I had a quick look at fish, and the X-clipboard integration features looked interesting. Has anyone experimented with integrating pointer use into the shell, e.g. to select from completions?
I'm not sure how this would work out, but it seems
worth thinking about. Heck, in general we are running shells on bitmap displays, but we don't really take advantage of that. Yes, I know, it would still have to work in tty mode, but XEmacs seems to have pioneered that reasonably well.
Yeah, OK, tell me what a clueless GUI-bound newb I am, but only if you were born after 1985, the year I started using Multics via 1200 baud modems:-)
Personally, I wish that departments would recognize how much money could be saved if they were to stop using refereed publications as the primary criteria for judging their members.
But what do you suggest as a replacement? As soon as a promotion/tenure process leaves the department and proceeds up through the university, the people involved are unable to accurately judge the worth of the research involved (that is charitably assuming they don't just prefer counting publications because it's easy).
Even within a department, the risk of making the process more subjective is pretty obvious. Hint: people do not always love their colleagues. And when they do, usually that ends badly:-).
Personally, I would not cite an article that has been published in an open access journal until they gain more respectability and history (primarily so that I can better judge how stringent their peer-review process is).
Interesting. I just went and took a look at the
editorial board, and who was publishing in an
electronic journal, and decided that it looked
reasonable. Perhaps physics is a much bigger field than the corner of math/CS I work in, and that kind of "web of trust" approach is not possible.
Of course, as other people have pointed out,
whether I would get full career credit for publishing there is another question.
Incorrect. Articles are edited by professional editors. That means you need, at _least_, a doctorate in medicine, a very high standard of English, and several years editorial experience. This isn't a cheap person to employ, and you need many of them.
Dang, I always knew you medical types had more money. CS journals, in my experience as an author, referee, and guest editor, only employ
paid copy editors, who are only concerned
with English. All the rest of the editors are
volunteers.
Like any sporting event, it matters what division you are in.
E.g. Harvard was eliminated in the Northeast North American Regional Contest. So now you just have to
decide if being whupped by some Canadians is more or less humiliating for the Ivy League:-)
I prefer aptitude as well, but the parent grandparent post did ask for a GUI. For the occasional user, I do think synaptic is a bit easier to use. I don't see that having synaptic forces us not to use aptitude, unless we get into one of those boring debates about splitting developer resources.
Nobody has claimed that it was a successful
oil grab. In fact,
oil prices do seem to roughly follow the fortunes of the war. Notice the local minimum roughly at the fall of Baghdad. Of course real life
is complicated; there were probably many factors
involved in invading Iraq; but to say that "oil is expensive, therefore the invasion was not motivated
by the desire to secure oil supply" seems not so convincing to me.
I would buy 5. Someday when you have a job, you may understand:-). It means I have a budget to spend on hardware (that does not involve begging from my parents). Screwing around trying to get ATI/NVIDIA to work costs more of my time, and hence more of my employer's money. How's this for a slogan?
Proprietary solutions are only cheap if your time has no value.
P.S. Before you tell me how groovy NVIDIA's driver's are, make sure they support, e.g. Debian/Alpha.
Those smart SCO guys are way ahead of you.
If you (cough) read the article, you see
that they do not plan to allow any comments at all,
from the very beginning.
I'm glad you love your powerbook, but I went
for a thinkpad X40 for exactly those two pounds of
travel weight (3lbs with the 4.5 hour battery versus 5 for the 12" PB). I don't think powerbooks really
compete as well on a pure hardware basis if what
you are looking for is an ultralight. Of
course, there is a constant leapfrog game going on;
next week Apple may win again briefly, but on the whole their dev cycle seems to be slower than
IBM's.
Given the US's perfect 5 and 0 record against European adversaries (Revolution, War of 1812, Spanish-American War, WWI and WWII),
On behalf of Canadians everywhere, I would like to
point out that this idea that the US won the war
of 1812 is not universally held.
Nor for that matter were any of the WW's you
mentioned "US versus Europe". There were other
people involved, long before the US made its
(important) contribution. Visit the graveyards in Flanders, Gallipoli, or Verdun sometime.
This is a little off beat, but if you're totally new to unix, it might be helpful to nab a copy of Solaris x86 and put that in a vmware machine. I hate to admit this, but when I was starting I had a hard time understanding the linux man pages.
Two words: Free. BSD.
Ok, so it is really only one word. But it has
good man pages, and the FreeBSD handbook is
a great bonus. Besides, the userland experience
is much closer to Linux (I am typing this on a Debian box, while remotely logged into FreeBSD and a Solaris box).
(I have to admit that I find the use of the term "progressive, conservative" hilarious, as they are by both their dictionary definitions and their historical ideological meanings antonyms.)
Well, that's true in most of the world, but in Canada...
We had for many years a party called the "Progressive Conservatives". (It just disappeared
via a hostile takeover from itself, but I digress from my digression). It must have meant something
to the people involved, since in the east their voters dropped them like a radioactive potato when
they removed progressive from their name.
I guess in this instance "progressive" was supposed to be a modifier of "conservative".
I appreciate your point of view as a developer,
but as a user, surely this is not quite the same?
I mean, if you want to code on Windows, you have to learn English too.
Maybe you were making one of three related points:
Localization of Windows in Japanese is better than Linux-- This I believe. I've heard it before.
Users of Linux are more likely to need/want
to look at the code. This seems weaker to me,
since, in general, it takes a lot more effort than
learning Japanese to look at the source code to
Windows.
The only advantage to open source software is
if you can actually read the code. Again I'm
not so sure. In general I think the point is that you have many choices for who to pay to fix it
for you.
So, here's my question, to which I would truly like an answer: Is there acknowledgement in Japanese culture of the Bad Things that were done by Japan (whether by the gov't, the military or the people I'll leave for later debate) in the 20th century?
Perhaps surprisingly, the most balanced presentation of 20th century Japanese aggression
I saw in Japan was in the Peace museum in Hiroshima. All of the biggies are there, Nanking,
comfort women, etc... Most interesting for me
was that it explicitly acknowledges the role of the Emperor, rather than blaming the "bad generals" as is more common.
So it doesn't seem to be such a big issue after all. The source is already available, and all that is required to change it and redistribute it is to pass a standard suite of tests. Now, call me crazy, but I think that's not A Bad Thing.
I think there are other issues as well. I was
following the FreeBSD java teams efforts to release
binary jdk for a bit, and the discussion seemed to
involve a lot of "we are talking to Sun's lawyers about that". This is a big resource drain for a small development group (commericial or non-commericial).
Perhaps someone from the team can give details.
Maybe mozilla should refuse to run as root unless
the user jumps through some hoops. It seems like
the global benefits would outweigh the minor inconvenience. Oh, of course any ideas about
"run application X" as root first to set up
some preferences would result in well deserved
headaches for the developers:-)
The average joe wants a safe computer on which he can send email, browse the net and play solitaire...Lindows can do that and in the mean time proves that Linux can be usable by the non-technical folks.
As long as Lindows encourages users to run
as root, then they are really not safe.
I quote from the Lindows FAQ:
We leave the option of running as root or not up to the computer owner. During the installation (or easily from the Settings menu after installation), LindowsOS makes it easy to maintain and add user accounts which do not run as root.
And we have all seen how well that works with
Windows. It is particularly the naive users
in Lindows target audience that must be forced
to do the right thing. Not, well, you could do
this other thing if you want, but things won't work right. Perhaps people have to learn to
give up a little convenience for security. Or
perhaps there is a technical solution, but I'm willing to bet it involves a security model
more sophisticated than the PDP-11 supervisor mode.
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Yeah, OK, tell me what a clueless GUI-bound newb I am, but only if you were born after 1985, the year I started using Multics via 1200 baud modems :-)
But what do you suggest as a replacement? As soon as a promotion/tenure process leaves the department and proceeds up through the university, the people involved are unable to accurately judge the worth of the research involved (that is charitably assuming they don't just prefer counting publications because it's easy).
Even within a department, the risk of making the process more subjective is pretty obvious. Hint: people do not always love their colleagues. And when they do, usually that ends :-).
badly
Interesting. I just went and took a look at the editorial board, and who was publishing in an electronic journal, and decided that it looked reasonable. Perhaps physics is a much bigger field than the corner of math/CS I work in, and that kind of "web of trust" approach is not possible.
Of course, as other people have pointed out, whether I would get full career credit for publishing there is another question.
I dunno. But I bet they work for SCO
E.g. Harvard was eliminated in the Northeast North American Regional Contest. So now you just have to decide if being whupped by some Canadians is more or less humiliating for the Ivy League :-)
I hate to sound like a slashbot, but...
I went to the site, poked around. Saw that I was supposed to download a special player to listen
to the tunes. Gave up.
Wouldn't streaming be a better choice?
I prefer aptitude as well, but the parent grandparent post did ask for a GUI.
For the occasional user, I do think synaptic is a bit easier to use. I don't see that having synaptic forces us not to use aptitude,
unless we get into one of those boring debates about splitting developer resources.
Synaptic?
Nobody has claimed that it was a successful oil grab. In fact, oil prices do seem to roughly follow the fortunes of the war. Notice the local minimum roughly at the fall of Baghdad. Of course real life is complicated; there were probably many factors involved in invading Iraq; but to say that "oil is expensive, therefore the invasion was not motivated by the desire to secure oil supply" seems not so convincing to me.
P.S. Before you tell me how groovy NVIDIA's driver's are, make sure they support, e.g. Debian/Alpha.
Those smart SCO guys are way ahead of you. If you (cough) read the article, you see that they do not plan to allow any comments at all, from the very beginning.
I'm glad you love your powerbook, but I went for a thinkpad X40 for exactly those two pounds of travel weight (3lbs with the 4.5 hour battery versus 5 for the 12" PB). I don't think powerbooks really compete as well on a pure hardware basis if what you are looking for is an ultralight. Of course, there is a constant leapfrog game going on; next week Apple may win again briefly, but on the whole their dev cycle seems to be slower than IBM's.
On behalf of Canadians everywhere, I would like to point out that this idea that the US won the war of 1812 is not universally held.
Nor for that matter were any of the WW's you mentioned "US versus Europe". There were other people involved, long before the US made its (important) contribution. Visit the graveyards in Flanders, Gallipoli, or Verdun sometime.
Two words: Free. BSD.
Ok, so it is really only one word. But it has good man pages, and the FreeBSD handbook is a great bonus. Besides, the userland experience is much closer to Linux (I am typing this on a Debian box, while remotely logged into FreeBSD and a Solaris box).
We had for many years a party called the "Progressive Conservatives". (It just disappeared via a hostile takeover from itself, but I digress from my digression). It must have meant something to the people involved, since in the east their voters dropped them like a radioactive potato when they removed progressive from their name.
I guess in this instance "progressive" was supposed to be a modifier of "conservative".- integrated wifi :-)
:->
- runs linux, so nobody will steal it
- 1 meter drop tested
I dunno if the gadgets are any good, but you
sound like who sharp had in mind.
I also don't know how water-resistant they are.
FWIW, a random anecdote claimed that they worked
ok after drying out.
But hey, if you wanted something other than random
anecdotes, you wouldn't ask here would you
Maybe mozilla should refuse to run as root unless the user jumps through some hoops. It seems like the global benefits would outweigh the minor inconvenience. Oh, of course any ideas about "run application X" as root first to set up some preferences would result in well deserved headaches for the developers :-)
But I though jail was the US version of universal
health insurance?
Yours smugly,
An alien
Depends why you have a laptop. If you travel, then no, as long as the keyboard is usable, then no,
there is no such thing as too small and light.
Personally, I can live without any drives when
I travel: compact flash makes a reasonable backup choice.