensing checks they do in the install scripts.
Could you imagine having to patch a large hosting facility (I dunno...500-1000 IIS servers)? No thanks. And that's why it doesn't get done.
It's a pain to boot into a crash-prone, uncustomizable, unintuitive, BUTT-UGLY OS just to play a game.
That's too bad, because I'll only buy a linux version. I'm still waiting for the single player version of Wolfenstein before I buy that. Until then, I guess I'll have to settle for UT and Quake3.
I'd be pretty hurt if I were your mother. Having a son who is too lazy to hand-write a letter to mom.
For PDF's, just print to a file (postscript), then run ps2pdf on it. I did my resume with staroffice this way.
Thus strengthening the monopoly M$ abused, hurting consumers, businesses, progress, and stifling innovation along the way? No thanks.
Umm...I think you just answered your own question. WTF does something as simple as a mail client or a FILE MANAGER, for crying out loud, have to have a @#$%! GHz machine + 256+MB of ram just to work, and work like shit at that??? And the shit STILL doesn't do everything OS/2's WPS did on a 486 with 8MB of ram in 1993!!!
I use WindowMaker + ROX-Filer, and love it. Very lightweight, configurable, light, and FAST! I use some gnome apps, but none of the so-called integration. They all work and work well here. I keep trying KDE every now and then, and every time I do I am fully unimpressed. XDND is a great standard. All that other crap is not.
I agree that the software written for gnustep is pretty icky to use though (exception being the wm config tools). I much prefer GTK+ apps with XDND support.