We've come a long way since the original stinky X file selector dialogs, but thats about the best I can say about it.
No doubt a lot of honest graft has gone into the design but it stinks, really.
Give me the latest windows shell open dialogs with shortcuts in the left hand side, pop-down directory list and big file selector with alternative views.
The only fault with that windows dialog is the small default size.
But these new GTK dialogs are just true-type anti-aliased windows 3.1 dialogs trying to show the directory tree and file list through two tiny peepholes.
I replaced a friends P100 32MB win95 with a P400 64MB Redhat 9
The redhat 9 desktop was deathly slow and always swapping. It was about 10 times slower than the old machine.
I add another 128MB of RAM and now its just 2-3 times slower than win95.
I'm going to install a cheap copy of win98 on that box and get rid of linux.
2 years ago I set my PC up to dual boot linux ready to make the switch. I have My Documents on a FAT32 disk that is also mounted from linux so I can use openoffice on them from either linux or windows. I use Mozilla (where possible) 90% of the time.
I still haven't been able to make the switch and get rid of windows.
Strangely on my 700MHz linux is faster than WIN2K + virus-scanner.
Whether the workplace, school, or street it monitors the wrong thing!
It only monitors WHERE the tag is. The tag is only the same place as the person WHEN EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.
The purpose of monitoring is to stop ABNORMAL things.
Because those who monitor start to focus on the tags and not the people its easy to show them what they want to see by moving the tags where the tags need to be.
By the time the monitors realise something is wrong, they've lost a lot of time.
If you need to monitor children or employees, then monitor them, pay attention to them as people, get to know them.
Delegate it to a dumb machine and you'll get dumb data.
Sure you can say "Oh, it must have just been Johnny's tag that boarded the school bus, it seems it was pinned to Jimmy's coat pocket, I wonder when Johnny really disappeared".
"Dang you Joe, I know it was you what was in the company store room at 10:15" "No sir, my home was burgled last night"
Go into the shop and ask to "buy" it. If they sell it, its yours! Who broke the EULA?
Did the shop buy & sell it, or license it, or sub-license it?
The EULA might say it is only licensed but that doesn't mean its true.
Why not say to the shop attendant: "I'd like to buy this tool master - if you are allowed to sell it, that is, ho ho", and see if they sell it.
Then, don't read the EULA which is only "rumoured" to be bad, and treat it as yours. After all, how can you be bound by the rumour of a EULA for a product which you own anyway?
The sad thing is the sort of people who can't comprehend the EULA and thus enter into an agreement, are the sort of people who won't be able to make a charge.
Has anyone determined whether it is in fact legal for SunnComm to install a device driver without asking or making the user aware that that is what will happen?
(a) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer; and
(b) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above the requisite intent is an intent to cause a modification of the contents of any computer and by so doing--
(a) to impair the operation of any computer;
(b) to prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer; or
(c) to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data.
(3) The intent need not be directed at--
(a) any particular computer;
(b) any particular program or data or a program or data of any particular kind; or
(c) any particular modification or a modification of any particular kind.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above the requisite knowledge is knowledge that any modification he intends to cause is unauthorised.
(5) It is immaterial for the purposes of this section whether an unauthorised modification or any intended effect of it of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) above is, or is intended to be, permanent or merely temporary.
So if they install a device driver without asking, they must know it is unauthorised (satisfying 3.(1).(a)), and it will certainly do all of 3.(2).(a), 3.(2).(b) and 3.(2).(c), have they broken the law, and aren't computer users completely justified in informing each-other how to protected their systems against such unauthorized abuses?
Or is it the record label, or the vendor who is ultimately responsible for the unauthorised access?
The Register reports that domains are like property.
IF you own the name you own it like property (in the USA). Whose name is on the records?
If not your friends then look at the registration advertisements and agreements and see who was supposed to own the name he paid for, maybe fraud took place at registration
Not only is GNOME's stinkin use of Corba so SLOW but it IGNORES $DISPLAY on subsequent logins to the same box; so I might have 2 active remote desktops but new GNOME apps load on the ORIGINAL desktop.
I can't belove GNU are so-supporting something as slow and bloated as GNOME.
A P400 with 64MB of RAM is 5x slower with GNOME that the P100 with 32MB Ram and Win95 it was supposed to be replacing!!!
I had to give the P400 ~180MB before I got any decent use out of it.
I'm glad to see XFCE, I will be ditching the redhat gnome desktop and using this instead.
Really, GNU GNOME chaps, can't you see what you have created is worse bloatware than windows? So that MORE POWERFUL hardware is needed?
1) First disable console blanking, that way when you get to the crashed box and plug the monitor in you can see the kernel panic message./usr/sbin/setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0
We had some early kernel 2.4 redhat boxes crashing like the dickens for a while, it was a kernel problem and only when it happened on a local machine under our eyes did we get to realise what had happened.
2) Network syslog; If you syslog to a central machine not only does it make error spotting centralised and easier but it means you have the last gasps of the crashed machine logged on a machine that is still up.
Dont forget Stallman came up with the GPL for Linux to use.
Standing on the heads of giants and all that.
An ambassador can invisibly accomplish much that a foot-soldier never could.
And in the world of politics where the atrocious goings-on at SCO can happen we also need people like Perens, Raymond who can act on the same level as the pontificating tom-fools but still talk sense.
And that is 83% of the sugar electrons passed on to the circuit, which isn't neccessarily the same as all the energy available in the sugar for chemical reactions generally.
Sam
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When are some of these newer processors going to implement the executable permissions bit in the MMU so that the STACK can be NON-EXECUTABLE (ok I know some trampoline stuff needs executable stacks, well they can ask for it where needed by setting the executable bit for a small region)
And when are some of these new processors going to be fully virtualizable? I'm talking about PUSHF and POPF generating exceptions like directly setting the interrupt flag does.
Think how easy plex86 would be to run on a processor that did this properly?
Code-morphing Transmeta (come one!), AMD (maybe?) Intel (no chance?)
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Screen is also cool when your connection keeps dropping cos your logged in session with all your work sticks around.
Plus you can logout and come back later.
And yes, being able to switch to another screen while a load of output whizzes by (as you said) is also cool.
Sam
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What is cool here is NOT the text mode as such, but that programs tht were written for graphical GTK are running fine with the text gtk libs!
NOT as the original developers intended, but works none-the-less.
THAT is cool.
Sam
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Yeah; When Delphi 1 came out we were dissapointed to find out it could do not much with all our old turbo-vision applications; we hoped they would be windows-ised.
Dr. Sinclair said. Resveratrol, he said, is unstable on exposure to the air and "goes off within a day of popping the cork."
...
Resveratrol is synthesized by plants in response to stress like lack of nutrients and fungal infection. It exists in the skin of both red and white grapes but is found in amounts 10 times as high in red wine as in white because of the different manufacturing process.
...
Epidemiological studies point to red wine as containing some beneficial antidote, but it is not yet certain whether alcohol, resveratrol or a combination of the two is the active ingredient.
I read this type of thing a lot; often though it is the grape that helps whether fermented or not, not the "wine" part.
I suppose its what you get when you have an industry based on selling products made from processed ingredients, they present the product as being beneficial not the ingredient.
Perhaps nothing very wrong in this, but slashdotters should at least be interested in where the real benefit lies and who benefits from the lies.
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We've come a long way since the original stinky X file selector dialogs, but thats about the best I can say about it.
No doubt a lot of honest graft has gone into the design but it stinks, really.
Give me the latest windows shell open dialogs with shortcuts in the left hand side, pop-down directory list and big file selector with alternative views.
The only fault with that windows dialog is the small default size.
But these new GTK dialogs are just true-type anti-aliased windows 3.1 dialogs trying to show the directory tree and file list through two tiny peepholes.
Ugh
Sam
Yeah, I think the lesson is linux bloat is faster than winxp or win2k bloat, but win95 bloat is faster than linux bloat.
Sam
I replaced a friends P100 32MB win95 with a P400 64MB Redhat 9
The redhat 9 desktop was deathly slow and always swapping. It was about 10 times slower than the old machine.
I add another 128MB of RAM and now its just 2-3 times slower than win95.
I'm going to install a cheap copy of win98 on that box and get rid of linux.
2 years ago I set my PC up to dual boot linux ready to make the switch.
I have My Documents on a FAT32 disk that is also mounted from linux so I can use openoffice on them from either linux or windows. I use Mozilla (where possible) 90% of the time.
I still haven't been able to make the switch and get rid of windows.
Strangely on my 700MHz linux is faster than WIN2K + virus-scanner.
Sam
Whether the workplace, school, or street it monitors the wrong thing!
It only monitors WHERE the tag is.
The tag is only the same place as the person WHEN EVERYTHING IS NORMAL.
The purpose of monitoring is to stop ABNORMAL things.
Because those who monitor start to focus on the tags and not the people its easy to show them what they want to see by moving the tags where the tags need to be.
By the time the monitors realise something is wrong, they've lost a lot of time.
If you need to monitor children or employees, then monitor them, pay attention to them as people, get to know them.
Delegate it to a dumb machine and you'll get dumb data.
Sure you can say "Oh, it must have just been Johnny's tag that boarded the school bus, it seems it was pinned to Jimmy's coat pocket, I wonder when Johnny really disappeared".
"Dang you Joe, I know it was you what was in the company store room at 10:15"
"No sir, my home was burgled last night"
Sam
Sure, thats what the EULA says, but did you?
Go into the shop and ask to "buy" it. If they sell it, its yours! Who broke the EULA?
Did the shop buy & sell it, or license it, or sub-license it?
The EULA might say it is only licensed but that doesn't mean its true.
Why not say to the shop attendant: "I'd like to buy this tool master - if you are allowed to sell it, that is, ho ho", and see if they sell it.
Then, don't read the EULA which is only "rumoured" to be bad, and treat it as yours. After all, how can you be bound by the rumour of a EULA for a product which you own anyway?
Sam
Heh! The old 48GX has been selling for around $150 second hand!
4 8g x&ht=1&sosortproperty=1&from=R10&BasicSear ch=
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=
Watch out for some cancelled bids anytime now!
Its a top calculator though, with emulators running on freely available ROM imagesfor some time now.
I'm running a 48GX emulator on my SE P800 mobile phone.
Sam
What rubbish, of course its obvious.
What isn't obvious (like Amazon one-stupid-click shopping) is whether or not it would be a good idea.
Deciding that it is a good idea is NOT patentable.
I think most people agree pop-unders are a BAD idea which probably explains why most people HAVEN'T used them.
The sad thing is the sort of people who can't comprehend the EULA and thus enter into an agreement, are the sort of people who won't be able to make a charge.
Sam
First SunnComm to sue 'Shift key' student for $10m and then they change their minds so as not to stifle research, but who is really the guilty party?
Has anyone determined whether it is in fact legal for SunnComm to install a device driver without asking or making the user aware that that is what will happen?In the UK, this appears to be completely illegal:
So if they install a device driver without asking, they must know it is unauthorised (satisfying 3.(1).(a)), and it will certainly do all of 3.(2).(a), 3.(2).(b) and 3.(2).(c), have they broken the law, and aren't computer users completely justified in informing each-other how to protected their systems against such unauthorized abuses?
Or is it the record label, or the vendor who is ultimately responsible for the unauthorised access?
The Register reports that domains are like property.
IF you own the name you own it like property (in the USA). Whose name is on the records?
If not your friends then look at the registration advertisements and agreements and see who was supposed to own the name he paid for, maybe fraud took place at registration
Sam
Not only is GNOME's stinkin use of Corba so SLOW but it IGNORES $DISPLAY on subsequent logins to the same box; so I might have 2 active remote desktops but new GNOME apps load on the ORIGINAL desktop.
I can't belove GNU are so-supporting something as slow and bloated as GNOME.
A P400 with 64MB of RAM is 5x slower with GNOME that the P100 with 32MB Ram and Win95 it was supposed to be replacing!!!
I had to give the P400 ~180MB before I got any decent use out of it.
I'm glad to see XFCE, I will be ditching the redhat gnome desktop and using this instead.
Really, GNU GNOME chaps, can't you see what you have created is worse bloatware than windows? So that MORE POWERFUL hardware is needed?
Think again!
Sam
Who's we?
How much of your money do you give to starving people as food instead of buying a nice car, nice house, nice clothes?
As you are free to use your own property as you see fit, so are people with more property, and that includes talking about building a space elevator.
Sam
1) First disable console blanking, that way when you get to the crashed box and plug the monitor in you can see the kernel panic message. /usr/sbin/setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0
We had some early kernel 2.4 redhat boxes crashing like the dickens for a while, it was a kernel problem and only when it happened on a local machine under our eyes did we get to realise what had happened.
2) Network syslog;
If you syslog to a central machine not only does it make error spotting centralised and easier but it means you have the last gasps of the crashed machine logged on a machine that is still up.
Sam
You'll notice I didn't call Stallman an ambassador.
The fact is, he's a preacher, and a darned good one; look at the fervour of GPL supporters now!
Linux is good BECAUSE the GPL helps attract the zealous and preserves the benefits for the zealous.
*BSD was never so big precisely because it demanded so little and its adherants are so easy going.
In short, with *BSD there is little to believe in, anything goes. GPL means only "good" goes, where "good" is what the GPL zealots (like me) like.
Sam
Dont forget Stallman came up with the GPL for Linux to use.
Standing on the heads of giants and all that.
An ambassador can invisibly accomplish much that a foot-soldier never could.
And in the world of politics where the atrocious goings-on at SCO can happen we also need people like Perens, Raymond who can act on the same level as the pontificating tom-fools but still talk sense.
Sam
And that is 83% of the sugar electrons passed on to the circuit, which isn't neccessarily the same as all the energy available in the sugar for chemical reactions generally.
Sam
When are some of these newer processors going to implement the executable permissions bit in the MMU so that the STACK can be NON-EXECUTABLE (ok I know some trampoline stuff needs executable stacks, well they can ask for it where needed by setting the executable bit for a small region)
And when are some of these new processors going to be fully virtualizable? I'm talking about PUSHF and POPF generating exceptions like directly setting the interrupt flag does.
Think how easy plex86 would be to run on a processor that did this properly?
Code-morphing Transmeta (come one!), AMD (maybe?) Intel (no chance?)
Sam
Nice turn around for the soviets here;
In Italy everyone is spartcus, this soviet russian seems to be everybody else.
So who am I? Not him on a bad hair day, I hope!
Sam
Had you been in your brothers room?
Did you have some of his stuff?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Sam
Screen is also cool when your connection keeps dropping cos your logged in session with all your work sticks around.
Plus you can logout and come back later.
And yes, being able to switch to another screen while a load of output whizzes by (as you said) is also cool.
Sam
What is cool here is NOT the text mode as such, but that programs tht were written for graphical GTK are running fine with the text gtk libs!
NOT as the original developers intended, but works none-the-less.
THAT is cool.
Sam
Yeah; When Delphi 1 came out we were dissapointed to find out it could do not much with all our old turbo-vision applications; we hoped they would be windows-ised.
Well now we can text-ize many!
Cheers, kudos and karma to those who did it!
Huzzah!
Sam
From page 2 of the NY Times article at
Dr. Sinclair said. Resveratrol, he said, is unstable on exposure to the air and "goes off within a day of popping the cork."
Resveratrol is synthesized by plants in response to stress like lack of nutrients and fungal infection. It exists in the skin of both red and white grapes but is found in amounts 10 times as high in red wine as in white because of the different manufacturing process.
Epidemiological studies point to red wine as containing some beneficial antidote, but it is not yet certain whether alcohol, resveratrol or a combination of the two is the active ingredient.
I read this type of thing a lot; often though it is the grape that helps whether fermented or not, not the "wine" part.
I suppose its what you get when you have an industry based on selling products made from processed ingredients, they present the product as being beneficial not the ingredient.
Perhaps nothing very wrong in this, but slashdotters should at least be interested in where the real benefit lies and who benefits from the lies.
Sam
Why run the trial in idiot city, find it is successful and rollout nationwide only to be surprised by the hostile response then?
Much better to trial among those who are likely to be hostile don't you think?
Sam