Try installing the Scalable Gorilla theme for Nautilus on your Gnome box. It's all SVG so it is very nice, but resource-intensive.
I tried it on my dual PIII-550 machine and it slowed it way down. The SVG fun pegged the processor at 100% quite often. But, I just return to a simple theme, or run Midnight Commander, and speed, speed, speed of Linux returns!
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Aye, there is GPGP, but I like my programs to have active development. Looking at their website, they stopped about 2 years ago. Maybe the product was bug-free enough to stop development, but that often isn't the case.
One app that is going a along way to making PGP slightly easier is Evolution. It has the best PGP solution I've seen yet for email. Easy and simple to use, even Joe Barr agrees.
But, the problem is you still must maintain your GnuPG bits manually on the command line. That was the beauty of NA's program. It had a slick GUI. Of course, in the end it didn't take
me very long to pick up how to use gpg via the
command line, but for the general populace it's
still a barrier.
Oh no, I'm not saying I prefer IE, I vastly prefer mozilla. I'd sell my soul if I could get galeon on my XP box. I was just saying I like IE over NS6, just because the Netscape product crams so much useless stuff in (an it uses an older mozilla).
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Actually, a better browser, usually, since NS6 is often far behind the latest Mozilla. In fact, now that Mozilla Mail is so nice, there went the last vestige of Netscape on my XP box.
Kinda sad, really. I can still remember laughing at MS because "mighty" Netscape was beating them -- especially be putting out a better product. Now, though, IE is tons better than the bloat that is NS6.
Ah, but there might be links. Most research group pages currently have links to their latest research in the journals. For example, my group has links to J.Chem.Phys.Online or the like, directly to the journals. This type of search could lead you to the journals that are in the area you searched (JCP for me, TetLett for an OrgChemist, etc.)
Plus the fact that groups mainly link to others doing the same work. So, I can start at one page and soon get an idea of the cluster science community, for example.
So, any bets as to how long it takes for something like this to appear on "Alias". For some reason, I was reading the article and kept thinking of Marshall constructing a device that read the LEDs of a modem.
Of course, "Alias" has those mystical tempesting devices that live only in Hollywood, but still, it sounds like one of their ideas.
You know, real programmers code their apps in Fortran 95. Well, I suppose real programmers program in 66, or FORTRAN IV or something, but I'm young and I don't take to Hollerith. Fortran!
Uh...I have PC GAMESS on my box at home. It is a high level quantum chemistry program that kinda likes the power. It's not a resource hog like Gaussian, but I can easily hit the bandwidth and CPU wall. More is better with Quantum Chemistry.
And, I also have Mathematica. I've done some huge calcs with it that would have been much more enjoyable with more memory bandwidth.
I hate to say it, but I wonder if the double- and triple-selling he did is more common than you'd think on eBay. Saying the winning bidder didn't pay and contacting the second-place bidder by email seems to counter most of the eBay "safeguards". Does anyone know of other instances of this?
Of course, if you actually buy something this way, you're on your own. I always tell the seller to re-list the auction rather than do this.
BTW, for those wondering, the Spiderman bit in the headline of the NSU story:
Reality Check foils Spider-Man,
I think refers to a previous reporting of this study which labeled Spider-man as most connected.
Hmmm, as a theoretical chemistry grad student this does kind of offend me. Does this mean that the Fourier Analysis course I took in the Math department was worthless?
How about all the quantum chemistry courses I have taken? While I agree that I haven't taken Relativistic QM, I feel I have a pretty good grasp of QM for a grad student. Plus, there is all that time I spent hacking GAMESS (a quantum chemistry program) in order to get it to output the data I needed. Wow, I did that without any knowledge of QM...pretty brave.
And, of course, I don't know how to use a computer. The fact I manage Linux and Tru64 boxes is just my delusion. You probably would hate that my institute (JILA) uses an XP1000 for mail serving. Now, it also runs enormous Gaussian and IDL jobs for us, but dammit, it is a mail server too...what a waste.
Well, Napster may have had 6 million, but how many of those downloaded every song? On radio, every listener hears the song, no matter what, but every visitor to PressPlay won't listen to "Gangsta Rap-Bluegrass" music or the like.
Second, there is the fact that I don't think Napster had 6 million people paying $19.95 for every 75 songs they downloaded. If PressPlay gets 6 million visitors doing just that, good for them and the flying pigs that just went by my window.
Holy Hannah, the labels and Pressplay get 91% of the revenues? I want in that racket. And think, after 1000 downloads, the artists will have a shiny 2 dollars 30 in their pocket...reasonable compensation.
Even better is this tidbit:
Another irritant for the artists, several lawyers and managers say, is the distribution of the $170 million settlement from MP3.com, an Internet company that offered a music storage service in violation of copyright law.
The labels were to share that money with artists whose music was put online without authorization, but several artists' representatives said nothing had been distributed.
Raise your hands, who here didn't see that coming.
Obviously from my reply below, I disagree about the OS X bit. Friends I have that shun computers with a passion see the OS X desktop and dive right in. That is what Linux needs, I think. A common, beautiful, yet easy and functional theme that shows off the power of the OS.
Copy OSX's theme. That is by far the nicest desktop I've ever seen. Of course, doing that isn't exactly putting a "Linux" stamp on a desktop. There are things that can be changed on the OSX desktop (the transparent dock, for example) and added (GKrellM).
I have no doubt the artists at themes.org could come up with a similarly elegant theme.
I really hope this will happen. There are so many apps that each has, that a KDE-Gnome work-together would be great. For example, I would love Konsole in Gnome and Galeon in KDE...with the stability they have in their native setting.
Plus, it always seems KDE looks better than Gnome, though I don't know why. Just my opinion.
It might be a while. If I recall, HDTV is 1.5 Gbps uncompressed (1920 x 1080 x 30 fps x 8 bits per color), so that is a bit beyond modern HD solutions in a set top box (if you want to record more than an hour)
Now, I'm not too sure what compression keeps HDTV quality. Anyone out there with that number? That could give an estimate of hours you could record...assuming the I/O system could handle the speed.
To let people know the costs of some of these journals, here are a couple of sites to look at.
First, a general overview of costs in the mid-90s (done in 2000, so just imagine how expensive they are now!) can be found here.
A more recent review of chemistry journals can be found here.
It is amazing to think that some of these journals cost ~$4.50 a page (neuroscience journals are even more expensive!).
As a grad student, I would love for this happen...as long as standards don't fall the the wayside. If Soros could get free journals with peer review, I'd support it with every ounce of my body. My university pays up the nose for journals and every year I read about how some journals need to be cut to meet the budget.
In fact, I've often wondered why universities pay an outrageous institutional price for the journals, when an individual can pay a lower price (albeit still exorbitant).
This is one of the true monopolies I would love to see end.
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Try installing the Scalable Gorilla theme for Nautilus on your Gnome box. It's all SVG so it is very nice, but resource-intensive.
I tried it on my dual PIII-550 machine and it slowed it way down. The SVG fun pegged the processor at 100% quite often. But, I just return to a simple theme, or run Midnight Commander, and speed, speed, speed of Linux returns!
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Here is Yahoo!'s coverage: Finding Pay Dirt in Scannable Driver's License
Aye, there is GPGP, but I like my programs to have active development. Looking at their website, they stopped about 2 years ago. Maybe the product was bug-free enough to stop development, but that often isn't the case.
One app that is going a along way to making PGP slightly easier is Evolution. It has the best PGP solution I've seen yet for email. Easy and simple to use, even Joe Barr agrees.
But, the problem is you still must maintain your GnuPG bits manually on the command line. That was the beauty of NA's program. It had a slick GUI. Of course, in the end it didn't take me very long to pick up how to use gpg via the command line, but for the general populace it's still a barrier.
Oh no, I'm not saying I prefer IE, I vastly prefer mozilla. I'd sell my soul if I could get galeon on my XP box. I was just saying I like IE over NS6, just because the Netscape product crams so much useless stuff in (an it uses an older mozilla).
I was going to say: "uninstalling Netscape".
Maybe that will be today's!
Actually, a better browser, usually, since NS6 is often far behind the latest Mozilla. In fact, now that Mozilla Mail is so nice, there went the last vestige of Netscape on my XP box.
Kinda sad, really. I can still remember laughing at MS because "mighty" Netscape was beating them -- especially be putting out a better product. Now, though, IE is tons better than the bloat that is NS6.
Ah, but there might be links. Most research group pages currently have links to their latest research in the journals. For example, my group has links to J.Chem.Phys.Online or the like, directly to the journals. This type of search could lead you to the journals that are in the area you searched (JCP for me, TetLett for an OrgChemist, etc.)
Plus the fact that groups mainly link to others doing the same work. So, I can start at one page and soon get an idea of the cluster science community, for example.
So, any bets as to how long it takes for something like this to appear on "Alias". For some reason, I was reading the article and kept thinking of Marshall constructing a device that read the LEDs of a modem.
Of course, "Alias" has those mystical tempesting devices that live only in Hollywood, but still, it sounds like one of their ideas.
Here is a site that Macromedia is using to tout the power of Flash MX.
It is a reservation system for the Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. I think it is one of the most usable Flash sites I've seen in a while.
Where is it?
You know, real programmers code their apps in Fortran 95. Well, I suppose real programmers program in 66, or FORTRAN IV or something, but I'm young and I don't take to Hollerith. Fortran!
Uh...I have PC GAMESS on my box at home. It is a high level quantum chemistry program that kinda likes the power. It's not a resource hog like Gaussian, but I can easily hit the bandwidth and CPU wall. More is better with Quantum Chemistry.
And, I also have Mathematica. I've done some huge calcs with it that would have been much more enjoyable with more memory bandwidth.
I hate to say it, but I wonder if the double- and triple-selling he did is more common than you'd think on eBay. Saying the winning bidder didn't pay and contacting the second-place bidder by email seems to counter most of the eBay "safeguards". Does anyone know of other instances of this?
Of course, if you actually buy something this way, you're on your own. I always tell the seller to re-list the auction rather than do this.
BTW, for those wondering, the Spiderman bit in the headline of the NSU story: Reality Check foils Spider-Man, I think refers to a previous reporting of this study which labeled Spider-man as most connected.
At least, I think it does.
Hmmm, as a theoretical chemistry grad student this does kind of offend me. Does this mean that the Fourier Analysis course I took in the Math department was worthless?
How about all the quantum chemistry courses I have taken? While I agree that I haven't taken Relativistic QM, I feel I have a pretty good grasp of QM for a grad student. Plus, there is all that time I spent hacking GAMESS (a quantum chemistry program) in order to get it to output the data I needed. Wow, I did that without any knowledge of QM...pretty brave.
And, of course, I don't know how to use a computer. The fact I manage Linux and Tru64 boxes is just my delusion. You probably would hate that my institute (JILA) uses an XP1000 for mail serving. Now, it also runs enormous Gaussian and IDL jobs for us, but dammit, it is a mail server too...what a waste.
Wow, I guess I know what a troll is now, don't I?
Well, Napster may have had 6 million, but how many of those downloaded every song? On radio, every listener hears the song, no matter what, but every visitor to PressPlay won't listen to "Gangsta Rap-Bluegrass" music or the like.
Second, there is the fact that I don't think Napster had 6 million people paying $19.95 for every 75 songs they downloaded. If PressPlay gets 6 million visitors doing just that, good for them and the flying pigs that just went by my window.
Holy Hannah, the labels and Pressplay get 91% of the revenues? I want in that racket. And think, after 1000 downloads, the artists will have a shiny 2 dollars 30 in their pocket...reasonable compensation.
Even better is this tidbit: Another irritant for the artists, several lawyers and managers say, is the distribution of the $170 million settlement from MP3.com, an Internet company that offered a music storage service in violation of copyright law.
The labels were to share that money with artists whose music was put online without authorization, but several artists' representatives said nothing had been distributed.
Raise your hands, who here didn't see that coming.
Obviously from my reply below, I disagree about the OS X bit. Friends I have that shun computers with a passion see the OS X desktop and dive right in. That is what Linux needs, I think. A common, beautiful, yet easy and functional theme that shows off the power of the OS.
Copy OSX's theme. That is by far the nicest desktop I've ever seen. Of course, doing that isn't exactly putting a "Linux" stamp on a desktop. There are things that can be changed on the OSX desktop (the transparent dock, for example) and added (GKrellM).
I have no doubt the artists at themes.org could come up with a similarly elegant theme.
I really hope this will happen. There are so many apps that each has, that a KDE-Gnome work-together would be great. For example, I would love Konsole in Gnome and Galeon in KDE...with the stability they have in their native setting.
Plus, it always seems KDE looks better than Gnome, though I don't know why. Just my opinion.
Fiction can be fact...The Foot Mouse!
Looks cool, but I'm too used to my MS Explorer with five buttons and a scroll wheel. You'd need to be a spider to use that foot mouse.
It might be a while. If I recall, HDTV is 1.5 Gbps uncompressed (1920 x 1080 x 30 fps x 8 bits per color), so that is a bit beyond modern HD solutions in a set top box (if you want to record more than an hour)
Now, I'm not too sure what compression keeps HDTV quality. Anyone out there with that number? That could give an estimate of hours you could record...assuming the I/O system could handle the speed.
If you clone a Siamese, as suggested above, does that make it a Siamese twin?
...runs and ducks...
To let people know the costs of some of these journals, here are a couple of sites to look at.
First, a general overview of costs in the mid-90s (done in 2000, so just imagine how expensive they are now!) can be found here.
A more recent review of chemistry journals can be found here. It is amazing to think that some of these journals cost ~$4.50 a page (neuroscience journals are even more expensive!).
As a grad student, I would love for this happen...as long as standards don't fall the the wayside. If Soros could get free journals with peer review, I'd support it with every ounce of my body. My university pays up the nose for journals and every year I read about how some journals need to be cut to meet the budget.
In fact, I've often wondered why universities pay an outrageous institutional price for the journals, when an individual can pay a lower price (albeit still exorbitant).
This is one of the true monopolies I would love to see end.