From the XNS web site: XNS is a combination of five major components--a naming/addressing/identity service, an XML vocabulary and metavocabulary, an XML protocol and metaprotocol, a legal and operational infrastructure, and a development platform--that together provide a foundation set of services for the next layer of Internet infrastructure, the "web services" layer.
Plus, it's fully buzzword compliant! It's got "web services," "metavocabulary," "metaprotocol," and the ever-popular XML. The buzzword content of that site is 3 times the nominal level. Then they throw a couple of incomprehensible analogies into the mix just to make sure you're fully confused.
Everyone thinks that the developers have it out for the poor users. That's not the case! There is simply a lack of good available tools to make universal installers. For Windows, that's not a problem, mostly because Windows is more standardized. In Linux, every attempt to make some sort of a universal packaging system has failed (so far). All the major distros are incompatible with each other. Therefore, each supported system has to be dealt with seperately, wasting developer time. No developer can support installation on all available systems (in their free time, remember - they probably don't even have access to most of the systems themselves) and still have time to do what's fun for them (code). Sometimes developers get annoyed at all the people demanding binaries from them and get a little mad, which might give you the impression that they're hell-bent on making things difficult for you. But that's a very narrow-minded view.
If someone came out with an easy way to make universal installers for linux programs, every developer out there would snap it up in a heartbeat.
No, that's totally wrong. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by an inability to satisfy your request. Linux developers have nothing against easy installation.
The fact of the matter is, easy installation is 100 times harder to get right on Linux than it is on Windows. On Windows, everyone runs compatible versions of the same kernel. On Windows, everyone uses the same GUI. On Windows, everyone has a/Program Files directory. On Windows, you can always put.dlls in/windows/system. On Linux, none of this is true, incompatibilities are par for the course.
If you come up with a way to make package installation easy across distros, you'll be the hero of package users *and* makers alike. Debian is the only distro that gets it right.
You should use regedit to look at and save the current value of this key first so you can restore your system when Microsoft releases the patch. Otherwise you could have some trouble re-associating it because the current value is an umpteen-digit GUID. If you lose that value you might not be able to find it again.
Start->Run, type in "regedit." Open the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder, find.eml, then right-click its value and select "Modify." Copy and paste this value into a file somewhere where you'll be able to find it again. Then change the association like above.
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The article itself contains a link which apparently no one read that explains what you have to put in your prefs.js file.
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
That should do it for you, if you're using Moz 0.9.4.
The test runs fine on my PIII 500 w/ 8 MB Savage4 card that came with the computer. Just turn off all the graphics options and set it to 640x480, it will run fine. It's quite playable, and it looks better with all the options off than some other games.
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Follow the link "disable" at the beginning of the article. You must be using the new version.
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Actually, what is in Mozilla now is much cooler yet, which is the ability to disable 99.9% of advertising popups while letting 99% of wanted popups through, with no user intervention necessary! No need to maintain a list of sites that need popups to function. It disables popups during page load and unload, but lets through popups that happen due to an actual mouse click.
Of course, if this feature ever gets widespread use we'll just see javascript links that open up advertisements in addition to their targets, but that won't happen unless IE gets this feature, which is unlikely. So download Mozilla and free yourself from evil automatic popups!
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I think one of the key aspects of this act of terrorism was the use of passenger planes. What will you be thinking of next time you board a plane for a cross-country flight? That's just what the terrorists want you to think. A UPS plane wouldn't have been as effective for that.
Or maybe I innocently clicked a link to a page at www.somethingawful.com which automatically redirected me to goatse.cx before I could react. Luckily, my eyes didn't immediately explode since the picture is off the front page.
Then I thought, my god, I just HAVE to post this to slashdot. Wouldn't you? I just wanted to see how the moderators would react. So far they seem to be taking it pretty well...
Even goatse.cx is mourning
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I'm not kidding. Go to goatse.cx, and instead of the horrible sight you think you'll see, you'll find something different.
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Totally different. Todays monitors refresh at 60 Hz or faster, and all of todays graphics technology is built around this refreshing. One would hope e-paper wouldn't need to be refreshed as long as the information displayed doesn't change. To me, e-paper would only be useful if it could display large amounts of static data in a very high-quality manner, while using no power. The ability to change what is displayed is nice, but I don't expect e-paper to show me movies! We've got other display technologies for that. It would be acceptable for e-paper to take several seconds to change the entire page. Thus, much lower-powered, less complex electronics would do the job fine.
Expect to see a lot more sites with prominent copying policies and "no-download" images, and trivial circumvention of both.
I especially like those sites with Javascript pop-up message boxes that appear when you right-click so you can't select 'save as.' As if you couldn't just go into your browser's cache and copy it from there. Or, even easier, simply hold the right mouse button down while you hit the spacebar to clear the popup.
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You could get the asm out of the binaries, but it would lose all formatting, comments, macros, separation into different files, and various other things. It would be *very* hard to read; not at all the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."
As soon as someone takes the time to do some porting (very little would be required) and compiles Konq-embedded with the QT-Win free edition.
By the smiley you had there, I'll bet you weren't expecting that answer. Really, the only thing holding back a Windows port of Konqueror/Embedded is silly license issues. They're the same license issues that KDE had back in the days before QT was open-sourced on Linux, so they should be surmountable.
1. I cannot seem to find any way to stop animated GIFs. Is there some buried command for this, or am I SOL?
Right click, "Stop Animations," but I think it was a recent addition, so if you're using an old version you should upgrade.
2. It would be nice if I could put my favorite links on the menu bar, like with Navigator.
What do you mean? There is a bookmarks toolbar...
6. They did mention the loading time, but I'll still mention that it is slow.
Known issue. Being worked on (its not all KDE's fault). If you keep a Konqueror open at all times, you can avoid this. In newer KDE versions there is an option called "Use one process always" or something that can speed up opening a new window (but then if one window crashes, you lose them all). Also, clicking on the rotating "K" logo in the toolbar is hands-down the fastest way to get a new Konqueror window.
The conditional cookie and javascript (by web site) feature is awesome.
Yeah. Now that I've downloaded IE 6, I'm wondering if Microsoft copied KDE because Konqueror had that feature *way* before IE. That would be a first:-)
Wrong! HancomOffice has an excellent set of MS Office import/export filters. It looks to be a very complete and mature product and I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do. Especially with Hancom's recent alliance with theKompany, giving it Kivio (Envision), Aethra (QuickSilver), Quanta+ (WebBuilder), and reKall (easyDB) to add to the HancomOffice package (story on the Dot). Of course, I'm still rooting for KOffice though:-)
KOM is not what KDE uses. KDE dropped all CORBA-based stuff early on after the performance problems became evident. What KDE uses is DCOP, a lightweight inter-process messaging protocol of their own design. For fun, on your KDE desktop press Alt-F2 and run "kdcop." Then you can look at all the things you can do with DCOP. There are DCOP bindings for several languages (Python, Perl, Java, etc) and the "dcop" program allows calling DCOP functions from shell scripts, making almost all of KDE fully scriptable! Funny that almost no one uses this capability.
Back on topic, OpenGL is NOT simply a 3D toolkit, it provides hardware-accelerated 2D functions as well, making it a perfect choice for Berlin.
Right now, KOffice is still in Microsoft-Works league.
You were expecting otherwise? Come on, this is a 1.1 release. MS Office is at what, 12?
But lacking endnotes/footnotes? mail merge is gone? These are SERIOUS problems.
And what do you think is on the roadmap for KOffice development? Have patience, maturity will come in time. KOffice development is proceeding at a blistering pace, as always seems to be the case with KDE projects.
In the meantime, don't ignore what KOffice has already got: A nice set of applications for non-demanding use as a basic office suite. I've used MS Works for years and never needed anything else. As soon as KWord gets footnotes, I'm switching.
Here's a tip for those using Windows (out of necessity, hopefully) that could cut down on the "I've gotta reinstall because its getting slow" syndrome. It decreases startup time, increases reliability, disables annoying registration reminders/update notifiers/misc. crap (such as RealPlayer), and generally makes your computing experience better.
Click Start->Run... and type in msconfig.exe. The "System Configuration Utility" will come up, allowing you to do all sorts of cool things to Windows. The most important is the "Startup" tab. Go there and look at the checkboxes. These allow you to selectively disable _all_ programs that get started when your computer starts (even those not shown in the Startup folder in the Start menu).
Even if you uncheck all the boxes (even the important-sounding ones such as scanRegistry or TaskMonitor), your computer will still start up and work fine. I've tried it. So go crazy! Uncheck anything having to do with RealPlayer, or anything that sounds suspicious. To find out what some of the more obscure programs do, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and killing them selectively, then seeing if you notice the difference. Common ones are the on-screen displays for keyboards with Internet buttons, antivirus tray icons, software registration reminders, automatic Internet update checkers, RealPlayer, scanner software, and AOL/AIM tray icons. By only checking the things you want, you can eliminate useless crap and take control of what programs do to your system.
If you see something called WebHancer or SaveNow, UNCHECK its box with EXTREME PREJUDICE! These are evil spyware/forced advertising programs that
are using your computer for their nefarious purposes.
If you do this for your parents, they will be forever grateful.
Another great way to "fix" Windows is Microsoft's TweakUI. If you are a computer geek running Windows and you don't have TweakUI, get it now! Its a great control panel applet that allows you to customize Windows features that you can't customize anywhere else. Get it from Microsoft (search their site, its available for all versions of Windows if you look hard enough, even though its not supported it works perfectly).
[...] its not illegal! The Sherman Act doesn't regulate free trade, it regulates monopolies trying to use its monopoly power to expand into new markets. Period. This isnt a new market. This is the preservation of an existing market.
The defense attorneys could have used this anyway in order to prove that Microsoft was in fact a monopoly. I guess they felt it wasn't necessary though. The guy in the article was wrong to be mad at the attorneys for not including this evidence, because they did indeed prove that Microsoft was a monopoly even without the help of this bootloader evidence. It would have been superfluous if they had included it, delaying the trial (which would be to Microsoft's advantage).
Be, Inc. couldn't sue Microsoft over the matter either, as he suggests, since its not illegal. Basically, this guy is all wrong about what he is saying because he doesn't understand the legal issues. That's the problem with armchair lawyers.
Whatever happened to those guys who claimed to be using a maser to modulate the magnetic field, thereby defeating Maxwell's equations and getting high frequency data through the 60Hz transformers?
You must be talking about Media Fusion. They used to have an interesting site but now they've done some reorganization in the company and just put up a "under construction" sign. Its been there for some time now. I'm hoping its true but I'm thinking "SCAM."
Their claims were that they could put their units in the power distribution stations and then everyone would be able to buy little boxes to plug into their outlets that would be able to recieve and transmit data. They claimed data transmission rates in the gigabit range.
Unfortunately, KDE 3 will break binary compatibility with KDE 2, which will definitely hurt KDE's application base; KDE 3 will have both API changes and use the new TrollTech Qt 3.0.
Binary incompatibility is unavoidable, since GCC 3.0 isn't binary compatible with GCC 2.x. KDE is simply using the opportunity to break everything at once instead of having several smaller breaks which would be much worse.
The API changes will be very minor. In fact, most KDE programs will probably be able to be ported with a Perl script or something similar. The idea is not to change the API so much as fix known problems with it in preparation for keeping it frozen for the future. This will be nothing at all like the KDE/QT 1 -> KDE/QT 2 change.
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XNS is a combination of five major components--a naming/addressing/identity service, an XML vocabulary and metavocabulary, an XML protocol and metaprotocol, a legal and operational infrastructure, and a development platform--that together provide a foundation set of services for the next layer of Internet infrastructure, the "web services" layer.
Plus, it's fully buzzword compliant! It's got "web services," "metavocabulary," "metaprotocol," and the ever-popular XML. The buzzword content of that site is 3 times the nominal level. Then they throw a couple of incomprehensible analogies into the mix just to make sure you're fully confused.
If someone came out with an easy way to make universal installers for linux programs, every developer out there would snap it up in a heartbeat.
I stand corrected. But you know what I mean :-)
The fact of the matter is, easy installation is 100 times harder to get right on Linux than it is on Windows. On Windows, everyone runs compatible versions of the same kernel. On Windows, everyone uses the same GUI. On Windows, everyone has a /Program Files directory. On Windows, you can always put .dlls in /windows/system. On Linux, none of this is true, incompatibilities are par for the course.
If you come up with a way to make package installation easy across distros, you'll be the hero of package users *and* makers alike. Debian is the only distro that gets it right.
Start->Run, type in "regedit." Open the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder, find .eml, then right-click its value and select "Modify." Copy and paste this value into a file somewhere where you'll be able to find it again. Then change the association like above.
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
That should do it for you, if you're using Moz 0.9.4.
The test runs fine on my PIII 500 w/ 8 MB Savage4 card that came with the computer. Just turn off all the graphics options and set it to 640x480, it will run fine. It's quite playable, and it looks better with all the options off than some other games.
Follow the link "disable" at the beginning of the article. You must be using the new version.
Of course, if this feature ever gets widespread use we'll just see javascript links that open up advertisements in addition to their targets, but that won't happen unless IE gets this feature, which is unlikely. So download Mozilla and free yourself from evil automatic popups!
I think one of the key aspects of this act of terrorism was the use of passenger planes. What will you be thinking of next time you board a plane for a cross-country flight? That's just what the terrorists want you to think. A UPS plane wouldn't have been as effective for that.
Then I thought, my god, I just HAVE to post this to slashdot. Wouldn't you? I just wanted to see how the moderators would react. So far they seem to be taking it pretty well...
I'm not kidding. Go to goatse.cx, and instead of the horrible sight you think you'll see, you'll find something different.
Totally different. Todays monitors refresh at 60 Hz or faster, and all of todays graphics technology is built around this refreshing. One would hope e-paper wouldn't need to be refreshed as long as the information displayed doesn't change. To me, e-paper would only be useful if it could display large amounts of static data in a very high-quality manner, while using no power. The ability to change what is displayed is nice, but I don't expect e-paper to show me movies! We've got other display technologies for that. It would be acceptable for e-paper to take several seconds to change the entire page. Thus, much lower-powered, less complex electronics would do the job fine.
I especially like those sites with Javascript pop-up message boxes that appear when you right-click so you can't select 'save as.' As if you couldn't just go into your browser's cache and copy it from there. Or, even easier, simply hold the right mouse button down while you hit the spacebar to clear the popup.
You could get the asm out of the binaries, but it would lose all formatting, comments, macros, separation into different files, and various other things. It would be *very* hard to read; not at all the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."
As soon as someone takes the time to do some porting (very little would be required) and compiles Konq-embedded with the QT-Win free edition.
By the smiley you had there, I'll bet you weren't expecting that answer. Really, the only thing holding back a Windows port of Konqueror/Embedded is silly license issues. They're the same license issues that KDE had back in the days before QT was open-sourced on Linux, so they should be surmountable.
Sounds like you want AtheOS.
Right click, "Stop Animations," but I think it was a recent addition, so if you're using an old version you should upgrade.
2. It would be nice if I could put my favorite links on the menu bar, like with Navigator.
What do you mean? There is a bookmarks toolbar...
6. They did mention the loading time, but I'll still mention that it is slow.
Known issue. Being worked on (its not all KDE's fault). If you keep a Konqueror open at all times, you can avoid this. In newer KDE versions there is an option called "Use one process always" or something that can speed up opening a new window (but then if one window crashes, you lose them all). Also, clicking on the rotating "K" logo in the toolbar is hands-down the fastest way to get a new Konqueror window.
The conditional cookie and javascript (by web site) feature is awesome.
Yeah. Now that I've downloaded IE 6, I'm wondering if Microsoft copied KDE because Konqueror had that feature *way* before IE. That would be a first :-)
Wrong! HancomOffice has an excellent set of MS Office import/export filters. It looks to be a very complete and mature product and I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do. Especially with Hancom's recent alliance with theKompany, giving it Kivio (Envision), Aethra (QuickSilver), Quanta+ (WebBuilder), and reKall (easyDB) to add to the HancomOffice package (story on the Dot). Of course, I'm still rooting for KOffice though :-)
Back on topic, OpenGL is NOT simply a 3D toolkit, it provides hardware-accelerated 2D functions as well, making it a perfect choice for Berlin.
You were expecting otherwise? Come on, this is a 1.1 release. MS Office is at what, 12?
But lacking endnotes/footnotes? mail merge is gone? These are SERIOUS problems.
And what do you think is on the roadmap for KOffice development? Have patience, maturity will come in time. KOffice development is proceeding at a blistering pace, as always seems to be the case with KDE projects.
In the meantime, don't ignore what KOffice has already got: A nice set of applications for non-demanding use as a basic office suite. I've used MS Works for years and never needed anything else. As soon as KWord gets footnotes, I'm switching.
Click Start->Run... and type in msconfig.exe. The "System Configuration Utility" will come up, allowing you to do all sorts of cool things to Windows. The most important is the "Startup" tab. Go there and look at the checkboxes. These allow you to selectively disable _all_ programs that get started when your computer starts (even those not shown in the Startup folder in the Start menu).
Even if you uncheck all the boxes (even the important-sounding ones such as scanRegistry or TaskMonitor), your computer will still start up and work fine. I've tried it. So go crazy! Uncheck anything having to do with RealPlayer, or anything that sounds suspicious. To find out what some of the more obscure programs do, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and killing them selectively, then seeing if you notice the difference. Common ones are the on-screen displays for keyboards with Internet buttons, antivirus tray icons, software registration reminders, automatic Internet update checkers, RealPlayer, scanner software, and AOL/AIM tray icons. By only checking the things you want, you can eliminate useless crap and take control of what programs do to your system.
If you see something called WebHancer or SaveNow, UNCHECK its box with EXTREME PREJUDICE! These are evil spyware/forced advertising programs that are using your computer for their nefarious purposes.
If you do this for your parents, they will be forever grateful.
Another great way to "fix" Windows is Microsoft's TweakUI. If you are a computer geek running Windows and you don't have TweakUI, get it now! Its a great control panel applet that allows you to customize Windows features that you can't customize anywhere else. Get it from Microsoft (search their site, its available for all versions of Windows if you look hard enough, even though its not supported it works perfectly).
The defense attorneys could have used this anyway in order to prove that Microsoft was in fact a monopoly. I guess they felt it wasn't necessary though. The guy in the article was wrong to be mad at the attorneys for not including this evidence, because they did indeed prove that Microsoft was a monopoly even without the help of this bootloader evidence. It would have been superfluous if they had included it, delaying the trial (which would be to Microsoft's advantage).
Be, Inc. couldn't sue Microsoft over the matter either, as he suggests, since its not illegal. Basically, this guy is all wrong about what he is saying because he doesn't understand the legal issues. That's the problem with armchair lawyers.
You must be talking about Media Fusion. They used to have an interesting site but now they've done some reorganization in the company and just put up a "under construction" sign. Its been there for some time now. I'm hoping its true but I'm thinking "SCAM."
Their claims were that they could put their units in the power distribution stations and then everyone would be able to buy little boxes to plug into their outlets that would be able to recieve and transmit data. They claimed data transmission rates in the gigabit range.
Binary incompatibility is unavoidable, since GCC 3.0 isn't binary compatible with GCC 2.x. KDE is simply using the opportunity to break everything at once instead of having several smaller breaks which would be much worse.
The API changes will be very minor. In fact, most KDE programs will probably be able to be ported with a Perl script or something similar. The idea is not to change the API so much as fix known problems with it in preparation for keeping it frozen for the future. This will be nothing at all like the KDE/QT 1 -> KDE/QT 2 change.