About google bombing, does someone know if it works inside a style="display:none"'ed element? I'd like to add some links to the litigious bastards and Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's fake research, but I wouldn't like to have visible links and generate hits for them.
A friend of mine managed to fix this problem by playing with "about:config" entries containing the substring "font". I don't know exactly what options he tweaked.
Funny, I clicked the Penny Arcade link in your signature and I was greeted by a pageful of "Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't create a new thread (errno 12)."
Orbital's site is nice. Check out the "job tips" section.
Windows is everywhere
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Linux isn't.
Does this makes Windows more useful than Linux? Of course not. Some knowledge of Windows is good due to its onipresence, but your time will be better spent with Linux.
In much the same way, it's good to learn vi for when you don't have emacs:)
Serious, I don't have any problem in adapting myself to various editors (and keyboards, btw). I'm typing this in my friend's Windows 98, using those cumbersome Control-C/Control-V thingies. At work I'll use emacs for programming, mail and text writing, and vim for config files. I even use ed sometimes (just for fun).
I've been working for a year in a project to analyze legacy databases from my university and make predictions from them. I tought a good name was Janus, the two-faced god who looks to the past and to the future simultaneously.
This should have the "it's funny" icon. You can make serious use of the extension, of course, but by default it will generate random names like "LightningCow" or "PowerBadger".
I modified the preferences to choose names inspired in Japanese tokusatsu. Currently I'm browsing in Mozilla ZyuuraTiga V.
State: In a GUI this information is always in your face, even when you don't want it (windows all over the place, alert boxes popping up, busy taskbars while I try to write some text). With the CLI I can probe the information only when I want it (with "jobs" or "top", for example).
One of the most common complaints about computers is how they force you to give attention to lots of things you don't care about; as pointed in the article, CLIs attenuate this problem.
Exploration and rote memorization: I find it way harder to "explore" a program clicking randomily in obscure menus and GUI elements than by reading the manual and trying the options after knowing what they do. I also fail to see why memorizing a given sequence of menus, panels, windows and GUI objects is easier than memorizing CLI commands.
Most newbie users I teached agree. One old lady lived with painfully small fonts in her Windows system for months, failing to discover how to increase them. All because some GUI designer thinks the GUI widget is "self-evident" and didn't documented how you can find it. By contrast, most of my Linux students had trouble in reading manuals and trying new options and commands (the exception being those who can't read English).
The catch is, you should not force the user to memorize anything. In GUIs, as in CLIs, you must have good, easily searchable instructions.
Easy reversal: Again, I fail to see what in the nature of GUIs makes undo inherently easier than CLIs.
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The 'httpd.conf' file is a long and critical one.
But if you want you can use a more modular approach instead of keeping everything in one single file. Debian sid is currently experimenting with this in interesting ways in the apache2 packages.
Portable: dandelions grow everywhere, and its flying seeds are a strong sign of portability.
Adaptable: the flowers close at night or when raining, and it is active in all seasons.
Useful: with dandelions you can make salads, wine, or medicine. Kids like to play with them.
Simple: dandelions are simple yet elegant. Furthermore, they're a familiar sight to everyone.
Well-designed: the leaves form channels to bring all the rain water to the root, which otherwise would not get enough. Well, flowers are evolved and not designed, but you get the idea.
Unique: with all those animal logos, a flower will be easy to remember.
Not a mascot: since it is a logo, not a mascot, NetBSD people can informally keep Beastie.
Not really on topic, but Linux (and other free Unix-like systems) users learning Japanese I recommend gjiten + kanjipad + im-ja for a good dictionary system (you just have to convert Jim's dictionary files to UTF-8, iconv(1) is your friend).
What other Japanese-related software slashdotters like?
Internationalization was the major reason that made me switch to Gnome.
Thanks to im-ja I can switch freely between European (Brazilian Portuguese) and Japanese input in any GTK app, something I could do only in Emacs. Gnome-terminal can work with any encoding and switch them at runtime.
This is even more amusing for native Portuguese speakers, because "ultima" is our word for the feminine of "last". So everytime they release an "Ultima" we think "this is the last one, right?"
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This guy has a "FUQ": Fictitious, Unasked Questions. He's being honest on the fact that most "questions" in FAQs are forged by the authors anyway.
Poor guy. You have an heroic job, my friend. Keep on spinning, our processors' integrity depends on you.
Looks cool. Someone should write an Wikipedia page about schroedinger bugs.
No wonder he was fired, ghost developers tend to be outdated. They kinda stop in time. And they scare co-workers...
*ducks*
It's your fault for mentioning in /. that there is pr0n there :)
About google bombing, does someone know if it works inside a style="display:none"'ed element? I'd like to add some links to the litigious bastards and Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's fake research, but I wouldn't like to have visible links and generate hits for them.
A friend of mine managed to fix this problem by playing with "about:config" entries containing the substring "font". I don't know exactly what options he tweaked.
Being "funny" gives no karma. Remember this when you become Buddhist :)
Funny, I clicked the Penny Arcade link in your signature and I was greeted by a pageful of "Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't create a new thread (errno 12)."
"Slashdot: the bitter truth" indeed.
Orbital's site is nice. Check out the "job tips" section.
Linux isn't.
:)
Does this makes Windows more useful than Linux? Of course not. Some knowledge of Windows is good due to its onipresence, but your time will be better spent with Linux.
In much the same way, it's good to learn vi for when you don't have emacs
Serious, I don't have any problem in adapting myself to various editors (and keyboards, btw). I'm typing this in my friend's Windows 98, using those cumbersome Control-C/Control-V thingies. At work I'll use emacs for programming, mail and text writing, and vim for config files. I even use ed sometimes (just for fun).
Not as fun as your idea, but still quite funny: The Brick Testament. Give it a careful read.
I've been working for a year in a project to analyze legacy databases from my university and make predictions from them. I tought a good name was Janus, the two-faced god who looks to the past and to the future simultaneously.
This should have the "it's funny" icon. You can make serious use of the extension, of course, but by default it will generate random names like "LightningCow" or "PowerBadger".
I modified the preferences to choose names inspired in Japanese tokusatsu. Currently I'm browsing in Mozilla ZyuuraTiga V.
Zeus could easily seduce Mary when Yahweh's not looking.[1]
:)
Yahweh may be the God of Armies, but Zeus knew how to have a good time
[1] If you wanted to say "Yhaweh is always looking", remember Genesis...
State: In a GUI this information is always in your face, even when you don't want it (windows all over the place, alert boxes popping up, busy taskbars while I try to write some text). With the CLI I can probe the information only when I want it (with "jobs" or "top", for example).
One of the most common complaints about computers is how they force you to give attention to lots of things you don't care about; as pointed in the article, CLIs attenuate this problem.
Exploration and rote memorization: I find it way harder to "explore" a program clicking randomily in obscure menus and GUI elements than by reading the manual and trying the options after knowing what they do. I also fail to see why memorizing a given sequence of menus, panels, windows and GUI objects is easier than memorizing CLI commands.
Most newbie users I teached agree. One old lady lived with painfully small fonts in her Windows system for months, failing to discover how to increase them. All because some GUI designer thinks the GUI widget is "self-evident" and didn't documented how you can find it. By contrast, most of my Linux students had trouble in reading manuals and trying new options and commands (the exception being those who can't read English).
The catch is, you should not force the user to memorize anything. In GUIs, as in CLIs, you must have good, easily searchable instructions.
Easy reversal: Again, I fail to see what in the nature of GUIs makes undo inherently easier than CLIs.
The referrer field is easily forged.
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xnest.1.html
But if you want you can use a more modular approach instead of keeping everything in one single file. Debian sid is currently experimenting with this in interesting ways in the apache2 packages.
Portable: dandelions grow everywhere, and its flying seeds are a strong sign of portability.
Adaptable: the flowers close at night or when raining, and it is active in all seasons.
Useful: with dandelions you can make salads, wine, or medicine. Kids like to play with them.
Simple: dandelions are simple yet elegant. Furthermore, they're a familiar sight to everyone.
Well-designed: the leaves form channels to bring all the rain water to the root, which otherwise would not get enough. Well, flowers are evolved and not designed, but you get the idea.
Unique: with all those animal logos, a flower will be easy to remember.
Not a mascot: since it is a logo, not a mascot, NetBSD people can informally keep Beastie.
Maybe this widespread usage is an effort to avoid confusion (e.g. with XFS fonts or ATM networks)?
Not really on topic, but Linux (and other free Unix-like systems) users learning Japanese I recommend
gjiten + kanjipad + im-ja for a good dictionary system (you just have to convert Jim's dictionary files to UTF-8, iconv(1) is your friend).
What other Japanese-related software slashdotters like?
Internationalization was the major reason that made me switch to Gnome.
Thanks to im-ja I can switch freely between European (Brazilian Portuguese) and Japanese input in any GTK app, something I could do only in Emacs. Gnome-terminal can work with any encoding and switch them at runtime.
From the article:
You see, they haven't tested it with real people, only with technicians.
This is even more amusing for native Portuguese speakers, because "ultima" is our word for the feminine of "last". So everytime they release an "Ultima" we think "this is the last one, right?"