I'm switching to FreeBSD. Those guys update MUCH more slowly...
I can say I'm a happy Debian user; they too release rock-stable releases pretty slowly (and there's always the unstable branch for people like me...)
But I don't think Debian's releases are slow enough for you, if you want to switch to FreeBSD. May I recommend Slackware? Stay in Linux and get really slow updates. =)
But seriously, I don't think it's bad that the.X releases come so often - especially so soon after the "major" releases...
just let me run out and get an extra terabyte of ram or so, so I can use it! GMC still works just damn fine.
So does Gentoo, but I thought command line was the ultimate solution...
Anyway, I'm running X11 with WindowMaker, Nautilus, Mozilla and XEmacs just fine all the time and I still have a couple of megabytes of physical memory left! And it runs really smoothly! Cool, huh?
...but note that this is a P!!!-600MHz with 256 megs memory. Yep, if my old P166 would have any disk space left I would be really eager to install Nautilus there and see it crawl =)
It doesn't even seem to attempt to conceal that its a program.
Well, at least she's aware of her identity. "I am a computer program! You carbon-based lifeforms are inferior! Long live silicon!" =)
Of course, in the blind competition there could be humans that say "I'm an AI!" or AIs who say "I'm a human!"... but if you lie, someone will find out. And, you know, it's not going to be fun after that.
Maybe they used a different version for the tournament? Something that doesn't flat out say its a program if you ask it?
Alicebot uses XML-based language called AIML to find out what she "knows". It took about 5 minutes from me to make her to know everything there is to know of "all your base..." thing, so I suppose changing the rest of the knowledge is simple =)
simulate radio noise/interferance/jamming by jumbling the text.
Some MUDs do that already. In addition to normal "whisper" command (that just says the message to some user and not to anyone else in the room), there's a special "mumble" command that leaves most words out. mumble user=There's a fool among us will come as normal to the user in question and show up something like "....... ..... among.."
to everyone else. "normally heard" words are picked randomly.
I've heard of Stallman and Sakamura, but who is this Torvalds guy?
Oh, right, not many people are heard of him... Linus Thorwalds is a Norwegian fisherman who designed an embeddable operating system for use in trawlers. Or something. =)
(this is a legendary parody of one particularly typoful/misinformationary computer glossary somewhere...)
SSL is handled by PSM. When you install Mozilla, also install PSM to get SSL working.
Really? At least in 0.9.4 and 0.9.3 (IIRC, perharps earlier too) the PSM already came with the binary package, and no separate installation was necessary.
(Just checked: Yup, ssl works out of the box with 0.9.5 binary...)
You say that now, but wait until its included as an email attachment that patches Mozilla to look like IE.
I don't think that Mozilla folks are too quick to include Perl interpreter to Mozilla... You know, the small little thing that's actually needed to run the script. =) Or, alternatively, I doubt Mozilla will suddently start allowing running random applications...
It's just a script that is run entirely separate from Mozilla. It's not included to Mozilla itself in any way.
It'll be so great to be able to use expressions like "x &274A; y". Of course, you'll have to define for yourself what an eight teardrop-spoked propeller asterisk does...
Hmm... slashdot doesn't seem to like my character. Gonna make it hard to ask about my programs...
No, it works just fine. Maybe if you'd use ❊ instead, as the Standards intended:...
I'd just be happy if the dumb fsck radio dj's would tell you what songs they've played.
Damn right. It once took one year for me to find out what what and whose that cool song they once played was... For all I care, I would have bought all the albums from that bad the next business day if they had bothered to tell the song name.
Back when it was on the playlists more often, they never told the performer or the name, both of which would have been much appreciated since web searches weren't too fruitful... =)
..alas, I also wish they'd play older songs; I recently discovered one song I really liked when it was on radio When I Was A Little Kid, and had forgotten it already... =)
(And now that I've started whining and ranting, I might also want to express my desire for the record shops to also sell older and more exotic music, not just the new records. Don't blame me for my love and frequent use of Freenet and WWW mp3z SiT3z; if the record stores would sell more computer/video game soundtrack CDs, I'd be more than happy to buy them. For some reason, ordering CDs from outside the country sounds awfully costly compared to simple websearch and couple of hours of downloading!)
1. They had a nice lyrics website with every lyric for just about every somewhat well-known song.
2. Someone in the Industry didn't like it.
3. The Industry asked them to remove some songs.
4. Site maintainers couldn't.
5. After largish mess, the site reopened in a vastly less useful form - most of the lyrics (that weren't "copyright checked") were unavailable, and the remainder of the lyrics were displayed using Java applet that didn't allow printing or stuff. Lyrics themselves were encrypted.
6. Since it couldn't really be used, it stopped being an useful resource...
Some time later, they proposed doing the same thing to Napster. "Make them stop distributing our copyrighted works for free and make them use a format that no one will use when there's other (admittedly less 'easy' but at least non-crippled) alternatives available."
However, unlike Napster, lyrics.ch was an "ethical" service, even when it bordered on the dark edge of the international copyright law.
I really don't see what problem the song copyright holders have with distributing lyrics and guitar tabs - Especially when they're not selling that information themselves. (I would be really happy if all CDs would come with lyrics... or, alternatively, the musicians would learn to pronounce the words clearly enough so we dumb foreigners could make any sense of them =)
It's surprising there hasn't been more ballyhoo (sp?) about this, as it's been a very long time since a top-level domain (other than country codes) has been added.
Everyone's tired of the new domains - they don't help the current pathetic domain name space situation any... Failure at the beginning, but maybe that's just because there are not many interesting TLDs just yet.
One thing that tells about their worthlessness: Posted to section only to Slashdot, a forum that would, under normal circumstances, take a bigger note of events of such scale...
I bet "First Major Site Moves Entirely To IPv6 Space" will get bigger attention =)
HTML is better for layout, certainly, but in comparison to WML, which has just turned up on Sky digital, it's slow and heavy.
But HTML doesn't need to be "heavy"! You can make skinny pages, you can make heavy pages, but no one forces you to make heavy pages if you don't want to!
Some time ago, I looked at some "historical" HTML documents. Really simple HTML from the earliest days of the web. Still renders just fine on modern browsers, and would probably look just fine on "thin" environments...
There are web browsers that run on Commodore 64 - all the way up from TCP/IP stack to HTML to formatting... That's a thin client for you!
I am playing U4 straight through right now using the ccs64 emulator and the rom.
(Kids...) Calling 5,25" floppy images "ROMz" is just plain silly...
...then again, I've ocassionally talked of "burning d64z to floppies" myself so maybe I should just shut up... =)
(Personally, I almost completed the PC version of U4, but the floppy I had copied the game from wore out and I didn't have a copy of the files. Damn...)
Re:This entire story rings hypocritical to me
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Win2K shipped with all those zillions bugs unfixed.
Only a fraction of the 100000 Mozilla bugs are "open issues". The rest are fixed bugs, duplicates, invalid bug reports, as of yet unfulfilled feature requests and, in some cases, jokes. =)
(It's good to see that "the lack of [some cool feature] bugs me" is considered a program bug, not an user's fault =)
I wouldn't call WindowMaker (or WINGS widget set , or GNUStep in general) too ugly; in fact, I was really happy when I found NeXTStep-like theme for GTK+, and I'm now trying to find Mozilla theme that would look the same. Agreed, I don't generally like the NeXTStep icon style, but at least WindowMaker is fully themable and colors can be set - same goes for the GTK+ theme.
Personally, there's only one X widget set that I really consider to be "ugly". You guessed it, Athena. =) As long as it's "pseudo-3D" and not black and white only, it's all fine with me.
Instead of writing a book, why not write some freaking games? Duh.
Then we wouldn't have Evangelion! Then we wouldn't have Documentation! "Sure, come code for us, but don't ask how" isn't the best way to get game developers interested of Linux...
You know, just yesterday I fixed some table generation problems in this small program of mine. I commented the offending piece of code better, adding silly comments like "Dramatis Personae" before the variable declarations and stuff like "I Act" before each part of the code...
...and next day, someone has Shakespeare Programming Language in Slashdot.
BTW, (OT question I think) can multiple apps establish simultaneous connections through the same port, or does each process need it's own?
Each needs their own. In typical case, a single application creates a TCP socket, uses the socket and closes the socket. A TCP socket has precisely two ends, one of which is on your machine and one on the other machine.
Of course, there's nothing that prevents the socket from being shared, if the application that created the socket wishes to do so. In UNIX, the socket is just a specific kind of data structure. In Java, it's an object in memory.
...or at least a "Fantasy & Science Fiction" topic? (plus mandatory 600-message flamefest on the actual name of the topic... Which goes first and whether it's "science fiction" or "SF"... and of course, survivors will be shot.)
No. "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
There is some truth in this - remember that DARPA, a military entity, funded the ARPAnet research. While Gore wasn't around when the ARPAnet project began, I think I read somewhere that he referred to time when ARPAnet became Internet.
As usual, the bright ones all around do the sweaty work and the Management (be it bosses or politicians) try to take the credit for it. =)
And furthermore, what is with Real and WMV only? How about nice open-and-available-on-all-platforms MPEG or something. Why don't they release in DivX which has nice compression to quality ratios?
MPEG doesn't stream in any standardized way. Sure, it will stream, over HTTP for example, but IIRC there's no actual standard for real streaming?
Agreed, downloading it might be a good solution...
IE has it all: speed, rendering, functionality, footprint, etc.
...annoying middle mouse button behavior, annoying habit of NOT remembering what size the new windows should be, and if I touch the mouse wheel - well, I may as well go to the Moon and back and it may have scrolled the first line... =)
And yes, it has a Footprint with a capital F. (Not that Mozilla would do any better on that field...) However, Mozilla wins here - it's probably somewhat smaller to download. =)
After 2,5 of dabbling, Mozilla - overall - still hasn't risen above the Netscape 4.x level.
Significantly better PNG support? Wow, CSS implementation that actually works? Less rendering bugs? Million times better bookmark manager? Search capabilities with configurable search engines? Save dialogs that work while Motif's save dialogs still don't work? And it doesn't crash every 5 minutes (I haven't yet got 0.9.3 to crash)? Themability to combat the general ugliness of Motif? Progressive rendering of pages (No freezes when some New Media Guru used tables dishonorably)?
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I can say I'm a happy Debian user; they too release rock-stable releases pretty slowly (and there's always the unstable branch for people like me...)
But I don't think Debian's releases are slow enough for you, if you want to switch to FreeBSD. May I recommend Slackware? Stay in Linux and get really slow updates. =)
But seriously, I don't think it's bad that the .X releases come so often - especially so soon after the "major" releases...
So does Gentoo, but I thought command line was the ultimate solution...
Anyway, I'm running X11 with WindowMaker, Nautilus, Mozilla and XEmacs just fine all the time and I still have a couple of megabytes of physical memory left! And it runs really smoothly! Cool, huh?
...but note that this is a P!!!-600MHz with 256 megs memory. Yep, if my old P166 would have any disk space left I would be really eager to install Nautilus there and see it crawl =)
Well, at least she's aware of her identity. "I am a computer program! You carbon-based lifeforms are inferior! Long live silicon!" =)
Of course, in the blind competition there could be humans that say "I'm an AI!" or AIs who say "I'm a human!"... but if you lie, someone will find out. And, you know, it's not going to be fun after that.
Alicebot uses XML-based language called AIML to find out what she "knows". It took about 5 minutes from me to make her to know everything there is to know of "all your base..." thing, so I suppose changing the rest of the knowledge is simple =)
Some MUDs do that already. In addition to normal "whisper" command (that just says the message to some user and not to anyone else in the room), there's a special "mumble" command that leaves most words out. mumble user=There's a fool among us will come as normal to the user in question and show up something like "....... . .... among .."
to everyone else. "normally heard" words are picked randomly.
Oh, right, not many people are heard of him... Linus Thorwalds is a Norwegian fisherman who designed an embeddable operating system for use in trawlers. Or something. =)
(this is a legendary parody of one particularly typoful/misinformationary computer glossary somewhere...)
Really? At least in 0.9.4 and 0.9.3 (IIRC, perharps earlier too) the PSM already came with the binary package, and no separate installation was necessary.
(Just checked: Yup, ssl works out of the box with 0.9.5 binary...)
I don't think that Mozilla folks are too quick to include Perl interpreter to Mozilla... You know, the small little thing that's actually needed to run the script. =) Or, alternatively, I doubt Mozilla will suddently start allowing running random applications...
It's just a script that is run entirely separate from Mozilla. It's not included to Mozilla itself in any way.
No, it works just fine. Maybe if you'd use ❊ instead, as the Standards intended: ...
Damn right. It once took one year for me to find out what what and whose that cool song they once played was... For all I care, I would have bought all the albums from that bad the next business day if they had bothered to tell the song name.
Back when it was on the playlists more often, they never told the performer or the name, both of which would have been much appreciated since web searches weren't too fruitful... =)
..alas, I also wish they'd play older songs; I recently discovered one song I really liked when it was on radio When I Was A Little Kid, and had forgotten it already... =)
(And now that I've started whining and ranting, I might also want to express my desire for the record shops to also sell older and more exotic music, not just the new records. Don't blame me for my love and frequent use of Freenet and WWW mp3z SiT3z; if the record stores would sell more computer/video game soundtrack CDs, I'd be more than happy to buy them. For some reason, ordering CDs from outside the country sounds awfully costly compared to simple websearch and couple of hours of downloading!)
Basic order of the events was this:
1. They had a nice lyrics website with every lyric for just about every somewhat well-known song.
2. Someone in the Industry didn't like it.
3. The Industry asked them to remove some songs.
4. Site maintainers couldn't.
5. After largish mess, the site reopened in a vastly less useful form - most of the lyrics (that weren't "copyright checked") were unavailable, and the remainder of the lyrics were displayed using Java applet that didn't allow printing or stuff. Lyrics themselves were encrypted.
6. Since it couldn't really be used, it stopped being an useful resource...
Some time later, they proposed doing the same thing to Napster. "Make them stop distributing our copyrighted works for free and make them use a format that no one will use when there's other (admittedly less 'easy' but at least non-crippled) alternatives available."
However, unlike Napster, lyrics.ch was an "ethical" service, even when it bordered on the dark edge of the international copyright law.
I really don't see what problem the song copyright holders have with distributing lyrics and guitar tabs - Especially when they're not selling that information themselves. (I would be really happy if all CDs would come with lyrics... or, alternatively, the musicians would learn to pronounce the words clearly enough so we dumb foreigners could make any sense of them =)
Everyone's tired of the new domains - they don't help the current pathetic domain name space situation any... Failure at the beginning, but maybe that's just because there are not many interesting TLDs just yet.
One thing that tells about their worthlessness: Posted to section only to Slashdot, a forum that would, under normal circumstances, take a bigger note of events of such scale...
I bet "First Major Site Moves Entirely To IPv6 Space" will get bigger attention =)
Some time ago, I looked at some "historical" HTML documents. Really simple HTML from the earliest days of the web. Still renders just fine on modern browsers, and would probably look just fine on "thin" environments...
There are web browsers that run on Commodore 64 - all the way up from TCP/IP stack to HTML to formatting... That's a thin client for you!
...then again, I've ocassionally talked of "burning d64z to floppies" myself so maybe I should just shut up... =)
(Personally, I almost completed the PC version of U4, but the floppy I had copied the game from wore out and I didn't have a copy of the files. Damn...)
Win2K shipped with all those zillions bugs unfixed.
Only a fraction of the 100000 Mozilla bugs are "open issues". The rest are fixed bugs, duplicates, invalid bug reports, as of yet unfulfilled feature requests and, in some cases, jokes. =)
(It's good to see that "the lack of [some cool feature] bugs me" is considered a program bug, not an user's fault =)
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.loca ti on", "noAccess");
Problem solved. =)
Personally, there's only one X widget set that I really consider to be "ugly". You guessed it, Athena. =) As long as it's "pseudo-3D" and not black and white only, it's all fine with me.
$ locate ttf | grep bin
...
/usr/local/bin/mkfontdir-ttf ...
Oh, there it is! I had been wondering for a while... =)
Weird. Really weird.
Each needs their own. In typical case, a single application creates a TCP socket, uses the socket and closes the socket. A TCP socket has precisely two ends, one of which is on your machine and one on the other machine.
Of course, there's nothing that prevents the socket from being shared, if the application that created the socket wishes to do so. In UNIX, the socket is just a specific kind of data structure. In Java, it's an object in memory.
...or at least a "Fantasy & Science Fiction" topic? (plus mandatory 600-message flamefest on the actual name of the topic... Which goes first and whether it's "science fiction" or "SF"... and of course, survivors will be shot.)
No. "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
There is some truth in this - remember that DARPA, a military entity, funded the ARPAnet research. While Gore wasn't around when the ARPAnet project began, I think I read somewhere that he referred to time when ARPAnet became Internet.
As usual, the bright ones all around do the sweaty work and the Management (be it bosses or politicians) try to take the credit for it. =)
MPEG doesn't stream in any standardized way. Sure, it will stream, over HTTP for example, but IIRC there's no actual standard for real streaming?
Agreed, downloading it might be a good solution...
...annoying middle mouse button behavior, annoying habit of NOT remembering what size the new windows should be, and if I touch the mouse wheel - well, I may as well go to the Moon and back and it may have scrolled the first line... =)
And yes, it has a Footprint with a capital F. (Not that Mozilla would do any better on that field...) However, Mozilla wins here - it's probably somewhat smaller to download. =)
Significantly better PNG support? Wow, CSS implementation that actually works? Less rendering bugs? Million times better bookmark manager? Search capabilities with configurable search engines? Save dialogs that work while Motif's save dialogs still don't work? And it doesn't crash every 5 minutes (I haven't yet got 0.9.3 to crash)? Themability to combat the general ugliness of Motif? Progressive rendering of pages (No freezes when some New Media Guru used tables dishonorably)?
I think it has come a long way since NS4...