Re:Where are the default gnome icons?
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Lots of people seem to complain about the default GNOME icons, but they do one thing that so many 'prettier' icon sets fail to do: they allow me to quickly distinguish between them.
Teeth seem to be one of the American obsessions, along with being afraid of choking and French Fries. I think they are often prepared to spend large amounts of money on dental work, hence the polished white tombstone-like teeth of many americans. I guess that what we consider 'normal' looks bad to the US.
Great, now I've got "Dental Plan..Lisa needs braces...Dental Plan" going round my head again.
Dammit, quit linking to Eugenia's troll page. I'm not going to read the article, because I don't want to give her any more page impressions, but Arch linux isn't bad in my experience. I'm running it on my laptop until Ubuntu Hoary final is released. As distros go, it's fast and simple, although they did have some trouble with package quality a while back.
I think there is some sort of Murphy's law of the spelling nazi that any post complaining about spelling will contain at least one embarrassing error itself.
Is it really that hard to type in the PIN without anyone seeing? If you're really worried, just "touch type" it - place all five fingers on the keypad and press gently down on the keys required, using your thumb as well, which will be partially obscured by your other fingers.
If people are just bashing away with their index fingers, of course it's going to be easy to see what they're typing. That's a pretty daft thing to do, especially after all the shoulder-surfing ATM attacks. If you're reasonably careful about it, it's many times more secure than signatures.
I've never really noticed them check the signature in the UK. My handwriting is appaling and my signature rarely looks like the back of the card and I never got queried. I had a card with a smudged signature for weeks and it only got queried once, and I use my card for everything.
My gf's credit card was stolen on High Street Kensington - by the time she reported it missing an hour later, the thief had already made 3 separate purchases and got £50 cashback at M&S, so the signature check was pretty worthless.
or at least stem the tide of mediocre papers which are submitted over and over again to different places
I wish something would happen about that. I saw a paper a while back which took some previous work and changed *one* equation by replacing an equals with a "greater than". Somehow that was considered worth 10 pages in an important journal - it can only have taken the author an afternoon to write.
The number of times I get deja-vu reading journals these days is huge.
Wasn't there a similar report a few years back that concluded that, while there was a risk of 'cyber-terrorism', the potential damage really wasn't that great.
The thing that gets me about the terrorist threat scare-mongering is how incompetent it makes the terrorists appear. There was a report over here (UK) recently saying that there are potentially hundreds of terrorists at large in the UK. If that is the case, and they really hate the West so much, why are there not people dropping dead left and right? Surely several hundred well-trained, dedicated people with access to weapons and poisons, as they are made out to be, could cause mayhem if they wanted to.
My pet example: twenty random terrorists with no previous record spend a couple of days travelling round the country separately injecting ricin into random food items in supermarkets using hidden syringes. They'd cause mass panic and paralyse the food system as everything has to be checked.
Unless the threat isn't as great as it's made out to be, of course.
MS Word format is becoming more popular. I was considered something of a weirdo for asking about LaTeX styles for the last conference paper I submitted. Very annoying, as Word is so hard to use compared to LaTeX, and its output is much uglier.
PDF is the standard format used, and is an open format.
Good: Looks pretty, up-to-date software, bugfix releases (eg will upgrade foo 1.1 to foo 1.2 if it fixes bugs), fast, SELinux built in, lots of software available
Bad: Buggy, upgrades frequently break stuff, short release cycle with no recommended upgrade path beyond reinstalling, yum is much slower than other package managers, FC users are guinea pigs for RH.
That's a blatant misrepresentation of his point - a straw man. Free-as-in-GPL doesn't mean "do not touch".
The GPL attempts to ensure that modifications to licensed, distributed, source code remain available to users. Whether that is a worthwhile cause is a matter of opinion; personally, I believe that for community OSS projects, the requirement for companies making modified versions to also make source available is generally good for the project.
Oh, be fair - it's an amateur production. Acting convincingly is hard, and anybody with training in it is going to be far too busy waiting tables to appear in a fan-film.
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Me too
Lots of people seem to complain about the default GNOME icons, but they do one thing that so many 'prettier' icon sets fail to do: they allow me to quickly distinguish between them.
I think Will Wheaton knows what Slashdot is.
It says:
Estimated Life: 1.3 hours
on the linux version. That's barely one average commute by train.
Teeth seem to be one of the American obsessions, along with being afraid of choking and French Fries. I think they are often prepared to spend large amounts of money on dental work, hence the polished white tombstone-like teeth of many americans. I guess that what we consider 'normal' looks bad to the US.
Great, now I've got "Dental Plan..Lisa needs braces...Dental Plan" going round my head again.
Dammit, quit linking to Eugenia's troll page. I'm not going to read the article, because I don't want to give her any more page impressions, but Arch linux isn't bad in my experience. I'm running it on my laptop until Ubuntu Hoary final is released. As distros go, it's fast and simple, although they did have some trouble with package quality a while back.
I think there is some sort of Murphy's law of the spelling nazi that any post complaining about spelling will contain at least one embarrassing error itself.
Is it really that hard to type in the PIN without anyone seeing? If you're really worried, just "touch type" it - place all five fingers on the keypad and press gently down on the keys required, using your thumb as well, which will be partially obscured by your other fingers.
If people are just bashing away with their index fingers, of course it's going to be easy to see what they're typing. That's a pretty daft thing to do, especially after all the shoulder-surfing ATM attacks. If you're reasonably careful about it, it's many times more secure than signatures.
Don't a lot of the credit card companies give out rewards if retail staff retain a stolen card? I know they do in the UK, anyway - £50 for every card.
I've never really noticed them check the signature in the UK. My handwriting is appaling and my signature rarely looks like the back of the card and I never got queried. I had a card with a smudged signature for weeks and it only got queried once, and I use my card for everything.
My gf's credit card was stolen on High Street Kensington - by the time she reported it missing an hour later, the thief had already made 3 separate purchases and got £50 cashback at M&S, so the signature check was pretty worthless.
All moot now, anyway, with chip+pin.
I believe Slashdot has an FAQ on that: here
Here's a few:
- whose/who's
- fewer/less
- should have/should of
- "very unique"
or at least stem the tide of mediocre papers which are submitted over and over again to different places
I wish something would happen about that. I saw a paper a while back which took some previous work and changed *one* equation by replacing an equals with a "greater than". Somehow that was considered worth 10 pages in an important journal - it can only have taken the author an afternoon to write.
The number of times I get deja-vu reading journals these days is huge.
Wasn't there a similar report a few years back that concluded that, while there was a risk of 'cyber-terrorism', the potential damage really wasn't that great.
The thing that gets me about the terrorist threat scare-mongering is how incompetent it makes the terrorists appear. There was a report over here (UK) recently saying that there are potentially hundreds of terrorists at large in the UK. If that is the case, and they really hate the West so much, why are there not people dropping dead left and right? Surely several hundred well-trained, dedicated people with access to weapons and poisons, as they are made out to be, could cause mayhem if they wanted to.
My pet example: twenty random terrorists with no previous record spend a couple of days travelling round the country separately injecting ricin into random food items in supermarkets using hidden syringes. They'd cause mass panic and paralyse the food system as everything has to be checked.
Unless the threat isn't as great as it's made out to be, of course.
Troll posted verbatim from the last slashdot openoffice article. And modded up both times.
Why switch away from Latex? I can't imagine having to go back to having to worry about figure positioning etc.
Latex is perfect for theses: you can just worry about the content and structure and the layout comes automatically from that.
MS Word format is becoming more popular. I was considered something of a weirdo for asking about LaTeX styles for the last conference paper I submitted. Very annoying, as Word is so hard to use compared to LaTeX, and its output is much uglier.
PDF is the standard format used, and is an open format.
Read the headline for the intended meaning.
Headline is misleading - it's the crackers that used keylogging software, not the police.
GNOMEbaker and Graveman look pretty good GNOME cd-burning applications. I've only used them for simple stuff so far, though.
Isn't the fact that it's 2005 in "the age of the software patent" the problem?
I hadn't seen that - does it keep settings etc, or is it just a scripted delete the system partition and replace it?
Not that I'd go back to FC any time soon, anyway. *shudder*.
Good: Looks pretty, up-to-date software, bugfix releases (eg will upgrade foo 1.1 to foo 1.2 if it fixes bugs), fast, SELinux built in, lots of software available
Bad: Buggy, upgrades frequently break stuff, short release cycle with no recommended upgrade path beyond reinstalling, yum is much slower than other package managers, FC users are guinea pigs for RH.
Plus, Firefox 1.1 will be out by the time IE7 *beta* is ready. They'll probably be getting near FF2.0 time by the first IE7 release.
That's a blatant misrepresentation of his point - a straw man. Free-as-in-GPL doesn't mean "do not touch".
The GPL attempts to ensure that modifications to licensed, distributed, source code remain available to users. Whether that is a worthwhile cause is a matter of opinion; personally, I believe that for community OSS projects, the requirement for companies making modified versions to also make source available is generally good for the project.
Oh, be fair - it's an amateur production. Acting convincingly is hard, and anybody with training in it is going to be far too busy waiting tables to appear in a fan-film.