Yep, the RedHat network throbber works just fine in KDE and Gnome. For what it is worth, I have found the BlueCurve theme very attractive on my laptop at 1025x768. I do some office crud (spreadsheets, wp and faxing) and python hacking using SciTE and IDLE - I concour: plenty of room once the menubar is set to "tiny" and all the apps seem to play nicely together.
The "click to install" rpm feature is pretty nice as well, though I usually build from source RPM's now.
You could plunk me down in front of either UI and I would be happy. Sometimes I just switch between the two for the heck of it!:-)
Word.
As an English major who has just been paid for the completion of his first software project, I am enthusiastic about the possiblity of the two disciplines comingling.
When I first had to master the Villanelle and the sestina for a creative writing class back in the eighties, I found my mind stimulated in a way unlike any thought process I had used before. When I began learning python last year, the tickle was familiar.
Please don't be too quick to write off the similarities between the two crafts and especially entertain the possibility that observing fine code written by masters just might improve your own. The Master of Software Arts sounds like an acheivement to be proud of.
Iiiiiiiiiiii
like Big-Endian's and I cannot lie!
What you other coder's try to deny!
When a chip comes to me with an itty-bitty cache
and a core temp like volcanic ash,
I get *SPRUNG!*...etc...
I am doing a project now with an old-school forth guy. Reading the Forth code is a blast- I learned python as my first language and Forth has immediately put me back on training wheels!
One odd thing about this project: it seems that a couple of us are former english majors. I can see Python appealing to a poet who likes villenelles and cestinas... I guess Forth is more like blank verse written by Spider Robinson on a punning tear.
... Or better yet, Have Rollins and Gregg Gin join with the two remaining Beatles to create BlackFleatls!
She loves you.... Yeah... Yeah... Yeahhh...
She loves YOU.... Yeaahhhh... Yeaaaahhhhh..... Yeaaahhh....
She don't love ME.... YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! YEAAAAAHHHH!!!!! YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
(Cacaphonous guitar/bass with lilting background harmony) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAARRRRGHHGHGHGGG!
(Goes off to dig out old copy of Life-Time)
Hopefully the user-scripting will be python or a subset therof. Since they are using Wxwindows/Wxpython, this may not be too nutty to contemplate. Using something like IDLE for a scripting interface would be glorious for me after futzing around with the gelid abortion that is VB.
Hmmmm... Your proposal intrigues me. Perhaps a snake with a parrot in it's stomach. Something like the Saint-Exuperey (sp?) rendering of a python with an elephant in it's gullet in "The Little Prince"?
Somehow, I think this was not the type of publicity LinuxandMain wanted to stir up.
I must disagree- this is precisely the sort of publicity that caginess and (apparent) featherbedding should draw.
The questions these articles raise are perfectly legitimate: What does the KDE League intend to accomplish? How is it moving toward it's stated goals? Are the actions taken redundant or in contradiction to the goals and aspirations of the Open Source community? Would the money raised be better spent directly by the humans developing the code?
I really couldn't care if the KDE League has been less than admirable in their business practices.
Why in the world not? It seems to me that this is the central focus- is this business that has taken the name of a Community an effective, focused, representative of that Community?
The unprofessional hack job that LinuxandMain has done on this story is the only thing I'm going to remember about it.
Try rereading it and make an attempt to glean the actual data from the articles. Focusing exclusively on a writers stylistic deficiencies is like saying that Richard Feynman had nothing relevant to say because he had a `tik Neuw Yawhk Akscent.
Slashdot Mirror
... one of these databases is laced with iocane powder...
Nope. Pretty funny out loud too.
(cleans cola off of keyboard)
I understand 'right' as meaning the best possible in the circumstances. If this is the case, then what is necessary is always right.
J.S. Mill was a Vulcan.
Totally OT... but Kim from the Pixies looks mighty cute in them jeans.
Hubba!
According to Robert Heinlein in "Number of the Beast" the proper plual of toothbrush is "teethbreesh".
Now you know.
> software in the future.
New... Thoughts.... I fear.... Must... Waffle...
It is precicely this sort of thinking that will keep you from going senile.
The "then / than" transposition happens so often on Slashdot that I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek comment on bad net grammar.
That being said, it drives me KooKoo.
How about KMODE?
What is it about that acronym that sounds familiar?
Yep, the RedHat network throbber works just fine in KDE and Gnome. For what it is worth, I have found the BlueCurve theme very attractive on my laptop at 1025x768. I do some office crud (spreadsheets, wp and faxing) and python hacking using SciTE and IDLE - I concour: plenty of room once the menubar is set to "tiny" and all the apps seem to play nicely together.
:-)
The "click to install" rpm feature is pretty nice as well, though I usually build from source RPM's now.
You could plunk me down in front of either UI and I would be happy. Sometimes I just switch between the two for the heck of it!
> They should threaten their enemies with windmills?
Notice anyone threatening the Netherlands lately, Wisebeing?
Dude, That was such an up so ringing many bells downer.
e. e. punnings
Word.
As an English major who has just been paid for the completion of his first software project, I am enthusiastic about the possiblity of the two disciplines comingling.
When I first had to master the Villanelle and the sestina for a creative writing class back in the eighties, I found my mind stimulated in a way unlike any thought process I had used before. When I began learning python last year, the tickle was familiar.
Please don't be too quick to write off the similarities between the two crafts and especially entertain the possibility that observing fine code written by masters just might improve your own. The Master of Software Arts sounds like an acheivement to be proud of.
Faux-Latin rules, anyway. :-)
Iiiiiiiiiiii ...etc...
like Big-Endian's and I cannot lie!
What you other coder's try to deny!
When a chip comes to me with an itty-bitty cache
and a core temp like volcanic ash,
I get *SPRUNG!*
I would think tkinter would be available on all those platforms... of course, I don't love tkinter. :-)
Oh Bytor668 me!
</rush humour>
I humbly await your "PyForth" module. :-)
I am doing a project now with an old-school forth guy. Reading the Forth code is a blast- I learned python as my first language and Forth has immediately put me back on training wheels!
One odd thing about this project: it seems that a couple of us are former english majors. I can see Python appealing to a poet who likes villenelles and cestinas... I guess Forth is more like blank verse written by Spider Robinson on a punning tear.
... Or better yet, Have Rollins and Gregg Gin join with the two remaining Beatles to create BlackFleatls!
She loves you.... Yeah... Yeah... Yeahhh...She loves YOU.... Yeaahhhh... Yeaaaahhhhh..... Yeaaahhh....
She don't love ME.... YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! YEAAAAAHHHH!!!!! YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
(Cacaphonous guitar/bass with lilting background harmony)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAARRRRGHHGHGHGGG!
(Goes off to dig out old copy of Life-Time)
> There should be a blacklist of suits circulated around the geek community, so you know to bail when one of these idiots signs on to your company...
That would be handy... I'll bet the slander suits would "mow, like the harvest" (
It would be nice to find such a file (Called "Suitwatch.txt" or something) floating around one's favorie P2P network, wouldn't it?
Hmmmm......
Chortle.
Chuckle.
Whimper.
*ut* Gkkkkkk!
*Plonk*
Hopefully the user-scripting will be python or a subset therof. Since they are using Wxwindows/Wxpython, this may not be too nutty to contemplate. Using something like IDLE for a scripting interface would be glorious for me after futzing around with the gelid abortion that is VB.
Mmmm... someone must be watching, the image you refer to appears to be gone. Anyone have a snapshot they can post?
Totally off topic... but interesting.
>> Some sort of snake, perhaps...
Hmmmm... Your proposal intrigues me. Perhaps a snake with a parrot in it's stomach. Something like the Saint-Exuperey (sp?) rendering of a python with an elephant in it's gullet in "The Little Prince"?
Somehow, I think this was not the type of publicity LinuxandMain wanted to stir up.
I must disagree- this is precisely the sort of publicity that caginess and (apparent) featherbedding should draw.
The questions these articles raise are perfectly legitimate: What does the KDE League intend to accomplish? How is it moving toward it's stated goals? Are the actions taken redundant or in contradiction to the goals and aspirations of the Open Source community? Would the money raised be better spent directly by the humans developing the code?
I really couldn't care if the KDE League has been less than admirable in their business practices.
Why in the world not? It seems to me that this is the central focus- is this business that has taken the name of a Community an effective, focused, representative of that Community?
The unprofessional hack job that LinuxandMain has done on this story is the only thing I'm going to remember about it.
Try rereading it and make an attempt to glean the actual data from the articles. Focusing exclusively on a writers stylistic deficiencies is like saying that Richard Feynman had nothing relevant to say because he had a `tik Neuw Yawhk Akscent.