...you might think that pressing the ';' key should make the cursor jump to the end and skip over the ')'. NetBeans will do the small things like this, where I haven't seen Eclipse do it.
Eclipse does this. Whenever it doesn't for some reason, I immediately turn it back on in the prefs. Coding without it is a pain.
I have. It works. Just ensure the mount settings make it world readable (if that's what you want.) The defaults can be changed in gconf if you don't fstab your drives.
installing the perl module via CPAN. That's actually a real pain for a debian or ubuntu user, because CPAN and apt don't play nicely; you can get in all kinds of screwed-up states if you try to install half your perl modules using apt and half using CPAN.
IME, 'dh-make-perl' does a pretty good job of making.debs from CPAN packages.
Of course, this doesn't invalidate your actual point that the bindings should be in there in the first place.
I've ripped DVDs in the wrong language before too (I got Das Boot with French dialogue, that was strange.) I think some disks mis-identify the language of the audio track, particularly foreign-language ones, the primary track claims to be English but isn't. Now I always use the preview feature before I start the rip.
AcidRip has (probably had by now) a bug that makes it fail if the DVD title contains spaces. It's just not quoting spaces somewhere when creating the output files. This is very easily worked-around: in the box that lets you edit the title, remove the spaces.
It's a possible security issue is my guess. Depending on what's actually causing the segfault, it may be exploitable. Also, some of those bug reports may include crash dumps which makes them private by default (as those dumps can include sensitive information.)
Did you even look first? Jabber has been around for years now, and sounds like it'd be ideal. Technologically it is similar to email in principle. It's an open standard, so there are many clients and servers to choose from (I'm a fan of ejabberd myself.)
Any policies you like, such as connecting to other servers or protocols, logging, encryption, whatever can all be enforced from your server.
It's probably for the best. If you open the link in Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10 (32- or 64-bit), gnome-panel will segfault, restart, segfault, restart... until you change the tab that firefox is showing.
What I'd like to see last.fm do is team up with sites like Jamendo, and small, independent labels. Those that don't feel the need to put large fees and geographical restrictions onto their music. Push them harder where they can.
Ideally, this would serve two purposes: 1) more people listen to independent labels, 2) the bigger money-grubbing ones realise that they're being stupid and are losing market share to the small bands.
Actually, the main one that's still in active development is this one. Also Java, but using SWT. This is the same UI toolkit as Azureus, and it does actually use native widgets, although having to be lowest-common-denominator, it doesn't necessarily support all native features on some OSes. I think the problem with Azureus is that it looks like a mess, not the language it's written in.
I've seen plenty of crap-UIs with native widgets, and nice UIs with non-native (although, the latter is rarer I will concede.)
While he is wrong, what he is doing isn't going to affect the original project _unless they accept his code_. Which they wouldn't do if he's writing some other program.
If Rakishi was right, I could stop the Linux kernel from being produced by writing something at work derived from it.
Doesn't make sense that it would affect the kernel, right, does it? Only if they accepted my code would there be problems with the kernel.
releasing it would put the GPL project in potential liability.
Rubbish. If that were true, then it would be really easy to sink any GPL project.
They would have issues if they incorporated the code that you weren't actually allowed to release into their codebase, but that's not what's happening here.
Please don't tar all devs with one brush. I'd love for someone to come along and do some documentation and usability testing for my stuff. I have good intentions of doing it myself, but it just never really seems to happen.
Some programmers are jerks, open source or otherwise, but there's nothing the rest of us can do about that.
1893 in New Zealand, and I think we were beaten by the Isle of Mann (ironically). In the same year, we also had the first woman Mayor in the British Empire.
Twinview actually handles different res screens alright, that's how I use it 95% of the time. It's not totally perfect, but it's good enough. Windows maximize within the visible space, and so forth. Some misbehaving programs (firefox is one) will sometimes have menus going off the bottom of the shorter one, but that's about it.
I'm not sure that any config file editing is necessary with intrepid. I haven't removed that line from my xorg.conf to see if it still works, it's reasonably possible (given what I worked out of the failure mode previously) that it does.
The nvidia control panel thing does allow you to save the changes to the xorg.conf, and I presume it turns that on. I've never used it, I prefer to do things by hand.
Your 'not needing to edit config files' thing is a bit short-sighted. Whenever I find myself on a windows machine for any length of time, I have to make changes to the registry to have it behave in a useful manner. That, and installing a whole host of third-party programs to make it able to do anything at all. Windows is just not really ready for the desktop.
And, the only games I play are the HL2 series. They work just fine in Linux. Last time I tested it (and it was a very long time ago) I was getting a better framerate in Linux under wine than Windows (98, to give an idea of how long ago that was).
Does Nautilus still not have a "list view" option?
You mean that thing where you click on the menu that lets you pick the view (to the upper-right of the nautilus window) and choose 'view as list'? I presume they haven't taken that away.
At Otago university, traffic routable over KAREN automatically goes over it. This is quite handy when it comes to things like Ubuntu updates, you can set the mirror to de.archive.ubuntu.org and download at 1 or 2MB/s, better than nz.archive gets you. ('course, I discovered the other day that apparently we have an on-campus mirror anyway)
We also have a page that tells you if a given hostname/IP address will route via KAREN or not.
Mind you, we also don't have quotas or charges for students. You might get a slap on the wrist if you download too much, and asked to please not do it again, but that's the worst I've heard. Of course, if you can route it via KAREN, no problem at all.
I use twinview on my laptop all the time, switching between dual and single a lot. The problem with it is really a Gnome issue. If you start up with a single monitor and switch to dual, Gnome doesn't think of it like two monitors, and so panels span both, windows maximise across both, etc.
The solution is to add 'Option "twinview" "1"' (or whatever it is) to your xorg.conf and the first time you use dual monitors after starting gnome, logout and login with the second monitor attached. Then it works.
You'll need to use the nvidia control panel to set up the monitor layouts etc.
With the exception of this (which is really less of a problem than it sounds, it meant that every couple of weeks I'd have to log out and log back in), twinview works fine.
In Intrepid, even this isn't necessary. Plug in a monitor, turn on twinview through the control panel, and it's all happy. Twinview is pretty much just an nvidia implementation of xinerama.
The reason it doesn't work like all the other cards is thanks to nvidia. Nothing that can be done until they see the light and make their drivers free software.
It is the standard in that it's the base-level cap. It works well enough for people who read a few webpages and get their email. A number of friends, and my parents are on that. Heavier users can quite happily get more, although it does get a bit pricier. I put my plan up to 100Gb the other day, and it costs NZ$95/mo.
But hey, to be completely honest, maybe I was RIGHT when I was a "cynical little bastard" and I've just become wrong in my old age... one can never really KNOW, can one?
I like to think I know. Even if it was long enough ago that my memory is sorta hazy:)
and my peers as slimy and greasing ("they just want to be me" (I almost certainly misconstrued their intentions - I was a cynical little bastard really))
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Eclipse does this. Whenever it doesn't for some reason, I immediately turn it back on in the prefs. Coding without it is a pain.
There was a bit on our National Radio programme about this today, downloadable here: http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20090527-0908-Government_reliance_on_Microsoft.ogg (Vorbis, 13Mb)
It starts with an interview with the head of the NZ Open Source Society, and follows with an interview with a local Microsoft guy.
I have. It works. Just ensure the mount settings make it world readable (if that's what you want.) The defaults can be changed in gconf if you don't fstab your drives.
installing the perl module via CPAN. That's actually a real pain for a debian or ubuntu user, because CPAN and apt don't play nicely; you can get in all kinds of screwed-up states if you try to install half your perl modules using apt and half using CPAN.
IME, 'dh-make-perl' does a pretty good job of making .debs from CPAN packages.
Of course, this doesn't invalidate your actual point that the bindings should be in there in the first place.
Be nice. Clearly before he could finish, he was got to by the grammar nazi's
I've ripped DVDs in the wrong language before too (I got Das Boot with French dialogue, that was strange.) I think some disks mis-identify the language of the audio track, particularly foreign-language ones, the primary track claims to be English but isn't. Now I always use the preview feature before I start the rip.
AcidRip has (probably had by now) a bug that makes it fail if the DVD title contains spaces. It's just not quoting spaces somewhere when creating the output files. This is very easily worked-around: in the box that lets you edit the title, remove the spaces.
It's a possible security issue is my guess. Depending on what's actually causing the segfault, it may be exploitable. Also, some of those bug reports may include crash dumps which makes them private by default (as those dumps can include sensitive information.)
Did you even look first? Jabber has been around for years now, and sounds like it'd be ideal. Technologically it is similar to email in principle. It's an open standard, so there are many clients and servers to choose from (I'm a fan of ejabberd myself.)
Any policies you like, such as connecting to other servers or protocols, logging, encryption, whatever can all be enforced from your server.
It's probably for the best. If you open the link in Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10 (32- or 64-bit), gnome-panel will segfault, restart, segfault, restart... until you change the tab that firefox is showing.
Bug report, and here
Err. No. People would be as likely to say '31st of March 2009' around here. I always give my birthday in the form 'day of month'.
What I'd like to see last.fm do is team up with sites like Jamendo, and small, independent labels. Those that don't feel the need to put large fees and geographical restrictions onto their music. Push them harder where they can.
Ideally, this would serve two purposes: 1) more people listen to independent labels, 2) the bigger money-grubbing ones realise that they're being stupid and are losing market share to the small bands.
Actually, the main one that's still in active development is this one. Also Java, but using SWT. This is the same UI toolkit as Azureus, and it does actually use native widgets, although having to be lowest-common-denominator, it doesn't necessarily support all native features on some OSes. I think the problem with Azureus is that it looks like a mess, not the language it's written in.
I've seen plenty of crap-UIs with native widgets, and nice UIs with non-native (although, the latter is rarer I will concede.)
While he is wrong, what he is doing isn't going to affect the original project _unless they accept his code_. Which they wouldn't do if he's writing some other program.
If Rakishi was right, I could stop the Linux kernel from being produced by writing something at work derived from it.
Doesn't make sense that it would affect the kernel, right, does it? Only if they accepted my code would there be problems with the kernel.
Rubbish. If that were true, then it would be really easy to sink any GPL project. They would have issues if they incorporated the code that you weren't actually allowed to release into their codebase, but that's not what's happening here.
Please don't tar all devs with one brush. I'd love for someone to come along and do some documentation and usability testing for my stuff. I have good intentions of doing it myself, but it just never really seems to happen.
Some programmers are jerks, open source or otherwise, but there's nothing the rest of us can do about that.
1893 in New Zealand, and I think we were beaten by the Isle of Mann (ironically). In the same year, we also had the first woman Mayor in the British Empire.
clbuttic!
Twinview actually handles different res screens alright, that's how I use it 95% of the time. It's not totally perfect, but it's good enough. Windows maximize within the visible space, and so forth. Some misbehaving programs (firefox is one) will sometimes have menus going off the bottom of the shorter one, but that's about it.
I'm not sure that any config file editing is necessary with intrepid. I haven't removed that line from my xorg.conf to see if it still works, it's reasonably possible (given what I worked out of the failure mode previously) that it does.
The nvidia control panel thing does allow you to save the changes to the xorg.conf, and I presume it turns that on. I've never used it, I prefer to do things by hand.
Your 'not needing to edit config files' thing is a bit short-sighted. Whenever I find myself on a windows machine for any length of time, I have to make changes to the registry to have it behave in a useful manner. That, and installing a whole host of third-party programs to make it able to do anything at all. Windows is just not really ready for the desktop.
And, the only games I play are the HL2 series. They work just fine in Linux. Last time I tested it (and it was a very long time ago) I was getting a better framerate in Linux under wine than Windows (98, to give an idea of how long ago that was).
You mean that thing where you click on the menu that lets you pick the view (to the upper-right of the nautilus window) and choose 'view as list'? I presume they haven't taken that away.
At Otago university, traffic routable over KAREN automatically goes over it. This is quite handy when it comes to things like Ubuntu updates, you can set the mirror to de.archive.ubuntu.org and download at 1 or 2MB/s, better than nz.archive gets you. ('course, I discovered the other day that apparently we have an on-campus mirror anyway)
We also have a page that tells you if a given hostname/IP address will route via KAREN or not.
Mind you, we also don't have quotas or charges for students. You might get a slap on the wrist if you download too much, and asked to please not do it again, but that's the worst I've heard. Of course, if you can route it via KAREN, no problem at all.
I use twinview on my laptop all the time, switching between dual and single a lot. The problem with it is really a Gnome issue. If you start up with a single monitor and switch to dual, Gnome doesn't think of it like two monitors, and so panels span both, windows maximise across both, etc.
The solution is to add 'Option "twinview" "1"' (or whatever it is) to your xorg.conf and the first time you use dual monitors after starting gnome, logout and login with the second monitor attached. Then it works.
You'll need to use the nvidia control panel to set up the monitor layouts etc.
With the exception of this (which is really less of a problem than it sounds, it meant that every couple of weeks I'd have to log out and log back in), twinview works fine.
In Intrepid, even this isn't necessary. Plug in a monitor, turn on twinview through the control panel, and it's all happy. Twinview is pretty much just an nvidia implementation of xinerama.
The reason it doesn't work like all the other cards is thanks to nvidia. Nothing that can be done until they see the light and make their drivers free software.
It is the standard in that it's the base-level cap. It works well enough for people who read a few webpages and get their email. A number of friends, and my parents are on that. Heavier users can quite happily get more, although it does get a bit pricier. I put my plan up to 100Gb the other day, and it costs NZ$95/mo.
I like to think I know. Even if it was long enough ago that my memory is sorta hazy :)
*cough* 'almost'?! :)