Not many people know this - But the GSM licence says that there must be two GSM providers in each country. That is why the US took so long to get GSM.
What are you smoking? Theres no such thing as a "GSM license". There are some countries with only one GSM provider -- such as New Zealand. NZ only has one GSM provider: Vodafone New Zealand. It's been the only GSM provider in New Zealand for 10 years now. Go and do your homework before you write up comments with no facts.
To elaborate a bit more on the parent post, '3' uses the 3GSM system -- also called W-CDMA (which is, indeed, an 3G technology). This system was developed to be the 3G upgrade path for the older GSM systems that are still in use all over the world.
NetBSD still has promise though. It's practically unusable. It doesn't even have sudo installed by default. If you're in a masochistic mood, try it out.
FreeBSD dosn't include sudo in its default install too. You have to install it from the ports collection. Whenever I install FreeBSD, sudo is often the first program I build.
it could be very cool to support the sxc (openoffice) format. what about this ?
Gnumeric 1.1.19 does support Openoffice's SXC file format. I discovered this by accident when I opened a SXC file instead of the XLS file I was going to open. The import filter isn't too bad for simple spreadsheets, but I would still use Excel's XLS fomat for transferring files between OOo and Gnumeric until the import filter improves.
I think this is a positive step toward an OpenSource office enviroment to replace the present-day MS Office enviroment.
Gnumeric 1.1.19 does support Openoffice's SXC file format. I discovered this by accident when I opened a SXC file instead of the XLS file I was going to open. The import filter isn't too bad for simple spreadsheets, but I would still use Excel's XLS fomat for transferring files between OOo and Gnumeric until the import filter improves.
I think this is a positive step toward an OpenSource office enviroment to replace the present-day MS Office enviroment.
- James
GNOME isn't Linux-centric too. Sun is in the process of porting GNOME to Solaris and I'm also writing this from a FreeBSD box running GNOME 2.2. Both GNOME and KDE works perfectly on FreeBSD and that shows that both projects has made a lot of effort to make sure their code works fine on non-Linux OSes. This is good because it means non-Linux users have the same choices as Linux users.
Now, the PC market is flooded with crappy monitors. (Not to mention OTHER components) Take a look at the Apple side of things, or the SGI/Sun workstations. They've had their share of bad products, but much of the OEM equipment is re-branded Sony models etc.
I know this isn't related to monitors, but the company that made the monitors for IBM was Lite-On IT Corp. Lite-On has also been making CD-ROM and CD-RW drives for Sony (as well TDK, ASUS, etc) for a few years now.
So maybe, Sony isn't entirely reliable as they were in the past.
Ah thats true. However dosn't most browsers default to the first text box? Also, it still makes the browser's window go to the front (if I'm understanding this correctly). This is IMHO really annoying as I like to be able to work in another window without having to go back to it after a window has popped up to the front, interuppting my workflow.
- James
3. Google loads quickly and does not attempt to invasively control your machine with javascript or other methods.
Well, I got the following JavaScript snippet from http://wwww.google.co.nz/
<script>
document.f.q.focus();
</script>
The above code causes Google to come to the front of all the windows once it load -- which is very irrating especially when I have to use non-tabbed browsers such as MSIE. Google is a very good search engine and this is about the only feature I strongly disklike about it.
For moused all you need to do is to change the device line to "/dev/sysmouse". If you plug in a USB mouse FreeBSD will start moused by default, and its also possible to use moused with a PS/2 mouse.
My copy of XFree86 from the FreeBSD ports has support for your video card. AFAIK FreeBSD added some patches to the "nv" driver to make it work with the newer drivers.
Anyhow, the offical drivers aren't all that good. Some people have problems with it, some don't. I have problems with it, and its not only 3D/OpenGL its also really basic stuffs like VT-switching and sometimes it fucks up in 2D mode. It's a beta driver after all...
USB 1 and is still better (faster, simpler) than USB 2
Huh?! USB 2.0 has a maximum speeed of 450Mb/sec while USB 1.0 maxes out at 12Mb/sec. Last time I checked 450 was more than 12. And what do you mean by simpler? AFAIK 2.0 is just like 1.0 apart from the extra bandwidth that 2.0 provides -- I can't see how USB 2.0 can be more compicated than 1.0.
Anyway, 2.0 isn't that more expensive than 1.0, many PC motherboards now have 2.0 onboard and prices for motherboards hasn't increased much. I bet within a year all motherboards will be sold with USB 2.0 and they'll be very cheap. Your argument dosn't stack up in this regard.
Our gun laws has very big political support in New Zealand since all the right-wingers, centerists and left-wingers are very supportive of the laws. Also, note that the laws has not changed much for the past 50 years apart from changes to make it more difficult to obtain guns. I have yet to hear a major political party (read: a political party that has seats in the current parliament) critizise our gun laws. The public, in general, are also quite supportive of the laws. Everyone realises how much postivie impact the laws has had on our safety.
When I read or hear stories about gun shooting in the United States (especially school shooting), I always compare the US situation to NZ's situation. Here in NZ these things nearly never happens since no-one has guns, except those who have guns for good reasons. However in the United States anyone can just go to a shop and buy a gun and shoot everyone in the street. Its so simple in the United States to obtain guns, it's no wonder why the US has one of the highest rates of gun deaths in the world.
I think the argument that people needs gun for protection is bullshit. If no one had guns, except for the police and people who have passed strict background checks, soicety would be a much better place. In New Zealand since very few people have guns we almost never have gun deaths -- however in the US since everyone has guns, many people use guns. If guns were banned, people would have no reason to have guns since no one else would have guns in the first place.
I would be very supportive of a change to make gun control much more stricter. It has worked very, very, very well in New Zealand -- to the point that we only have one or two major gun deaths every year. Hell, most of the police staff in New Zealand don't have gun, thats how well the laws has worked. I wouldn't be the first to say that US's lax laws on gun control is one of the many reasons why the US is such a dangerous country to live in these days.
While lax gun control might have worked in the 19th century, the US must wake up to the situation in modern times. Things has changed since the United States was first founded, and so the people of the United States should remember this fact when they make up their mind on gun control.
(I was wondering where the tooltips for the icons at the top of every/. page had gone. Mozilla must be the only browser that doesn't render ALT attributes as tooltips.)
Last time I checked Konqueror had the same behaviour as you described.
Konqueror shows the ALT text in place of the image if the image has not been downloaded, but not as a tooltip. However it shows the TILE text for tooltips regardless of whenether or not the image has been downloaded.
X is a big dumb slow ram hog that's impossible to configure without a lot of help and with no consistant look and feel thanks to the proliferation of widget libraries. Something smaller faster and more elegant with a more consistant interface would go a long way towards making me switch from using Windows as my GUI of choice.
I don't agree with that statement regarding configurating XFree86 because over the past few years configuration has improved quite a lot. I suggest you have a look at XFree86 4.xx now rather than just basing what you think of XFree86 on your experience in tje 3.xx days or older. Improvements includes:-
XFree86 now queries the monitor to see what it can do, simalar to how Windows 95 (and later) query the monitor to find out its maxium resolution, maximum colours and maximum refresh rates. All you have to do is select a colour depth and resolutions and XFree86 will automatically figure out what the monitor can handle and ingore the out the out-of-range values which the monitor can't handle.
Also, many video card drivers now automatically detects the type of video chip you have, the amount/type of memory and basically everything required for setting up the video card. In fact I only have 3 lines for the video card section (The Identifier of the Card; The Driver's name and an option to disable NVIDIA's logo at startup).
It's really easy to setup XFree86 nowdays. Maybe I'm more used to XFree86's method of configuration but I think 4.xx's method was much better than it was in the 3.xx days. Everything's automatically deceted now. If I wanted to swap to a S3-based machine from the NVIDIA-based machine I'm on, I would only have to adjust 2 lines (change the Device line to the S3 driver and removing the NVIDIA-specific option that disables the NVIDIA logo). Pretty simple really. And a monitor, keyboard or mouse change wouldn't need any changes at all!
In conclusion, in all but extereme cases setting up XFree86 is a breeze. It may take a while to get used to the way that XFree86 works, but it works quite well when you know how to use it correctly.
- James
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XftConfig is usually in/etc/X11, not/etc
Who modded this up? It all depends on how you set up your system, there is NO standard filesystem structure for XFree86 configuration files. FreeBSD's port of XFree86 puts XftConfig in/usr/X11R6/share/X11/ for example -- and apparenly other OSes and/or disrributions (for some strange reason) decides to put it in/etc (despite the fact that/etc is for operating system-specific configuration files).
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What are you smoking? Theres no such thing as a "GSM license". There are some countries with only one GSM provider -- such as New Zealand. NZ only has one GSM provider: Vodafone New Zealand. It's been the only GSM provider in New Zealand for 10 years now. Go and do your homework before you write up comments with no facts.
I recall that Windows 95B came with NetMeeting in 1996/97. So it wasn't introduced with Win98, it was Win95 (or at least the later versions of Win95).
To elaborate a bit more on the parent post, '3' uses the 3GSM system -- also called W-CDMA (which is, indeed, an 3G technology). This system was developed to be the 3G upgrade path for the older GSM systems that are still in use all over the world.
FreeBSD dosn't include sudo in its default install too. You have to install it from the ports collection. Whenever I install FreeBSD, sudo is often the first program I build.
- James
it could be very cool to support the sxc (openoffice) format. what about this ?
Gnumeric 1.1.19 does support Openoffice's SXC file format. I discovered this by accident when I opened a SXC file instead of the XLS file I was going to open. The import filter isn't too bad for simple spreadsheets, but I would still use Excel's XLS fomat for transferring files between OOo and Gnumeric until the import filter improves.
I think this is a positive step toward an OpenSource office enviroment to replace the present-day MS Office enviroment.
- James
Gnumeric 1.1.19 does support Openoffice's SXC file format. I discovered this by accident when I opened a SXC file instead of the XLS file I was going to open. The import filter isn't too bad for simple spreadsheets, but I would still use Excel's XLS fomat for transferring files between OOo and Gnumeric until the import filter improves. I think this is a positive step toward an OpenSource office enviroment to replace the present-day MS Office enviroment. - James
GNOME isn't Linux-centric too. Sun is in the process of porting GNOME to Solaris and I'm also writing this from a FreeBSD box running GNOME 2.2. Both GNOME and KDE works perfectly on FreeBSD and that shows that both projects has made a lot of effort to make sure their code works fine on non-Linux OSes. This is good because it means non-Linux users have the same choices as Linux users.
"non-merged release"? I don't understadnd this, and I've been a FreeBSD user for over 2 years. This sounds more like an GNU/Linux concept.
3 minutes on what kind of processor?
Does the new version of XFree86 work fine with NVIDIA's offical drivers?
Now, the PC market is flooded with crappy monitors. (Not to mention OTHER components) Take a look at the Apple side of things, or the SGI/Sun workstations. They've had their share of bad products, but much of the OEM equipment is re-branded Sony models etc.
I know this isn't related to monitors, but the company that made the monitors for IBM was Lite-On IT Corp. Lite-On has also been making CD-ROM and CD-RW drives for Sony (as well TDK, ASUS, etc) for a few years now.
So maybe, Sony isn't entirely reliable as they were in the past.
- James
Heh, I was using Windows 95 then. I havn't noticed the problem using Metacity, so I guess it's more of a problem under older versions of Windows.
Ah thats true. However dosn't most browsers default to the first text box? Also, it still makes the browser's window go to the front (if I'm understanding this correctly). This is IMHO really annoying as I like to be able to work in another window without having to go back to it after a window has popped up to the front, interuppting my workflow. - James
Well, I got the following JavaScript snippet from http://wwww.google.co.nz/
<script>document.f.q.focus();
</script>
The above code causes Google to come to the front of all the windows once it load -- which is very irrating especially when I have to use non-tabbed browsers such as MSIE. Google is a very good search engine and this is about the only feature I strongly disklike about it.
Your other points are valid however.
- James
For moused all you need to do is to change the device line to "/dev/sysmouse". If you plug in a USB mouse FreeBSD will start moused by default, and its also possible to use moused with a PS/2 mouse.
- James
My copy of XFree86 from the FreeBSD ports has support for your video card. AFAIK FreeBSD added some patches to the "nv" driver to make it work with the newer drivers.
(II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA TNT2 Ultra, Vanta, RIVA TNT2 M64, Aladdin TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 GTS/Pro, GeForce2 Ti, GeForce2 Ultra, Quadro2 Pro, GeForce2 MX/MX 400, GeForce2 MX 100/200, GeForce4 MX 460, GeForce4 MX 440, GeForce4 MX 420, 0x0173, 0x0174, 0x0175, Quadro4 500/550 XGL, Quadro4 200/400 NVS, 0x017B, 0x017C, GeForce2 Integrated, Quadro2 MXR, GeForce2 Go, GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti 200, GeForce3 Ti 500, Quadro DDC, GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce4 Ti 4400, GeForce4 Ti 4200, Quadro4 900 XGL, Quadro4 750 XGL, Quadro4 700 XGL
Anyhow, the offical drivers aren't all that good. Some people have problems with it, some don't. I have problems with it, and its not only 3D/OpenGL its also really basic stuffs like VT-switching and sometimes it fucks up in 2D mode. It's a beta driver after all...
- James
Yeah, I see what you mean now. The sentence was still confusing, however. - James
Ah thanks for these information.
He was comparing the two, if he wasn't he should have written his sentences with correct puncuations.
Anyway, 2.0 isn't that more expensive than 1.0, many PC motherboards now have 2.0 onboard and prices for motherboards hasn't increased much. I bet within a year all motherboards will be sold with USB 2.0 and they'll be very cheap. Your argument dosn't stack up in this regard.
- James
I also live in New Zealand.
Our gun laws has very big political support in New Zealand since all the right-wingers, centerists and left-wingers are very supportive of the laws. Also, note that the laws has not changed much for the past 50 years apart from changes to make it more difficult to obtain guns. I have yet to hear a major political party (read: a political party that has seats in the current parliament) critizise our gun laws. The public, in general, are also quite supportive of the laws. Everyone realises how much postivie impact the laws has had on our safety.
When I read or hear stories about gun shooting in the United States (especially school shooting), I always compare the US situation to NZ's situation. Here in NZ these things nearly never happens since no-one has guns, except those who have guns for good reasons. However in the United States anyone can just go to a shop and buy a gun and shoot everyone in the street. Its so simple in the United States to obtain guns, it's no wonder why the US has one of the highest rates of gun deaths in the world.
I think the argument that people needs gun for protection is bullshit. If no one had guns, except for the police and people who have passed strict background checks, soicety would be a much better place. In New Zealand since very few people have guns we almost never have gun deaths -- however in the US since everyone has guns, many people use guns. If guns were banned, people would have no reason to have guns since no one else would have guns in the first place.
I would be very supportive of a change to make gun control much more stricter. It has worked very, very, very well in New Zealand -- to the point that we only have one or two major gun deaths every year. Hell, most of the police staff in New Zealand don't have gun, thats how well the laws has worked. I wouldn't be the first to say that US's lax laws on gun control is one of the many reasons why the US is such a dangerous country to live in these days.
While lax gun control might have worked in the 19th century, the US must wake up to the situation in modern times. Things has changed since the United States was first founded, and so the people of the United States should remember this fact when they make up their mind on gun control.
- James
Last time I checked Konqueror had the same behaviour as you described.
Konqueror shows the ALT text in place of the image if the image has not been downloaded, but not as a tooltip. However it shows the TILE text for tooltips regardless of whenether or not the image has been downloaded.
Perhaps Mozilla follows a simalar method.
- James
The orginal BeOS Personal Edition runs fine on a Pentium MMX. If you need a mirror, it was on ftp.planetmirror.com last time I checked.
I don't agree with that statement regarding configurating XFree86 because over the past few years configuration has improved quite a lot. I suggest you have a look at XFree86 4.xx now rather than just basing what you think of XFree86 on your experience in tje 3.xx days or older. Improvements includes:-
It's really easy to setup XFree86 nowdays. Maybe I'm more used to XFree86's method of configuration but I think 4.xx's method was much better than it was in the 3.xx days. Everything's automatically deceted now. If I wanted to swap to a S3-based machine from the NVIDIA-based machine I'm on, I would only have to adjust 2 lines (change the Device line to the S3 driver and removing the NVIDIA-specific option that disables the NVIDIA logo). Pretty simple really. And a monitor, keyboard or mouse change wouldn't need any changes at all!
In conclusion, in all but extereme cases setting up XFree86 is a breeze. It may take a while to get used to the way that XFree86 works, but it works quite well when you know how to use it correctly.
- James
Who modded this up? It all depends on how you set up your system, there is NO standard filesystem structure for XFree86 configuration files. FreeBSD's port of XFree86 puts XftConfig in /usr/X11R6/share/X11/ for example -- and apparenly other OSes and/or disrributions (for some strange reason) decides to put it in /etc (despite the fact that /etc is for operating system-specific configuration files).
- James