The plug-in is itself Adobe software. It would be nice if there was such a thing as a plug-in system that can't be abused but I suspect that it either doesn't exist or isn't practical. I've been using Mozplugger to invoke Acrobat. The behaivor is much better. Mozplugger will start a new instance of Acrobat for each PDF you open in a tab but it seems to sidestep the other ills caused by Adobe's plugin.
This is actually a problem for my brittle users who use Windows at home. They complain that the computer is getting "slow" and I inevitably find four or five memory resident applications running on the thing. Even pure Mac users do this because they think that closing the last window closes the app. Telling them to use File -> Quit goes in one ear and out the other. This memory resident behaivor needs to at least be configurable. My life would be a bit easier if closing all windows killed an app.
It exists. It's called Ubuntu. There is only one DE (Gnome) and one example of each major application and utility. It's doing pretty well and regular Debian packages can be shoehorned in once the training wheels are ready to come off.
Just how do you propose to cut down on the proliferation? These pieces are all laying around for anyone to scratch his itch with. Try your "Google criteria" with Windows. You will get an equally confusing raft of crap that pops up. The only reason there isn't a decision on which Windows for most people is that Dell or Gateway decided for them.
I suppose a would-be Windows refugee could ask the geek that lives across the street or see if there is a LUG in town. The only way Linux can be what you want is if order is imposed on it. If order is imposed, Linux would cease to have what attracts so much development. Fast and competing development is how this has to work or it won't work at all.
I even maintain my own Knoppix builds (not for DL unfortunately...they have Captive drivers and MS fonts installed). The reason I can make a Knoppix that the stock one doesn't provide is because anyone can roll their own. Nothing has been done to make this difficult for the sake of having a unified market. A chaotic ever evolving Linux may never be able to unseat the likes of MS. A staid controlled Linux never will because very few will want to develop for it.
Grab the SOB without looking at it and the upward movement you wanted to make turns into a diagonal slew. --grumble!..twist grip slightly..grumble...f'n hockey puck! Seriously, it is difficult to quickly tell by touch alone which way the pointing device is oriented. That is a rather serious deficiency in a pointing device, especially from the user friendly company. The pro mice are a button and a scroll wheel short but I'll allow they feel good enough that I'll forgive them for the stinking hockey pucks.
If the powerpc livecd is any good, I basically intend to do an Ubuntu -> Debian -> seriously rearrange the userland. I've been wanting a powerpc livecd that will let do the things x86 livecds have been helping me do for years now. I've been remastering my own Knoppix cds for awhile. I'm hoping it won't be too hard to base a powerpc livecd development system off of this.
Big difference between animal cruelty and giving them rights. Rights has to do with freedoms. I don't deny that at least mammals and maybe birds are fully conscious and feel pain and suffering (I'm speaking from neurological point of view, as the areas of the brain responsible for consciousness in humans can also be found in these animals in a similar configuration). I love my cat and would hurt any human daring to lay a hand on her.
Agreed. I was only pointing out that while animals may not have rights, humans have ethical obligations towards animals. Perhaps positive obligations only extend to animals in our direct care like your cat but we're there are negative obligations to refrain. I'm not sure what starts to happen if we deliberately engineer animals with human component.
I should also mentiont that one of the main reasons animal cruelty is illegal is because it's training grounds for violent crime agains humans. Many serial killers started by torturing animals.
Also agreed. I've even said as much to my wife when we've sat down and watched "Animal Cops". Most of the suspects featured there fail in both their positive and negative obligations.
In civilized countries there are rules governing how you can treat dogs,cats, or most anything that isn't a bug or vermin. They may not have rights per se but there seems to be an acknowlegement that they can feel pain and it is wrong to be unnessarily cruel.
It'll take some digging to find a mirror since newer versions of this utility have become payware. Anyway AIDA32 can (among many other things) extract your product key from the Registry.
And people like you, arrogant sci-fi tasters of the finest, could do the least bit to admit that Enterprise is better than 2/3 of the complete filth that is television today.
That's like saying Schaefer's beer tastes better than monkey piss. It may be technically true but that isn't saying much. Trek is something that used to be good. It could be good again but it isn't now and I for one will feel perfectly free to rag on it even if someone still likes it. I think the Dennis Leary fans here will agree when I say it is high time we had a Berman and Braga skull keg party.....as long as I don't have to drink Schaefer's out of their heads.
I'll give you points for calling yourself a trekkie rather than trekker though. THAT shit is seriously pretentious.
The problem is very very well known to the Firefox using regulars. The preferences and sections on the left hand side will often overlap some of the clients. The equally well known workaround is to do Ctrl+ followed by Ctrl-. This forces the text to reflow correctly. Someone even wrote an extension to do this automatically when visiting Slashdot:
There is plenty of mud to sling on this. The Firefox devs have to had plenty of reports on it and the Slashdot maintainers have consistently ignored it as well. This has been going on since at least FF's 0.9 days. I'm running 1.0 on Debian and it occasionally happens to me.
NO, we are not imagining it. YES, the problem is real. Search through your own comment database. You'll find plenty of complaints about it going back for months.
True but let's get real. If you move a menu item two positions down in the dropdown you'll get people bitching. --whiny voice --But I want my Windows back! -- end whiny voice-- is no more reason to run Windows than fanboyism is to run Linux.
The problem isn't that Linux can't do the job or that people don't want it. The problem is that this was a politcal mandate from the top without sufficient technical and financial backing and planning. They already tolerate Domino and Notes internally. Just how bad can Linux truly be for productivity if they already have to live with those turds?
Even if the transistion was well planned and executed the cover-the-monitor-with-post-its crowd will still bitch. They've already had to be threatened when Windows was deployed and they had to be threatened when different apps were deployed on Windows. With these people, the fact that Linux is the subject of transistion is immaterial. Hence, what they want is immaterial.
"Do it like this or get out." When you hold the paycheck and the performance review what the users that is employees want isn't truly the problem. The problem is nobody thought about migrating the internal apps.
Java being opensource isn't really all that exciting. The problem with Java is that jvm, classpath, and various GUI frameworks are controlled by a so-called "community" process. Yeah, they incorporate suggestions from the JCP but the reality is that next version of the Java standards is being developed in a cathedral. Every two and a half years or so, this get dumped out in one big glop and sets any third-party jvm and classpath back another year or two.
A jvm isn't all that big a deal. Tricky but there's still several. Replicating the JVM + Classpath + GUI frameworks would be roughly equivalent to developing cc + libc + gtk + qt. If a new version of ALL of this wasn't out every two or three years then an opensource java wouldn't be something we'd have to beg Sun to provide.
Wake me when Java and the necessary frameworks are ISO standards.
They already make better products. Better than Linux, at any rate.
There are various types of better. If I have to deploy an e-commerce site that gets thousands of hits a day then perhaps Sun products are better. For anything that isn't scaled on that level the value proposition favors Linux.
Positive changes happened to KDE and QT's licensing because of that fork. If GNOME hadn't come along, KDE would probably still be technically illegal to distribute to this day. This isn't how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-pin. As FOSS grows in use and acceptance, the amount of money flowing around grows as well. This inevitably leads to toes stepped on and in our unenlightened society THAT leads to lawyers flinging monkey poo. Like it or not, "What are the legal risks?" are questions FOSS distributers have to ask and answer. The old mentality of "I'm just going to code something cool and to hell with all this legal stuff." just doesn't cut it anymore. The fact that KDE got a good legal bill of health boosted its distribution and number of contributers dramatically. These "pointless" legal pissing matches matter.
Yeah, the KDE/Gnome thing sucks I'll grant you but it won't be the killer it used to be. Freedesktop.org and tech like D-BUS is catching on nicely. What you run won't be anything more than a preference and everything will talk to everything else.
It's a huge mistake because Sony's consumer electronics business is much much larger than Sony's content business. Other posters have pointed that overly large conglomerates can have conflicts of interest with themselves. Realistically as the larger and more profitable business, Sony Electronics needs to tell Sony Content to go f*ck itself. Even better would be if Sony divested itself of the content arm at a profit and turned the electronics divisions loose to make products people actually want.
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds like the Celebrity Deathmatch between Hanson and the Backstreet Boys. You think we can dig up some Cyber-Nukebots for them?
I use Mozplugger to invoke Acrobat. I can do whatever I like while Acrobat starts and then loads the PDF.
The plug-in is itself Adobe software. It would be nice if there was such a thing as a plug-in system that can't be abused but I suspect that it either doesn't exist or isn't practical. I've been using Mozplugger to invoke Acrobat. The behaivor is much better. Mozplugger will start a new instance of Acrobat for each PDF you open in a tab but it seems to sidestep the other ills caused by Adobe's plugin.
Obviously the Soviets never heard about Wing Attack Plan R.......
This is actually a problem for my brittle users who use Windows at home. They complain that the computer is getting "slow" and I inevitably find four or five memory resident applications running on the thing. Even pure Mac users do this because they think that closing the last window closes the app. Telling them to use File -> Quit goes in one ear and out the other. This memory resident behaivor needs to at least be configurable. My life would be a bit easier if closing all windows killed an app.
Yeah Berman's riding the dead horse all right. It just that isn't chaps he's wearing. Oh, it's got leather in it all right.....
Try running "df" in a Terminal.
It exists. It's called Ubuntu. There is only one DE (Gnome) and one example of each major application and utility. It's doing pretty well and regular Debian packages can be shoehorned in once the training wheels are ready to come off.
Just how do you propose to cut down on the proliferation? These pieces are all laying around for anyone to scratch his itch with. Try your "Google criteria" with Windows. You will get an equally confusing raft of crap that pops up. The only reason there isn't a decision on which Windows for most people is that Dell or Gateway decided for them.
I suppose a would-be Windows refugee could ask the geek that lives across the street or see if there is a LUG in town. The only way Linux can be what you want is if order is imposed on it. If order is imposed, Linux would cease to have what attracts so much development. Fast and competing development is how this has to work or it won't work at all.
I even maintain my own Knoppix builds (not for DL unfortunately...they have Captive drivers and MS fonts installed). The reason I can make a Knoppix that the stock one doesn't provide is because anyone can roll their own. Nothing has been done to make this difficult for the sake of having a unified market. A chaotic ever evolving Linux may never be able to unseat the likes of MS. A staid controlled Linux never will because very few will want to develop for it.
Grab the SOB without looking at it and the upward movement you wanted to make turns into a diagonal slew. --grumble!..twist grip slightly..grumble...f'n hockey puck! Seriously, it is difficult to quickly tell by touch alone which way the pointing device is oriented. That is a rather serious deficiency in a pointing device, especially from the user friendly company. The pro mice are a button and a scroll wheel short but I'll allow they feel good enough that I'll forgive them for the stinking hockey pucks.
If the powerpc livecd is any good, I basically intend to do an Ubuntu -> Debian -> seriously rearrange the userland. I've been wanting a powerpc livecd that will let do the things x86 livecds have been helping me do for years now. I've been remastering my own Knoppix cds for awhile. I'm hoping it won't be too hard to base a powerpc livecd development system off of this.
Big difference between animal cruelty and giving them rights. Rights has to do with freedoms. I don't deny that at least mammals and maybe birds are fully conscious and feel pain and suffering (I'm speaking from neurological point of view, as the areas of the brain responsible for consciousness in humans can also be found in these animals in a similar configuration). I love my cat and would hurt any human daring to lay a hand on her.
Agreed. I was only pointing out that while animals may not have rights, humans have ethical obligations towards animals. Perhaps positive obligations only extend to animals in our direct care like your cat but we're there are negative obligations to refrain. I'm not sure what starts to happen if we deliberately engineer animals with human component.
I should also mentiont that one of the main reasons animal cruelty is illegal is because it's training grounds for violent crime agains humans. Many serial killers started by torturing animals.
Also agreed. I've even said as much to my wife when we've sat down and watched "Animal Cops". Most of the suspects featured there fail in both their positive and negative obligations.
In civilized countries there are rules governing how you can treat dogs,cats, or most anything that isn't a bug or vermin. They may not have rights per se but there seems to be an acknowlegement that they can feel pain and it is wrong to be unnessarily cruel.
It'll take some digging to find a mirror since newer versions of this utility have become payware. Anyway AIDA32 can (among many other things) extract your product key from the Registry.
I think it'd be funnier if T'Pol knocked up Tripp. I'm sure B&B can find a way to retrofit that into Vulcan sexuality.
And people like you, arrogant sci-fi tasters of the finest, could do the least bit to admit that Enterprise is better than 2/3 of the complete filth that is television today.
That's like saying Schaefer's beer tastes better than monkey piss. It may be technically true but that isn't saying much. Trek is something that used to be good. It could be good again but it isn't now and I for one will feel perfectly free to rag on it even if someone still likes it. I think the Dennis Leary fans here will agree when I say it is high time we had a Berman and Braga skull keg party.....as long as I don't have to drink Schaefer's out of their heads.
I'll give you points for calling yourself a trekkie rather than trekker though. THAT shit is seriously pretentious.
It's the same as anything else. Really good sets don't look like cardboard and good cgi doesn't look like a video game.
The problem is very very well known to the Firefox using regulars. The preferences and sections on the left hand side will often overlap some of the clients. The equally well known workaround is to do Ctrl+ followed by Ctrl-. This forces the text to reflow correctly. Someone even wrote an extension to do this automatically when visiting Slashdot:
f ox -extension.html
http://www.hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-fire
There is plenty of mud to sling on this. The Firefox devs have to had plenty of reports on it and the Slashdot maintainers have consistently ignored it as well. This has been going on since at least FF's 0.9 days. I'm running 1.0 on Debian and it occasionally happens to me.
NO, we are not imagining it. YES, the problem is real. Search through your own comment database. You'll find plenty of complaints about it going back for months.
True but let's get real. If you move a menu item two positions down in the dropdown you'll get people bitching. --whiny voice --But I want my Windows back! -- end whiny voice-- is no more reason to run Windows than fanboyism is to run Linux.
The problem isn't that Linux can't do the job or that people don't want it. The problem is that this was a politcal mandate from the top without sufficient technical and financial backing and planning. They already tolerate Domino and Notes internally. Just how bad can Linux truly be for productivity if they already have to live with those turds?
Even if the transistion was well planned and executed the cover-the-monitor-with-post-its crowd will still bitch. They've already had to be threatened when Windows was deployed and they had to be threatened when different apps were deployed on Windows. With these people, the fact that Linux is the subject of transistion is immaterial. Hence, what they want is immaterial.
Press ctrl+ then ctrl-. That will reflow the page and all will look correct. The fix is in the current gecko devel tree.
"Do it like this or get out." When you hold the paycheck and the performance review what the users that is employees want isn't truly the problem. The problem is nobody thought about migrating the internal apps.
Java being opensource isn't really all that exciting. The problem with Java is that jvm, classpath, and various GUI frameworks are controlled by a so-called "community" process. Yeah, they incorporate suggestions from the JCP but the reality is that next version of the Java standards is being developed in a cathedral. Every two and a half years or so, this get dumped out in one big glop and sets any third-party jvm and classpath back another year or two.
A jvm isn't all that big a deal. Tricky but there's still several. Replicating the JVM + Classpath + GUI frameworks would be roughly equivalent to developing cc + libc + gtk + qt. If a new version of ALL of this wasn't out every two or three years then an opensource java wouldn't be something we'd have to beg Sun to provide.
Wake me when Java and the necessary frameworks are ISO standards.
They already make better products. Better than Linux, at any rate.
There are various types of better. If I have to deploy an e-commerce site that gets thousands of hits a day then perhaps Sun products are better. For anything that isn't scaled on that level the value proposition favors Linux.
Positive changes happened to KDE and QT's licensing because of that fork. If GNOME hadn't come along, KDE would probably still be technically illegal to distribute to this day. This isn't how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-pin. As FOSS grows in use and acceptance, the amount of money flowing around grows as well. This inevitably leads to toes stepped on and in our unenlightened society THAT leads to lawyers flinging monkey poo. Like it or not, "What are the legal risks?" are questions FOSS distributers have to ask and answer. The old mentality of "I'm just going to code something cool and to hell with all this legal stuff." just doesn't cut it anymore. The fact that KDE got a good legal bill of health boosted its distribution and number of contributers dramatically. These "pointless" legal pissing matches matter.
Yeah, the KDE/Gnome thing sucks I'll grant you but it won't be the killer it used to be. Freedesktop.org and tech like D-BUS is catching on nicely. What you run won't be anything more than a preference and everything will talk to everything else.
It's a huge mistake because Sony's consumer electronics business is much much larger than Sony's content business. Other posters have pointed that overly large conglomerates can have conflicts of interest with themselves. Realistically as the larger and more profitable business, Sony Electronics needs to tell Sony Content to go f*ck itself. Even better would be if Sony divested itself of the content arm at a profit and turned the electronics divisions loose to make products people actually want.