See, there are only so many characters in Toy Story, and the Debian maintainers can't just tear through them at the alarming rate you demand. In a few years, there just wouldn't be any names left to use for the Debian releases!:-)
All kidding aside, KDE2 will, I think, be included. Looking for references to back that up, I found this. Using the sources.list line given, I'm installing some KDE2 packages right now. Now, this isn't coming from a debian.org mirror so this doesn't look official or anything, but I thought there wasn't an easy, clean way of installing anything KDE-ish on a Debian system so I'm quite happy to have stumbled onto it. --
But that's irrelevant to most of us because most of us don't speak Spanish and didn't know the Spanish meaning of the word. Deborah and Ian, who created Deb-Ian (geddit?) probably didn't know either.
Personally, I think Debian is a rather cute name. Before I checked out the distros for my second Linux installation (the first was Slackware), I already had a more positive attitude to Debian than Red Hat, simply because I liked the name better. --
It's far easier to hook a VCR to the video output of your DVD decoder card and videotape the damned things!
Well, yes and no. Licensed dvd decoders force Macrovision on you, so recording the output from your dvd decoder doesn't work any better than recording the output of another VCR. In other words, they thought of that.
Remote Selector et al will disable Macrovision and allow you to do precisely what you describe, but I imagine the DVD CCA has the same complaints about disabling Macrovision as it has about cracking CSS. --
I don't think so. I think it's pretty close to obvious in that when told to solve the relevance problems that search engines are facing, one is almost guaranteed to come up with something like this. What isn't obvious is whether it will work well. To determine that, you need to do some serious testing.
The fact that no-one else was doing this doesn't mean that no-one else thought of it or that it isn't obvious.
It would be nice if someone familiar with patent laws could tell us whether "it's obvious, but I'm the only one who believed in it" is grounds for a patent. I'm not sure how I feel about that myself, but I'm leaning toward "no". --
desktop and server software does not put life & limb at risk
Oh, I don't know. I have only so many MacOS crashes left before I take that G3 box and fling it through the window and when I do, your life and limbs better not be on the pavement 4 stories below:-) --
Same here. I closed it and ran it again, and then it was fine. Before I closed it, I turned on a full button bar and a status bar, neither of which appeared until I restarted it. Perhaps that's a relevant factor.
It renders things a bit differently from what I'm used to, but I gotta say, it's FAST (or shall I say, the stuff I've been using is SLOW).
Gives the Mozialla crew something to shoot for, I imagine:-) --
This is neither surprising nor cause for concern/outrage/whatever. In fact, you could say this isn't news for nerds, but *I* would never say that:-)
What would definitely be news for nerds is if Microsoft had a technote explaining how to install a MS OS alongside another OS, just in case any of MS's customers might want to do that.
BTW, can someone please set my mind at ease and dispel a rumour I heard, namely that W2K does away with the PC partition table, making it pretty difficult to share a disk between W2K and any normal OS. --
When ordering from smaller sites, the most common problem reers its ugly head when I've filled in my name, street address, postal code, and if I'm unlucky, even my phone number and billing info. The problem? The problem is that the next item on the form is a drop-down menu labelled "state" and there's no "N/A" entry and there's no "country" field. These rednecks are running a website that is accessible to the entire world and because their minds can't reach farther that to the fence surrounding their back yard, they haven't realised that they are inviting the whole world to do business with them.
I usually email them about this, and I usually get a reply saying "We know there's a world outside the U.S., honest! In fact, we know all about the Global Economy and will be shipping internationally in just x weeks!".
But I wasn't complaining that they weren't prepared to do business with me. I was complaining that they didn't say so in bigass blinking neon letters at the top of the order form!
Hopefully I've learned by now to check first, but sometimes that isn't even possible due to the way some sites split up their order forms.
Another thing: Why does the typical order form have separate fields for "Address 1", "Address 2", "Address 3", "City", "State/Region", "ZIP/Postal Code", and "Country"? Why can't it just give me a text box labelled "mailing address"? The people who wrote the software that will feed this information to the printer have no idea how to format a mailing address in my country. My country doesn't have states, it is a state, and we don't divide it into regions. So what am I supposed to put in that field? I try to leave it empty, but often the scripts will complain and I'll have to put "N/A", which the scripts will proceed to print on my package between the city and country lines. --
Just a quick note: you don't need MDI to save state like that. Session management covers this and when it works, it's responsible for bringing up all the different Netscape windows on all the different desktops I have in E, each one open on the right page. --
About the MDI thing. Can MDI haters such as myself just run a bunch of copies of the browser or does that not work for some reason (like bookmark/cache problems or whatever)? --
Funny, I thought exactly the same thing when I read that.
When someone diverts from a standard, I guess all we can do is try to guess their intent. Are they trying to help their users or are they trying to hurt their competitor's users? It can be hard to be objective when answering that question. --
At one time, I want looking for a modeline generator and found this one. I was surprised to see all sorts of weird resolutions in the results, like 1448x1086. Much to my surprise, that one actually worked on my monitor, which isn't rated for anything higher than 1280x1024. So, the question is: Why doesn't anyone talk about or offer resolutions other than the familiar 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, etc? It doesn't seem there's anything magical about these numbers at all. --
As soon as the news of the lawsuit broke, I sent the same email to Amazon and B&N, stating that if B&N fought the suit, I'd shop there and if they settled, I'd stay well away from both lousy companies. If Amazon does an about face and behaves to my satisfaction, I may consider shopping there again.
Anyway, as has been pointed out several times here, neither Amazon nor B&N have the best deals. Taking your business elsewhere is no loss to you financially. You will have to enter your credit card info every time you order, though, because other booksellers aren't as innovative as Amazon;-> --
Fat chance anybody's gonna read this, this late in the game, but I just have to mention it. I'm Icelandic, and there have been some ads on TV for the Volkswagen Bora lately. If you take "bora" to be an Icelandic word, it's a colloquial term for... you guessed it: rectum. I am not making this up!
There's no end to the jokes you can make with this material. Can I get a ride in it? Is it running smoothly? You gotta have it lubricated once in a while! How many people have been in it? Ever had any seamen in it?
The poor bastards who bought this car better not have a lot of smartass friends.:-> --
Creative slapped their own copyright on other people's code and didn't even credit them. It looks like they didn't mean any harm. After the limited outrage that ensued, they properly credited the authors. I can believe that they just made a mistake. I can believe Corel just made a mistake too, and I can believe this is also a simple mistake and they'll be quick to make it right after it's politely pointed out to them.
But it stinks, methinks.
Companies do not mistakenly distribute other companies' commercial products as their own. If they did, they'd be in deep shit, so they're careful that way. Companies don't seem to feel they need to be careful with open source software. What are open source authors going to do about it? --
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All kidding aside, KDE2 will, I think, be included. Looking for references to back that up, I found this. Using the sources.list line given, I'm installing some KDE2 packages right now. Now, this isn't coming from a debian.org mirror so this doesn't look official or anything, but I thought there wasn't an easy, clean way of installing anything KDE-ish on a Debian system so I'm quite happy to have stumbled onto it.
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But that's irrelevant to most of us because most of us don't speak Spanish and didn't know the Spanish meaning of the word. Deborah and Ian, who created Deb-Ian (geddit?) probably didn't know either.
Personally, I think Debian is a rather cute name. Before I checked out the distros for my second Linux installation (the first was Slackware), I already had a more positive attitude to Debian than Red Hat, simply because I liked the name better.
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Well, yes and no. Licensed dvd decoders force Macrovision on you, so recording the output from your dvd decoder doesn't work any better than recording the output of another VCR. In other words, they thought of that.
Remote Selector et al will disable Macrovision and allow you to do precisely what you describe, but I imagine the DVD CCA has the same complaints about disabling Macrovision as it has about cracking CSS.
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The fact that no-one else was doing this doesn't mean that no-one else thought of it or that it isn't obvious.
It would be nice if someone familiar with patent laws could tell us whether "it's obvious, but I'm the only one who believed in it" is grounds for a patent. I'm not sure how I feel about that myself, but I'm leaning toward "no".
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Oh, I don't know. I have only so many MacOS crashes left before I take that G3 box and fling it through the window and when I do, your life and limbs better not be on the pavement 4 stories below :-)
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I'd like to see how they intend to implement that.
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It renders things a bit differently from what I'm used to, but I gotta say, it's FAST (or shall I say, the stuff I've been using is SLOW).
Gives the Mozialla crew something to shoot for, I imagine :-)
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Why is this poster posting the exact same article he posted 45 minutes ago?
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I just realised I probably just called the BSD's and some others abnormal. I didn't mean it that way.
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What would definitely be news for nerds is if Microsoft had a technote explaining how to install a MS OS alongside another OS, just in case any of MS's customers might want to do that.
BTW, can someone please set my mind at ease and dispel a rumour I heard, namely that W2K does away with the PC partition table, making it pretty difficult to share a disk between W2K and any normal OS.
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I usually email them about this, and I usually get a reply saying "We know there's a world outside the U.S., honest! In fact, we know all about the Global Economy and will be shipping internationally in just x weeks!".
But I wasn't complaining that they weren't prepared to do business with me. I was complaining that they didn't say so in bigass blinking neon letters at the top of the order form!
Hopefully I've learned by now to check first, but sometimes that isn't even possible due to the way some sites split up their order forms.
Another thing: Why does the typical order form have separate fields for "Address 1", "Address 2", "Address 3", "City", "State/Region", "ZIP/Postal Code", and "Country"? Why can't it just give me a text box labelled "mailing address"? The people who wrote the software that will feed this information to the printer have no idea how to format a mailing address in my country. My country doesn't have states, it is a state, and we don't divide it into regions. So what am I supposed to put in that field? I try to leave it empty, but often the scripts will complain and I'll have to put "N/A", which the scripts will proceed to print on my package between the city and country lines.
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Just a quick note: you don't need MDI to save state like that. Session management covers this and when it works, it's responsible for bringing up all the different Netscape windows on all the different desktops I have in E, each one open on the right page.
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About the MDI thing. Can MDI haters such as myself just run a bunch of copies of the browser or does that not work for some reason (like bookmark/cache problems or whatever)?
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Brilliant!
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That might be fun for a while. So was this.
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When someone diverts from a standard, I guess all we can do is try to guess their intent. Are they trying to help their users or are they trying to hurt their competitor's users? It can be hard to be objective when answering that question.
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At one time, I want looking for a modeline generator and found this one. I was surprised to see all sorts of weird resolutions in the results, like 1448x1086. Much to my surprise, that one actually worked on my monitor, which isn't rated for anything higher than 1280x1024. So, the question is: Why doesn't anyone talk about or offer resolutions other than the familiar 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, etc? It doesn't seem there's anything magical about these numbers at all.
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Read the article and take note: Here is a man who knows the difference between "its" and "it's".
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In that case, it was very badly phrased.
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We don't need a judge or a jury to tell us where to spend our money. We're talking about boycotting these people, not throwing them in jail.
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Anyway, as has been pointed out several times here, neither Amazon nor B&N have the best deals. Taking your business elsewhere is no loss to you financially. You will have to enter your credit card info every time you order, though, because other booksellers aren't as innovative as Amazon ;->
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There's no end to the jokes you can make with this material. Can I get a ride in it? Is it running smoothly? You gotta have it lubricated once in a while! How many people have been in it? Ever had any seamen in it?
The poor bastards who bought this car better not have a lot of smartass friends. :->
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But it stinks, methinks.
Companies do not mistakenly distribute other companies' commercial products as their own. If they did, they'd be in deep shit, so they're careful that way. Companies don't seem to feel they need to be careful with open source software. What are open source authors going to do about it?
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Wow! I crap on the US as much as anybody, but this is ridiculous.
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