You can create a desktop folder and drag that onto the panel to have it create a new menu for it. Then create desktop application icons in the folder and away ya go.
Cool! A tux logo at boot time?
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So does this mean we can see a pretty picture of our Tux at power-up time? That would be the best part of it all.
I think I'll start a new buisness. I'll sell, um, toy boats online. But the house tax (for I have a physical presence in my house) is 80000% and its a tax I'm forced to apply to all outgoing exports from my house...
Well, if nothing else their advertising is some of the most annoying...
My wife recently looked down at her shoes and noticed how many subtle nike "swishes" there were on it. So, she took off a shoe and began counting. There were 10 Nike "swishes" on each shoe. Seems a bit over-kill, but that's their form of advertising I suppose. Make sure no matter who is looking at it and from what angle they get to see a nike swish.
I'd be shocked if there wasn't one now. Certainly in the beginning, that may have been true, but these days lawyers on either side wouldn't have let that happen. Since I don't actually own a TLD, I of course can't be certain about this...
Always look to the contract. I'm sure ICANN is obligated to honor previous contracts before it existed. What does the contract say with respect to fees that need to be paid?
Or, if they've signed a contract with ICANN already then they've probably already agreed to the prices. If they signed a contract that stated the prices would be arbitrarily set by ICANN without advanced notification, then maybe they should have thought a bit before signing it.
Or, they could attempt to form a new organization that promotes its own root level domain names and convince the rest of the world to point to them for them. The choice is theirs.
The first thing to do is to never advertise your pager's email address. This gets around half of the problem. Getting around the half that they're easy to figure out is the phone companies problem to solve.
The other thing to do is create an alias for it in your local domain if you do have to give it. Then, when your pageme@mydomain.com address suddenly becomes a target, you can change your mail aliases file and not have to change your phone number.
I disagree completely that there is little or no inovation going on in the linux (or even general unix) world. A lot of changes have been made in the last 10 years. The argument that your making is that the base hasn't changed, which isn't true either, as people have pointed out (linux kernel changes, X servers getting better, journalling file systems).
What about all the highly visible changes that have been made in the last 10 years. 10 years ago, in the unix world, X11 had only recently been released (and it was a big improvment over X10). Now, huge desktop environments are "standard" installation pieces for most shipped unix systems. See CDE, VUE, KDE, Gnome, etc for example. Only in the last 10 years has a unix box entered the true desktop level arena. There is no way I could have gotten my wife to use unix 10 years ago. She uses it daily now.
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I've heard RMS say in the past that any license that doesn't require a source-code release is a bad thing because it doesn't promote freedom. This list does seem to contradict what I've heard from him in the past...
They should move to the moon! Remember that company selling plots on the moon? I'm *sure* old Bill has enough money to build a simple dome under which to house his money gathering company head quarters. Up there, they'd be free from all these silly government court cases and could develop broken software to their hearts content!
Most of the questions are irrelevant to the decision to remove the content, in my opinion. Specifically, the nature of the argument is over copyrighted material and the questions are directed more along the lines of "why is this material copyrighted?".
Don't get me wrong, I'd love for them to answer these questions but I doubt they'll answer them since I doubt they'll see how it pertains to the decision that slashdot has to make with regards to removing the offending material.
I wonder if the fares will be different for round trip vs one way flights. Are the one way flights going to be 90% of the cost of a round trip ticket, just like commerical airlines?
I think we should start a collection to fund the trip for Frank Zappa's kid (Moon Unit). Certainly I think she deserves something good for the name bestowed upon her by her father.
My 128 bit keys are looking less secure these days. Actually, it would still take a lot of these little computational engines to crack a key, but just think of an NSA building built out of them:-) (damn, did I just give them the idea?) Bruce Schnider talks briefly about what these types of breakthroughs would mean for encryption in his book on encryption...
Interesting results, and certainly the numbers involving lines of code per project are probably accurate.
However, glancing through a project that I'm the primary author on shows me as the 24th on the list of developers for it, having written 585 bytes. I suspect I've written a few more than that.
The top of the list was dominated by a mailing list address that isn't even correct. The second name on the list was the UCRegents, who owns the copyright (but certainly their lawers didn't write the code).
And judging by the other comments, I suspect that the majority of their data is similarily way off. I wonder if they even tested the tool they developed on a few randomly selected projects to see how accurate the results were. They didn't even perform the most obvious data collection method I can think of: "cvs annotate".
I like the study, but I'd sure like to see it done better.
X10, the makers of the great home-automation products, already sell a wireless version of something similar. Specifically, it is merely an audio sender/receiver that can plug into the back of your stereo. They market it as "MP3-Anywhere", but could obviously be used for anything. For the windows users in the crowd, it comes with plugin's for some of the popular mp3 players so you can control it remotely using an X10 remote as well.
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You can create a desktop folder and drag that onto the panel to have it create a new menu for it. Then create desktop application icons in the folder and away ya go.
So does this mean we can see a pretty picture of our Tux at power-up time? That would be the best part of it all.
I think I'll start a new buisness. I'll sell, um, toy boats online. But the house tax (for I have a physical presence in my house) is 80000% and its a tax I'm forced to apply to all outgoing exports from my house...
Well, if nothing else their advertising is some of the most annoying...
My wife recently looked down at her shoes and noticed how many subtle nike "swishes" there were on it. So, she took off a shoe and began counting. There were 10 Nike "swishes" on each shoe. Seems a bit over-kill, but that's their form of advertising I suppose. Make sure no matter who is looking at it and from what angle they get to see a nike swish.
I'd be shocked if there wasn't one now. Certainly in the beginning, that may have been true, but these days lawyers on either side wouldn't have let that happen. Since I don't actually own a TLD, I of course can't be certain about this...
Always look to the contract. I'm sure ICANN is obligated to honor previous contracts before it existed. What does the contract say with respect to fees that need to be paid?
Or, if they've signed a contract with ICANN already then they've probably already agreed to the prices. If they signed a contract that stated the prices would be arbitrarily set by ICANN without advanced notification, then maybe they should have thought a bit before signing it.
Or, they could attempt to form a new organization that promotes its own root level domain names and convince the rest of the world to point to them for them. The choice is theirs.
The first thing to do is to never advertise your pager's email address. This gets around half of the problem. Getting around the half that they're easy to figure out is the phone companies problem to solve.
The other thing to do is create an alias for it in your local domain if you do have to give it. Then, when your pageme@mydomain.com address suddenly becomes a target, you can change your mail aliases file and not have to change your phone number.
What about all the highly visible changes that have been made in the last 10 years. 10 years ago, in the unix world, X11 had only recently been released (and it was a big improvment over X10). Now, huge desktop environments are "standard" installation pieces for most shipped unix systems. See CDE, VUE, KDE, Gnome, etc for example. Only in the last 10 years has a unix box entered the true desktop level arena. There is no way I could have gotten my wife to use unix 10 years ago. She uses it daily now.
I've heard RMS say in the past that any license that doesn't require a source-code release is a bad thing because it doesn't promote freedom. This list does seem to contradict what I've heard from him in the past...
They should move to the moon! Remember that company selling plots on the moon? I'm *sure* old Bill has enough money to build a simple dome under which to house his money gathering company head quarters. Up there, they'd be free from all these silly government court cases and could develop broken software to their hearts content!
I would think this would be the first of many to show up, unless bladeenc does something different than everyone elses encoders.
I wish he had given more details about the legal problems like who the company in question is and the patent on it they claim to have...
Boy would I be pissed if I downloaded a Metallica song and it turned out to be some current teen-age pop song...
Seriously though, I've thought we should rename a bunch of freely-distributable MP3s so that they contained the name Metallica.
Hmm. We have all those slashdot "Geeks in Space" episodes just sitting around....
So does this mean when I'm walking in certain parts of town I'll now get XXX ads from the nearest prostitute? Loooovvvvely.
Sigh... I really wanted him to describe how the money was split up between his 4 point line that he described. How much do they get from that $16???
Surface images are nice and all, but I still need to know how to get from place to place.
And the last 5 years has really proven this:
1) Programmers who program for profit.
2) Those who don't.
Members of #1 work for companies that:
1) hire programmers to program for them for profit.
2) hire programmers to program for them for non-profit purposes (eg, GPLed code)
Most of the questions are irrelevant to the decision to remove the content, in my opinion. Specifically, the nature of the argument is over copyrighted material and the questions are directed more along the lines of "why is this material copyrighted?".
Don't get me wrong, I'd love for them to answer these questions but I doubt they'll answer them since I doubt they'll see how it pertains to the decision that slashdot has to make with regards to removing the offending material.
I wonder if the fares will be different for round trip vs one way flights. Are the one way flights going to be 90% of the cost of a round trip ticket, just like commerical airlines?
I think we should start a collection to fund the trip for Frank Zappa's kid (Moon Unit). Certainly I think she deserves something good for the name bestowed upon her by her father.
It warmed my heart when NPR made a similar statement on the day of the outbreak, stating that "Linux and Macintosh users are unaffected by the virus".
It's fantastic that major news stories are now referencing Linux frequently.
My 128 bit keys are looking less secure these days. Actually, it would still take a lot of these little computational engines to crack a key, but just think of an NSA building built out of them :-) (damn, did I just give them the idea?) Bruce Schnider talks briefly about what these types of breakthroughs would mean for encryption in his book on encryption...
Interesting results, and certainly the numbers involving lines of code per project are probably accurate.
However, glancing through a project that I'm the primary author on shows me as the 24th on the list of developers for it, having written 585 bytes. I suspect I've written a few more than that.
The top of the list was dominated by a mailing list address that isn't even correct. The second name on the list was the UCRegents, who owns the copyright (but certainly their lawers didn't write the code).
And judging by the other comments, I suspect that the majority of their data is similarily way off. I wonder if they even tested the tool they developed on a few randomly selected projects to see how accurate the results were. They didn't even perform the most obvious data collection method I can think of: "cvs annotate".
I like the study, but I'd sure like to see it done better.
In your wanderings through life, what have you found as your personal answer to life, the universe and everything?
Hmm... And I thought I had filtering problems.
I guess the guys of metallica aren't smart enough to realize that users can simply re-register with a new username?
sigh...
X10, the makers of the great home-automation products, already sell a wireless version of something similar. Specifically, it is merely an audio sender/receiver that can plug into the back of your stereo. They market it as "MP3-Anywhere", but could obviously be used for anything. For the windows users in the crowd, it comes with plugin's for some of the popular mp3 players so you can control it remotely using an X10 remote as well.