shows the icon of a.txt file if it is really a.pif file?
No matter how many spaces you put before it, Windows' file association mechanism should be able to display the correct icon and hence, tip off the user.
I won't comment on the nature of the email itself, which is obviously a hoax (and a bad one at that), but I am in contact with a friend who's been in Peshawar for a little over six months now, so I thought I could shed some light on some of the questions that the thread generated. She's been sending me regular reports (about once a month) about her life there, and of course, the topic has greatly changed since 9/11.
She was evacuated to Pakistan for a few weeks and she's now back in Peshawar, where she works for an ONG.
The Internet exists in Afghanistan, and the Talibans could never eradicate it completely. There are a limited number of Internet cafes in University Town (very deserted right now but this will change when Torkham opens again). The sessions are very cheap (about 20 roupies) and the bandwidth is of course very limited, but they seem to offer the minimal needed to send emails.
A lot of the Internet cafes have booths and are mostly used for porn, as are some of the few movie theaters left open. In those, the beginning of the movie is usually Taliban-related and it switches after a few minutes to the juicy stuff.
That's it for now, I can elaborate if there's interest.
The problem is not typing faster, it's to find a keyboard layout that will allow us to type at the same speed we do now without exposing us to carpal tunnel syndrome.
CTS will devastate our ranks in the next ten years or so if nothing is done:-(
Don't be so American centric... just because America might have withheld some technological information in the sixties doesn't mean the rest of the world did too.
And the "company you work for" (IBM) is getting creamed on every single commercial product where it is facing competition that is not slowed down by OpenSource clauses (such as BEA, WebLogic being way above WebSphere in both marketshare and technical aspects).
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy you're having fun, but your company is paying a dear price for providing you with the warm and fuzzy feeling of contributing to the Open Source cause.
> When you work at a company where you can openly talk about
> a product idea, and get the ball rolling, that company in the end will be very successful.
I owned an Amiga myself for over eight years and I loved it. But looking back, I wonder if I didn't like the "Resistance fighting against the evil empire" feeling just as much as the computer itself.
The landscape has changed, and should a new Amiga rise up again, it wouldn't be the same anyway.
> Why is competition on the desktop so different from competition in any other sector of the market?
Because the desktop is about user interface, and user interface needs to be consistent to be successful.
I'm pretty confident if you sat at my machine and tried to use my window manager, it would take you a while to figure out how to move a window or iconify one.
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So if I understood this review right, "the previous version of Mac OS was crappy but this one finally gets it right".
Oh wait, wasn't that the Mac OS X review too?
And also the Mac OS IX review?
And...
A Linux magazine saying Linux is better than Windows... Imagine that.
Ten years, still binary compatible and completely outdated and dead in the water.
I guess we have all learned something today.
How come the snapshot at
.txt file if it is really a .pif file?
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/welyah.shtml
shows the icon of a
No matter how many spaces you put before it, Windows' file association mechanism should be able to display the correct icon and hence, tip off the user.
Is this virus for real?
I won't comment on the nature of the email itself, which is obviously a hoax (and a bad one at that), but I am in contact with a friend who's been in Peshawar for a little over six months now, so I thought I could shed some light on some of the questions that the thread generated. She's been sending me regular reports (about once a month) about her life there, and of course, the topic has greatly changed since 9/11.
She was evacuated to Pakistan for a few weeks and she's now back in Peshawar, where she works for an ONG.
The Internet exists in Afghanistan, and the Talibans could never eradicate it completely. There are a limited number of Internet cafes in University Town (very deserted right now but this will change when Torkham opens again). The sessions are very cheap (about 20 roupies) and the bandwidth is of course very limited, but they seem to offer the minimal needed to send emails.
A lot of the Internet cafes have booths and are mostly used for porn, as are some of the few movie theaters left open. In those, the beginning of the movie is usually Taliban-related and it switches after a few minutes to the juicy stuff.
That's it for now, I can elaborate if there's interest.
I'm running Office XP right now. Outlook is currently using 23M of RAM. Word is using 28M. (Windows 2000 + Office XP)
What percentage of your total ram does this represent?
You must be the kind of person who judges the quality of a compiler by measuring how big the "Hello world" executable is, uh?
Get real. Nobody cares about ram, or hard disk for that matter.
Most GNOME hackers have been reading on topics of user interfaces and usability and have been acting based on this input.
Has any actual UI usability (non-technical) person been involved in the process at all?
This is a lesson that Linux never seems to want to learn.
To whom? Whose god?
Ours, who allowed that to happen?
Or theirs, who inspires them to commit these atrocities?
There is no god.
There's only room for mourning, but none for praying.
CTS will devastate our ranks in the next ten years or so if nothing is done :-(
Enough X Files for you.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy you're having fun, but your company is paying a dear price for providing you with the warm and fuzzy feeling of contributing to the Open Source cause.
> a product idea, and get the ball rolling, that company in the end will be very successful.
Any idea when this will happen?
The landscape has changed, and should a new Amiga rise up again, it wouldn't be the same anyway.
"Internet dying"... "movie at eleven"... blah blah blah
Because the desktop is about user interface, and user interface needs to be consistent to be successful.
I'm pretty confident if you sat at my machine and tried to use my window manager, it would take you a while to figure out how to move a window or iconify one.
It's also what will cause its downfall.