The XBox has to be chipped to run Linux or anything else than Microsoft-blessed code.
Right now - yes. Are you sure it'll be the same way in a week from now?
Oh, and BTW, you need a storage space for your documents. The XBox HDD uses FATX. Does this filesystem possess all the features you would need in an Unix OS (permissions, for example)? And how do you install new software on your machine (like that personal accounting package you just saw on SourceForge and that's not included in your distro)?
What's to prevent them from making a fs-interface? And who cares about permissions? It's a single-user environment, not a fully fledged PC.
Besides you said it your self - only geeks will use this, and only geeks looks for stuff at Sourceforge. The rest of the populace settles for what comes with their PC.
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Well, Denmarks a bit different, in that it's a single country and not made up of several different states, but we have one very nice paragraph in our constitution (my bad translation):
"Anyone is at liberty to publish their thoughts in printing, in writing and in speech, though they are accountable to a court of law. Censorship and other prohibitive means can never again be reinstated" (implying that censorship has at one point been allowed under the law).
This being in the constitution, you cannot just change it in parliment. But hey - we all know politicians have wet dreams of the thought of giving us all gag-orders, right?
1) I'm the most computer knowledgable person in the company. 2) The company feels it's better to do things internally to save money on both installation and servicing.
I'm not ENTIRELY going to agree with the "easy to set up". Silly me wanted to grant access to certain newsgroups via the server and I must have done something wrong, because it tried to download the entire feed from news.wol.dk which is some 21+ thousand groups...
How do you delete 21+ thousand groups from the server then? ONE BY ONE!!! You cannot select more than one group to manipulate.
Because an Exchange replacement takes skills beyond that of a "mp3 player/id3 reader" and the likes...
I've met quite a few people, who works on OSS, and quite a few developers and programmers, and I think that in total, I have met three people, who would be able to do it. And I doubt I'm even in their league.
In suits filed today in state and federal courts, software company owner Steve Kirsch and another plaintiff seek the damages provided by law,
$500 for each unsolicited commercial fax over the last four years. If a judge certifies either suit as a nationwide class action on behalf of all recipients, the figure can be multiplied by 3 million, the number of faxes that the company boasts it sends each day, Kirsch said.
500$ per fax x 3,000,000 fax / day == 1,500,000,000$/day
1,500,000,000$/day x 365 days/year == 547,500,000,000$ / year
547,500,000,000$ / year x 4 years == 2,190,000,000,000$
It's well within the law, and they're only using the numbers that Fax.com has supplied them with.
It's not likely that I'll get one, because the company is really not that big (12 employees thus far), and I'm the only developer/programmer, but I would REALLY like a co-worker. I wouldn't settle for a simple "answer this questionaire" type interview though, if I had to hire some one.
In my job, 85% of the time is spent inventing new stuff, so just because you can fix bugs in 200 OSS projects, doesn't mean you can fill this position.
I want some one who can listen to an idea and have his brain run amok in synaptic explosions, because even though 99% of those explosions are going to be misfires, some of them are going to pay off.
I want someone who handles a new idea like Microsoft and embraces it (but not quelch it), and not reject it like a foreign object in the bloodstream.
I want someone who's creative; who'll look at an idea and throw it around, complement it and give it a fair chance, instead of thinking "well, we can just patch this and this in yonder program", because sometimes you have to throw out what you have and just use your experiences from earlier.
I'm tempted to pimp an idea of mine (not work related), to give you an idea of what I mean by "creative" and "inventive", but this is not the forum...
Anyway, not all companies wants someone who can code the pants of anyone - sometimes they want one who's creative and open minded. I know that's what my current employer told me (and still tells me) was the reason they hired me.
If Klipper didn't try to help, chances are you'd never have realised they were there.
Actually I would have noticed *something*, like when a program can easily cut/paste internaly (which is the easiest way to make sure, you actually copied your stuff), but can't past in other programs (which was my problem with OO.
Again with the "don't blame the people who doesn't see a problem in allowing more than one clipboard in a system". Gnome (as far as I can tell from the times I've used it) uses its own clipboard as well, which AGAIN means that I have to find a way to disable that as well.
Just how the hell is an average person supposed to change that? We're talking about people, who don't even know why Windows always starts two instances of the programs they start from the desktop, because they've set the system to use single click to launch, but still double click.
This is the type of people that have to be able use the system.
Also, just because it works for you, doesn't make that an absolute truth. I've never broken my leg, and I haven't died so far, so I guess people don't break their legs and they don't die; the people who claims otherwise are obviously stark raving mad.
Don't blame X for your problems, blame KDE. And then try to find something that works for you. That is the whole *point* of choosing Linux: the choices.
For you, maybe. For mom, pop and Mr. Johnson in 3H it's because they want something that just works.
Who the hell wants to spend four months tweaking their car, because it doesn't work? Mom and pop will drop it like a bad habit and go back to Windows, "because that works for us", and then you'll never get their support.
No, this isn't JUST aimed at you, but at all the narrow minded people that tend to frequent these fora who seem to think that everything linux is Gods gift to mankind, and refuse to believe, that there just might be something to complaints. Who have forgotten, that they changed their habbits to conform with the computer, instead of having the computer conform with them.
Let's not forget who's supposed to be a help for whom...
Well, I'll give you some examples that I battle with dayly:
I browse using Opera, use GnomICU for ICQ and OpenOffice.org as my office-suite.
If I get a ICQ message with a web-address, it doesn't make a link from it, so I have to copy it by hand. This involves marking the address with the mouse, then waiting ~4 seconds for KDE to figure out, that the text that is marked, just might be a URL, and ask me what I want to do with it. I want to copy it to the clipboard (which I can't seem to do any other way).
Now I go to opera, where I happen to have another page open, so I doubleclick in the address bar and curse loudly, because now that address is in the clipboard, and kde again asks me what I want to do. Press delete to clear the address-bar
Go back to the ICQ message and repeat.
Go back to Opera, press paste and HOPE it's the right clipboard that I'm accessing this time (because I've only been using linux as a desktop for roughly a month, I keep mixing shortcut access to the various clipboard up). If not, I can delete the text by depressing backspace until the text is deleted. Then try to remember how to access the clipboard that the URL is located in.
OpenOffice is worse and better. I spent four hours writing this and then had to spend 15 minutes trying to figure out how the bloody hell I could move that text into Opera!
Sure, blame the programmes of the programs I mentioned for being sloppy programmers. Blame me for being a stupid luser. But don't blame the developers for enabling more than one single clipboard in a system at a time.
My experience with just the clipboards leads me to believe, that the developers and programmers have never heard of the concepts of concurrency and deadlocks. I haven't seen a deadlock of the clipboard, but I have seen the precursors of it.
Sure, I know how to change clipboards (but not on a system wide level), but would your mom know how to do that? Would Mr. Johnson, the accountant at 3H, who has been blessed with Linux on the desktop?
If you take the time to read through the abstract I linked to, you will see, that I'm not just your average luser, and even if I was, you can take your "holier than thou" attitude and shove up your ass. Both of them.
Consumer: "I bought this CD/DVD, so I should be able to do with it as I want."
MC: "No, you only paid to be allowed to listen/watch it under certain circumstances."
Consumer: "Okay. Now my CD/DVD is scratched beyond use. I want a new one."
MC: "Can't do that. You only get that one copy. You have to be carefull with your own stuff. It's not our responsibility."
Personally I'd like to get a VERY thorough rewrite of the copyright laws that affect _me_ meaning Denmark and the EU, but I'd also like a global and FAIR set of copyright laws.
Not just fair to me as a consumer, but also fair to the copyright holders. As it is now (at least in Denmark) it is seriously borked, giving consumers rights that are in no way fair, and removing rights that ARE fair.
the question being, are those fake files worth the gain of having a major isp on "our" side?
That depends. If you just want to be able to leech away on any and all music, then it's not worth it.
If you just want your fair use, the RIAA off our backs and just want to use the network to discover new music that was put there by the artists themselvs, then it certainly IS worth it.
They're not putting up fake files of legal music, just fake files of illegal music. And that is quite fair in my humble oppinion.
No, I'm just full of shit. There is a difference you know.
Yes, Finland and basically every country in scandinavia are very lax when it comes to censoring. Living in Denmark myself I often wince when watching outtakes from British or American movies, where the actors screw up a line and goes "aw f*bleep* I s*bleep* up my f*bleep* line".
It's okay to watch a man be slaughtered on TV, as long as noone uses bad words.
Yes, you can bring a CD-collection back and forth between the US and the EU, but are you sure you can do that, when the EUCD (European Unions Copyright Directive is in place. Have a look at Chapter III, article 6. It's on page 8.
When that is put into effect, it will probably be illegal to move from the States to the EU and bring your dvd-collection with you, because that would be circumventing the copy-protection on them (it certainly signals intent).
So it's not censorship in the precise meaning of the word, but when I cannot get to watch my favorite new movie, because I'm not allowed to import it (it's another region) and it's not being made for my region because of the economics involved, it might as well be censorship.
Actually it probably wouldn't be that hard to get a movie banned in Europe, it just wouldn't be because of the visual content but because of the message of the movie. Just look at the reception of a game like Grand Theft Auto III has received in Europe. Off hand I can count no less than four countries that considdered banning it: UK, Germany, France and Norway(!!!) And that's just in the EU.
Why, yes, that IS quite a leap of logic, but stay focused for a few minutes while I explain.
A movie is released in the US, that is VERY controversial, but it's legal due to the 1st amendment. It's released through one of the bigger film companies, and they always stick with CSS, so they want to release it to Europe and Japan. But the governments of Germany, France, England and Japan have decided to outlaw the movie, because it's so controversial (think up a stupid reason, and it'll probably hold true), so the studio doesn't want to release it in Region 2 anyway, because it's simply not worth the effort with four of the largest countries and markets in the region outlawing it.
So now the rest of the countries where censureship is expressly forbidden (like Denmark) are now effectively under censureship - from other countries no less; all because some schmuck in Hollywood wants to rule the world.
Region Encoding is censureship and the powers that be knows it and loves it for that.
I saw this happening at the opening night of The Phantom Menace.
*Start rolling text intro* *ring* *ring* "Hello, this is... HEY!!!" "He can't talk right now. DUCK!!!" *saw little black object fly across the screen* "CRASH!!!" *got hit by a piece of plastic* *loud cheering*
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Right now - yes. Are you sure it'll be the same way in a week from now?
What's to prevent them from making a fs-interface?
And who cares about permissions? It's a single-user environment, not a fully fledged PC.
Besides you said it your self - only geeks will use this, and only geeks looks for stuff at Sourceforge. The rest of the populace settles for what comes with their PC.
Well, Denmarks a bit different, in that it's a single country and not made up of several different states, but we have one very nice paragraph in our constitution (my bad translation):
"Anyone is at liberty to publish their thoughts in printing, in writing and in speech, though they are accountable to a court of law. Censorship and other prohibitive means can never again be reinstated" (implying that censorship has at one point been allowed under the law).
This being in the constitution, you cannot just change it in parliment. But hey - we all know politicians have wet dreams of the thought of giving us all gag-orders, right?
The square/km is a measure used to figure out how many kilts, one can make out of a length of cloth.
I was hoping for something I could guide my mom through on the phone; maybe an idea for a plug-in?
How do I change the various keyboard-shortcuts?
Comming from [browser], it'd be easier to set up the keyboard shortcuts you're used to, than having to get used to a new set.
Uhm ... like ... wow!
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I don't think I could have said it better myself, and that's my only complaint with your comment.
Bastard!
probably the same as me:
1) I'm the most computer knowledgable person in the company.
2) The company feels it's better to do things internally to save money on both installation and servicing.
I'm not ENTIRELY going to agree with the "easy to set up". Silly me wanted to grant access to certain newsgroups via the server and I must have done something wrong, because it tried to download the entire feed from news.wol.dk which is some 21+ thousand groups ...
... 21+ thousand times ...
...
How do you delete 21+ thousand groups from the server then? ONE BY ONE!!! You cannot select more than one group to manipulate.
ARGH!!!!!
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I killed a keyboard that weekend
Because an Exchange replacement takes skills beyond that of a "mp3 player/id3 reader" and the likes ...
I've met quite a few people, who works on OSS, and quite a few developers and programmers, and I think that in total, I have met three people, who would be able to do it. And I doubt I'm even in their league.
Make them eat one can of spam, for each piece of spam, they have sent. Do the same to e-mail spammers.
1,500,000,000$/day x 365 days/year == 547,500,000,000$ / year
547,500,000,000$ / year x 4 years == 2,190,000,000,000$
It's well within the law, and they're only using the numbers that Fax.com has supplied them with.
It's not likely that I'll get one, because the company is really not that big (12 employees thus far), and I'm the only developer/programmer, but I would REALLY like a co-worker. I wouldn't settle for a simple "answer this questionaire" type interview though, if I had to hire some one.
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In my job, 85% of the time is spent inventing new stuff, so just because you can fix bugs in 200 OSS projects, doesn't mean you can fill this position.
I want some one who can listen to an idea and have his brain run amok in synaptic explosions, because even though 99% of those explosions are going to be misfires, some of them are going to pay off.
I want someone who handles a new idea like Microsoft and embraces it (but not quelch it), and not reject it like a foreign object in the bloodstream.
I want someone who's creative; who'll look at an idea and throw it around, complement it and give it a fair chance, instead of thinking "well, we can just patch this and this in yonder program", because sometimes you have to throw out what you have and just use your experiences from earlier.
I'm tempted to pimp an idea of mine (not work related), to give you an idea of what I mean by "creative" and "inventive", but this is not the forum
Anyway, not all companies wants someone who can code the pants of anyone - sometimes they want one who's creative and open minded. I know that's what my current employer told me (and still tells me) was the reason they hired me.
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I'm not entirely sure it's JUST in KDE, and why do you think I'm complaining?
Just how the hell is an average person supposed to change that? We're talking about people, who don't even know why Windows always starts two instances of the programs they start from the desktop, because they've set the system to use single click to launch, but still double click.
This is the type of people that have to be able use the system.
Also, just because it works for you, doesn't make that an absolute truth. I've never broken my leg, and I haven't died so far, so I guess people don't break their legs and they don't die; the people who claims otherwise are obviously stark raving mad.
For you, maybe. For mom, pop and Mr. Johnson in 3H it's because they want something that just works.
Who the hell wants to spend four months tweaking their car, because it doesn't work? Mom and pop will drop it like a bad habit and go back to Windows, "because that works for us", and then you'll never get their support.
No, this isn't JUST aimed at you, but at all the narrow minded people that tend to frequent these fora who seem to think that everything linux is Gods gift to mankind, and refuse to believe, that there just might be something to complaints. Who have forgotten, that they changed their habbits to conform with the computer, instead of having the computer conform with them.
Let's not forget who's supposed to be a help for whom
*ducks*
Well, I'll give you some examples that I battle with dayly:
I browse using Opera, use GnomICU for ICQ and OpenOffice.org as my office-suite.
If I get a ICQ message with a web-address, it doesn't make a link from it, so I have to copy it by hand. This involves marking the address with the mouse, then waiting ~4 seconds for KDE to figure out, that the text that is marked, just might be a URL, and ask me what I want to do with it. I want to copy it to the clipboard (which I can't seem to do any other way).
Now I go to opera, where I happen to have another page open, so I doubleclick in the address bar and curse loudly, because now that address is in the clipboard, and kde again asks me what I want to do. Press delete to clear the address-bar
Go back to the ICQ message and repeat.
Go back to Opera, press paste and HOPE it's the right clipboard that I'm accessing this time (because I've only been using linux as a desktop for roughly a month, I keep mixing shortcut access to the various clipboard up). If not, I can delete the text by depressing backspace until the text is deleted. Then try to remember how to access the clipboard that the URL is located in.
OpenOffice is worse and better. I spent four hours writing this and then had to spend 15 minutes trying to figure out how the bloody hell I could move that text into Opera!
Sure, blame the programmes of the programs I mentioned for being sloppy programmers. Blame me for being a stupid luser. But don't blame the developers for enabling more than one single clipboard in a system at a time.
My experience with just the clipboards leads me to believe, that the developers and programmers have never heard of the concepts of concurrency and deadlocks. I haven't seen a deadlock of the clipboard, but I have seen the precursors of it.
Sure, I know how to change clipboards (but not on a system wide level), but would your mom know how to do that? Would Mr. Johnson, the accountant at 3H, who has been blessed with Linux on the desktop?
If you take the time to read through the abstract I linked to, you will see, that I'm not just your average luser, and even if I was, you can take your "holier than thou" attitude and shove up your ass. Both of them.
"perfectly usable"? I'd remove the "perfectly" from that statement. I still haven't found a *decent* clipboard, that all programs can use ...
That's the problem with the media conglamerates.
Consumer: "I bought this CD/DVD, so I should be able to do with it as I want."
MC: "No, you only paid to be allowed to listen/watch it under certain circumstances."
Consumer: "Okay. Now my CD/DVD is scratched beyond use. I want a new one."
MC: "Can't do that. You only get that one copy. You have to be carefull with your own stuff. It's not our responsibility."
Personally I'd like to get a VERY thorough rewrite of the copyright laws that affect _me_ meaning Denmark and the EU, but I'd also like a global and FAIR set of copyright laws.
Not just fair to me as a consumer, but also fair to the copyright holders. As it is now (at least in Denmark) it is seriously borked, giving consumers rights that are in no way fair, and removing rights that ARE fair.
That depends. If you just want to be able to leech away on any and all music, then it's not worth it.
If you just want your fair use, the RIAA off our backs and just want to use the network to discover new music that was put there by the artists themselvs, then it certainly IS worth it.
They're not putting up fake files of legal music, just fake files of illegal music. And that is quite fair in my humble oppinion.
No, I'm just full of shit. There is a difference you know.
Yes, Finland and basically every country in scandinavia are very lax when it comes to censoring. Living in Denmark myself I often wince when watching outtakes from British or American movies, where the actors screw up a line and goes "aw f*bleep* I s*bleep* up my f*bleep* line".
It's okay to watch a man be slaughtered on TV, as long as noone uses bad words.
Yes, you can bring a CD-collection back and forth between the US and the EU, but are you sure you can do that, when the EUCD (European Unions Copyright Directive is in place. Have a look at Chapter III, article 6. It's on page 8.
When that is put into effect, it will probably be illegal to move from the States to the EU and bring your dvd-collection with you, because that would be circumventing the copy-protection on them (it certainly signals intent).
So it's not censorship in the precise meaning of the word, but when I cannot get to watch my favorite new movie, because I'm not allowed to import it (it's another region) and it's not being made for my region because of the economics involved, it might as well be censorship.
Actually it probably wouldn't be that hard to get a movie banned in Europe, it just wouldn't be because of the visual content but because of the message of the movie. Just look at the reception of a game like Grand Theft Auto III has received in Europe. Off hand I can count no less than four countries that considdered banning it:
UK, Germany, France and Norway(!!!)
And that's just in the EU.
Why, yes, that IS quite a leap of logic, but stay focused for a few minutes while I explain.
A movie is released in the US, that is VERY controversial, but it's legal due to the 1st amendment. It's released through one of the bigger film companies, and they always stick with CSS, so they want to release it to Europe and Japan. But the governments of Germany, France, England and Japan have decided to outlaw the movie, because it's so controversial (think up a stupid reason, and it'll probably hold true), so the studio doesn't want to release it in Region 2 anyway, because it's simply not worth the effort with four of the largest countries and markets in the region outlawing it.
So now the rest of the countries where censureship is expressly forbidden (like Denmark) are now effectively under censureship - from other countries no less; all because some schmuck in Hollywood wants to rule the world.
Region Encoding is censureship and the powers that be knows it and loves it for that.
I saw this happening at the opening night of The Phantom Menace.
... HEY!!!"
*Start rolling text intro*
*ring* *ring*
"Hello, this is
"He can't talk right now. DUCK!!!"
*saw little black object fly across the screen*
"CRASH!!!"
*got hit by a piece of plastic*
*loud cheering*