GV does not work as well as Acrobat to view PDF files. GV does not support hyperlinks or bookmarks, both of which are nearly essential to navigate long documents. It also has a bad type1 renderer.
xpdf supports hyperlinks, but doesn't yet appear to support bookmarks.
The brief update mentioned nice features, and the screenshots on the webpage looked ok, but there was no info on how it performs as an editor.
Can it open multiple files at once? Can it display multiple files on screen? Can it display multiple parts of the same file at the same time? (That's something I use a lot when programming, checking definitions of one thing or another.) Can it show where something was defined, or what calls this function? Can it operate in multiple windows or consoles and not stomp on its other instances? Does it have regexp search and replace? What are the max file sizes it can handle? Does it have syntax highlighting or autoindentation? If so, for what languages? Is there an extension language, or does adding capabilities require recompiling it? Can you use an external editor with it?
These are just a couple things I'd like to see answers to....
If I understand correctly, the most expensive bandwidth is the overseas bandwidth... the inter-AU bandwidth shouldn't be that expensive. If that's the case, why doesn't Telstra put up a couple TB web cache and require that people use it?
If broadband were available everywhere and people were _still_ choosing dialup, I might agree with Dvorak. But the fact is, right now many people are forced to use dialup. It would be interesting to look at the statistics in markets with healthy broadband options.
Once cable modems are more ubiquitous, I think things will change. I don't have hope for DSL... even if you assert that DSLs aren't shared (though the upstream is) it's just way, way too limited. I checked last week now that we have a phone line... no DSL. (We could get ISDN, if we want to pay high prices to have a massive cut in bandwidth.) If you can get it, the odds are likely that it will take a long time and you'll have a couple problems along the way. The immediate mass-market future looks like cable modems, where you hop over to the local electronics store, buy a DOCSIS modem, plug it in, and sign up over a website. That's the present here on Long Island, and it's much closer to the ease of dialup setup than DSL. (Not that dialup is easy, but at least you don't need to schedule an install appt!)
Munchkins are going to find ways to ruin any game, even if they don't have see-through video drivers, or source to the game. The solution is not to play with them.
I think it's better to get your lifetime email address from somewhere like computer.org, ieee.org, acm.org, or your preferred professional society.
Personally, I do not trust my financial institution^W^Wcollege to maintain my email address for years without constant donations. Even then, I find it likely that they'd drop it if they decided it wasn't worth the cash. With a professional institution, you have an instition usually far less financially driven than a university. You are paying yearly dues, but you're getting specific benefits for those, instead of lining the chancellor's bowling alley.
Install debian on that partition, sharing/home and swap partitions with rh.
Upgrade to unstable (easiest way of getting all the stuff I needed, like XF4.0.2 openssh 2.3, etc. I believe there are potato packages now, but this worked for me).
Set up lilo on both systems to see the other installed Linux distro.
Triple-boot between win (lsl collection!), RH and Debian until Debian is set up for production use.
Back up RH/etc,/usr/local and maybe something else just in case I needed them later.
mke2fs the old rh partitions, copied data over. Modify lilo.conf and fstab to point at the formerly RH partitions, with orig deb partition as backup.
Reboot into main debian system. Use normally. Remove transition deb partition as needed and reassign space.
Why would you want to?
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Yes, I want to convert my DVDs to a format that gives me fewer features than VHS. (Do I _need_ searching? Probably not. Do I use searching? Yes. Do I like searching? Yes.)
The utility of old laptops under Linux is generally that you don't have X on them, and they're then quite useful.
With an X-less laptop, you can do anything text-based. That means you can take notes in class, program on the train, keep your email with you, write a novel. With some svgalib/ggi/fb-based utils, you can check images, preview postscript or dvi docs, and more.
An old laptop isn't a replacement for a real machine, but it's a useful add-on. A lot of the time, you don't want to drag your desktop/tower to the living room to watch tv, or to a roleplaying game to store the module, or out near the grill to check email and hack on something. When you're doing that, you don't need Netscape, and you can get by without X. Then send anything you did back over the network to your main machine.
I had an 8MB 486 laptop once which was great for this sort of thing. (Now, I have a PIII 700, but that's because I fell in love with the portable lifestyle....)
You may be lucky to have local guys who actually carry the stuff you need in a pinch, but the times I've had problems I've hit our local guys, who didn't have {the cable,the right mouse,...}. I end up getting most of my "need-now" things from an office-supply store, which tend to have better stocks than our local computer stores.
Unless you want over-priced and ill-assembled PCs, of course.
I don't know how common this is across the country, but not everyone has local shops that deserve to be supported.
Iirc, you can turn off AA fonts in the XftConfig for certain point sizes, if that's what you want.
When I tried an AAed KDE beta, I found that I wanted smaller fonts AAed, and it let me work with smaller point sizes than otherwise. Part of this is surely due to the fact that I had subpixel rendering on (yes, I have an LCD screen), and part is due to my own preferences/tolerance/whatever.
Is that a good solution? Remember, the post specifically said "Linux".
While you can share desktops using the Windows VNC server, Xvnc does _not_ display to the screen. You would have to run an X server with a full-screen vncviewer on each Linux box. Not an easy way to do it. (Even then, I'm not entirely sure it will share, because I haven't tried it. Probably would, though.)
This usage predates XML. Many compilers are written this way, in fact. One could just as easily substitute any intermediate format for XML and get the same advantages.
The main advantage of XML is that it gives you not a common document format (since DTDs differ) but a common syntax, so you can use a common parser. That's a win, but it's not the cure for all the world's problems.
I could see this going two ways. First, it may be that since software developers no longer need to depend on feature checklists to keep money coming in, they'll concentrate on fixing and improving core functionality. This would be good.
OTOH, it could be that with sufficient customer lockin and difficulty of changing apps, vendors no longer need to offer any improvements at all, since customers will be forced to fork out cash periodically just to maintain access to their data.
I get ~1000 msgs/day. I do _not_ get 900 spams/day. (I get about 20, despite using my real email in usenet, web boards, and everywhere else.) At 2%, spam is annoying, but not that annoying. 8^)
I don't know where you learned about grad school, but grad school _is_ a real world discovery research environment. What else do you think you'd be doing if you were in a lab?
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GV does not work as well as Acrobat to view PDF files. GV does not support hyperlinks or bookmarks, both of which are nearly essential to navigate long documents. It also has a bad type1 renderer.
xpdf supports hyperlinks, but doesn't yet appear to support bookmarks.
Those small disks max out around 150MB. That's too small....
Be sure to check the size of your box. CDs do _not_ fit easily in our box, because of a lip on the top of the box.
The brief update mentioned nice features, and the screenshots on the webpage looked ok, but there was no info on how it performs as an editor.
Can it open multiple files at once? Can it display multiple files on screen? Can it display multiple parts of the same file at the same time? (That's something I use a lot when programming, checking definitions of one thing or another.) Can it show where something was defined, or what calls this function? Can it operate in multiple windows or consoles and not stomp on its other instances? Does it have regexp search and replace? What are the max file sizes it can handle? Does it have syntax highlighting or autoindentation? If so, for what languages? Is there an extension language, or does adding capabilities require recompiling it? Can you use an external editor with it?
These are just a couple things I'd like to see answers to....
Please visit Squid's documentation to enlighten yourself on how caches work.
If I understand correctly, the most expensive bandwidth is the overseas bandwidth... the inter-AU bandwidth shouldn't be that expensive. If that's the case, why doesn't Telstra put up a couple TB web cache and require that people use it?
It's even worse than this article presents... promoters will bill labels even is station managers decide to play the song on their own.
Check Pay for play and Fighting pay-for-play.
If broadband were available everywhere and people were _still_ choosing dialup, I might agree with Dvorak. But the fact is, right now many people are forced to use dialup. It would be interesting to look at the statistics in markets with healthy broadband options.
Once cable modems are more ubiquitous, I think things will change. I don't have hope for DSL... even if you assert that DSLs aren't shared (though the upstream is) it's just way, way too limited. I checked last week now that we have a phone line... no DSL. (We could get ISDN, if we want to pay high prices to have a massive cut in bandwidth.) If you can get it, the odds are likely that it will take a long time and you'll have a couple problems along the way. The immediate mass-market future looks like cable modems, where you hop over to the local electronics store, buy a DOCSIS modem, plug it in, and sign up over a website. That's the present here on Long Island, and it's much closer to the ease of dialup setup than DSL. (Not that dialup is easy, but at least you don't need to schedule an install appt!)
It's not a matter of "You can get LCDs elsewhere for cheaper." It's "You can get big CRTs elsewhere for cheaper."
LCDs are expensive, and CRTs are less so. Many people will stop buying Apple displays for that reason.
Munchkins are going to find ways to ruin any game, even if they don't have see-through video drivers, or source to the game. The solution is not to play with them.
Subpixel rendering on LCDs is _already_ part of the Xft library. Set Xft.rgba: rgb in your X resources....
IEEE and ACM have been around for decades. How long has gandi.net been around?
I think it's better to get your lifetime email address from somewhere like computer.org, ieee.org, acm.org, or your preferred professional society.
Personally, I do not trust my financial institution^W^Wcollege to maintain my email address for years without constant donations. Even then, I find it likely that they'd drop it if they decided it wasn't worth the cash. With a professional institution, you have an instition usually far less financially driven than a university. You are paying yearly dues, but you're getting specific benefits for those, instead of lining the chancellor's bowling alley.
Yes, I want to convert my DVDs to a format that gives me fewer features than VHS. (Do I _need_ searching? Probably not. Do I use searching? Yes. Do I like searching? Yes.)
What's the rationale here?
The utility of old laptops under Linux is generally that you don't have X on them, and they're then quite useful.
With an X-less laptop, you can do anything text-based. That means you can take notes in class, program on the train, keep your email with you, write a novel. With some svgalib/ggi/fb-based utils, you can check images, preview postscript or dvi docs, and more.
An old laptop isn't a replacement for a real machine, but it's a useful add-on. A lot of the time, you don't want to drag your desktop/tower to the living room to watch tv, or to a roleplaying game to store the module, or out near the grill to check email and hack on something. When you're doing that, you don't need Netscape, and you can get by without X. Then send anything you did back over the network to your main machine.
I had an 8MB 486 laptop once which was great for this sort of thing. (Now, I have a PIII 700, but that's because I fell in love with the portable lifestyle....)
You may be lucky to have local guys who actually carry the stuff you need in a pinch, but the times I've had problems I've hit our local guys, who didn't have {the cable,the right mouse,...}. I end up getting most of my "need-now" things from an office-supply store, which tend to have better stocks than our local computer stores.
Unless you want over-priced and ill-assembled PCs, of course.
I don't know how common this is across the country, but not everyone has local shops that deserve to be supported.
But this isn't an access control device. (Assuming they merely turned off printing, cut and paste, etc without passwording the whole thing.)
It's copy protection, pure and simple.
Iirc, you can turn off AA fonts in the XftConfig for certain point sizes, if that's what you want.
When I tried an AAed KDE beta, I found that I wanted smaller fonts AAed, and it let me work with smaller point sizes than otherwise. Part of this is surely due to the fact that I had subpixel rendering on (yes, I have an LCD screen), and part is due to my own preferences/tolerance/whatever.
Is that a good solution? Remember, the post specifically said "Linux".
While you can share desktops using the Windows VNC server, Xvnc does _not_ display to the screen. You would have to run an X server with a full-screen vncviewer on each Linux box. Not an easy way to do it. (Even then, I'm not entirely sure it will share, because I haven't tried it. Probably would, though.)
This usage predates XML. Many compilers are written this way, in fact. One could just as easily substitute any intermediate format for XML and get the same advantages.
The main advantage of XML is that it gives you not a common document format (since DTDs differ) but a common syntax, so you can use a common parser. That's a win, but it's not the cure for all the world's problems.
I could see this going two ways. First, it may be that since software developers no longer need to depend on feature checklists to keep money coming in, they'll concentrate on fixing and improving core functionality. This would be good.
OTOH, it could be that with sufficient customer lockin and difficulty of changing apps, vendors no longer need to offer any improvements at all, since customers will be forced to fork out cash periodically just to maintain access to their data.
you need more mail.
I get ~1000 msgs/day. I do _not_ get 900 spams/day. (I get about 20, despite using my real email in usenet, web boards, and everywhere else.) At 2%, spam is annoying, but not that annoying. 8^)
I don't know where you learned about grad school, but grad school _is_ a real world discovery research environment. What else do you think you'd be doing if you were in a lab?