See for yourselves. Say what you want, but it appears that, after Tony Blair, the BBC has also become a laquay of American propaganda. How long before UK is annexed by the Land of the Non-Free?
My earliest recollection of Jennicam dates back from 1996. Back then, she was still living a bachelor's life at the dorm and would sometimes tease the camera. I think I even recall one time when she masturbated online (but don't quote me on this, it's been ages).
Looking back, she reminds me of Sarah St-James. Girl-next-door looks that trip your sensor array, but don't explode it. Cute.
I stopped visiting her site the day her picture archive and pretty much anything of interest became a paying subscribtion. Maybe now would be a good time to make everything open-access, as a farewell gift to all, during the last month of operation?
There will be NO new features in 2.4. All that energy will be spent on 2.6.
How do you explain that massive commit of foreign ACPI code since 2.4.22 then? Cause it sure doesn't look like rewriting the whole ACPI was bugfixing at all. Heck, it broke ACPI code that worked rather well until 2.4.21, which was a really REALLY dumb thing to do.
Why aren't pre-emptive and low-latency merged?
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Kernel 2.4.23 Released
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Noticing that these two famous patches are already merged into kernel 2.6 and have received plenty of praises when they were first introduced to the 2.4 crowd before, I really wonder what's keeping Mario from merging them into 2.4 as well.
If he merged them, I would no longer have to fight my way around these two to manage to squeeze GrSecurity and FreeSwan on top, since the GrSecurity and FreeSwan crowd would have already done the work of making their patches compatible with a pre-emptive and low-latency enabled vanilla upstream source. For some reason, beleive I would not be the only one to cheer up if this happened.
Mario? Would you happen to be reading this thread and willing to explain your position in regards to this?
If management could simply grasp the concept that their employees are individuals, they could mold the workplace to suit everyone so that issues like this wouldn't occur.
Precisely.
The keyword that management needs to grasp is productivity, specificly what is the best way of achiveiving that by offering each worker the optimal working space for their prefered work methodology:
If someone is more productive working at home, at his own pace, in his own comfortable environment, then give him that.
If someone is more productive by working undisturbed in his own room, but still within reach of his team members he might need to interract with, then give him that.
If someone is not productive without regular team feedback or constant managerial supervision, yet cannot focus in a group environment and therefore needs his own room, then give him that.
If someone is more productive in a common space with his own team, then give him that.
Exactly where and how an employee performs his duties is completely irrelevant. The only important issue is meeting deadlines while delivering quality workmanship. Letting an employee work at the location where he is the most productive is the only practical way of achieving that.
No they fired people for being unproductive. From the article, "But some proved unproductive and were fired."
Read the article yourself. All they are saying is that some people became unproductive, when they were forced to transition from a private office to the open officeless environment.
Never mind the fact that workplace ergonomists consulting with the PHBs are way more into following trends in their own field than in actually noticing what are the needs of employees who will be working in their designer environments. They fail to examine whether certain team members are more productive working in solitary and interacting with others only at the weekly meetings, while others actually are more productive in a common team space. Individualisation is the keyword, but workplace ergonomists fail to understand it.
On one hand, I admire the boldness of some people who go right ahead and discuss at lenght their life as a [goth, bisexual, etc.] and post samples of their own [erotica, nudes, contreversial opinions on various issues, etc.] and who, surprise, don't seem to run into any problem resulting from this, because a few people actually do respect or fear those who are that bold and upfront about everything.
On the other hand, I cannot help but notice how running into the wrong person [politically correct employer, boy/girlfriend, football coach, bad cop, etc.] with excellent Googling skills, can easily manage to ruin your life completely, by marginalizing you out of existence, to the extent that nobody wants to hire or date you and where even your old highschool pals fake not recognizing you on the street, because whatever you posted on your website went against the grain.
This leaves open the question of whether freedom of speech and democracy really mean anything anymore.
The game used to be played along this famous French writer's motto that "I might vehemently disagree with what you are saying, but I'll die to preserve your right to say it." Likewise, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau once told his son (quoted at the funeral) to "Never attack someone personally. You can publicly attack their ideas, but never touch their dignity as a human being."
Unfortunately, in a world where anything you say can and will be used against you at some point, before you have been accused of anything, even whenever you have not broken any law, simply because people fear the stigma of guilt by association, it appears that we have reached a point where those old standards of respect are no longer true.
This being said, lately, I've been asking myself why I even bother maintaining a diminutive website:
I haven't created much in terms of music, photography or ever writings in ages, which already puts a big question mark over whatever content might qualify for publication. Then, already, I've had a few employers actually mention having a problem with me stating boldly on my About My CV... page that "I am quite competent in Windows 3.11/95/98/NT/2000 administration and in Office 95/97/2000 usage, but flatly refuse to use any Microsoft product."
[of course, in a world where the majority thinks that getting a job should be the only priority anyone ever had, and where companies can fire anyone for the most laughable excuses, standing up for your beleifs and values, by refusing to work in certain fields or within a certain framework, has become suicidal, but that's another issue entirely - then again, it says a lot about how little freedom capitalism actually offers: choose freedom or money, but you cannot have both unless what you think is whatever the Ministry of Disinformation has rubber-stamped]
Given the combined current lack of content and problem in stating preferences for anything non-mainstream, I'm starting to think that the only thing left to put on a website is a politically bleached version of my CV and a generic photo to recycle with job applications and such. Then again, might as well upload the damn thing to Monster's CV repository and start using throw-away e-mail accounts for anything, at which point nobody needs an ISP or personal website anymore. *sigh*
Damn! I beleive I just created a second dot-com doomsday scenario... Sorry to all startups who will close shop as a result!:P
A mental health counselor, doesn't know shit about computers except what I have managed to impart to her, yet she exhibits many "geek" qualities, such as
fascination with technology and cartoons/anime and antisocial behavior.
Given IBM's history with both Novell and Suse, it's fairly obvious where they would go. Then again, SGI's mips hardware used to be a favorite of Hollywood, where they have now started using clusters of Lintel boxes to replace them. Hmm...
1. Buy the Linux desktop company with the Outlook replacement solution.
2. Buy the world's second leading Linux distro with its excellent LSB-compliant base and its Exchange replacement solution.
3. Add own directory service, networking and workgroup products.
4. Buy former leader in high-performance UNIX hardware with its solid experience of Linux porting.
5. ???
6. Proffit?
The enterprise market had been moaning for ages, about the lack of a unified desktop that would be the de-facto standard desktop environment.
What I predict is Novell telling the Ximian folks to create a best-of-breed desktop based upon freedesktop.org guidelines, by hand-picking the best ideas from Gnome and KDE, both at the API and user-experience level. The end-result will be a unified Linux desktop environment that will come to replace both Gnome and KDE, within the next 12 months, as the de-facto standard.
Your idea is a very noble one, but I have to ask you a few questions:
Right now, I can use 'reportbug' to report problems related to:
main
contrib
non-free
non-US/main
non-US/contrib
non-US/non-free
How would that tool keep on working, if contrib and non-free (not to mention the non-US stuff) would be handled by a completely separate team? Hint: it won't. Bugzilla already fails to work on Gnome products, because upstream regularly ignores reports from Debian users, claiming that they don't have time to deal with "distribution-specific bugs". I cannot imagine things turning otherwise, with an eventual excommunication of contrib and non-free out of the Debian Project.
What about using the same 'reportbug' to interact with debianized software offered by third-parties? Hint: this already fails; one has to subscribe to the upstream package's mailing list temporarily, states their problem and hope that someone will get it.
How would people be assured of the QA processes used by a non-Debian produced contrib and non-free repository? Hint: they would not. There is already absolutely zero guarantee that third-party packages will work with dependencies produced by the Debian Project.
How would package GPG signing remain consistant? Right now, there is a package providing GPG keys of all registered developers and several packaging tools rely upon those "official developers' keys" to vouch for the QA's trustability. How would you ensure that trust coming from an entiry outside the Debian Project?
The Debian Project already has a long backlog of people wanting to join in as a developer, but being discouraged because of the increasingly complicated applicaiton process. How would non-free.org be any different? Would it make it any easier to join in or would it be as anally retentive as the Debian Project's application procedure? How would you approve, for instance, an application from Opera Software to submit binary-only packages to non-free?
The separation of contrib and non-free (and integration of third-party deb's) is much more complicated than adding a few lines to sources.list, but this is something that nobody has addressed so far. I'd like to hear your answers on that.
I suppose that an eventual non-free.org could adopt a model similar to Red Hat's Fedora (which started as an independant team packaging thrid-party software meeting strict QA standards), but even then, it leaves the issue of integrating with Debian development and user feedback tools very much unresolved.
The only thing we see in abundance is throw-away stuff, like commodity PC hardware that fails just days after the warranty has expired and buggy software that requires a pricy upgrade to fix bugs that should not have been there in the first place.
If there's one thing, the mere fact that absolutely everybody can afford a piece of whichever brandname product has done zippo to resolve poverty caused by the ever rising price of appartment rents.
People, let's face it, Capitalism is the root of all evil, because it creates false scarcity:
As anyone who followed the history of the automobile industry (to pick just one example) will tell you, pioneers like Tucker had build cars that were safe and built to last, which would have ruined the business of the automobile giants, but given the average Joe wheels for life and money to spare on, maybe, getting around travelling the world like he always wanted to, instead of struggling to pay the rent AND buy a new automobile because his 3-year old wheels are dying on him.
Another example is the Concorde plane. Many have said that it could not have been designed today and that nothing ever close to it will ever see the light again. Why? Because this great evil called Capitalism forces even the lamest dimwit to get a job to sustain himself, which results in brainless idiots getting into University just because they think that getting a degree is their birthright.
Until the 50's, getting a degree was a hard-earned priviledge, which meant that only the best of the breed got there (having to pay a fortune to go there is WRONG, but having though entry exams is RIGHT). So you failed? Big deal; go back to the farm - where, as surprising as it may sounds to people today, real abundance is found: real houses built to last, fresh food straight off the land and, nowadays, yes, broadband and satellitle TV still reaches if you need it. What else could you possibly want?
One last example: noticed how early solid-state audio equipment by Sony (and others) is still among the most coveted audiophile hardware, both because whatever was built in the early days was built to last and because it was also the state-of-the-art in terms of quality. Yet, how many of you can say the same of anything built since the 90's?
Let's face it, the commoditization of diplomas required a lowering of standards which is 100% consistant with mass production: first, mass production of cheap goods, then mass production of incompetant alumni. Result? Polution because of an over-abundance of throw-away products, designed by people with a throw-away degree. Back in the 50's, when the Concorde design started, they might have been using slide rules, but they were REAL engineers, striving for perfection, that you could trust to build life-critical systems with the utmost care. Can you honnestly say that you would trust, say, Microsoft software developers for designing life-critical systems? Yet, Microsoft is one of this planet's most brlilliant of successful Capitalism. People keep on making money with that mass production mentality, but at what cost to our future?
Meanwhile, the average Joe can afford a DVD player, but is still struggling to pay the rent of his vermine-infested appartment in a downtown neighborhood whose crime rates continue to increase (and DO remember that "downtown" tends to mean dodgy populist areas, while "uptown" means peacefull ritsy neighborhoods). Is that what you call abundance?
Am I advocating Communism? Not necessarily. In fact, individualism has its place in life. However, I have yet to find an ecologically-sound economical theorem to replace the currently only decent compromise that is Socialism.
Is that George W Bush and his brother Jed will do antyhing to find excuses to terrorize this planet and impose American imperialism upon other countries. War on terror and against terrorists? I guess this means we better warm up the MiGs and call up Beijing, cause we've located Global Terrorists and the intelligence reports are positive that they're located in the White House.
First, the organizers of the exhibition shortened the Russians' presentation time at the last minute, forcing them to quickly improvise another flight plan.
Then, as the investigation later proved, they had a French military Mirage plane tailing them all the time, trying to gain "intelligence" by taking closeup shots.
However, the Russians had not been warned that they would have someone tailing them and, seeing the Mirage come out of nowhere during a tricky manoeuver, tried to avoid collision by turning the huge plane swiftly, even though it was clearly no designed to widthstand this sort of sudden moves, which resulted in the plane stalling in mid-air. The pilots apparently tried to redress trajectory while the plane was falling down, but were not able to regain control quickly enough to avoid disaster, killing their crew of 5 as well as 8 residents of a nearby village hit by the falling debris.
You missed the point entirely. Whatever the univeristy claims doesn't justify its "guilty until proven innocent" attitude against filesharing applications.
That assumption that any and all P2P is systematically used to share non-free goods thta are meant to be purchased is preposterous. It's same the sort of assumption that associates Telnet/SSH with crackers and associates encryption with criminals. All of it is bull.
Look at the Hebrew screenshot in Nautilus: the root slash in the "/home/test" path is at the wrong location (it ends up displayed as "home/test/"). The same thing happens to any and all punctuations placed at either ends of a sentence, which affects Gaim, Mozilla and everything else that depends upon Pango.
In Mozilla, typing a search query in a form for e.g. Google, if you use quotation marks (when looking for web pages containing an exact match for a string, for instance) results in a search querry that cannot be edited, because the cursor forgot the notion of where the sentence ends and, even worse, reverses the functions of the Delete and Backspace keys completely. In Gaim, typing a gramatically correct sentence that ends with a punctuation mark results in that punctuation being put at the start of the sentence, once you press Return and the sentence is shown in the conversation window. etc. etc.
It looks like a really tiny typo about detecting where sentences end and start, resulting in misplaced punctuation marks, but still... Pango could have been more thoroughly tested with actual native speakers of said right-left languages, before it was released.
CSS layout control works, but all the colours are ignored. It also appears that Epiphany lacks session management: if I exit Epiphany, whatever I had in each tab is forever lost. Honest end-user complaint: Galeon already took forever to get to the point where it had session management. In the same amount of time, it became a huge bloated piece of garbage. Meanwhile, Opera offers the right defaults, it is FAST and fully keyboard navigatable; its only flaw is that that it's proprietary, non-free technology. Given this, I can hadly see how Epiphany will get anywhere close anytime soon and therefore cannot do otherwise but support the original poster's "yet another browser" rant.
Anybody else thought "Joe 90" and the Aryan Race, while looking at that commercial? IMHO, not the kind of publicity Linux needs.
I'd rather see the idea that other poster mentioned (show a bunch of geeks with glee in their eyes, each in a different country, and state "They are working on your future; for free. Linux: the future is open.") be implemented, that would give the right message. One of the geeks should be Linus himself, others could be e.g. Andrew Trigell, Brian Behlendorf, etc. and the names could be printed onscreen, to introduce each of them.
Try getting support for Oracle and other commercial application on anything else than Red Hat and call me back once you found the solution. In a nutshell, I stand good chances of reaching retirement ages before you find anything. Such is life. Disclaimer: I am a Debian zealot, but I have also faced the realities of corporate life.
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See for yourselves. Say what you want, but it appears that, after Tony Blair, the BBC has also become a laquay of American propaganda. How long before UK is annexed by the Land of the Non-Free?
Looking back, she reminds me of Sarah St-James. Girl-next-door looks that trip your sensor array, but don't explode it. Cute.
I stopped visiting her site the day her picture archive and pretty much anything of interest became a paying subscribtion. Maybe now would be a good time to make everything open-access, as a farewell gift to all, during the last month of operation?
If he merged them, I would no longer have to fight my way around these two to manage to squeeze GrSecurity and FreeSwan on top, since the GrSecurity and FreeSwan crowd would have already done the work of making their patches compatible with a pre-emptive and low-latency enabled vanilla upstream source. For some reason, beleive I would not be the only one to cheer up if this happened.
Mario? Would you happen to be reading this thread and willing to explain your position in regards to this?
The keyword that management needs to grasp is productivity, specificly what is the best way of achiveiving that by offering each worker the optimal working space for their prefered work methodology:
Exactly where and how an employee performs his duties is completely irrelevant. The only important issue is meeting deadlines while delivering quality workmanship. Letting an employee work at the location where he is the most productive is the only practical way of achieving that.
Never mind the fact that workplace ergonomists consulting with the PHBs are way more into following trends in their own field than in actually noticing what are the needs of employees who will be working in their designer environments. They fail to examine whether certain team members are more productive working in solitary and interacting with others only at the weekly meetings, while others actually are more productive in a common team space. Individualisation is the keyword, but workplace ergonomists fail to understand it.
On the other hand, I cannot help but notice how running into the wrong person [politically correct employer, boy/girlfriend, football coach, bad cop, etc.] with excellent Googling skills, can easily manage to ruin your life completely, by marginalizing you out of existence, to the extent that nobody wants to hire or date you and where even your old highschool pals fake not recognizing you on the street, because whatever you posted on your website went against the grain.
This leaves open the question of whether freedom of speech and democracy really mean anything anymore.
The game used to be played along this famous French writer's motto that "I might vehemently disagree with what you are saying, but I'll die to preserve your right to say it." Likewise, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau once told his son (quoted at the funeral) to "Never attack someone personally. You can publicly attack their ideas, but never touch their dignity as a human being."
Unfortunately, in a world where anything you say can and will be used against you at some point, before you have been accused of anything, even whenever you have not broken any law, simply because people fear the stigma of guilt by association, it appears that we have reached a point where those old standards of respect are no longer true.
This being said, lately, I've been asking myself why I even bother maintaining a diminutive website:
I haven't created much in terms of music, photography or ever writings in ages, which already puts a big question mark over whatever content might qualify for publication. Then, already, I've had a few employers actually mention having a problem with me stating boldly on my About My CV... page that "I am quite competent in Windows 3.11/95/98/NT/2000 administration and in Office 95/97/2000 usage, but flatly refuse to use any Microsoft product."
[of course, in a world where the majority thinks that getting a job should be the only priority anyone ever had, and where companies can fire anyone for the most laughable excuses, standing up for your beleifs and values, by refusing to work in certain fields or within a certain framework, has become suicidal, but that's another issue entirely - then again, it says a lot about how little freedom capitalism actually offers: choose freedom or money, but you cannot have both unless what you think is whatever the Ministry of Disinformation has rubber-stamped]
Given the combined current lack of content and problem in stating preferences for anything non-mainstream, I'm starting to think that the only thing left to put on a website is a politically bleached version of my CV and a generic photo to recycle with job applications and such. Then again, might as well upload the damn thing to Monster's CV repository and start using throw-away e-mail accounts for anything, at which point nobody needs an ISP or personal website anymore. *sigh*
Damn! I beleive I just created a second dot-com doomsday scenario... Sorry to all startups who will close shop as a result! :P
1. Buy the Linux desktop company with the Outlook replacement solution.
2. Buy the world's second leading Linux distro with its excellent LSB-compliant base and its Exchange replacement solution.
3. Add own directory service, networking and workgroup products.
4. Buy former leader in high-performance UNIX hardware with its solid experience of Linux porting.
5. ???
6. Proffit?
/me sends CV to local Novell branch office...
What I predict is Novell telling the Ximian folks to create a best-of-breed desktop based upon freedesktop.org guidelines, by hand-picking the best ideas from Gnome and KDE, both at the API and user-experience level. The end-result will be a unified Linux desktop environment that will come to replace both Gnome and KDE, within the next 12 months, as the de-facto standard.
Your idea is a very noble one, but I have to ask you a few questions:
- Right now, I can use 'reportbug' to report problems related to:
- What about using the same 'reportbug' to interact with debianized software offered by third-parties? Hint: this already fails; one has to subscribe to the upstream package's mailing list temporarily, states their problem and hope that someone will get it.
- How would people be assured of the QA processes used by a non-Debian produced contrib and non-free repository? Hint: they would not. There is already absolutely zero guarantee that third-party packages will work with dependencies produced by the Debian Project.
- How would package GPG signing remain consistant? Right now, there is a package providing GPG keys of all registered developers and several packaging tools rely upon those "official developers' keys" to vouch for the QA's trustability. How would you ensure that trust coming from an entiry outside the Debian Project?
- The Debian Project already has a long backlog of people wanting to join in as a developer, but being discouraged because of the increasingly complicated applicaiton process. How would non-free.org be any different? Would it make it any easier to join in or would it be as anally retentive as the Debian Project's application procedure? How would you approve, for instance, an application from Opera Software to submit binary-only packages to non-free?
The separation of contrib and non-free (and integration of third-party deb's) is much more complicated than adding a few lines to sources.list, but this is something that nobody has addressed so far. I'd like to hear your answers on that.- main
- contrib
- non-free
- non-US/main
- non-US/contrib
- non-US/non-free
How would that tool keep on working, if contrib and non-free (not to mention the non-US stuff) would be handled by a completely separate team? Hint: it won't. Bugzilla already fails to work on Gnome products, because upstream regularly ignores reports from Debian users, claiming that they don't have time to deal with "distribution-specific bugs". I cannot imagine things turning otherwise, with an eventual excommunication of contrib and non-free out of the Debian Project.I suppose that an eventual non-free.org could adopt a model similar to Red Hat's Fedora (which started as an independant team packaging thrid-party software meeting strict QA standards), but even then, it leaves the issue of integrating with Debian development and user feedback tools very much unresolved.
If there's one thing, the mere fact that absolutely everybody can afford a piece of whichever brandname product has done zippo to resolve poverty caused by the ever rising price of appartment rents.
People, let's face it, Capitalism is the root of all evil, because it creates false scarcity:
As anyone who followed the history of the automobile industry (to pick just one example) will tell you, pioneers like Tucker had build cars that were safe and built to last, which would have ruined the business of the automobile giants, but given the average Joe wheels for life and money to spare on, maybe, getting around travelling the world like he always wanted to, instead of struggling to pay the rent AND buy a new automobile because his 3-year old wheels are dying on him.
Another example is the Concorde plane. Many have said that it could not have been designed today and that nothing ever close to it will ever see the light again. Why? Because this great evil called Capitalism forces even the lamest dimwit to get a job to sustain himself, which results in brainless idiots getting into University just because they think that getting a degree is their birthright.
Until the 50's, getting a degree was a hard-earned priviledge, which meant that only the best of the breed got there (having to pay a fortune to go there is WRONG, but having though entry exams is RIGHT). So you failed? Big deal; go back to the farm - where, as surprising as it may sounds to people today, real abundance is found: real houses built to last, fresh food straight off the land and, nowadays, yes, broadband and satellitle TV still reaches if you need it. What else could you possibly want?
One last example: noticed how early solid-state audio equipment by Sony (and others) is still among the most coveted audiophile hardware, both because whatever was built in the early days was built to last and because it was also the state-of-the-art in terms of quality. Yet, how many of you can say the same of anything built since the 90's?
Let's face it, the commoditization of diplomas required a lowering of standards which is 100% consistant with mass production: first, mass production of cheap goods, then mass production of incompetant alumni. Result? Polution because of an over-abundance of throw-away products, designed by people with a throw-away degree. Back in the 50's, when the Concorde design started, they might have been using slide rules, but they were REAL engineers, striving for perfection, that you could trust to build life-critical systems with the utmost care. Can you honnestly say that you would trust, say, Microsoft software developers for designing life-critical systems? Yet, Microsoft is one of this planet's most brlilliant of successful Capitalism. People keep on making money with that mass production mentality, but at what cost to our future?
Meanwhile, the average Joe can afford a DVD player, but is still struggling to pay the rent of his vermine-infested appartment in a downtown neighborhood whose crime rates continue to increase (and DO remember that "downtown" tends to mean dodgy populist areas, while "uptown" means peacefull ritsy neighborhoods). Is that what you call abundance?
Am I advocating Communism? Not necessarily. In fact, individualism has its place in life. However, I have yet to find an ecologically-sound economical theorem to replace the currently only decent compromise that is Socialism.
Is that George W Bush and his brother Jed will do antyhing to find excuses to terrorize this planet and impose American imperialism upon other countries. War on terror and against terrorists? I guess this means we better warm up the MiGs and call up Beijing, cause we've located Global Terrorists and the intelligence reports are positive that they're located in the White House.
Then, as the investigation later proved, they had a French military Mirage plane tailing them all the time, trying to gain "intelligence" by taking closeup shots.
However, the Russians had not been warned that they would have someone tailing them and, seeing the Mirage come out of nowhere during a tricky manoeuver, tried to avoid collision by turning the huge plane swiftly, even though it was clearly no designed to widthstand this sort of sudden moves, which resulted in the plane stalling in mid-air. The pilots apparently tried to redress trajectory while the plane was falling down, but were not able to regain control quickly enough to avoid disaster, killing their crew of 5 as well as 8 residents of a nearby village hit by the falling debris.
It's none of our friggin problem if your brain is so incompetent that it can only use one language. Poor sob.
You missed the point entirely. Whatever the univeristy claims doesn't justify its "guilty until proven innocent" attitude against filesharing applications.
That assumption that any and all P2P is systematically used to share non-free goods thta are meant to be purchased is preposterous. It's same the sort of assumption that associates Telnet/SSH with crackers and associates encryption with criminals. All of it is bull.
A definite gem. Thank you! :)
In Mozilla, typing a search query in a form for e.g. Google, if you use quotation marks (when looking for web pages containing an exact match for a string, for instance) results in a search querry that cannot be edited, because the cursor forgot the notion of where the sentence ends and, even worse, reverses the functions of the Delete and Backspace keys completely. In Gaim, typing a gramatically correct sentence that ends with a punctuation mark results in that punctuation being put at the start of the sentence, once you press Return and the sentence is shown in the conversation window. etc. etc.
It looks like a really tiny typo about detecting where sentences end and start, resulting in misplaced punctuation marks, but still... Pango could have been more thoroughly tested with actual native speakers of said right-left languages, before it was released.
CSS layout control works, but all the colours are ignored. It also appears that Epiphany lacks session management: if I exit Epiphany, whatever I had in each tab is forever lost. Honest end-user complaint: Galeon already took forever to get to the point where it had session management. In the same amount of time, it became a huge bloated piece of garbage. Meanwhile, Opera offers the right defaults, it is FAST and fully keyboard navigatable; its only flaw is that that it's proprietary, non-free technology. Given this, I can hadly see how Epiphany will get anywhere close anytime soon and therefore cannot do otherwise but support the original poster's "yet another browser" rant.
I'd rather see the idea that other poster mentioned (show a bunch of geeks with glee in their eyes, each in a different country, and state "They are working on your future; for free. Linux: the future is open.") be implemented, that would give the right message. One of the geeks should be Linus himself, others could be e.g. Andrew Trigell, Brian Behlendorf, etc. and the names could be printed onscreen, to introduce each of them.
Try getting support for Oracle and other commercial application on anything else than Red Hat and call me back once you found the solution. In a nutshell, I stand good chances of reaching retirement ages before you find anything. Such is life. Disclaimer: I am a Debian zealot, but I have also faced the realities of corporate life.
Artec Design offers that. Cheap and excellent Thin Client that runs either a thined-down Debian or Windows CE. What more could you ask for?
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