Your question is perfectly valid. I enjoy generalizing things and I hope that this is a good way to express things.
If you are an XP user you'll be accustomed to many Windows placements and ideas that have been carried over to KDE (start menu, placement of things in general). However KDE is cluttered and there is no central document that KDE developers can refer to in order to achieve proper usability. So they usually end up having applications with a lot of clutter. If you are familiar with usability tenets you'll know that giving users too many choices is the same as giving them none at all. Every option you give a user is a choice he has to make. Sometimes he doesn't want to make a choice, he just wants to get stuff done.
Gnome has the Human Interface Guideline'. The document is a comprehensive guide which can be used to do "higification" on an application. I find that most Gnome applications tend to follow the HIG and the result is a more consistent desktop. It takes some getting used to for Windows users though because things aren't "in their place". However once you spent a week using Gnome you find it hard going back to Windows. Many say the same about KDE but my personal opinion is that Gnome is despite being different than XP and will need a bit more getting used is the more usable Linux desktop around.
For anyone moving from Windows to Linux I recommend you arm yourself with patience and a good friend that can coach you through the change.
in IE. I also used http://www.danvine.com/icapture/ for safari testing but it seems to be down right now. In most cases if things work fine under a gecko based browser and Konqueror the rest will have no problem. Of course all the XHTML/CSS I create validates.
if you want the freedom to do whatever you want don't sign anything that allows you to see source code for free. It will stop you from being able to do anything you want with GPLed software.
Microsoft will use this to hurt the OSS community as they are seeing that SCO and others aren't as effective as they would like.
I couldn't agree more. Microsoft is a Napoleon type company. It tries to extend it's territory as far as possible and holds position on each of those grounds.
Just like Napoleon lost it's power grip in Waterloo, Microsoft will fail because of the lenght of time Longhorn will take to come out. Microsoft is attempting to spread FUD as a last resort. Within a decade we will see Microsoft's hold of power diminish wich is a great thing in my opinion!:)
everyone wants a piece of Microsoft? Seems like anyone who's somebody wants to grab a piece of Microsoft's monopoly even if it means giving it away to people for free.
I've been using Slack 9.1 now since it came out and honestly I can't remember having as many problems as he brings up. Aside from having to run alsactl to lower the volume a bit I had no problem whatsoever with sound and video. X ran out of the box too. I also used dropline gnome which is IMHO a great DE package.
how wrong you are.:) I've been using Google now for a while and I love it!:) The only thing I dislike about it compared to Hotmail is that I don't get email notifications. I think this is a big plus for Microsoft and it is the only thing that I find missing from the otherwise superior webmail.
Microsoft has plenty of ressources and offerings that Google isn't giving. For example MS can leverage their browser, they can package any picture software they want into their next OS or Service Pack, they have an IM which tells users when they receive an email from someone.
What Google needs to do is extend what it is offering and blow MS out of the water. If more companies join then MS will have to start playing fair or die.
Google, please:
1. package Firefox 1.0 with added features as the GoogleFox browser 2. make Picasa run on Linux and Mac 3. offer an IM ala Jabber that allows us to get email notification like MSN Messenger does. 4. extend your Gmail offering to other people than the limited bunch currently seen
Then and only then will Google's offerings be competing with MS. All of this can be done very cheaply and unless Google get's moving MS will crush them with Marketing power and their market power.
1. make your browser application fully standard compliant 2. tell users with problems that the problem they are experiencing is beyond your control and has to do with IE and Windows sucking so bad. 3. Let them know that CERT recommends they use something else than IE like Firefox. 4. tell your clients that with Firefox their unwanted popups will never appear.
Does this mean that Red Hat, Cobalt, Debian, Suse, Mandrake and Gentoo make up only 26% of all active Linux servers and that other distros take up 74%? Or does it mean that there may be more of these servers that just don't mention what they are to the world? Either way it doesn't much matter. As many slackware users have mentionned it doesn't matter what is most popular. What matters is that the Linux market grows and grows and grows.
"perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit."
Sadly I find our culture is all about working too much and not having enough free time to have a real culture. No wonder we have an attention deficit, we can't even sit down and have fun that the week end is already long gone.
unless the guy is cheating on Jeapordy he's way more respectable than what the Tour de France athletes are doing. If you've done any competitive cycling at a high level like I did you know the sport is laden with steroids and drugs. It's actually the sport where the new "undedectable" drugs first appear until they find a way to measure them.
Prostate problems have more chances of happening if someone uses steroids. Lance Amrstrong had prostate cancer. Many find it weird how he can actually still compete and be the best cyclist there is. Many believe that he's using drugs to enhance his performance that are still undedected.
oops sorry but the HTML formatted thing made my disapear. Here is the instructions in plain old text:
open up gconf-editor and edit the/apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 and set it to nautilus. Then edit/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/ and set it to <Mod4>e
Or if you prefer you can just run this from the command line (assumes you never mapped keys before):
if you use Gnome you can map the e keys to open up nautilus. All you have to do is open up gconf-editor and edit the/apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 and set it to nautilus. Then edit/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/ and set it to e and you can use Windows+E to open Nautilus!:)
"It's like saying all americans are fat and stupid: it's completely false, but it's funny."
If there weren't any fat and stupid Americans that statement would be *completely* false. Since there are lots of fat and stupid Americans the statement is somewhat true, therefore not *completely false*.
Also, I don't take account of the skinny but stupid or the fat but intelligent which also make up part of the American population. If anything the statement is a generalization and if anything it ain't funny but sad.
if your plugin system is well sandboxed it should be no problem at all. I am thankful for the effort. I'm sick and tired of plugins that work only half the time on half the systems.
and I have watched the news in two languages, in 5 countries around the world during the US/British push towards Iraq war. I looked at the news coming from the USA, Canada, England, France, Belgium and Australia as well as many articles from English and French online news sources.
Michael Moore is bringing to the big screen things that all American news sources ignored while the rest of the world knew perfectly well about it. If anything Moore is showing Americans that they have been duped by the US media. The facts he brings out were commonly seen in the rest of the world except the US. I'm talking about the staged elections, the blacks not being allowed to vote, the false "intelligence", the lacking weapons of mass desctruction, etc...
If anything Moore balances out the very biased news sources you guys have in the states with a refreshing bit of reality. This war was for oil and weapons money and Ben Laden has more chances of being unearth by France than by the US.
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If you are an XP user you'll be accustomed to many Windows placements and ideas that have been carried over to KDE (start menu, placement of things in general). However KDE is cluttered and there is no central document that KDE developers can refer to in order to achieve proper usability. So they usually end up having applications with a lot of clutter. If you are familiar with usability tenets you'll know that giving users too many choices is the same as giving them none at all. Every option you give a user is a choice he has to make. Sometimes he doesn't want to make a choice, he just wants to get stuff done.
Gnome has the Human Interface Guideline'. The document is a comprehensive guide which can be used to do "higification" on an application. I find that most Gnome applications tend to follow the HIG and the result is a more consistent desktop. It takes some getting used to for Windows users though because things aren't "in their place". However once you spent a week using Gnome you find it hard going back to Windows. Many say the same about KDE but my personal opinion is that Gnome is despite being different than XP and will need a bit more getting used is the more usable Linux desktop around.
For anyone moving from Windows to Linux I recommend you arm yourself with patience and a good friend that can coach you through the change.
in IE. I also used http://www.danvine.com/icapture/ for safari testing but it seems to be down right now. In most cases if things work fine under a gecko based browser and Konqueror the rest will have no problem. Of course all the XHTML/CSS I create validates.
if you want the freedom to do whatever you want don't sign anything that allows you to see source code for free. It will stop you from being able to do anything you want with GPLed software.
Microsoft will use this to hurt the OSS community as they are seeing that SCO and others aren't as effective as they would like.
Just like Napoleon lost it's power grip in Waterloo, Microsoft will fail because of the lenght of time Longhorn will take to come out. Microsoft is attempting to spread FUD as a last resort. Within a decade we will see Microsoft's hold of power diminish wich is a great thing in my opinion! :)
everyone wants a piece of Microsoft? Seems like anyone who's somebody wants to grab a piece of Microsoft's monopoly even if it means giving it away to people for free.
I'm surprised it's not called KsmbUmount!
Ducks!
I've been using Slack 9.1 now since it came out and honestly I can't remember having as many problems as he brings up. Aside from having to run alsactl to lower the volume a bit I had no problem whatsoever with sound and video. X ran out of the box too. I also used dropline gnome which is IMHO a great DE package.
cause we wanna be more intelligent toe.
how wrong you are. :) I've been using Google now for a while and I love it! :) The only thing I dislike about it compared to Hotmail is that I don't get email notifications. I think this is a big plus for Microsoft and it is the only thing that I find missing from the otherwise superior webmail.
Microsoft has plenty of ressources and offerings that Google isn't giving. For example MS can leverage their browser, they can package any picture software they want into their next OS or Service Pack, they have an IM which tells users when they receive an email from someone.
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What Google needs to do is extend what it is offering and blow MS out of the water. If more companies join then MS will have to start playing fair or die.
Google, please
1. package Firefox 1.0 with added features as the GoogleFox browser
2. make Picasa run on Linux and Mac
3. offer an IM ala Jabber that allows us to get email notification like MSN Messenger does.
4. extend your Gmail offering to other people than the limited bunch currently seen
Then and only then will Google's offerings be competing with MS. All of this can be done very cheaply and unless Google get's moving MS will crush them with Marketing power and their market power.
1. make your browser application fully standard compliant
2. tell users with problems that the problem they are experiencing is beyond your control and has to do with IE and Windows sucking so bad.
3. Let them know that CERT recommends they use something else than IE like Firefox.
4. tell your clients that with Firefox their unwanted popups will never appear.
26% of Linux Active Servers have a known distribution according to Netcraft (2003)
Does this mean that Red Hat, Cobalt, Debian, Suse, Mandrake and Gentoo make up only 26% of all active Linux servers and that other distros take up 74%? Or does it mean that there may be more of these servers that just don't mention what they are to the world? Either way it doesn't much matter. As many slackware users have mentionned it doesn't matter what is most popular. What matters is that the Linux market grows and grows and grows.
two wrongs don't make a right. Use Firefox, at least it will render properly designed web sites. ;)
Sadly I find our culture is all about working too much and not having enough free time to have a real culture. No wonder we have an attention deficit, we can't even sit down and have fun that the week end is already long gone.
Prostate problems have more chances of happening if someone uses steroids. Lance Amrstrong had prostate cancer. Many find it weird how he can actually still compete and be the best cyclist there is. Many believe that he's using drugs to enhance his performance that are still undedected.
oops sorry but the HTML formatted thing made my disapear. Here is the instructions in plain old text :
/apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 and set it to nautilus. Then edit /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/ and set it to <Mod4>e
/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_4 "<Mod4>i"; gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_4 "nautilus"
open up gconf-editor and edit the
Or if you prefer you can just run this from the command line (assumes you never mapped keys before):
gconftool-2 -t string -s
if you use Gnome you can map the e keys to open up nautilus. All you have to do is open up gconf-editor and edit the /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 and set it to nautilus. Then edit /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/ and set it to e and you can use Windows+E to open Nautilus! :)
cause I wouldn't want anyone to use my bugs for free!
If there weren't any fat and stupid Americans that statement would be *completely* false. Since there are lots of fat and stupid Americans the statement is somewhat true, therefore not *completely false*.
Also, I don't take account of the skinny but stupid or the fat but intelligent which also make up part of the American population. If anything the statement is a generalization and if anything it ain't funny but sad.
if your plugin system is well sandboxed it should be no problem at all. I am thankful for the effort. I'm sick and tired of plugins that work only half the time on half the systems.
why the rest of the world believes you are not living in a "free society". Maybe NATO should invade your country and free you for your opressors.
makes it hard to write laws that protect children. Americans need an amendment.
Michael Moore is bringing to the big screen things that all American news sources ignored while the rest of the world knew perfectly well about it. If anything Moore is showing Americans that they have been duped by the US media. The facts he brings out were commonly seen in the rest of the world except the US. I'm talking about the staged elections, the blacks not being allowed to vote, the false "intelligence", the lacking weapons of mass desctruction, etc...
If anything Moore balances out the very biased news sources you guys have in the states with a refreshing bit of reality. This war was for oil and weapons money and Ben Laden has more chances of being unearth by France than by the US.
Will it make my bread unstable?
I'm surprised they use a word which ressembles so much altitude.