...and since x doesn't enforce policy it should be possible to make a wm that would only show one window at a time, a single button click to call up a list of running apps (one might be an app manager). maybe the os could have the buttons on the ipaq respond as mouse buttons - x supports at least five mouse buttons.
in fact i recall a wm called the tile wm what would tile windows and not let them overlap.
if rob posts something to his site it is by definition on-topic. and it's ok, i'm fine with my normal crowd[0], no need to run around with "big kids." as far as being flame bait and a troll, it's my hope that the people who consider it to be so go back to whatever cave they came from and go do something useful[1].
[0] the "clueful and able to spell" gang.
[1] discovering fire would be wise for those in the norther hemisphere - winter is coming.
yeah and good education and good health care should be reserved for rich people. how dare they try to help out folks on lower income. and vote for bush if you'd like to stop spending on social services. go look at his record in texas on that score.
funny, i thought/. was rob site and therefore it was about whatever he wanted it to be about. apparently you're more knowledgable, please enlighten us.
"speaks primarily for the far-left wing of the "geek" population"
as opposed to the far-right? gee, i can see how easy it is to mesh "information should be free" with the far-right cry of "ban/burn the books!"
as much fun as it would be to be transborted to the golden ages of women at home, slaves tending the fields, "pawh" being the master of his home and being able to shoot first and ask questions later, most geeks i know have the following traits:
a) they live on planet earth
b) they paid attention in history class
c) they'd prefer it if the human race
evolved past the republicans core voters.
ah, yes, libertarianism american style. i thought the rich people already had enough money, you folks feel the need to get another party in power to get them more money? well, before you go and vote for people that seem to think big business will happily and ethically chug along w/o the government, i suggest you do a little reading.
that ralph nader guy, now there's someone who's got his head screwed on. that kindly big business known as the american auto industry fought safety features on cars tooth and nail till nader forced the gov't to force car companies to offer things like seat belts.
i'd like to see it more than here. the rest of the media is "objective." bullshit. every journalist, columnist and yahoo with a mike or a pen has an opinion. i'd rather know up front what that opinion is. i'd like to see a headline on msnbc "we like bush so much we gave him a million bucks." have americans gotten so positively thick that they can't form opinions uless they're fed info that they foolishly think is sterile and objective? as much as i loathed limbaugh and his nazi-esque hoarde at least you knew he was a power hungry fascist.
right on. a lot of people have been concerned in the past that andover was going to restrict rob and company's editorial freedom. i take it a whole bunch of deluded bush supporters trying to restrict rob's editorial freedom is fine? actually that type of double standard pretty much sums up republicans for me: we're all for people's freedoms - well, the right people of course...
i see it as a step in the right direction. people *CAN NOT BE OBJECTIVE*, and news outlets playing make believe that they are is looking more and more goofy everyday.
i want more news sites to be up-front and open about their biases so that way i don't have to guess.
of course it also helps that i'm viewing the presidential election from outside the usa for the first time and folks for the most part over here agree with rob's take on the election.
but i worked with one and he set up something similar for me with a flight sim game. a quadra 800 with a 21" monitor for the the front view, two single page view screens for the side and another single page view screen on the floor for bombing.
i always thought his comment upon learning that the women of paris at the time didn't wear underwear was rather good. "it's good to know that the gates to paradise are always open!"
we're worried that people with mr. mcveigh's morals might get in a position of power and use these tools in ways that would get less press then okc (and other evil acts) because they's get covered up and yet would be much more complete in their destruction.
six million jews were killed back in the late 30's, early 40's in no small part by using a variety of surveillence methods to capture them and by stopping the press from reporting them.
okc was terrible, but that was probably just a slow day in "the final solution." power should always be attached to a leash - a damn short one.
first of all, sun optical mice are ancient. so yes they're bulky and ugly. but i think it's important to comment on #3: why in gods name are you hooking up A MOUSE and A KEYBOARD to a server in a rack. it's a server, you connect to it via the net. is it having trouble and is off the net? then you go to the server room's vt220 and log in (via switch box or a terminal server). actually with the terminal server you can toss the vt220 and just connect to it.
worse comes to worse, take your pilot, hook *it* up and run a vt100 emulator.
hooking a keyboard and mouse up to a server. you'd need to have a monitor in your server room. no, don't tell me...
yes, lots of learning and lots of work, but in the end if all goes well they'll have... windows. i know it goes against billions of dollars worth of snazzy ads, but windows is an ancient, crappy, kludge.
take the fs for example. fat. go look at how it works on a technical level - and just skip bemoaning the 8.3 thing, it has a more fundamental flaw then that. look at the name - it uses a *table*!
a totally forked codebase. which windows - 95, 98, me, ce, nt, 2k? all of which have subtly (and not so subtly) different api's (and on a driver level, who boy!)
here's a few facts: the open windows project Is A Waste Of Time. the open windows project Will Not Succeed, in fact it's doubtful if it will Ever Boot.
i mean just think: it's taken linux 9 years to even come close to challenging it's competitors: other unicies. in that time the posix spec has been pretty constant. what's a place that's lagging? drivers. they're changing swiftly and they're not well documented.
now what is open windows trying to do? oh, that's right, implement an os that isn't documented, changes rapidly/randomly, that uses hardware that isn't documented and that changes rapidly. dumb, dumb, dumb.
yes, that's the challenge. but in order for the challenge to be met the solution would need to:
* work with multiple languages and cultures. * work predictibly
it's pretty easy to see how "open my wedding photos" works. but more complex interactions are harder.
and the lang/culture differences can't be stressed enough. i used to live in the states, but if i ask a female co-worker here in ireland on her way home "if i can have a ride," i'll get funny looks - since i've just asked if we could have sex.
and that's english. english dialects are different in ireland, the uk, india, australia, across america and canada and so on. the same for french and spanish.
and if any one is going to come up with a quality natural language voice recognition system it'll be china because they have a pressing demand for it (pardon the pun).
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...and since x doesn't enforce policy it should be possible to make a wm that would only show one window at a time, a single button click to call up a list of running apps (one might be an app manager). maybe the os could have the buttons on the ipaq respond as mouse buttons - x supports at least five mouse buttons.
in fact i recall a wm called the tile wm what would tile windows and not let them overlap.
if rob posts something to his site it is by definition on-topic. and it's ok, i'm fine with my normal crowd[0], no need to run around with "big kids." as far as being flame bait and a troll, it's my hope that the people who consider it to be so go back to whatever cave they came from and go do something useful[1].
[0] the "clueful and able to spell" gang.
[1] discovering fire would be wise for those in the norther hemisphere - winter is coming.
so it's the tyranny of twits that will take away rob's editorial freedom, not a takeover by andover. i'm not all that surprised...
how does removing dos command mode stop umsdos and other such things? they play on the fs, right?
i second both motions. when do we vote to make them laws? oh, one change - the evangilist watchers might have small heads, maybe just "IDIOT."
yeah and good education and good health care should be reserved for rich people. how dare they try to help out folks on lower income. and vote for bush if you'd like to stop spending on social services. go look at his record in texas on that score.
funny, i thought /. was rob site and therefore it was about whatever he wanted it to be about. apparently you're more knowledgable, please enlighten us.
"speaks primarily for the far-left wing of the "geek" population"
as opposed to the far-right? gee, i can see how easy it is to mesh "information should be free" with the far-right cry of "ban/burn the books!"
as much fun as it would be to be transborted to the golden ages of women at home, slaves tending the fields, "pawh" being the master of his home and being able to shoot first and ask questions later, most geeks i know have the following traits:
a) they live on planet earth
b) they paid attention in history class
c) they'd prefer it if the human race
evolved past the republicans core voters.
and you base this comment on?
ah, yes, libertarianism american style. i thought the rich people already had enough money, you folks feel the need to get another party in power to get them more money? well, before you go and vote for people that seem to think big business will happily and ethically chug along w/o the government, i suggest you do a little reading.
that ralph nader guy, now there's someone who's got his head screwed on. that kindly big business known as the american auto industry fought safety features on cars tooth and nail till nader forced the gov't to force car companies to offer things like seat belts.
for another texan's opinion on gwb, read molly ivins.
i'd like to see it more than here. the rest of the media is "objective." bullshit. every journalist, columnist and yahoo with a mike or a pen has an opinion. i'd rather know up front what that opinion is. i'd like to see a headline on msnbc "we like bush so much we gave him a million bucks." have americans gotten so positively thick that they can't form opinions uless they're fed info that they foolishly think is sterile and objective? as much as i loathed limbaugh and his nazi-esque hoarde at least you knew he was a power hungry fascist.
right on. a lot of people have been concerned in the past that andover was going to restrict rob and company's editorial freedom. i take it a whole bunch of deluded bush supporters trying to restrict rob's editorial freedom is fine? actually that type of double standard pretty much sums up republicans for me: we're all for people's freedoms - well, the right people of course...
i see it as a step in the right direction. people *CAN NOT BE OBJECTIVE*, and news outlets playing make believe that they are is looking more and more goofy everyday.
i want more news sites to be up-front and open about their biases so that way i don't have to guess.
of course it also helps that i'm viewing the presidential election from outside the usa for the first time and folks for the most part over here agree with rob's take on the election.
ok, i've got 128megs of ram, a 3gig drive, and a peppy celeron. if i need more storage i have big servers at home and work. but...
i have an 800x600 screen.
can't really change that. but gnome apps seem to want/expect 1024x768. open the control panel. look at the gnome gpg tool.
please, please, PLEASE remember us laptop users. please.
but i worked with one and he set up something similar for me with a flight sim game. a quadra 800 with a 21" monitor for the the front view, two single page view screens for the side and another single page view screen on the floor for bombing.
in all the whole thing was pretty cool.
the year? why it was 1993...
i always thought his comment upon learning that the women of paris at the time didn't wear underwear was rather good. "it's good to know that the gates to paradise are always open!"
of course that could be a misquote as well.
we're worried that people with mr. mcveigh's morals might get in a position of power and use these tools in ways that would get less press then okc (and other evil acts) because they's get covered up and yet would be much more complete in their destruction.
six million jews were killed back in the late 30's, early 40's in no small part by using a variety of surveillence methods to capture them and by stopping the press from reporting them.
okc was terrible, but that was probably just a slow day in "the final solution." power should always be attached to a leash - a damn short one.
first of all, sun optical mice are ancient. so yes they're bulky and ugly. but i think it's important to comment on #3: why in gods name are you hooking up A MOUSE and A KEYBOARD to a server in a rack. it's a server, you connect to it via the net. is it having trouble and is off the net? then you go to the server room's vt220 and log in (via switch box or a terminal server). actually with the terminal server you can toss the vt220 and just connect to it.
worse comes to worse, take your pilot, hook *it* up and run a vt100 emulator.
hooking a keyboard and mouse up to a server. you'd need to have a monitor in your server room. no, don't tell me...
then use a good level of encryption. i don't think any company is exercising due dilligance if they aren't encrypting their email.
use gpg or pgp. use mailers like pine, mutt or eudora that support them.
then they should use encryption. use gpg or pgp. use mailers like pine, mutt or eudora that support them.
use gpg or pgp. use mailers like pine, mutt or eudora that support them.
yes, lots of learning and lots of work, but in the end if all goes well they'll have... windows. i know it goes against billions of dollars worth of snazzy ads, but windows is an ancient, crappy, kludge.
take the fs for example. fat. go look at how it works on a technical level - and just skip bemoaning the 8.3 thing, it has a more fundamental flaw then that. look at the name - it uses a *table*!
a totally forked codebase. which windows - 95, 98, me, ce, nt, 2k? all of which have subtly (and not so subtly) different api's (and on a driver level, who boy!)
here's a few facts: the open windows project Is A Waste Of Time. the open windows project Will Not Succeed, in fact it's doubtful if it will Ever Boot.
i mean just think: it's taken linux 9 years to even come close to challenging it's competitors: other unicies. in that time the posix spec has been pretty constant. what's a place that's lagging? drivers. they're changing swiftly and they're not well documented.
now what is open windows trying to do? oh, that's right, implement an os that isn't documented, changes rapidly/randomly, that uses hardware that isn't documented and that changes rapidly. dumb, dumb, dumb.
yes, that's the challenge. but in order for the challenge to be met the solution would need to:
* work with multiple languages and cultures.
* work predictibly
it's pretty easy to see how "open my wedding photos" works. but more complex interactions are harder.
and the lang/culture differences can't be stressed enough. i used to live in the states, but if i ask a female co-worker here in ireland on her way home "if i can have a ride," i'll get funny looks - since i've just asked if we could have sex.
and that's english. english dialects are different in ireland, the uk, india, australia, across america and canada and so on. the same for french and spanish.
and if any one is going to come up with a quality natural language voice recognition system it'll be china because they have a pressing demand for it (pardon the pun).
the riaa is a world wide org. it's affecting more people then the folks washington claims to speak for.