Probably, yes. At the same time, do you think we should include now every crack-pot theory (which is how Galileo's must have been seen by other scientists)? Remember, for every good theory that gets ignored, there are probably many thousands of true garbage ones. Wikipedia wants at least some sort of verifiability.
That is true, and many articles suffer as a result of that. On the other hand, do you think Wikipedia would be as valuable, and have as many diverse and good articles (that far overwhelm the bad ones), if it made its editors jump through hoops?
Couldn't you guys wait a week before posting this. The hardware isn't properly set up yet. There will be a press release when the 500K mark is reached and hopefully the hardware will be ready by then. Sheesh. At least we'll be getting some testing on the hardware, hope nothing melts.
One important thing that OOo has and that KOffice will probably never have is the chance to use essentially the same app across different platforms (Win32, Linux, SunOS, etc). It's sort of like Konqueror vs. Mozilla.
I love Knoppix and I first tried it with version 3.1. I just got version 3.3 and I found out that Ksnake and Ksirtet are gone. Why did they do this??? Those are a couple of my favorite games and they're good to show off to people. There is a ton of crap they could take off, and how much space do those two games take anyway?
Oh really, I'd like to see how many users there are when you don't have the hardware to run it on. What are users going to do, keep using old hardware?
You need the support of the big hardware companies, or Linux dies. You may not like it, but it's the truth.
Gotta be careful not to install everything though. My system kept getting locked up from the big rollup they had after SP1. So I am stuck installing the patches one by one till I figure out which one is causing me troubles.
From that site "Still read-only, but with safe file overwrite support on all Windows versions without changes to the file size and if the file is over 1 kB."
It sure doesn't sound all that stable or complete to me.
I don't care if it's not free as in speech. I've been waiting for a long time for some stable read/write support for my dual-booting system. If it's as stable at reading/writing as Windows, then this will be a great hack.
I would just like something that writes to CDs the backed up data. Ghost does it and it works relatively well for Windows, but I cannot use it for my Linux partitions (tried it and it crapped out on the restore). All the solutions mentioned so far assume that you are writing to a partition that the current OS can read and write to. It would be nice for example if you could somehow combine dd with utilities for writing to a CD and spanning across several CDs. It would also be nice if the data could be compressed and checksummed first. I don't know how hard this would be, but it would be a tremendous tool for home users if it were seamless to them. If someone knows of a free programs that does this let me know, and let the Knoppix folks know as well.
Why don't they simply mandate open and free protocols and file formats. It would essentially be the same as there is no way that Microsoft would open theirs up. At the same time, Microsoft could not (with a straight face) complain that the government is being unfair if that were the case. This also has the benefit that those that need/want/find more beneficial closed source products can still do so.
What the mozilla and firebird users need to do is get the name out there. Most people I've talked to think that Netscape is dead. We need to get the word out that Mozilla is the best browser, and IE is dead, full of security issues. I realize that there are other browsers out there (Safari, Opera), but we need to focus on one name and forget about mentioning standards. It used to be just Netscape vs. IE. Mozilla is standards compliant though, so any other browsers will benefit automatically by Mozilla's increase in usage. There needs to be a single name to give out to people. This is why the whole name change to Firebird pissed me off. Eventually it will become Mozilla Browser or suite already, so whoever gives out the Firebird name instead of Mozilla when spreading the word is doing us all a disfavor. The way to get the word out is tell your friends, webmasters, put it in your email sig, etc. This is not about zealotry or "my browser is better than yours" debates. It's about making the web more standards compliant and getting rid of IE while it is down (not in development, full of holes, having to be modified because of Eola's suit).
Eolas keeps this up, wins injuction after injuction against Microsoft, leaves rest of browsers alone, I.E. has to be changed to the point of being too annoying to users, users start switching to alternate browsers, websites adopt standards, and everyone lives happily ever after. I hate patents as much as the next guy, but this is the situation we have, so let's hope for the best.
Alternative better case scenario, same as above but users and representatives realize patents suck balls and do something about it (even more of a dream.
When you're taking notes and writing for more than 4 hours a day and you start to notice that your right index finger is starting to become deformed, you get a better pen. If all you need it for is writing witty comments on the bathroom stalls, then maybe you don't need to be so choosey.
Who cares if raising penalties doesn't result in lowering crime? It can't hurt and it looks like they're doing something in the public's eye. It's not like it takes as much effort as studying the problem and coming up with the best solution. Seriously though, do they think someone is sitting at their computer contemplating whether a couple of months of jail time is worth doing for the crime, or if two years might be too much. They don't think that they will get caught, or they are too addicted to (the trill, "glory", etc.)do anything about it.
"Excellent point but only slightly off. What if I or many others don't like the apps you like?"
If you don't like them, you don't have to include them on your menu; you'd still have the option of doing it manually. I just don't want to hunt down all the apps and their icons, write down their paths, etc. Like I said, KAppFinder has the right idea, it just doesn't work like advertized. Alternatively, WM/DE's would use the same format for arranging menus (using XML).
It's amazing what a big difference a new set of colors, and a good color theme makes. I always found Xfce ugly, and just slightly better than CDE. I might have to give it a shot now. The only thing I wish all WM or DE would do is have a decent program, script that searches for a list of well known X apps and arranges them in the menu, with their appropriate icons. KDE has something similar in app finder, but the program almost never finds all the Gnome apps that I like.
All DE have everything one needs now, they just don't have enough configuration done from the get go so you don't have to mess with it and get in your way of actually doing work. I can handle the bloat, but the only reason I stick with KDE is that I have to do the least amount of configuration for it.
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Some of you may be interested to know that Yahoo has announced that Wikipedia will be among its CAP partners.
Probably, yes. At the same time, do you think we should include now every crack-pot theory (which is how Galileo's must have been seen by other scientists)? Remember, for every good theory that gets ignored, there are probably many thousands of true garbage ones. Wikipedia wants at least some sort of verifiability.
That is true, and many articles suffer as a result of that. On the other hand, do you think Wikipedia would be as valuable, and have as many diverse and good articles (that far overwhelm the bad ones), if it made its editors jump through hoops?
Here is a link on MediaWiki and one on a list of sites using MediaWiki.
MediaWiki is GPL-ed, and more programmers are always welcomed.
Couldn't you guys wait a week before posting this. The hardware isn't properly set up yet. There will be a press release when the 500K mark is reached and hopefully the hardware will be ready by then. Sheesh. At least we'll be getting some testing on the hardware, hope nothing melts.
One important thing that OOo has and that KOffice will probably never have is the chance to use essentially the same app across different platforms (Win32, Linux, SunOS, etc). It's sort of like Konqueror vs. Mozilla.
I love Knoppix and I first tried it with version 3.1. I just got version 3.3 and I found out that Ksnake and Ksirtet are gone. Why did they do this??? Those are a couple of my favorite games and they're good to show off to people. There is a ton of crap they could take off, and how much space do those two games take anyway?
Oh really, I'd like to see how many users there are when you don't have the hardware to run it on. What are users going to do, keep using old hardware? You need the support of the big hardware companies, or Linux dies. You may not like it, but it's the truth.
Gotta be careful not to install everything though. My system kept getting locked up from the big rollup they had after SP1. So I am stuck installing the patches one by one till I figure out which one is causing me troubles.
Using Knoppix and Mozilla, I am getting all the patches from here: TechNet.
...oh and by the way, you're welcome!
From that site "Still read-only, but with safe file overwrite support on all Windows versions without changes to the file size and if the file is over 1 kB." It sure doesn't sound all that stable or complete to me.
I don't care if it's not free as in speech. I've been waiting for a long time for some stable read/write support for my dual-booting system. If it's as stable at reading/writing as Windows, then this will be a great hack.
I would just like something that writes to CDs the backed up data. Ghost does it and it works relatively well for Windows, but I cannot use it for my Linux partitions (tried it and it crapped out on the restore). All the solutions mentioned so far assume that you are writing to a partition that the current OS can read and write to. It would be nice for example if you could somehow combine dd with utilities for writing to a CD and spanning across several CDs. It would also be nice if the data could be compressed and checksummed first. I don't know how hard this would be, but it would be a tremendous tool for home users if it were seamless to them. If someone knows of a free programs that does this let me know, and let the Knoppix folks know as well.
It was probably close to the building with the big dish shapped like a mouse where they house Synapse. Haven't you seen antitrust?
Why don't they simply mandate open and free protocols and file formats. It would essentially be the same as there is no way that Microsoft would open theirs up. At the same time, Microsoft could not (with a straight face) complain that the government is being unfair if that were the case. This also has the benefit that those that need/want/find more beneficial closed source products can still do so.
Yeah, not to mention that everyone only uses WM formats. That's what they mean when they talk about choice???
What the mozilla and firebird users need to do is get the name out there. Most people I've talked to think that Netscape is dead. We need to get the word out that Mozilla is the best browser, and IE is dead, full of security issues. I realize that there are other browsers out there (Safari, Opera), but we need to focus on one name and forget about mentioning standards. It used to be just Netscape vs. IE. Mozilla is standards compliant though, so any other browsers will benefit automatically by Mozilla's increase in usage. There needs to be a single name to give out to people. This is why the whole name change to Firebird pissed me off. Eventually it will become Mozilla Browser or suite already, so whoever gives out the Firebird name instead of Mozilla when spreading the word is doing us all a disfavor. The way to get the word out is tell your friends, webmasters, put it in your email sig, etc. This is not about zealotry or "my browser is better than yours" debates. It's about making the web more standards compliant and getting rid of IE while it is down (not in development, full of holes, having to be modified because of Eola's suit).
Eolas keeps this up, wins injuction after injuction against Microsoft, leaves rest of browsers alone, I.E. has to be changed to the point of being too annoying to users, users start switching to alternate browsers, websites adopt standards, and everyone lives happily ever after. I hate patents as much as the next guy, but this is the situation we have, so let's hope for the best. Alternative better case scenario, same as above but users and representatives realize patents suck balls and do something about it (even more of a dream.
For audio recording and some mixing: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
When you're taking notes and writing for more than 4 hours a day and you start to notice that your right index finger is starting to become deformed, you get a better pen. If all you need it for is writing witty comments on the bathroom stalls, then maybe you don't need to be so choosey.
Who cares if raising penalties doesn't result in lowering crime? It can't hurt and it looks like they're doing something in the public's eye. It's not like it takes as much effort as studying the problem and coming up with the best solution. Seriously though, do they think someone is sitting at their computer contemplating whether a couple of months of jail time is worth doing for the crime, or if two years might be too much. They don't think that they will get caught, or they are too addicted to (the trill, "glory", etc.)do anything about it.
"Excellent point but only slightly off. What if I or many others don't like the apps you like?"
If you don't like them, you don't have to include them on your menu; you'd still have the option of doing it manually. I just don't want to hunt down all the apps and their icons, write down their paths, etc. Like I said, KAppFinder has the right idea, it just doesn't work like advertized. Alternatively, WM/DE's would use the same format for arranging menus (using XML).
It's amazing what a big difference a new set of colors, and a good color theme makes. I always found Xfce ugly, and just slightly better than CDE. I might have to give it a shot now. The only thing I wish all WM or DE would do is have a decent program, script that searches for a list of well known X apps and arranges them in the menu, with their appropriate icons. KDE has something similar in app finder, but the program almost never finds all the Gnome apps that I like.
All DE have everything one needs now, they just don't have enough configuration done from the get go so you don't have to mess with it and get in your way of actually doing work. I can handle the bloat, but the only reason I stick with KDE is that I have to do the least amount of configuration for it.
I have to go buy a side-scrolling mouse, brb