Your best bet here is to start with a system like Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal and theme it. You can start with one that has the basic layout you like and modify according to your GIMP skill level. Usually all the accessibility work is done for you with this approach.
Want real privacy? Use the free open-source browser Torpark. Based on Firefox, comes with NoScript and Adblock, default config stores no history or cookies, your traffic runs through the Tor network, and best of all it can run from a removeable flash drive. Encrypt your flashdrive with TrueCrypt if you want.
This article should never have mentioned PDF. PDF stores documents in a paginated way, describing the content itself and its relationship to paper. Unipage is another way of saying "embed resources like images in the same HTML file using data URIs, which IE doesn't support."
It's because the lyrics are a piece of the song. True, a tiny piece, but the RIAA is fighting for a world where you have to pay for each time you experience the song, based on their definition of experience wrapped by their DRM. They figure they paid the artist off, they own it now, and you can't know about it or listen to it unless you pony up the cash! Then it'll work for 6 months, and your subscription will expire, HA! Whoops, you've figured out how to transfer your iTunes songs and videos anonymously to a new Blue-Ray disc and make a copy for your friend? We'll take you to court!
Are you serious? Less bloated? Did you notice that to achieve the "faster startup time" they stuck something in your Start Up folder to load it partially into memory ALL the time, whether you're using it or not? So install Reader 7.0 for Windows, have less RAM for everything else, even if you aren't using Acrobat Reader! Awesome! NOT. I'm sure you guys have tons of RAM to spare, but I'm suffering with 256MB and WinXP SP2, every few MB is precious to me.
AcroRd32.exe takes about 25MB of RAM of my system. And don't you love how even if you close Firefox the process doesn't die?
They've still got a long way to go to make this *actually* more efficient on Windows.
That ".swf" file is only 60k. Not suitable for "offline" viewing. I couldn't get the standalone.swf file itself to work, in IE or Firefox. Did you actually TRY it?
Don't trust it! It's all part of a ploy to kill Open Office! They'll claim that part of their code was used illegally, and try and pull an SCO on us. It goes something like this:
Write some software, then don't innovate for a while, since you're a monopoly.
When open source software catches up, panic and throw your legal team at them, since OSS doesn't have many legal resources. Go after companies that USE the open source version.
For those of you who don't really realize quite how small that is, I'll help put it in perspective. It's smaller than a standard CD jewel case. Amazing really.
What the hell are you talking about? Clockspeed and bus speed aren't really related. Intels 3GHz chip runs on a 533MHz FSB. They also have chips that run on a 400MHz bus. Check out:
Because you get free distribution from the bounce servers. Less load on your server! Imagine randomly putting someone from your spam list in the reply-to. Those bounces are probably more looked at than regular mail, because it looks like it came from yourself.
I find it interesting that this story has been posted and there are no significant replies almost five full minutes later. Usually there's 50 replies in the first minute.
I'd say that's a pretty good sign that nobody has much to say on this subject.... or, then again,/. could just be lagged to hell.
It's not enough to just run linux on it. The tablet actually has to be useful.
These things come with Windows XP Tablet edition, which has built in handwriting recognition software and special software tailor-made for the touch screen input. How much mature open source software is available for linux to make this worthwhile? Can you flip and rotate the screen on the fly with it? How easy is it to use and how well integrated is it with Xfree? Sure, some of the Zaurus apps could be ported... but point is, XP Tablet edition Works. As well as many other micro$oft products anyway, and to an end user, that's more than Good Enough.
Just be wary of knee-jerk reactions to MS, that's all.
I'm far from an expert, but real l33t 5p34k involves the substitution of symbols for letters to form words. Often these substituted symbols are higher ASCII values, though there are many dialiects of "l33t". Using "u" for "You" and r for "are" just seems like laziness, and is in no way 31337.
1'm @m @n 31337 H@X0R.
For examples of the differnt dialects possible, see the Lamerizer.
Unfortunately, iVillage.com and millions of other websites still need to make money. They have staff. Expenses. They're not running a FishCam for fun, or blogging.
Yesterday I visited a page on a friend's computer with MSIE6 and was greeted with a large DHTML layer with an ad... that I couldn't close until it was through playing. This ad obscured the entire article I was trying to read, and really pissed me off. Thankfully, Mozilla's "don't allow popups" option works well enough to cut through most of the nonsense (popups - other kinda of Major Annoyances for me are thankfully still rare), but as we live in a market economy, the market will adapt.
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If you like this, you may enjoy the TED talk video about it: http://www.ted.com/talks/annmarie_thomas_squishy_circuits.html
Your best bet here is to start with a system like Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal and theme it. You can start with one that has the basic layout you like and modify according to your GIMP skill level. Usually all the accessibility work is done for you with this approach.
Want real privacy? Use the free open-source browser Torpark. Based on Firefox, comes with NoScript and Adblock, default config stores no history or cookies, your traffic runs through the Tor network, and best of all it can run from a removeable flash drive. Encrypt your flashdrive with TrueCrypt if you want.
> I've never been stupid enough to buy a DRM encumbered piece of content
Really? You've never bought a DVD?
For more see:
Thanks for shopping RIAA.
AcroRd32.exe takes about 25MB of RAM of my system. And don't you love how even if you close Firefox the process doesn't die?
They've still got a long way to go to make this *actually* more efficient on Windows.
That ".swf" file is only 60k. Not suitable for "offline" viewing. I couldn't get the standalone .swf file itself to work, in IE or Firefox. Did you actually TRY it?
Don't trust it! It's all part of a ploy to kill Open Office! They'll claim that part of their code was used illegally, and try and pull an SCO on us. It goes something like this:
HA HA. Site slashdotted! You can't click the link! April Fools.
For those of you who don't really realize quite how small that is, I'll help put it in perspective.
It's smaller than a standard CD jewel case. Amazing really.
For those of you wondering wtf he's talking about, a cute chick in red plastic dressed as the BSD devil got lauded at some convention somewhere.
Here's the link to the post, lots of pictures.
Googling for 'cursive Q' turns up:% 20crsvcapAn.html
% 20crsvcapAn.html
http://www.peterson-handwriting.com/animCrsvCap/Q
For the billy madison person, capital Z is:
http://www.peterson-handwriting.com/animCrsvCap/Z
What the hell are you talking about? Clockspeed and bus speed aren't really related. Intels 3GHz chip runs on a 533MHz FSB. They also have chips that run on a 400MHz bus. Check out:
:)
this page
Besides, AMD is trying to break the "megahertz myth," remember?
Because you get free distribution from the bounce servers. Less load on your server! Imagine randomly putting someone from your spam list in the reply-to. Those bounces are probably more looked at than regular mail, because it looks like it came from yourself.
I find it interesting that this story has been posted and there are no significant replies almost five full minutes later. Usually there's 50 replies in the first minute.
... or, then again, /. could just be lagged to hell.
I'd say that's a pretty good sign that nobody has much to say on this subject.
Why try and patent the organism anyway?
I'm sure the scientific process used is patented, and that should be enough to protect them.
It's not enough to just run linux on it. The tablet actually has to be useful.
These things come with Windows XP Tablet edition, which has built in handwriting recognition software and special software tailor-made for the touch screen input. How much mature open source software is available for linux to make this worthwhile? Can you flip and rotate the screen on the fly with it? How easy is it to use and how well integrated is it with Xfree? Sure, some of the Zaurus apps could be ported... but point is, XP Tablet edition Works. As well as many other micro$oft products anyway, and to an end user, that's more than Good Enough.
Just be wary of knee-jerk reactions to MS, that's all.
For the curious, Mozilla and Phoenix are still pretty slow when doing XSLT with large XML docs, compared to things like Xalan.
I'm far from an expert, but real l33t 5p34k involves the substitution of symbols for letters to form words. Often these substituted symbols are higher ASCII values, though there are many dialiects of "l33t". Using "u" for "You" and r for "are" just seems like laziness, and is in no way 31337.
1'm @m @n 31337 H@X0R.
For examples of the differnt dialects possible, see the Lamerizer.
Unfortunately, iVillage.com and millions of other websites still need to make money. They have staff. Expenses. They're not running a FishCam for fun, or blogging.
Yesterday I visited a page on a friend's computer with MSIE6 and was greeted with a large DHTML layer with an ad... that I couldn't close until it was through playing. This ad obscured the entire article I was trying to read, and really pissed me off. Thankfully, Mozilla's "don't allow popups" option works well enough to cut through most of the nonsense (popups - other kinda of Major Annoyances for me are thankfully still rare), but as we live in a market economy, the market will adapt.