"Six or seven years ago, telephones on campus were a cash cow"
like the meal plans at colleges. they make it so expensive and force you to get it if you live in the dorms. they only give you crap food and give you so little to eat. the cafes are only open for a short period of time so if you have classes during those hours, it's your lost.
Here are some updates regarding X.org on Debian. Apparently it'll not be available for Sarge either. You can read about it in Daniel Stone's blog and Erich Schubert's here and here.
I guess now that they've fixed a lot of bugs with radeon drivers in the new X.org release, things seem to be looking good in that direction.
Anyone know if 2.10 can have a tree view for directory hierarcies?
It's not nautilus, but try xfe. It has tree view and is LIGHTENING quick - even faster then Rox file manager. I've been looking for the ultimate file manager on linux desktop and this one might just cut it.
You need only look at what Microsoft Office or Windows could do 10 years ago and what these programs cost back then and what possibilities they offer today at what price. The costs are going down; the capabilities are increasing with tremendous speed.
seriously though, there isnt a whole lot of changes between msword 97 and msword 2003. In fact, they've made things even harder to do with the newer version. They've actually *removed* quite a number of features in their office suites and made it harder to do things. Other stuff like exporting.eps figures in visio - quite necessary with latex documents. Why did they do that? I think the answer is pretty obvious.
What he really means of course, is free alternatives trying to interoperate with Microsoft's non-documented proprietary standards.
programs like openoffice. they're trying overly hard in reverse engineering microsoft's proprietary standards that they don't seem to have enough man power to make the program _actually_useable_. there are so many little things like word count and thesaurus - and more important things like program start up load times. (maybe, just MAYBE, a better UI where things under the menu bar actually belong to its category?) These things are so vital to the user that if he or she doesn't find, will ultimately stop using the program altogether.
I just think that no matter how hard you try, you can only get so much closer to 90% of word compatibility - once it's "close enough", it's better to spend time on having those basic things and brining in better "killer" features to make your app more deadly to attract more users. more users= more bug support and bug reports and more people will be interested in your projects = more developers.
The truth is, email apps are excellent with evolution/thunderbird/kmail. browser with mozilla/firefox - a lot of apps are at the right place - the most important one, the office suite is at the worst state for desktop/ office cubicle use.
try 3ddesktop, which is a desktop switcher which runs on opengl. (at first i thought it was a desktop environment, which is obviously isnt - it's a desktop switcher) works on fluxbox, xfce4, kde, gnome... pretty much anything on linux. runs really fast. animation speed and view mode types can be customized quite well.
there's a lot of posts about poor ATI drivers. i dont think that's the only problem - how about support for agp 8X? right now only 1x, 2x, 4x are supported under X...
Since suprnova has been down, I've mostly just been using torrentspy. Anyone have an other recommendations for sites? I prefer just having web pages, so I don't have to run a separate client.
Kind of OT, but important - if you are running XP with an LCD screen, don't forget to turn on ClearType. ClearType dramatically improves the quality of text displayed on screen, to the point where my work laptop almost looks as good as my OS X box w/CRT at home.
... and if you're using debian, make sure you do a "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" (choose LCD rendering as opposed to CRT) as well as enabling antialiased fonts on window manager.
Then put some wicked cool Red LED Lights in the front of the car, and whenever the car talks to me, the red lights act like a visualizer of sorts. Knight Rider here I come!
Well, here you go. Someone's already doing that! Looks like it's the dashboard of a Subaru just in case you're wondering.
i've noticed as a new feature since the beta versions that they've made it easy enough for people to combine the taskbar with the panel (by having an option to add a taskbar applet on the panel).
Before they are seperated, just like the way the default screenshots look like without a way of combining them.
Eventhough it's easy to combine the two, there isnt a simple way of disabling the default taskbar up top other than killing the xftaskbar4 process or modifying the script to stop it from loading. I think it would be great if they have this in the control options...
autospellcheck on kate?
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does anyone have any luck with autospellcheck (spellcheck as you type, red underlining of words if you make a spelling mistake) in kate? They were saying that this was going to be released in 3.2 but it doesnt seem to be there. bugs.kde.org has closed the wishlist/feature request ticket. I'm using 3.3.1 currently. The feature's there in konqueror, kmail and kword, but for us folks that use kile (which depends on kate) as the LaTeX source editor, we would sure find it a good feature to have.
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Kanotix - a knoppix related distro
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saw this on a linux magazine just the other day. yet another knoppix related distro named Kanotix. Supposedly to be based on Debian unstable with more updated packages and more frequent releases. the packages are supposed to be compiled optimized for the i586 architecture, so the distro wouldnt be suitable for lower-end systems.
Slashdot Mirror
some demo videos from mirrordot:
here and here
Does anyone know whether there are actual DR17 packages downloadable other than building it CVS?
"Six or seven years ago, telephones on campus were a cash cow"
like the meal plans at colleges. they make it so expensive and force you to get it if you live in the dorms. they only give you crap food and give you so little to eat. the cafes are only open for a short period of time so if you have classes during those hours, it's your lost.
unfortunately like gnome, they tend to love the idea of integrating a file manager with a web browser.
Takes quite a while to even get it started on my P4 3.0GHz
Here are some updates regarding X.org on Debian. Apparently it'll not be available for Sarge either. You can read about it in Daniel Stone's blog and Erich Schubert's here and here.
I guess now that they've fixed a lot of bugs with radeon drivers in the new X.org release, things seem to be looking good in that direction.
The folks at Delta fired their flight attendant after she placed a picture of herself in uniform on her blog...
(drool? hehe)
seriously though, there isnt a whole lot of changes between msword 97 and msword 2003. In fact, they've made things even harder to do with the newer version. They've actually *removed* quite a number of features in their office suites and made it harder to do things. Other stuff like exporting
programs like openoffice. they're trying overly hard in reverse engineering microsoft's proprietary standards that they don't seem to have enough man power to make the program _actually_useable_. there are so many little things like word count and thesaurus - and more important things like program start up load times. (maybe, just MAYBE, a better UI where things under the menu bar actually belong to its category?) These things are so vital to the user that if he or she doesn't find, will ultimately stop using the program altogether.
I just think that no matter how hard you try, you can only get so much closer to 90% of word compatibility - once it's "close enough", it's better to spend time on having those basic things and brining in better "killer" features to make your app more deadly to attract more users. more users= more bug support and bug reports and more people will be interested in your projects = more developers.
The truth is, email apps are excellent with evolution/thunderbird/kmail. browser with mozilla/firefox - a lot of apps are at the right place - the most important one, the office suite is at the worst state for desktop/ office cubicle use.
my favorite
"For NT logon!"
try 3ddesktop, which is a desktop switcher which runs on opengl. (at first i thought it was a desktop environment, which is obviously isnt - it's a desktop switcher) works on fluxbox, xfce4, kde, gnome... pretty much anything on linux. runs really fast. animation speed and view mode types can be customized quite well.
there's a lot of posts about poor ATI drivers. i dont think that's the only problem - how about support for agp 8X? right now only 1x, 2x, 4x are supported under X...
what's missing is sports. a lot of us would actually prefer to watch sports as a *live* event.
on windows, stay away from any adobe readers above version 4. i have no problems with version 4 on my pentium 2.
on linux, acrobat's *ok*, but gpdf and xpdf are pretty decent and very fast. the new version of kpdf in kde 3.4 is going to be great as well.
God shmod, I want my monkeyman!
I've always thought Saruman meant monkeyman in Japanese... (Saru=Monkey)
It's subliminal I tell ya!
just curious, anyone know where you can get a betamax machine nowadays?
there's lokitorrent
Eventhough the folks at lokitorrent have gotten a letter from the MPAA also, the site has continued to stay up.
For TV episodes, there's btefnet (#bt efnet on irc) - the site's been great since tvtorrents have been down
To put one of these babies in my car.
Then put some wicked cool Red LED Lights in the front of the car, and whenever the car talks to me, the red lights act like a visualizer of sorts. Knight Rider here I come!
Well, here you go. Someone's already doing that! Looks like it's the dashboard of a Subaru just in case you're wondering.
i've noticed as a new feature since the beta versions that they've made it easy enough for people to combine the taskbar with the panel (by having an option to add a taskbar applet on the panel).
Before they are seperated, just like the way the default screenshots look like without a way of combining them.
Eventhough it's easy to combine the two, there isnt a simple way of disabling the default taskbar up top other than killing the xftaskbar4 process or modifying the script to stop it from loading. I think it would be great if they have this in the control options...
does anyone have any luck with autospellcheck (spellcheck as you type, red underlining of words if you make a spelling mistake) in kate? They were saying that this was going to be released in 3.2 but it doesnt seem to be there. bugs.kde.org has closed the wishlist/feature request ticket. I'm using 3.3.1 currently. The feature's there in konqueror, kmail and kword, but for us folks that use kile (which depends on kate) as the LaTeX source editor, we would sure find it a good feature to have.
what parent is talking about is this.
Gates Faces Down Blue Screen of Death
yep. it happened AGAIN
or about 1hr13 into the clip from parent's blog
how about Cat Swartz's coverage at CES for engadget. just watch how Kevin Rose of G4TechTV drools all over her 30 seconds into the clip
saw this on a linux magazine just the other day.
yet another knoppix related distro named
Kanotix. Supposedly to be based on Debian unstable with more updated packages and more frequent releases.
the packages are supposed to be compiled optimized for the i586 architecture, so the distro wouldnt be suitable for lower-end systems.
screenshots here
current release highlights:
Kernel 2.6.9 with many patches incl. suspend2
ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off respectively nodma)
i586 optimization - not for use with older CPUs!
128 MB RAM required, 256 MB RAM recommended
AVM Fritz!Card DSL support
Eagle USB DSL support
KDE 3.3.1
OpenOffice 1.1.2
Captive 1.1.5
ALSA 1.0.6a
GRUB boot loader for CD start - ideal for rescue in command line mode
Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool in the extra menu of the boot loader
All the following steps basically replaced the ones outlined in linuxdoc.org, i think...
here's how i do it on my debian machine. few steps (why cant they just make it work out of the box), but really easy nevertheless.
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
then select whether you want crt/lcd rendering
apt-get install msttcorefonts
automatically downloads and installs microsoft truetype fonts
"kcontrol trick"
kde's control center -> sys admin -> font installer
go into administrator mode (root). wait for your dont need to do anything. just wait for a few minutes while your font cache is being updated.
this also updates your "/etc/fonts/local.conf" file so you dont have to
do it manually.
goto font appearences & themes -> fonts
run gnome-font-properties
I think that's still too many logical steps, but for now, these should all work for any distro except the dpkg-reconfigure and apt-get parts.
if this is clinton's "library" that's tp be "googlized" and "digitized", then that'll be an interesting "shot"... ;)
Homer: mmmmmm digitized google....