Storing anything locally doesn't work for me since I have lots of machines that I check email from.
I'm in the same situation and use NXClient (using the free-NX server) to have a consistent email application with all email history etc. available from any machine that has a connection.
That makes sense if you *must* use an open source driver. What's wrong with a commercial one that does the job as expected?
The reason there is not a strong gaming community for *nix is because there aren't enough games. There aren't enough games because there isn't a strong gaming community. Catch 22.
Atheism is a belief about something, otherwise it wouldn't have anything at all to say about God
Atheism doesn't say anything about any gods, it's a position people who don't believe in any gods hold. Atheism literally means "without theism". If you don't believe in a deity then you are an atheist. It's not about belief, it's a statement of lack of belief.
I like to review what is being emerged just incase there is a reason I don't want to upgrade a particular package for some reason (e.g. if emerging OpenOffice I always make sure I set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to something with more than a GB of space).
Also if emerge wants to upgrade a lot of packages then I tend to fire up my 2 dual CPU servers to aid in the compiling (using distcc). Makes a huge difference with compilation times. For small upgrades I don't bother.
I have been using 2 17" monitors (with KDE) set at 1280x1024 for quite a few years and I recently shifted to a triple monitor setup. Initially it was a bit gimmicky but I've noticed my productivity increasing. I am considering moving from 6 desktops to 4 as I never use the last 2.
Another tip: I have set the "double click on window title bar" action to set the window to all desktops rather that the standard maximise. Makes it much easier to "stick" a window to all desktops while moving to another desktop to view a browser or NXClient session.
A solid piece of software is just as impenetrable on Windows as it is on Linux or any other platform - it's all about understanding the environment.
Take a look at this paper on shatter attacks. From what I understand any process (owned by any user) can execute arbitrary code as any other user on a desktop system as long as then can find a window owned as that user. They simply tell the administrator owned window to run a function at a particular memory address (by using a timer with a callback).
Apparently this escalation flaw is fundametnal to the design of the Windows messages subsystem and is not easily fixed. Interesting. I wonder if/when exploits for this will appear in the wild.
I enjoyed Enders Game, but the "Homecoming" set of books (5 in total) is my most enjoyed sci-fi/fantasy book after Tolkiens classics. Well worth the read, IMO.
Religion may make "the self" happy, but in a lot of cases it makes people around them unhappy - especially with too much proselytisng and trying to hamper peoples' freedoms (which is quite often the case with religionists).
Giant squid are the only natural predator of many whale species (other than the Japane... I mean humans). I wonder how long until these squid are seen as a threat to so called "scientific whaling" (which somehow is the source of whale meat in restaurants)?
I bought "Visual Studio.net C++ 2003" because I needed to buy a copy for a financially quite rewarding contract. I avoid MS solutions as much as I can (and run Gentoo everywhere) but with the $$ on offer I had little issue with paying for a copy of XP and "VS.net C++ 2003" (all running under VMWare on Gentoo of course). The problem was I could not purchase Visual Studio 6 (which I am familiar with). No one would sell one, so I had no choice but to buy the latest version (or break the law, which I won't do with software).
Copy and paste is very non standard in Firefox running under KDE. The whole "select to copy" paradigm doesn't work as it does with every other X11 application. The only way to get it to work is to resort to ctrl-c. Arghh. Very annoying.
Evolution is nothing but a theory. Ask any REAL biologist (like those with Ph.D.'s or those who work in colleges), and they will admit evolution is a theory. It is not fact. It is not a scientific law.
Like gravity, you mean?
The cool thing Intelligent Design is we know God made us.
We know no such thing. Some people assume this is the case but they lack any evidence.
Think about how the world was made. Science has a theory called "Big Bang". It is a theory which states that in the start the mass was so dense, it exploded and everything flew away randomly, making stars and planets, and life.
That's a very 2nd grade way of describing it.
For any people who know statistics, what is the probability of that happening? How many times would I have to flip a quarter and get heads in a row? 100,000,000,000 times? 100,000,000,000,000 times?
You would have a better chance at taking a watch, hitting it with a hammer until it was broken into 1000 peices, and then putting it in a bag, shaking the bag, and having the watch come back together out of the random movements.
Except that nature is not random. There are physical processes (like gravity and electromagnetism) that effects the way matter and energy behave. Processes like natural selection are not random either.
God made life. It is called a soul.
And the tooth fairy and santa claus exist too. Except that we stop believing in them as we realise what a crock they are. Some don't do the sam with these god myths though.
So in theory, as long as you don't start out with the assumption that divine revelation is bunk,
Translated means "as long as you assume devine revelation is true". That's the issue I have with most religionists - there is always an underlying assumption that something is true simply because it says it is.
Agreed. I'll often write string manipulation or file searching/parsing routines in c because a) it's easy to do, and b) it runs FAST (like 100Mb per data in less than 2 seconds).
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Storing anything locally doesn't work for me since I have lots of machines that I check email from.
I'm in the same situation and use NXClient (using the free-NX server) to have a consistent email application with all email history etc. available from any machine that has a connection.
I find nothing beats the "echo" function for debugging PHP applications.
That makes sense if you *must* use an open source driver. What's wrong with a commercial one that does the job as expected?
The reason there is not a strong gaming community for *nix is because there aren't enough games. There aren't enough games because there isn't a strong gaming community. Catch 22.
Atheism is a belief about something, otherwise it wouldn't have anything at all to say about God
Atheism doesn't say anything about any gods, it's a position people who don't believe in any gods hold. Atheism literally means "without theism". If you don't believe in a deity then you are an atheist. It's not about belief, it's a statement of lack of belief.
No I haven't. Agnosticism is about knowledge, not belief. You seem to have confused weak atheism with agnosticism.
Agreed. But atheism isn't asserting a belief in anything. It's about lack of belief, not belief of lack.
I like to review what is being emerged just incase there is a reason I don't want to upgrade a particular package for some reason (e.g. if emerging OpenOffice I always make sure I set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to something with more than a GB of space).
Also if emerge wants to upgrade a lot of packages then I tend to fire up my 2 dual CPU servers to aid in the compiling (using distcc). Makes a huge difference with compilation times. For small upgrades I don't bother.
Wouldn't you just do what everyone else does?
su
emerge sync
emerge -pv world
emerge world
??
I have been using 2 17" monitors (with KDE) set at 1280x1024 for quite a few years and I recently shifted to a triple monitor setup. Initially it was a bit gimmicky but I've noticed my productivity increasing. I am considering moving from 6 desktops to 4 as I never use the last 2.
Another tip: I have set the "double click on window title bar" action to set the window to all desktops rather that the standard maximise. Makes it much easier to "stick" a window to all desktops while moving to another desktop to view a browser or NXClient session.
A solid piece of software is just as impenetrable on Windows as it is on Linux or any other platform - it's all about understanding the environment.
Take a look at this paper on shatter attacks. From what I understand any process (owned by any user) can execute arbitrary code as any other user on a desktop system as long as then can find a window owned as that user. They simply tell the administrator owned window to run a function at a particular memory address (by using a timer with a callback).
Apparently this escalation flaw is fundametnal to the design of the Windows messages subsystem and is not easily fixed. Interesting. I wonder if/when exploits for this will appear in the wild.
I enjoyed Enders Game, but the "Homecoming" set of books (5 in total) is my most enjoyed sci-fi/fantasy book after Tolkiens classics. Well worth the read, IMO.
Religion may make "the self" happy, but in a lot of cases it makes people around them unhappy - especially with too much proselytisng and trying to hamper peoples' freedoms (which is quite often the case with religionists).
Giant squid are the only natural predator of many whale species (other than the Japane... I mean humans). I wonder how long until these squid are seen as a threat to so called "scientific whaling" (which somehow is the source of whale meat in restaurants)?
I bought "Visual Studio.net C++ 2003" because I needed to buy a copy for a financially quite rewarding contract. I avoid MS solutions as much as I can (and run Gentoo everywhere) but with the $$ on offer I had little issue with paying for a copy of XP and "VS.net C++ 2003" (all running under VMWare on Gentoo of course). The problem was I could not purchase Visual Studio 6 (which I am familiar with). No one would sell one, so I had no choice but to buy the latest version (or break the law, which I won't do with software).
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. (Couldn't resist, just finished reading Digital Fortress).
Copy and paste is very non standard in Firefox running under KDE. The whole "select to copy" paradigm doesn't work as it does with every other X11 application. The only way to get it to work is to resort to ctrl-c. Arghh. Very annoying.
Evolution is nothing but a theory. Ask any REAL biologist (like those with Ph.D.'s or those who work in colleges), and they will admit evolution is a theory. It is not fact. It is not a scientific law.
Like gravity, you mean?
The cool thing Intelligent Design is we know God made us.
We know no such thing. Some people assume this is the case but they lack any evidence.
Think about how the world was made. Science has a theory called "Big Bang". It is a theory which states that in the start the mass was so dense, it exploded and everything flew away randomly, making stars and planets, and life.
That's a very 2nd grade way of describing it.
For any people who know statistics, what is the probability of that happening? How many times would I have to flip a quarter and get heads in a row? 100,000,000,000 times? 100,000,000,000,000 times?
You would have a better chance at taking a watch, hitting it with a hammer until it was broken into 1000 peices, and then putting it in a bag, shaking the bag, and having the watch come back together out of the random movements.
Except that nature is not random. There are physical processes (like gravity and electromagnetism) that effects the way matter and energy behave. Processes like natural selection are not random either.
God made life. It is called a soul.
And the tooth fairy and santa claus exist too. Except that we stop believing in them as we realise what a crock they are. Some don't do the sam with these god myths though.
You'll find that OpenOffice.org opens Word files a lot better that Word opens up OpenOffice.org files.
And somehow this makes Word better!?
From TFA:
"My take is that 1127 probably reached Schiavo status when Rob, Presotto, et al. fled west to Google.
That expression is a tad insensitive, don't you think?
So in theory, as long as you don't start out with the assumption that divine revelation is bunk,
Translated means "as long as you assume devine revelation is true". That's the issue I have with most religionists - there is always an underlying assumption that something is true simply because it says it is.
Agreed. I'll often write string manipulation or file searching/parsing routines in c because a) it's easy to do, and b) it runs FAST (like 100Mb per data in less than 2 seconds).
Can't the editors do something so simple as spell check a word a 6 year old can spell?
What if you want it in english instead of american?
Tuxcards? Works well on KDE, I'm sure you could compile it on Windows if you really had to. Exports to html.
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You mean like our (NZ) taxation? probably no worse then anywhere else, but c'mon. 39%? Theives.