At the moment the carrot-based material "curran" used to make the steering
wheel contains some carbon fibre.
Fly-fishing rods made out of the material are 50% carbon fibre at the moment.
The inventors are working to increase the percentage of carrot based material
> >Beware if you have an older ATI card you might run into problems. > "Older," in this case, defined as anything prior to the HD3x00 series. My experience with 9.04 and a 2600XT is less than ideal.
One of Fedora's recent test days (in preparation for Fedora 11 which is due out soon) found a number of problems with ATI cards. Hopefully by the time F11 ships (in about a month) a number of the issues will be sorted.
Fixes made for Fedora will eventually benefit Ubuntu users using the OSS ATI drivers too
Not all Linux software is OSS. If Flash (for example) wasn't available to ARM, I think it would make them less attractive - my wife spends a lot of time watching the BBC iPlayer on our Asus EEE.
This article claims the ARM version of Flash will be out in May. I hope it is. I like our EEE but an 8hour battery life for the price they are talking about would be enough to make me buy one.
The article argues that people won't upgrade from XP - it expects that as MS tries to force them, people will migrate to Linux instead. I think as Microsoft discontinues support for XP, people will move to Windows 7 - sales of Windows based netbooks seem to be much higher than for Linux.
Whether the same will hold true when the time comes for MS to try to get people to upgrade from Windows 7 to whatever comes next, it's too early to tell. Hopefully by then Linux will have managed to gain enough market share that most people have heard of it and/or know someone running it and the barrier to a non-MS OS will be much lower
Those per GB charges are during office hours, I'm at work during them so it's not a problem for me. A&A have given me absolutely
excellent customer service, I can't recommend them highly enough (if your net usage pattern is like mine).
My previous ISP (Tiscali) on the other hand were absolutely abysmal, if Virgin are pulling stunts like this, it wouldn't surprise
me a number of other dubious ISPs are too.
I entirely agree with this. The minimal cost for a mistaken domain registration is worth it to stop immoral schemes like this one.
(I'm posting a "me too" comment as I accidently modded the parent flamebait and want to cancel my mis-mod)
I could take or leave the tie but if they made an actual version of that alarm clock that donated money to an organisation of your choosing if you snoozed I'd consider getting one.
(Only if I thought it was secure etc...but still - it would be cool)
Re:Physics, the Legal System, and Geography
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Ask CCP About EVE Online
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> First of all, why is there no Mac OS X or Linux client?
The Nintendo Wii seems to be doing okay (although there was a lot of discussion here when the name was announced), people seem to be able to get past a homonym if they like the product
I think you're being overly cynical, the people who are involved in this include people like Harald Welde (of the campaign to stop GPL violations. I think they genuinely believe in this, they're not just marketing weenies out to make a quick buck.
Having skim read the article, it outlines how *if* you can execute malicious javascript for a website you
can subvert the AJAX communication so that you can have man in the middle attacks etc.
However once an attacker can execute malicious javascript in the scope of the target website you're toast whether you are using AJAX or not.
I'll make a bold prediction and say that is not going to "kill the Web as we know it" contrary to what the/. article says.
As other people have pointed out in other threads you can have working bookmarks without changing the window.location, using anchors. The site in my sig uses a primitive implementation but still needs a lot of work.
If you're a Linux user but you prefer Gnome to KDE, Rhythmbox also has AudioScrobbler integration and the ability to play last.fm streams is currently being worked on
I've tried a few and so far I agree with the article - last.fm is the runaway winner. I have a few custom radio stations and have discovered a few bands that I've never have known about without it.
Shouldn't it be SPAH then? Would have sounded more appropriate after being re-appropriated anyway... "Spah! Not more Viagra email".
When it ties in with RPM, I'll take a look
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Until I can install an autopackage on my FC3 desktop and rpm (and therefore yum) can use it in dependency resolution and update it then I don't intend to use it.
This isn't meant to be a criticism, I realise that they plan to do this and it takes time, to do everything that everyone wants is a long process;)
I've just applied for jobs as a software engineer. I applied to ay company I could think of that made (or was likely to make) a product that interested me. The one company that I didn't apply to was Microsoft who I would refuse to work for unless they reformed dramatically. One person means nothing but if the best and brightest start to think like I do (and I have no idea if that is the case) then MS will be in trouble in 10 years. (For the record I now work for IBM).
It clearly says that he doesn't guarentee that they are free of spyware. Just clean to the best of his knowledge. If the program was really popular, some clever person might notice the extra network packets even without the source.
One such non-libre but free as in beer program I use is the free version of AVG which I really recommend. Although it us only free for home use so it might not qualify?
Re:Tools, Dialogs, Filters: where to look?
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I should point out that in modern versions of the GIMP this isn't turned on by default. You need to turn it on by Choosing the File>Preferences menu item of the tool-box. Then In the interfaces pane, check the item "Use Dynamic keyboard short-cuts"
Sorry for any confusion.
Re:Tools, Dialogs, Filters: where to look?
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If you have your mouse over a menu item and you press a keyboard combination (e.g. ctrl+;), it will assign that combination to that menu item.
It's not quite what you want but you could use ctrl+1, +2, +3 for your three functions (Open, save and gamma coorection or whatever ) and as long as you can remember that then it should work.
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At the moment the carrot-based material "curran" used to make the steering wheel contains some carbon fibre. Fly-fishing rods made out of the material are 50% carbon fibre at the moment.
The inventors are working to increase the percentage of carrot based material
> >Beware if you have an older ATI card you might run into problems.
> "Older," in this case, defined as anything prior to the HD3x00 series. My experience with 9.04 and a 2600XT is less than ideal.
One of Fedora's recent test days (in preparation for Fedora 11 which is due out soon) found a number of problems with ATI cards. Hopefully by the time F11 ships (in about a month) a number of the issues will be sorted.
Fixes made for Fedora will eventually benefit Ubuntu users using the OSS ATI drivers too
I have no issue upgrading to a 'new and better' operating system, on the condition that I see some worth in what's new and better.
Once XP isn't supported and security flaws continue to be discovered, staying on XP will be unappealing.
Not all Linux software is OSS. If Flash (for example) wasn't available to ARM, I think it would make them less attractive - my wife spends a lot of time watching the BBC iPlayer on our Asus EEE.
This article claims the ARM version of Flash will be out in May. I hope it is. I like our EEE but an 8hour battery life for the price they are talking about would be enough to make me buy one.
The article argues that people won't upgrade from XP - it expects that as MS tries to force them, people will migrate to Linux instead. I think as Microsoft discontinues support for XP, people will move to Windows 7 - sales of Windows based netbooks seem to be much higher than for Linux.
Whether the same will hold true when the time comes for MS to try to get people to upgrade from Windows 7 to whatever comes next, it's too early to tell. Hopefully by then Linux will have managed to gain enough market share that most people have heard of it and/or know someone running it and the barrier to a non-MS OS will be much lower
Those per GB charges are during office hours, I'm at work during them so it's not a problem for me. A&A have given me absolutely excellent customer service, I can't recommend them highly enough (if your net usage pattern is like mine).
My previous ISP (Tiscali) on the other hand were absolutely abysmal, if Virgin are pulling stunts like this, it wouldn't surprise me a number of other dubious ISPs are too.
I entirely agree with this. The minimal cost for a mistaken domain registration is worth it to stop immoral schemes like this one. (I'm posting a "me too" comment as I accidently modded the parent flamebait and want to cancel my mis-mod)
This is US only at the moment. Hopefully they'll roll it out to the UK and elsewhere soon!
That's true - even the author has a job so it can't exist.
I could take or leave the tie but if they made an actual version of that alarm clock that donated money to an organisation of your choosing if you snoozed I'd consider getting one. (Only if I thought it was secure etc...but still - it would be cool)
> First of all, why is there no Mac OS X or Linux client?
Given that they have announced that they are working a linux client the question is: When when will it be ready? rather than why not make one.
(I can't wait personally!)
The Nintendo Wii seems to be doing okay (although there was a lot of discussion here when the name was announced), people seem to be able to get past a homonym if they like the product
I think you're being overly cynical, the people who are involved in this include people like Harald Welde (of the campaign to stop GPL violations. I think they genuinely believe in this, they're not just marketing weenies out to make a quick buck.
Having skim read the article, it outlines how *if* you can execute malicious javascript for a website you can subvert the AJAX communication so that you can have man in the middle attacks etc.
However once an attacker can execute malicious javascript in the scope of the target website you're toast whether you are using AJAX or not.
I'll make a bold prediction and say that is not going to "kill the Web as we know it" contrary to what the /. article says.
As other people have pointed out in other threads you can have working bookmarks without changing the window.location, using anchors. The site in my sig uses a primitive implementation but still needs a lot of work.
If you're a Linux user but you prefer Gnome to KDE, Rhythmbox also has AudioScrobbler integration and the ability to play last.fm streams is currently being worked on
I've tried a few and so far I agree with the article - last.fm is the runaway winner. I have a few custom radio stations and have discovered a few bands that I've never have known about without it.
Although the summary doesn't explicitly say it, the article confirms that this affects OO as well as StarOffice
Shouldn't it be SPAH then? Would have sounded more appropriate after being re-appropriated anyway...
"Spah! Not more Viagra email".
Until I can install an autopackage on my FC3 desktop and rpm (and therefore yum) can use it in dependency resolution and update it then I don't intend to use it.
;)
This isn't meant to be a criticism, I realise that they plan to do this and it takes time, to do everything that everyone wants is a long process
I've just applied for jobs as a software engineer. I applied to ay company I could think of that made (or was likely to make) a product that interested me. The one company that I didn't apply to was Microsoft who I would refuse to work for unless they reformed dramatically. One person means nothing but if the best and brightest start to think like I do (and I have no idea if that is the case) then MS will be in trouble in 10 years. (For the record I now work for IBM).
It clearly says that he doesn't guarentee that they are free of spyware. Just clean to the best of his knowledge. If the program was really popular, some clever person might notice the extra network packets even without the source.
One such non-libre but free as in beer program I use is the free version of AVG which I really recommend. Although it us only free for home use so it might not qualify?
I should point out that in modern versions of the GIMP this isn't turned on by default. You need to turn it on by Choosing the File>Preferences menu item of the tool-box. Then In the interfaces pane, check the item "Use Dynamic keyboard short-cuts"
Sorry for any confusion.
If you have your mouse over a menu item and you press a keyboard combination (e.g. ctrl+;), it will assign that combination to that menu item.
It's not quite what you want but you could use ctrl+1, +2, +3 for your three functions (Open, save and gamma coorection or whatever ) and as long as you can remember that then it should work.
Hope that this helps?
Does your mother not have a modem? (what do I win?)