Things that I don't like about it: - I miss spaces and silent 'h's and so on because those are what I don't really think about, and you keep looking at what you are going to type. It's the reverse of blind typing.:) - No easy way to fix that missing space after you dashed 20 letters farther. - When I now click on my application menu, I go dashing like crazy to the app I want, which makes me miss the right app:) - I think it will use severely more battery power than the regular input ways because of all the screen updating and memory moving involved.
Just to make you happy, the Hurd people have been doing what you describe for quite some time now.
In the Hurd kernel, you basically have a microkernel and lots and lots of server programs, which implement (in this case) a Unix system. Everything is very tweakable, and you can run servers as an ordinary user, so that to programs you run against them, they are part of the kernel. And this happens independent from the other users.
Also, you have these servers that you can attach to inodes, so that you can have virtual filesystems in the kernel, at user level. So all the things that KDE and so on do, like ftp:// and gzip://, can be just a server attached to an inode.
Well, that is the theory at least:). I never tried it, although I'm sure I will in the near future. Check it out at the Hurd homepage
The only sensible tidbit of information in this entire article, and me without moderator points:-( Note that in the article, Intel says that doing the equivalent of winmodems for wireless is too expensive computationally. If they say it, I believe it:-)
No, it's still 42. He was always late in meeting his deadlines. (In case you missed it, he said 'I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make when they go by').
Man, this thouroughly puts a damper on this day.
Thanks Doug. Your writings meant a lot in my life. I hope all goes well for your wife and daughter.
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kfm was just a half-baked konqueror. Konqueror does about the same things kfm did, plus everything including the kitchen sink, in a more logical way. I think the KDE developers did a good thing.
You have to look at the philosophy of the thing. Konqi is a general purpose browser, which can show anything if you program the plugin.
I adore this concept. Windows Explorer is just a web browser which can also show directories and do some stuff with it, to give an example from the other side.
On top of that, they did it in a way that doesn't slow working down. (On current computers. Don't try this stuff on your 16MB 486, it'll die)
If you just want basic file management, try some of the X file managers. Old crap can be found easily... Personally, I prefer midnight commander in an xterm above kfm, and konqi is the first file manager that actually made me doubt.
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Things that I don't like about it: :) :)
- I miss spaces and silent 'h's and so on because those are what I don't really think about, and you keep looking at what you are going to type. It's the reverse of blind typing.
- No easy way to fix that missing space after you dashed 20 letters farther.
- When I now click on my application menu, I go dashing like crazy to the app I want, which makes me miss the right app
- I think it will use severely more battery power than the regular input ways because of all the screen updating and memory moving involved.
For the rest, i totally love it. Great stuff!
In the Hurd kernel, you basically have a microkernel and lots and lots of server programs, which implement (in this case) a Unix system. Everything is very tweakable, and you can run servers as an ordinary user, so that to programs you run against them, they are part of the kernel. And this happens independent from the other users.
Also, you have these servers that you can attach to inodes, so that you can have virtual filesystems in the kernel, at user level. So all the things that KDE and so on do, like ftp:// and gzip://, can be just a server attached to an inode.
Well, that is the theory at least :). I never tried it, although I'm sure I will in the near future. Check it out at the Hurd homepage
The only sensible tidbit of information in this entire article, and me without moderator points :-( :-)
Note that in the article, Intel says that doing the equivalent of winmodems for wireless is too expensive computationally. If they say it, I believe it
Well, it's apparantly being slashdotted a bit, and when I went there, I saw only the following at first:
:-)
Swimming Poo
I just had to share that with you people
No, it's still 42. He was always late in meeting his deadlines. (In case you missed it, he said 'I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make when they go by').
Man, this thouroughly puts a damper on this day.
Thanks Doug. Your writings meant a lot in my life. I hope all goes well for your wife and daughter.
You're just a figment of my imagination. Go away.
kfm was just a half-baked konqueror. Konqueror does about the same things kfm did, plus everything including the kitchen sink, in a more logical way. I think the KDE developers did a good thing.
You have to look at the philosophy of the thing. Konqi is a general purpose browser, which can show anything if you program the plugin. I adore this concept. Windows Explorer is just a web browser which can also show directories and do some stuff with it, to give an example from the other side.
On top of that, they did it in a way that doesn't slow working down. (On current computers. Don't try this stuff on your 16MB 486, it'll die)
If you just want basic file management, try some of the X file managers. Old crap can be found easily... Personally, I prefer midnight commander in an xterm above kfm, and konqi is the first file manager that actually made me doubt.
Just my $.02,
Wout.
So everything is spiffy :)
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