> The situation with Fedora Core 4 is almost identical (just 6.8.2 vs 6.8.1 in RHEL4).
Unfortunately the situation is currently worse with the modularized X release candidate in FC5test1. Hopefully that's just for simplicity in getting it up and running and it will be cleaned up before FC5 is released.
On a similar note, in 3 days of using FC5test1, I also found lots of RPM SPEC files had to be modified because they depended on package names that no longer exist with the modular X11 package set. I believe they introduced some new Provides: when they switched to xorg-x11, but a lot of packages just rely on the package names.
If by marginally faster, you mean twice as fast, then yes, you are correct. It's not going to win any races, but doubling the speed is a significant improvement.
GIMP is a GTK app, not a GNOME app. The same goes for Firefox and gmplayer. GTK apps do not need gnome-settings-daemon (or anything else from the rest of gnome), though it may be possible they will use it if it is there.
Linus is posting exactly the same as he always had: He says what he thinks, and doesn't pull any punches when doing so. If you think this is "new" behaviour for Linus, you haven't been around long enough. You might want to read this little exchange from 1992:
Fedora (as the biggest example) *does* exist "merely at the sufferance of a corporate entity". If Red Hat stopped supporting it tomorrow, it would be gone faster than you can say "Red Hat Linux 9.0".
I removed Spybot S&D from my gf's XP bo this weekend, after noticing that the last database update was over 6 months old, and it said there were no new database updates.
I see from some of the links in this thread that there are in fact newer updates, but why doesn't the app find them? If I need a newer version to use the newer updates, it ought to tell me, like AdAware and ClamWin...
My biggest problem with Firefox on OSX is the lack of emacs key shortcuts. This was easily fixed in 1.0 by editing an.xml file, but apparently they made it harder in 1.5. Arrgh!
> One of the nicest new features is the "Unable to Load" page that comes up instead of the alert that interupted your browsing, even while in another tab, on the older versions.
This has actually been a "hidden" feature for a long time. You can enable it in 1.0.x in about:config
However, it does work better in 1.5. In 1.0, it would change the URL into an internal URL pointing to the error message. This was annoying if it was only an error due to a typo, because you would have to re-enter the entire URL. In 1.5, they fixed this, so the URL you entered still shows in the URL bar when the error is displayed.
> They sell plenty of whitebox 5400rpm drives to the major computer assemblers (dude, buy a dell) and its hard for them to get consumers to buy more HDs.
Are you sure about that? I bought one of the Fry's weekly special bargain-basement Linspire boxes for $159 a few weeks ago and even it came with a 7200rpm (40GB) drive. Dell and friends can't be too far behind...
I'm not sure if you can still buy Jolt, but if you can, buy a bottle and add the contents of 1 pixy stick. Make sure you do this outside or over a sink.
(I imagine just plain sugar would probably work just as well, but never tried it.)
> I'm not taking a position on the regulation, just responding to the bizarre argument that Microsoft is wronging its blind users by being excluded and leaving them without an alternative.
Microsoft isn't wronging it's blind users, it's wronging all of it's users by trying to lock them into it's proprietary software with it's monopoly position in the office software market.
> Do we really want a standard that enables DRM? Is there such a thing as acceptable DRM? Why is this a good thing for OpenDocument?
It's certainly not a good thing for OpenOffice and other free/open source office packages since DRM is fundamentally incompatibile with open source. If you don't understand why, read this:
Put simply, client side security only works (and that is debatble) in a completely closed system. Here's an example of this I ran across just last week. I have a PDF that I have many times copied and pasted text out of using xpdf. Recently, I bought a Mac Mini, and I happened to scp the very same pdf over to the mac, and open it in Preview. When I tried to copy text out of it, Preview popped up a dialog saying I was not allowed to copy text out of it without entering a password. That works as long as everyone plays by the rules in the standard. But as soon as there is an open source version someone can modify, it'd be quite simple to remove further restrictions once the software already has access to the unencrypted data.
> Most ony customers care little for this Sony solution. My 12 year old sister doesn't seem to care one bit. Sony has the "right" to provide this feature as you're not being forced to buy it.
A president of one of Sony's divisions agrees with you: "Most people, I think, do not even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Could be worse. Back when all I had was a shell account, I use to have to hang up and redial whenever I got stuck in vi (usually by hitting "v" instead of "b" in more...).
> I'm not sure if those are qualities you want in a laptop which tend to get hot and rub against the table.
I suspect Sony knows what they are doing. This is not their first carbon fiber laptop. They've sold one in the US for over a year, and even longer in Japan. In fact, I'm not even sure why this is news...
> Actually I believe it _is_ flammable and _I_ build race cars out of it. However, my mind blanked and I forgot how high the temperature has to be before it will oxidize.
I'm not sure you are correct. We attempted to burn a CF piece a friend of mine made that came out flawed. The resin caught on fire, and burned away leaving the carbon fiber weave intact. The heat from the resin burning away around it was not enough to ignite the CF, so if it is flammible, that temperature must be pretty damn high.
Obviously, if you are talking about the completed piece including resin, that may burn. There are different types of resin though, it's possible there are non-flammible types that won't burn.
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> The situation with Fedora Core 4 is almost identical (just 6.8.2 vs 6.8.1 in RHEL4).
Unfortunately the situation is currently worse with the modularized X release candidate in FC5test1. Hopefully that's just for simplicity in getting it up and running and it will be cleaned up before FC5 is released.
On a similar note, in 3 days of using FC5test1, I also found lots of RPM SPEC files had to be modified because they depended on package names that no longer exist with the modular X11 package set. I believe they introduced some new Provides: when they switched to xorg-x11, but a lot of packages just rely on the package names.
Pine supports POP3.
inbox-path={gmail.google.com/pop3}INBOX
(I don't use gmail, so I'm guessing on the server name.)
> Was that browser/editor Mosaic?
:)
No, it was WorldWideWeb aka "WWW", and unless you had a NeXT box, you probably have not used it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
If by marginally faster, you mean twice as fast, then yes, you are correct. It's not going to win any races, but doubling the speed is a significant improvement.
> What pray tell excludes them from growing a pair of balls and fighting the industry over it?
Real has 2 choices as far as providing content on the iPod:
1. Piss off their competitor, Apple
2. Piss off their content providers, the music studios
Which would you choose?
GIMP is a GTK app, not a GNOME app. The same goes for Firefox and gmplayer. GTK apps do not need gnome-settings-daemon (or anything else from the rest of gnome), though it may be possible they will use it if it is there.
Linus is posting exactly the same as he always had: He says what he thinks, and doesn't pull any punches when doing so. If you think this is "new" behaviour for Linus, you haven't been around long enough. You might want to read this little exchange from 1992:
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> Finally I'll know whether the light turns out or not!
Just think of what this technology means for Schrodinger's Cat! We'll finally know whether or not it's alive at all times when it's inside the box!
> Excellent. Maybe this same technology can be applied to a refrigerator so we can see what happens when the door is closed.
Just wait until you can see all of the bodies in the trunk of my car through the trunk window!
I removed Spybot S&D from my gf's XP bo this weekend, after noticing that the last database update was over 6 months old, and it said there were no new database updates.
I see from some of the links in this thread that there are in fact newer updates, but why doesn't the app find them? If I need a newer version to use the newer updates, it ought to tell me, like AdAware and ClamWin...
> JMS has an amazing gift for story but his dialog tends to be clunky.
I once read that JMS's characters don't have conversations, they make soliloquies at each other.
I love B5, but I can't help but think about that when watching it anymore...
My biggest problem with Firefox on OSX is the lack of emacs key shortcuts. This was easily fixed in 1.0 by editing an .xml file, but apparently they made it harder in 1.5. Arrgh!
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294
> One of the nicest new features is the "Unable to Load" page that comes up instead of the alert that interupted your browsing, even while in another tab, on the older versions.
This has actually been a "hidden" feature for a long time. You can enable it in 1.0.x in about:config
However, it does work better in 1.5. In 1.0, it would change the URL into an internal URL pointing to the error message. This was annoying if it was only an error due to a typo, because you would have to re-enter the entire URL. In 1.5, they fixed this, so the URL you entered still shows in the URL bar when the error is displayed.
True, but how often is your average real/wmv stream high quality anyway? Not very, in my experience. Of course, there are always exceptions.
> mplayer does that just fine, thank you.
And even better, mencoder supports encoding directly from such streams. So you can do something like:
mencoder -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts mpeg4 -o standardformat.avi rtsp://path/to/proprietary/codec/stream
(lavc = libavcodec, part of ffmpeg, supports encoding in standard formats like mpeg and mpeg4/divx)
> They sell plenty of whitebox 5400rpm drives to the major computer assemblers (dude, buy a dell) and its hard for them to get consumers to buy more HDs.
Are you sure about that? I bought one of the Fry's weekly special bargain-basement Linspire boxes for $159 a few weeks ago and even it came with a 7200rpm (40GB) drive. Dell and friends can't be too far behind...
I'm not sure if you can still buy Jolt, but if you can, buy a bottle and add the contents of 1 pixy stick. Make sure you do this outside or over a sink.
(I imagine just plain sugar would probably work just as well, but never tried it.)
Well, if you go "by the movie", hours could seem like half-hours...
> I'm not taking a position on the regulation, just responding to the bizarre argument that Microsoft is wronging its blind users by being excluded and leaving them without an alternative.
Microsoft isn't wronging it's blind users, it's wronging all of it's users by trying to lock them into it's proprietary software with it's monopoly position in the office software market.
> Do we really want a standard that enables DRM? Is there such a thing as acceptable DRM? Why is this a good thing for OpenDocument?
It's certainly not a good thing for OpenOffice and other free/open source office packages since DRM is fundamentally incompatibile with open source. If you don't understand why, read this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/24/drm_ssl.html
Put simply, client side security only works (and that is debatble) in a completely closed system. Here's an example of this I ran across just last week. I have a PDF that I have many times copied and pasted text out of using xpdf. Recently, I bought a Mac Mini, and I happened to scp the very same pdf over to the mac, and open it in Preview. When I tried to copy text out of it, Preview popped up a dialog saying I was not allowed to copy text out of it without entering a password. That works as long as everyone plays by the rules in the standard. But as soon as there is an open source version someone can modify, it'd be quite simple to remove further restrictions once the software already has access to the unencrypted data.
> Most ony customers care little for this Sony solution. My 12 year old sister doesn't seem to care one bit. Sony has the "right" to provide this feature as you're not being forced to buy it.
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A president of one of Sony's divisions agrees with you: "Most people, I think, do not even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Source: http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-
Could be worse. Back when all I had was a shell account, I use to have to hang up and redial whenever I got stuck in vi (usually by hitting "v" instead of "b" in more...).
> I'm not sure if those are qualities you want in a laptop which tend to get hot and rub against the table.
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I suspect Sony knows what they are doing. This is not their first carbon fiber laptop. They've sold one in the US for over a year, and even longer in Japan. In fact, I'm not even sure why this is news...
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/sony_va
> Actually I believe it _is_ flammable and _I_ build race cars out of it. However, my mind blanked and I forgot how high the temperature has to be before it will oxidize.
I'm not sure you are correct. We attempted to burn a CF piece a friend of mine made that came out flawed. The resin caught on fire, and burned away leaving the carbon fiber weave intact. The heat from the resin burning away around it was not enough to ignite the CF, so if it is flammible, that temperature must be pretty damn high.
Obviously, if you are talking about the completed piece including resin, that may burn. There are different types of resin though, it's possible there are non-flammible types that won't burn.