If it was just a matter of software updates, but alas there are mountains of sites that are literally hard-coded to store IPv4 addresses and you get a nice PHP error when you attempt to visit them.
I guess I live a sheltered life, because I've been using IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel for about 7 years and I've never had a site break like that.
It "feels" faster on my machine. It's better integrated with my KDE desktop. It uses KWallet to store passwords. It uses a lot less memory. It loads instantly. I have nothing against Firefox and use it for web development because of the nice plugins, but I slightly prefer Konqueror for daily browsing.
4.2.something. The only problem I have is that/. changed their CSS in the last couple of days so that now the message header sometimes fills the whole screen and pushes the message text against the far right edge.
The logical conclusion is that Oracle will jettison the entire hardware divison.
I don't think that'll happen. I think Larry wants you to buy Oracle (the database) running on Oracle (the OS) on Oracle (the hardware) and support contracts for the entire stack. There's a lot of PHB love for being able to call one phone number for anything that breaks because the same company is responsible for every component. IBM currently offers this, and now Oracle can, too.
Not really. I haven't seen a new single-case terminal since around 1980 or so. Even if the core code was from before then, they've certainly had to touch the user interface in the last 30 years, and someone should've addressed that issue somewhere along the line. OK, in fairness, the incompetent jackass might've been the manager in charge of the user interface.
You can't convince me that having ONE menu that CHANGES based on the application that you're using is less confusing than just having each application have its own menu.
It's not - for you - because that's how you learned to use a computer. There's nothing more to it.
If I want the menu for Application X, I'd naturally expect it to be attached to the window itself.
That's because it's what you're used to. Those of us who cut our teeth on Amigas and Macs were used to slamming the mouse to the top-left corner of the screen to open a menu, and were just as put off by in-window menus are you were by the normal (to us!) kind.
I mean, seriously. Your country was just taken over, and you're up in arms about communications? You should be, literally, up in arms.
Yes, first and foremost. Look, you be a well-armed expert marksman, but a lot of people aren't. There are plenty of stereotypical geeks who would absolutely suck on the battlefield or in urban warfare but who are experts in creative messaging. Would you rather waste them as cannon fodder or have them working to get news about your struggle to the outside world so that rich outsiders can take pity and buy guns for you?
Of course, it's under GPL so Gnote is within it's rights, but there's a thing called professional courtesy and respecting a developer's wishes.
Not in FOSS, there's not. I mean, it's good to be nice to the original developer, but if they do something you don't like, there's not reason not to do things your own way.
I do not want to learn the ins and outs of autoconf any more than I want to understand the guts of an msi.
Wow, we're venturing off-topic! Anyway, I resisted autoconf for the longest time, but it turned out to be exceedingly easy to set up. I ran a command found in the autoconf info page to create all the necessary files and scan my source code for dependencies, edited configure.ac, and that was it. Now running "make dist" creates an appropriate-name tarball.
There's a reason why I have Ratpoison as a window manager for daily use, despite having a gigabyte of ram at my disposal. It's because I've used a C64 with a tape drive, and a portable IBM XT with a 2400 baud modem, and I'm thus able to recognise a graphical user interface for exactly what it really is.
No, it's not. I upgraded to a C64 from a TS-1000 (and an Atari 2600 with the "BASIC Programming" cartridge and 63 bytes of RAM before that), and I use KDE on my desktop and Netbook Remix on my Eee PC. You use Ratpoison because you want to, not because exposure to old computers automatically makes a person allergic to new systems.
If someone told me I was stuck at a text console from now on, I'd be OK (if grousy) about it. Until that day comes, I'd just as soon let this computer look pretty and provide nice (and, shock!, fun) features. I'm not too keen on bragging about how much of my computer's work that I do for it. I bought the thing; it can darn well work for me and not the other way around.
But it doesn't use it to resolve queries from my LAN! Instead, it forwards requests to my zone's nameservers. Even though it has a full copy of my zone.
Phroggy's right: that's definitely possible. I do this at home where I slave my office's zones in the "private" view.
Yes, you are right. But in practice, rsync works fast enough even with zones with hundreds thousands of hosts.
OK, but it still doesn't address the problem of when to trigger a sync. Do you run it from a cron job, or can you script it from the dynamic DNS update program? Actually, I guess you could relay the update request out to the slaves and not worry about syncing it often. Is that possible?
With djbdns I can easily try to use SVN or git for zone updates.
That's not a bad idea.
No, it doesn't. It works only if I disable views. I checked BIND source to be sure.
What I meant was that I didn't understand what you were trying to do and so can't confirm or refute it on my own.
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If it was just a matter of software updates, but alas there are mountains of sites that are literally hard-coded to store IPv4 addresses and you get a nice PHP error when you attempt to visit them.
I guess I live a sheltered life, because I've been using IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel for about 7 years and I've never had a site break like that.
Given the choice between a 256GB SSD and a 1.5TB HD, I'll go for capacity every time...
My small-but-heavily-accessed 30GB database has other priorities.
It "feels" faster on my machine. It's better integrated with my KDE desktop. It uses KWallet to store passwords. It uses a lot less memory. It loads instantly. I have nothing against Firefox and use it for web development because of the nice plugins, but I slightly prefer Konqueror for daily browsing.
W3's HTML validator is a good place to start researching.
Nope. Maximizing and restoring the window seems to temporarily fix it, though.
4.2.something. The only problem I have is that /. changed their CSS in the last couple of days so that now the message header sometimes fills the whole screen and pushes the message text against the far right edge.
Such as...? I use Safari (at home) and Konqueror (at work) nearly exclusively and haven't had problems with these mythical IE-and-Firefox-only pages.
Shooters do not work well with the touch interface.
Replace the nunchuk with tilt sensors and the Wiimote with the touch screen and you could have a perfectly serviceable version of Resident Evil 4.
Its like the guy that speeds to work everyday because the fine is only $100 and the chances of getting caught are slim.
No, it's like driving as though the fine would be $100, getting caught, then finding out that it's actually a quarter of a million dollars.
What is Popfly?
A guaranteed out?
yes. i call java a scripting language too.
And I say a coffee cup is a zebra, and look disdainfully at people for their failure to understand my non-standard terms.
The logical conclusion is that Oracle will jettison the entire hardware divison.
I don't think that'll happen. I think Larry wants you to buy Oracle (the database) running on Oracle (the OS) on Oracle (the hardware) and support contracts for the entire stack. There's a lot of PHB love for being able to call one phone number for anything that breaks because the same company is responsible for every component. IBM currently offers this, and now Oracle can, too.
Not really. I haven't seen a new single-case terminal since around 1980 or so. Even if the core code was from before then, they've certainly had to touch the user interface in the last 30 years, and someone should've addressed that issue somewhere along the line. OK, in fairness, the incompetent jackass might've been the manager in charge of the user interface.
You can't convince me that having ONE menu that CHANGES based on the application that you're using is less confusing than just having each application have its own menu.
It's not - for you - because that's how you learned to use a computer. There's nothing more to it.
There are still limited instances when CapsLock is useful. I work in a hospital and our MediTech program requires all caps. (Don't ask me why.)
I'll tell you why: because the programmers are incompetent jackasses. If the logic looks something like:
and the program crashes or otherwise misbehaves if the input isn't in all caps, then the correct solution is changing that to:
Any programmer too lazy to have done that needs a baseball bat to the kneecaps.
If I want the menu for Application X, I'd naturally expect it to be attached to the window itself.
That's because it's what you're used to. Those of us who cut our teeth on Amigas and Macs were used to slamming the mouse to the top-left corner of the screen to open a menu, and were just as put off by in-window menus are you were by the normal (to us!) kind.
I mean, seriously. Your country was just taken over, and you're up in arms about communications? You should be, literally, up in arms.
Yes, first and foremost. Look, you be a well-armed expert marksman, but a lot of people aren't. There are plenty of stereotypical geeks who would absolutely suck on the battlefield or in urban warfare but who are experts in creative messaging. Would you rather waste them as cannon fodder or have them working to get news about your struggle to the outside world so that rich outsiders can take pity and buy guns for you?
Of course, it's under GPL so Gnote is within it's rights, but there's a thing called professional courtesy and respecting a developer's wishes.
Not in FOSS, there's not. I mean, it's good to be nice to the original developer, but if they do something you don't like, there's not reason not to do things your own way.
I do not want to learn the ins and outs of autoconf any more than I want to understand the guts of an msi.
Wow, we're venturing off-topic! Anyway, I resisted autoconf for the longest time, but it turned out to be exceedingly easy to set up. I ran a command found in the autoconf info page to create all the necessary files and scan my source code for dependencies, edited configure.ac, and that was it. Now running "make dist" creates an appropriate-name tarball.
There is far too much of a trend these days of writing bloated, horribly inefficient crap, simply because in hardware terms we can get away with it.
I think you're wrong.
There's a reason why I have Ratpoison as a window manager for daily use, despite having a gigabyte of ram at my disposal. It's because I've used a C64 with a tape drive, and a portable IBM XT with a 2400 baud modem, and I'm thus able to recognise a graphical user interface for exactly what it really is.
No, it's not. I upgraded to a C64 from a TS-1000 (and an Atari 2600 with the "BASIC Programming" cartridge and 63 bytes of RAM before that), and I use KDE on my desktop and Netbook Remix on my Eee PC. You use Ratpoison because you want to, not because exposure to old computers automatically makes a person allergic to new systems.
If someone told me I was stuck at a text console from now on, I'd be OK (if grousy) about it. Until that day comes, I'd just as soon let this computer look pretty and provide nice (and, shock!, fun) features. I'm not too keen on bragging about how much of my computer's work that I do for it. I bought the thing; it can darn well work for me and not the other way around.
That's the beatenest thing. I don't have any idea why it wouldn't.
I can't actually verify it from here at work, but really, it's just a slave zone inside the private view.
Home, you mean? I slave the office zone in the private view.
But it doesn't use it to resolve queries from my LAN! Instead, it forwards requests to my zone's nameservers. Even though it has a full copy of my zone.
Phroggy's right: that's definitely possible. I do this at home where I slave my office's zones in the "private" view.
Yes, you are right. But in practice, rsync works fast enough even with zones with hundreds thousands of hosts.
OK, but it still doesn't address the problem of when to trigger a sync. Do you run it from a cron job, or can you script it from the dynamic DNS update program? Actually, I guess you could relay the update request out to the slaves and not worry about syncing it often. Is that possible?
With djbdns I can easily try to use SVN or git for zone updates.
That's not a bad idea.
No, it doesn't. It works only if I disable views. I checked BIND source to be sure.
What I meant was that I didn't understand what you were trying to do and so can't confirm or refute it on my own.