It causes NN4.x to do some slightly weird things in X11 -- you get different fonts!
I've tested it in IE 4 and 5 and NN 1, 2, 3 and 4 on windoze and NN 3, 4 and 6 in Linux and Lynx in Linux and all seems to be OK.
I have heard it said that some old browsers might not be able to cope with UTF-8... but I don't have any evidence for this... Perhaps I should try and translate the site into German or something and see what happens then?
Anyway, my conclusion is that for web sites in English there seems to be no problem in using UTF-8, however I don't think there is any advantage either! Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't think the government actually cares that this law is so incredibly stupid that it won't actually work in practice... I suspect that it's designed to work through scaring people into dulvulging information when asked and to and also to make people more paranoid and afraid to encrypt email.
This is basically how things like Section 28 work (a daft law brought in by the Tories a few years ago to stop Local Authorities 'promoting homosexuality') -- frighten people into following the spirit of the law even though the fine print is daft.
However these are not reasons to opt for apathy -- I think that the work being done by stand.org.uk is very good and I will be urging lots of people to do stuff around this issue.
damn, i must remember not to post when pissed, and to spell check and that kind of stuff, it's not work it's ability:
To characterize the Communist society, Marx employed the famous formula: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." The two parts of this formula are inseparable. "From each according to his abilities," in the Communist, not the capitalist, sense, means: Work has now ceased to be an obligation, and has become an individual need; society has no further use for any compulsion. Only sick and abnormal persons will refuse to work. Working "according to their ability" -- that is, in accord with their physical and psychic powers, without any violence to themselves -- the members of the commune will, thanks to a high technique, sufficiently fill up the stores of society so that society can generously endow each and all "according to their needs," without humiliating control. This two-sided but indivisible formula of communism thus assumes abundance, equality, an all-sided development of personality, and a high cultural discipline.
"From each according to his abilities to each according to his work." (trotsky) - how is this different to open source stuff - those who can code it do it, those who can't download it.
I suspect that we will only realise what a revolutionary period we are living in at some point in the future.
I think that the logical extension of free softwear isfree beer. And the logical extension os that is free everything:-)
It'll dawn on everybody at some point that the best way to organise society is for everybody to do what ever they want - that is true communism. It's FA to do with the USSR or any of that shit.
The argument against that is "who will empty the bins or clean the sewers" - it's simple if nobody> want's to do it then just throw enought resources against it and have robtic bins which empty themselves.
Open source software is the very interesting in as much as it seems to be to be the only example of the free association of the producers and consumers which has ever come about under capitalism.
the revolution will not be televised... it'll be live
Does anyone know what set-ups which work with Linux are OK for using in the UK (frequency wise) and where some web sites might be for buying kit in the UK?
If the users know HTML then Gossamer-Threads FileMan script is handy solution for this (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/fileman/) as it allows editing and creation of web pages on-line via a form interface. However it's only any good for pople who know a bit of HTML.
Chris
how does one switch between gnome and kde in RH5.9
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This is a bit of a newbie question... but...
I have just installed RH5.9 and in gnome there is a way of chosing which to use but after I switched to KDE I can't work out how to get back to gnome:-(
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I've been playing with XHTML and as an experiment I have set up this page:
http://c.croome.net/
to be served as UTF-8 and the same page at this address:
http://chris.croome.net/to be served as ISO-8859-1
It causes NN4.x to do some slightly weird things in X11 -- you get different fonts!
I've tested it in IE 4 and 5 and NN 1, 2, 3 and 4 on windoze and NN 3, 4 and 6 in Linux and Lynx in Linux and all seems to be OK.
I have heard it said that some old browsers might not be able to cope with UTF-8... but I don't have any evidence for this... Perhaps I should try and translate the site into German or something and see what happens then?
Anyway, my conclusion is that for web sites in English there seems to be no problem in using UTF-8, however I don't think there is any advantage either! Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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This project needs some work more work on it - OpenLeft.org
slashcode is running and the plan is a international non-sectarian left wing discussion web site.
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Richard Stallman wrote about these proposals last November in Linux today.
Chris
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I've found the last discussion of this on slashdot but I can't find the article that RMS wrote on it a few months ago -- can some post the URL?
Chris
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I don't think the government actually cares that this law is so incredibly stupid that it won't actually work in practice... I suspect that it's designed to work through scaring people into dulvulging information when asked and to and also to make people more paranoid and afraid to encrypt email.
This is basically how things like Section 28 work (a daft law brought in by the Tories a few years ago to stop Local Authorities 'promoting homosexuality') -- frighten people into following the spirit of the law even though the fine print is daft.
However these are not reasons to opt for apathy -- I think that the work being done by stand.org.uk is very good and I will be urging lots of people to do stuff around this issue.
Chris
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Yeah I asked him about this a while ago too.
However I suspect that someone will get a X11 NoteTab clone long before I really master vi...
"From each according to his abilities to each according to his work." (trotsky) - how is this different to open source stuff - those who can code it do it, those who can't download it.
:-)
I suspect that we will only realise what a revolutionary period we are living in at some point in the future.
I think that the logical extension of free softwear is free beer. And the logical extension os that is free everything
It'll dawn on everybody at some point that the best way to organise society is for everybody to do what ever they want - that is true communism. It's FA to do with the USSR or any of that shit.
The argument against that is "who will empty the bins or clean the sewers" - it's simple if nobody> want's to do it then just throw enought resources against it and have robtic bins which empty themselves.
Open source software is the very interesting in as much as it seems to be to be the only example of the free association of the producers and consumers which has ever come about under capitalism.
the revolution will not be televised... it'll be live
Hi
Does anyone know what set-ups which work with Linux are OK for using in the UK (frequency wise) and where some web sites might be for buying kit in the UK?
Ta
Hi
) as it allows editing and creation of web pages on-line via a form interface. However it's only any good for pople who know a bit of HTML.
If the users know HTML then Gossamer-Threads FileMan script is handy solution for this (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/fileman/
Chris
Hi
... but...
:-(
This is a bit of a newbie question
I have just installed RH5.9 and in gnome there is a way of chosing which to use but after I switched to KDE I can't work out how to get back to gnome