All GTK2 apps use pango for rendering. This means that they can output multiple languages in the same line.
As for the IME: both SCIM and UIM are quite advanced. UIM IMO integrates much better with gnome (through applets and such...), SCIM has a slightly better keyboard shortcut system, and a few more features that are more apparent.
The GNOME native IME is pretty much dead, except as a system through which SCIM and UIM can interface with GTK.
From the view of my windows using chinese officemate, both SCIM and UIM are just as good or better than Windows IME (for chinese at least).
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Tre enabling the XComposite and XDamage. They have been designed to reduce the problem that you are experiencing.
Basically the problem is that X, your WM, and your program run (and therefore redraw) during different timeslots. In case of GNOME and KDE, they may call other servers out of process before doing the drawing. This becomes really noticable when you move windows, or windows appear.
XDamage and XComposite should solve the problem when you move the windows, as only the buffer actually moves, and no redraws are issued. I am not sure if it will help you get more smooth menues.
And no, XComposite is not enabled by default, because it is beta code, and some applications can behave funny.
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I am quite certain that from version.90, windowmaker has utf-8 support and antialiasing.
I have to admit that I bought the powerbook because I am a developer and because Apple did a really nice job in terms of look and feel. I did some coding work on it, and it is no different then if I would have done it on my previous computer. And I can pat myself in the back. And that is about it.
The fact that a useless shiny computer (and products in general) that does not make you nicer, more knowledgeable, or more intelligent can generate so much revenue is beyond common sense. But the saddest part is that I am actually contributing to that trend.
Apple does not own AAC. Fraunhofer (IIRC) owns that. It is just the next generation of mp3, by virtue of being an accepted compressed audio in MPEG-4.
Apple has nothing to gain by pushing the format.
Why did they not include Ogg Vorbis or FLAC? I do not know. I suppose their contracs may prohibit those formats for some reason. Or perhaps they are dumb, or there is a technical limitation which they could not solve (meaning they are either cheap or dumb).
In either case -- that is their decision. From my point, all the people that come for my advice on gadgets get a complete rundown on the difference between iPod and the competitors. The people with which I have spoken with have both both the iPod and the other players knowing the options.
As for me. I will not buy an iPod. FLAC and Vorbis support for one. And the wrong image I will send to other people for two. Of course I am not in the music listening demographic...so Apple does not care about me anyway.
If the macs had a majority of the desktops at this point, the iTMS would become a monopoly.
iPods high marketshare does not indicate a monopoly of itself, since nothing is pushing its use. However if apple used iPods dominance to push another market, it may find itself in deep water.
Has nothing to do with the ease of avoidance. It has all to do with amount of market influence. A product influencing its own market is fine. A prodict influencing another market is usually not fine.
The answer is no. There are three possible sources of speed up. Computation of numbers larger than 2 to the 32nd, in which case 64 bit allows to not do multiple calculations. More registers that x86_64 has, which increases the number of variables that can be stored on the proc. (I am assuming that they did not get rid of immediates that were there, which compensated x86 for its incredible lack of registers.) Ability to hold doubles in registers...which is probably not a very big deal, but may speed up loading and unloading of floating point registers.
A better way would be to remove the drm, and then record the resulting AAC files onto the CD. No quality loss, and the CD now holds 5-10 times more music, and you now have a backup.
My claim is that a laser pointed at the airplane has about as much damage potential as a bullet. The whole whether it hits or not is not the point. I should stop speaking figuratively from now on.
Basically, what would cause a more dangerous situation...me shining a laser at the airplane, or me shooting it? Which one is more likely to cause an accident. Whether or not I actually cause any real damage is irrelevant...the point is to disrupt the pilot, since that is what the laser does. Does the pilot has more chance to lose control of the plain when hit by a laser, or when the plane gets hit by bullets.
Besides, the plane in question is a sessna. I doubt that can stand up to a few rifle rounds.
Wrong! Most states classify bikes as a vehice, and therefore they can go on roads and obey rules just like any other vehicle. They have to use turn signs, even obey lanes. (driving between cars is not considered OK in the US). The only restrictions on bikes is that they have to obey minimum speed limits when posted, and do not drive on self-propelled restricted roads (most roads with on-off ramps).
So, yes, if I want to be an ass, I can occupy a whole lane (just like a slow moving tractor can), and the cars will be either forced to wait, or have to pass. Most of the time I use as little of the road as possible, just to be nice.
Owners do not pay taxes because they are considered to not be a substantial burden on the road, and the cost is simply taken from the general tax (usually property/land), or taxes for cars.
As far as riding on sidewalks -- that is prohibited in most states. However, in areas where sidewalks are not everywhere, and pedestrians are a complete rarity, one can try to claim that a sidewalk is actually a bike path if stopped by a cop.
Just make sure you are wearing a helmet to give police less chance to stop you. Many times they will not, as they can not evven issue you a ticket, as you do not have to have identification. In that case they probably have to arrest you or trust you, and they really do not want to do that.
BTW, what does this have to do with XP vulnerabilities?
I have absolutely no taste in music. None. To me music and silence have about the same enjoyment value. However, I enjoy listenting to intricate melodies, philosophical lyrics, interesting beats, etc.
I guess I have a like for various techno-ish things, but I could never find enough interesting music to even bothering listening to. I would love if I could find an independent band who would produce the kind of music that I would actually like to turn on. It seems that most mainstream music is just not for me.
Can you help me out? Here are some titles that I have heard in the last four years and enjoyed...most of the times I do not remember the artist...but these should be extremely mainstream:
In the air tonight, one more murder (better than ezra), hunter(bjork???), some stuff by robert miles, hear the dolphins cry (live?). Sadly this is pretty much a complete list -- sad isn't it.
Care for some suggestions. I do not like the idea of feeding money to RIAA, so independent is a plus. But what I really would like is to simply develop a taste for music.
My thanks as usual to the people who build GTK and Pango. I guess that I have not yet really learned to appreciate the people behind the curtain, the GLib people, but since they make GTK possible, thanks to them as well.
Currently GTK is one of my favorite toolkits. The reason: Pango. I use multiple languages in my documents, as well as the compose button, and all GTK apps handle it perfectly (I use utf-8 of course). And although the input methods are somewhat redundant architecture that should be lower than the level of the toolkit IMHO, GTK input methods are the best, especially when combined with UIM.
Thank again to all the people involved.
BTW: is there a keyboard shortcut to switching input methods. UIM has it, but I sometimes need to switch to cyrillic translit (can not use ru phonetic since the keyboard is in dvorak) from Chinese and back, and that is a bit painful?
Interesting. So I guess the most logical explanation is that one of firefox's dll goes into infinite loop if the firefox is unloaded.
There are two possibilities here:
1. Firefox did not completely close, and instead remains permanently shutting down. Definitely a bug in firefox... submit it. However, killing firefox will stop the infinite loop in the DLL, since DLLs run in process to the application that uses them. Firefox can not force windows to unload the DLL, since that is automatic behavior.
2. Firefox completely closed, which means that all its DLLs which run in process become inactive. Therefore, it is Windows that is using 100% cpu time, and thus it is a Windows bug, not firefox's. Windows should be able to not crash when unloading the DLLs. Nothing in the firefox code can stop this on a consistent basis.
And no, you can't blame the OS for keeping the DLLs loaded, a Windows programmer should be aware of the OS's behavior and write the DLLs to take this into account.
No, I can not blame the OS for keeping DLLs loaded, but if it wants to do so, then it should be responsible for doing it right. If the OS decides to crash whenever an application named "firefox" is loaded, should I change the name of the application, just because the OS desires that? I think not. Any problems with this...submit it to Microsoft, they will get a good chuckle as they ignore your problem.
Not the same issue as the person's who I am responding to. This bug is basically all about firefox getting paged out to disk, which will cause slow waking time.
However, the person was experiencing major slowdown to the point of hangs with firefox killed. If he really killed firefox, then how is it a problem with firefox, unless he runs a crappy OS, such as win9x.
Besides, as for your bug, this is what is really driving me to find a smaller browser on my laptop:
220 MB and and high seek time, low transfer rate IDE disk. Startup time is around 20-30 seconds, goes decently fast after that as long as the machine is not constantly paging.
The best solution for me is to find a faster browser (possibly opera), or get used to lynx.
If your machine becomes slow due to firefox, that is one thing....but if it stays slow after you killed firefox, then you should either consider ditching Win9x, or if you are running NT base, then you should look for a real source of the problem.
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All GTK2 apps use pango for rendering. This means that they can output multiple languages in the same line.
As for the IME: both SCIM and UIM are quite advanced. UIM IMO integrates much better with gnome (through applets and such...), SCIM has a slightly better keyboard shortcut system, and a few more features that are more apparent.
The GNOME native IME is pretty much dead, except as a system through which SCIM and UIM can interface with GTK.
From the view of my windows using chinese officemate, both SCIM and UIM are just as good or better than Windows IME (for chinese at least).
Tre enabling the XComposite and XDamage. They have been designed to reduce the problem that you are experiencing.
Basically the problem is that X, your WM, and your program run (and therefore redraw) during different timeslots. In case of GNOME and KDE, they may call other servers out of process before doing the drawing. This becomes really noticable when you move windows, or windows appear.
XDamage and XComposite should solve the problem when you move the windows, as only the buffer actually moves, and no redraws are issued. I am not sure if it will help you get more smooth menues.
And no, XComposite is not enabled by default, because it is beta code, and some applications can behave funny.
I am quite certain that from version .90, windowmaker has utf-8 support and antialiasing.
Except in 1998 it was pretty close the truth, so it would not be a troll. Not any more though.
I still can not find any reason why this was posted, except to sound like an idiot.
I have to admit that I bought the powerbook because I am a developer and because Apple did a really nice job in terms of look and feel. I did some coding work on it, and it is no different then if I would have done it on my previous computer. And I can pat myself in the back. And that is about it.
The fact that a useless shiny computer (and products in general) that does not make you nicer, more knowledgeable, or more intelligent can generate so much revenue is beyond common sense. But the saddest part is that I am actually contributing to that trend.
I kept thinking that people have morals, but then I wised up, and posted my own message to not do it.
Decided to reply to you, just to show that I am not evil, even if I sometimes imagine myself to be.
Thanks...
Forgot to mention one thing.
DO NOT DO IT. And if you will, I will not take responsibility for your neighbor's heart attack or mental illness.
Also, this is not a legal advice. I recommend seeing a lawyer for that.
This assumes your neighbors actually use the connection. (If they do not, should not most APs stay quite silent?)
Anyway....
1. Run airpwn
2. Watch your scared neighbors turn off APs in horror.
3. Wifi!!!
Just to make a little point.
Apple does not own AAC. Fraunhofer (IIRC) owns that. It is just the next generation of mp3, by virtue of being an accepted compressed audio in MPEG-4.
Apple has nothing to gain by pushing the format.
Why did they not include Ogg Vorbis or FLAC? I do not know. I suppose their contracs may prohibit those formats for some reason. Or perhaps they are dumb, or there is a technical limitation which they could not solve (meaning they are either cheap or dumb).
In either case -- that is their decision. From my point, all the people that come for my advice on gadgets get a complete rundown on the difference between iPod and the competitors. The people with which I have spoken with have both both the iPod and the other players knowing the options.
As for me. I will not buy an iPod. FLAC and Vorbis support for one. And the wrong image I will send to other people for two. Of course I am not in the music listening demographic...so Apple does not care about me anyway.
Try buying a Mac without Itunes installed.
If the macs had a majority of the desktops at this point, the iTMS would become a monopoly.
iPods high marketshare does not indicate a monopoly of itself, since nothing is pushing its use. However if apple used iPods dominance to push another market, it may find itself in deep water.
Has nothing to do with the ease of avoidance. It has all to do with amount of market influence. A product influencing its own market is fine. A prodict influencing another market is usually not fine.
The answer is no. There are three possible sources of speed up. Computation of numbers larger than 2 to the 32nd, in which case 64 bit allows to not do multiple calculations. More registers that x86_64 has, which increases the number of variables that can be stored on the proc. (I am assuming that they did not get rid of immediates that were there, which compensated x86 for its incredible lack of registers.) Ability to hold doubles in registers...which is probably not a very big deal, but may speed up loading and unloading of floating point registers.
No other benefits.
A better way would be to remove the drm, and then record the resulting AAC files onto the CD. No quality loss, and the CD now holds 5-10 times more music, and you now have a backup.
iTMS's burn to CD is a kludge.
My claim is that a laser pointed at the airplane has about as much damage potential as a bullet. The whole whether it hits or not is not the point. I should stop speaking figuratively from now on.
Basically, what would cause a more dangerous situation...me shining a laser at the airplane, or me shooting it? Which one is more likely to cause an accident. Whether or not I actually cause any real damage is irrelevant...the point is to disrupt the pilot, since that is what the laser does. Does the pilot has more chance to lose control of the plain when hit by a laser, or when the plane gets hit by bullets.
Besides, the plane in question is a sessna. I doubt that can stand up to a few rifle rounds.
If you can aim a laser through the cockpit at a pilot's eye, you can put a bullet through the same spot.
Wrong! Most states classify bikes as a vehice, and therefore they can go on roads and obey rules just like any other vehicle. They have to use turn signs, even obey lanes. (driving between cars is not considered OK in the US). The only restrictions on bikes is that they have to obey minimum speed limits when posted, and do not drive on self-propelled restricted roads (most roads with on-off ramps).
So, yes, if I want to be an ass, I can occupy a whole lane (just like a slow moving tractor can), and the cars will be either forced to wait, or have to pass. Most of the time I use as little of the road as possible, just to be nice.
Owners do not pay taxes because they are considered to not be a substantial burden on the road, and the cost is simply taken from the general tax (usually property/land), or taxes for cars.
As far as riding on sidewalks -- that is prohibited in most states. However, in areas where sidewalks are not everywhere, and pedestrians are a complete rarity, one can try to claim that a sidewalk is actually a bike path if stopped by a cop.
Just make sure you are wearing a helmet to give police less chance to stop you. Many times they will not, as they can not evven issue you a ticket, as you do not have to have identification. In that case they probably have to arrest you or trust you, and they really do not want to do that.
BTW, what does this have to do with XP vulnerabilities?
Maybe you can help me.
I have absolutely no taste in music. None. To me music and silence have about the same enjoyment value. However, I enjoy listenting to intricate melodies, philosophical lyrics, interesting beats, etc.
I guess I have a like for various techno-ish things, but I could never find enough interesting music to even bothering listening to. I would love if I could find an independent band who would produce the kind of music that I would actually like to turn on. It seems that most mainstream music is just not for me.
Can you help me out? Here are some titles that I have heard in the last four years and enjoyed...most of the times I do not remember the artist...but these should be extremely mainstream:
In the air tonight, one more murder (better than ezra), hunter(bjork???), some stuff by robert miles, hear the dolphins cry (live?). Sadly this is pretty much a complete list -- sad isn't it.
Care for some suggestions. I do not like the idea of feeding money to RIAA, so independent is a plus. But what I really would like is to simply develop a taste for music.
Just as big an issue is that anyone monitoring your network will read your password, as it has been sent cleartext.
My thanks as usual to the people who build GTK and Pango. I guess that I have not yet really learned to appreciate the people behind the curtain, the GLib people, but since they make GTK possible, thanks to them as well.
Currently GTK is one of my favorite toolkits. The reason: Pango. I use multiple languages in my documents, as well as the compose button, and all GTK apps handle it perfectly (I use utf-8 of course). And although the input methods are somewhat redundant architecture that should be lower than the level of the toolkit IMHO, GTK input methods are the best, especially when combined with UIM.
Thank again to all the people involved.
BTW: is there a keyboard shortcut to switching input methods. UIM has it, but I sometimes need to switch to cyrillic translit (can not use ru phonetic since the keyboard is in dvorak) from Chinese and back, and that is a bit painful?
Great, we also have a secret to getting the less then almighty, but still highly desirable (3, Funny): Simply point out how to get the (5,Funny).
If this trend continues, this post will be rated (1,Funny).
Oh, Drat!
Interesting. So I guess the most logical explanation is that one of firefox's dll goes into infinite loop if the firefox is unloaded.
There are two possibilities here:
1. Firefox did not completely close, and instead remains permanently shutting down. Definitely a bug in firefox... submit it. However, killing firefox will stop the infinite loop in the DLL, since DLLs run in process to the application that uses them. Firefox can not force windows to unload the DLL, since that is automatic behavior.
2. Firefox completely closed, which means that all its DLLs which run in process become inactive. Therefore, it is Windows that is using 100% cpu time, and thus it is a Windows bug, not firefox's. Windows should be able to not crash when unloading the DLLs. Nothing in the firefox code can stop this on a consistent basis.
And no, you can't blame the OS for keeping the DLLs loaded, a Windows programmer should be aware of the OS's behavior and write the DLLs to take this into account.
No, I can not blame the OS for keeping DLLs loaded, but if it wants to do so, then it should be responsible for doing it right. If the OS decides to crash whenever an application named "firefox" is loaded, should I change the name of the application, just because the OS desires that? I think not. Any problems with this...submit it to Microsoft, they will get a good chuckle as they ignore your problem.
Not the same issue as the person's who I am responding to. This bug is basically all about firefox getting paged out to disk, which will cause slow waking time.
However, the person was experiencing major slowdown to the point of hangs with firefox killed. If he really killed firefox, then how is it a problem with firefox, unless he runs a crappy OS, such as win9x.
Besides, as for your bug, this is what is really driving me to find a smaller browser on my laptop:
220 MB and and high seek time, low transfer rate IDE disk. Startup time is around 20-30 seconds, goes decently fast after that as long as the machine is not constantly paging.
The best solution for me is to find a faster browser (possibly opera), or get used to lynx.
If your machine becomes slow due to firefox, that is one thing....but if it stays slow after you killed firefox, then you should either consider ditching Win9x, or if you are running NT base, then you should look for a real source of the problem.
Make sure your player is using RTC instead of usleep.
I doubt it.
Windows XP will soon be replaced, and I am still not flying.
You could by them a boxed set.