The feature that keeps me using KDE instead of GNOME is ALT-Click. In KDE, if you ALT-Rt.click on a window, you can resize by moving the mouse.
Gnome uses the Windows key for this. This is important because you can't use Maya under KDE because KDE steals the Alt-Click.
No app that I know of uses the Windows key.
WindowsKey-Click on a window to drag it around, WindowsKey-MiddleClick on a window to resize it, WindowsKey-RightClick on a window to pop open the WM menu.
But your anecdotal evidence doesn't impress me. I've seen enough articles like this and enough TV news to see that they're consistant. I've never seen anyone tased that can continue to move. Everyone describes it the exact same way.
In fact the only people who I've heard say tasers don't work are anonymous people on bulletin boards who want to place bets that they wouldn't be effected.
My understanding is that they work mainly with pain compliance (despite what the dreck^H^H^H^H^Hmarketting literature says), and pain compliance is not a tool I would choose to use on a mugger.
Then you misunderstand them. It paralyzes you. Your muscles cramp up and you can't move. It's not that the pain is so bad, it's that the signals coming from your brain telling your muscles to move are being drowned out by the signals coming from the tazer.
The police should have issued this warning... Don't worry about flashing hundred dollar bills, or flashing your credit cards, or wearing flashy gold jewellery because it has become evident that muggers will only attack you if you have an Ipod.
True, muggers will mug anyone. But they'll target you if you advertise the fact that you have a lightweight, easy to steal piece of equipment which is guarranteed to fetch a few hundred dollars on ebay.
I would wonder if perhaps the owner has bad power at his house? Maybe that is causing all the issues? It seems curious to go through batteries, power supply, and motherboard and not suspect dirty power.
Dirty power? Lemme guess, you work for Monster don't you? In charge of the Monster PowerStrip division?
I could compile OpenSSH. I just got a warning about a library being outdated and in need of updating because of known vulnerabilities. I didn't try a package version but I'd venture to guess there are no such checks when binary installation is involved.
Why not? That's what binary installations do best.. dependency checking. openssh could easily require libz.so.1 >= 1.1.4
I recently compiled a new version of OpenSSH and found out that I had a vulnerable copy of zlib on my system. Had I installed a package, I might not have known.
What? How does that work? If you couldn't compile OpenSSH using your current zlib headers and libs, then you wouldn't be able to install the OpenSSH binary either.
The real issue is whether you feel the time savings you gain from installing packages outweighs the increased performance and your own increased knowledge regarding your computing environment you gain from building from source.
As a programmer, I can say that compiling from source in the name of speed is a placebo.
Every programmer knows where to look when trying to optimize their code.. and it's never the compiler.
In fact, in the list of ways to optimize your code, mucking with compiler flags isn't even on the list.
Using -march=pentium4 isn't going to make your program magically start using mmx extensions. You need to write that by hand, and you really should do a *runtime* check for mmx. This means that it doesn't matter if you compiled your program on a k6, it'll still use mmx or other processor extensions if they are available.
Hundreds of ports, doesn't interfere with the rest of your system (at least not with mine), and a nice front end.
Here's my trials with fink: I wanted to install Subversion Client (just the client mind you) for OSX. So I installed fink.. oops, looks like SVNclient requires an update to fink, ok, i run the fink updater.. oops, looks like SVNclient wants to install X, and even though I already have Apple's X11 installed, I have to rm -rf/usr/X11R6 (that's what fink tells me), so it can install fink's crappy X11. Ok.. now, two hours later on a dual ghz G4, it runs into a problem compiling one of the zillion dependencies.
Fuck that.
Fink is like trying to use DEB and RPM simultaneously.. dependency hell and nothing ever works right.
How anyone who uses OSX could recommend fink is beyond me.. it's like the anti-christ... or at least the anti-osx.
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Of course, literate geeks should know that paper ignites at Fahrenheit 451, (233 C).
You should definately be modded up for that.. I totally forgot about that book.
I believe my motherboard is set to shutdown if it reaches 110C... so I'd have no problem making an origami computer case.
Am I the only one that would rather use Windows.Forms? I mean, true cross-platform support for Mono means Windows.Forms suppot, which is supposedly still under development.
Yes you are, and no, true cross-platform support for Mono means Gtk#, which runs on Linux and Windows.
You're not a coder are you? none of your examples are in the same league as Qt, in either speed of developpement, ease of use, documentation or compleatness.
I'm a coder, and I think Gtk is definately on par with Qt.. but if you really want, how about Gtk#.. blows Qt out of the water for speed of development, ease of use, documentation and completeness.
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I have to wonder why everyone thinks that paper and computers are a fire hazard. I've never seen the little stickers on my ram, cards and motherboards burst into flames.
The average case temperature is 35deg C. Paper, wood, tinder, sawdust, none of it will burn at 35deg C.
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Anyone can do this if you want to waste the cash and time.
Funny enough, this can be said about everything in life.
Meaning, you could not upgrade (apt/yum/etc) directly from Test 1 to Core 2 Final.
I don't see why not. In the past week yum has updated my kernel, glibc, and switched from XFree86 to x.org What could possibly prevent test1 from upgrading all the way to final?
Oops, I just checked, and I'm wrong. I'm using a developers yum repository to get the 2.6.4 kernels, the official yum development repository is still on the 2.6.3 kernel.
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BANG! You're dead.
What the..? WallHack!
It's appropriate. I'd be giggling too if the NYTimes ran my april fools jokes as news.
The feature that keeps me using KDE instead of GNOME is ALT-Click. In KDE, if you ALT-Rt.click on a window, you can resize by moving the mouse.
Gnome uses the Windows key for this. This is important because you can't use Maya under KDE because KDE steals the Alt-Click.
No app that I know of uses the Windows key.
WindowsKey-Click on a window to drag it around, WindowsKey-MiddleClick on a window to resize it, WindowsKey-RightClick on a window to pop open the WM menu.
really disabling the nervous system is also capable of stopping the heart and killing the attacker.
The ACLU agrees with you.
But your anecdotal evidence doesn't impress me. I've seen enough articles like this and enough TV news to see that they're consistant. I've never seen anyone tased that can continue to move. Everyone describes it the exact same way.
In fact the only people who I've heard say tasers don't work are anonymous people on bulletin boards who want to place bets that they wouldn't be effected.
Maybe I'm really naive, but why can't they grow this sort of crop indoors?
Like.. er.. like in my closet or something?
Before you know it we will have sarin producing dandelions and botulism producing crabgrass. Once the gate is open who know what comes thru.
Don't forget anthrax producing cattle and syphilis producing sheep.
My understanding is that they work mainly with pain compliance (despite what the dreck^H^H^H^H^Hmarketting literature says), and pain compliance is not a tool I would choose to use on a mugger.
Then you misunderstand them. It paralyzes you. Your muscles cramp up and you can't move. It's not that the pain is so bad, it's that the signals coming from your brain telling your muscles to move are being drowned out by the signals coming from the tazer.
Tazers work.. even on people pumped up on PCP.
The hypothetical mugger is going to have a hell of a time getting away without getting shot in the back.
I think you missed the part where the mugger took your $300 gun as well as your $300 ipod.
my favorite part of this story is when you were arrested for failing to have a CCW permit.
The police should have issued this warning... Don't worry about flashing hundred dollar bills, or flashing your credit cards, or wearing flashy gold jewellery because it has become evident that muggers will only attack you if you have an Ipod.
True, muggers will mug anyone. But they'll target you if you advertise the fact that you have a lightweight, easy to steal piece of equipment which is guarranteed to fetch a few hundred dollars on ebay.
I would wonder if perhaps the owner has bad power at his house? Maybe that is causing all the issues? It seems curious to go through batteries, power supply, and motherboard and not suspect dirty power.
Dirty power? Lemme guess, you work for Monster don't you? In charge of the Monster PowerStrip division?
I could compile OpenSSH. I just got a warning about a library being outdated and in need of updating because of known vulnerabilities. I didn't try a package version but I'd venture to guess there are no such checks when binary installation is involved.
Why not? That's what binary installations do best.. dependency checking. openssh could easily require libz.so.1 >= 1.1.4
I recently compiled a new version of OpenSSH and found out that I had a vulnerable copy of zlib on my system. Had I installed a package, I might not have known.
What? How does that work? If you couldn't compile OpenSSH using your current zlib headers and libs, then you wouldn't be able to install the OpenSSH binary either.
The real issue is whether you feel the time savings you gain from installing packages outweighs the increased performance and your own increased knowledge regarding your computing environment you gain from building from source.
As a programmer, I can say that compiling from source in the name of speed is a placebo.
Every programmer knows where to look when trying to optimize their code.. and it's never the compiler.
In fact, in the list of ways to optimize your code, mucking with compiler flags isn't even on the list.
Using -march=pentium4 isn't going to make your program magically start using mmx extensions. You need to write that by hand, and you really should do a *runtime* check for mmx. This means that it doesn't matter if you compiled your program on a k6, it'll still use mmx or other processor extensions if they are available.
Because you are most likely to know your exact hardware configuration than some nameless packager, so you can optimize your compile flags accordingly.
-O2 should be enough for anybody!
a RORSAT satellite that has been leaking radioactive coolant, leaving little droplets of it in orbit around our planent.
It's not an accident, it's our interplanetary nuclear defense system.
Hundreds of ports, doesn't interfere with the rest of your system (at least not with mine), and a nice front end.
/usr/X11R6 (that's what fink tells me), so it can install fink's crappy X11. Ok.. now, two hours later on a dual ghz G4, it runs into a problem compiling one of the zillion dependencies.
Here's my trials with fink: I wanted to install Subversion Client (just the client mind you) for OSX. So I installed fink.. oops, looks like SVNclient requires an update to fink, ok, i run the fink updater.. oops, looks like SVNclient wants to install X, and even though I already have Apple's X11 installed, I have to rm -rf
Fuck that.
Fink is like trying to use DEB and RPM simultaneously.. dependency hell and nothing ever works right.
How anyone who uses OSX could recommend fink is beyond me.. it's like the anti-christ... or at least the anti-osx.
Of course, literate geeks should know that paper ignites at Fahrenheit 451, (233 C).
You should definately be modded up for that.. I totally forgot about that book.
I believe my motherboard is set to shutdown if it reaches 110C... so I'd have no problem making an origami computer case.
Am I the only one that would rather use Windows.Forms? I mean, true cross-platform support for Mono means Windows.Forms suppot, which is supposedly still under development.
Yes you are, and no, true cross-platform support for Mono means Gtk#, which runs on Linux and Windows.
You're not a coder are you? none of your examples are in the same league as Qt, in either speed of developpement, ease of use, documentation or compleatness.
I'm a coder, and I think Gtk is definately on par with Qt.. but if you really want, how about Gtk#.. blows Qt out of the water for speed of development, ease of use, documentation and completeness.
I have to wonder why everyone thinks that paper and computers are a fire hazard. I've never seen the little stickers on my ram, cards and motherboards burst into flames.
The average case temperature is 35deg C. Paper, wood, tinder, sawdust, none of it will burn at 35deg C.
Anyone can do this if you want to waste the cash and time.
Funny enough, this can be said about everything in life.
Meaning, you could not upgrade (apt/yum/etc) directly from Test 1 to Core 2 Final.
I don't see why not. In the past week yum has updated my kernel, glibc, and switched from XFree86 to x.org What could possibly prevent test1 from upgrading all the way to final?
As I type, one of my machines at home is downloading FC2 test 1. Guess I'd better check the timeline next time...
So? Install FC2 test 1, and then type "yum update" and it'll update you to FC2 test 2.
Oops, I just checked, and I'm wrong. I'm using a developers yum repository to get the 2.6.4 kernels, the official yum development repository is still on the 2.6.3 kernel.