Re:Aw, darn, a few months too late.
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Ark Linux
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From your post, AltLinux was looking quite intriguing. However, I became concerned when I read that "All mailing lists are in Russian":-/. Considering that, do you have trouble getting support, or even learning about new releases?
IE's other trick, or so it is assumed (since the source isn't available) is that it does full DOM and JS caching.
That is to say, if you visit a webpage with (say) Mozilla, the HTML is interpreted and the HTML tree is built in memory. Pages with advanced CSS have a more complicated tree, of course. However, when the user leaves the page, that tree is destroyed and has to be recreated each time the user visits the page.
The bug to correct this in Mozilla is bug 38486 - "[FEATURE] Keep DOM and JS context in memory to provide fast access when clicking back". You can also vote for it (free Bugzilla account required) though you'll have to copy-n-paste the URL into your browser window since Bugzilla doesn't accept referrers from Slashdot.
PS Threaded e-mail is handy, eh? It sure is, unless your mail reader doesn't remember that you want to see your mailboxes in threaded view and keeps reverting back to collapsed form. That one is bug 64426 (vote for it if you like).
You have set Edit -> Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings -> Server Settings -> "Empty Trash on Exit" to checkmarked, right? If that's already set, you could try a fresh installation of Mozilla (sometimes cruft from old profiles can confuse more recent versions).
better 'threading' behavior: I notice that tabs behave 'blocked' by other tabs' slowness or failure to load pages. Each tab (and browser window obviously) should download and behave independently of any other.
That would be bug 110718 - "CTRL-T, CTRL-N, and some menus / apps don't work / respond when current tab / page is loading." There's a patch already pending approval:).
For the metal fans here, I've found that Metal-Rules is a fantastic resource for metal reviews. They review a few dozen albums each month and I've bought many albums sight-unheard (sound-unheard?) successfully just based on the reviews alone.
Have you heard Mocean Worker by chance? Though I'm a poor judge of techno's subgenres, I believe it may also be drum-n-bass. On the chance that you may have heard them (or, "him", rather), is Mocean Worker simliar to the bands that you've listed there?
Re:Writing about music is like dancing to a book..
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Discovering New Music?
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but most of them are specialized (lots of metal)
As a metal fan, myself, are there any metal blogs in particular that you could recommend?
Most of the screenshots look very close to XP (such as the network status applet, for instance), but the menu spacing & sizing doesn't look right (most easily seen in the task manager pic).
Ever since Eugenia Loli-Queru mentioned it in her review of KDE 3, I can't help but noticing that so many Linux apps suffer from odd menu sizing and spacing. (In due credit, Gnome isn't nearly so affected, as a whole.)
Important! The menu entries on every KDE's applications are extremely close to each other. Give it 4-5 more pixels please! The new Gnome 2.0 does it lovely and correctly in this respect.
(That quote is from the second page of her review.)
2002-12-04 16:18:01 Ogg Player for Palm Tungsten T (articles,pilot) (rejected)
This was rejected earlier, so I thought I'd post it here.
As reported by Palm InfoCenter, "A group calling themselves Aerodrome Software have released a public beta of an Ogg/Vorbis media player for the Palm Tunsgten T handheld. The player inititally supports only ogg/vorbis encoded files, a new open source audio format, but promises to have mp3 support in the near future."
I'm curious as to whether they used the integer-based "Tremor" code to achieve this.
it would be very handy if I could take an OGG I had encoded at a high bitrate (for playback on my nice home stereo) and make it smaller for use on a walkman-type player for the gym or whatever.
Speaking of such, are there any Ogg-supporting portable players, or players in development?
(Granted the Hardware Support page at Xiph has some info, but I'm curious if there's anything else known)
does anyone know of a petition or something similar to get mainstream hardware manufacturers to include ogg support in their hardware?
It's not a petition, per se, but the Hardware Support page at Xiph.org lists the contact info (including e-mail addresses) for companies considering Ogg support for their portable players.
So, suppose that you turn on threading and tell Mozilla to Expand All Threads. You now have a nice tree-like view of mail threads:). But, next time you load Mozilla, it'll be back to compressed view again (but still sorted by threads). If threaded mail sounds useful to you, you may want to vote for the bug (of course, you'll need a free Bugzilla account to vote).
Instead, by learning it as a language based on sound - they'll be able to reach 30 wpm and greater because of how our brains are designed for optimized processing of language/sound. They'll begin hearing letters without even thinking of dahs and dits, or dashes and periods.
Can you recommend any free/Free software-based Morse trainers that use this technique? (I'm a Tech Plus, KB3BZG, but I wouldn't mind improving my CW speed)
Kidding aside, I'm curious about text editors for win32. Sure, there are quite a few (CrimsonEditor is my current favorite, with Source Edit close behind) but, like any good geek, I'm looking for The Best;).
Ports of Emacsor Vi[m] to win32 don't interest me very much, primarily because I enjoy the hotkey conventions that I'm used to already in win32 (Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-X to cut, and so on). Really, I'm looking for one with syntax highlighting for languages such as HTML and CSS, and a tabbed-interface. Are there any Super Great editors that I should check out?
So, apparently the books are available as a collection now, but does anyone know where I can find Tintin in the UK English translations? (seriously)
Tintin has been translated into many languages, probably dozens. And, I can attest that there are both UK English editions and US English editions; however, the US English editions are horrible. I'm an American, so you can be assured that this isn't some wacky British pride clouding my judgement, but something was just not right in the US English versions.
So, does anyone know where I can buy the UK English editions of Tintin? Part of my problem is that, even if I can find Tintin for sale online (not that hard, I suppose), I'm not sure how to be certain which edition I'd be buying.
Is there a FAQ for the CFC somewhere? I'm interested in finding more about it, but their website isn't very well designed. For instance, it almost appears from the webpage that it's eligible for federal employees only, though I doubt that's actually the case.
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From your post, AltLinux was looking quite intriguing. However, I became concerned when I read that "All mailing lists are in Russian" :-/. Considering that, do you have trouble getting support, or even learning about new releases?
IE's other trick, or so it is assumed (since the source isn't available) is that it does full DOM and JS caching.
That is to say, if you visit a webpage with (say) Mozilla, the HTML is interpreted and the HTML tree is built in memory. Pages with advanced CSS have a more complicated tree, of course. However, when the user leaves the page, that tree is destroyed and has to be recreated each time the user visits the page.
The bug to correct this in Mozilla is bug 38486 - "[FEATURE] Keep DOM and JS context in memory to provide fast access when clicking back". You can also vote for it (free Bugzilla account required) though you'll have to copy-n-paste the URL into your browser window since Bugzilla doesn't accept referrers from Slashdot.
PS Threaded e-mail is handy, eh? It sure is, unless your mail reader doesn't remember that you want to see your mailboxes in threaded view and keeps reverting back to collapsed form. That one is bug 64426 (vote for it if you like).
You have set Edit -> Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings -> Server Settings -> "Empty Trash on Exit" to checkmarked, right? If that's already set, you could try a fresh installation of Mozilla (sometimes cruft from old profiles can confuse more recent versions).
Hey, thanks for the info. I've heard good things about Amon Tobin in particular, and I plan on picking up an album :).
For the metal fans here, I've found that Metal-Rules is a fantastic resource for metal reviews. They review a few dozen albums each month and I've bought many albums sight-unheard (sound-unheard?) successfully just based on the reviews alone.
Have you heard Mocean Worker by chance? Though I'm a poor judge of techno's subgenres, I believe it may also be drum-n-bass. On the chance that you may have heard them (or, "him", rather), is Mocean Worker simliar to the bands that you've listed there?
Most of the screenshots look very close to XP (such as the network status applet, for instance), but the menu spacing & sizing doesn't look right (most easily seen in the task manager pic).
Ever since Eugenia Loli-Queru mentioned it in her review of KDE 3, I can't help but noticing that so many Linux apps suffer from odd menu sizing and spacing. (In due credit, Gnome isn't nearly so affected, as a whole.)
(That quote is from the second page of her review.)
I couldn't have been the only one hoping for the title "Terminator 3: Rise of the Triad", eh?
(for those unaware, see also this explanation of 3DRealms' Rise of The Triad)
Oops, my bad. I figured that since it was listed as "added 12-04-2002" on Vorbis.com that it was brand-new news.
As reported by Palm InfoCenter, "A group calling themselves Aerodrome Software have released a public beta of an Ogg/Vorbis media player for the Palm Tunsgten T handheld. The player inititally supports only ogg/vorbis encoded files, a new open source audio format, but promises to have mp3 support in the near future."
I'm curious as to whether they used the integer-based "Tremor" code to achieve this.
Speaking of such, are there any Ogg-supporting portable players, or players in development?
(Granted the Hardware Support page at Xiph has some info, but I'm curious if there's anything else known)
It's not a petition, per se, but the Hardware Support page at Xiph.org lists the contact info (including e-mail addresses) for companies considering Ogg support for their portable players.
It couldn't hurt to write to them; I did.
This might be a bit off topic, but are there any portable mp3-players that support Ogg?
Mozilla is a threaded e-mail client, eh? So far, so good. However, it doesn't actually remember the Expand All Threads state.
So, suppose that you turn on threading and tell Mozilla to Expand All Threads. You now have a nice tree-like view of mail threads :). But, next time you load Mozilla, it'll be back to compressed view again (but still sorted by threads). If threaded mail sounds useful to you, you may want to vote for the bug (of course, you'll need a free Bugzilla account to vote).
Kidding aside, I'm curious about text editors for win32. Sure, there are quite a few (CrimsonEditor is my current favorite, with Source Edit close behind) but, like any good geek, I'm looking for The Best ;).
Ports of Emacs or Vi[m] to win32 don't interest me very much, primarily because I enjoy the hotkey conventions that I'm used to already in win32 (Ctrl-C to copy, Ctrl-X to cut, and so on). Really, I'm looking for one with syntax highlighting for languages such as HTML and CSS, and a tabbed-interface. Are there any Super Great editors that I should check out?
So, apparently the books are available as a collection now, but does anyone know where I can find Tintin in the UK English translations? (seriously)
Tintin has been translated into many languages, probably dozens. And, I can attest that there are both UK English editions and US English editions; however, the US English editions are horrible. I'm an American, so you can be assured that this isn't some wacky British pride clouding my judgement, but something was just not right in the US English versions.
So, does anyone know where I can buy the UK English editions of Tintin? Part of my problem is that, even if I can find Tintin for sale online (not that hard, I suppose), I'm not sure how to be certain which edition I'd be buying.
Is there a FAQ for the CFC somewhere? I'm interested in finding more about it, but their website isn't very well designed. For instance, it almost appears from the webpage that it's eligible for federal employees only, though I doubt that's actually the case.
Here's a more specific link (the previous post just points to the main page).