I really don't understand all the indignation at Gimp's interface. It seems to me that the main complaint is "it is not Photoshop". Gimp is the only image manipulation program I have ever seriously used and I am happy with it. And when I stumble upon Photoshop I can't stand it because it is not the UI I am used to.
So the real question is : how much do the Gimp developpers want to grow the number of Gimp users ? Existing Gimp users are mostly happy as they are - it is the conquest of new users and particularily of former Photoshop users that is the problem. So it is not a technical question but rather a strategic one.
It is Debian with a nice layer of solid varnish. I love plain Debian on the server or on a sysadmin's workstation, but on worstations for users who just want the whole thing to work with sane defaults out of the box it is very satisfying, requires very little maintainance and it is still Debian.
Staring at a screen reduces the blinking frequency. When blinking less often, the eyes dry faster. The lack of moisture is even worse when contact lenses are worn. Dry eyes irritate faster. Contact lenses accelerate the irritation and make it worse. And if you start rubbing your eyes on top of all that, then you are really in for some reaally nice inflammation... Do yourself a favor : don't go that way and keep wearing glasses.
I still use throwaway contacts, but only for outdoor activities of when I just want to go out with no glasses. I spend most of my waking hours in front of screens and then glasses are the best tool : they correct well, they are easy on the eyes and their field of view is bigger that the screens anyway.
I started a new job this summer. First shock was to discover that bug tracking was handled with assorted spreadsheets all subtly different and a sprinkle of randomly formatted mail. Just reporting bugs and worse, gathering information about them was driving everyone crazy. I promptly took the initiative to write requirements and implement them by installing and parametering Mantis. With barely a hint of evangelism it took on like bush fire. Userbase is now sixty users and growing. Bug tracking is back to sanity and everyone is happy including my boss. This is my second such deployement and it worked like a charm both times. If all the projects were that easy...
I work as a project manager for a large French ISP. We are about to launch TV and VOD. High definition and multiple simultaneous streams (PVR !) are the near future. All that is going to soak up all the excess bandwith you can throw at it for the foreseable future. Web browsing is insignificant compared to the volume of data that video content represents.
At the moment, quality of service ties the delivery of video to the ISP. But who knows, maybe one day we will be able to buy video from somewhere else. My employer would hate that... But as a consumer I look forward to it.
The 'reply to list' functionnality is still available, albeit not in the context menu. It is now only available using the 'CTRL-L' keyboard combination. I also miss its presence in the context menu, but I'm now used to call it from the keyboard.
Nothing beats immersion. In order to succeed you need to be surrounded by people speaking the language and use it to communicate with them. Stop using English altogether while you are immersed. if there is something too difficult to explain in the new language use paraphrases, hand waving or body moves but do not give in to the convenience of switching back to english. When you need explanations about a new word, get them in the new language. When you take notes about that you word, take them using the words that you already know. It is very much a bootstrapping problem : the beginning is hard, but once the basics are in place progress is fast. There is another major hurdle once you want to get beyond the most basic grammar, and this is where many people are discouraged. Much later there is a plateau once you begin to realize all the subtlety that actually speaking like a native requires, but once you are there it is just a matter of years of practice and that can be done by just reading and hanging out with the natives. And speaking about the natives, a local girlfriend will do wonders to your learning curve...
Calculated every handful of minutes with cloud cover updated eight times a day, all thanks to the power of Xplanet. The daylight background map is now the Blue Marble monthly map. The current one is automatically rotated in place the first day of each month... Enjoy the realistic seasonal snow cover and the changing vegetation !
> The best defense against spam is never to type your > personal address anywhere on the internet.
Hiding your address does not work because some viruses collect addresses from your correspondents addressbook. Your address will percolate to spam lists, it is only a matter of time. If like me you have kept your adress for many years, you absolutely need some form of spam defense.
Very simple to deploy, simple enough so that even non-technical users feel confortable, somewhat customizable... I've deployed it twice and all users have always loved it: http://www.mantisbt.org/
> One of the best strategy games I've ever played is > Total Annihilation. It beats any of the C&C games > in my book
Absolutely ! We played seven-player games with thousands of units : no slowdown, no crash, just rock-stable fun. The game was a tad over-ambitious for its time, but with todays hardware it is revealed as the best RTS ever. The Uberhack mod is of course a must : it takes advantage of all the accumulated experience to fix bugs and balance issues while proposing the best selection of units with a perfectly balanced gameplay and unit modifications that enhance the strategic gaming. My only problem is finding partners for LAN parties, but apart from that it is my all-time favorite in this genre !
> I was just thinking this today as I was watching
> my desktop grind to a halt as my CPU became maxed
> out with all the audio encoding I was doing.
You definitely want to take a look at Openmosix !
> One thing to remember is that although subversion may be the new hotness, it's the NEW hotness.
We have been using it for a year on a medium sized project with a team of a dozen developers, and although some interfaces with other stuff are a bit green, we have not encountered a single annoying bug. It is stable, it makes sense and it removes most of the limitations I have encountered in CVS. I cannot see a reason to go back to CVS.
With rdiff-backup, backup dozens of gigabytes effortlessly and restore as effortlessly at any point in time. Add it in a nightly cron job and you are golden !
From the description : "rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification times. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults."
This is great news : software defined radios are über-cool and the Gnuradio project is quite promising. I hope that someone will soon package it with enclosure and daughtercards and market it to people who are not willing to do the seemingly required hardware assembly.
My cousin is currently on Koh-Phangan Island, but it is on the northern coast of Thailand and the wave hit the southern coast. More information : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4125 847.stm
The vulnerability of centralized networks in high threat environments is well known. The gray area of sharing of copyrighted materials between users is such environment. Networks built for that purpose should surely not rely on any central piece of infrastructure, there is nothing new about that. Publicly exposed marginal activity is only survivable until someone with some form of power takes aim at it, so current event should not be surprising.
If your heating is deficient...
on
Clusters at Home?
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· Score: 0, Redundant
It will do a great job of heating your legs, but only if you can stand the fan noise...
But seriously, under your desk is not the place where you want to put a cluster.
MultiSync is a free modular program to synchronize calendars, addressbooks and other PIM data between programs on your computer and other computers, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. MultiSync works on any Gnome platform, such as Linux.
Currently MultiSync has plugins for
Ximian Evolution synchronization, supporting calendar, ToDos and contacts.
SyncML support (supported by e.g. SonyEricsson P800/P900 and many other phones and devices, for example the SyncML server Sync4j). SyncML also allows you to do remote connection of two MultiSync programs via an encrypted connection over the net.
I started my wife on CS a few weeks ago by taking her to a LAN party. She is hooked ! She now plays at least four evenings a week and it is me who can't keep up with her and suggests that maybe there are better things to be done. Good thing that our nine months old daughter cries from time to time to remind her that she is hungry/dirty and makes sure that she does not play all the time...
CS is the only multiplayer game I successfuly got her interested in. She likes adventure games, I hate them; I love operational art but she does not want ot concentrate on learning military hardware and tactics. So a RTS is a good middle ground, and the short rounds make it much less frustrating for a beginner. She had never played a RTS before, and CS team play made her learn incredibly fast. The social side of LAN parties was a big win too, and no doubt that with a wife and our baby at the party we were an attraction.
But the best thing about playing CS is that whenever a conjugal argument gets too boring we can square it off weapons in hand and defuse the situation !
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I really don't understand all the indignation at Gimp's interface. It seems to me that the main complaint is "it is not Photoshop". Gimp is the only image manipulation program I have ever seriously used and I am happy with it. And when I stumble upon Photoshop I can't stand it because it is not the UI I am used to.
So the real question is : how much do the Gimp developpers want to grow the number of Gimp users ? Existing Gimp users are mostly happy as they are - it is the conquest of new users and particularily of former Photoshop users that is the problem. So it is not a technical question but rather a strategic one.
It is Debian with a nice layer of solid varnish. I love plain Debian on the server or on a sysadmin's workstation, but on worstations for users who just want the whole thing to work with sane defaults out of the box it is very satisfying, requires very little maintainance and it is still Debian.
Staring at a screen reduces the blinking frequency. When blinking less often, the eyes dry faster. The lack of moisture is even worse when contact lenses are worn. Dry eyes irritate faster. Contact lenses accelerate the irritation and make it worse. And if you start rubbing your eyes on top of all that, then you are really in for some reaally nice inflammation... Do yourself a favor : don't go that way and keep wearing glasses.
I still use throwaway contacts, but only for outdoor activities of when I just want to go out with no glasses. I spend most of my waking hours in front of screens and then glasses are the best tool : they correct well, they are easy on the eyes and their field of view is bigger that the screens anyway.
Now let the Lasik flamewar begin.
I started a new job this summer. First shock was to discover that bug tracking was handled with assorted spreadsheets all subtly different and a sprinkle of randomly formatted mail. Just reporting bugs and worse, gathering information about them was driving everyone crazy. I promptly took the initiative to write requirements and implement them by installing and parametering Mantis. With barely a hint of evangelism it took on like bush fire. Userbase is now sixty users and growing. Bug tracking is back to sanity and everyone is happy including my boss. This is my second such deployement and it worked like a charm both times. If all the projects were that easy...
I work as a project manager for a large French ISP. We are about to launch TV and VOD. High definition and multiple simultaneous streams (PVR !) are the near future. All that is going to soak up all the excess bandwith you can throw at it for the foreseable future. Web browsing is insignificant compared to the volume of data that video content represents.
At the moment, quality of service ties the delivery of video to the ISP. But who knows, maybe one day we will be able to buy video from somewhere else. My employer would hate that... But as a consumer I look forward to it.
> CTRL + L is forward on my v1.0.7 copy of TBird.
> Not only that but it _is_ in the context menu.
I was talking about Evolution.
> I miss the 'reply to list' option
The 'reply to list' functionnality is still available, albeit not in the context menu. It is now only available using the 'CTRL-L' keyboard combination. I also miss its presence in the context menu, but I'm now used to call it from the keyboard.
Nothing beats immersion. In order to succeed you need to be surrounded by people speaking the language and use it to communicate with them. Stop using English altogether while you are immersed. if there is something too difficult to explain in the new language use paraphrases, hand waving or body moves but do not give in to the convenience of switching back to english. When you need explanations about a new word, get them in the new language. When you take notes about that you word, take them using the words that you already know. It is very much a bootstrapping problem : the beginning is hard, but once the basics are in place progress is fast. There is another major hurdle once you want to get beyond the most basic grammar, and this is where many people are discouraged. Much later there is a plateau once you begin to realize all the subtlety that actually speaking like a native requires, but once you are there it is just a matter of years of practice and that can be done by just reading and hanging out with the natives. And speaking about the natives, a local girlfriend will do wonders to your learning curve...
Calculated every handful of minutes with cloud cover updated eight times a day, all thanks to the power of Xplanet. The daylight background map is now the Blue Marble monthly map. The current one is automatically rotated in place the first day of each month... Enjoy the realistic seasonal snow cover and the changing vegetation !
Two resolutions are available :
800x600 - http://www.ruwenzori.net/earth/earth800.html
1280x1024 - http://www.ruwenzori.net/earth/earth1280.html
> The best defense against spam is never to type your
> personal address anywhere on the internet.
Hiding your address does not work because some viruses collect addresses from your correspondents addressbook. Your address will percolate to spam lists, it is only a matter of time. If like me you have kept your adress for many years, you absolutely need some form of spam defense.
Very simple to deploy, simple enough so that even non-technical users feel confortable, somewhat customizable... I've deployed it twice and all users have always loved it :
http://www.mantisbt.org/
> One of the best strategy games I've ever played is
> Total Annihilation. It beats any of the C&C games
> in my book
Absolutely ! We played seven-player games with thousands of units : no slowdown, no crash, just rock-stable fun. The game was a tad over-ambitious for its time, but with todays hardware it is revealed as the best RTS ever. The Uberhack mod is of course a must : it takes advantage of all the accumulated experience to fix bugs and balance issues while proposing the best selection of units with a perfectly balanced gameplay and unit modifications that enhance the strategic gaming. My only problem is finding partners for LAN parties, but apart from that it is my all-time favorite in this genre !
> I was just thinking this today as I was watching > my desktop grind to a halt as my CPU became maxed > out with all the audio encoding I was doing. You definitely want to take a look at Openmosix !
> One thing to remember is that although subversion may be the new hotness, it's the NEW hotness.
We have been using it for a year on a medium sized project with a team of a dozen developers, and although some interfaces with other stuff are a bit green, we have not encountered a single annoying bug. It is stable, it makes sense and it removes most of the limitations I have encountered in CVS. I cannot see a reason to go back to CVS.
With rdiff-backup, backup dozens of gigabytes effortlessly and restore as effortlessly at any point in time. Add it in a nightly cron job and you are golden !
From the description : "rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification times. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults."
Read more !
This is great news : software defined radios are über-cool and the Gnuradio project is quite promising. I hope that someone will soon package it with enclosure and daughtercards and market it to people who are not willing to do the seemingly required hardware assembly.
My cousin is currently on Koh-Phangan Island, but it is on the northern coast of Thailand and the wave hit the southern coast. More information : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4125 847.stm
The vulnerability of centralized networks in high threat environments is well known. The gray area of sharing of copyrighted materials between users is such environment. Networks built for that purpose should surely not rely on any central piece of infrastructure, there is nothing new about that. Publicly exposed marginal activity is only survivable until someone with some form of power takes aim at it, so current event should not be surprising.
It will do a great job of heating your legs, but only if you can stand the fan noise...
But seriously, under your desk is not the place where you want to put a cluster.
http://www.videolan.org/ : really works, good quality, plenty of nifty features.
MultiSync is a free modular program to synchronize calendars, addressbooks and other PIM data between programs on your computer and other computers, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. MultiSync works on any Gnome platform, such as Linux.
Currently MultiSync has plugins for
More detail about Multisync supported devices
I started my wife on CS a few weeks ago by taking her to a LAN party. She is hooked ! She now plays at least four evenings a week and it is me who can't keep up with her and suggests that maybe there are better things to be done. Good thing that our nine months old daughter cries from time to time to remind her that she is hungry/dirty and makes sure that she does not play all the time...
CS is the only multiplayer game I successfuly got her interested in. She likes adventure games, I hate them; I love operational art but she does not want ot concentrate on learning military hardware and tactics. So a RTS is a good middle ground, and the short rounds make it much less frustrating for a beginner. She had never played a RTS before, and CS team play made her learn incredibly fast. The social side of LAN parties was a big win too, and no doubt that with a wife and our baby at the party we were an attraction.
But the best thing about playing CS is that whenever a conjugal argument gets too boring we can square it off weapons in hand and defuse the situation !Q: How many Zen buddhists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Just one who holds the light bulb while the whole universe revolves around it.
> CRLs don't scale. Period. There's a reason
> why PKIs hardly ever get past 100K users.
Ever heard of OCSP ? That solves the problem. Please refrain from expressing uninformed opinions.
> Anyone else spotted a bot you think might
> belong to yahoo?
Inktomi.