but could have been improved: next time, please,
mash all the LOTR submissions into none. This shit
really is getting on mentally sane people's nerves.
And its really not so that there is a shortage of
web sites especially made for followers of the
tiresome tolkien trash.
Censoring at the library, and of course only for your own good. Monitoring at the library, only to track down terrorists. A truely free country!
Somebody should suggest to cross out all the dirty
words in the book with a black marker though, otherwise children could get in a situation where their poor innocent souls actually see the word "flesh" written before them!
Motto: "Dont think, we do it for you, because we do it better!"
And: "The earlier you get used to somebody else thinking for you, the easier it will be later on"
I have the same problem - I am running Linux on my PC most of the time, but for the kids, I have to boot ahem, good old Win98 - there are simply no good game or kid CDs that would run well under Linux (ah well there are nearly no game CDs for grownups either).
Unfortunately the selection of Linux paint or typing programs for kids is also fairly limited - my daughters are a bit too young to use gimp, so they use varying free painting programs under Win98 together with a graphics tablet.
Ah well - I guess it will be some time until I can finally delete that Win98 partition:/
see, it's like your doctor - he cannot predict whether you will drink yourself to death tomorrow, but he can predict that if you drink a lot every day, you will ruin your liver and/or brain eventually.
Wonderful - this I call positive thinking! It is a bit like a doctor telling the patient: yes, you are developing cancer, but that will make you loose your overweight! Fantastic! All the expensive and inconvenient measures to fight cancer can be saved!
Rendering times depend on the content - some pages
get rendered much slower in Opera than in Mozilla, and most get rendered about as fast in Mozilla as in IE. What *is* slower is the overhead of the UI, but this is a constant time overhead that is only noticeable on old and slow machines.
And if Mozilla renders some pages slower than either Opera and IE I accept that, given the fact that both IE and Opera suck bigtime when it comes to standards compliance and CSS2 support.
I think it is time to deny the denial for hyperlinking to somebodys site. I am sick and tired of seeing "agreements" that deny everyone the right to do what the WWW is designed for: hyperlinking.
There should be a law that disallows such agreements or makes them void. If they dont want links: fuck them, they are free to remove their site from the WWW and they are free to restrict access by passwords etc. If the have a freely accessible website on their server it is braindead to think you could prevent linking to it.
As it looks, the EU remains the last chance to break the MS monopoly on computing that it already has worldwide. Computing is nowadays needed by everyone, everywhere, and no matter if the MS OS is good or bad, it is bad to have no choice. It is foreseeable that the no choice situation will get worse with MS embracing DRM and TCPA. So I would say that the EU should do far more to establish Linux as a European alternative and competition to MS-OS's. The Airbus initiative from the 60s could serve as a rough model: intense funding has broken the then-monopoly of the US in the passenger airplanbe market and established Airbus as a competitive alternative. Doing the same with Linux-based companies and providing a market in the public administrations would be a great step in getting the OS and computing market back into something where you can choose. There would be added benefits: after all, MS Users have no control over what they actually get, a Linux-based administration could pay Companies not for Linux, but for tailoring and adapting it to their needs.
Hopefully the EU will not fall to its knees towards MS as the US does...
You said these were the chemistry & biology teachers and not, say, the janitor? It should not have been hard for the chemistry teacher to find out in a few minutes what is in the jar. Most things you can imagine in a school lab can be analysed by a few simple reactions.
But to simply throw away this stuff like that - it could have been a hazard to the environment or the health - is entirely pathetic and would have been illegal at least in my country.
The simplest way is to buy an ASUS DVD drive:
just remove the "test" jumper and it is region
free. See drawing
Why should anyone want to run linux on a xbox?
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· Score: 1
Please can anybody tell me what the pupose of that exercise is? What can you actually do on a Xbox
running linux? AFAIK there is no way
to even hook up a decent monitor to the thing, and
most of the hardware that is in there isnt that
useful either. Why not just buy a second hand
PC and get more linux power for the same money?
I really dont understand it...
Maybe I am missing something, but why would I want
to use a Xbox running linux? True, the hardware
is very cheap, but: on the one hand there are no
good linux games I would want to play on the
linux-Xbox. On the other hand the hardware isn't
fit to be used as a cheap replacement for e.g.
a router or a workstation for development or
office applications. I dont see the point.
I made an email-inquiry to our local (Austrian)
Dell outlet about whether it would be possible
to purchase a laptop without Windows preinstalled
or with Linux or no OS preinstalled.
The short reply was that it is impossible.
Same answer from IBM, Gericom, and many others I
tried. Pay for something which you first
remove after unpacking or die.
As for "come here and complain": I meant complain about the fictious anti-spell check site
I mentioned.
My point was that this is not the official stand
of the Mozilla organization. Mozilla migt be
anti-a few things, but not anti spell check.
However you always have to set priorities -
there are many nice things that are not in Mozilla
(yet) simply because nobody had time and ressources to implement
them. Now if countless users start to bug developers
with statemens like "i won't use Mozilla unless it has feature x" or "Mail is useless because it
doesnt have spellcheck" (like you did), this
is not very constructive and honestly, frustrating. Critisism is always welcome and if many users will ask for a spellcheck, maybe somebody will reinforce his donated effort and
write one. You can vote for the apropriate bugs but please dont spam them with "I will continue using IE unless...".
I would just like to suggest to try something
similar with a company where you actually buy the the product and see what happens: "unless this OS has all security holes removed it is useless for me". You have paid for it and what will happen?
Now imagine what will happen with a product that is available for free to you and made to a big part by volunteers.
To reiterate: I am not anti spell check but I have no time and ressources to write that feature. If I head more time and ressources I would implement other things first.
if a spell checker is really essential, maybe the availability of it in NS6 and upcoming NS7 will outweight whatever reasons you have to prefer Mozilla over NS (there is not that much difference).
"Written out of sheer frustration by Gerv, not acting in any sort of official capacity."
That is what this page says in it's footer.
You could as well crank up a page and make it
very pro-spell check or even more anti-spell check if you please - but dont come here and complain
about it.
Anyways, if you cannot live without a spellchecker, nobody is stopping you from using
some other software that better suits your needs.
The idea of Mozilla is to give you a choice, not dominate or kill other software like we are used to see from certain companies.
No, using the -remote parameter will open a
new window of exactly the same Mozilla
instance that
is already running on that machine. So you are
using exactly the same bookmarks of course too.
The overhead of X11 traffic might not so big
in comparison to your idea either, depending on
how the work is shared between server and client
i.e. which is doing the rendering.
(definitely not a problem on a 100base LAN).
However, I think there is a bug about bookmarks
sharing that is in the works too...
Email client worthless without a spell check?
Why? I am using email for more than 10 years
and never used a spell checker.
I wonder why a few people are so obsessed
about spell checking. However mozilla is definitely
not "anti-spell check". You are welcome to
add one or pay somebody to add one or do whatever
you can to have one added.
Interesting suggestion. Maybe you can live with
a workaround that starts a shell on the remote
"server" that will set the display to your local
machine and then send a new window of the same
mozilla there, using something like
mozilla -remote "openURL(about:blank,new-window)"?
> I voted for Bush
thought so.
> but he was the best I was offered...
unbelievable, isn't it? Every highschool
graduate
probably knows more geography/world politics
than the most powerful
political leader of the world. But sure,
who cares that the president needs his staff of advisors
to tell him first where the country is that he
will call "pure evil" before ordering to bomb
it... as long as you can still get cheap gasoline to operate your car.
> Compare one more president to Hitler
I was trying to talk about tv, you said I
am a dumb follower of Hitler, because I prefer
good tv programs.
> U.S. didn't strike first in this war
I didnt talk about the Afghan war.
But the US did strike first a lot, and soon will
again, if Bush gets his will.
There are probably a lot more people
than the whole US population who would *just* like
the US military and the CIA to stay the fuck
within
their country instead of going out and playing
cowboy/fate -- nothing more.
In the meantime, mindless followers like me
could lean back and watch good television.
I see it differently - we already had Hitler,
Stalin, Mussolini amd Franco, right.
You have Bush.
Excuse me - if I have to choose between the
culture that gets selected by professionals who
are paid by the state and the "culture" that gets
selected for you by some ad-dependent multimillion
dollar company I will stay happily with the
one that is not crap, thank you very much.
But after a while you probably get to like
that kind of tv not unlike you got
used to thinking that what McDonalds and Co
serve you is actually food.
I would have no problem with that if your country
wouldnt insist on imposing all that bullshit
on the rest of the world.
You US guys just live in a sad world. If you
visit Europe some day you might realize that
TV that you can actually watch and enjoy is possible.
High quality. No or very few ads, but only
*between* different features. Features that last
two hours or more, without interruption.
The idea behind this is, that a civilized country
not only has a public interest in an army, infrastructure or a space program, but also in
culture. An one part of todays culture is
television. At least outside of US.
(e.g. www.arte-tv.com, in French and German)
for using that aqua-style design.
They have already scared the shit out of a guy
who created an aqua-theme for Mozilla.
Re:Where is the punchline?
on
Gone Fission
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· Score: 1
*shrug* - so what - I hardly read slashdot anymore,
because stories tend to have a niveau targetted
at 14 year old male computer nerds who are busy
fighting puberty. This article is marks a new
low. If it goes on like this I'll probably better
switch over to WWN.
Where is the punchline?
on
Gone Fission
·
· Score: 1, Interesting
I wonder how this article ever got accepted.
I bet a lot of articles 10 times more relevant
and interesting to the slashdot community than
this one have been rejected.
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but could have been improved: next time, please, mash all the LOTR submissions into none. This shit really is getting on mentally sane people's nerves. And its really not so that there is a shortage of web sites especially made for followers of the tiresome tolkien trash.
Censoring at the library, and of course only for your own good. Monitoring at the library, only to track down terrorists. A truely free country! Somebody should suggest to cross out all the dirty words in the book with a black marker though, otherwise children could get in a situation where their poor innocent souls actually see the word "flesh" written before them! Motto: "Dont think, we do it for you, because we do it better!" And: "The earlier you get used to somebody else thinking for you, the easier it will be later on"
I have the same problem - I am running Linux on my PC most of the time, but for the kids, I have to boot ahem, good old Win98 - there are simply no good game or kid CDs that would run well under Linux (ah well there are nearly no game CDs for grownups either). Unfortunately the selection of Linux paint or typing programs for kids is also fairly limited - my daughters are a bit too young to use gimp, so they use varying free painting programs under Win98 together with a graphics tablet. Ah well - I guess it will be some time until I can finally delete that Win98 partition :/
see, it's like your doctor - he cannot predict whether you will drink yourself to death tomorrow, but he can predict that if you drink a lot every day, you will ruin your liver and/or brain eventually.
Wonderful - this I call positive thinking! It is a bit like a doctor telling the patient: yes, you are developing cancer, but that will make you loose your overweight! Fantastic! All the expensive and inconvenient measures to fight cancer can be saved!
Rendering times depend on the content - some pages get rendered much slower in Opera than in Mozilla, and most get rendered about as fast in Mozilla as in IE. What *is* slower is the overhead of the UI, but this is a constant time overhead that is only noticeable on old and slow machines. And if Mozilla renders some pages slower than either Opera and IE I accept that, given the fact that both IE and Opera suck bigtime when it comes to standards compliance and CSS2 support.
I think it is time to deny the denial for hyperlinking to somebodys site. I am sick and tired of seeing "agreements" that deny everyone the right to do what the WWW is designed for: hyperlinking. There should be a law that disallows such agreements or makes them void. If they dont want links: fuck them, they are free to remove their site from the WWW and they are free to restrict access by passwords etc. If the have a freely accessible website on their server it is braindead to think you could prevent linking to it.
As it looks, the EU remains the last chance to break the MS monopoly on computing that it already has worldwide. Computing is nowadays needed by everyone, everywhere, and no matter if the MS OS is good or bad, it is bad to have no choice. It is foreseeable that the no choice situation will get worse with MS embracing DRM and TCPA. So I would say that the EU should do far more to establish Linux as a European alternative and competition to MS-OS's. The Airbus initiative from the 60s could serve as a rough model: intense funding has broken the then-monopoly of the US in the passenger airplanbe market and established Airbus as a competitive alternative. Doing the same with Linux-based companies and providing a market in the public administrations would be a great step in getting the OS and computing market back into something where you can choose. There would be added benefits: after all, MS Users have no control over what they actually get, a Linux-based administration could pay Companies not for Linux, but for tailoring and adapting it to their needs. Hopefully the EU will not fall to its knees towards MS as the US does ...
You said these were the chemistry & biology teachers and not, say, the janitor? It should not have been hard for the chemistry teacher to find out in a few minutes what is in the jar. Most things you can imagine in a school lab can be analysed by a few simple reactions. But to simply throw away this stuff like that - it could have been a hazard to the environment or the health - is entirely pathetic and would have been illegal at least in my country.
The simplest way is to buy an ASUS DVD drive: just remove the "test" jumper and it is region free. See drawing
Please can anybody tell me what the pupose of that exercise is? What can you actually do on a Xbox running linux? AFAIK there is no way to even hook up a decent monitor to the thing, and most of the hardware that is in there isnt that useful either. Why not just buy a second hand PC and get more linux power for the same money? I really dont understand it ...
Maybe I am missing something, but why would I want to use a Xbox running linux? True, the hardware is very cheap, but: on the one hand there are no good linux games I would want to play on the linux-Xbox. On the other hand the hardware isn't fit to be used as a cheap replacement for e.g. a router or a workstation for development or office applications. I dont see the point.
please.
I made an email-inquiry to our local (Austrian) Dell outlet about whether it would be possible to purchase a laptop without Windows preinstalled or with Linux or no OS preinstalled. The short reply was that it is impossible. Same answer from IBM, Gericom, and many others I tried. Pay for something which you first remove after unpacking or die.
My point was that this is not the official stand of the Mozilla organization. Mozilla migt be anti-a few things, but not anti spell check. However you always have to set priorities - there are many nice things that are not in Mozilla (yet) simply because nobody had time and ressources to implement them. Now if countless users start to bug developers with statemens like "i won't use Mozilla unless it has feature x" or "Mail is useless because it doesnt have spellcheck" (like you did), this is not very constructive and honestly, frustrating. Critisism is always welcome and if many users will ask for a spellcheck, maybe somebody will reinforce his donated effort and write one. You can vote for the apropriate bugs but please dont spam them with "I will continue using IE unless ...".
I would just like to suggest to try something
similar with a company where you actually buy the the product and see what happens: "unless this OS has all security holes removed it is useless for me". You have paid for it and what will happen?
Now imagine what will happen with a product that is available for free to you and made to a big part by volunteers.
To reiterate: I am not anti spell check but I have no time and ressources to write that feature. If I head more time and ressources I would implement other things first.
if a spell checker is really essential, maybe the availability of it in NS6 and upcoming NS7 will outweight whatever reasons you have to prefer Mozilla over NS (there is not that much difference).
"Written out of sheer frustration by Gerv, not acting in any sort of official capacity." That is what this page says in it's footer. You could as well crank up a page and make it very pro-spell check or even more anti-spell check if you please - but dont come here and complain about it. Anyways, if you cannot live without a spellchecker, nobody is stopping you from using some other software that better suits your needs. The idea of Mozilla is to give you a choice, not dominate or kill other software like we are used to see from certain companies.
However, I think there is a bug about bookmarks sharing that is in the works too ...
Email client worthless without a spell check? Why? I am using email for more than 10 years and never used a spell checker. I wonder why a few people are so obsessed about spell checking. However mozilla is definitely not "anti-spell check". You are welcome to add one or pay somebody to add one or do whatever you can to have one added.
Interesting suggestion. Maybe you can live with a workaround that starts a shell on the remote "server" that will set the display to your local machine and then send a new window of the same mozilla there, using something like mozilla -remote "openURL(about:blank,new-window)"?
> I voted for Bush thought so. > but he was the best I was offered ...
unbelievable, isn't it? Every highschool
graduate
probably knows more geography/world politics
than the most powerful
political leader of the world. But sure,
who cares that the president needs his staff of advisors
to tell him first where the country is that he
will call "pure evil" before ordering to bomb
it ... as long as you can still get cheap gasoline to operate your car.
> Compare one more president to Hitler
I was trying to talk about tv, you said I
am a dumb follower of Hitler, because I prefer
good tv programs.
> U.S. didn't strike first in this war
I didnt talk about the Afghan war.
But the US did strike first a lot, and soon will
again, if Bush gets his will.
There are probably a lot more people
than the whole US population who would *just* like
the US military and the CIA to stay the fuck
within
their country instead of going out and playing
cowboy/fate -- nothing more.
In the meantime, mindless followers like me
could lean back and watch good television.
I see it differently - we already had Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini amd Franco, right. You have Bush. Excuse me - if I have to choose between the culture that gets selected by professionals who are paid by the state and the "culture" that gets selected for you by some ad-dependent multimillion dollar company I will stay happily with the one that is not crap, thank you very much. But after a while you probably get to like that kind of tv not unlike you got used to thinking that what McDonalds and Co serve you is actually food. I would have no problem with that if your country wouldnt insist on imposing all that bullshit on the rest of the world.
You US guys just live in a sad world. If you visit Europe some day you might realize that TV that you can actually watch and enjoy is possible. High quality. No or very few ads, but only *between* different features. Features that last two hours or more, without interruption. The idea behind this is, that a civilized country not only has a public interest in an army, infrastructure or a space program, but also in culture. An one part of todays culture is television. At least outside of US. (e.g. www.arte-tv.com, in French and German)
for using that aqua-style design. They have already scared the shit out of a guy who created an aqua-theme for Mozilla.
*shrug* - so what - I hardly read slashdot anymore, because stories tend to have a niveau targetted at 14 year old male computer nerds who are busy fighting puberty. This article is marks a new low. If it goes on like this I'll probably better switch over to WWN.
I wonder how this article ever got accepted. I bet a lot of articles 10 times more relevant and interesting to the slashdot community than this one have been rejected.