Re:Tablet prog contest has same prob (+how to fix
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Fishing for Ideas
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However, win or lose, if you entered, you guaranteed that you had full rights to the software, and transferred all said rights to M$ for nothing.
That's absolutely no problem. Just publish you software on sourceforge under a copy left license before you submit your code. In that way, you can continue working on the free code.
If you publish under the revised BSD license, you can even make a closed version again of which you control all rights.
Yes, programs do load somewhat faster, but at the same time doing a ls -l in my home dir was kinda slower that with excellent WOLK patchset for 2.4.18.
This weekend, I compiled 2.5.66 on my Celeron 400 MHz laptop and I have a similar experience: X felt much more responsive, but accessing files could be reeeeaaallllyyyy slow. Sometimes accessing a file could take 5 seconds! Also starting X took longer.
I was pleasantly surprised with the hardware mixing of PCM streams. Bye bye arts! I'm wondering though if I need to recompile aplay, since it uses 100% CPU infinetly after playing a sound. I've solved it now by replacing 'aplay' with 'echo'.
This story opens the door to silly posts mentioning the fact that this story uses the silly phrase 'opens the door to' twice, which is a new form of the well praticed arts of duplicate submissions on/.
And the previous line was way too long for average/. posting. Not transparent at all.
Flight of the Bumblebee is a fine piece of music by Rimsky-Korsakov, especially in Christian Lindbergs version on trombone. Unfortunately for your karma, bumblebees do notfly in swarms.
I've been saying the same sort of things (humanity becoming a Borg-like hive mind, etc.) for a few years now, but I always get "are you insane?" type reactions.
This has already happened. We're all connected via internet, radio, tv and mobile phone. The memes are spreading and evolving at high speed already.
The end result is that same though: humanity will evolve into something godlike, using nanotech to control our environment at the molecular scale. I'm hoping I live long enough to see it happen.
Please define God. I don't think we'll be able to create a universe anytime soon. Even the pope's accepted evolution as the way human came into existance. God just started it and may have intervened from time to time. But improved breeding and surgical technology is no instant recipy for being God.
We'll always need a God to reconcile with our mortality.
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Here's the screenshot It's not too spectacular, if you ask me.
What's so funny about a program called y? Well, its function is to print this to the screen: You may as well stop typing now.
... rm: remove regular file `file101'? y rm: remove regular file `file102'? y rm: remove regular file `file103'? y rm: remove regular file `file104'? y ~> y You may as well stop typing now. ~> y You may as well stop typing now. ~> y You may as well stop typing now. ~> y
Without being disrespectful to the Free Submarines Foundation, I would like to mention the existence of this Open Source Submarines webpage.
Apparently, the Open Source developmentmodel is very suitable for building submarines. I cheer at this development. However, I still prefer free as in Willy submarines.
I think this is a fantastic implementation of vector graphics. I only hope that we can soon have entire UI's based around scalable graphics as well.
More exposure for SVG is good too. I hope we'll have good SVG support for webpages soon. Scalable images in webpages is something badly needed for a long time. SVG is not a perfect standard for scalable, but it's a first step.
I'm very pleased to see that the KHTML rendering engine is being used on Apple and even better, that Apple is behaving as a good citizen and is publishing their modifications of the KHTML GPL-ed code. The modifications seem to be pretty good. Here's to hoping that KDE and Apple will start working on a common codebase for the engine.
I read the Silmarillion before I started on The Lord of the Rings. I liked it a lot! I found LOTR to be a bit boring and long after the Silmarillion. I haven't men anyone who agrees with me on this though...
I did finish LOTR eventually, but mainly because I wanted to finish it before performing the five part piece by Johan de Meij, which is much better than the music to pt I or II to the film series. Especially part III Gollum is great. You can find an amateur version of the piece here (I figure since this is by no means a professional performance it's ok to link it).
The page renders fine on Mozilla 1.2.1, but there are no hyperlinks on the page.
On reading the article a bit closer:
As you can see, formatting XML with CSS is as simple as doing the same with HTML. But I have a problem: None of my links are actual links. That is, they don't behave as HTML links when you click on them. I need to find a way to transform the RSS LINK elements into working links. CSS is ill-suited for providing this kind of functionality, but I do have another tool at my disposal: DOM.
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Loading the RSS file in Mozilla now produces the desired result: clickable title links. You can see a working example here, although you'll need Mozilla 1.0 or better to experience it.
Well, on my machine (SuSE Linux 8.0) Mozilla 1.2.1 does not show any hyperlinks. Also the titles are not rendered bold but plain.
I recently installed a driver for my Mom's HP printer/scanner. And voila, XP froze.
When the printer/scanner was installed, the modem stopped working. I reinstalled the modem, after which the scanner function of the printer/scanner didn't work. At that point, I just gave up.
Slashdot Mirror
Here it is.
However, win or lose, if you entered, you guaranteed that you had full rights to the software, and transferred all said rights to M$ for nothing.
That's absolutely no problem. Just publish you software on sourceforge under a copy left license before you submit your code. In that way, you can continue working on the free code.
If you publish under the revised BSD license, you can even make a closed version again of which you control all rights.
Wow, how fast is the average programmer supposed to type these days?
The system can record up to 90 hours of programming on the 80GB Hard drive.
I'm glad when I type 64k in 90 hours, so why does this thing have 80GB?
Yes, programs do load somewhat faster, but at the same time doing a ls -l in my home dir was kinda slower that with excellent WOLK patchset for 2.4.18.
This weekend, I compiled 2.5.66 on my Celeron 400 MHz laptop and I have a similar experience: X felt much more responsive, but accessing files could be reeeeaaallllyyyy slow. Sometimes accessing a file could take 5 seconds! Also starting X took longer.
I was pleasantly surprised with the hardware mixing of PCM streams. Bye bye arts! I'm wondering though if I need to recompile aplay, since it uses 100% CPU infinetly after playing a sound. I've solved it now by replacing 'aplay' with 'echo'.
This story opens the door to silly posts mentioning the fact that this story uses the silly phrase 'opens the door to' twice, which is a new form of the well praticed arts of duplicate submissions on /.
/. posting. Not transparent at all.
And the previous line was way too long for average
Flight of the Bumblebee is a fine piece of music by Rimsky-Korsakov, especially in Christian Lindbergs version on trombone. Unfortunately for your karma, bumblebees do not fly in swarms.
I've been saying the same sort of things (humanity becoming a Borg-like hive mind, etc.) for a few years now, but I always get "are you insane?" type reactions.
This has already happened. We're all connected via internet, radio, tv and mobile phone. The memes are spreading and evolving at high speed already.
The end result is that same though: humanity will evolve into something godlike, using nanotech to control our environment at the molecular scale. I'm hoping I live long enough to see it happen.
Please define God. I don't think we'll be able to create a universe anytime soon. Even the pope's accepted evolution as the way human came into existance. God just started it and may have intervened from time to time. But improved breeding and surgical technology is no instant recipy for being God.
We'll always need a God to reconcile with our mortality.
Here's the screenshot
It's not too spectacular, if you ask me.
What's so funny about a program called y?
...
Well, its function is to print this to the screen: You may as well stop typing now.
rm: remove regular file `file101'? y
rm: remove regular file `file102'? y
rm: remove regular file `file103'? y
rm: remove regular file `file104'? y
~> y
You may as well stop typing now.
~> y
You may as well stop typing now.
~> y
You may as well stop typing now.
~> y
Don't try this from home with a dialup connection.
Sir, you overestimate the size of the average slashdot reader's house.
Without being disrespectful to the Free Submarines Foundation, I would like to mention the existence of this Open Source Submarines webpage.
Apparently, the Open Source developmentmodel is very suitable for building submarines. I cheer at this development. However, I still prefer free as in Willy submarines.
I think this is a fantastic implementation of vector graphics. I only hope that we can soon have entire UI's based around scalable graphics as well.
More exposure for SVG is good too. I hope we'll have good SVG support for webpages soon. Scalable images in webpages is something badly needed for a long time. SVG is not a perfect standard for scalable, but it's a first step.
I assume that KDE already has or is working on SVG too. It's a logical step. Heck, they *could* just use this lib if they don't already have one.
KDE has KSVG.
It's pretty advanced too and supports scripting.
Good man, do tell, how does one ovate whilst holding a igniter afire?
Apple is giving away something they haven't started themselves. The Safari engine is a forked KHTML engine from the KDE project. Read Apple's e-mail about this.
I'm very pleased to see that the KHTML rendering engine is being used on Apple and even better, that Apple is behaving as a good citizen and is publishing their modifications of the KHTML GPL-ed code. The modifications seem to be pretty good. Here's to hoping that KDE and Apple will start working on a common codebase for the engine.
there is a high overhead to creating bugs
I can confirm this. I introduced some bugs in my code today, but boy, am I tired right now. But hey, every bug counts.
I read the Silmarillion before I started on The Lord of the Rings. I liked it a lot! I found LOTR to be a bit boring and long after the Silmarillion. I haven't men anyone who agrees with me on this though...
I did finish LOTR eventually, but mainly because I wanted to finish it before performing the five part piece by Johan de Meij, which is much better than the music to pt I or II to the film series. Especially part III Gollum is great. You can find an amateur version of the piece here (I figure since this is by no means a professional performance it's ok to link it).
I've been trying to solve this one for a while now.
The objective is to untangle the cords so that you end up with seperate wooden rings with a single cord on each ring.
give puzzles!
You can have a lot of fun and satisfaction from solving these puzzles.
There's a belgian website with even better puzzles, but I forgot the link and and google isn't helpful. Look for Eureka! puzzles from Belgium.
With URL's you can access the entire web. With Google, you can't.
In a free world, 'where do you want to google today' might work.
On reading the article a bit closer:
Well, on my machine (SuSE Linux 8.0) Mozilla 1.2.1 does not show any hyperlinks. Also the titles are not rendered bold but plain.
The link mentioned doesn't work well in Mozilla 1.2.1: no hyperlink.
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And konqueror can't even render the page. It says its invalid:
XML parsing error
fatal parsing error: the document is not in the correct file format in line 6, column 37
<link>http://www.scottandrew.com</link>
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No way!
I recently installed a driver for my Mom's HP printer/scanner. And voila, XP froze.
When the printer/scanner was installed, the modem stopped working. I reinstalled the modem, after which the scanner function of the printer/scanner didn't work. At that point, I just gave up.
I mean, you did get modded 4 for this, so, in real life, you would have been rich!
Using "n) Profit!" in a post ensures an average mod up of 3.
Lose weight, eat space burgers.
Never mind the mass.