Re:In case the site is slashdotted...
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The main Google site is impossible to slashdot - if everyone who ever looked at/. clicked a link to Google, it wouldn't even notice. However, Google's lab and beta servers aren't quite so resilient, and have been slashdotted in the past.
Drupal doesn't even have comment moderation (IIRC). It has its uses, and a user group may even be a good place for it, but please don't compare it feature-wise to Slash and Scoop. It's not even close.
Since a lot of/. content is not "appropriate" for kids (despite the many 11 year olds who post anyway), and links are uncontrolled, I highly doubt/. could get a domain even if they wanted to.
Register yourself a.kids.us domain. Put some innocent kiddy content on it (pictures of Barney or something). Then, in a hidden, cryptic location (something like mysite.kids.us/sadkfjasgdfkjsad/), set up a proxy server (something like CGIProxy). Problem solved.
The appeal of tabs is that you can read down an entire page, middle-clicking interesting links as you go and opening them in the background. This is a lot easier than seeing a cool link and trying to remember to visit it after you're done with your current page, or interrupting your reading to visit it immediately.
As for switching tabs with the keyboard, Mozilla, Galeon, and Phoenix all use Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn, although I'm sure those bindings are configurable.
DirectX games can be ported to Linux also, using Wine or WineX. So it's possible to address all three platforms with DirectX. However, since two of them are just OpenGL wrappers (I assume that's what MacDX is), there would be a substantial performance hit on non-Windows platforms.
In the world of open-source codecs, there's the MPEG family (which is, however, patented), Ogg Theora (aka VP3), which may be usable now, and Ogg Tarkin, which has a ways to go.
Alternately, you could run Quicktime Streaming Server (which is open-source) and Quicktime Pro (which isn't), using Sorenson or MPEG4. However, you wouldn't get realtime encoding on anything other than a newer mac, so that could get expensive.
Spelling does varie - color, colour, etc. Sometimes alternate spellings are acceptable. However, as with pronunciations, some spellings are not correct.
As for my Danish, that's irrelevent. Slashdot is an English site. If English isn't someone's first language, I have no problem with that. However, as long as the editors (who are all native English speakers) are going to read it and post it, I think they should take the extra five seconds to correct the more blatent errors.
I know, it's been said many times before. But please, can the editors just read through the stories once before posting them? Is it that hard? No one's perfect, but how can you miss "listent" or "they have a released"?
What makes it even worse is that SlashCode has a built in spell-checker for submitted. Either the editors deliberately disabled it on Slashdot, or are consistantly ignoring it.
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The main Google site is impossible to slashdot - if everyone who ever looked at /. clicked a link to Google, it wouldn't even notice. However, Google's lab and beta servers aren't quite so resilient, and have been slashdotted in the past.
Drupal doesn't even have comment moderation (IIRC). It has its uses, and a user group may even be a good place for it, but please don't compare it feature-wise to Slash and Scoop. It's not even close.
Back to banner and text ads, where it belongs.
~$22MB and $1.4GB? What do those stand for - megabucks and gigabucks? :-)
Well, they're both notation tools, which puts them in the same category. Rosegarden, does multiple things, including sequencing and notation.
Rosegarden might get there someday, if you can stand the QT interface.
It's from Ximian, what desktop do you think he menas?
Icecast and Quicktime Streaming Server are both Free. Icecast does Ogg, and QT does MPEG4.
mplayer is the answer to all video-related problems.
pdftotxt, available from your friendly neighborhood *nix box.
Because the Gnome libraries aren't bloated and do useful stuff?
Since a lot of /. content is not "appropriate" for kids (despite the many 11 year olds who post anyway), and links are uncontrolled, I highly doubt /. could get a domain even if they wanted to.
Register yourself a .kids.us domain. Put some innocent kiddy content on it (pictures of Barney or something). Then, in a hidden, cryptic location (something like mysite.kids.us/sadkfjasgdfkjsad/), set up a proxy server (something like CGIProxy). Problem solved.
That won't protect you from hick.org/goat/
As for switching tabs with the keyboard, Mozilla, Galeon, and Phoenix all use Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn, although I'm sure those bindings are configurable.
She looks pretty Icelandic to me.
I believe she's from Iceland.
Minor nitpick - 28.8k modem users, by definition, can't stream at a bitrate higher than 28.8 kbps.
DirectX games can be ported to Linux also, using Wine or WineX. So it's possible to address all three platforms with DirectX. However, since two of them are just OpenGL wrappers (I assume that's what MacDX is), there would be a substantial performance hit on non-Windows platforms.
If PGP went out of business, there would be no one to enforce the license agreement.
Alternately, you could run Quicktime Streaming Server (which is open-source) and Quicktime Pro (which isn't), using Sorenson or MPEG4. However, you wouldn't get realtime encoding on anything other than a newer mac, so that could get expensive.
As for my Danish, that's irrelevent. Slashdot is an English site. If English isn't someone's first language, I have no problem with that. However, as long as the editors (who are all native English speakers) are going to read it and post it, I think they should take the extra five seconds to correct the more blatent errors.
The difference is that my posts don't go on the front page, and don't have to be approved by an editor.
Yes, but mine isn't on the front page :-)
What makes it even worse is that SlashCode has a built in spell-checker for submitted. Either the editors deliberately disabled it on Slashdot, or are consistantly ignoring it.