Show them terminatorX A friend of mine installed Linux, just to be able to run this app. And it's a lot of fun to scratch on some Steve Ballmer samples!
The discussion is about the GTK+ file selector, which is analogous to the Qt, rather than the KDE file selector.
When GNOME 2.0 came out and people were complaining about the file selector, the developers responded that this was a GTK issue.
So why didn't they develop their own file selector right from the start, like the KDE people did?
It's sad that the author mentions Lowenbrau in comparison to Suse, since Lowenbrau is the most disgusting german beer I can think of (gimme a Thorbrau Kellerbier!)
Apart from the joke, i think that the new idea behind this device manager is great: The devices of your computer are represented with pictures. This will make it easy to change stuff, even for newbies, since they don't have to fight their way through the ugly device tree, that's used in current windows versions.
Would't it be great if <irony> and <sarcasm> tags were implementet in any browser out there?
A paragraph with irony tags would then be displayed as:
--- Warning ---
This paragraph may contain humor you don't understand and is not displayed by default.
If you want to read it anyway click here --- End ---
Of course, the same could be done for <sex>, <drugs> and <rocknroll> to Make The Web Safe For Your Children(TM).
If you're tired shooting aliens, you can play pong on your cockpit display. What I did most of the time, since my alienshootingskills are limited. Well, I could have played standalone Pong, but it's much cooler if you have these damn cool 3D graphics in the background!
often, and companies are highly unlikely to add playback support for something that's not part of a standard.
Is WMA part of a Standart? I don't think so, but most of the portable mp3 players also support WMA.
OK, maybe MS 'convinced' the manufacturers to include WMA support, but that doesn't make it a Standart.
http://alice.sunlitsurf.com/alicechat.html
> Hi Alice
Hello there.
> do you know the company ActiveBuddy?
I haven't heard of the company ActiveBuddy.
Try searching the open directory.
> Well, they have a patent on bots like you
Well that's okay. Where did they get them?
> from the patent office
Who or what is the patent office?
> a lot of jerks are working there
How many?
> i don't know
Me either.
> Tim Kay is responsible for that
Are they exactly the same?
> you mean he's a jerk?
Yes Connect I think that is what I meant. Was it not clear?
> sure, i knew it right from the start. Bye
OK let's do it. And? Who told you? See you later.
I don't think, that all this would be good for open source. Here is why: For a Linux/Unix user it's normal to download the source of the program he wants and to compile it for himself. Under Windows you always get executables. And that's the problem: Palladium will only work with signed binarys. So what do you do with your new selfcompiled but unsigned binary? Send it to one of those authorities and wait one week to get back a signed version? I wont.
The next generation of cell phones, pagers, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and set-top boxes will require slimmed-down technology to access the Web, and Mozilla could model itself as the technology of choice.
So the next generation of cell phones will have 256MB RAM?
So a GPL'd implementation of CIFS is legal if the MS documentation is not used? Then a Programmer can use the MS documentation to write a CIFS implementation and just say that he got the needed information through reverse engeneering. Of course this would be illegal, but what could Microsoft do to prevent this? So for me the purpose of this license agreement is just to discriminate the GPL, not to prevent GPL CIFS implementations.
While i like the features of Openoffice, i hate the way the whole thing works. The desktop of Staroffice 5.2 has been removed, but OO is still one big process and the different applications are just modules. If only one of these modules hangs and you have to kill it, all your OO aplications get killed. Another result is, for me starting up the Writer takes as long as starting up the whole 5.2 Desktop. I hope that this changes in one of the future versions, but i have the feeling that it won't.
With IPSec it is possible to encrypt all your traffic. When the IPSec encryption header is used, everthing behind the IP header is encrypted, even the TCP header. So, somebody listening to your connection can't even figure out which port you are using! On the Freeswan homepage you can get a lot of information.
I see a problem with the no-ads-fee: Due to the nature of slashdot many articles and user comments contain things that the industry doesn't like. Remember the Kerberos story? What if a Microsoft-lawyer could convince a judge that Slashdot is now making money with the things that are on its website? I think that way they could force Slashdot to censor user comments.
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Show them terminatorX
A friend of mine installed Linux, just to be able to run this app.
And it's a lot of fun to scratch on some Steve Ballmer samples!
How Well are Your Servers Handling MyDoom?
Very funny, indeed.
Dave Moone
SCO Sytem Administrator
You're confusing GNOME and GTK+.
The discussion is about the GTK+ file selector, which is analogous to the Qt, rather than the KDE file selector.
When GNOME 2.0 came out and people were complaining about the file selector, the developers responded that this was a GTK issue.
So why didn't they develop their own file selector right from the start, like the KDE people did?
There's really nothing beating german beer
It's sad that the author mentions Lowenbrau in comparison to Suse, since Lowenbrau is the most disgusting german beer I can think of (gimme a Thorbrau Kellerbier!)
(Damn, why does slashcode cripple the umlauts?)
Apart from the joke, i think that the new idea behind this device manager is great:
The devices of your computer are represented with pictures. This will make it easy to change stuff, even for newbies, since they don't have to fight their way through the ugly device tree, that's used in current windows versions.
If i take an erotic novel in txt format and grep it against a list of f*ckf*ck reserved words and run that as a program?
You could end up with the NT kernel when going through Bill Gates' library this way.
More reports here(1), here(2) and here(3).
...and here(4)
Some people have no sense of humour :(
Would't it be great if <irony> and <sarcasm> tags were implementet in any browser out there?
A paragraph with irony tags would then be displayed as:
--- Warning ---
This paragraph may contain humor you don't understand and is not displayed by default.
If you want to read it anyway click here
--- End ---
Of course, the same could be done for <sex>, <drugs> and <rocknroll> to Make The Web Safe For Your Children(TM).
Or maybe this only happens to bad sci-fi movies.
No. Episode 1 is not in the List.
A nice way to learn more about Cryptography is Cryptool.
It's a Windows application, but it should run with WINE.
There's no way in VB to make a window appear on top of all the others, for example.
I wish IE was written in Visual Basic!
Try Possible Worlds.
If you're tired shooting aliens, you can play pong on your cockpit display. What I did most of the time, since my alienshootingskills are limited. Well, I could have played standalone Pong, but it's much cooler if you have these damn cool 3D graphics in the background!
often, and companies are highly unlikely to add playback support for something that's not part of a standard.
Is WMA part of a Standart? I don't think so, but most of the portable mp3 players also support WMA.
OK, maybe MS 'convinced' the manufacturers to include WMA support, but that doesn't make it a Standart.
Damn, should use the preview button first ;-)
http://alice.sunlitsurf.com/alicechat.html
> Hi Alice
Hello there.
> do you know the company ActiveBuddy?
I haven't heard of the company ActiveBuddy.
Try searching the open directory.
> Well, they have a patent on bots like you
Well that's okay. Where did they get them?
> from the patent office
Who or what is the patent office?
> a lot of jerks are working there
How many?
> i don't know
Me either.
> Tim Kay is responsible for that
Are they exactly the same?
> you mean he's a jerk?
Yes Connect I think that is what I meant. Was it not clear?
> sure, i knew it right from the start. Bye
OK let's do it. And? Who told you? See you later.
http://alice.sunlitsurf.com/alicechat.html > Hi Alice Hello there. > do you know the company ActiveBuddy? I haven't heard of the company ActiveBuddy. Try searching the open directory. > Well, they have a patent on bots like you Well that's okay. Where did they get them? > from the patent office Who or what is the patent office? > a lot of jerks are working there How many? > i don't know Me either. > Tim Kay is responsible for that Are they exactly the same? > you mean he's a jerk? Yes Connect I think that is what I meant. Was it not clear? > sure, i knew it right from the start. Bye OK let's do it. And? Who told you? See you later.
Since WC3 is available for Mac, i suppose its engine uses OpenGL. So what about a native Linux port?
I wish Loki was still alive!
I don't think, that all this would be good for open source. Here is why:
For a Linux/Unix user it's normal to download the source of the program he wants and to compile it for himself. Under Windows you always get executables. And that's the problem: Palladium will only work with signed binarys. So what do you do with your new selfcompiled but unsigned binary? Send it to one of those authorities and wait one week to get back a signed version?
I wont.
Maybe the closest equivalent for Germans might be the FFII.
The next generation of cell phones, pagers, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and set-top boxes will require slimmed-down technology to access the Web, and Mozilla could model itself as the technology of choice.
So the next generation of cell phones will have 256MB RAM?
Well, we don't have softwarepatents in Europe, yet!
(It won't take long till we have them, though.)
So a GPL'd implementation of CIFS is legal if the MS documentation is not used?
Then a Programmer can use the MS documentation to write a CIFS implementation and just say that he got the needed information through reverse engeneering.
Of course this would be illegal, but what could Microsoft do to prevent this?
So for me the purpose of this license agreement is just to discriminate the GPL, not to prevent GPL CIFS implementations.
While i like the features of Openoffice, i hate the way the whole thing works. The desktop of Staroffice 5.2 has been removed, but OO is still one big process and the different applications are just modules. If only one of these modules hangs and you have to kill it, all your OO aplications get killed. Another result is, for me starting up the Writer takes as long as starting up the whole 5.2 Desktop.
I hope that this changes in one of the future versions, but i have the feeling that it won't.
With IPSec it is possible to encrypt all your traffic. When the IPSec encryption header is used, everthing behind the IP header is encrypted, even the TCP header. So, somebody listening to your connection can't even figure out which port you are using!
On the Freeswan homepage you can get a lot of information.
I think Microsoft is already rubbing its dirty hands, because this patent makes it one of the biggest winners if this bill will pass.
I see a problem with the no-ads-fee:
Due to the nature of slashdot many articles and user comments contain things that the industry doesn't like. Remember the Kerberos story? What if a Microsoft-lawyer could convince a judge that Slashdot is now making money with the things that are on its website?
I think that way they could force Slashdot to censor user comments.