I find Dolphin streets ahead of any of the competition (at least, when I last tried using any of them). The ability to have both a command line and a graphical view of a directory in the same window, so I can seamlessly switch between GUI and shell, is something I consider a fundamental requirement of a modern file browser. I get thumbnail views of image files and documents for quick identification, and I can easily run script commands against them. If I change directory (either by clicking in the GUI half, or by running cd), both views change.
As far as I'm aware, no other file browser does that.
I hardly use my phone to make phone calls or texts, less than 15 minutes a month and an average of zero texts. I deliberately chose a plan with minimal minutes (about 200 I think) to save a few quid. The default tends to be unlimited though.
No. It's one of the missing features they haven't added to Google Photos yet. You can see locations for photos already geotagged, but you can't add a geotag to a photo that doesn't have the information, or edit geotag information on a photo that does. I still go to picasaweb for this feature.
I've raised a feature request for this, but it's still missing the functionality.
I'd say 15, so if an author becomes widely popular and Hollywood want to try to cash in on that by making a film of their books whilst they're still fresh in the public's mind, then at least the author gets a chance to make a profit from the films.
Our business cards have a QR code on the back. If you want an old style business card, we can give you one. If you want to just stick our contact details into your phone, then just turn the card over and scan the code. I could also display the QR code on my phone, but I'd rather pass a bit of disposable cardboard around a group of strangers than my phone.
I'm also bad at remembering names and faces, so if I've just been given some cards at the start of a meeting, I can drop them in front of me and glance at them to recall who is who.
This is part of nearly every coding standard I've seen.
And yet, I've never actually seen a bug caused by it when this rule isn't enforced.
Oh, I have:-) Back in the days when we used C, someone had something like:
if (foo)
A_MACRO
It worked fine, until the #define was changed to consist of multiple statements. The problems caused weren't local to that bit of the code, so it took ages to track down.
I've seen a number of easy to fix bugs caused by this as well, but none quite as spectacular as the above.
Thank you. People who indent with spaces should be shot. Indent with tabs all you want and I can view it the way I want (2 space, 4 space, etc.).
If you use spaces instead of tabs, I'm going to have to take two seconds to run some elisp to fix it;-)
Problem with tabs is when you're lining up code on multiple lines (e.g., variables, where many people use whitespace between the type definition and the name to line up the names), a different tab size breaks the alignment. You either have to force everyone to use the same tab size, or suffer ugly code.
If you're aiming to keep line length down (back in the days of 80 character displays), switching between tab sizes could cause code to become an unreadable wrapped mess if it'd been written using 2 space tabs (and fitted nicely into the editor window) and you viewed it with 8 space tabs (at which point it no longer did).
These days it's almost irrelevant. Most IDEs allow you to reformat the whole file with a single keypress to whatever style you want. Then reformat back to project standard before submitting to source control.
The Gentoo package works okayish (about 80% of the time) on AMD64 in Konqueror, for both iPlayer and YouTube. Enough for the few times I need it. Doesn't help you on Debian however (though it probably means that it's a problem with the Debian package rather than with libswf itself).
Funny, my first thought was "Great, at last I can filter out experts-exchange". Rather than basing this on keywords, they should allow you to give a personalised page rank modifier to a site. They could then use the information that 90% of people mark a site up or down and factor that into their base calculations.
Obviously open to abuse by site owners, though in theory real users would mark it down as soon as it started being returned near the top of search results.
It depends on what you want out of a game. Vendetta is built around PvP, and currently the rest of the game is secondary (though changes are currently in the works to improve things). Eve's combat system is very point and click - similar to an RPG like Neverwinter Nights. Vendetta is FPS twitch based, more like Quake. They're not really the same sort of game.
Death in Vendetta is cheap, so you can quite happily take part in PvP engagements (pirating, war, duelling etc) without worrying that if you die you've lost weeks or months of work. The downside is that if you're pirated whilst trading, and lose your ship + cargo, there's not really a sense of loss.
Vendetta is basically multiplayer Elite. It's a first person shooter with a persistant world and a bit of trading and ship buying/upgrading on the side. If you want deep and meaningful politics, massive dynamic economies and long term storylines, go for Eve. If you want hectic well-designed PvP, or just something to relax with (cheap death is a bonus here), go for Vendetta.
I actually prefer the graphics in Vendetta to Eve. The latter has much nicer models, but most of the time they're not much more than icons moving around a map. In Vendetta, you're up close and personal to fighters, and get a much better perspective. Capital ships, though rare, actually look big and dangerous simply because your viewpoint is inside the action.
Vendetta has had native Linux/Mac support from the start, so if you are a Linux user looking to support companies which support Linux, Guild Software (the four people who develop Vendetta) might be a good choice.
Vendetta *does* need more players though. 50-100 players is about the norm for busy periods.
Having said that, is it innovative? I certainly never thought of doing it before I saw others do it. I was always happy with having it after a ? and typically formatted it so it was easier to get the information out of it. When I first saw it I thought to myself "Huh, that's pretty nifty, I wonder how they did it?" Java J2EE supports this out of the box, and has done so for a long time. You simply map a URL pattern to a servlet, and the servlet can use the URL as the data. Wiki sites like Wikipedia do pretty much the same thing (anything under wiki/ is probably just fed to a database lookup rather than directly to a page).
Loki games "required" a CD. Of course, there was no copy protection and.isos probably work just fine in a pinch... =)
Well, mine didn't, and I've bought quite a few Loki published games (SimCity 3000, Heroes 3, Myth II, Rune etc). All conversions of course, I'm not sure I've played anything that was unique to Loki. The only thing I can think of is if 'fixing them' merely consisted of copying some obvious files from the CD to the hard drive. I definitely never had to use iso's or download hacks to get them to work without CDs.
To be fair, name one popular game these days that doesn't need the CD that isn't an MMORPG of some sort. Let's see... Neverwinter Nights, UT2004, Doom 3, Defcon, Rune, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Darwinia, Thinkbots. Of course, I'm running Linux (which explains the list of games), and I've never seen a Linux game require a CD.
It's was also annoying to have to change the CD every ~60 minutes whilst listening to an opera (Wagner's Ring Cycle comes in at 14 CDs for example, most others fit on 2 or 3 CDs). A have a few collections, but generally I find music that lasts only a few minutes annoying.
I actually rip my CDs as a single file, since I generally want to either listen to the entire CD, or none of it. But then, pretty much my entire 'music' collection consists of classical, soundtracks or audio books, all of which are better listened to as an 'album'.
I work for a consultancy company, and work on free software in my free time. Even if those free products competed with the products we sell, it wouldn't have a detrimental affect on the company - if anything, it'd help it. We don't make money selling *products*, we sell customised solutions based on those products. What our customers want are high end solutions which aren't actually available anywhere, so what we do is take what is available (normally EDMS and bulk scanning applications), plug them together and write lots of custom business logic around it.
If a customer comes to us with X to spend, then 1/3 X goes on hardware, 1/3 X goes on licenses and 1/3 X goes to us for the bespoke work. If the licenses are free, then that's 2/3 X that can come straight to us instead (normally customers want more features than they can afford to pay for). Obviously it's not as simple as that (we get some markup on hardware and licenses, plus there's support, and the split is rarely that even), but for anyone selling bespoke consultancy, free software is generally going to help.
I'm currently playing Vendetta Online, an Elite style MMORPG that has a native Linux port. Probably not up to the quality of things like Eve (I don't know, I only play games that are out on Linux), but it's a lot of fun. See www.vendetta-online.com
Another game I liked was Savage. An excellent RTS/FPS combination that had a Linux port available. As I'm liable to do, I didn't play it for 12 months, then when I tried to logon, discovered I needed to update it to play and there was no update available for Linux, so I wasn't able to play it anymore. Last time I buy something from that company.
I'd really like to see games like Rome:Total War (or even the old Medieval Total War games), but they don't even work under Wine/Cedega, and there doesn't seem to be much chance of them working in the future.
Funny, but to me it's the Debian users who come across as elitist snobs. Many seem to think that Debian is the One True Way, and all other distros are inferior regardless of the situation.
Personally, I use a mixture of Gentoo (for portage), SuSE (it just installs and works) and OpenBSD (security).
When standing in the supermarket aisle, looking at all of the laundry detergent choices, you will pick the one from the company that bombarded you with annoying ads, without realizing why.
Really? When I'm in the supermarket looking at the various choices, I choose the one I chose last time. That method goes all the way back to when I first started shopping for myself, when I chose the brand my Mum always chose.
Do other people switch brands every week? As far as I'm concerned, if it's been good enough for me for the last 1700 weeks, then it's good enough for me this week as well.
There's a book by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C Clarke about a new (cheap) technology which allows everyone to monitor everyone else. How it does it is relatively unimportant (wormholes), but sitting in your home in London you could watch a couple in their bedroom in Tokyo, and the latter have no way of knowing, and no way of stopping it (other than making sure it is totally dark).
Great power to the government... but also power to everyone else since people can watch the goverment as well as the government watching them.
Then they figure out how to send the holes back in time, so not only can you watch anyone anywhere, but also anyone at any point in the past. Government and business coverups become almost impossible (as does cheating on your partner or taking a private shower).
Is a 'fair' situation where nobody has any privacy at all better or worse than an imbalanced one where big organisations have privacy and private citizens have only some?
It reminds me of a story by Fritz Leiber (Little Old Miss Macbeth), about a woman who is woken one night by some noise. She goes hunting through the big deserted city where she lives, until she finds a dripping tap, which is the source of the disturbance.
> I'd say make bus/train/subway use "COMPULSORY" where applicable. > Then we'd really solve the traffic problem.
Wonderful idea. Have you ever used trains in the UK? I've spent the last two years commuting into London by train, and it's awful. Trains are often late and over crowded. The train system is a total shambles. If people stopped using cars and moved to public transport the entire system would grind to a halt.
People do use cars when it's not necessary, but I'd rather be stuck in traffic in my own car (listening to my own music, and with room to move my elbows), then in a crowded train that's stuck outside Clapham Junction for an hour for no obvious reason.
Installed 3.1 partly to try out the SVG support. Apparently there's been an SVG theme for KDE 3.1 for a while. It also works in Konqueror, though only seems to support SVG in files with a.svg extension. If I create an html file, and stick some svg in it (with namespaces etc set, basically the example from the back of the book 'SVG Essentials'), Konqueror doesn't render it.
Seen the same problem with IE.
Haven't got around to compiling Mozilla with it in yet.
A just as important question - when will Mozilla have SVG support in the base build? Currently there seem to be license issues (the library it uses can't be licensed under the MPL). I'd say getting Mozilla, Konqueror and Safari all supporting SVG as standard is an important step.
It's been at least 5 years since I displayed vector graphics in !Browse after all (I wonder whether anyone gets *that* reference):-)
If 550 means 'try again later', doesn't this just make things worse for the receiver? Some disc space is wasted on the spammer's end - but so what? Such a small fraction of people are going to be running this, it'll only amount to a few emails.
However, if the spammer retries it repeatedly, then you'll end up receiving more spam. I don't know what the standard retry time is, but if it's minutes or hours, then the mail server is going to get killed a lot quicker than the spammer's is going to fill up with disc space.
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I find Dolphin streets ahead of any of the competition (at least, when I last tried using any of them). The ability to have both a command line and a graphical view of a directory in the same window, so I can seamlessly switch between GUI and shell, is something I consider a fundamental requirement of a modern file browser. I get thumbnail views of image files and documents for quick identification, and I can easily run script commands against them. If I change directory (either by clicking in the GUI half, or by running cd), both views change.
As far as I'm aware, no other file browser does that.
I hardly use my phone to make phone calls or texts, less than 15 minutes a month and an average of zero texts. I deliberately chose a plan with minimal minutes (about 200 I think) to save a few quid. The default tends to be unlimited though.
No. It's one of the missing features they haven't added to Google Photos yet. You can see locations for photos already geotagged, but you can't add a geotag to a photo that doesn't have the information, or edit geotag information on a photo that does. I still go to picasaweb for this feature.
I've raised a feature request for this, but it's still missing the functionality.
I'd say 15, so if an author becomes widely popular and Hollywood want to try to cash in on that by making a film of their books whilst they're still fresh in the public's mind, then at least the author gets a chance to make a profit from the films.
Our business cards have a QR code on the back. If you want an old style business card, we can give you one. If you want to just stick our contact details into your phone, then just turn the card over and scan the code. I could also display the QR code on my phone, but I'd rather pass a bit of disposable cardboard around a group of strangers than my phone.
I'm also bad at remembering names and faces, so if I've just been given some cards at the start of a meeting, I can drop them in front of me and glance at them to recall who is who.
This is part of nearly every coding standard I've seen.
And yet, I've never actually seen a bug caused by it when this rule isn't enforced.
Oh, I have :-) Back in the days when we used C, someone had something like:
if (foo)
A_MACRO
It worked fine, until the #define was changed to consist of multiple statements. The problems caused weren't local to that bit of the code, so it took ages to track down.
I've seen a number of easy to fix bugs caused by this as well, but none quite as spectacular as the above.
Thank you. People who indent with spaces should be shot. Indent with tabs all you want and I can view it the way I want (2 space, 4 space, etc.).
If you use spaces instead of tabs, I'm going to have to take two seconds to run some elisp to fix it ;-)
Problem with tabs is when you're lining up code on multiple lines (e.g., variables, where many people use whitespace between the type definition and the name to line up the names), a different tab size breaks the alignment. You either have to force everyone to use the same tab size, or suffer ugly code.
If you're aiming to keep line length down (back in the days of 80 character displays), switching between tab sizes could cause code to become an unreadable wrapped mess if it'd been written using 2 space tabs (and fitted nicely into the editor window) and you viewed it with 8 space tabs (at which point it no longer did).
These days it's almost irrelevant. Most IDEs allow you to reformat the whole file with a single keypress to whatever style you want. Then reformat back to project standard before submitting to source control.
The Gentoo package works okayish (about 80% of the time) on AMD64 in Konqueror, for both iPlayer and YouTube. Enough for the few times I need it. Doesn't help you on Debian however (though it probably means that it's a problem with the Debian package rather than with libswf itself).
Funny, my first thought was "Great, at last I can filter out experts-exchange". Rather than basing this on keywords, they should allow you to give a personalised page rank modifier to a site. They could then use the information that 90% of people mark a site up or down and factor that into their base calculations. Obviously open to abuse by site owners, though in theory real users would mark it down as soon as it started being returned near the top of search results.
It depends on what you want out of a game. Vendetta is built around PvP, and currently the rest of the game is secondary (though changes are currently in the works to improve things). Eve's combat system is very point and click - similar to an RPG like Neverwinter Nights. Vendetta is FPS twitch based, more like Quake. They're not really the same sort of game.
Death in Vendetta is cheap, so you can quite happily take part in PvP engagements (pirating, war, duelling etc) without worrying that if you die you've lost weeks or months of work. The downside is that if you're pirated whilst trading, and lose your ship + cargo, there's not really a sense of loss.
Vendetta is basically multiplayer Elite. It's a first person shooter with a persistant world and a bit of trading and ship buying/upgrading on the side. If you want deep and meaningful politics, massive dynamic economies and long term storylines, go for Eve. If you want hectic well-designed PvP, or just something to relax with (cheap death is a bonus here), go for Vendetta.
I actually prefer the graphics in Vendetta to Eve. The latter has much nicer models, but most of the time they're not much more than icons moving around a map. In Vendetta, you're up close and personal to fighters, and get a much better perspective. Capital ships, though rare, actually look big and dangerous simply because your viewpoint is inside the action.
Vendetta has had native Linux/Mac support from the start, so if you are a Linux user looking to support companies which support Linux, Guild Software (the four people who develop Vendetta) might be a good choice.
Vendetta *does* need more players though. 50-100 players is about the norm for busy periods.
Boojum (Independent Trader, UIT).
Loki games "required" a CD. Of course, there was no copy protection and .isos probably work just fine in a pinch... =)
Well, mine didn't, and I've bought quite a few Loki published games (SimCity 3000, Heroes 3, Myth II, Rune etc). All conversions of course, I'm not sure I've played anything that was unique to Loki. The only thing I can think of is if 'fixing them' merely consisted of copying some obvious files from the CD to the hard drive. I definitely never had to use iso's or download hacks to get them to work without CDs.It's was also annoying to have to change the CD every ~60 minutes whilst listening to an opera (Wagner's Ring Cycle comes in at 14 CDs for example, most others fit on 2 or 3 CDs). A have a few collections, but generally I find music that lasts only a few minutes annoying.
I actually rip my CDs as a single file, since I generally want to either listen to the entire CD, or none of it. But then, pretty much my entire 'music' collection consists of classical, soundtracks or audio books, all of which are better listened to as an 'album'.
I work for a consultancy company, and work on free software in my free time. Even if those free products competed with the products we sell, it wouldn't have a detrimental affect on the company - if anything, it'd help it. We don't make money selling *products*, we sell customised solutions based on those products. What our customers want are high end solutions which aren't actually available anywhere, so what we do is take what is available (normally EDMS and bulk scanning applications), plug them together and write lots of custom business logic around it.
If a customer comes to us with X to spend, then 1/3 X goes on hardware, 1/3 X goes on licenses and 1/3 X goes to us for the bespoke work. If the licenses are free, then that's 2/3 X that can come straight to us instead (normally customers want more features than they can afford to pay for). Obviously it's not as simple as that (we get some markup on hardware and licenses, plus there's support, and the split is rarely that even), but for anyone selling bespoke consultancy, free software is generally going to help.
I'm currently playing Vendetta Online, an Elite style MMORPG that has a native Linux port. Probably not up to the quality of things like Eve (I don't know, I only play games that are out on Linux), but it's a lot of fun. See www.vendetta-online.com
Another game I liked was Savage. An excellent RTS/FPS combination that had a Linux port available. As I'm liable to do, I didn't play it for 12 months, then when I tried to logon, discovered I needed to update it to play and there was no update available for Linux, so I wasn't able to play it anymore. Last time I buy something from that company.
I'd really like to see games like Rome:Total War (or even the old Medieval Total War games), but they don't even work under Wine/Cedega, and there doesn't seem to be much chance of them working in the future.
Funny, but to me it's the Debian users who come across as elitist snobs. Many seem to think that Debian is the One True Way, and all other distros are inferior regardless of the situation.
Personally, I use a mixture of Gentoo (for portage), SuSE (it just installs and works) and OpenBSD (security).
When standing in the supermarket aisle, looking at all of the laundry detergent choices, you will pick the one from the company that bombarded you with annoying ads, without realizing why.
Really? When I'm in the supermarket looking at the various choices, I choose the one I chose last time. That method goes all the way back to when I first started shopping for myself, when I chose the brand my Mum always chose.
Do other people switch brands every week? As far as I'm concerned, if it's been good enough for me for the last 1700 weeks, then it's good enough for me this week as well.
There's a book by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C Clarke about a new (cheap) technology which allows everyone to monitor everyone else. How it does it is relatively unimportant (wormholes), but sitting in your home in London you could watch a couple in their bedroom in Tokyo, and the latter have no way of knowing, and no way of stopping it (other than making sure it is totally dark).
Great power to the government... but also power to everyone else since people can watch the goverment as well as the government watching them.
Then they figure out how to send the holes back in time, so not only can you watch anyone anywhere, but also anyone at any point in the past. Government and business coverups become almost impossible (as does cheating on your partner or taking a private shower).
Is a 'fair' situation where nobody has any privacy at all better or worse than an imbalanced one where big organisations have privacy and private citizens have only some?
> 2. It would do PGP/MIME instead of signing inline (yuck!).
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It does. It's just non-obvious to get it to work.
http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.h
I think there is a plan to get this to work out of the box in the not too distant future, though I don't know how close this is to being a reality.
It reminds me of a story by Fritz Leiber (Little Old Miss Macbeth), about a woman who is woken one night by some noise. She goes hunting through the big deserted city where she lives, until she finds a dripping tap, which is the source of the disturbance.
The only noise in the ruined city.
> I'd say make bus/train/subway use "COMPULSORY" where applicable.
> Then we'd really solve the traffic problem.
Wonderful idea. Have you ever used trains in the UK? I've spent the last two years commuting into London by train, and it's awful. Trains are often late and over crowded. The train system is a total shambles. If people stopped using cars and moved to public transport the entire system would grind to a halt.
People do use cars when it's not necessary, but I'd rather be stuck in traffic in my own car (listening to my own music, and with room to move my elbows), then in a crowded train that's stuck outside Clapham Junction for an hour for no obvious reason.
> What's the state of SVG in KDE?
.svg extension. If I create an html file, and stick some svg in it (with namespaces etc set, basically the example from the back of the book 'SVG Essentials'), Konqueror doesn't render it.
:-)
Installed 3.1 partly to try out the SVG support. Apparently there's been an SVG theme for KDE 3.1 for a while. It also works in Konqueror, though only seems to support SVG in files with a
Seen the same problem with IE.
Haven't got around to compiling Mozilla with it in yet.
A just as important question - when will Mozilla have SVG support in the base build? Currently there seem to be license issues (the library it uses can't be licensed under the MPL). I'd say getting Mozilla, Konqueror and Safari all supporting SVG as standard is an important step.
It's been at least 5 years since I displayed vector graphics in !Browse after all (I wonder whether anyone gets *that* reference)
If 550 means 'try again later', doesn't this just make things worse for the receiver? Some disc space is wasted on the spammer's end - but so what? Such a small fraction of people are going to be running this, it'll only amount to a few emails.
However, if the spammer retries it repeatedly, then you'll end up receiving more spam. I don't know what the standard retry time is, but if it's minutes or hours, then the mail server is going to get killed a lot quicker than the spammer's is going to fill up with disc space.
And how do any of them compare to Documentum or
FileNET?