are you familiar with the idiotic windows vista practice of asking you to approve every executeable before it runs?
No, because I've *actually used* Vista, unlike those people who make these ridiculous claims based on their first ten minutes, which they spent running application installers.
Huh. I had no idea. Gmail works perfectly in Opera in normal mode. It's exactly the same as Firefox except for less random slowdown in extremely long threads (in fairness FF3.0 did improve matters there somewhat, but Opera is still marginally better for Gmail).
For some reason, it's never redirected me to the basic HTML version...
I guess you could. I have a (now rather sizeable) list of bugs and wishlist items I've been assembling for KDE4.2 in the last couple of days, with the intention to go through it and file bugs as appropriate. I'll add that to the wishlist:D
if it is impossible to uninstall konqueror and still browse files, then your distro has packaged it wrong.
I presume you mean 'uninstall Dolphin', which is what I said.
Are you saying that Konqueror in KDE4 can use something other than dolphinpart as the embedded viewer for files of type 'inode/directory'? In Debian at least there appears to be no other option, and I was under the impression that it was an intentional choice to use one shared part.
On the other hand, perhaps you are saying that it should be possible to uninstall the Dolphin application while leaving the kpart available for use? In that case, what distros have it packaged in such a way that that's possible?
Shared calendars in Public Folders. Evolution can't do them. Plus it's not cross-platform and it's slow and bloated. I tried really hard to like Evolution, but I couldn't stand it past the first afternoon.
I don't know that I've seen that done, aside from Dolphin, and Dolphin and Konqueror share a KPart. Unless I'm missing something, Dolphin is all about providing a different UI.
That's correct (in KDE4 at least). It's possible to uninstall Dolphin, and then Konqueror will be unable to browse local directories.
TRWTF is what Dolphin (the application) is actually *for*. The UI is *more* cluttered than Konqueror despite providing *less* features. It's like they heard of the trade-off between features and ease-of-use[0] but didn't realise that one of those is supposed to be improved, rather than both get worse. I suspect I may not be the target market for this application:P.
Unfortunately, ionice prioritises only I/O writes, not reads, which are the cause of the problem most of the time. In my experience, using ionice actually makes *no difference at all*, which really sucks.
On a related topic, I was recently amazed to discover that, despite the Linux kernel's shockingly awful I/O scheduling performance (face it folks, it really sucks hard), Windows XP is considerably worse. Want to move a large file from one disk to another? Might as well go and grab a coffee; your machine will be a doorstop while it's transferring. (I still think Windows is better at CPU scheduling though (my preference is to set it for a server load even on the desktop).)
CFCs and HCFCs are toxic, which means that leaking them into the pilot cell (after, say, a bullet hitting them) is dangerous, while some alternatives would be an inconvenience (loss of AC and an unpleasant smell).
No they're not. One of the reasons CFCs were/are so widely used is that they're non-toxic - a big win considering that the most common refrigerant in use when they were invented was ammonia.
Wikipedia says:
American engineer Thomas Midgley developed chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) in 1928 as a replacement for ammonia (NH3), chloromethane (CH3Cl), and sulfur dioxide (SO2), which are toxic but were in common use at the time as refrigerants. The new compound developed had to have a low boiling point and be non-toxic and generally non-reactive. In a demonstration for the American Chemical Society, Midgley flamboyantly demonstrated all these properties by inhaling a breath of the gas and using it to blow out a candle.
This is one of the reasons that industries were/are so reluctant to stop using them. The discovery that they have unexpected negative consequences was a major blow because otherwise they're insanely great.
Not quite. Stabbing is active; the attacker is trying to cause harm. Refusing to donate an organ isn't attacking, it's refusing to prevent an already caused death; very bad, but not exactly the same thing. True. This was written in haste and should have been given more thought.
On the other hand, your response probably killed somebody.
I don't think it's reasonable to cry about sensitivity when somebody's life is the cost. There are some levels of selfishness which are simply indefensible.
Personally, a large part of me believes it should be illegal to refuse organ donation, just as it's illegal to stab some random bystander.
Play.com manage this by being located in the Channel Islands, and hence not charging VAT (or charging at a far lower rate; I forget exactly how it works).
But probably it is just because a republic seems like very a logical arrangement to me, where as monarchs seem quite antiquated.
I think you've hit part of the point right there; people like things that are antiquated. They stir interest.
In the UK at least the monarch has almost no power in theory, and less than that in practice. The monarchy serves as a rather effective tourist attraction largely because of strange romantic notions that I for one don't really understand. It would appear a majority of the people in this country like the idea of having a monarchy to show off, but so far as I can see that's largely due to the mainstream press's idolisation of celebrity.
It's not too easy to determine the amount of public money actually spent on the monarchy, but I'd be willing to bet it's less than the advertising budget of a large company. If the money provided (in revenue from tourism, considering that what we're talking about could be considered one big national advertisement) by Buckingham Palace etc. dropped below the cost of the monarchy, I bet we'd see some changes...
Okaaay. *Backs away slowly from the scary person*
You've largely missed my point. Of course, since you provided no clarification, I shall follow suit.:P
I'm confused. So far As I can tell, the only difference between SPARC and SPARC64 Linux is the kernel. Debian of course has a SPARC port, so why not just choose the kernel as appropriate (or compile your own in the unlikely event that they don't provide both versions precompiled)?
Please do try not to confuse correlation (sp?) with causality. An application crashed. A man was sentenced to death. I may have picked my nose that day. Possibly I sneezed. I bet somebody tripped over his own shoelace. Did my nose-picking cause the man to die? Both events took place, so I must have been the reason. Yes?
Verify that it's random? I'd love to see that.
"No your honour. This sequence could not have possibly been generated randomly." or maybe "Yes your honour. This sequence could only have been generated randomly."
Without clarification, you make no sense.
For anything but the recent(ish) DirectX8 re-release (you may be able to use WineX even for that now though):
1. Install completely to hard drive (should be fine just to have movies installed to hd)
2. Delete [various movies].bif (you'll have to sacrifice the cutscenes for stability, sorry:-(. touch [various movies].bif.
3. In baldur.ini: SoftMirrorBlt=1
4. Tit about with resolution/colour depth as you see fit.
5. Play for untold hours (I find BG1 under WINE (better with the main tree than WineX) to be a lot more stable than BG2 under Windows).
Pray (your mileage will almost certainly vary).
PS. IE 5.5 runs fine for me, not that I'd consider there to be any point, though I appreciate that some people need to be able to use some very poorly designed sites.
Re: 5
That may be the default (it's so long since I had to change anything with in that I have forgotten), but it's certainly not necessary. For the last year or two I have been using XOSL installed on a dedicated partition, a couple of megs in size. One good thing is that you can restore it to the MBR for whatever reason, and everything is the same as before. I've never used grub, but I always found this to be a pain with LILO because you had to boot into the relevent OS to do that. I think the installer needs DOS, but that shouldn't be a problem as it's small enough to fit on a floppy.
NB. This is all applicable to a fairly old version since it was the only boot manager that could do all I wanted at the time (some of the partition hiding is cool), and I've never felt the need to look at anything newer.
No, it's not, not if you're playing music originally from CD. CD's are stereo. Not 4-channel, not 5.1. Do you expect your surround system to magically figure out what speaker to send a signal to?
This isn't exactly true. Most CDs have two normal channels, with another (the surround channel) embedded using some kind of phase method I don't understand and haven't got around to looking up. What this means is that the second channel effectively gives you two-in-one (what a deal!), and there is some inaudible (ie. often discarded with lossy compression) data in the mix. Almost all cds have a surround channel, usually for spatial effects or backing music without vocals (it can't be used for a completely diferent channel since there is some bleed-through). Most codecs are designed to take this into account though, and I have only ever noticed a problem with mp3s, and even then only ones encoded with a fairly old non-lame encoder. This sounded kind of like music underwater, but more metallic.
"Democracy is not a spectator sport"
Isn't it? What about those of us who are under 18? We are about as powerful as a glass hammer. Anyone who cannot vote can simply be ignored. Maybe we'll vote for somebody else in the future, but it's a little late then. Those politicians who care more about reelection than doing the right thing are still going to ignore us until then. I look at what is happening to the world, and it sometimes makes me cry.
1 year left, but there will always be a significant sample of the population who are simply ignored. For us it's never been a democracy. It's a dictatorship. Who knows, maybe in a couple of decades it will be for everyone else...
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obviously s/the/this/ in the last sentence
What the fuck? Why the hell do you even play games anyway? Cunting mother of shit I can't believe I still read the asswank website.
I believe the word you are looking for it 'assfucks'. I mean pvpers. Same thing
are you familiar with the idiotic windows vista practice of asking you to approve every executeable before it runs?
No, because I've *actually used* Vista, unlike those people who make these ridiculous claims based on their first ten minutes, which they spent running application installers.
Huh. I had no idea. Gmail works perfectly in Opera in normal mode. It's exactly the same as Firefox except for less random slowdown in extremely long threads (in fairness FF3.0 did improve matters there somewhat, but Opera is still marginally better for Gmail). For some reason, it's never redirected me to the basic HTML version...
I guess you could. I have a (now rather sizeable) list of bugs and wishlist items I've been assembling for KDE4.2 in the last couple of days, with the intention to go through it and file bugs as appropriate. I'll add that to the wishlist :D
if it is impossible to uninstall konqueror and still browse files, then your distro has packaged it wrong.
I presume you mean 'uninstall Dolphin', which is what I said.
Are you saying that Konqueror in KDE4 can use something other than dolphinpart as the embedded viewer for files of type 'inode/directory'? In Debian at least there appears to be no other option, and I was under the impression that it was an intentional choice to use one shared part.
On the other hand, perhaps you are saying that it should be possible to uninstall the Dolphin application while leaving the kpart available for use? In that case, what distros have it packaged in such a way that that's possible?
Shared calendars in Public Folders. Evolution can't do them. Plus it's not cross-platform and it's slow and bloated. I tried really hard to like Evolution, but I couldn't stand it past the first afternoon.
I don't know that I've seen that done, aside from Dolphin, and Dolphin and Konqueror share a KPart. Unless I'm missing something, Dolphin is all about providing a different UI.
That's correct (in KDE4 at least). It's possible to uninstall Dolphin, and then Konqueror will be unable to browse local directories.
TRWTF is what Dolphin (the application) is actually *for*. The UI is *more* cluttered than Konqueror despite providing *less* features. It's like they heard of the trade-off between features and ease-of-use[0] but didn't realise that one of those is supposed to be improved, rather than both get worse. I suspect I may not be the target market for this application :P.
[0] Not that I really believe in this trade-off, for reasons more-or-less described by this guy: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/userfriendly/userfriendly1.php
Unfortunately, ionice prioritises only I/O writes, not reads, which are the cause of the problem most of the time. In my experience, using ionice actually makes *no difference at all*, which really sucks.
On a related topic, I was recently amazed to discover that, despite the Linux kernel's shockingly awful I/O scheduling performance (face it folks, it really sucks hard), Windows XP is considerably worse. Want to move a large file from one disk to another? Might as well go and grab a coffee; your machine will be a doorstop while it's transferring. (I still think Windows is better at CPU scheduling though (my preference is to set it for a server load even on the desktop).)
On the other hand, your response probably killed somebody.
I don't think it's reasonable to cry about sensitivity when somebody's life is the cost. There are some levels of selfishness which are simply indefensible.
Personally, a large part of me believes it should be illegal to refuse organ donation, just as it's illegal to stab some random bystander.
Play.com manage this by being located in the Channel Islands, and hence not charging VAT (or charging at a far lower rate; I forget exactly how it works).
In the UK at least the monarch has almost no power in theory, and less than that in practice. The monarchy serves as a rather effective tourist attraction largely because of strange romantic notions that I for one don't really understand. It would appear a majority of the people in this country like the idea of having a monarchy to show off, but so far as I can see that's largely due to the mainstream press's idolisation of celebrity.
It's not too easy to determine the amount of public money actually spent on the monarchy, but I'd be willing to bet it's less than the advertising budget of a large company. If the money provided (in revenue from tourism, considering that what we're talking about could be considered one big national advertisement) by Buckingham Palace etc. dropped below the cost of the monarchy, I bet we'd see some changes...
The parent is joking of course, but for those who actually have no idea what this means, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows
Okaaay. *Backs away slowly from the scary person* You've largely missed my point. Of course, since you provided no clarification, I shall follow suit. :P
I'm confused. So far As I can tell, the only difference between SPARC and SPARC64 Linux is the kernel. Debian of course has a SPARC port, so why not just choose the kernel as appropriate (or compile your own in the unlikely event that they don't provide both versions precompiled)?
Please do try not to confuse correlation (sp?) with causality. An application crashed. A man was sentenced to death. I may have picked my nose that day. Possibly I sneezed. I bet somebody tripped over his own shoelace. Did my nose-picking cause the man to die? Both events took place, so I must have been the reason. Yes?
Verify that it's random? I'd love to see that. "No your honour. This sequence could not have possibly been generated randomly." or maybe "Yes your honour. This sequence could only have been generated randomly." Without clarification, you make no sense.
long-case clock: n. a grandfather clock.
grandfather clock: n. a clock in a tall free-standing wooden case, driven by weights.
dial: n. 1. the face [emphasis mine] of a clock or watch, marked to show the hours etc.
face: n. 4. f. the plate of a clock or watch bearing the digits, hands, etc.
So your choice of terminology is correct, but your suggestion that they are exclusively so is not.
HTH
For anything but the recent(ish) DirectX8 re-release (you may be able to use WineX even for that now though):
1. Install completely to hard drive (should be fine just to have movies installed to hd)
2. Delete [various movies].bif (you'll have to sacrifice the cutscenes for stability, sorry :-(. touch [various movies].bif.
3. In baldur.ini: SoftMirrorBlt=1
4. Tit about with resolution/colour depth as you see fit.
5. Play for untold hours (I find BG1 under WINE (better with the main tree than WineX) to be a lot more stable than BG2 under Windows).
Pray (your mileage will almost certainly vary).
PS. IE 5.5 runs fine for me, not that I'd consider there to be any point, though I appreciate that some people need to be able to use some very poorly designed sites.
Re: 5
That may be the default (it's so long since I had to change anything with in that I have forgotten), but it's certainly not necessary. For the last year or two I have been using XOSL installed on a dedicated partition, a couple of megs in size. One good thing is that you can restore it to the MBR for whatever reason, and everything is the same as before. I've never used grub, but I always found this to be a pain with LILO because you had to boot into the relevent OS to do that. I think the installer needs DOS, but that shouldn't be a problem as it's small enough to fit on a floppy.
NB. This is all applicable to a fairly old version since it was the only boot manager that could do all I wanted at the time (some of the partition hiding is cool), and I've never felt the need to look at anything newer.
No, it's not, not if you're playing music originally from CD. CD's are stereo. Not 4-channel, not 5.1. Do you expect your surround system to magically figure out what speaker to send a signal to?
This isn't exactly true. Most CDs have two normal channels, with another (the surround channel) embedded using some kind of phase method I don't understand and haven't got around to looking up. What this means is that the second channel effectively gives you two-in-one (what a deal!), and there is some inaudible (ie. often discarded with lossy compression) data in the mix. Almost all cds have a surround channel, usually for spatial effects or backing music without vocals (it can't be used for a completely diferent channel since there is some bleed-through). Most codecs are designed to take this into account though, and I have only ever noticed a problem with mp3s, and even then only ones encoded with a fairly old non-lame encoder. This sounded kind of like music underwater, but more metallic.
"Democracy is not a spectator sport"
Isn't it? What about those of us who are under 18? We are about as powerful as a glass hammer. Anyone who cannot vote can simply be ignored. Maybe we'll vote for somebody else in the future, but it's a little late then. Those politicians who care more about reelection than doing the right thing are still going to ignore us until then. I look at what is happening to the world, and it sometimes makes me cry.
1 year left, but there will always be a significant sample of the population who are simply ignored. For us it's never been a democracy. It's a dictatorship. Who knows, maybe in a couple of decades it will be for everyone else...