I just downloaded the preview release, and Nautilus seems to be pretty slick. Eazel and the other contributors have done a lot of work in a pretty short amount of time. It even seems to be fairly stable for such an early release, though it did crash after about fifteen minutes. That said, I can't really see this replacing either emelFM or the console, which are my primary file managers.
Sure, Nautilus looks really professional, and has plenty of eye- and ear-candy, but when considering functionality, how does Nautilus really benefit the user? For example, how is being able to play an mp3 right in the file manager using a bonobo component any better than just having xmms pop-up to play it? Other than just being a cool technological feat, I can't see how a component architecture is really advantageous in a file manager.
Another concern I have is speed. This release is dog-slow on my Athlon system with 160 MB of RAM. I know its not fair to reach conclusions about the finished product based on such an early release, but can we realistically expect this app to ever be blazingly fast? I'm curious about how long I will have to sit and wait while Nautilus draws the contents of a directory with a few hundred or even a few thousand files, especially with all of the content preview functionality enabled.
I guess what I want is something where I can turn off all of the extraneous stuff made to help newbies and still have a file manager with ground-breaking (dare I say innovative) features for helping me do what file managers are meant to do: manage files. With the pervasive networking, high bandwidth and gigantic hard drives that are becoming commonplace today, it's getting progressively harder to sort through the data that is available on my computer. The file manager paradigms we have now were designed for a much smaller amount of data (on both the local system and over the network). Even my $HOME directory is starting to become a tangled maze of information that is taking more and more time for me to try and keep organized. And this is on a system with a relatively sane *nix style file system structure. I shudder even to think about some large windows drives that I've seen.
Anyway, a while back on Gnotices , in another discussion on Nautilus, I brought up my thoughts on this subject, and mentioned that I thought having a filtering and querying mechanism somewhat like SQL (of course with a good GUI) would be great to help sort through large amounts of files. Someone said that there were at least tentative plans to include something like this in Nautilus eventually. I hope this comes to pass. Also, someone else said that the Linux file system was not well suited to doing this sort of database-like operation. Perhaps there are some gurus out there who can elaborate on this.
I've rambled enough here, so I'd like to end by pointing out that I don't mean this to sound too harsh towards Nautilus. I've been using GNOME off and on since the.30 days, and I sincerely hope that Nautilus will be a worthwhile addition to the desktop. I feel, though, that without some serious consideration of the issues I wrote about above, Nautilus will just be a fancy version of Windows Explorer, when it could be something much better. Perhaps other/. readers have better ideas than my own, and we can discuss them here...
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Fifthly, like it or not, the nation's economy is doing quite well. The vast majority of the credit here goes to the policies architected by both Clinton and his cabinet, which includes the VP. Budget surplus? What do Republicans know about budget surpluses? Reagan would have squandered it on some hare-brained scheme like Star Wars.
I agree with a good deal of your post, but this paragraph seems pretty questionable. What specific policies of Clinton and his cabinet put the economy on the right track? Most people credit Alan Greenspan's monetary policy as the largest factor in the U.S. economy's expansion. If you recall, he was a Republican appointee. Personally, I don't think any government policy has that huge of an effect, though. The people who are actually doing the work and buying the goods and services deserve the credit.
As for the federal budget, I don't see how you can place the blame for deficits (or the credit for surpluses) on either party. Remember, a budget is not determined solely by the president; it has to be passed by both houses of the congress. You'll recall that over the last sixteen years, each president has had to deal with at least one house that was controlled by the other party. Therefore, I'd say you have to give the credit, and the blame, to both of them. I do think, though, that the Republican plan for a major tax cut now that we have a surplus is foolhardy and irresponsible.
For what its worth, I am not a Republican. I just disagree with you on these points.
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So don't use rpm -U. The -U means upgrade. If you just want to install an rpm without removing the old one, use rpm -i. See the rpm man page for more info.
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When you get right down to it, on a user's workstation with a single drive and no plans for expansion of the box's role, why wouldn't you keep everything in/root?
Well, the guy said he was setting up servers, not workstations, so this is really not relevent to his question. Also, I'll assume you meant put everything in / , not/root.;^)
Anyway, I used to have a setup similar to yours, but lately I've decided I like to have a/usr/local because if I upgrade, or change to a different distribution, I can keep my locally compiled programs and locally written scripts safe while still wiping the rest of the drive clean during reinstallation. ---------------------------
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(The distro of your choice, plus:) - KDE 2.0 - KDE is already quite nice - Eazel - looks insanely promising - Gnome 2.0 - even 1.2 is jawdroppingly slick
I just wanted to make a minor correction. The folks at Eazel are not working on a seperate project; they are contributing to GNOME. More specifically, they are working on Nautilus (along with many other people, I might add), which will be the shell for GNOME 2.0 Other than that, I agree with the sentiment of your post completely.
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I hate to interject, but I'm not sure if this analogy is exactly fair. Unlike the "spoiled kid", Microsoft wasn't handed their large empire... don't forget that they had to fight to get where they are. In a country that is so passionate about Capitalism and has a history of being against Communism... it's interesting how quickly people want the Government to step in and stop this overwelming Capitalistic success.
I'd have to disagree with you on a number of points. First of all, MS *was* handed their large empire. You may recall that MS originally landed their cushy partnership with IBM because Bill Gates's mother was a friend of one of the head honchos at IBM (they served together on the board of directors of a charitable organization). Also, you must recall that, at the time, IBM was undergoing an antitrust trial of their own. In order to avoid looking like they were trying to push their way into the personal computer business, IBM made the infamous deal with Microsoft in which they let MS keep the rights to DOS (which MS had bought, not written). The success of the IBM PC made quite a bit of money for Microsoft, but it was the eventual reverse-engineering of IBM's BIOS (I can't remember off the top of my head who did this), allowing the production of IBM clones, that was the big break for Microsoft. The PC-compatible market exploded, and MS rode the wave to monopoly status.
I don't mean to imply that Microsoft doesn't deserve some credit for being clever and hard-working, but here are plenty of clever and hard-working companies out there that haven't had nearly the luck that MS has.
I'd also like to address your point about government intervention in the software industry being anti-capitalistic. I think that to a certain extent, you're right. But I'd also say that it is largely the government's intervention that let Microsoft achieve its current position. I am referring here to the IBM anti-trust case (which was eventually dismissed), as well as our badly broken intellectual property regulations and a legal system that favors those with lots of money rather than those who are right. The first helped put Microsoft on top, and the last two have helped Microsoft keep their dominant position. It seems to me that the government generally should keep their hands off the market, but since they've already screwed things up here, they need to help set them right again. The MS anti-trust suit is part of that. --------------------------- "The people. Could you patent the sun?"
4. Middle-click on a link does not yet open a new window. I use that extensively in NS 4.x. Where is it?
Works for me. And I remember looking at the bug list, and that they had fixed that "bug".
D'oh! You're right. I tried it again and it does indeed work. Cool!
The middle-click for a new window feature has indeed been implemented, but it seems to be skin-dependent. That is, it only works if you use the (ugly) default theme. The others at ChromeZo ne, may look a whole lot better, but they seriously lack functionality (note: Slashdot is improperly formatting this link, but it works, I swear!). The skins from alphanumerica, for instance, don't support the middle-click or right-click functions. Apparently they were written with the Mac in mind.
This brings up a question: exactly how much of the browser functionality needs to be created independently when making a theme? Can you make a theme that just replaces the ugly pixmaps and colors of the default, without changing anything else?
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It might be possible to *run* Quake on a StrongArm, but I don't think you'd actually want to *play* it. If I'm remembering correctly, the StrongArm has no floating point unit. All floating poing calculations are done in software. Probably not going to get a very high frame rate on something like that.:^) --------------------------- "The people. Could you patent the sun?"
Mozilla runs great on my system, but there is one seemingly minor (but aggravating) problem that prevents me from using it for my everyday browsing: it doesn't let me click the middle button to open a link in a new window like Netscape 4.x for Linux does. I like to browse the web with lots of windows open at once, and its a pain to always have to select an option in the context menu to open a new window. This always keeps me going back to 4.x, despite that browser's numerous deficiencies.
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The above comment is bogus, and the link does not go to a story, but rather to a disgusting photo. Please don't give this guy the satisfaction of clicking on the link.
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The article mentions Transmeta's Mobile Linux. Does anyone know if this is actually a port to Crusoe's native architecture or if it's just another x86 distribution to be emulated on Crusoe? It seems like the former would offer much better performance. If anyone any information, especially a link, I would appreciate it.
Begs the question: Who is Slash, and why does he have so many "dotters" in the first place?
Slash was the guitarist in Guns 'n Roses. Rock guitarists always seem to have groupies hanging all over them, so it wouldn't surprise me if he had lots of daughters spread around the country. Oh, you said dotters. Nevermind.
Actually they'll prefer to use English because any French that someone outside of France could use is not RealFrench, and they really hate it.
I've had just the opposite experience. I'm not even close to fluent in French, but I found most people reacted better to me if I at least tried to speak in French. Most of my conversations I've had during my visits in France have followed a pattern: I carefully think up how to say something, rehearse it in my head, then say it in passable French. The person then answers me in French, using much more complicated vocabulary than I can understand. Upon seeing my blank stare, they laugh a little and say "English?". However, the few times I've gone up to someone and spoken English immediately, they've looked at me like I just puked on them or something.
The reaction your friend got could be because they simply couldn't understand her dialect. In some places in Wales and Scotland, the English they speak is completely incomprehensible to my American ears (French is easier to understand). Perhaps this is similar.
Or it could be that your friend just had the misfortune of running into a bunch of really obnoxious French people (like the people that run Leonardo Finance apparently are).:-)
I've had mixed experiences with this. DOS fdisk has an option in the menu now to delete non-DOS partitions, but it's pretty brain-dead and gets confused easily. I've deleted ext2 partitions in the past with no problem, but a few weeks ago I was removing linux from the drive of a computer I was getting ready to sell. I went to delete the logical drives (hda5, etc in linux terminology) but fdisk said it could not find any logical drives. I next tried to delete the extended partition, but it told me I couldn't because there were still logical drives present. Kind of a no-win situation.:-)
As far as using fdisk/mbr, this will be necessary anyway if you have LILO installed in the master boot record. Otherwise, the computer will boot up, print LI, then stop.
I guess this isn't very useful information, though. Anyone who's willing to take the time to figure this stuff out would probably rather use Linux than any OS Microsoft has produced.
Can you supply credible references to the dates and authors you claim? I am basing my statements off of the teachings of a professor I once had in college. I may have mis heard some things in class and as such I am in the process of verifying my claims with him and asking for some hard copy references to back me up or correct me. I believe I was told that the new testament was written generations later, although that could pertain to just the gospels as I do think that Paul/Saul wrote the letters that he allegedly wrote.
Assigning dates to texts is not an exact science. You have to examine hints in the texts themselves. I am not a Christian or a biblical scholar, but I have read the Bible carefully, and I'll try to give a few reasons why the gospels were probably written down in the first century A.D. First, the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke contain very similar accounts, large chunks of them word-for-word identical. This would indicate to me that they were produced from a common written source fairly early. If they were based on an oral tradition passed down for hundreds of years over a geographical area as large as the Mediterranean, there would be much larger differences in the texts. I believe the consensus among scholars is that Mark (the simplest and most direct of the gospels) served as one source among several for Matthew and Luke. This sounds reasonable to me.
Furthermore, the author of Luke specifically states that he is producing a written document. He also wrote the book of Acts, intending them to be one continuous story. Though the gospel of Luke is the product of Luke's research (since he wasn't actually there), Acts is mostly a first-hand account of Luke's travels with Paul to spread Christianity among the Gentiles, and Paul's eventual imprisonment (some scholars seem to think that Luke overstates his association with Paul, and did not know him that well. I'm not sure of the reasoning behind this, though). Since Luke was a contemporary to Paul, he obviously lived in the first century (unless the whole book is a fabrication, which I suppose is possible)
Interestingly, Acts ends with Paul's imprisonment in Rome, and makes no mention of his execution in approximately 62 A.D. This would indicate that the Luke-Acts pair was probably written some time in the 60's, before Paul's death or before Luke received the news, perhaps as long as several years later. Since Luke is most likely based on Mark, Mark was probably written even earlier, perhaps in the 50's.
This evidence is, of course, a bit conjectural and not at all conclusive, but it seems pretty reasonable to me. I guess its also possible that the whole thing is ploy to increase mindshare for the religion. Who knows?
I was lucky enough to attend an informal lecture given by Bradbury a few months ago. He was talking about the process of writing, not politics, so I can't comment on his political views.
He definitely seems to be someone who doesn't hold back his opinions. Some teachers from a local high school had brought their students to hear him speak. He told the students, "If anyone tries to tell you what you can and cannot read, you tell them to go to hell." The students enjoyed this, but I think it shocked the teachers a little. This, at least, doesn't sound too conservative to me.
UCLA is right in this one (legally at least, though not ethically), but not for the reasons they bring up in the article. Upon enrollment, all students of the University of California (including UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, which I attended) are required to sign a contract which states that, among other things, all writings produced by the student during the period of enrollment are the property of the UC Regents. I'm sure this would cover lecture notes as well as term papers, exams, dissertations, etc.
I had some serious problems with signing this contract, but gave in. I guess its moot, though, because I didn't really produce anything worth owning in those four years:-)
I suppose I should make the standard IANAL disclamer.
Come on! Be honest, there is no way that you're running the Real Player G2 for Linux... it doesn't exist! Take a look at the Minimum Requirements for the G2. You're stuck with RealPlayer 5.0 for Linux like the rest of us who don't like using Windows or Macintosh.
That's funny, I guess that Real Player G2 on my Linux box is just my imagination. Its only an alpha, of course, but it seems pretty stable. The sound quality sucks, though. See this slashdot story.
Actually, that is untrue. I bought an Athlon 550 this week for $289. The equivalent PIII is still somewhere over $300. Athlon motherboards are a bit more expensive, though, so in practical terms the two are about the same price. Also, there is no Xenon cpu. It's called Xeon.
I think you have to take BogoMIPS with a grain of salt. dmesg reports 448.92 BogoMips for my old AMD K6-233. I seriously doubt it's even close to as fast as that PII-400 or a 400 MHz Alpha.
Just a small correction: Lord Byron was Ada Byron's father, not her husband. She was married to Lord Lovelace, or something like that. His name escapes me at the moment.
I'm by no means a Netscape wizard, but I've had good results with the settings below at 1024x768 resolution. You should put these changes in the ~/.Xdefaults file rather than directly altering netscape.ad
Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 110 Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 110 Netscape*documentFonts.maximumPoints: 35 Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 15 Netscape*fontList: -winfonts-verdana-*-*-*-regular-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Netscape*documentFonts.generic.serif: times new roman
I can't remember exactly what all of these do at the moment, but netscape.ad is pretty well documented. Note that each new line should only begin with Netscape*, regardless of how your browser has wrapped them here. Also note that I'm running a TT font server and have used TT fonts in these settings. You should change the font names to something suitable for your system
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I just downloaded the preview release, and Nautilus seems to be pretty slick. Eazel and the other contributors have done a lot of work in a pretty short amount of time. It even seems to be fairly stable for such an early release, though it did crash after about fifteen minutes. That said, I can't really see this replacing either emelFM or the console, which are my primary file managers.
.30 days, and I sincerely hope that Nautilus will be a worthwhile addition to the desktop. I feel, though, that without some serious consideration of the issues I wrote about above, Nautilus will just be a fancy version of Windows Explorer, when it could be something much better. Perhaps other /. readers have better ideas than my own, and we can discuss them here...
Sure, Nautilus looks really professional, and has plenty of eye- and ear-candy, but when considering functionality, how does Nautilus really benefit the user? For example, how is being able to play an mp3 right in the file manager using a bonobo component any better than just having xmms pop-up to play it? Other than just being a cool technological feat, I can't see how a component architecture is really advantageous in a file manager.
Another concern I have is speed. This release is dog-slow on my Athlon system with 160 MB of RAM. I know its not fair to reach conclusions about the finished product based on such an early release, but can we realistically expect this app to ever be blazingly fast? I'm curious about how long I will have to sit and wait while Nautilus draws the contents of a directory with a few hundred or even a few thousand files, especially with all of the content preview functionality enabled.
I guess what I want is something where I can turn off all of the extraneous stuff made to help newbies and still have a file manager with ground-breaking (dare I say innovative) features for helping me do what file managers are meant to do: manage files. With the pervasive networking, high bandwidth and gigantic hard drives that are becoming commonplace today, it's getting progressively harder to sort through the data that is available on my computer. The file manager paradigms we have now were designed for a much smaller amount of data (on both the local system and over the network). Even my $HOME directory is starting to become a tangled maze of information that is taking more and more time for me to try and keep organized. And this is on a system with a relatively sane *nix style file system structure. I shudder even to think about some large windows drives that I've seen.
Anyway, a while back on Gnotices , in another discussion on Nautilus, I brought up my thoughts on this subject, and mentioned that I thought having a filtering and querying mechanism somewhat like SQL (of course with a good GUI) would be great to help sort through large amounts of files. Someone said that there were at least tentative plans to include something like this in Nautilus eventually. I hope this comes to pass. Also, someone else said that the Linux file system was not well suited to doing this sort of database-like operation. Perhaps there are some gurus out there who can elaborate on this.
I've rambled enough here, so I'd like to end by pointing out that I don't mean this to sound too harsh towards Nautilus. I've been using GNOME off and on since the
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As for the federal budget, I don't see how you can place the blame for deficits (or the credit for surpluses) on either party. Remember, a budget is not determined solely by the president; it has to be passed by both houses of the congress. You'll recall that over the last sixteen years, each president has had to deal with at least one house that was controlled by the other party. Therefore, I'd say you have to give the credit, and the blame, to both of them. I do think, though, that the Republican plan for a major tax cut now that we have a surplus is foolhardy and irresponsible.
For what its worth, I am not a Republican. I just disagree with you on these points.
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Well, the guy said he was setting up servers, not workstations, so this is really not relevent to his question. Also, I'll assume you meant put everything in / , not /root. ;^)
Anyway, I used to have a setup similar to yours, but lately I've decided I like to have a /usr/local because if I upgrade, or change to a different distribution, I can keep my locally compiled programs and locally written scripts safe while still wiping the rest of the drive clean during reinstallation.
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Other than that, I agree with the sentiment of your post completely.
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I don't mean to imply that Microsoft doesn't deserve some credit for being clever and hard-working, but here are plenty of clever and hard-working companies out there that haven't had nearly the luck that MS has.
I'd also like to address your point about government intervention in the software industry being anti-capitalistic. I think that to a certain extent, you're right. But I'd also say that it is largely the government's intervention that let Microsoft achieve its current position. I am referring here to the IBM anti-trust case (which was eventually dismissed), as well as our badly broken intellectual property regulations and a legal system that favors those with lots of money rather than those who are right. The first helped put Microsoft on top, and the last two have helped Microsoft keep their dominant position. It seems to me that the government generally should keep their hands off the market, but since they've already screwed things up here, they need to help set them right again. The MS anti-trust suit is part of that.
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This brings up a question: exactly how much of the browser functionality needs to be created independently when making a theme? Can you make a theme that just replaces the ugly pixmaps and colors of the default, without changing anything else?
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It might be possible to *run* Quake on a StrongArm, but I don't think you'd actually want to *play* it. If I'm remembering correctly, the StrongArm has no floating point unit. All floating poing calculations are done in software. Probably not going to get a very high frame rate on something like that. :^)
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Mozilla runs great on my system, but there is one seemingly minor (but aggravating) problem that prevents me from using it for my everyday browsing: it doesn't let me click the middle button to open a link in a new window like Netscape 4.x for Linux does. I like to browse the web with lots of windows open at once, and its a pain to always have to select an option in the context menu to open a new window. This always keeps me going back to 4.x, despite that browser's numerous deficiencies.
Does anybody know if Mozilla will support this eventually? I'm not sure if I should submit this as a bug, since it's really more of a feature request. Is there any standard method to request a feature from the mozilla developers?
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The above comment is bogus, and the link does not go to a story, but rather to a disgusting photo. Please don't give this guy the satisfaction of clicking on the link.
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The article mentions Transmeta's Mobile Linux. Does anyone know if this is actually a port to Crusoe's native architecture or if it's just another x86 distribution to be emulated on Crusoe? It seems like the former would offer much better performance. If anyone any information, especially a link, I would appreciate it.
The reaction your friend got could be because they simply couldn't understand her dialect. In some places in Wales and Scotland, the English they speak is completely incomprehensible to my American ears (French is easier to understand). Perhaps this is similar.
Or it could be that your friend just had the misfortune of running into a bunch of really obnoxious French people (like the people that run Leonardo Finance apparently are).
I've had mixed experiences with this. DOS fdisk has an option in the menu now to delete non-DOS partitions, but it's pretty brain-dead and gets confused easily. I've deleted ext2 partitions in the past with no problem, but a few weeks ago I was removing linux from the drive of a computer I was getting ready to sell. I went to delete the logical drives (hda5, etc in linux terminology) but fdisk said it could not find any logical drives. I next tried to delete the extended partition, but it told me I couldn't because there were still logical drives present. Kind of a no-win situation. :-)
/mbr, this will be necessary anyway if you have LILO installed in the master boot record. Otherwise, the computer will boot up, print LI, then stop.
As far as using fdisk
I guess this isn't very useful information, though. Anyone who's willing to take the time to figure this stuff out would probably rather use Linux than any OS Microsoft has produced.
Assigning dates to texts is not an exact science. You have to examine hints in the texts themselves. I am not a Christian or a biblical scholar, but I have read the Bible carefully, and I'll try to give a few reasons why the gospels were probably written down in the first century A.D. First, the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke contain very similar accounts, large chunks of them word-for-word identical. This would indicate to me that they were produced from a common written source fairly early. If they were based on an oral tradition passed down for hundreds of years over a geographical area as large as the Mediterranean, there would be much larger differences in the texts. I believe the consensus among scholars is that Mark (the simplest and most direct of the gospels) served as one source among several for Matthew and Luke. This sounds reasonable to me.
Furthermore, the author of Luke specifically states that he is producing a written document. He also wrote the book of Acts, intending them to be one continuous story. Though the gospel of Luke is the product of Luke's research (since he wasn't actually there), Acts is mostly a first-hand account of Luke's travels with Paul to spread Christianity among the Gentiles, and Paul's eventual imprisonment (some scholars seem to think that Luke overstates his association with Paul, and did not know him that well. I'm not sure of the reasoning behind this, though). Since Luke was a contemporary to Paul, he obviously lived in the first century (unless the whole book is a fabrication, which I suppose is possible)
Interestingly, Acts ends with Paul's imprisonment in Rome, and makes no mention of his execution in approximately 62 A.D. This would indicate that the Luke-Acts pair was probably written some time in the 60's, before Paul's death or before Luke received the news, perhaps as long as several years later. Since Luke is most likely based on Mark, Mark was probably written even earlier, perhaps in the 50's.
This evidence is, of course, a bit conjectural and not at all conclusive, but it seems pretty reasonable to me. I guess its also possible that the whole thing is ploy to increase mindshare for the religion. Who knows?
I was lucky enough to attend an informal lecture given by Bradbury a few months ago. He was talking about the process of writing, not politics, so I can't comment on his political views.
He definitely seems to be someone who doesn't hold back his opinions. Some teachers from a local high school had brought their students to hear him speak. He told the students, "If anyone tries to tell you what you can and cannot read, you tell them to go to hell." The students enjoyed this, but I think it shocked the teachers a little. This, at least, doesn't sound too conservative to me.
UCLA is right in this one (legally at least, though not ethically), but not for the reasons they bring up in the article. Upon enrollment, all students of the University of California (including UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, which I attended) are required to sign a contract which states that, among other things, all writings produced by the student during the period of enrollment are the property of the UC Regents. I'm sure this would cover lecture notes as well as term papers, exams, dissertations, etc.
:-)
I had some serious problems with signing this contract, but gave in. I guess its moot, though, because I didn't really produce anything worth owning in those four years
I suppose I should make the standard IANAL disclamer.
Actually, that is untrue. I bought an Athlon 550 this week for $289. The equivalent PIII is still somewhere over $300. Athlon motherboards are a bit more expensive, though, so in practical terms the two are about the same price. Also, there is no Xenon cpu. It's called Xeon.
I think you have to take BogoMIPS with a grain of salt. dmesg reports 448.92 BogoMips for my old AMD K6-233. I seriously doubt it's even close to as fast as that PII-400 or a 400 MHz Alpha.
Just a small correction: Lord Byron was Ada Byron's father, not her husband. She was married to Lord Lovelace, or something like that. His name escapes me at the moment.
I'm by no means a Netscape wizard, but I've had good results with the settings below at 1024x768 resolution. You should put these changes in the ~/.Xdefaults file rather than directly altering netscape.ad
Netscape*documentFonts.generic.serif: times new roman
Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 110
Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 110
Netscape*documentFonts.maximumPoints: 35
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 15
Netscape*fontList: -winfonts-verdana-*-*-*-regular-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
I can't remember exactly what all of these do at the moment, but netscape.ad is pretty well documented. Note that each new line should only begin with Netscape*, regardless of how your browser has wrapped them here. Also note that I'm running a TT font server and have used TT fonts in these settings. You should change the font names to something suitable for your system