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... It's faster, has better integration (kwallet, addressbook, etc), DCOP, and Konqueror URIs are wicked cool (man:/find)... That plus the latest Baghira theme/window behavior makes it OSXy enough for me.. I _love_ kicker popups (integrating with kopete, apollon, juk, etc) and all the other candy that I expect in my GUI.
I'd like to see konqi cleaned up a bit (every app's first menu should be 'file', I'm sorry) and a few of the 'political' decisions in apps are impediments (kmail IMAP filters via headers vs sieve, kopete tray popups should display connected buddies, etc), but I'd rather run it than GNOME any day.
Face it, CPUs in smartfones now and shortly arriving compare favorably to general-purpose PCs of about 6 years ago, so in theory you could have a VGA out as part of a proprietary 'docking' connector and use your phone as a computer. Why _shouldn't_ it handle all the trivial stuff 80% of computers are used for (email, web, IM, mp3 playback) that can be handled handily in 200MHz?
However, PDAs really need voice recognition and natural-language HWR, and smartphones _reaalllyy_ need voice recognition.
BTW, with the Zaurus, is the USB support general-purpose or is it crippled to sync only? I mean, can you hook a Zaurus up to a USB hub and use USB hard drives, USB audio adapters, USB wifi, etc?
This "Select to copy and middle button to paste" thing irritates me quite a bit, especially because I have a two button mouse (I would consider linux unusable if not for chordmiddle).
Get a scroll mouse!
(how do you switch weapons in UT2k4 without it?)/remapped MX700 for ut2k4;)
All you have to do is move to New York City. According to our modest mayor, we have the safest city in America (all thanks to him of course).
Er, no, it's all thanks to Giuliani, Kelly, Bratton and COMPSTAT. Bloomberg is actually pretty damn humble compared to Rudy, but then again, who isn't?
Seriously though, I cannot tell you the number of times I've seen some dork on the subway with an iPod, laptop, or expensive PDA, cell, or watch. And these idiots wonder why they get mugged?!?!?
But in NYC, they pretty much aren't..
If you need to carry these items around, CONCEAL them when in public (i.e. subway, bad neighborhood, etc...). Doing anything else is asking for trouble (and possibly deserving it).
And pretty girls should wear burkhas or else they're asking to get raped.
.. London is crap for personal security. NYC is much safer, and offers similar bad weather, traffic, and personal rights suppression. Oh, and it's cheaper to live here than in London, especially if you drive anywhere.
Seriously, our cops are badass, they'll shove a plunger up your ass if you look at them funny. It may not be fair or nice, but it gives common criminals pause. No touchy-feely crap, no tolerance for nonsense, and the result of Giuliani-time is writ large in record-breaking crime lowering statistics. Our cops are underpaid, overstressed, lower in numbers and street strength thanks to unaddressed attrition and antiterror duties, and yet crime is _still going down_! I like to think Giuliani lanced the boil and Kelly cleaned up and made nice with the lower income 'hoods.
Oh, and our cops have guns, and they'll shoot you even if you pull your _wallet_ out too fast, so you bet criminals are on their guard...
If you're going to stay in London, pack your gear up and dress like a bum or go visit Boris the Blade for a nice heavy illegal revolver. Perhaps you can hit them with it.
So, no need for nukes! Don't underestimate what thirty or so years of continued innovation on PV and materials science and nanotech will produce.
We don't have 30 years.
Nukes = practical hydrogen economy. Embrace the atom.
(Unless you're going to do the orbiting solar power laser thing, which would be 1000x cooler and more expensive to build (but cheaper in the long run))...
If we don't learn very quickly to put aside differences and work towards real peace, I fear we won't be celebrating the coming of the 22nd century, because we won't be around any more.
You write as if our foes are logical, rational human beings. They're not. They're sick fucking psychos who need to be destroyed if our way of life is to survive. It's us or them, as they've demonstrated. I vote us.
Real peace is when all people who don't believe in freedom, tolerance and democracy are dead. Not before.
What's the use of a gun that fires a million rounds per minute when you're trying to control a riot?
Area denial, instead of mines. Projectile interception, particularly mortars and RPGs.
Overwhelming weapon superiority does not work in Iraq; I don't think further increasing this superiority will work better.
Then you agree with Rumsfeld, who was instrumental in killing oldthink pork programs (Crusader, Comanche, etc). OTOH, research is absolutely necessary to reduce good-guy casualties, improve intelligence, and provide all those neat spinoffs we so enjoy (like the internet, high-speed digital computers, high-tech materials, etc.)
Is making missiles and weapons what America is proud of ?
But of course. If you don't like it, turn off your computer and disconnect your internet. Those came courtesy of our 'missiles and weapons' research, thank you very much.
You CANNOT buy a new passenger diesel car in 2004 in states which follow CARB regulations (instead of EPA regs) Those states are CA, NY, VT, MA, and ME.
Technically, you could buy a new diesel in NJ or CT and register it in NY if your original car was totaled or stolen. So, in theory, you could buy a cheap junker, drive it to jersey, have it 'stolen', walk to your MB or VW dealer and buy a nice new diesel...
There is a lot of opposition from all the trucking unions and lobbying from the transport companies over cleaner diesel, since it costs a little more then dirty diesel it would cut into there bottom line. Not sure if we will ever see it.
I believe the latest word is 2007. Also, older diesel vehicles may need refitting for use with no-sulfur diesel (ala no-lead gasoline), and newer inorganic fuel lines and gaskets for use with biodiesel.
Still, give 'em a big enough deduction to cover the costs and they'll shut up.
Interesting note: ANY diesel vehicle, AFAIK, can be converted to biodiesel.
Biodiesel requires no special conversion process: the formulation of the fuel already does the work of any conversion. However, older diesels (like mine) often need to replace inorganic components like gaskets and fuel lines since biodiesel is more likely to degrade them. B20 (20% bio) can run in any unmodified diesel vehicle, and any VW TDI or Mercedes CDI can run B100 no problem.
Bio is also over 3$ a gallon. Thats over 43$ a tank of gas!
Err, gas in the US is gettin there (and in Hawaii it's already there)...
Considering we should be slapping a Gulf War tax on every gallon of gasoline sold, perhaps homegrown fuel would be less of a 'sacrifice'..
(frankly we should put a war tax on gasoline and subsidize biofuels, removing agricultural subsidies that are alleviated by increased pricing due to legitimate demand and giving 3rd world agribiz better access to our markets... but that's another rant..)
Given that MAPI documentation is rather thin on the ground, this is HUGE NEWS to those who would build open MAPI<->IMAP connectors, and push Exchange out of the mix.
OR... Perhaps Novell's going to offer a dual-license Exchange substitute that doesn't suck as hard as Oracle? That would be epic, and would find a home immediately where I work...
Have you ever filled up/tmp on a Sun and had the system crash (or go unresponsive, or lose sshd)?
When building a server, I typically use swapfiles and create a/tmp filesystem. The convenience of tmpfs is heavily trumped by the remote possibility of a colossal system fuckup by runaway procs, downloads, etc hosing swap.
They also need to stop pussyfooting around and include a free real LVM instead of pushing Veritas.
Solaris9 improved matters a bit with forcedirectio and soft partitions, but it's still too jinky compared with OSes that have integrated LVM such as AIX.
LVM needs to be the default bootable filesystem, and they should include hot-spare failover 2-box system clustering at least for free as well.
I gotta say tho I'm interested in the 'grid containers' coming in 10, looks like UML to me, though they'd be better if you could migrate a given container env across systems without downtime...
Your choices on the other hand are: go with the KDE default. Not exactly the break from the desktop you seemed to advocate....
Until the 'anointed' apps have stuff like DCOP interfaces, desktop notification, KDE theme support, etc.. I'll stick with the KDE stuff. I like kicker popups, they're almost as slick as OS X bouncing dock icons.
OTOH I'd get out of Kopete and KMail in a NY minute if the freedesktop apps built in that KDE integration, if only to avoid the philosophical issues related to those apps... (filtering IMAP by header is wrong because 'it's supposed to be done in sieve'? FUCK THAT! Behave like Mozilla mail!!!!!!)
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... It's faster, has better integration (kwallet, addressbook, etc), DCOP, and Konqueror URIs are wicked cool (man:/find)... That plus the latest Baghira theme/window behavior makes it OSXy enough for me.. I _love_ kicker popups (integrating with kopete, apollon, juk, etc) and all the other candy that I expect in my GUI.
I'd like to see konqi cleaned up a bit (every app's first menu should be 'file', I'm sorry) and a few of the 'political' decisions in apps are impediments (kmail IMAP filters via headers vs sieve, kopete tray popups should display connected buddies, etc), but I'd rather run it than GNOME any day.
Who needs a hummer?
Who _doesn't_?
(ohhh, you meant the _SUV_...)
Face it, CPUs in smartfones now and shortly arriving compare favorably to general-purpose PCs of about 6 years ago, so in theory you could have a VGA out as part of a proprietary 'docking' connector and use your phone as a computer. Why _shouldn't_ it handle all the trivial stuff 80% of computers are used for (email, web, IM, mp3 playback) that can be handled handily in 200MHz?
However, PDAs really need voice recognition and natural-language HWR, and smartphones _reaalllyy_ need voice recognition.
BTW, with the Zaurus, is the USB support general-purpose or is it crippled to sync only? I mean, can you hook a Zaurus up to a USB hub and use USB hard drives, USB audio adapters, USB wifi, etc?
Um, I'm a student. What money do you propose I pay for this mouse with?
$10-15 for a mouse? Sell some blood or something.. Skip a case of beer or wait until Harry Potter comes out in a second run theater.
Where there's a will, there's a way...
This "Select to copy and middle button to paste" thing irritates me quite a bit, especially because I have a two button mouse (I would consider linux unusable if not for chordmiddle).
/remapped MX700 for ut2k4 ;)
Get a scroll mouse!
(how do you switch weapons in UT2k4 without it?)
All you have to do is move to New York City. According to our modest mayor, we have the safest city in America (all thanks to him of course).
Er, no, it's all thanks to Giuliani, Kelly, Bratton and COMPSTAT. Bloomberg is actually pretty damn humble compared to Rudy, but then again, who isn't?
Seriously though, I cannot tell you the number of times I've seen some dork on the subway with an iPod, laptop, or expensive PDA, cell, or watch. And these idiots wonder why they get mugged?!?!?
But in NYC, they pretty much aren't..
If you need to carry these items around, CONCEAL them when in public (i.e. subway, bad neighborhood, etc...). Doing anything else is asking for trouble (and possibly deserving it).
And pretty girls should wear burkhas or else they're asking to get raped.
.. London is crap for personal security. NYC is much safer, and offers similar bad weather, traffic, and personal rights suppression. Oh, and it's cheaper to live here than in London, especially if you drive anywhere.
Seriously, our cops are badass, they'll shove a plunger up your ass if you look at them funny. It may not be fair or nice, but it gives common criminals pause. No touchy-feely crap, no tolerance for nonsense, and the result of Giuliani-time is writ large in record-breaking crime lowering statistics. Our cops are underpaid, overstressed, lower in numbers and street strength thanks to unaddressed attrition and antiterror duties, and yet crime is _still going down_! I like to think Giuliani lanced the boil and Kelly cleaned up and made nice with the lower income 'hoods.
Oh, and our cops have guns, and they'll shoot you even if you pull your _wallet_ out too fast, so you bet criminals are on their guard...
If you're going to stay in London, pack your gear up and dress like a bum or go visit Boris the Blade for a nice heavy illegal revolver. Perhaps you can hit them with it.
So, no need for nukes! Don't underestimate what thirty or so years of continued innovation on PV and materials science and nanotech will produce.
We don't have 30 years.
Nukes = practical hydrogen economy. Embrace the atom.
(Unless you're going to do the orbiting solar power laser thing, which would be 1000x cooler and more expensive to build (but cheaper in the long run))...
If we don't learn very quickly to put aside differences and work towards real peace, I fear we won't be celebrating the coming of the 22nd century, because we won't be around any more.
You write as if our foes are logical, rational human beings. They're not. They're sick fucking psychos who need to be destroyed if our way of life is to survive. It's us or them, as they've demonstrated. I vote us.
Real peace is when all people who don't believe in freedom, tolerance and democracy are dead. Not before.
What's the use of a gun that fires a million rounds per minute when you're trying to control a riot?
Area denial, instead of mines. Projectile interception, particularly mortars and RPGs.
Overwhelming weapon superiority does not work in Iraq; I don't think further increasing this superiority will work better.
Then you agree with Rumsfeld, who was instrumental in killing oldthink pork programs (Crusader, Comanche, etc). OTOH, research is absolutely necessary to reduce good-guy casualties, improve intelligence, and provide all those neat spinoffs we so enjoy (like the internet, high-speed digital computers, high-tech materials, etc.)
Is making missiles and weapons what America is proud of ?
But of course. If you don't like it, turn off your computer and disconnect your internet. Those came courtesy of our 'missiles and weapons' research, thank you very much.
Frigging pinkos.
You CANNOT buy a new passenger diesel car in 2004 in states which follow CARB regulations (instead of EPA regs) Those states are CA, NY, VT, MA, and ME.
Technically, you could buy a new diesel in NJ or CT and register it in NY if your original car was totaled or stolen. So, in theory, you could buy a cheap junker, drive it to jersey, have it 'stolen', walk to your MB or VW dealer and buy a nice new diesel...
There is a lot of opposition from all the trucking unions and lobbying from the transport companies over cleaner diesel, since it costs a little more then dirty diesel it would cut into there bottom line. Not sure if we will ever see it.
I believe the latest word is 2007. Also, older diesel vehicles may need refitting for use with no-sulfur diesel (ala no-lead gasoline), and newer inorganic fuel lines and gaskets for use with biodiesel.
Still, give 'em a big enough deduction to cover the costs and they'll shut up.
Interesting note: ANY diesel vehicle, AFAIK, can be converted to biodiesel.
Biodiesel requires no special conversion process: the formulation of the fuel already does the work of any conversion. However, older diesels (like mine) often need to replace inorganic components like gaskets and fuel lines since biodiesel is more likely to degrade them. B20 (20% bio) can run in any unmodified diesel vehicle, and any VW TDI or Mercedes CDI can run B100 no problem.
Bio is also over 3$ a gallon. Thats over 43$ a tank of gas!
Err, gas in the US is gettin there (and in Hawaii it's already there)...
Considering we should be slapping a Gulf War tax on every gallon of gasoline sold, perhaps homegrown fuel would be less of a 'sacrifice'..
(frankly we should put a war tax on gasoline and subsidize biofuels, removing agricultural subsidies that are alleviated by increased pricing due to legitimate demand and giving 3rd world agribiz better access to our markets... but that's another rant..)
... last year or so...
Farm Sluts
bwahaha!
Given that MAPI documentation is rather thin on the ground, this is HUGE NEWS to those who would build open MAPI<->IMAP connectors, and push Exchange out of the mix.
OR... Perhaps Novell's going to offer a dual-license Exchange substitute that doesn't suck as hard as Oracle? That would be epic, and would find a home immediately where I work...
I think the instant you can get something from or installed by a major vendor, that thing is no longer cool.
Wrong.
... OW! MY SPERM!
(Though I suspect I'll be buying a new Powerbook about the time 10.4 is released.)
Here's hoping the 90nm G5 Powerbook will be ready by then!!
If I collected 5121 computers (486s) and connected them all together I would have the largest supercomputer in the world?
Not if, as has been proposed, Google has more than 70k processors...
... I mean, seriously, what tech worth half a damn doesn't already have at least h(is|er) own domain, let alone mail server?
WTF cares about yet another non-imappable free mail service, unless you're a cheapie or a terrorist?
Just remeber that swap is also /tmp on a sun box.
/tmp on a Sun and had the system crash (or go unresponsive, or lose sshd)?
/tmp filesystem. The convenience of tmpfs is heavily trumped by the remote possibility of a colossal system fuckup by runaway procs, downloads, etc hosing swap.
/usr/tmp, /var/tmp, etc?)
Actually, this is horrible.
Have you ever filled up
When building a server, I typically use swapfiles and create a
(ever wonder why Sun's got
They also need to stop pussyfooting around and include a free real LVM instead of pushing Veritas.
Solaris9 improved matters a bit with forcedirectio and soft partitions, but it's still too jinky compared with OSes that have integrated LVM such as AIX.
LVM needs to be the default bootable filesystem, and they should include hot-spare failover 2-box system clustering at least for free as well.
I gotta say tho I'm interested in the 'grid containers' coming in 10, looks like UML to me, though they'd be better if you could migrate a given container env across systems without downtime...
Your choices on the other hand are: go with the KDE default. Not exactly the break from the desktop you seemed to advocate....
Until the 'anointed' apps have stuff like DCOP interfaces, desktop notification, KDE theme support, etc.. I'll stick with the KDE stuff. I like kicker popups, they're almost as slick as OS X bouncing dock icons.
OTOH I'd get out of Kopete and KMail in a NY minute if the freedesktop apps built in that KDE integration, if only to avoid the philosophical issues related to those apps... (filtering IMAP by header is wrong because 'it's supposed to be done in sieve'? FUCK THAT! Behave like Mozilla mail!!!!!!)