This is why I always advocated "No Internal Cross-Subsidisation" as a term of monopoly settlement for Microsoft. Then each unit would have to compete and be profitable in its own way, and they couldn't use massive profits in one area to kill off competitors in other areas.
That'd mean that a lot of geeks wouldn't have cheap XBox Linux servers now though. Dunno why they'd want them though, not when modern motherboards with a processor, memory, etc, cost about the same and run faster (e.g. Asrock mobo + 1.6GHz Duron + RAM + cheap HD + cheap case)
Hmmm, maybe you could drag icons onto the tab of another folder to move the file that the icon represents there.
Dunno, I don't use file managers that much! Command line all the way, heh.
Directory Opus for the Amiga was a good file manager in my opinion. I wouldn't mind one that looked and operated like that, whilst being modern. Hmmm...
True Spatial Navigation is quite good really. As long as you have options for opening the parent folder, and autoclosing the parent folder when opening a new folder to keep clutter down.... and of course, the option to disable it completely if you want an explorer like UI.
Not quite, because Windows will happily open two windows pointing to the same location, whereas a spatial interface will only have one window for a certain location in the filesystem. If you open ~/pr0n/, it will open in the same place as the last time you opened it, and if you have it open already, then it will merely be brought to the front and activated.
This makes it a lot more simple. I hope it has a facility for opening the parent window if it isn't open though.
The defining characteristic of spatial navigation is that a folder window IS the folder. That's why there cannot be two windows on screen that show the same folder, and why there are no navigation controls.
So as I said elsewhere... pretty much like AmigaOS / Workbench back in 1985.
I'm thinking a tabbed file browser is the solution! Oh wait, Konqueror already has that option. Konqueror just rules, basically... apart from some HTML issues, the recent versions have been solid and functional.
Yay for tabs.
(yeah, I know they aren't the solution to everything... but I'm sure a lot of tabs (of acid) could have averted a few wars in the past if applied to the right people at the right time)
I just didn't want to do the research to find good, but reasonable resource usage applications. I can do the same with FreeBSD if I was to do it myself (yay for ports and sysinstall).
I'd really appreciate a low-processor / memory linux distribution with a nice default configuration.
It'd be perfect for my old laptop which is currently running Fluxbox, but not to the usability level I desire. KDE and Gnome clearly aren't options, although KDE can struggle along since I upgraded the memory on it.
WindowMaker is nice... it just has no integration with anything, so the user has to configure every aspect, including the menus!
hehe! Actually I'd like a built-in wallpaper manager that integrates with browsers etc ("Set as desktop background" should be "Add to wallpaper collection")... it is so limiting on all current desktops (windows, gnome, kde, etc). A small preferences program to control the background behaviour (cycle every X minutes, fixed, on virtual desktop Y, etc). KDE Control Panel is nearly there I suppose, just needs a usable API for wallpapers and stuff.
Ah, that looks a lot better! Lots of navigational facilities (common locations (Home, etc), bookmarks, then a list of clickable directories to your location, then a list of files! Nice.
The best file selector in my opinion ever, was the ASL file requestor on the Amiga. It just worked (tm). Whilst the old GTK file selector was the worst I have ever had the misfortune to use, none of the others come close - Windows is annoyingly cludgy still (at least it is resizable now). KDE's isn't that bad though, certainly a lot better than a lot of the others.
Then again, I think that the Amiga did a lot of things right for the desktop part of the OS, and in many underlying areas. Not bad for such an old, quickly written system.
I guess I'll never be a Gnome user. What is the fascination with muddy colours?
Anyway, the new Nautilus looks usable now, because it operates in a sane manner just like on every other operating system since the mid-80's! "Spatial" indeed, it is just another "new window for a new folder" scheme.
The rest of the stuff looks pretty grim as well. Nice that some applications are getting integrated (Evolution with the clock, etc)... but that shouldn't be anything amazing in itself.
Well, best of luck to them and their brick-like UI. Many people seem to like it, so it is nice that there is an option for them:D
Sorry kids, due to budget limitations this year we can't afford any books and you'll be taught in classes of 90... but check out the playarea at lunch!
A good idea though, given that a 3" external disk drive for other computers ran to 200 and was pretty damned large (e.g., the Amstrad FD1, etc)... 80 + 5 a tape is a pretty good compromise. Shame it wasn't terribly reliable.
A bit more thought and design might have created a more reliable device, maybe with less capacity, but maybe cheaper. Ah well...
Thanks. EB also have stores in the UK, and they will hopefully also lose out from this, as I'm sure a lot of UK based Slashdotters do shop there, and hopefully will not in the future.
After reading that your are little more than a front for fencing stolen goods, I will no longer be using your stores to purchase computer game related services.
I find your attitude to be terrible, and I hope that this story spreads around until the company goes bust, like it deserves to be for having no morality, and for being completely ignorant about the law.
Chapter 538 of the Florida Statutes..
(2)When the lawful owner recovers stolen property from a secondhand dealer and the person who sold or pledged the stolen property to the secondhand dealer is convicted of theft, a violation of this section, or dealing in stolen property, the court shall order the defendant to make restitution to the secondhand dealer pursuant to s. 775.089.
Sounds like an issue with NX bit implementation on A64... this protects memory that is tagged as data from being executed (which protects against buffer overrun exploits, which are 50% of the MS security issues). This would affect.NET, Java, etc. However I'm sure that there is a way to fix this for these types of application!
Regardless, enforcing decent security like this is good.
Now all the hackers will have to try other methods of hacking windows, heh. I'm sure that there is no shortage of them!
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These are completely different products!
Size: Neuros: Go anywhere size: 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz. iPodMini: 3.6 by 2.0 by 0.5 inches
So 21.4 cubic inches vs 3.6 cubic inches... Why are you even bothering to compare the two products? Even the normal iPod is only 6.1 cubic inches!
Weight: N: 9.4oz. i: 3.6 ounces
Just over 1/3rd the weight. One of these is portable. The other one should be remade into a car stereo format and a home stereo component format.
Data Transmission: N: Full speed USB 1.1 i: Firewire or USB2
Enjoy waiting 30x longer per MB to fill up the Neuros
Battery life is similar (10hrs vs 8 hrs), charge time is horrible on Neuros (8 hours, vs 3hours for iPod).
Looks: Neuros is butt ugly, a Vogon or a geek must have designed it.
I'd happily pay for an iPod mini if I could spare the money, but I wouldn't touch the Neuros. The orange screen looks kinda cool though.
I had it working fine in Firebird beforehand. Then I gave up on Flash until I wanted to view the graphs on Anandtech. It is nice that the latest Flash installer recognises Firefox as a browser, no more copying the flash player libraries around.
Oddly enough, the Flash Click To Play is now working, so no more worries at the moment.
Firefox does have a habit of munching up memory though. Odd. It isn't as satisfying as Firebird 0.7 was.
Dunno about that bland Annie Lennox song... A Mighty Wind's At The End of the Rainbow was a much better song, IMO. However in all other respects the film deserved the awards.
Note: Ben Hur was nominated for 12, and Titanic was nominated for 14... so LOTR:ROTK is the first (to win 11) to win all the awards it was nominated for.
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This is why I always advocated "No Internal Cross-Subsidisation" as a term of monopoly settlement for Microsoft. Then each unit would have to compete and be profitable in its own way, and they couldn't use massive profits in one area to kill off competitors in other areas.
That'd mean that a lot of geeks wouldn't have cheap XBox Linux servers now though. Dunno why they'd want them though, not when modern motherboards with a processor, memory, etc, cost about the same and run faster (e.g. Asrock mobo + 1.6GHz Duron + RAM + cheap HD + cheap case)
I might not have thought this through completely!
Hmmm, maybe you could drag icons onto the tab of another folder to move the file that the icon represents there.
Dunno, I don't use file managers that much! Command line all the way, heh.
Directory Opus for the Amiga was a good file manager in my opinion. I wouldn't mind one that looked and operated like that, whilst being modern. Hmmm...
Maybe they never used Windows 95 either!
... and of course, the option to disable it completely if you want an explorer like UI.
True Spatial Navigation is quite good really. As long as you have options for opening the parent folder, and autoclosing the parent folder when opening a new folder to keep clutter down.
Not quite, because Windows will happily open two windows pointing to the same location, whereas a spatial interface will only have one window for a certain location in the filesystem. If you open ~/pr0n/, it will open in the same place as the last time you opened it, and if you have it open already, then it will merely be brought to the front and activated.
This makes it a lot more simple. I hope it has a facility for opening the parent window if it isn't open though.
So as I said elsewhere
I'm thinking a tabbed file browser is the solution! Oh wait, Konqueror already has that option. Konqueror just rules, basically ... apart from some HTML issues, the recent versions have been solid and functional.
... but I'm sure a lot of tabs (of acid) could have averted a few wars in the past if applied to the right people at the right time)
Yay for tabs.
(yeah, I know they aren't the solution to everything
Thanks for the window manager recommendation.
I just didn't want to do the research to find good, but reasonable resource usage applications. I can do the same with FreeBSD if I was to do it myself (yay for ports and sysinstall).
I'd really appreciate a low-processor / memory linux distribution with a nice default configuration.
... it just has no integration with anything, so the user has to configure every aspect, including the menus!
It'd be perfect for my old laptop which is currently running Fluxbox, but not to the usability level I desire. KDE and Gnome clearly aren't options, although KDE can struggle along since I upgraded the memory on it.
WindowMaker is nice
hehe! Actually I'd like a built-in wallpaper manager that integrates with browsers etc ("Set as desktop background" should be "Add to wallpaper collection") ... it is so limiting on all current desktops (windows, gnome, kde, etc). A small preferences program to control the background behaviour (cycle every X minutes, fixed, on virtual desktop Y, etc). KDE Control Panel is nearly there I suppose, just needs a usable API for wallpapers and stuff.
Ah, that looks a lot better! Lots of navigational facilities (common locations (Home, etc), bookmarks, then a list of clickable directories to your location, then a list of files! Nice.
The best file selector in my opinion ever, was the ASL file requestor on the Amiga. It just worked (tm). Whilst the old GTK file selector was the worst I have ever had the misfortune to use, none of the others come close - Windows is annoyingly cludgy still (at least it is resizable now). KDE's isn't that bad though, certainly a lot better than a lot of the others.
Then again, I think that the Amiga did a lot of things right for the desktop part of the OS, and in many underlying areas. Not bad for such an old, quickly written system.
I guess I'll never be a Gnome user. What is the fascination with muddy colours?
... but that shouldn't be anything amazing in itself.
:D
Anyway, the new Nautilus looks usable now, because it operates in a sane manner just like on every other operating system since the mid-80's! "Spatial" indeed, it is just another "new window for a new folder" scheme.
The rest of the stuff looks pretty grim as well. Nice that some applications are getting integrated (Evolution with the clock, etc)
Well, best of luck to them and their brick-like UI. Many people seem to like it, so it is nice that there is an option for them
Sorry kids, due to budget limitations this year we can't afford any books and you'll be taught in classes of 90 ... but check out the playarea at lunch!
A good idea though, given that a 3" external disk drive for other computers ran to 200 and was pretty damned large (e.g., the Amstrad FD1, etc) ... 80 + 5 a tape is a pretty good compromise. Shame it wasn't terribly reliable.
...
A bit more thought and design might have created a more reliable device, maybe with less capacity, but maybe cheaper. Ah well
Shows how much Slashdot checks a post before it hits the front page ...
Quite possibly ... under an NX enabled OS. You'd have to use abovementioned ways around it.
... I'm not familiar with Python, sadly (I'm a perl whore). So I'm not certain about variables that are interpreters, etc.
However
Sounds like an issue with NX bit implementation on A64 ... this protects memory that is tagged as data from being executed (which protects against buffer overrun exploits, which are 50% of the MS security issues). This would affect .NET, Java, etc. However I'm sure that there is a way to fix this for these types of application!
Regardless, enforcing decent security like this is good.
Now all the hackers will have to try other methods of hacking windows, heh. I'm sure that there is no shortage of them!
These are completely different products!
... Why are you even bothering to compare the two products? Even the normal iPod is only 6.1 cubic inches!
Size:
Neuros: Go anywhere size: 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz.
iPodMini: 3.6 by 2.0 by 0.5 inches
So 21.4 cubic inches vs 3.6 cubic inches
Weight:
N: 9.4oz.
i: 3.6 ounces
Just over 1/3rd the weight. One of these is portable. The other one should be remade into a car stereo format and a home stereo component format.
Data Transmission:
N: Full speed USB 1.1
i: Firewire or USB2
Enjoy waiting 30x longer per MB to fill up the Neuros
Battery life is similar (10hrs vs 8 hrs), charge time is horrible on Neuros (8 hours, vs 3hours for iPod).
Looks: Neuros is butt ugly, a Vogon or a geek must have designed it.
I'd happily pay for an iPod mini if I could spare the money, but I wouldn't touch the Neuros. The orange screen looks kinda cool though.
In the UK, Car Maintainence is now part of the driving test (apparently), and deals with things like oil changes, etc...
I mean, is it really that much of a problem to have a bonnet? What is the whole problem?!
I had it working fine in Firebird beforehand. Then I gave up on Flash until I wanted to view the graphs on Anandtech. It is nice that the latest Flash installer recognises Firefox as a browser, no more copying the flash player libraries around.
Oddly enough, the Flash Click To Play is now working, so no more worries at the moment.
Firefox does have a habit of munching up memory though. Odd. It isn't as satisfying as Firebird 0.7 was.
Flash Click To View doesn't work on Firefox sadly. Which is a real shame.
(Yes, I restarted the browser after installing, it shows up as an installed enabled extension, and it does absolutely nothing)
Dunno about that bland Annie Lennox song ... A Mighty Wind's At The End of the Rainbow was a much better song, IMO. However in all other respects the film deserved the awards.
... so LOTR:ROTK is the first (to win 11) to win all the awards it was nominated for.
Note: Ben Hur was nominated for 12, and Titanic was nominated for 14
Hmmm, if they use one of Toshiba's new 0.85" hard drives on it ... a gig or so.
...
How fast does the PXA255 on this device run? I wonder how many pages/e-mails/etc a second it could serve
This whole AMD is hotter than Intel thing was true when Intel's flagship processor was the cool (relatively) PIII.
The P4 generates more heat than the Athlon (any variant) for the same performance.
It is such an old, and incorrect joke it isn't even funny anymore.