I've heard that if A=1, B=2 etc, BIG BANG == 42. I can't be bothered to check this as I'm about to get dinner, but that's what I've heard.
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Yes, there is a Linux driver for NTFS. In kernel 2.4.4, it's marked EXPERIMENTAL and DANGEROUS. It can read NTFS files, but when writing it corrupts the disk (the structure of the journal entries is protected by a NDA). You must unmount the disk in Linux, and run a utility which will force NT to run chkdsk to add the journal entries.
The Ximian guys are still working on a final release of Ximian GNOME 1.4. When it's ready, Bonobo 1.0 will probably be included. If you want GNOME 1.4 (non Ximian) _now_ just go straight to ftp.gnome.org and get the sources.
A note to any IceWM users out there: a work-around was put into the Nautilus CVS tree yesterday by good old John Harper to fix the IceWM bug:
Fixed part of bug 7823 (Nautilus window hints make it unusable with
the IceWM window manager):
* src/nautilus-desktop-window.c (realize): don't include
WIN_STATE_HIDDEN in the desktop window's state hints
IceWM apparently interprets this bit as meaning `don't display the
window', despite the GNOME documentation saying that it just means
`not on taskbar but window visible'
Many WMs dont' handle the Nautilus "root" window correctly. Mainly because it isn't really the root window, it's just a window which Nautilus would like to pretent to be the root. Or something. Yes, it's a bug in IceWM (Sawfish had it too, being able to drag the root window is weird...)
The previews were based on 1.2.9, which was required by Nautilus (at least) due to bugs. I've just checked the Eazel mirror and GNOME 1.4 still uses GTK 1.2.9. To be fair 1.2.10 is a minor bug fix release of 1.2.9 and has only just come out.
Medusa indexes file names, attributes, metadata (emblems etc from Nautilus), and contents. Locate just keeps an index of file names. I can't see locate being updated to support that much power.
GNOME doesn't have "a" window manager. Several Window Managers support GNOME, it used to be Englightenment (huge, slow, extremely configurable, did I meantion huge?) but now the default WM is Sawfish (small, light, very configurable, fast). WindowMaker works well with GNOME, and I believe that BlackBox (extremely fast and very small) is also heading towards GNOME compliance.
On a side note, GNOME is doing the same thing. Any program can use gtkhtml to render HTML in a window. Evolution is using it to display email messages (sound familiar?), Red Carpet uses it for UI, and GNOME Help uses it to render content. IIRC, the plan is to eventually replace gtkhtml with Mozilla (which does a much better job of complying to standards and rendering documents than gtkhtml.
There is one difference between re-using IE and re-using gtkhtml. When you re-use IE you get JavaScipt and all of the security holes which come with it, and VBScript and the magical FileSystem objects. Thanks. With gtkhtml you get a HTML viewer. No scripts, no FileSystem objects. Hey, Evolution even refuses to go online to get images as they are normally only used by spammers to track email addresses ("correct" html mail also attaches the images).
Also, I think the plan is to replace gtkhtml with gtkhtml2. Mozilla is too damn huge!
I don't even think that duel-boot systems are at risk from viri like this.
Yes, this virus knows how to infect PE and ELF executables. But it cannot read ext2 file systems. How many people run Windows and Linux on the same machine, but run Linux binaries from a FAT partition? There are people using UMSDOS, but they are the minority as UMSDOS is sooo slow.
So yes, nice proof of concept but once it can read ext2 we'll have something to worry about (i.e. the security won't be enforced by the virus, will it)
A mate in the office yesterday bought a CD which looked kinda weird... on the back there were what looked like concentric gaps. It skipped like mad in our PCs, so he took it back. The replacement CD also didn't place in a PC, but played perfectly well in a cheap hifi.
I know I'm replying to myself here... Ximerama is standard in XFree86 4, and allows multiple screens per display. Thus, on the iPAQ we have two screen (one landscape, one portait) on the same display which are switchable between.
We've got Linux running on a Compaq iPAQ from pocketlinux.org, and when we tap the side of the screen the orientation switches between portait/landscape. Ximerama rocks!
XBEL is a XML-based bookmark language which is fairly cross-platform. It looks a bit like Netscape HTML pages if you remove the HTML tags and replace them with sensible names. The Python group that created it have some tools to convert to/from XBEL/IE/Netscape.
I'm working on patches to Galeon and Gnobog to read/write XBEL. Gnobog, is a GNOME bookmark editor, and the plans for 0.5.x look very impressive. It already drag-and-drops to and from 11 (I think) different browers on Linux and it plans to have remote access to bookmarks. Maybe this is what you want? I know it's what I want and I'm about to start helping out the group.
Yes, I've seen Active Desktop. I saw ActiveDesktop in the IE4 previews, dug around, had a play and was upset (for a second) when they removed the ability to put web pages in the task bar.
This is not HTML, live web pages etc etc. Nautilus allows the icons to be clever. The icons for plain text files contain a snippet of the text. The icons for images are thumbnails. Someone was working on an extension where the icons for fonts would be a small sample of the font. This RSS viewer is actually an extension which renders the icons of RSS/RDF files as the headlines. If you don't want headlines on the desktop, don't put any RSS files there. No HTML pages. No floating windows. Just icons.
RSS is a XML-based format for distributing news. The RSS viewer in Nautilus allows the user to have files on the disk (either pointers to the RSS or the actual RSS itself, who knows) and displays the content of the RSS view (i.e. the headlines) _as the icon_. This file can be anywhere, the example screenshot had a folder with 4 files in, and there was another one on the desktop. No Java, no HTML, no worrying about ActiveX controls bashing your machine. This is _nothing_ like ActiveDesktop, which sucked for many reasons.
I've got a Palm IIIx and at work we recently got a iPaq 3630. I find Graffiti far easier to use than WinCEs' recognition. Graffiti is based on a simplified alphabet which is very fast to draw, WinCE's is a slightly simplified alphabet so there is still something to learn. On PalmOS the strokes can be any size (as big as possible for ease of use) but under WinCE the sensitive area has two lines, which letters such as 'e' and 'm' _have_ to fit within (one's called the baseline, I've forgotten the other). Not doing that effectivly breaks the recognition! Also there are seperate areas for lower- and upper- case letters. All of this complicates the process far too much, IMHO.
You possibly need another RF cable, and the "TV/AV" button. I have a DVD and VCR plugged into a SCART auto-switcher, which plugs into the TV. When I put in a DVD or video, the switcher selects the correct line and the tele switches to AV instead of 1 or 2 or whatever. This is very good. If I then decide I want to watch tele for a bit while the DVD is playing, I press "TV/DVD" or "TV/AV" on one of the many remote controls - which tells the tele to ignore the SCART auto-select magic and switch back to the normal channels.
I find that black 9pt Verdana on snow in XEmacs is excellent... lots of text on screen at once. Also, it's spookily similar to the look of CodeWarrior on the Mac...
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I've heard that if A=1, B=2 etc, BIG BANG == 42. I can't be bothered to check this as I'm about to get dinner, but that's what I've heard.
Yes, there is a Linux driver for NTFS. In kernel 2.4.4, it's marked EXPERIMENTAL and DANGEROUS. It can read NTFS files, but when writing it corrupts the disk (the structure of the journal entries is protected by a NDA). You must unmount the disk in Linux, and run a utility which will force NT to run chkdsk to add the journal entries.
Not really the best solution...
The Ximian guys are still working on a final release of Ximian GNOME 1.4. When it's ready, Bonobo 1.0 will probably be included. If you want GNOME 1.4 (non Ximian) _now_ just go straight to ftp.gnome.org and get the sources.
Many WMs dont' handle the Nautilus "root" window correctly. Mainly because it isn't really the root window, it's just a window which Nautilus would like to pretent to be the root. Or something. Yes, it's a bug in IceWM (Sawfish had it too, being able to drag the root window is weird...)
The previews were based on 1.2.9, which was required by Nautilus (at least) due to bugs. I've just checked the Eazel mirror and GNOME 1.4 still uses GTK 1.2.9. To be fair 1.2.10 is a minor bug fix release of 1.2.9 and has only just come out.
Medusa indexes file names, attributes, metadata (emblems etc from Nautilus), and contents. Locate just keeps an index of file names. I can't see locate being updated to support that much power.
GNOME doesn't have "a" window manager. Several Window Managers support GNOME, it used to be Englightenment (huge, slow, extremely configurable, did I meantion huge?) but now the default WM is Sawfish (small, light, very configurable, fast). WindowMaker works well with GNOME, and I believe that BlackBox (extremely fast and very small) is also heading towards GNOME compliance.
On a side note, GNOME is doing the same thing. Any program can use gtkhtml to render HTML in a window. Evolution is using it to display email messages (sound familiar?), Red Carpet uses it for UI, and GNOME Help uses it to render content. IIRC, the plan is to eventually replace gtkhtml with Mozilla (which does a much better job of complying to standards and rendering documents than gtkhtml.
There is one difference between re-using IE and re-using gtkhtml. When you re-use IE you get JavaScipt and all of the security holes which come with it, and VBScript and the magical FileSystem objects. Thanks. With gtkhtml you get a HTML viewer. No scripts, no FileSystem objects. Hey, Evolution even refuses to go online to get images as they are normally only used by spammers to track email addresses ("correct" html mail also attaches the images).
Also, I think the plan is to replace gtkhtml with gtkhtml2. Mozilla is too damn huge!
I don't even think that duel-boot systems are at risk from viri like this.
Yes, this virus knows how to infect PE and ELF executables. But it cannot read ext2 file systems. How many people run Windows and Linux on the same machine, but run Linux binaries from a FAT partition? There are people using UMSDOS, but they are the minority as UMSDOS is sooo slow.
So yes, nice proof of concept but once it can read ext2 we'll have something to worry about (i.e. the security won't be enforced by the virus, will it)
A mate in the office yesterday bought a CD which looked kinda weird... on the back there were what looked like concentric gaps. It skipped like mad in our PCs, so he took it back. The replacement CD also didn't place in a PC, but played perfectly well in a cheap hifi.
This is _so_ wrong it's unbelievable...
I know I'm replying to myself here... Ximerama is standard in XFree86 4, and allows multiple screens per display. Thus, on the iPAQ we have two screen (one landscape, one portait) on the same display which are switchable between.
We've got Linux running on a Compaq iPAQ from pocketlinux.org, and when we tap the side of the screen the orientation switches between portait/landscape. Ximerama rocks!
XBEL is a XML-based bookmark language which is fairly cross-platform. It looks a bit like Netscape HTML pages if you remove the HTML tags and replace them with sensible names. The Python group that created it have some tools to convert to/from XBEL/IE/Netscape.
I'm working on patches to Galeon and Gnobog to read/write XBEL. Gnobog, is a GNOME bookmark editor, and the plans for 0.5.x look very impressive. It already drag-and-drops to and from 11 (I think) different browers on Linux and it plans to have remote access to bookmarks. Maybe this is what you want? I know it's what I want and I'm about to start helping out the group.
Yes, I've seen Active Desktop. I saw ActiveDesktop in the IE4 previews, dug around, had a play and was upset (for a second) when they removed the ability to put web pages in the task bar.
This is not HTML, live web pages etc etc. Nautilus allows the icons to be clever. The icons for plain text files contain a snippet of the text. The icons for images are thumbnails. Someone was working on an extension where the icons for fonts would be a small sample of the font. This RSS viewer is actually an extension which renders the icons of RSS/RDF files as the headlines. If you don't want headlines on the desktop, don't put any RSS files there. No HTML pages. No floating windows. Just icons.
RSS is a XML-based format for distributing news. The RSS viewer in Nautilus allows the user to have files on the disk (either pointers to the RSS or the actual RSS itself, who knows) and displays the content of the RSS view (i.e. the headlines) _as the icon_. This file can be anywhere, the example screenshot had a folder with 4 files in, and there was another one on the desktop. No Java, no HTML, no worrying about ActiveX controls bashing your machine. This is _nothing_ like ActiveDesktop, which sucked for many reasons.
Well, only that small issue of GNOME 1.4. The beta is available from Ximian and the final release is due in a few weeks.
I didn't say that the script was readable, I said that Perl can be readable. Goddam, that script was foul!
I've got a Palm IIIx and at work we recently got a iPaq 3630. I find Graffiti far easier to use than WinCEs' recognition. Graffiti is based on a simplified alphabet which is very fast to draw, WinCE's is a slightly simplified alphabet so there is still something to learn. On PalmOS the strokes can be any size (as big as possible for ease of use) but under WinCE the sensitive area has two lines, which letters such as 'e' and 'm' _have_ to fit within (one's called the baseline, I've forgotten the other). Not doing that effectivly breaks the recognition! Also there are seperate areas for lower- and upper- case letters. All of this complicates the process far too much, IMHO.
:-)
And I won't start bitching about the UI...
If I remember correctly, Alan Cox wrote a WAP -> telnet gateway or something. He then did a bit of network maintainence from his Nokia 7110...
- the writer should comment code, space code out etc
- knowing what operators such as =~ do
- knowing what $, @ and % type are
Once there Perl is easy:open FILE, ">test" or die "Cannot open test for writing";
Nothing wrong with Linux on a wristwatch - thanks to IBM they rock!
You possibly need another RF cable, and the "TV/AV" button. I have a DVD and VCR plugged into a SCART auto-switcher, which plugs into the TV. When I put in a DVD or video, the switcher selects the correct line and the tele switches to AV instead of 1 or 2 or whatever. This is very good. If I then decide I want to watch tele for a bit while the DVD is playing, I press "TV/DVD" or "TV/AV" on one of the many remote controls - which tells the tele to ignore the SCART auto-select magic and switch back to the normal channels.
I find that black 9pt Verdana on snow in XEmacs is excellent... lots of text on screen at once. Also, it's spookily similar to the look of CodeWarrior on the Mac...
Because Sun kit is bullet proof and lasts forever, that's why people run Linux on Sun stuff.