Re:C++ is what got KDE as far as it is.
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if you looked at KDE and QT API docs you would see you can do a lot more in a lot less code because it is built from the ground up in C++. Why do you think it is getting all these features so quickly?
YES. Now, I'm not a big fan of either C++ (I still like coding in C a lot better) or Qt (GTK just looks so.... pretty!)... BUT... after getting pissed off at GTK's stupid-assed API, I decided to try and write a program in Qt. In an hour I had a fully-operational email GUI, kinda like MS Outlook, only stabler:-) And this included the time to learn Qt from the HTML documentation they give you (which is just amazing, BTW) It just *amazing* how much more efficient a good C++ API makes your coding. It knocked my socks off, and I still haven't been able to find them. I think they're in that pile of trash over there.
I love fvwm2... none of this kay dee ee / guhnome crap... mmmmm.... old school stuff rules. Give me a Athlon with 2gb of RAM, and all I'd use it for would be fvwm2 and vi.
On a completely unrelated note, I tried to install KDE 2 from CVS on my Debian Slink system the other day (upgraded to glibc2.1 with some deb's from the potato distro) and while compiling mico I got an error saying that idl had Segfaulted on me! Anybody else have a problem like this (it was mico 1.3.0 or something, whatever the one they have in ftp.us.kde.org/unstable/required4KDE or whatever the hell the directory is) (ignore my non-use of grammar, I haven't slept in 2 days... but y'all will like what I'm working on when it's released!)
Anyway, back to the point here. Is there a problem with mico here, or what? I haven't had any problems with anything else on my system (even Mozilla M10 worked, BOTH times it was posted on slashdot!:-) Can I use a different CORBA Orb here instead (or whatever the fuck they're called)? If anybody knows the answer to these questions and would like to help out a poor starving college student with too much free time and too many cigarettes for his own good, please email me at spong@glue.umd.edu
Thanks y'all
Oh yeah, and no bitchin' about my language, either. I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm bored, and I have to go to class in 15 minutes. Ugghhhh my life sucks.
Oh yeah, and I'm not a hick. Ignore my blatant misuse of y'all in this posting (which, I just found out, is actually grammatically correct!)
Once again I compiled it on my Alpha with high hopes. As always, a flawless compile with a non working executable. I haven't been able to run this on alpha since around m5. I lose more and more faith in mozilla every iteration.
Yup... it's because they use a lot of very badly written code in it - code that specifically depends on pointers being 32-bit. The code is way too buried in the rest of Mozilla that the chances are it will never work on anything besides a 32-bit box.
Does anyone know if APM is compiled into the default kernel with this release? It was for 6.0, which made it very difficult to update my desktop machine which uses a non-standard APM that causes an APM kernel to crash; a lot of desktops do, actually, so I thought it was a poor default choice.
Just turn off APM in the BIOS, install 6.0, recompile the kernel without APM support, and then turn it back on in the BIOS...
i just upgraded to 6.1 from 6.0. xmms was working fine before, but now when i try to play a mp3, no sound comes out, and the wav gets dumped into my home directory. i can play the wav ok though
You probably have the output plugin set to "WAV output." Set it to either OSS output or esound output (if you're running esd)
In this case I refer to Learning Perl/Tk. I purposefully ordered it direct from the publisher (O'Reilly) and explicitly specified the latest printing. What did I get? Direct from the publisher? After waiting a week for it? You guessed it: the first printing. Known to be riddled with errors.
That was the first time I'd ever ordered anything directly from O'Reilly. It'll also be the last.
Really? I've had nothing but good experiences with O'Reilly... once I complained on Slashdot about how I bought what I thought was a Palm Pilot programming book, without really looking too hard at it, and it turned out to be a stupid usage book, and the next day I got an email from somebody at O'Reilly saying "Well, if you give me your address, I'll send you our Palm Programming Manual free." So I gave them my address, and sure enough, 3 weeks later it came in the mail (after I had completely forgotten about it:-) I've heard similar stories from other people. So needless to say, whenever I need a computer book, I first look for O'Reilly, and then if they don't have anything I'm looking for, I go for other publishers.
Actually, I just got back from the UMD Student Union Bookstore after buying O'Reilly's "Learning the vi editor":-)
The release notes say that this fixes a spurious underline problem with the TNT cards. Has anyone tried it out yet? Does it fix the emacs problem where you can't see the cursor?
YES! Finally, it does. I'm getting sick of using emacs -nw in order to run it in an xterm... I hate not being able to use my mouse:-p
On another note, does anybody know if I need to download all the files on the mirror, or can I just download the server? I just downloaded the server, and it seems to be working fine, but I don't know for sure. Please let me know at spong@glue.umd.edu
I'd rather GPL'ed software so I probably won't switch from lynx unless I switch to Opera from Netscape and their text browser is included. I'd much prefer an Xlib based GPL'ed browser. Are there any in the works? (Mozilla is not GPL) The w3c has a library ((L)GPL) for the guts of the `net communication; so with a proper renderer, the project is 'done'. Any takers?
I was trying to write a web browser (in GTK) awhile back, and it's *hard*. And the easy part is the network communication stuff... I wrote a multithreaded little program going which allows you to download web pages (up to 10 at once, and this limit is hard-coded and easy to change) and then displays the HTML code. But the hard part is the renderer... I just ended up giving up because I don't have the time to devote to something huge like that.
96 kbps is free (paying gets you faster rates), CDDB access, fast and stable on Win 98 (but not on NT, in my experience). I just pop in my CD's and it starts recording automatically; hands off operation.
Works fine for me under NT4... although 96k MP3's do sound rather shitty...
But Merced is deigned to be backwardly compatible with x86... you're defeating your own argument.
Oh, dear god... I hope you're kidding... I thought maybe Intel would *finally* drop the whole "backwards compatibility" thing and design a chip which is free from all the shit that Intel chips have been plagued with until now.
Of course, this is not to say that they shouldn't provide some sort of x86 emulation program (but in SOFTWARE, not in HARDWARE) so that the drooling idiots could still run the Windows 98 version of Word on their new Merced boxes, but users who don't need this (eg. Linux users) won't have to deal with the 20 year old 8088 baggage (seriously, is there a real need anymore for the Pentium III to start up in real mode???)
* Like The Simpsons and Futurama. Hell yeah * Like the X-Files. Nope. * Like Star Trek and/or Babylon 5. Hell no. * Dislike Microsoft. Yup yup. * Listen to techno/rave/electronica or bands that have a reputation as "underground" but are in amazon.com's top 1000 sellers. Yeah, but I also play lead guitar in a hardcore metal band. * Mostly read Stephenson, Brooks, Jordan, Gibson, and a few other SF/Fantasy authors. Nope, Stephen King all the way, baby! * Love action and horror movies and hate everything that gets nominated for an Oscar. Nope... I like horror, action is OK, but I'm more into comedy (UHF is the best movie ever made!! Who's with me???) * Read comic books. God no... I think I read them for about 2 days when I was 11, that's about it. * Own at least one Star Wars toy. Nope... maybe when I was 6, but not now. (p.s. I'm 18)
I'm pretty much the anti-geek... I smoke mad weed, do acid, drink, listen to Pantera, get laid often, etc... but I also do a lot of stereotypical geek things like run Linux, program for fun, have a $30,000/yr job at Harvard University after getting kicked out of college my freshman year:-)...
I just don't understand why a lot of geeks find it so hard to be socially acceptable while still doing the things that they like... I didn't hide the fact that I programmed for fun in high school, but i never got any shit for it. I was considered one of the "cool kids" (but I'm glad I'm out of High School now and don't have to deal with that bullshit anymore) Sometimes I dressed in all black and a trenchcoat, and nobody gave a fuck. I think it all depends on how to act towards other people, and not how you dress, what you like to do, etc, because I know plently of people from high school who dressed like I did and did the same types of things, but were classified as "outcasts" in high school, while I wasn't. Go figure.
Is the TCP/IP stack going to be rewritten to be multithreaded (finally) in 2.3.x/2.4? (I haven't been following the 2.3 releases at all... I miss my Ethernet.... when does school start again?:-) This is a badly needed feature in the kernel, and I can't believe that it didn't have it already...
Anyway, if somebody has the answer to this question please email me at spong@wave.harvard.edu.
Speaking of MPEG, does anyone know of any *nix software that can actually *compress* MPEG movies? I'm sure there is some, but it doesn't seem to be quite as publicised as it probably should. I do a lot of POV-ray animations, and find myself compiling GIF animations to view them under Linux, which is just about the silliest animation format ever made. When I do a final render, I have to reboot into MacOS and use a shareware program called Moover to compile the frames into Quicktime. This is quite possibly the most annoying operation ever, and would very much like some software that I could use under Linux that could turn a bunch of frame images into an MPEG movie.
Look on Freshmeat today. Somebody just posted something called "MPEG Tools 1.0" which is a collection of various tools from around the internet for encoding MPEG-1 files (with all the cool stuff like stereo sound,...)
As did I until I moved out to Boston where WFNX is. You can even listen to the on the NET. www.wfnx.com check them out bla bla bla. They are not corporate owned and accually play stuff I like and new stuff that other stations wont.
WFNX kicks ass... gotta give props to any station that plays FSOL:-)
Of course, nothing could kick WAAF's ass... especially before Opie and Anthony got booted off...
I've encountered times when runaway processes made the system so slow that it becomes almost necessary to reset the system. Stuff like a program spawning children while in a busy loop or something like that can make the system slow down so much that it becomes unresponsive.
Yup... when I wanted to use my computer and my friend was playing Quake 3 on it, I'd go to my roommate's Windows box, telnet to mine, type up a little program called kill_quake, and run it. About 1/4 of a second later, quake screeches to a halt until I kill kill_quake, my friend gets off my computer, and I'm happy:-)
By the way, here's the main loop of kill_quake, if any of you ever need something like that. It's a very useful thing to have:-)
while (1) fork();
As you can probably tell, this program grows exponentially real quickly, and almost instantly is using 100% of the CPU.
Is it illegal to do a DoS attack on your own machine?:-)
Seems to work fine, now I can watch the Simpsons without having to reboot into NT:-)
One gripe I have, though, is the fact that you can't make it full screen (can't even seem to double size it:-p I had to ctrl-alt-+ until the window took up most of the screen)
How about just adding a line to the kernel which prints out, on bootup (or in the init scripts- that would be better, since the kernel itself wasn't written by the FSF), "This system contains tools written by the Free Software Foundation. See http://www.gnu.org for details."
That way we wouldn't have to call it GNU/Linux, RMS and the FSF would get the recognitition they deserve, and everyone would be happy. Possibly even RMS.
Actually, I think I'm gonna go add that right now. Of course, now I'm gonna have the change the kernel version to (Spongix 2.2.7:-)
On NetBSD/i386 I've tried the BSDI(BSD/OS), FreeBSD and different Linux version. AFAICT Linux2.0/glibc5 runs best.
Ummmm.... don't mean to be nitpicky here, but if you want other FreeBSD users to know which version is most stable for you, you really have to clarify this. glibc5? You have two choices. glibc or libc5. Pick one. Not both.:-)
I'm just wondering how others here feel about url completion. I used to disparage the feature in its early stages, since it seemed to distract from typing the proper url by somewhat randomly cycling through available choices. IE5, however, introduced a very interesting improvement -- namely a pull-down list of urls in the user's history. Without forcing a random completion on the user, it serves as a bookmark scratchbook of sorts, which I've found extremely convenient for getting back longish urls with, let's say, perl or ColdFusion parameters. Convenient to bypass annoying, graphics-laden front pages on some sites.
The completion feature in IE5 is very nice. Saves a lot of time, unlike Netscape's version which seems to pick at random a page on the site and refuses to change it, so if you don't want to go to that exact page you have to retype it. I'm not normally one to praise Microsoft for *anything*, but I think, for once, they have a very good product with IE5.
Anyway, I remember a discussion on slashdot around the time either a 4.0x or 4.5 was released, with someone saying that url completion was removed on UNIX versions of Netscape because it didn't fit the 'user mentality.' Anyone has any thoughts on this?
Oh, is THAT why the Linux version didn't have it??? I always wondered about that... I figured it was just another thing Netscape was too lazy to port:-)
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Re:Alternatives to NS...
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Although I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, IE is remarkably quick and stable on my NT box, and I've been kinda hoping that MS ports their browser to Linux (please spare me the childish "Micro$haft sux0rs, Netscape ru1es!" comments).
Same here... IE5 under NT is the quickest browser I've ever seen, and I'm waiting for a crash (VERY big surprise when I upgraded from 4.0... I've never seen a fast or stable MS product before, and I wasn't expecting it:-) Although if IE for Solaris is any indication, IE for Linux would be big, slow, bloated, and unstable because Microsoft wouldn't have access to their "undocumented" APIs that they use in their code.
But what about those of us who just read it via gtkslash or other frontend ?? Apps like such don't register hits, but I suppose that many use them instead of loading a webbrowser.
I'm pretty sure that gtkslash and related proggies DO actually register hits. They (most likely, I haven't looked at the code) connect to slashdot.org on port 80 (just like a web browser) send an HTTP request command (just like a web browser) and download the data that the server splurts out (just like a web browser.) They do different things with the data once they get it, but I'm sure they get it the same way, and cause the same type of server log/counter increment that CmdrTaco is using to count hits.
Of course (as in the VMWare discussion page) I AM talking out of my ass, so...:-) But i've done a fair amount of network development and this is how I'd do it.
Slashdot Mirror
if you looked at KDE and QT API docs you would see you can do a lot more in a lot less code because it is built from the ground up in C++. Why do you think it is getting all these features so quickly?
:-) And this included the time to learn Qt from the HTML documentation they give you (which is just amazing, BTW) It just *amazing* how much more efficient a good C++ API makes your coding. It knocked my socks off, and I still haven't been able to find them. I think they're in that pile of trash over there.
YES. Now, I'm not a big fan of either C++ (I still like coding in C a lot better) or Qt (GTK just looks so.... pretty!)... BUT... after getting pissed off at GTK's stupid-assed API, I decided to try and write a program in Qt. In an hour I had a fully-operational email GUI, kinda like MS Outlook, only stabler
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
I love fvwm2... none of this kay dee ee / guhnome crap... mmmmm.... old school stuff rules. Give me a Athlon with 2gb of RAM, and all I'd use it for would be fvwm2 and vi.
:-) Can I use a different CORBA Orb here instead (or whatever the fuck they're called)? If anybody knows the answer to these questions and would like to help out a poor starving college student with too much free time and too many cigarettes for his own good, please email me at spong@glue.umd.edu
On a completely unrelated note, I tried to install KDE 2 from CVS on my Debian Slink system the other day (upgraded to glibc2.1 with some deb's from the potato distro) and while compiling mico I got an error saying that idl had Segfaulted on me! Anybody else have a problem like this (it was mico 1.3.0 or something, whatever the one they have in ftp.us.kde.org/unstable/required4KDE or whatever the hell the directory is) (ignore my non-use of grammar, I haven't slept in 2 days... but y'all will like what I'm working on when it's released!)
Anyway, back to the point here. Is there a problem with mico here, or what? I haven't had any problems with anything else on my system (even Mozilla M10 worked, BOTH times it was posted on slashdot!
Thanks y'all
Oh yeah, and no bitchin' about my language, either. I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm bored, and I have to go to class in 15 minutes. Ugghhhh my life sucks.
Oh yeah, and I'm not a hick. Ignore my blatant misuse of y'all in this posting (which, I just found out, is actually grammatically correct!)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Once again I compiled it on my Alpha with high hopes. As always, a flawless compile with a non working executable. I haven't been able to run this on alpha since around m5. I lose more and more faith in mozilla every iteration.
Yup... it's because they use a lot of very badly written code in it - code that specifically depends on pointers being 32-bit. The code is way too buried in the rest of Mozilla that the chances are it will never work on anything besides a 32-bit box.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Does anyone know if APM is compiled into the default kernel with this release? It was for 6.0, which made it very difficult to update my desktop machine which uses a non-standard APM that causes an APM kernel to crash; a lot of desktops do, actually, so I thought it was a poor default choice.
Just turn off APM in the BIOS, install 6.0, recompile the kernel without APM support, and then turn it back on in the BIOS...
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
i just upgraded to 6.1 from 6.0. xmms was working fine before, but now when i try to play a mp3, no sound comes out, and the wav gets dumped into my home directory. i can play the wav ok though
You probably have the output plugin set to "WAV output." Set it to either OSS output or esound output (if you're running esd)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Hmmm... I'm not liking all these fun events that are happening near Y2K... well, it makes me feel better about my high credit card bills, anyway :-)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
In this case I refer to Learning Perl/Tk. I purposefully ordered it direct from
:-) I've heard similar stories from other people. So needless to say, whenever I need a computer book, I first look for O'Reilly, and then if they don't have anything I'm looking for, I go for other publishers.
:-)
the publisher (O'Reilly) and explicitly specified the latest printing. What did I
get? Direct from the publisher? After waiting a week for it? You guessed it: the
first printing. Known to be riddled with errors.
That was the first time I'd ever ordered anything directly from O'Reilly. It'll also
be the last.
Really? I've had nothing but good experiences with O'Reilly... once I complained on Slashdot about how I bought what I thought was a Palm Pilot programming book, without really looking too hard at it, and it turned out to be a stupid usage book, and the next day I got an email from somebody at O'Reilly saying "Well, if you give me your address, I'll send you our Palm Programming Manual free." So I gave them my address, and sure enough, 3 weeks later it came in the mail (after I had completely forgotten about it
Actually, I just got back from the UMD Student Union Bookstore after buying O'Reilly's "Learning the vi editor"
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
The release notes say that this fixes a spurious underline problem with the TNT cards. Has anyone tried it out yet? Does it fix the emacs problem where you can't see the cursor?
:-p
YES! Finally, it does. I'm getting sick of using emacs -nw in order to run it in an xterm... I hate not being able to use my mouse
On another note, does anybody know if I need to download all the files on the mirror, or can I just download the server? I just downloaded the server, and it seems to be working fine, but I don't know for sure. Please let me know at spong@glue.umd.edu
thanks
Matt
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
I'd rather GPL'ed software so I probably won't switch from lynx unless I switch to Opera from Netscape and their text browser is included. I'd much prefer an Xlib based GPL'ed browser. Are there any in the works? (Mozilla is not GPL) The w3c has a library ((L)GPL) for the guts of the `net communication; so with a proper renderer, the project is 'done'. Any takers?
I was trying to write a web browser (in GTK) awhile back, and it's *hard*. And the easy part is the network communication stuff... I wrote a multithreaded little program going which allows you to download web pages (up to 10 at once, and this limit is hard-coded and easy to change) and then displays the HTML code. But the hard part is the renderer... I just ended up giving up because I don't have the time to devote to something huge like that.
Matt
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
After reading all the comments people made, I started to wonder how many people who read Slashdot are females? So here's a poll idea:
:-) :-)
Do you consider yourself:
1. A Male Geek
2. A Female Geek
3. A Male non-Geek
4. A Female non-Geek
5. None of the above
6. Jar Jar sucks (sorry, had to throw it in
Matt
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
96 kbps is free (paying gets you faster rates), CDDB access, fast and stable on Win 98 (but not on NT, in my experience). I just pop in my CD's and it starts recording automatically; hands off operation.
Works fine for me under NT4... although 96k MP3's do sound rather shitty...
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
But Merced is deigned to be backwardly compatible with x86... you're defeating your own argument.
Oh, dear god... I hope you're kidding... I thought maybe Intel would *finally* drop the whole "backwards compatibility" thing and design a chip which is free from all the shit that Intel chips have been plagued with until now.
Of course, this is not to say that they shouldn't provide some sort of x86 emulation program (but in SOFTWARE, not in HARDWARE) so that the drooling idiots could still run the Windows 98 version of Word on their new Merced boxes, but users who don't need this (eg. Linux users) won't have to deal with the 20 year old 8088 baggage (seriously, is there a real need anymore for the Pentium III to start up in real mode???)
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Hmmm... let's see here...
:-)...
* Like The Simpsons and Futurama.
Hell yeah
* Like the X-Files.
Nope.
* Like Star Trek and/or Babylon 5.
Hell no.
* Dislike Microsoft.
Yup yup.
* Listen to techno/rave/electronica or bands that have a reputation as "underground" but are in amazon.com's top 1000 sellers.
Yeah, but I also play lead guitar in a hardcore metal band.
* Mostly read Stephenson, Brooks, Jordan, Gibson, and a few other SF/Fantasy authors.
Nope, Stephen King all the way, baby!
* Love action and horror movies and hate everything that gets nominated for an Oscar.
Nope... I like horror, action is OK, but I'm more into comedy (UHF is the best movie ever made!! Who's with me???)
* Read comic books.
God no... I think I read them for about 2 days when I was 11, that's about it.
* Own at least one Star Wars toy.
Nope... maybe when I was 6, but not now. (p.s. I'm 18)
I'm pretty much the anti-geek... I smoke mad weed, do acid, drink, listen to Pantera, get laid often, etc... but I also do a lot of stereotypical geek things like run Linux, program for fun, have a $30,000/yr job at Harvard University after getting kicked out of college my freshman year
I just don't understand why a lot of geeks find it so hard to be socially acceptable while still doing the things that they like... I didn't hide the fact that I programmed for fun in high school, but i never got any shit for it. I was considered one of the "cool kids" (but I'm glad I'm out of High School now and don't have to deal with that bullshit anymore) Sometimes I dressed in all black and a trenchcoat, and nobody gave a fuck. I think it all depends on how to act towards other people, and not how you dress, what you like to do, etc, because I know plently of people from high school who dressed like I did and did the same types of things, but were classified as "outcasts" in high school, while I wasn't. Go figure.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Is the TCP/IP stack going to be rewritten to be multithreaded (finally) in 2.3.x/2.4? (I haven't been following the 2.3 releases at all... I miss my Ethernet.... when does school start again? :-) This is a badly needed feature in the kernel, and I can't believe that it didn't have it already...
Anyway, if somebody has the answer to this question please email me at spong@wave.harvard.edu.
Thanks
Matt
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Speaking of MPEG, does anyone know of any *nix software that can actually *compress* MPEG movies? I'm sure there is some, but it doesn't seem to be quite as publicised as it probably should. I do a lot of POV-ray animations, and find myself compiling GIF animations to view them under Linux, which is just about the silliest animation format ever made. When I do a final render, I have to reboot into MacOS and use a shareware program called Moover to compile the frames into Quicktime. This is quite possibly the most annoying operation ever, and would very much like some software that I could use under Linux that could turn a bunch of frame images into an MPEG movie.
...)
Look on Freshmeat today. Somebody just posted something called "MPEG Tools 1.0" which is a collection of various tools from around the internet for encoding MPEG-1 files (with all the cool stuff like stereo sound,
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
As did I until I moved out to Boston where WFNX is. You can even listen to the on the NET. www.wfnx.com check them out bla bla bla. They are not corporate owned and accually play stuff I like and new stuff that other stations wont.
:-)
WFNX kicks ass... gotta give props to any station that plays FSOL
Of course, nothing could kick WAAF's ass... especially before Opie and Anthony got booted off...
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
I've encountered times when runaway processes made the system so slow that it becomes almost necessary to reset the system. Stuff like a program spawning children while in a busy loop or something like that can make the system slow down so much that it becomes unresponsive.
:-)
:-)
:-)
Yup... when I wanted to use my computer and my friend was playing Quake 3 on it, I'd go to my roommate's Windows box, telnet to mine, type up a little program called kill_quake, and run it. About 1/4 of a second later, quake screeches to a halt until I kill kill_quake, my friend gets off my computer, and I'm happy
By the way, here's the main loop of kill_quake, if any of you ever need something like that. It's a very useful thing to have
while (1)
fork();
As you can probably tell, this program grows exponentially real quickly, and almost instantly is using 100% of the CPU.
Is it illegal to do a DoS attack on your own machine?
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Ok, this guy has *way* too much time on his hands. 10,000 ascii frames??? Jesus, it took me like an hour to make 1 lousy ascii pot leaf!
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Yay
:-)
:-p I had to ctrl-alt-+ until the window took up most of the screen)
Seems to work fine, now I can watch the Simpsons without having to reboot into NT
One gripe I have, though, is the fact that you can't make it full screen (can't even seem to double size it
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
How about just adding a line to the kernel which prints out, on bootup (or in the init scripts- that would be better, since the kernel itself wasn't written by the FSF), "This system contains tools written by the Free Software Foundation. See http://www.gnu.org for details."
:-)
That way we wouldn't have to call it GNU/Linux, RMS and the FSF would get the recognitition they deserve, and everyone would be happy. Possibly even RMS.
Actually, I think I'm gonna go add that right now. Of course, now I'm gonna have the change the kernel version to (Spongix 2.2.7
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Rice.... *bah humbug*. They were the only school I applied to that rejected me :-( Ahhh.... who wants to live in Texas, anyway?
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
On NetBSD/i386 I've tried the BSDI(BSD/OS), FreeBSD and different Linux version. AFAICT Linux2.0/glibc5 runs best.
:-)
Ummmm.... don't mean to be nitpicky here, but if you want other FreeBSD users to know which version is most stable for you, you really have to clarify this. glibc5? You have two choices. glibc or libc5. Pick one. Not both.
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
I'm just wondering how others here feel about url completion. I used to disparage the feature in its early stages, since it seemed to distract from typing the proper url by somewhat randomly cycling through available choices. IE5, however, introduced a very interesting improvement -- namely a pull-down list of urls in the user's history. Without forcing a random completion on the user, it serves as a bookmark scratchbook of sorts, which I've found extremely convenient for getting back longish urls with, let's say, perl or ColdFusion parameters. Convenient to bypass annoying, graphics-laden front pages on some sites.
:-)
The completion feature in IE5 is very nice. Saves a lot of time, unlike Netscape's version which seems to pick at random a page on the site and refuses to change it, so if you don't want to go to that exact page you have to retype it. I'm not normally one to praise Microsoft for *anything*, but I think, for once, they have a very good product with IE5.
Anyway, I remember a discussion on slashdot around the time either a 4.0x or 4.5 was released, with someone saying that url completion was removed on UNIX versions of Netscape because it didn't fit the 'user mentality.' Anyone has any thoughts on this?
Oh, is THAT why the Linux version didn't have it??? I always wondered about that... I figured it was just another thing Netscape was too lazy to port
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
Although I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, IE is remarkably quick and stable on my NT box, and I've been kinda hoping that MS ports their browser to Linux (please spare me the childish "Micro$haft sux0rs, Netscape ru1es!" comments).
:-) Although if IE for Solaris is any indication, IE for Linux would be big, slow, bloated, and unstable because Microsoft wouldn't have access to their "undocumented" APIs that they use in their code.
Same here... IE5 under NT is the quickest browser I've ever seen, and I'm waiting for a crash (VERY big surprise when I upgraded from 4.0... I've never seen a fast or stable MS product before, and I wasn't expecting it
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
But what about those of us who just read it via gtkslash or other frontend ?? Apps like such don't register hits, but I suppose that many use them instead of loading a webbrowser.
:-) But i've done a fair amount of network development and this is how I'd do it.
I'm pretty sure that gtkslash and related proggies DO actually register hits. They (most likely, I haven't looked at the code) connect to slashdot.org on port 80 (just like a web browser) send an HTTP request command (just like a web browser) and download the data that the server splurts out (just like a web browser.) They do different things with the data once they get it, but I'm sure they get it the same way, and cause the same type of server log/counter increment that CmdrTaco is using to count hits.
Of course (as in the VMWare discussion page) I AM talking out of my ass, so...
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