Large anything in the UI sucks because it takes space away from the actual information that I'm trying to work on.
So don't use them. You have the *CHOICE* in gnustepish environments to do that, you know. You can put all of your apps in the root menu (which is incredibly easy in windowmaker). The root menu is also fully scriptable, giving you very powerful control over your system to create dynamic menus and such.
I use a combination of WindowMaker and ROX-Filer, and am pretty close to an ideal UI here.
I know suse (ick..begin forced to use it at work, sigh) has something as part of its distro.
Personally, I consider anti-virus software viruses themselves. They often cause more problems and interfere with your system much more than any 'virus' Just look at what they do...constantly run, constantly run every file access against a big-assed hash table, possibly causing problems with legitimate software. No thanks.
Definately true. Shrek would even have been a great success if it wasn't high quality CGI but bad cartoons like the Tracy Ullman Simpsons. At least, I went to see Shreck because of the graphics, but I ended up laughing my ass off and couldn't pay any attention to the rendering at all.
I disagree. Many of the visual jokes in Pixar's creations would not work with cartoons. They are incredibly skilled at finding what works with their chosen medium and using it. Do you honestly think that "For the Birds" or the infamous "Luxo Junior" or "Tin Toy" would be funny as a hand-drawn cartoon? I don't. But as rendered animation, it works, and is funny as can be.
I actually had this discussion with my girlfriend in the theatre for Monsters, Inc. about "For the Birds" and she, even though not the rendered animation freak I am, agreed:)
In addition to all the comments the above poster made, Mozilla is designed to be a web-browser, and excels at it. Konqueror tries to be a file manager too...and fails miserably as an overly bloated piece of elephant dung (please, let me tell you how I really feel:). I wish they would have stayed with where KFM was headed, but they scrapped it all for the konqueror crap.
It's common knowledge that some ISP's collect info about where you surf and sell it. My solution is to run my own DNS server even though I'm on dial up. It may not be foolproof, but it's a start.
Ummmm...
I hate to tell you this, but running your own DNS is not going to keep the ISP from knowing where you surf and when. Your only real option is an anonymizing proxy outside your ISP. But those guys will also know where you surf and when, at least until your IP changes.
There is no such thing as absolute privacy on the internet, and you are foolish if you think there is a way to achieve it, even with encryption or VPN's, someone, somewhere will always be able to know your habits, and if interested and in the right part of the pipe, even more.
You might want a reference from your current boss in future, or you might later wind up working again for someone at your present company, either back there or elsewhere. If you demonstrate that you're a grade A scumball by leaving without notice or badmouthing the boss/company as you go, it may well come back to haunt you sooner or later.
Let me get this straight. You would use the people backstabbing you and looking for reasons to fire you as references, and would work at another company with them in the future?
I recently left my job because of a mutual understanding between myself and my bosses that I no longer had the desire to do that particular job and my performance was suffering because of it.
I always got along with them though, was able to leave with full benefits (severance package + unemployment compensation), and used many of my bosses and co-workers as references.
This is entirely different from the situation this guy describes. In this day and age, blind loyalty to any company is foolish, regardless of how much you like it there. The phrase employee at will means they can get rid of you for any reason without benefits or notice, and you can do the same, and should when they fsck you.
Stay there. Do what you have to do to earn money, but start looking around on monster, etc. Do some interviews. Find a place that's cool to work. Leave without notice.
Finding a job is easy. Finding a place to work where you really fit in is the hard part. If you don't like the people you work with, or they don't like you, it's just a matter of time until your gone (unless you are the boss:)
What are the odds of something like this actually hapening? How many thieves are there out there with the technical know how to pull this off, compared to the public at large?
I agree. ..I've been using linux [and only linux] on the desktop for about the same time and I didn't know about XWC -- frankly it rocks!
I had been looking for a good GUI file manager for a long long time (yes, I love CLI but the mouse is faster when moving around 10,000 files). ..I had tried everything:
I didn't see Rox in your list. Neither of you provided links to XWC, so I haven't checked it out yet, but you might like ROX. It works so much better than all those bloated things *cough* Nautilus, Konqueror *cough*. It is lightweight, fast, intuitive, and very very flexible (it lets you work the way YOU want to). It is the closest thing to the glory of OS/2's WPS I've found for linux to date.
It just takes a little work (if you don't trust mandrake's little slider-bar in the install)
I personally use Mandrake with ROX-Filer and Windowmaker as an environment. It was nice having all of the packages I would normally have to download and compile on my own already included.
Please. KDE apps are bloated and depend on having a bunch of useless crap running in the background. Abiword and Gnumeric are nice and light, but I use Star Office, since I have the horsepower:)
I didn't see a mention of a good email client (Mozilla doesn't count) And again, he likes kmail?? For a lightweight desktop??? I would highly recommend Sylpheed as a fast, light, easy to use, yet powerful (enough) mail client.
There are so many problems with this article, that I'll stop now, I'm sure the rest of you have already pointed them out (time for me to read the comments now:)
It would be nice, if for things that require a filename (ie, appicon), the configuration boxes would be xdnd enabled. Put this in throughout the wm, and then I would have a truly integrated environment between a filemanager (ROX is the one I use) and windowmaker. X direct save would be an added bonus.
The trailing space problem was indeed fixed a while back.
Good! But I only recently moved to Mandrake 8.1, 7.2 having worked wonderfully for me (and 8.1 didn't add anything for me, really, other than a JFS...everything else was already there or easily added myself from 7.2)....the point being that I am sure there are many people out there still using older versions of cups.
Also, the default is now to preserve the last 500 jobs (not every job ever printed), so disabling job history shouldn't be necessary unless you want to eliminate any extra memory use on your system.
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I *think* the web interface has a "purge jobs" button, and you can do "cancel -a printer" to purge the job history for a printer.
No way of checking at the moment, since I killed the option to keep the stuff hanging around in my spool file as I suggested <grin>
in your/etc/cupsd.conf, or your cupsd process will get HUGE over time!! Mine grew to over 17 Meg on my own box. Sheesh!
Also, make sure there are no spaces after the 'No's. The first time I tried configuring this, I had a space after the word and the braindead parser couldn't recognize the option because of it(not sure if they've fixed it in the newer versions or not)...so I swore for a couple hours before actually checking my syslog as to why the damned thing kept ignoring the option:)
The GUI should let you purge completed jobs, IMNSHO. For a basically single-user system, it's best to just disable those two options, unless you are into checking your/var/spool/cups directory on a regular basis (I have better things to do with my time)
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So don't use them. You have the *CHOICE* in gnustepish environments to do that, you know. You can put all of your apps in the root menu (which is incredibly easy in windowmaker). The root menu is also fully scriptable, giving you very powerful control over your system to create dynamic menus and such.
I use a combination of WindowMaker and ROX-Filer, and am pretty close to an ideal UI here.
Personally, I consider anti-virus software viruses themselves. They often cause more problems and interfere with your system much more than any 'virus' Just look at what they do...constantly run, constantly run every file access against a big-assed hash table, possibly causing problems with legitimate software. No thanks.
That's because final fantasy sucked serious ass. What a disappointing piece of crap.
I disagree. Many of the visual jokes in Pixar's creations would not work with cartoons. They are incredibly skilled at finding what works with their chosen medium and using it. Do you honestly think that "For the Birds" or the infamous "Luxo Junior" or "Tin Toy" would be funny as a hand-drawn cartoon? I don't. But as rendered animation, it works, and is funny as can be.
I actually had this discussion with my girlfriend in the theatre for Monsters, Inc. about "For the Birds" and she, even though not the rendered animation freak I am, agreed :)
Shouldn't that be "Fall and Sink?"
Thank goodness I discovered ROX-Filer.
I hate to tell you this, but running your own DNS is not going to keep the ISP from knowing where you surf and when. Your only real option is an anonymizing proxy outside your ISP. But those guys will also know where you surf and when, at least until your IP changes.
There is no such thing as absolute privacy on the internet, and you are foolish if you think there is a way to achieve it, even with encryption or VPN's, someone, somewhere will always be able to know your habits, and if interested and in the right part of the pipe, even more.
Let me get this straight. You would use the people backstabbing you and looking for reasons to fire you as references, and would work at another company with them in the future?
I recently left my job because of a mutual understanding between myself and my bosses that I no longer had the desire to do that particular job and my performance was suffering because of it.
I always got along with them though, was able to leave with full benefits (severance package + unemployment compensation), and used many of my bosses and co-workers as references.
This is entirely different from the situation this guy describes. In this day and age, blind loyalty to any company is foolish, regardless of how much you like it there. The phrase employee at will means they can get rid of you for any reason without benefits or notice, and you can do the same, and should when they fsck you.
Ack! Until you're gone. I think that's the first time I've ever made that mistake. I think I might have some slashdot-related disease!
Finding a job is easy. Finding a place to work where you really fit in is the hard part. If you don't like the people you work with, or they don't like you, it's just a matter of time until your gone (unless you are the boss :)
A lot more now :)
I had been looking for a good GUI file manager for a long long time (yes, I love CLI but the mouse is faster when moving around 10,000 files). . .I had tried everything:
I didn't see Rox in your list. Neither of you provided links to XWC, so I haven't checked it out yet, but you might like ROX. It works so much better than all those bloated things *cough* Nautilus, Konqueror *cough*. It is lightweight, fast, intuitive, and very very flexible (it lets you work the way YOU want to). It is the closest thing to the glory of OS/2's WPS I've found for linux to date.
http://freefall.homeip.net/stuff/spellcheck/
My .xinitrc:
I personally use Mandrake with ROX-Filer and Windowmaker as an environment. It was nice having all of the packages I would normally have to download and compile on my own already included.
I didn't see a mention of a good email client (Mozilla doesn't count) And again, he likes kmail?? For a lightweight desktop??? I would highly recommend Sylpheed as a fast, light, easy to use, yet powerful (enough) mail client.
There are so many problems with this article, that I'll stop now, I'm sure the rest of you have already pointed them out (time for me to read the comments now :)
And whatever you do, DON't run KDE apps!
Rox
It would be nice, if for things that require a filename (ie, appicon), the configuration boxes would be xdnd enabled. Put this in throughout the wm, and then I would have a truly integrated environment between a filemanager (ROX is the one I use) and windowmaker. X direct save would be an added bonus.
And cutting their grass with scissors is exactly the way these people are running their business.
I didn't say they handled it properly. Just that what 2600 did isn't exactly what I would call cool or admirable, much less deserving praise.
Heehee. Somebody please mod the parent up :)
Good! But I only recently moved to Mandrake 8.1, 7.2 having worked wonderfully for me (and 8.1 didn't add anything for me, really, other than a JFS...everything else was already there or easily added myself from 7.2)....the point being that I am sure there are many people out there still using older versions of cups.
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No way of checking at the moment, since I killed the option to keep the stuff hanging around in my spool file as I suggested <grin>
Also, make sure there are no spaces after the 'No's. The first time I tried configuring this, I had a space after the word and the braindead parser couldn't recognize the option because of it(not sure if they've fixed it in the newer versions or not)...so I swore for a couple hours before actually checking my syslog as to why the damned thing kept ignoring the option :)
The GUI should let you purge completed jobs, IMNSHO. For a basically single-user system, it's best to just disable those two options, unless you are into checking your /var/spool/cups directory on a regular basis (I have better things to do with my time)