You can use a browser to force proprietary standards, technologies and products to promote vendor lock-in (think ActiveX, Passport, broken css "designed for IE" and vbscript embedded in pages).
Actually there is a little known trick that switches on the "almost-standard-compliant" mode in IE6, as opposed to "completely-broken" mode that is default.
You only have to declare the DOCTYPE correctly (that is, according to some weird ms rules), as explained here
If only this thing would be a little better known web designers'd have less headaches.
The owner of the armani.it domain, a stamp maker from Milan (if I remember correctly) was forced, after years of legal battle, to resign the domain to the fashion designer (Armani).
Search on google "timbrificio armani" if you are interested and you can read italian.
Then probably you don't know how to perform searches.
If the terms you use are not utterly common at least 2 or 3 relevant links show up in the first page of the result of a google search.
If they don't, change the terms a bit.
If they still don't show up (not even on googlegroups) then probably the damn thing is not on the internet.
That's my experience with google....and btw, did anybody notice how hard is to find something useful when performing searches related to the MS products? They all have such common names it becomes difficult finding words useful to the search. Some of them are EXCLUDED from searches as stopwords! (yes, I was searching suff on "COM" recently... and let's not forget "NET":-) )
AFAIR in italy elementary school books are free (as in beer), since they are provided with tax money.
It might have changed in the years (I'm 27), but anyway, most local administrations pay for elementary books (new every year, afaik) if the state does not.
And if you can't afford books for the complusory school years, you can bet a way for you to obtain a copy max 1 or 2 years old will be found.
you forget that in many states public school has some (little) funding.
The pda-textbooks would obviously be owned by the school administration, and the school taxes will pay them.
Besides... where I live textbooks are updated EVERY year. It is true that in some cases is only a stupid marketing ploy to avoid used books (many students get the "outdated" edition anyway: they only shuffle some pages). In other cases however the textbooks really change very much from year to year, and you cannot use an old edition.
Banking and commerce techniques, accounting, civil law (or whatever is it called in english), informatics, and so on.
What a silly question... most of the world is still on modem dial-up, and most of the people who have DSL (at least in italy) have USB ADSL modems, and a such they are directly on the internet just as well.
Only tech savvy people know that there is a reason to spend double (but still as low as 40EUR AFAIR) to buy an ethernet modem/router. The other 95% will simply buy the cheapest (and crappiest) USB modem on the market. Or worse, they'll take the leased one from the telco: they specifically seem to choose the worst models:-)
Well, a lot of people here have leased ADSL routers they CANT configure (and the telco WON'T lift a finger, even if specifically asked), so configuring your router is sometimes not even an option.
On video conferencing, I don't know... the technology has been there from the 70s (circa), but people were never really interested in video-calling. Maybe times are a-changing...
Sure, you CAN configure NAT and proxy in the right way for SIP and similar. But is it easy? Is it EFFORTLESS? Then why there are dozens of pages of howtos and hundreds of people asking around "how can i make this netmeeting thingie work?"
Skype works out of the box, without doing ANYTHING.
As for the phone... well, duh.
As another poster pointed out, there's a world outside the borders of your country. And in that world telephone could easily cost more.
In MY country it would be cheaper to call with skype even when calling the same city, let alone calling long distance or abroad.
And that is not taking in account that I DO NOT have a telephone contract, and don't want one. A telephone contract in italy means a contract with the incumbent ex-monopolist Telecom Italia, which translates in fixed monthly costs I personally don't want, thank you.
Changing GDM is a system setting available only to the superuser, and applies to all users.
So it is in "system settings" and will stay so.
About the message: it pops up and has a "don't bother me anymore, I understood" checkbox you have to UNcheck. Maybe you unckecked it and clicked ok without much notice...
Unfortunately the menu settings are different, and more sane on some distros than on others. Still, if you are on gentoo you have no right to rant about un-newbie-friendlieness;-)
About the open/save file dialog, I actually like it a lot. The presence/absence of the location bar AND the open/close state of the dropdown are a perfect example of settings that SHOULD reside only in gconf. Don't know if they are already there (I don't need them).
Did you read the note that pops up AUTOMATICALLY saying that you should NOT touch anything in gconf-editor unless you know what you are doing?
The fact that gnome has a whole "preferences" first-level menu does not say anything to you?
Everything that is in gconf-editor is configured through the NORMAL preferences, save for some obscure and very "tweaker user" settings you really should not touch if you do not know very well what you are doing.
And in that case I doubt you'll be scared by gconf-editor, being a saner regedit, with live documentation about keys and readable names.
Besides, gconf-editor sits in System Settings->Other Settings (or something like that, my system is in italian)... is that "prominent" to you?
Ok, I'll admit, I'm on a windows machine at the moment, and can't remember the ascii code of the backtick ^_______-
Your suggestion is right, I started with a more complex command (like a find and/or grep), but afterwards decided to stay simple, and put in an ls without removing the ticks.
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"works no matter what" ???
Several people trying the NeroLinux beta reported of multiple ruined cds... when was the last time this happened using native linux tools?
Years ago, I'd guess.
If that's the quality of the fabled NeroAPI I think I'll just stay with cdrecord, thank you...
You can use a browser to force proprietary standards, technologies and products to promote vendor lock-in (think ActiveX, Passport, broken css "designed for IE" and vbscript embedded in pages).
Try that with a command line ftp client.
THAT's the difference.
A command line ftp client is one of the basic tools every OS has.
A GUI browser, OTOH, is not.
However you could argue that these are opinions... but course nobody (few people) would complain if the bundled gui browser could be uninstalled.
Actually there is a little known trick that switches on the "almost-standard-compliant" mode in IE6, as opposed to "completely-broken" mode that is default.
You only have to declare the DOCTYPE correctly (that is, according to some weird ms rules), as explained here
If only this thing would be a little better known web designers'd have less headaches.
Uh... how's that different from the USA court system, may I inquire?
The side with more money to pay lawyers (and/or judges, and/or jury) wins.
The owner of the armani.it domain, a stamp maker from Milan (if I remember correctly) was forced, after years of legal battle, to resign the domain to the fashion designer (Armani).
Search on google "timbrificio armani" if you are interested and you can read italian.
Then probably you don't know how to perform searches.
...and btw, did anybody notice how hard is to find something useful when performing searches related to the MS products? They all have such common names it becomes difficult finding words useful to the search. Some of them are EXCLUDED from searches as stopwords! :-) )
If the terms you use are not utterly common at least 2 or 3 relevant links show up in the first page of the result of a google search.
If they don't, change the terms a bit.
If they still don't show up (not even on googlegroups) then probably the damn thing is not on the internet.
That's my experience with google.
(yes, I was searching suff on "COM" recently... and let's not forget "NET"
nah, that would be
- du n-dun-dun(ad-libitum , crescendo)
duun-dun (pause) duuun-dun (pause) duuun-dun (pause)
dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun
Actually, it WAS a motif app.
Version 7 (beta as now) is reported to be a GTK2 app... let's all rejoice!
AFAIR in italy elementary school books are free (as in beer), since they are provided with tax money.
It might have changed in the years (I'm 27), but anyway, most local administrations pay for elementary books (new every year, afaik) if the state does not.
And if you can't afford books for the complusory school years, you can bet a way for you to obtain a copy max 1 or 2 years old will be found.
you forget that in many states public school has some (little) funding.
The pda-textbooks would obviously be owned by the school administration, and the school taxes will pay them.
Besides... where I live textbooks are updated EVERY year. It is true that in some cases is only a stupid marketing ploy to avoid used books (many students get the "outdated" edition anyway: they only shuffle some pages).
In other cases however the textbooks really change very much from year to year, and you cannot use an old edition.
Banking and commerce techniques, accounting, civil law (or whatever is it called in english), informatics, and so on.
(btw, I'm speaking from Italy)
What a silly question... most of the world is still on modem dial-up, and most of the people who have DSL (at least in italy) have USB ADSL modems, and a such they are directly on the internet just as well.
:-)
Only tech savvy people know that there is a reason to spend double (but still as low as 40EUR AFAIR) to buy an ethernet modem/router. The other 95% will simply buy the cheapest (and crappiest) USB modem on the market. Or worse, they'll take the leased one from the telco: they specifically seem to choose the worst models
Get this extension and be happy:
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Flash animations show as buttons until you click on them.
Well, a lot of people here have leased ADSL routers they CANT configure (and the telco WON'T lift a finger, even if specifically asked), so configuring your router is sometimes not even an option.
On video conferencing, I don't know... the technology has been there from the 70s (circa), but people were never really interested in video-calling. Maybe times are a-changing...
Sure, you CAN configure NAT and proxy in the right way for SIP and similar. But is it easy? Is it EFFORTLESS? Then why there are dozens of pages of howtos and hundreds of people asking around "how can i make this netmeeting thingie work?"
Skype works out of the box, without doing ANYTHING.
As for the phone... well, duh.
As another poster pointed out, there's a world outside the borders of your country. And in that world telephone could easily cost more.
In MY country it would be cheaper to call with skype even when calling the same city, let alone calling long distance or abroad.
And that is not taking in account that I DO NOT have a telephone contract, and don't want one. A telephone contract in italy means a contract with the incumbent ex-monopolist Telecom Italia, which translates in fixed monthly costs I personally don't want, thank you.
Uh... MSNMessenger, NetMeeting and GnomeMeeting traverse effortlessly NATs and proxies and permit PC2Phone calls?
I was not aware of it! Stupid me!
Well, you realize that those two are exactly the kind of power-user settings that would be confusing to a normal user, don't you?
In some cases the requests for such settings are so numerous that specific setting apps arise: gTweakUI comes to mind.
Changing GDM is a system setting available only to the superuser, and applies to all users.
;-)
So it is in "system settings" and will stay so.
About the message: it pops up and has a "don't bother me anymore, I understood" checkbox you have to UNcheck. Maybe you unckecked it and clicked ok without much notice...
Unfortunately the menu settings are different, and more sane on some distros than on others. Still, if you are on gentoo you have no right to rant about un-newbie-friendlieness
About the open/save file dialog, I actually like it a lot. The presence/absence of the location bar AND the open/close state of the dropdown are a perfect example of settings that SHOULD reside only in gconf. Don't know if they are already there (I don't need them).
Uh?
Did you read the note that pops up AUTOMATICALLY saying that you should NOT touch anything in gconf-editor unless you know what you are doing?
The fact that gnome has a whole "preferences" first-level menu does not say anything to you?
Everything that is in gconf-editor is configured through the NORMAL preferences, save for some obscure and very "tweaker user" settings you really should not touch if you do not know very well what you are doing.
And in that case I doubt you'll be scared by gconf-editor, being a saner regedit, with live documentation about keys and readable names.
Besides, gconf-editor sits in System Settings->Other Settings (or something like that, my system is in italian)... is that "prominent" to you?
first: you are talking about gconf-editor, ONE of the frontends to GConf.
If you don't like it, just write another.
second: the user will not need to use it AT ALL.
I am a developer, power user, and general gnome geek, and I've not even launched the gconf-editor since the 2.2 days.
Why the hell are you using gconf-editor???
I'm sorry?
Never heard of that.
The rant was from microserfs and vb-addicts whining because there was not VisualBasic on linux.
Your average windows developer does not even know what cross-platform means.
Read my other post: you can enable completion on win2k without tweakui, but it is still only half-functional.
Ok, I'll admit, I'm on a windows machine at the moment, and can't remember the ascii code of the backtick ^_______-
Your suggestion is right, I started with a more complex command (like a find and/or grep), but afterwards decided to stay simple, and put in an ls without removing the ticks.
Yeah, right.
My win2k machine has it too, since I know WHERE to enable it in the registry, AND I know what hexadecimal value corresponds to the tab key.
Now type the first 3 letters of a command and press tab.
Right you are, windows tab-completion does not completes executable names in the path.
Still understandard, in my book.