The point of an alpha layer in an image on a webpage is that the background of the webpage is visible through the image. A plugin usually does not inherit the background of a webpage, but is often gray, so using a plugin for showing png images with alpha layers will give you the desired effect.
Linus Torvalds:
That's a real can of worms. Patents, especially software patents, are the worst thing that can happen to freely available software. It's just too dangerous to let people do patents on something that is fundamental research, in many cases, or patent a series of numbers like you mentioned. It does not make sense, and it's sad that it's allowed, and it's a real problem.
The only real solution is to
Hope that the patent expires which takes a long time or That you create something that is obviously better and patent-free. And by being patent free you find others who are willing to support your sales [?] and just make sure that maybe Pantone ® will be there in five years time, but there will be something else too. I'm sorry, there's not much you can do unless you want to spend a lot of money on trying to convince politicians to make certain things illegal.
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This is the reason why Microsoft abandoned Active Desktop and puts all widgets in the toolbar now (see Longhorn screenshots).
I built my house in doom and played until deep inthe night with roommates. Even away from the computer and walking around in the real house, the slightest sound would keep me alert for attackers.
In this case the basic hardware such as CPU, video card and chipset is supported by the other distributions. Mandrake 9.1 and Knoppix 3.0 do not freeze this machine. So the problem is SuSE specific it seems.
Now I'm more than willing to help SuSE sort out this problem. But SuSE does not seem to want to solve this problem.
I've been using SuSE for 5 years and I have a lot of experience with GNU/Linux in general. But when I buy a distro and it fails horribly on me by freezing, then I can do two things: just compile my own kernel, on which the problem will probably go away for me, or mention the problem to SuSE so that they may instruct me on how to solve the problem and solve the problem in their distro too. There are quite of few of these Presario laptops around and if everybody trying SuSE on these machines has the same experience, this is very bad press for free software in general, simply because most people will think: 'this free software sucks, I'll go back to windows'.
Nope, it's an ATI Radeon Mobility something. There's an unstable 3D driver for this with SuSE, but using the stable one without 3D does not improve the situation.
They'll probably ask me about the 3D driver next.....
The freeze has happened only in X and most often when running YaST. I haven't compiled a new kernel yet, but the previous version of SuSE (8.0) on this machine did not have the problem, neither does Mandrake 9.1, so a vanilla kernel should work fine, but it might not work well with the init procedures. I just want things to work without fiddling.
So SuSE shipped a rather unstable kernel and instead of trying to fix it quickly, the helpdesk asks me silly questions.
I did, it did not help. SuSE's safe settings are: ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 I tried each of those individually and together and still the machine freezes.
SuSE is losing more and more credit with me. I bought the SuSE 8.2 Professional upgrade and installed it on a Compaq Presario 1714EA. Result: the machine freezes after about 5 minutes of use! There a few boot options one can try in such a case, e.g. acpi=off. But none of these work.
Right now I'm communicating with the helpdesk and this is no big pleasure either. After my initial mail, I received the advice to reinstall the system with the safe settings (a boot menu option). I had already done this, since the normal settings wouldn't boot.
After saying that I'd already installed with safe settings, I was told that reinstalling really would help. So I did this and it (of course) didn't help.
The next idea the helpdesk had was to ask me to give them a list of the hardware in my computer (this list is also sent to SuSE when doing a support query, but apparently, they lost it). I provided the list and the next day I got an email asking me to check the computers memory and use a special boot option. The memory's ok and the boot option didn't work, so I'm now waiting for their next question.
However, when SuSE is installed, it runs quite well. But many applications are missing and a lot of hardware is not recognized, e.g. my pcmcia network card.
The new update checker is convenient but very buggy! It crashes a lot and after updating, the checker's icon still signals you to update.
So, in conclusion, I can say that I'll continue using SuSE (on the machine on which it does not freeze), at least until the end of the support period.
If you think SuSE is a nice distro for newbies: forget it. It takes ages until you've got it running smoothly. Once it works, it works, but it's not much different from any other disto. The install's horrible.
The poster asked for a solution to the dust in his computer room: his fans were clogging up with dust. If the ionic breeze is not moving air itself, it could be placed near the most powerful computer fan in the room.
This solution would be very cheap and environmentaly friendly: no new filters and no extra power consuming fan.
I agree completely. I use to play TNT (a simple and ugly dynablaster clone) a lot with my friends. This post actually make me find the game on the web. here it is
I'm using Luxi Mono size 8 in SuSE 8.2 and size set to small in konsole, and I'm very happy with it. I'm working on a 800x600 screen and this small fonts allows me to work with two terminals alongside.
Slashdot Mirror
New features in OpenOffice.org 1.1rc over OpenOffice.org beta2 release:
For full list of features please see the OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC features list.
What's a jiffie?
A jiffy is a quick quicky.
And for some really good modern jazz, check out Nils Wogram. He can really make a trombone come to life. Especially on the album Speed Life.
Can you guess what's on the cover?
The point of an alpha layer in an image on a webpage is that the background of the webpage is visible through the image. A plugin usually does not inherit the background of a webpage, but is often gray, so using a plugin for showing png images with alpha layers will give you the desired effect.
At Wageningen University, a competition will be held tomorrow for robots to race through a cornfield.
Here's the site with a small movie showing a robot going.
Check out the excellent symphony by Johan de Meij.
Here's an amateur performance of it.
This is the reason why Microsoft abandoned Active Desktop and puts all widgets in the toolbar now (see Longhorn screenshots).
I built my house in doom and played until deep inthe night with roommates. Even away from the computer and walking around in the real house, the slightest sound would keep me alert for attackers.
And the concept is even older. In Duke Nukem 3D, there are tons of these video sniffers showing security camera footage.
This does not explain the fact that other distro's do not freeze. Or does it?
In this case the basic hardware such as CPU, video card and chipset is supported by the other distributions. Mandrake 9.1 and Knoppix 3.0 do not freeze this machine. So the problem is SuSE specific it seems.
Now I'm more than willing to help SuSE sort out this problem. But SuSE does not seem to want to solve this problem.
I've been using SuSE for 5 years and I have a lot of experience with GNU/Linux in general. But when I buy a distro and it fails horribly on me by freezing, then I can do two things: just compile my own kernel, on which the problem will probably go away for me, or mention the problem to SuSE so that they may instruct me on how to solve the problem and solve the problem in their distro too. There are quite of few of these Presario laptops around and if everybody trying SuSE on these machines has the same experience, this is very bad press for free software in general, simply because most people will think: 'this free software sucks, I'll go back to windows'.
Nope, it's an ATI Radeon Mobility something. There's an unstable 3D driver for this with SuSE, but using the stable one without 3D does not improve the situation.
They'll probably ask me about the 3D driver next.....
The freeze has happened only in X and most often when running YaST.
I haven't compiled a new kernel yet, but the previous version of SuSE (8.0) on this machine did not have the problem, neither does Mandrake 9.1, so a vanilla kernel should work fine, but it might not work well with the init procedures. I just want things to work without fiddling.
So SuSE shipped a rather unstable kernel and instead of trying to fix it quickly, the helpdesk asks me silly questions.
You can check out the live eval. I haven't tested it and it's probably not nearly as useful as knoppix, but I should give an impression of SuSE.
I did, it did not help.
SuSE's safe settings are:
ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
I tried each of those individually and together and still the machine freezes.
SuSE is losing more and more credit with me. I bought the SuSE 8.2 Professional upgrade and installed it on a Compaq Presario 1714EA. Result: the machine freezes after about 5 minutes of use! There a few boot options one can try in such a case, e.g. acpi=off. But none of these work.
Right now I'm communicating with the helpdesk and this is no big pleasure either. After my initial mail, I received the advice to reinstall the system with the safe settings (a boot menu option). I had already done this, since the normal settings wouldn't boot.
After saying that I'd already installed with safe settings, I was told that reinstalling really would help. So I did this and it (of course) didn't help.
The next idea the helpdesk had was to ask me to give them a list of the hardware in my computer (this list is also sent to SuSE when doing a support query, but apparently, they lost it). I provided the list and the next day I got an email asking me to check the computers memory and use a special boot option. The memory's ok and the boot option didn't work, so I'm now waiting for their next question.
However, when SuSE is installed, it runs quite well. But many applications are missing and a lot of hardware is not recognized, e.g. my pcmcia network card.
The new update checker is convenient but very buggy! It crashes a lot and after updating, the checker's icon still signals you to update.
So, in conclusion, I can say that I'll continue using SuSE (on the machine on which it does not freeze), at least until the end of the support period.
If you think SuSE is a nice distro for newbies: forget it. It takes ages until you've got it running smoothly. Once it works, it works, but it's not much different from any other disto. The install's horrible.
The poster asked for a solution to the dust in his computer room: his fans were clogging up with dust. If the ionic breeze is not moving air itself, it could be placed near the most powerful computer fan in the room.
This solution would be very cheap and environmentaly friendly: no new filters and no extra power consuming fan.
Here's a mirror of the pdf file.
Oops, correction: mplayer does play it with the right codecs from its site.
Where's the Slashdot effect?
:-(.
I got this file at 6.10M/s with wget!
But then mplayer wouldn't play it
I just checked:
KP Typing Tutor work with wine (the program).
I agree completely. I use to play TNT (a simple and ugly dynablaster clone) a lot with my friends. This post actually make me find the game on the web. here it is
I'm using Luxi Mono size 8 in SuSE 8.2 and size set to small in konsole, and I'm very happy with it.
I'm working on a 800x600 screen and this small fonts allows me to work with two terminals alongside.
Here's a screenshot.