Linus is right, not enogh Gnome configuration is exposed by default and too many defaults are not best of breed.
Bug:metacity: Middle clicking the maximise button does not maximise height only and there is no trivial way to bind mouse clicks to actions.
Bug:epiphany,galeon: Tabs on top, not left where they ought to be; galeon is one gconf edit away but the default is wrong - height is more valuable than width, put the tabs down the sides.
This move by the FBI could be considered non-extraterritorial.
If the FBI siezed stuff in the UK on the strength of a US court order that entirely extraterritorial. Our treasonous cur of a PM might like it otherwise but it is still so.
I am glad that US companies are held to US standards in addition to local jurisdition in international trade. It has probably done more to impair corruption than anything the French have ever done.
Fair enough that US corps should be held liable for all their actions worldwide, however the FBI operating outwith the USA is not on.
Consider, for a moment, that this has nothing to do with Republican/Democrap or Bush/Kerry BS. What if some group was using this serive to distribute terrorist information? What if there was data related to a child pornography ring. What if a drug cartel was using this service as a way to covertly send trafficing information?
I don't care.
If a USian law enforcement agency wished to act against a UK hosted facility it should have argued its case in an appropriate UK court. If US companies are required to respect US court orders in locations where that court has no jurisdiction they cannot trade legally outwith the US.
I will be writing to my MP to bring this problem to his attention.
There is no way that a US court order should have any effect in the UK. If a company is obliged by being incorporated in the US to respect such orders it should not be allowed to trade in the UK.
I'm going to write to my MP regarding this act of invasion and demand the recall of our ambassador.
2) shifting to neutral is stewpid. now youre going to 'coast' with no possible braking at all ? bad idea.
Good idea. You still have full braking, even if not full servo assist, and you are unlikely to lose much vacuum during one emergency stop with a running engine, even at full throttle.
I have stopped from ~90mph with a stopped engine, in neutral (oil dump due to fractured cooler feed pipe) hard enough to trigger ABS on the dusty hard shoulder. Steering assist had faded to nothing after crossing two lanes and straightening up but braking was uncompromised.
Exclusive licences should be limited to 5 years and carry an obligation to publish; if a licencee fails to publish they should lose their rights without compensation.
I too quite like the spacial mode; but not for everything.
If there was a toggle button, or at least a View menu option, I might find myself using spacial mode more, however having drilled down through gconf to set browser mode I'm probably just going to leave it that way.
"We in the US think that this is really a poke at the US, but if I recall correctly, aren't the big pushers for the software patents really from Great Britain?"
Our PM, and some other Ministers of the Crown, seem to do things that make sense only if they are acting as agents of a foreign power (the USA).
Some years back EdLUG
received a visit from Amnon Barak, one of the founders of the Mosix project. He mentioned a couple of things relevant to the current discussion.
The project was started due to US export controls preventing the purchase of an off the shelf solution.
GNU/Linux was chosen over *BSD, at least in part, due to the GPL. The team wanted to share their work, even though it freaked the military out.
As each candidate can have a representative at each polling station who can check that ballot boxes are empty at the start and sealed before being sent to the count, there is not much scope for error there.
At the count the arrival and opening of the boxes is again supervised in a multi-partisan way, there is not much scope for error there.
If the result is anything like close, following a supervised count, any candidate can demand a recount, there is not much scope for significant error there.
Not a perfect system, but less flawed than any other I've come accross....and inexpensive...and adaptable...
There may be a possibility of human error but I cannot recall any actual error in a UK election and as all candidates have the right to supervise the poll any errors/shenanigans are unlikely to go unremarked.
You make an indelible mark on a ballot, put it in a box. Later the contents of the box are counted. Representatives of the candidates may supervise every stage, except the making of the mark. Ballots are discarded only if their intent cannot be unambiguously assigned.
Unless a system can at least equal that in accuracy, ease of use and cost, and demonstate a definite advantage in at least one, it should be dismissed out of hand.
My Mum (and several non-techie friends) run locked down GNU/Linux systems. Debian Sarge/Sid indeed.
They can do pretty much everything a self-adminning windows user can do (browse, mail, play [games,music,movies], write [letters,spreadsheets,presentations], edit photos from digicams, explore the universe, print...); except run hostile win32 binaries.
None of them had any real experience with other systems so they find their Gnome desktops "normal", more than one on subsequently trying MSW has described it as "clunky" or "naff".
My Mum tends to prefer typing to a shell to searching through menus, or even using the launchers she has dragged to her panel...
All of them know a few procedures, of escalating brutality, to get them out of fixes, which, combined with a journalled filesystem, means none of them have ever ended up with an unusable system. Only one user account has ever been significantly b0rked and that with no personal data loss.
Maintainance is near zero, and I get nice dinners cooked for me from time to time.
My Mum still phones regularly, but not about the 'pooter:)
Here in the UK you are entitled, to a large extent, to what you are told you were paying for.
If a salesman tells you there is a new release due at least seven months before the end of your contract, you have a reasonable expectation that it is included in the cost. If you don't get what you were told you were being sold, you are due a refund.
If it can be shown that the vendor (or sales representative) told you something they knew to be untrue, or undeliverable, they are liable to criminal sanction.
Any internal admission that the upgrade was not going to ship within the published timeframe, made before the contract was signed could land MS in deep do-do...
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Linus is right, not enogh Gnome configuration is exposed by default and too many defaults are not best of breed.
Bug:metacity:
Middle clicking the maximise button does not maximise height only and there is no trivial way to bind mouse clicks to actions.
Bug:epiphany,galeon:
Tabs on top, not left where they ought to be; galeon is one gconf edit away but the default is wrong - height is more valuable than width, put the tabs down the sides.
I know of several machines where no-one(who uses it) knows anything about root.
These machines run for months(and years) without significant intervention or anyone requiring root access...
*nix offers control.
Still wish IBM would make a PPC ThinkPad.
It would probably be running Linux, perhaps AIX, but I'd give OSX a try on it if I could.
If the FBI siezed stuff in the UK on the strength of a US court order that entirely extraterritorial. Our treasonous cur of a PM might like it otherwise but it is still so.
I am glad that US companies are held to US standards in addition to local jurisdition in international trade. It has probably done more to impair corruption than anything the French have ever done.
Fair enough that US corps should be held liable for all their actions worldwide, however the FBI operating outwith the USA is not on.
I don't care.
If a USian law enforcement agency wished to act against a UK hosted facility it should have argued its case in an appropriate UK court. If US companies are required to respect US court orders in locations where that court has no jurisdiction they cannot trade legally outwith the US.
I will be writing to my MP to bring this problem to his attention.
I'm going to write to my MP regarding this act of invasion and demand the recall of our ambassador.
Good idea. You still have full braking, even if not full servo assist, and you are unlikely to lose much vacuum during one emergency stop with a running engine, even at full throttle.
I have stopped from ~90mph with a stopped engine, in neutral (oil dump due to fractured cooler feed pipe) hard enough to trigger ABS on the dusty hard shoulder. Steering assist had faded to nothing after crossing two lanes and straightening up but braking was uncompromised.
No, they can't.
MS's "free" viewers require you to have Windows, an expensive propriatory OS.
Exclusive licences should be limited to 5 years and carry an obligation to publish; if a licencee fails to publish they should lose their rights without compensation.
Only the possesor of an intelect should posess rights to the product of that intelect.
A standardisation on 15 years for copyright would be good.
If there was a toggle button, or at least a View menu option, I might find myself using spacial mode more, however having drilled down through gconf to set browser mode I'm probably just going to leave it that way.
Our PM, and some other Ministers of the Crown, seem to do things that make sense only if they are acting as agents of a foreign power (the USA).
That's treason in my book.
Way to go. Many source tarball already have spec files or debian/rules, and it's not not that difficult to roll your own if they don't.
Any mailer which executes code or honours http requests is just plain wrong.
The project was started due to US export controls preventing the purchase of an off the shelf solution.
GNU/Linux was chosen over *BSD, at least in part, due to the GPL. The team wanted to share their work, even though it freaked the military out.
At the count the arrival and opening of the boxes is again supervised in a multi-partisan way, there is not much scope for error there.
If the result is anything like close, following a supervised count, any candidate can demand a recount, there is not much scope for significant error there.
Not a perfect system, but less flawed than any other I've come accross.
Unless a system can at least equal that in accuracy, ease of use and cost, and demonstate a definite advantage in at least one, it should be dismissed out of hand.
They can do pretty much everything a self-adminning windows user can do (browse, mail, play [games,music,movies], write [letters,spreadsheets,presentations], edit photos from digicams, explore the universe, print...); except run hostile win32 binaries.
None of them had any real experience with other systems so they find their Gnome desktops "normal", more than one on subsequently trying MSW has described it as "clunky" or "naff".
My Mum tends to prefer typing to a shell to searching through menus, or even using the launchers she has dragged to her panel...
All of them know a few procedures, of escalating brutality, to get them out of fixes, which, combined with a journalled filesystem, means none of them have ever ended up with an unusable system. Only one user account has ever been significantly b0rked and that with no personal data loss.
Maintainance is near zero, and I get nice dinners cooked for me from time to time.
My Mum still phones regularly, but not about the 'pooter
Here in the UK you are entitled, to a large extent, to what you are told you were paying for.
If a salesman tells you there is a new release due at least seven months before the end of your contract, you have a reasonable expectation that it is included in the cost. If you don't get what you were told you were being sold, you are due a refund.
If it can be shown that the vendor (or sales representative) told you something they knew to be untrue, or undeliverable, they are liable to criminal sanction.
Any internal admission that the upgrade was not going to ship within the published timeframe, made before the contract was signed could land MS in deep do-do...
Probably fit your VW and Seat too.