So typing zenity --question --text "Delete Windows?" gives you a dialog that asks "Delete Windows?" and presents two buttons, one that says "Cancel" and the other that says "Yes".
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What the hell kind of user interface is that? It should either say "No" and "Yes", or it should say "Cancel" and "Ok". Mixing the two paradigms just looks confusing.
It's consistency problems like this that start giving Linux and other open source projects a bad name.
</rant>
(Not to say that commercial apps are immune - they certainly have their own fair share of usability issues.)
Slashdot has never had the year displayed in any of the dates.
Uhh...your post looks like this to me:
last year? how can you tell? (Score:1)
by ThwartedEfforts (2976) on 08:15 AM -- Friday August 08 2003 (#6645304) How can you tell it's from last year? Slashdot has never had the year displayed in any of the dates. And apparently this isn't considered a bug or even an oversight.
Emphasis mine. The display format of a date is a preference setting. Look under "Homepage".
Wired magazine did a whole article about this a few months ago. But I don't recall what month. A google search turned up this article, but it's not quite what I remember.
The gist of it was, even though the Everquest license argreement prohibits selling virtual goods for real dollars, people do it anyway. And you can figure out what the exchange rates are. Turns out that the total "economy" of the Everquest world exceeds that of some third-world economies. You even get weird situations where people are clicking their people around very boring jobs, "because their clan needs the money."
the fact that a recall election can be held because less than 10% of your population signed a form is rediculous.
Um...are you against the Proposition process? By which anyone can get a proposed law on the ballot by a collection of signatures? It's an alternative way of getting laws passed than going through the Legislature.
There are arguments to be made either way, but I'd just like to point out that being against the concept of a popular recall is pretty much the same as being against the Proposition system entirely.
But uploading someone's music might correlate with "customer." They're suing uploaders, not downloaders. They're suing people who are listing files to share. An argument can be made that these people are also those who have a whole lot of meatspace-purchased compact disks.
Okay, let's argue ASCII vs. EBCDIC again, shall we? Note, no ASCII characters can have values like E2 or A3. It's a 7-bit representation, so the highest possible value would be 7F.
There's no reason my post should have been moderated to a +4 Informative. Yes, I was informative, but it's such a tiny nit. Hell, we've all swapped the positions of the ln command. It's almost a "grammar nazi" post.
The fact that the post remained at +4 rather than heading to +5 gives me at least some hope that moderators have some degree of moderation (heh).
It makes me wonder if the overall quality of Slashdot would be improved by making the score cap be closer to 8 or 9, rather than 5. It would make for a more normal distribution, rather than the capped distribution we currently have.
Ah well... My statistics class was a long time ago...
3 moderators, as I posted with the +1 Karma bonus...
But yeah, it's a good book. I actually read it out loud to my wife in the last year. She had never read it. I hope to read it to my kids when they get old enough.
IPv6 addresses are 128 bits. The resulting list of IP addresses is two googols long, an enormous number. "It's a nearly infinite address space," said Cisco Systems Vice President Sangeeta Anand.
Um...128 bits gives 2^128 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 possible addresses, assuming that the entire space were used efficiently. That's 3.4e38. Googol is 1e100. 3.4e38 is nowhere close to twice that, google^2, or anything like that. Dunno what this guy thought he was talking about...
Hum, my post was in response to someone saying that an OS shouldn't allow any app to crash. This is how I reasoned.
Ah, I see your reasoning now. Yes, if someone were to try and prevent any app from crashing, then you would certainly run into the halting problem and difficulties you mention.
However, I don't think that's what the original poster meant to say. Quoting:
It doesn't matter what "causes" the crash. The OS should be essentially crashproof. That's what an OS was for
I believe what Dr. Zowie was meaning was the the OS's stability should not be affected by the crash of an application. I believe this is what he meant by "crashproof". Not that the OS should prevent all application crashes. Just that it should be impervious to any misbehaving application.
But it is theoretically impossible to for an observer (i.e., the OS) to determine whether another program (i.e., the app) will shut down properly. In computer science, this is known as the halting problem, and it can be mathematically proven.
Yes, that's the halting problem.
But that has nothing to do with OS stability. The OS does not have to determine if the program will end, or even shutdown properly. Since the OS is the arbiter of resources, it can make the decision to disallow a program from executing any further, without consulting the program beforehand. It is also the protector of programs, keeping one from trouncing another. All of these types of controls, implemented correctly, should prevent any application, no matter how badly behaved, from causing the OS to fail.
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So typing zenity --question --text "Delete Windows?" gives you a dialog that asks "Delete Windows?" and presents two buttons, one that says "Cancel" and the other that says "Yes".
<rant>
What the hell kind of user interface is that? It should either say "No" and "Yes", or it should say "Cancel" and "Ok". Mixing the two paradigms just looks confusing.
It's consistency problems like this that start giving Linux and other open source projects a bad name.
</rant>
(Not to say that commercial apps are immune - they certainly have their own fair share of usability issues.)
4) Don't look at the output of top, it's not reliable. And this is a kernel issue, not a Nautilus issue.
I'd like to learn more about this. Can you be more specific about why top is unreliable? Or point me at a web site?
Thank you for your post. You'd get modded up if I had any mod points.
If you ever want to have a reminder how far left \. leans, just post an article that mentions stem cells.
It just gets so tiring to debate this over and over again...
I'll third that. Melody Assistant is very nice. I've been using it for years for all kinds of things.
Uhh...your post looks like this to me:Emphasis mine. The display format of a date is a preference setting. Look under "Homepage".
Wired magazine did a whole article about this a few months ago. But I don't recall what month. A google search turned up this article, but it's not quite what I remember.
The gist of it was, even though the Everquest license argreement prohibits selling virtual goods for real dollars, people do it anyway. And you can figure out what the exchange rates are. Turns out that the total "economy" of the Everquest world exceeds that of some third-world economies. You even get weird situations where people are clicking their people around very boring jobs, "because their clan needs the money."
Where is the line between game and work?
the fact that a recall election can be held because less than 10% of your population signed a form is rediculous.
Um...are you against the Proposition process? By which anyone can get a proposed law on the ballot by a collection of signatures? It's an alternative way of getting laws passed than going through the Legislature.
There are arguments to be made either way, but I'd just like to point out that being against the concept of a popular recall is pretty much the same as being against the Proposition system entirely.
But uploading someone's music might correlate with "customer." They're suing uploaders, not downloaders. They're suing people who are listing files to share. An argument can be made that these people are also those who have a whole lot of meatspace-purchased compact disks.
Talk about salesmanship!
:-)
Or could it be saleswomanship?
7E (16) = 01111110 (2)
7F (16) = 01111111 (2)
According to "man ascii" here on my Linux box, ASCII 7E is the ~ character and 7F is the DEL character.
Okay, you really belong here...
Here's my favorite apostrophe lesson. It doesn't deal with "it's", but other thing's that moron's write often.
Okay, let's argue ASCII vs. EBCDIC again, shall we? Note, no ASCII characters can have values like E2 or A3. It's a 7-bit representation, so the highest possible value would be 7F.
This is OT, but I couldn't help myself.
There's no reason my post should have been moderated to a +4 Informative. Yes, I was informative, but it's such a tiny nit. Hell, we've all swapped the positions of the ln command. It's almost a "grammar nazi" post.
The fact that the post remained at +4 rather than heading to +5 gives me at least some hope that moderators have some degree of moderation (heh).
It makes me wonder if the overall quality of Slashdot would be improved by making the score cap be closer to 8 or 9, rather than 5. It would make for a more normal distribution, rather than the capped distribution we currently have.
Ah well... My statistics class was a long time ago...
ln -s ~/.bash_history /dev/random
/dev/random ~/.bash_history
Whoops!
You meant: ln -s
The true wealthy are not stupid.... those in the mercedes and BMW's are just wannabes trying to look like they have money when they really don't.
Correct
3 moderators, as I posted with the +1 Karma bonus...
But yeah, it's a good book. I actually read it out loud to my wife in the last year. She had never read it. I hope to read it to my kids when they get old enough.
Is that the "Secret of NiMH"?
I smell a rat...
I can see how my quoting can be confusing. I meant the author of the article, Ben Charny, who is the person who made the quote about "googol".
I don't want to hear about the size of your subpoenis.
Ah, damn.
-Sean Ahern
Ah, I see your reasoning now. Yes, if someone were to try and prevent any app from crashing, then you would certainly run into the halting problem and difficulties you mention.
However, I don't think that's what the original poster meant to say. Quoting:I believe what Dr. Zowie was meaning was the the OS's stability should not be affected by the crash of an application. I believe this is what he meant by "crashproof". Not that the OS should prevent all application crashes. Just that it should be impervious to any misbehaving application.
But it is theoretically impossible to for an observer (i.e., the OS) to determine whether another program (i.e., the app) will shut down properly. In computer science, this is known as the halting problem, and it can be mathematically proven.
Yes, that's the halting problem.
But that has nothing to do with OS stability. The OS does not have to determine if the program will end, or even shutdown properly. Since the OS is the arbiter of resources, it can make the decision to disallow a program from executing any further, without consulting the program beforehand. It is also the protector of programs, keeping one from trouncing another. All of these types of controls, implemented correctly, should prevent any application, no matter how badly behaved, from causing the OS to fail.
The halting problem is something else entirely.
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Quoting and escaping special characters wasn't the problem. The problem was that I used the search pattern of "kazaa" rather than "@kazaa".