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Mind you, that the director of the movie is Andrei Tarkovski -- a very interesting figure in Russian cinematography. You may want to check out Stalker as well, and then read the original book by Strugatski brothers, called The Roadside Picnic (here is entire text of the novel in English, and here in Russian).
Furthermore, when getting an HTML message OL can't show it in-line: you have to open it as an attachment, whereby IE springs up to life. This pisses me off even more than "Outlook rich text" default (which is the first thing I change whenever I get to install the beast).
Really? Well, if you are permanently hooked-up thru a fast enough link ('air interface':), then you don't need it. If you can make hard drives unnecessary, you then can make them illegal.
Short answer: yes, they are unable. Nor that many of them want/need/can.
A longer version: 2 problems paying and shipping. While you can ship at least to the 5 cities stated (maybe, if the site you're ordering from would, and you're desperate enough to pay fortune for it), paying will be a greater problem: hardly any site in US accepts a non-US billing address credit cards. That is, it may well be a US card, but if you're getting your bill anyehwere else -- you're out of luck.
Now, there are ways for solving the shipping problem. At least two come to mind: (a) open a mail box in US; (b) have a friend who has a friend who travels between US/Russia frequently.
The first one may or may not be valid for Khabarovsk, but there are companies that handle this type of a situation. You get a US address, pay monthly charge, on top of that pay per-pound charges for your shippments. They deliver.
The second option is less expensive, but very slow and may require some travel on the side of an adressee across Russia. It also has some limits onto how heavy a shippment can be.
Please also keep in mind that domestic mail in Russia is, preactically, bankrupt: hardly anyone uses it (things get lost/stolen, it is too slow). Local courrier services are a better choice if you want to ship something between large cities. If you need to send something into "rural" areas -- well, think thrice.:)
Can't agree with you: puting a scrollbar on the left is basically like sitting in a normal (left-sided) car, but with a [gear-shifting] stick to the left of the wheel, instead of right: you'd have to [sub-conciously] cross your field of vision and put a hand (or rather a mouse pointer) across yourself.
Now, menus are a different matter and left/top is more convenient than left-bottom. They can also be on your right, close to your scrollbar -- this is also nice.
This is exactly the point. It is next to impossible to make predictions like that in the article: numbers of native speakers are meaningless in this context, the proper measure would be a number of people that speak a certain language. Even then, one would need to factor how influential that crowd is for the Internet as a whole.
With that in mind, at this point of time, English wins.
> Personally, I'd like to see Esperanto gain greater currency...
As for this... See above, sort of. Got an evil and powerful empire that could conquer the world and force everyone learn Esperanto? Did not think so... Until then Esperanto will be just what its name implies...
True, ditching a keyboard seems to be a nice fashion -- replace it with either a voice interface or a 3D something-or-other. But touchscreens?.. I'd say there is a use for touch-sensetive screen, but not as much as a keyboard/mouse replacement.
How about a device that would track your eye movement for screen navigation? Although then we probable don't need a screen as such, but rather some sort of gogles...
While a picture is, indeed, worth a thousand words, it is much better to go there and check out the real thing.
It is quite nice, but not ready to everyday use: not everything seems to work (I was not able to ffetch mail from my IMAP server, does not seem to want to receive even local mail, etc). it is noce to see where it is going tho. But it is a LONG way from there still, I'd say.
It does not seem like all the nice components from some existing apps had made it there yet: I was unable to set a due date on a to-do item, while I can do that in GNOME Calendar. On the other hand, Contacts are MUCH better that that crappy little GNOME Address Book.
It is also very nice to see that the thing actually does send mail, even though it could not receive it right (thanks to good old mutt I was able to see that it was sent and delivered).
Pitty I cannot 'detach' a message and see it in a separate window (yet, I guess). Printing is not working yet either (I got a nice black rectangle for text).
Don't treat it as a formal review -- this is not. I just tried to make a point that eye candy is good, but what it tells you?
Yeah, but the problem is that you need to convince your admin to allow you use ssh through a firewall, which is also a tough one (with all this port re-direction capabilities...), won't work for all firewalls... Did not work for me for sure: I need to first login to the firewall, then login to a remote machine.
I have seen a non-techie do it without adverse side effects. That is it was not any less or more stable. Try to be somewhat fair, at least: when most choices are preselcted for you, and all you basically need tot do is to choose the theme for your desktop -- there is not much you can do wrong, right?
OTOH, rpm and deb are not worse at that. The only problem there is appearance, multitude of choices and scary words like 'partition', 'X-server', 'RAMDAC', etc.
Miguel has gone to extreme, I guess. As many had mentioned -- it is more like X that is at fault. But then you can just as easily put the blame on GTK and KDE: is there much code re-use there? GtkPixbuf and Imlib2? All the statically linked Motif apps (Netscape, Acrobat, FrameMaker)?
This is strange: this seems to be the same crowd that not so long ago has been actively discussing just how much X sucks: it is ancient, does very poor job displaying fonts, curves, is all crufty, etc., etc., etc.
Now, here comes the news of a project [long in development and refered to a number of times in the previous discussion] making a new (though pre-pre-pre-alpha) release, boasting numerous new advances, done in the [so much adored] OS way. And what do we see? Sceptical "well, this is all so nice but it is nott even close to become a replacement for X" or "WTF do I need those rotating/tilted windows for?".
Folks, this is about developing new things! This is about a brave new world. There were so many people who were going ooh!... and aah!.. about Apple's Aqua -- Berlin can almost do the same sort of thing (correction may be able to do the same sort of thing in future)! Why on Earth does it produce so much scepticism?
Debian is striving to provide the truly "free" GNU/Linux distribution. One may say, that based on this premise it is not right for them to maintain non-free part of the distribution, or distribute it along with the free part. Yet Debian package maintenance is a free effort of an independent maintainer(s). Limiting, in essense, their right to create, maintain, distribute these packages is limiting *their* freedom. The only issue is, then, to create a repository of Debian packages. Any volunteers? VA? Transmeta?
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Mind you, that the director of the movie is Andrei Tarkovski -- a very interesting figure in Russian cinematography. You may want to check out Stalker as well, and then read the original book by Strugatski brothers, called The Roadside Picnic (here is entire text of the novel in English, and here in Russian).
Yeah, it is annoying. Go to this page instead.
I thought you could not actually put Linux on anything below a 386...
If I am not mistaken, Gore will be just as swell: the inventor of internet, close 'friend' of Bill... Didn't he said we're being too harsh on Redmond?
> Netscrape doesn't. It'll send HTML-only messages.
No. You can actually set Netscape up to:
send HTML
send text
send text and HTML
:-)
Also, if I remember correctly, you can set this up on a per-address book entry (or at least flag a person as "prefers to receive HTML mail")
> Me: Yeah, well at least email viruses won't knock me down...:-)
...but they [viruses] are not in HTML (at least the recent incidents), they're in VB
Now, VB is a Bad Idea (TM), that I agree.
Furthermore, when getting an HTML message OL can't show it in-line: you have to open it as an attachment, whereby IE springs up to life. This pisses me off even more than "Outlook rich text" default (which is the first thing I change whenever I get to install the beast).
Ahm... don't wait: convert to Debian! :)
(Disclaimer: this HOWTO is a bit pre-production quality, consider it version 0.0.1)
Are you saying you have not apt-get dist-upgrad'ed for the past 6 (six) months?! You are not a Debian sole then :)
Seriously, the only time I run stable is when I set things up, i.e. the first 1hr-1week. It's unstable everafter!
> Hard drive technology is always present
:), then you don't need it. If you can make hard drives unnecessary, you then can make them illegal.
Really? Well, if you are permanently hooked-up thru a fast enough link ('air interface'
Short answer: yes, they are unable. Nor that many of them want/need/can.
:)
A longer version: 2 problems paying and shipping. While you can ship at least to the 5 cities stated (maybe, if the site you're ordering from would, and you're desperate enough to pay fortune for it), paying will be a greater problem: hardly any site in US accepts a non-US billing address credit cards. That is, it may well be a US card, but if you're getting your bill anyehwere else -- you're out of luck.
Now, there are ways for solving the shipping problem. At least two come to mind: (a) open a mail box in US; (b) have a friend who has a friend who travels between US/Russia frequently.
The first one may or may not be valid for Khabarovsk, but there are companies that handle this type of a situation. You get a US address, pay monthly charge, on top of that pay per-pound charges for your shippments. They deliver.
The second option is less expensive, but very slow and may require some travel on the side of an adressee across Russia. It also has some limits onto how heavy a shippment can be.
Please also keep in mind that domestic mail in Russia is, preactically, bankrupt: hardly anyone uses it (things get lost/stolen, it is too slow). Local courrier services are a better choice if you want to ship something between large cities. If you need to send something into "rural" areas -- well, think thrice.
Can't agree with you: puting a scrollbar on the left is basically like sitting in a normal (left-sided) car, but with a [gear-shifting] stick to the left of the wheel, instead of right: you'd have to [sub-conciously] cross your field of vision and put a hand (or rather a mouse pointer) across yourself.
Now, menus are a different matter and left/top is more convenient than left-bottom. They can also be on your right, close to your scrollbar -- this is also nice.
Yeah? Do you mean I can share my secret ring files between them? Last time I tried, it did not work.
This is exactly the point. It is next to impossible to make predictions like that in the article: numbers of native speakers are meaningless in this context, the proper measure would be a number of people that speak a certain language. Even then, one would need to factor how influential that crowd is for the Internet as a whole.
With that in mind, at this point of time, English wins.
> Personally, I'd like to see Esperanto gain greater currency...
As for this... See above, sort of. Got an evil and powerful empire that could conquer the world and force everyone learn Esperanto? Did not think so... Until then Esperanto will be just what its name implies...
True, ditching a keyboard seems to be a nice fashion -- replace it with either a voice interface or a 3D something-or-other. But touchscreens?.. I'd say there is a use for touch-sensetive screen, but not as much as a keyboard/mouse replacement.
How about a device that would track your eye movement for screen navigation? Although then we probable don't need a screen as such, but rather some sort of gogles...
Does this mean I can still type command.com at the Start/Run prompt? If so, then DOS is still there, it's just hidden...
$ dpkg -l | grep ^rc
...a long list of files
$ sudo dpkg -P <the same list of files>
Will remove (completely, -P is `purge') all unwanted remains of old packages
There sure is a nicer way to do it, but I am too lazy at this moment...
How about a super- alien ? You through a package at it and based on your distro it:
> SQL - New MS innovation removes letters P and L from this acronym.
Rather 'Sybase'.
While a picture is, indeed, worth a thousand words, it is much better to go there and check out the real thing.
It is quite nice, but not ready to everyday use: not everything seems to work (I was not able to ffetch mail from my IMAP server, does not seem to want to receive even local mail, etc). it is noce to see where it is going tho. But it is a LONG way from there still, I'd say.
It does not seem like all the nice components from some existing apps had made it there yet: I was unable to set a due date on a to-do item, while I can do that in GNOME Calendar. On the other hand, Contacts are MUCH better that that crappy little GNOME Address Book.
It is also very nice to see that the thing actually does send mail, even though it could not receive it right (thanks to good old mutt I was able to see that it was sent and delivered).
Pitty I cannot 'detach' a message and see it in a separate window (yet, I guess). Printing is not working yet either (I got a nice black rectangle for text).
Don't treat it as a formal review -- this is not. I just tried to make a point that eye candy is good, but what it tells you?
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distri butions/Debian/ ./
When I try to load it, it says "Mailbox is unchanged"
All it means, if I remember correctly, is that mut opened the mailbox and did not find any new mail there.
So, I guess you may say that you successfully proved the inter-operability of Evo and mutt.
Yeah, but the problem is that you need to convince your admin to allow you use ssh through a firewall, which is also a tough one (with all this port re-direction capabilities...), won't work for all firewalls... Did not work for me for sure: I need to first login to the firewall, then login to a remote machine.
This would work for transparent firewall tho
I have seen a non-techie do it without adverse side effects. That is it was not any less or more stable. Try to be somewhat fair, at least: when most choices are preselcted for you, and all you basically need tot do is to choose the theme for your desktop -- there is not much you can do wrong, right?
OTOH, rpm and deb are not worse at that. The only problem there is appearance, multitude of choices and scary words like 'partition', 'X-server', 'RAMDAC', etc.
Miguel has gone to extreme, I guess. As many had mentioned -- it is more like X that is at fault. But then you can just as easily put the blame on GTK and KDE: is there much code re-use there? GtkPixbuf and Imlib2? All the statically linked Motif apps (Netscape, Acrobat, FrameMaker)?
This is strange: this seems to be the same crowd that not so long ago has been actively discussing just how much X sucks: it is ancient, does very poor job displaying fonts, curves, is all crufty, etc., etc., etc.
Now, here comes the news of a project [long in development and refered to a number of times in the previous discussion] making a new (though pre-pre-pre-alpha) release, boasting numerous new advances, done in the [so much adored] OS way. And what do we see? Sceptical "well, this is all so nice but it is nott even close to become a replacement for X" or "WTF do I need those rotating/tilted windows for?".
Folks, this is about developing new things! This is about a brave new world. There were so many people who were going ooh!... and aah!.. about Apple's Aqua -- Berlin can almost do the same sort of thing (correction may be able to do the same sort of thing in future)! Why on Earth does it produce so much scepticism?
Debian is striving to provide the truly "free" GNU/Linux distribution. One may
say, that based on this premise it is not right for them to maintain non-free
part of the distribution, or distribute it along with the free part. Yet Debian
package maintenance is a free effort of an independent maintainer(s). Limiting,
in essense, their right to create, maintain, distribute these packages is
limiting *their* freedom. The only issue is, then, to create a repository of
Debian packages. Any volunteers? VA? Transmeta?