Do you mean the great "recovery" CD I got with my laptop? It will happily erase my partition number one and install an obsolete unpatched version of Windows XP Professional on it. Without any apps or any of my data.
I vastly prefer KNOPPIX to save my data whenever Microsoft Windows is unable to boot up....
I see no way to get a sane behaviour like in 2.4 from the trackpoint ps/2 device in 2.6. The middle button can not be used to scroll text in X-4.3. It pastes and scrolls at the same time.
Maybe someone needs to add a dedicated serio driver for trackpoints? I thought IBM was a great linux supporter? What about my desktop now?
# There is no such thing as "a public domain # license". Putting a copyrighted work in the public # domain means forgoing all copyright power for that # work.
This is not possible in German copyright law. A creator always keeps the Urheberrecht (author right which is larger than the copy right). A creation always has a creator.
The only way to emulate the Angloamerican concept of "public domain" is to give a free licence to the public. This could very well be called a "public domain license".
German law applies because the icons were made in Germany by a German.
The nice-sounding meme: "Guns hurt and kill. Geting rid of guns will stop the hurting and killing. (Murder, robbery, rape, etc. will be reduced.)" But among the unintended consequences are a RISE in murder, robbery, rape, etc. - because guns defend more than they assault. And a far greater one is genocide - because privately-held guns are essentially the only defense against it once someone in power gets the idea into his head.
This is complete bullshit. No single statistic or scientific inquiry supports this. Criminality in the USA is among the highest of any Western nations and you have the most liberal gun laws. You also have the highest rate of mass killings by teenagers and so on. A privately owned gun is 5 times more likely to be used on the owner and/or on his family (suicide, accidents, family fights) than on any external criminal.
Guns kill people. The more ruthless anyone is, the more likely is it, that a gun is used. A criminal attacker is always more likely to shoot than any normal private person. Giving the criminals easy access to guns is a mistake.
You know, Hitler, Himmler and all the other Nazis were big on the death penalty. Considering your statements, I assume that you therefore oppose the death penalty?
I do, but not because of any opinions of Nazis.
Too show the weakness of this argument: Hitler liked sports and painting. Do you oppose this?
Sometimes, even those people were right about some things, you can not always consistently be wrong.
only very few professional and gifted people can distinguish or even recognize a good encoded sound from lossless sound on 100 % top end HIFI systems.
Check out the C't listening test (blind test!) done in 2002 or 2003, which showed that people producing classical music, people finetuning codecs and many others were not consistently able to tell the difference. The best tester was someone with a hearing damage on one ear. The psychoaccustics obviously did not work 100% for him.
BTW: OGG won that test for ~100 kbit and higher bitrates. Even well encoded MP3 with 256 are almost perfect.
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are not capable of humor. Look, my "Troll" parent postwas irony to point out how stupit it is to blame nonAmerican (Greatest Nation on Earth, God's own...) government's use of free software solutions on nationalism.
Seriously, most European companies and governments use Microsoft software today. And it sucks. It doesn't suck because it is American, but it sucks because it is proprietary expensive shit from Microsoft.
Did you know that OS/2 (IBM - American company) had a viable market share in Germany? If IBM had not quit selling OS/2 to end users, Germany would probably be OS/2 country today.
Menu button - Can't see the point, but would be the matter of exchanging an icon in KDE.
Color/Fonts - works for me on KDE-3.2-alpha. GTK1+2 programs follow my KDE settings. (Also OOo and Motif programs...)
Common shortcuts - This is just a configuration issue. Many things are standard. Konqueror uses CTRL+ALT+N instead of CTRL+T by default because KDE users of old want to open a terminal window in Konqueror with CTRL+T. Mozilla and Nautilus don't have this feature
Standards for icons - Well there are adaptions of GNOME icons for KDE, I am sure the other way around can also be found.
Unfied help/control - Only fools abandon configuration by text files for a registry. KsyCoCa and the excellent kconfig framework can do the same things as the much hyped gconf. Also check out the Kiosk mode features. Khelpbrowser already shows the contents of the scrollkeeper in KDE-3.2CVS.
Standard button order - well this is easy to switch in KDE (see Redhat). Should default to MS style.
Result: KDE with minimal adaptation does what you demand, with minimal adaptation. MAybe you should try it out?
please post again, when it will work on my PCs and on the PCs of people who like software quality as well as freedom.
I thought that all problems were adressed including:-) "addressing all the problems of legacy VoIP solutions: bad sound quality, difficult to set up and configure, and the need for expensive, centralized infrastructure.' Windows only beta client available."
BTW, how much are the sponsored links on slashdot?
I would rather open my document in openoffice and save it from there to HTML. There are some proprietary tags called SDxxx in the HTML, which sucks, but apart from this easily fixable defect, you get good styled HTML.
When you get older or wiser, you might face situations, where you are being immoral by some points of views. There is no black or white. Some basic rights always remain.
Only power, means that you do not believe in rights, law and justice. Quite amazing then, that you complain about the killing of your aunt. Did she not have a right to live?
If she could not defend herself, or was not defended by others and if the other person, you want to see tortured, had the power to kill her, then in your twisted and in my opinion not very well thought through world view, everything worked out perfectly.
The criminal probably - like you! - said fuck the rights of others. Well, if that is the logical consequence of your - power overrules justice and human rights world view.
I do not subscribe to it. I think a moral person should respect the rights of others wherever at all possible.
Man, loosen up. You are not arguing conclusively. If someone steals money, they have to give it back. But they can (minus damages and fines) keep their own money.
But human rights are not like money. They are inalienable. See the preamble of the UN charta of human rights: "... recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."
Or if you are one of those isolationists, who don't trust the United Nations of this planet, look in the fundamental declaration of independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Unalienable rights, mister! That your aunt was killed did not take the human rights of the criminal away.
The US constitution also forbids unusual and cruel punishment, which rape and other things would be.
NOT. Human rights mean just that. Every human has these rights. EVERY HUMAN. Not just your aunt, not just you not just Americans. Even criminals, even mass murderers have human rights.
This does not mean, that he can't and should not be punished. Of course criminals should be punished, as provided by law. This (in Germany) would mean a life in prison, but it would not mean nearly certain humiliation, abuse, rape or anything else.
If a child gets grounded, it is supposed to stay at home. Nothing else. It should not be raped by older brothers, be humiliated or be forced to sleep on a square foot, as criminals in some US prisons are forced.
If a convicted criminal gets a prison term, his freedom is taken from him as punishment, not his Human Rights as such.
I would not like to see anyone in an American prison (at least the Texan variety), where basic human rights are systematically neglected. Humiliation, sexual harassment, no private space, no learning, no decent work, extreme overcrowding. How could anyone come out of such a place as a decent reformed member of society?
Being locked away for several months/years is hard enough without being treated like garbage.
would also be adult fiction for you right? Let's check with snow white as an example. It has murder (the witch trying to poison snow white), death (everyone thinks she is dead), destiny (Prince coming), revenge (the witch gets it in the end).
In fact children do like the same topics as adults, they just understand less, which is why HP and Grimm's fairy tales have simplistic plots and characters.
I was instead referring to the initial Staroffice-3.x port to linux, which happened in 1998 or even earlier. Gnome did not exist back then.
Xine is in fact (like mplayer) just a video decoding app, the widgets are not interesting. Xine is also used by arts and therefore by noatun, the KDE player.
KDE already supports setting group policies with it's excellent Kiosk Mode. You can lock any indvidual setting for users. KDE-3.2 will probably include a GUI to make this even easier to configure.
For KDE-3.1 see this excellent article in Linux Magazine: http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printe r.pl?issue= 2002-11&article=kde
The BGH is the highest court in Civil matters. It is the end of any legal argument in civil matters.
There is also the BVerfG, which is the court, who decides about Constitutional and basic rights issues with final authority. But unless the Handelsgruppe can show that the current judgement by the BGH violated their constitutional rights in a serious way, the BVerfG will never have to decide this case.
The American Supreme Court is a combination of the two. Remember the US Constitution was one of the first real constitutions, so the power to decide Constitutional cases was just put in the hands of the highest normal court.
Nobody who has used StarOffice or OpenOffice for a longer document would EVER return to MSOffice. StarOffice with usable paragraph, text and page styles is much better at handling long documents than MS Word.
When I was responsible for a book of our university institute, we found that MSOffice was not able to meet our (modest!) requirements. We switched to StarOffice-5.2 and came up with an excellent ready-to-print copy after just one day of work. Previous attempts with MSOffice had already cost us 2 days.
Many interesting features of StarOffice are missing in Word or the Word equivalents are so buggy (lists e.g.!!) that no one in his right mind would ever use them.
Just because you did not know how to activate a feature in OpenOffice.org does not mean it is not implemented!!
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Do you mean the great "recovery" CD I got with my laptop? It will happily erase my partition number one and install an obsolete unpatched version of Windows XP Professional on it. Without any apps or any of my data.
I vastly prefer KNOPPIX to save my data whenever Microsoft Windows is unable to boot up....
I see no way to get a sane behaviour like in 2.4 from the trackpoint ps/2 device in 2.6. The middle button can not be used to scroll text in X-4.3. It pastes and scrolls at the same time.
Maybe someone needs to add a dedicated serio driver for trackpoints? I thought IBM was a great linux supporter? What about my desktop now?
# There is no such thing as "a public domain
# license". Putting a copyrighted work in the public
# domain means forgoing all copyright power for that
# work.
This is not possible in German copyright law. A creator always keeps the Urheberrecht (author right which is larger than the copy right). A creation always has a creator.
The only way to emulate the Angloamerican concept of "public domain" is to give a free licence to the public. This could very well be called a "public domain license".
German law applies because the icons were made in Germany by a German.
This is complete bullshit. No single statistic or scientific inquiry supports this. Criminality in the USA is among the highest of any Western nations and you have the most liberal gun laws. You also have the highest rate of mass killings by teenagers and so on. A privately owned gun is 5 times more likely to be used on the owner and/or on his family (suicide, accidents, family fights) than on any external criminal.
Guns kill people. The more ruthless anyone is, the more likely is it, that a gun is used. A criminal attacker is always more likely to shoot than any normal private person. Giving the criminals easy access to guns is a mistake.
You know, Hitler, Himmler and all the other Nazis were big on the death penalty. Considering your statements, I assume that you therefore oppose the death penalty?
I do, but not because of any opinions of Nazis.
Too show the weakness of this argument: Hitler liked sports and painting. Do you oppose this?
Sometimes, even those people were right about some things, you can not always consistently be wrong.
only very few professional and gifted people can distinguish or even recognize a good encoded sound from lossless sound on 100 % top end HIFI systems.
Check out the C't listening test (blind test!) done in 2002 or 2003, which showed that people producing classical music, people finetuning codecs and many others were not consistently able to tell the difference. The best tester was someone with a hearing damage on one ear. The psychoaccustics obviously did not work 100% for him.
BTW: OGG won that test for ~100 kbit and higher bitrates. Even well encoded MP3 with 256 are almost perfect.
are not capable of humor. Look, my "Troll" parent postwas irony to point out how stupit it is to blame nonAmerican (Greatest Nation on Earth, God's own...) government's use of free software solutions on nationalism.
Seriously, most European companies and governments use Microsoft software today. And it sucks. It doesn't suck because it is American, but it sucks because it is proprietary expensive shit from Microsoft.
Did you know that OS/2 (IBM - American company) had a viable market share in Germany? If IBM had not quit selling OS/2 to end users, Germany would probably be OS/2 country today.
In fact most people who use free software are racists. Believe me. No other reason for it. And they hate jews, too.
There it no other explanation why they wouldn't choose THE GREAT AMERICAN PRODUCT. Believe me. No other reason.
I even suspect, that German and French people might be unamerican, but I have no proof yet.
Result: KDE with minimal adaptation does what you demand, with minimal adaptation. MAybe you should try it out?
please post again, when it will work on my PCs and on the PCs of people who like software quality as well as freedom.
:-)
I thought that all problems were adressed including
"addressing all the problems of legacy VoIP solutions: bad sound quality, difficult to set up and configure, and the need for expensive, centralized infrastructure.' Windows only beta client available."
BTW, how much are the sponsored links on slashdot?
I would rather open my document in openoffice and save it from there to HTML. There are some proprietary tags called SDxxx in the HTML, which sucks, but apart from this easily fixable defect, you get good styled HTML.
When you get older or wiser, you might face situations, where you are being immoral by some points of views. There is no black or white. Some basic rights always remain.
Only power, means that you do not believe in rights, law and justice. Quite amazing then, that you complain about the killing of your aunt. Did she not have a right to live?
If she could not defend herself, or was not defended by others and if the other person, you want to see tortured, had the power to kill her, then in your twisted and in my opinion not very well thought through world view, everything worked out perfectly.
The criminal probably - like you! - said fuck the rights of others. Well, if that is the logical consequence of your - power overrules justice and human rights world view.
I do not subscribe to it. I think a moral person should respect the rights of others wherever at all possible.
Man, loosen up. You are not arguing conclusively. If someone steals money, they have to give it back. But they can (minus damages and fines) keep their own money.
..."
But human rights are not like money. They are inalienable. See the preamble of the UN charta of human rights: "... recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world
Or if you are one of those isolationists, who don't trust the United Nations of this planet, look in the fundamental declaration of independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Unalienable rights, mister! That your aunt was killed did not take the human rights of the criminal away.
The US constitution also forbids unusual and cruel punishment, which rape and other things would be.
NOT. Human rights mean just that. Every human has these rights. EVERY HUMAN. Not just your aunt, not just you not just Americans. Even criminals, even mass murderers have human rights.
This does not mean, that he can't and should not be punished. Of course criminals should be punished, as provided by law. This (in Germany) would mean a life in prison, but it would not mean nearly certain humiliation, abuse, rape or anything else.
If a child gets grounded, it is supposed to stay at home. Nothing else.
It should not be raped by older brothers, be humiliated or be forced to sleep on a square foot, as criminals in some US prisons are forced.
If a convicted criminal gets a prison term, his freedom is taken from him as punishment, not his Human Rights as such.
I would not like to see anyone in an American prison (at least the Texan variety), where basic human rights are systematically neglected. Humiliation, sexual harassment, no private space, no learning, no decent work, extreme overcrowding. How could anyone come out of such a place as a decent reformed member of society?
Being locked away for several months/years is hard enough without being treated like garbage.
would also be adult fiction for you right? Let's check with snow white as an example. It has murder (the witch trying to poison snow white), death (everyone thinks she is dead), destiny (Prince coming), revenge (the witch gets it in the end).
In fact children do like the same topics as adults, they just understand less, which is why HP and Grimm's fairy tales have simplistic plots and characters.
I was not referring to CuckOO.o, the OOo kpart.
I was instead referring to the initial Staroffice-3.x port to linux, which happened in 1998 or even earlier. Gnome did not exist back then.
Xine is in fact (like mplayer) just a video decoding app, the widgets are not interesting. Xine is also used by arts and therefore by noatun, the KDE player.
Just start e.g. kmoon or klipper. KDE and GNOME use the same docking protocol, so any existing docked program would suffice.
Most of the applicatons you presented as GTK apps do not use GTK widgets:
Openoffice/Staroffice does not use GTK at all (in fact the first SO port to Linux was done by Matthias Kalle Dallheimer, a KDE founder...)
Mplayer has an optional GTK gui, which is hardly used by anyone. It also has at least two KDE guis. Not a very good GTK app.
XMMS has it's own GUI, GTK is basically used for the file dialog, which is arguably not the most impressive part of GTK.
Mozilla/Netscape uses XUL, it's own toolkit, again no GTK widgets are used, just some basic drawing routines.
This leaves GIMP (functional, but ugly) and GAIM (never used it, AOL is not my thing) for GTK.
KDE already supports setting group policies with it's excellent Kiosk Mode. You can lock any indvidual setting for users. KDE-3.2 will probably include a GUI to make this even easier to configure.
e r.pl?issue= 2002-11&article=kde
For KDE-3.1 see this excellent article in Linux Magazine:
http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/print
The BGH is the highest court in Civil matters. It is the end of any legal argument in civil matters.
There is also the BVerfG, which is the court, who decides about Constitutional and basic rights issues with final authority. But unless the Handelsgruppe can show that the current judgement by the BGH violated their constitutional rights in a serious way, the BVerfG will never have to decide this case.
The American Supreme Court is a combination of the two. Remember the US Constitution was one of the first real constitutions, so the power to decide Constitutional cases was just put in the hands of the highest normal court.
Nobody who has used StarOffice or OpenOffice for a longer document would EVER return to MSOffice. StarOffice with usable paragraph, text and page styles is much better at handling long documents than MS Word.
When I was responsible for a book of our university institute, we found that MSOffice was not able to meet our (modest!) requirements. We switched to StarOffice-5.2 and came up with an excellent ready-to-print copy after just one day of work. Previous attempts with MSOffice had already cost us 2 days.
Many interesting features of StarOffice are missing in Word or the Word equivalents are so buggy (lists e.g.!!) that no one in his right mind would ever use them.
Just because you did not know how to activate a feature in OpenOffice.org does not mean it is not implemented!!
It took me five seconds to start OOo 1.1beta2 [It is a lot faster than 1.0] and to locate the text table function under Tools-> Text-Table.
I assume you mean that function. Or maybe you just haven't ever used the program you are blabbing about.
I would take a look at freedroid, which is an excellent SDL based clone of paradroid. Very playable and nice!
Check it out, IMHO it is a bit better than nighthawk.