Re:Mirror anyone?
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Review: KDE 3.2
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· Score: 4, Informative
I'd second the "wow". I've been using it as my primary desktop since beta1. The final release version has a few rough edges, but it is a.0 after all. Favourite new features: - the new macos style menubar + panel - Speed - much faster than 3.1 - virtual folders in kmail - a folder that holds the contents of a search, but behaves like a normal mail folder - the polish - so many little annoyances from 3.1 are gone.
The compilation on gentoo really doesn't take that long. Leave it running overnight and it'll be done in the morning (well, it was on my athlon-xp 1800). kdetoys and kdeaddons wouldn't compile for me, but someone on the forums probably has a fix.
I think numbers are starting to pick up a little now. At least there are a lot more people per year here in the undergrad courses than when I was an undergrad.
I think another advantage of ChemEng degrees is their breadth - there are a lot of industries available to work in.
It is hard supporting all the different types of Palm hardware. I get a lot of email requests saying "can you support feature XYZ" on my SuperDuper PalmClone. I just don't have development time to include them all.
One thing at least is guaranteed though - a (not-badly-written) app written for an old Palm will at least run and look identical on any new device. It may not support new features, but it will work. My biggest annoyance is the fact that there is no Linux version of the Simulator. Rebooting into windows in order to test on PalmOS 5 is really annoying.
I'd think that the fix for the "hash key being bound to ctrl-alt-f7 on many British layout keyboards" problem is a pretty good reason for a lot of people to upgrade. Kinda makes it hard to put comments in shell scripts...
Re:What does it do that's so special?
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KDE 3.2.0 Released
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· Score: 1
a few points:
why does it matter how long it takes to start? I just switch my computer on in the morning and off in the evening, so I only see the startup time once a day.
Everything in KDE is configurable. Can you see a taskbar in this screenshot?. I have a window list bound to alt-X.
The CLI is still there for when you need it. Transparently sftp connecting using konqueror to remote servers is useful and faster in most cases than a sftp in an xterm. If the CLI is faster for you, then use it. I think in many cases people just say that because it make them feel more 'l33t'.
The apps in KDE are excellent - I like Juk, KMail and konqueror (as a file manager). All well integrated into the desktop.
I used to use windowmaker a lot - then I realised how much easier and faster to use KDE is.
How much natural gas would be needed to produce a 3 kiloton explosion ?
About 30,000kg, extrapolating from the calculations on propane here. It's been far too many years since my Combustion and Safety lectures for me to do any calculations myself.
From a quick glance at those figures and some other similar accidents, 3 kilotonnes doesn't seem overly large. The air/gas mixture is acheived because of the turbulent mixing of the gas as it escapes though the rupture from the high pressure inside the pipeline.
Why do students need to buy textbooks anyway? Don't US universities give lecture notes and problem sheets out? At uni (engineering degree) I bought one or two books a year, all for subjects where it was either an open book exam or all the lectures were really early in the morning, so I was missing some notes.
It's right there in the post - he doesn't want something advanced. Have you seen the way Access is used in a lot of organisations? As an undergrad I did some work for charities creating databases and forms etc. Typically they have a collection of database files with maybe a few hundred to a thousand entries each - customer names, addresses etc.
All they want is a program that lets clerical staff add entries, edit existing ones and churn out labels, mail-merge letters and reports. All with some sort of simple GUI. The chances of the staff learning SQL were about up there with them learning Swahili.
From what I've seen, MS Access is used for most of this. It's horrible to use, buggy and ugly, but it's just about simple enough that a non-techy can muddle through and get work done.
I think Rekall is meant to be quite good, although I know nothing beyond the dot.kde.org post on it.
Then you have to fight the bizarre built-in pro-Microsoft stance of pretty much any non-techy computer user. I swear MS are putting something in the water. You could install computers with IE and Mozilla, with a large message that popped up *every time* you ran IE saying "This browser is insecure and will allow criminals to steal your money. There is a far more powerful and secure browser on this computer - it's the red icon on the desktop". And people would still use IE "'cos it's Microsoft".
There is a GPL/QPL version available now. You can redistribute any software licenced under those licences, so they can't just stop you using it. If Qt development stops, the latest version will be released under a BSD style licence by the KDE free Qt foundation. So your fears are unfounded.
I doubt you've got the virus. The virus has probably used your email address as the return address, so that you get the bounces despite not having the virus. I've received lots of virus warning bounces, mostly sent to "helen@benroe.com" and "serg@benroe.com", which aren't email addresses I use (obviously).
Most countries have pretty strict controls both on real guns and also on replica guns, as they can be modified to fire live ammo if not properly made. I imagine it is easier for Intel to get approval for their wireless devices if they can't be modified, than if they were selling an easily modifiable computer controlled tranmitter.
AFAIK, the radio emissions from the wireless card are regulated (by the FCC in the US?) so as to avoid interference with other spectrum users. Much of this regulation is acheived through the close-source drivers. Using modified drivers, it would be possible to make the card emit different frequencies or more power, thereby violating the usage licence.
Which was pretty much what you were trying to say. Just ignore me, I'll go back to dozing while I wait for the IT department to install my bloody software.
Except that the Athlon XP-2500 isn't an Athlon64. It's a budget chip - it's around 65GBP here in the UK (probably $65 in the US, grumble grumble). I don't think you'd get very much of a G5 for that. Just because they run at the same frequency doesn't mean you can compare their performance.
Where's the money going? Well, of course the socialist government we elected is spending it on: - High quality medical care - now only two years for a hip replacement! - A fast, efficient and punctual train system - only three times the price of BR! - A world-class police force - now with 15% more mugging! - An excellent education system - with added Lifetime Debt(TM) feature
AFAICS, the 'free'(as in not-free) trade movement exists to lower barriers against rich western countries flooding developing economies with the products of our highly automated and heavily subsidised agricultural industry. Got to keep those darkies poor and hungry or who knows what they might get up to;)
The BPI are already going after play.com and looking at initiaing proceedings against Amazon, although I imagine that they might think twice about taking on a company like amazon - I mean, anyone that can patent storing a reference to a credit card number in a text file must have some kind of magical legal powers.
I can't remember the last time I got sniped and killed - many times hit once and reduced to near zero health, but a quick dash for cover generally keeps you alive. But then I mainly play Russian and British maps, and I steer clear of Omaha beach as it is so annoying.
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I'd second the "wow". I've been using it as my primary desktop since beta1. The final release version has a few rough edges, but it is a .0 after all.
Favourite new features:
- the new macos style menubar + panel
- Speed - much faster than 3.1
- virtual folders in kmail - a folder that holds the contents of a search, but behaves like a normal mail folder
- the polish - so many little annoyances from 3.1 are gone.
The compilation on gentoo really doesn't take that long. Leave it running overnight and it'll be done in the morning (well, it was on my athlon-xp 1800). kdetoys and kdeaddons wouldn't compile for me, but someone on the forums probably has a fix.
I think numbers are starting to pick up a little now. At least there are a lot more people per year here in the undergrad courses than when I was an undergrad.
I think another advantage of ChemEng degrees is their breadth - there are a lot of industries available to work in.
It is hard supporting all the different types of Palm hardware. I get a lot of email requests saying "can you support feature XYZ" on my SuperDuper PalmClone. I just don't have development time to include them all.
One thing at least is guaranteed though - a (not-badly-written) app written for an old Palm will at least run and look identical on any new device. It may not support new features, but it will work.
My biggest annoyance is the fact that there is no Linux version of the Simulator. Rebooting into windows in order to test on PalmOS 5 is really annoying.
Maybe it's (very)-delayed Post Traumatic Stress kicking in. Time he was put out to pasture maybe?
It happened on my MS Natural Pro USB keyboard - It was something to do with scancodes being wrongly defined in the keyboard driver in 2.6.
I'd think that the fix for the "hash key being bound to ctrl-alt-f7 on many British layout keyboards" problem is a pretty good reason for a lot of people to upgrade. Kinda makes it hard to put comments in shell scripts...
I used to use windowmaker a lot - then I realised how much easier and faster to use KDE is.
Doh. This is why I just deal with simulated chemical plants, and not the real thing. At least I can't kill anyone with a *simulated* x1e3 error.
How much natural gas would be needed to produce a 3 kiloton explosion ?
About 30,000kg, extrapolating from the calculations on propane here. It's been far too many years since my Combustion and Safety lectures for me to do any calculations myself.
From a quick glance at those figures and some other similar accidents, 3 kilotonnes doesn't seem overly large. The air/gas mixture is acheived because of the turbulent mixing of the gas as it escapes though the rupture from the high pressure inside the pipeline.
Why do students need to buy textbooks anyway? Don't US universities give lecture notes and problem sheets out? At uni (engineering degree) I bought one or two books a year, all for subjects where it was either an open book exam or all the lectures were really early in the morning, so I was missing some notes.
It's right there in the post - he doesn't want something advanced. Have you seen the way Access is used in a lot of organisations? As an undergrad I did some work for charities creating databases and forms etc. Typically they have a collection of database files with maybe a few hundred to a thousand entries each - customer names, addresses etc. All they want is a program that lets clerical staff add entries, edit existing ones and churn out labels, mail-merge letters and reports. All with some sort of simple GUI. The chances of the staff learning SQL were about up there with them learning Swahili.
From what I've seen, MS Access is used for most of this. It's horrible to use, buggy and ugly, but it's just about simple enough that a non-techy can muddle through and get work done.I think Rekall is meant to be quite good, although I know nothing beyond the dot.kde.org post on it.
Then you have to fight the bizarre built-in pro-Microsoft stance of pretty much any non-techy computer user. I swear MS are putting something in the water.
You could install computers with IE and Mozilla, with a large message that popped up *every time* you ran IE saying "This browser is insecure and will allow criminals to steal your money. There is a far more powerful and secure browser on this computer - it's the red icon on the desktop".
And people would still use IE "'cos it's Microsoft".
There is a GPL/QPL version available now. You can redistribute any software licenced under those licences, so they can't just stop you using it. If Qt development stops, the latest version will be released under a BSD style licence by the KDE free Qt foundation. So your fears are unfounded.
Oh, wouldn't that be terrible. Kind of like that Simpsons halloween episode - "Give us the baby or we will kill all your leaders in Washington".
I doubt you've got the virus. The virus has probably used your email address as the return address, so that you get the bounces despite not having the virus. I've received lots of virus warning bounces, mostly sent to "helen@benroe.com" and "serg@benroe.com", which aren't email addresses I use (obviously).
Another option would be having something to allow the user to assign hotkeys or mouse gestures to any file/shortcut on their computer.
I think there may be a fair bit of prior art on that one (well, hotkeys anyway)! Most desktops let you do it - WindowMaker and KDE to name two.
Put down the can of worms and step away from it right now.
Most countries have pretty strict controls both on real guns and also on replica guns, as they can be modified to fire live ammo if not properly made.
I imagine it is easier for Intel to get approval for their wireless devices if they can't be modified, than if they were selling an easily modifiable computer controlled tranmitter.
AFAIK, the radio emissions from the wireless card are regulated (by the FCC in the US?) so as to avoid interference with other spectrum users. Much of this regulation is acheived through the close-source drivers.
Using modified drivers, it would be possible to make the card emit different frequencies or more power, thereby violating the usage licence.
Which was pretty much what you were trying to say. Just ignore me, I'll go back to dozing while I wait for the IT department to install my bloody software.
Except that the Athlon XP-2500 isn't an Athlon64. It's a budget chip - it's around 65GBP here in the UK (probably $65 in the US, grumble grumble). I don't think you'd get very much of a G5 for that.
Just because they run at the same frequency doesn't mean you can compare their performance.
Where's the money going? Well, of course the socialist government we elected is spending it on:
- High quality medical care - now only two years for a hip replacement!
- A fast, efficient and punctual train system - only three times the price of BR!
- A world-class police force - now with 15% more mugging!
- An excellent education system - with added Lifetime Debt(TM) feature
AFAICS, the 'free'(as in not-free) trade movement exists to lower barriers against rich western countries flooding developing economies with the products of our highly automated and heavily subsidised agricultural industry. Got to keep those darkies poor and hungry or who knows what they might get up to ;)
The BPI are already going after play.com and looking at initiaing proceedings against Amazon, although I imagine that they might think twice about taking on a company like amazon - I mean, anyone that can patent storing a reference to a credit card number in a text file must have some kind of magical legal powers.
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I can't remember the last time I got sniped and killed - many times hit once and reduced to near zero health, but a quick dash for cover generally keeps you alive.
But then I mainly play Russian and British maps, and I steer clear of Omaha beach as it is so annoying.