The funny thing is that Mandrake pretty much does this now. urpmi is very much like apt and now has a graphical frontend through MandrakeUpdate (as well as one for adding rpm sources etc.). It sounded to me like he was complaining about the fact it lists the dependant libraries etc. that it is going to go and fetch.
"I'm not a flamer, really i'm not. Why is it that all these forign governments are all looking into linux? I believe BSD would serve a government better. Yes i'm on linux now, it allows a lot more fiddling and customizing, but linux is just too open for secure government type settings. Is "Linux" still on a buzz word high??"
"PS, i realise a lot of people reading this have no knowledge of BSD, please keep that in mind when writing replies. And for the BSDers, OpenBSD."
Doesn't your PS answer your original question? There are now many more people out there who know Linux than know the various BSDs, if the situations were switched you'd probably have the opposite result.
> You think that's bad - Joe Aherne produces > critically acclaimed, truly excellent series, > (with Jack Davenport) but they never get past > series 1.
> This Life just stopped, and Ultraviolet should > have a UN reslution demanding a second series:-)
I could have sworn This Life had more than one series and it finished years ago (in the 90's).
> First of all, how do we catch these people? as it > stands now, most spam and unsolicited email is > modified so that the mail headers read the reply > to and the X-originating-ip have false values. Or > just moving my mailserver to another country were > these laws dont apply.
They may hide their origins, but if they're trying to sell you something they need to give some form of valid contact detail. Otherwise what's the point of their commercial mailing? So that should allow their identity to be uncovered.
"But the programs I use the most, Bryce 5, Photoshop, and MS Office, are Windows only, and the competing applications are just not up to where they are."
Well both MS Office and Photoshop (all versions) will now run under Codeweavers CrossOver Office (http://www.codeweavers.com/home/).
"what's w/ this recent trend towards using feminine pronouns where they're totally inappropriate."
Very true, it's becoming incredibly annoying. If they don't want to say him it's easy to write neutrally.
"I don't think that I've met more than three female programmers in the decade that I've worked in this area."
Well I've only been doing it for about six years, but where I work there are female programmers who've been programming since the 1970's. Off the top of my head I could easily name half a dozen and that's just where I work.
>> I mean, who could say no to 3D Day of the >> Tentacle?
> Someone who would rather have a DOTT RPG or FPRPG, > probably. I think gamers are enjoying "freedom" > more and more, and this has always been an area > where graphic adventures are relatively weak.
It's not about freedom, the popularity of those games was due to the quality of the story telling, and the fiendish quality of the puzzles. You just get the same kind of storytelling or puzzles in more freeform games, the puzzles are necessarily more simplistic.
"In England (and the rest of the UK) you have to pay a tax of about $15 a month for each colo(u)r TV (and about $4 for black&white). Hard to believe, but true. [tvlicensing.co.uk] I'm not sure, but I think this covers the costs of the BBC."
Not entirely accurate. You pay for *a* TV licence that covers the whole household, not a charge for each seperate television. It is used to fund the BBC so, and in return, the BBC channels (TV, radio, digital) carry no advertising. I think most people are more than happy to pay this to ensure an amount of quality non-commercial content.
"People can have more surplus time than money and still consider their time worth something. Only in the case where you consider your time worth nothing (for whatever reason) can Linux be truly free."
Since when is time spent learning something worth nothing? That old cliche has always seemed a little ridiculous. The costs of learning something new tend to be negligable next to the benefits of that learning.
Select text to copy Ctrl-C Select text to replace Ctrl-V
I actually much prefer X's copy/paste to anything else I've ever used. I find being able to do the entire operation with the mouse very useful, i.e. select URL in text file, middle click in Mozilla window to load URL.
I also regularly do this when working with text: 1) select with mouse 2) Ctrl-C to copy some text to clipboard 3) Use Ctrl-V to paste text copied to clipboard 4) Use mouse to copy and middle button to paste selection 5) Use Ctrl-V to paste text copied to clipboard
You just have to remember a selection isn't really something in a clipboard. It's more like creating a communication between two applications. You flag the message you want to pass with the mouse a nd then middle click in the receiving application to give it the message.
Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Tabbed Browsing -> Load Links in the Background
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"It's a cat! I've got two cats. While I will certainly agree that they have a mind of their own (and for some reason think that the best place to be is underfoot while I'm walking in the morning), but consent??? It's a cat..."
So do I. But I think it's more of an issue for the donor animal. It may be OK for us to decide that kitty1 should recieve a donor kidney otherwise it won't survive, but is it OK to force a healthy kitty2 to donate said kidney? Then it's more of an ethical dilema, i.e. people getting animals from rescue shelters for donor body parts.
"Gary Numan as a forefather of future industrial music? I think not. KMFDM, Ministry, Front 242, etc. did Industrial before Gary Numan (he just did angsty synth-pop for a long time, e.g., "Cars.")"
Aren't you forgetting Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, Nurse With Wound, Clock DVA, et al? who were doing Industrial Music long before Ministry and the gang turned up.
"Try asking a newbie to install a new program then your argument falls to pieces. Asking a newbie to navigate dependecy hell - compile their software - hell, upgrade Mozilla - then you see how difficult Linux can be. In windows, you just click setup.exe. In Linux, you need to go to the command line, type in some obscure cryptic words, then find where on the system the damn thing was installed."
Untrue. In Mandrake Linux you start the software manager, choose which apps you want to install and it downloads them (along with dependencies), does the install and adds them to the menu. All without clicking next and choosing installation directories. Far easier than any Windows install I've ever done.
Alternately, you download an rpm, click on it in Konqueror and Software Manager comes up and does it's stuff.
Thursday 09 January The series exploring current scientific issues looks at Easter Island - who the original settlers were, why they built the beautiful and mysterious statues and how the population died out in the 19th century taking their secrets to the grave.
Saturday 11 January (Repeat) Series exploring topical scientific issues. Scientists have just discovered that the east coast of America will one day be devastated by the biggest tidal wave ever seen - a mega-tsunami. The coast of the Canary Islands shows signs of a disintegration that will cause a giant landslide, the impact of which will cause huge waves to travel across the Atlantic to America.
Thursday 16 January Documentary exploring the strange condition of narcolepsy. Its sufferers live in a twilight world between sleeping and waking, with symptoms including hallucinations and fits that can strike when they laugh, cry or have sex. New research into the condition has raised the possibility that drugs could remove the need for sleep for days on end, leading to a 24 hour society - for good or ill.
It has always been the best science series on television, my favourites have always been the physics/astromony related programmes.
> This statement is slashdot idiocy at its finest. > GPL'd software isn't "free", it comes with strings > attached. What's wrong with pointing that out?
The GPL is one of the few licences that enforces a user's freedom, rather than the developer's. The BSD licence maintains a developers right to take and use code, the GPL keeps maintains a user's right to look inside the code they are using.
> Microsoft doesn't really need to any help to > make OSS advocates look stupid, the overeager > religious zealots do that job just fine.
Microsoft dislikes the GPL so much because it gives freedom to users rather than developers.
Well, if you really want it you can download Netscape 5 here or here. Warnings though, it's a non-gecko alpha prior to when the old layout engine was dumped.
> Cute, but no good. It's been a long standing > statement of gays and those that support them > that normal people who think homosexuality is > wrong are either gay themselves or afraid of > being gay.
In a quite few cases this is true, you do get people who are rabidly anti-homosexual yet wouldn't touch a member of the opposite sex with a barge pole. People who do express anger at their own sexuality, because they're made to feel unnatural by people with views like your own (I'm not making this up, these people will often speak up and admit this). Most of the time though, this argument tends to be used to get people's knickers in a twist, just to wind people up. It's only a catch-22 if you let it shut you up, the equivalent of the old "takes one to know one".
> Men and men or women and women aren't meant to > have sex. The first purpose of having sex is a > drive to procreate, the good feelings sex > produces is an incentive to have sex and > procreate.
If we were just animals yes. Humans aren't just animals. Humans also have sex for pleasure. It comes from the same thing that gives us art, literature, music, etc. all also unnatural. If you want us to live purely by by instinctual urges then ours would be a pretty primitive society.
> I am not afraid of homosexuality but I believe > it is deviant behavior because it is unnatural.
What's this got to do with homosexuality? Homosexuals can have relationships without having sex. And the kind of "deviant behaviour" you suggest is representative of homosexuality is also performed by hetrosexuals.
> Just as I believe child molesters are sexually > deviant (that is another one that a person is > "born with") I believe homosexuals are.
So let me see, you consider an adult who forces themselves on a child to be on a par with an adult who has consentual sex with another adult? I find that attitude disgusting personally.
> I'm not afraid of child molesters, but I > believe their acts are wrong, I'm not afraid of > homosexuals but I believe their acts are wrong > also.
That is such a bullshit argument, the two are completely unrelated and if you can't see the difference then I really pity you.
I switched off that ages ago, it seemed like a good feature but I found Word would often crash *during* the autosave, basically destroying the original document. So instead of saving the x minutes since the last save, you lost the x hours or days worth of changes since the last backup.
I don't think this is such a biggy. Our I.T. trainer said the number one question that new users ask in training sessions is how to know when to double or single click.
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The funny thing is that Mandrake pretty much does this now. urpmi is very much like apt and now has a graphical frontend through MandrakeUpdate (as well as one for adding rpm sources etc.). It sounded to me like he was complaining about the fact it lists the dependant libraries etc. that it is going to go and fetch.
"I'm not a flamer, really i'm not. Why is it that all these forign governments are all looking into linux? I believe BSD would serve a government better. Yes i'm on linux now, it allows a lot more fiddling and customizing, but linux is just too open for secure government type settings. Is "Linux" still on a buzz word high??"
"PS, i realise a lot of people reading this have no knowledge of BSD, please keep that in mind when writing replies. And for the BSDers, OpenBSD."
Doesn't your PS answer your original question? There are now many more people out there who know Linux than know the various BSDs, if the situations were switched you'd probably have the opposite result.
> You think that's bad - Joe Aherne produces
:-)
> critically acclaimed, truly excellent series,
> (with Jack Davenport) but they never get past
> series 1.
> This Life just stopped, and Ultraviolet should
> have a UN reslution demanding a second series
I could have sworn This Life had more than one series and it finished years ago (in the 90's).
> First of all, how do we catch these people? as it
> stands now, most spam and unsolicited email is
> modified so that the mail headers read the reply
> to and the X-originating-ip have false values. Or
> just moving my mailserver to another country were
> these laws dont apply.
They may hide their origins, but if they're trying to sell you something they need to give some form of valid contact detail. Otherwise what's the point of their commercial mailing? So that should allow their identity to be uncovered.
"But the programs I use the most, Bryce 5, Photoshop, and MS Office, are Windows only, and the competing applications are just not up to where they are."
Well both MS Office and Photoshop (all versions) will now run under Codeweavers CrossOver Office (http://www.codeweavers.com/home/).
ian.
"what's w/ this recent trend towards using feminine pronouns where they're totally inappropriate."
Very true, it's becoming incredibly annoying. If they don't want to say him it's easy to write neutrally.
"I don't think that I've met more than three female programmers in the decade that I've worked in this area."
Well I've only been doing it for about six years, but where I work there are female programmers who've been programming since the 1970's. Off the top of my head I could easily name half a dozen and that's just where I work.
>> I mean, who could say no to 3D Day of the
>> Tentacle?
> Someone who would rather have a DOTT RPG or FPRPG,
> probably. I think gamers are enjoying "freedom"
> more and more, and this has always been an area
> where graphic adventures are relatively weak.
It's not about freedom, the popularity of those games was due to the quality of the story telling, and the fiendish quality of the puzzles. You just get the same kind of storytelling or puzzles in more freeform games, the puzzles are necessarily more simplistic.
"In England (and the rest of the UK) you have to pay a tax of about $15 a month for each colo(u)r TV (and about $4 for black&white). Hard to believe, but true. [tvlicensing.co.uk] I'm not sure, but I think this covers the costs of the BBC."
Not entirely accurate. You pay for *a* TV licence that covers the whole household, not a charge for each seperate television. It is used to fund the BBC so, and in return, the BBC channels (TV, radio, digital) carry no advertising. I think most people are more than happy to pay this to ensure an amount of quality non-commercial content.
"People can have more surplus time than money and still consider their time worth something. Only in the case where you consider your time worth nothing (for whatever reason) can Linux be truly free."
Since when is time spent learning something worth nothing? That old cliche has always seemed a little ridiculous. The costs of learning something new tend to be negligable next to the benefits of that learning.
Select text to copy
Ctrl-C
Select text to replace
Ctrl-V
I actually much prefer X's copy/paste to anything else I've ever used. I find being able to do the entire operation with the mouse very useful, i.e. select URL in text file, middle click in Mozilla window to load URL.
I also regularly do this when working with text:
1) select with mouse
2) Ctrl-C to copy some text to clipboard
3) Use Ctrl-V to paste text copied to clipboard
4) Use mouse to copy and middle button to paste selection
5) Use Ctrl-V to paste text copied to clipboard
You just have to remember a selection isn't really something in a clipboard. It's more like creating a communication between two applications. You flag the message you want to pass with the mouse a
nd then middle click in the receiving application to give it the message.
There's an easier way:
Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Tabbed Browsing -> Load Links in the Background
"It's a cat! I've got two cats. While I will certainly agree that they have a mind of their own (and for some reason think that the best place to be is underfoot while I'm walking in the morning), but consent??? It's a cat..."
So do I. But I think it's more of an issue for the donor animal. It may be OK for us to decide that kitty1 should recieve a donor kidney otherwise it won't survive, but is it OK to force a healthy kitty2 to donate said kidney? Then it's more of an ethical dilema, i.e. people getting animals from rescue shelters for donor body parts.
"Gary Numan as a forefather of future industrial music? I think not. KMFDM, Ministry, Front 242, etc. did Industrial before Gary Numan (he just did angsty synth-pop for a long time, e.g., "Cars.")"
Aren't you forgetting Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, Nurse With Wound, Clock DVA, et al? who were doing Industrial Music long before Ministry and the gang turned up.
I don't know which OS he's talking about, but Microsoft pinched their TCP/IP stack from *BSD. So open code has fewer bugs than, what, open code?
But Microsoft's stack isn't open code, it's a fork of some open code at a particular point in its development.
"Try asking a newbie to install a new program then your argument falls to pieces. Asking a newbie to navigate dependecy hell - compile their software - hell, upgrade Mozilla - then you see how difficult Linux can be. In windows, you just click setup.exe. In Linux, you need to go to the command line, type in some obscure cryptic words, then find where on the system the damn thing was installed."
Untrue. In Mandrake Linux you start the software manager, choose which apps you want to install and it downloads them (along with dependencies), does the install and adds them to the menu. All without clicking next and choosing installation directories. Far easier than any Windows install I've ever done.
Alternately, you download an rpm, click on it in Konqueror and Software Manager comes up and does it's stuff.
Ah, and I forgot the website (including transcriptions of the programmes):
Horizon
Other BBC science programmes are listed here
Yes it is still going, i.e. the next few weeks:
Thursday 09 January
The series exploring current scientific issues looks at Easter Island - who the original settlers were, why they built the beautiful and mysterious statues and how the population died out in the 19th century taking their secrets to the grave.
Saturday 11 January (Repeat)
Series exploring topical scientific issues. Scientists have just discovered that the east coast of America will one day be devastated by the biggest tidal wave ever seen - a mega-tsunami. The coast of the Canary Islands shows signs of a disintegration that will cause a giant landslide, the impact of which will cause huge waves to travel across the Atlantic to America.
Thursday 16 January
Documentary exploring the strange condition of narcolepsy. Its sufferers live in a twilight world between sleeping and waking, with symptoms including hallucinations and fits that can strike when they laugh, cry or have sex. New research into the condition has raised the possibility that drugs could remove the need for sleep for days on end, leading to a 24 hour society - for good or ill.
It has always been the best science series on television, my favourites have always been the physics/astromony related programmes.
> This statement is slashdot idiocy at its finest.
> GPL'd software isn't "free", it comes with strings
> attached. What's wrong with pointing that out?
The GPL is one of the few licences that enforces a user's freedom, rather than the developer's. The BSD licence maintains a developers right to take and use code, the GPL keeps maintains a user's right to look inside the code they are using.
> Microsoft doesn't really need to any help to
> make OSS advocates look stupid, the overeager
> religious zealots do that job just fine.
Microsoft dislikes the GPL so much because it gives freedom to users rather than developers.
"They'd say the Rosetta mission was faked, too. It's infinite regression or infinite regressives or something like that. :)"
They should take one of them along and leave them on the moon. Then we can sit back and watch them regress themselves out of that one.
"It isn't Microsoft's fault that the JVM is 9 megs. There are a hell of a lot of things I've got to download to do my job, that's life."
.NET download about 15MB?
Isn't the
Why which programs does AOL want you to use?
i lt o", true);
w s" , true);
On the other hand, if you're using Mozilla and don't want it using the mail reader you can put this in user.js in your profile:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.ma
and it'll use the default mail client, or:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.ne
for news.
Well, if you really want it you can download Netscape 5 here or here. Warnings though, it's a non-gecko alpha prior to when the old layout engine was dumped.
> Cute, but no good. It's been a long standing
> statement of gays and those that support them
> that normal people who think homosexuality is
> wrong are either gay themselves or afraid of
> being gay.
In a quite few cases this is true, you do get people who are rabidly anti-homosexual yet wouldn't touch a member of the opposite sex with a barge pole. People who do express anger at their own sexuality, because they're made to feel unnatural by people with views like your own (I'm not making this up, these people will often speak up and admit this). Most of the time though, this argument tends to be used to get people's knickers in a twist, just to wind people up. It's only a catch-22 if you let it shut you up, the equivalent of the old "takes one to know one".
> Men and men or women and women aren't meant to
> have sex. The first purpose of having sex is a
> drive to procreate, the good feelings sex
> produces is an incentive to have sex and
> procreate.
If we were just animals yes. Humans aren't just animals. Humans also have sex for pleasure. It comes from the same thing that gives us art, literature, music, etc. all also unnatural. If you want us to live purely by by instinctual urges then ours would be a pretty primitive society.
> I am not afraid of homosexuality but I believe
> it is deviant behavior because it is unnatural.
What's this got to do with homosexuality? Homosexuals can have relationships without having sex. And the kind of "deviant behaviour" you suggest is representative of homosexuality is also performed by hetrosexuals.
> Just as I believe child molesters are sexually
> deviant (that is another one that a person is
> "born with") I believe homosexuals are.
So let me see, you consider an adult who forces themselves on a child to be on a par with an adult who has consentual sex with another adult? I find that attitude disgusting personally.
> I'm not afraid of child molesters, but I
> believe their acts are wrong, I'm not afraid of
> homosexuals but I believe their acts are wrong
> also.
That is such a bullshit argument, the two are completely unrelated and if you can't see the difference then I really pity you.
I switched off that ages ago, it seemed like a good feature but I found Word would often crash *during* the autosave, basically destroying the original document. So instead of saving the x minutes since the last save, you lost the x hours or days worth of changes since the last backup.
I don't think this is such a biggy. Our I.T. trainer said the number one question that new users ask in training sessions is how to know when to double or single click.