KDE's klipper applet can do what "clipboard observer" is described as doing, and a whole bunch more (since it's not just browser oriented, but can interact with the whole desktop environment).
Also Konqueror tabs support most of the things you list, with light, fast load/response times. Re-ordering tabs is an absolute must-have feature. Really easy to do in Konqueror via keyboard... ALT-SHIFT arrow. Konsole works the same way. (Probably all KDE tab controls are capable of it, i'd guess.)
Undoing the closing of a tab would be nice though; i've greatly annoyed myself by accidentally closed the wrong tab not a few times. Too many tabs!
And by the CVS timestamp on the page it seems the goal was reached the day after the parent was posted. This is great.
I just out of idle curiosity looked up the slashdot story again curious to see how things were going. I had been babbling to my wife in the grocery story about this appeal for full time funding, and how I hoped it was going to work out... for the good of ALL... yes, i was babbling, but she pretended to by sympathetic at least.
This is really, really great.
It would be even greater if the FreeBSD Foundation also benefits from this drive, and they (or someone) can be an organizing force to promote more such dedicated development. Maybe the community needs to sponsor someone to work full time with the Foundation to do this.
Anyhow, big thanks to all the doners (even if this is a dead old story no one will read the new comments for), and to Poul-Henning for taking the chance of putting himself boldly forward like this.
There is a great difference in knowing where to send something to somone, and being able to watch them come to the door in their underwear and fish it out of the mailbox secretly from a remote location.
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A similar, but only 2d, visualization in some ways similar to these, but which is really useful is kdirstat.
It's obvious, this guy just wants the cyborgs to colonise the other planets first! Manufacture a gigantic robotic army, and then return to subdue the puny fleshlings. In fact, he's probably from the future cyborg society come back to cause all of this to happen... do not listen to him! (Even if he does make a lot of sense, and probably plays a mean game of chess... damned robots!)
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again: people need to start being responsible for THEMSELVES. It's not Outlook's fault that the user didn't patch their system."
Unfortunately it's simply someting approaching irresponsible of you to think that people are going to be "responsible" for themselves in this sort of situation. And you probably know it.
I just got an email forwarded from my own father in law asking me if this trick someone forwarded him will work. The email encourages everyone to create an "AAAAA@AAAAAA.AAA" entry in their outlook address book: they go on to explain that the worms will try this first and when it fails they will quit.
By the extreme number of angle brackets on the left side of this forwarded message... i'd say there's a lot of people with AAAAAA@AAAAAA.AAA in their outlook address book at this moment.
I think you are asking too much of these people to have them actually understand about patching, updates (btw, my father in law dials up via a not-too-fast modem... and lives somewhat out int he country), HTML exploits, etc etc.
GTK finally starting to fix the file dialog is sort of like Microsoft starting to fix its security problems... too little, too late... but the long afflicted faithful hail it as a great triumph and step forward.
Much of the Enron shenanigans were ongoing before he even took office.
Yes, there certainly is no end fo the "shenanigans" bush was up to before he took^H^H^H^H was given office.
No, Bush got tired of UN corruption and inaction, and going around the UN
No, bush cronies wanted to implement their own oil-and-money-and-power-for-us-and-haliburton program.
If those "rules" include reining in WMD proliferators
If you say "WMD proliferators" five times and click your heels together... um... probably still no WMD will appear. Oh well.
If they're terrorists,
Thank you for the links, but it is clear to everyone else that Bush crew reserves the right to define terrorist for himself, any way that is convenient at any given time.
It's OK that you hate Bush... really.
Thanks. If someone deserves it, this is the man. But probably it would be more productive to hate his government's self-serving, civil-rights-erroding, good-will-squandering and environment-destroying policies first.
Some would say RBLs work "too well". They have a fairly consistant history of accidentally abusing innocent parties. Is it the price to be paid for the overall protection? Depends on your point of view.
We don't have that many clients using our mail server, but one noticed one day that mail to him to friends was bouncing. He reported this and we discovered that we were on SpamCop's RBL list.
I did a quick audit of the mail server, fearing we'd been highjacked, but found no evidence anywhere of spam going out.
Being generally sympathetic to RBLs I was eagre to get to the bottom of this, and cooporate with whatever needed to be done to prove our innocence.
But i found the SpamCop web site to be extremely frustrating to find any information. I found some references stating that to refute being listed you must reply to the email that SpamCop sent you: I searched and searched but we recieved no mail from spamcop.
As I spent a precious day trying to figure out what to do, as mysteriously as we'd been listed, our IP disappeared from spamcop's list.
To this day I don't know what happened; but have a somewhat more bitter taste in my mouth regarding the arbitrary power of RBLs.
(Though I still tend to more blame the system which blindly obeys a single RBL: I think SpamAssassin is more democratic in that it only assigns a probability, and an IP has to be on multiple block lists before it goes over a threshold. This gives spammers more lead time before they are blocked, but also prevents any single RBL from weilding absolute power... a sort of check-and-balance.)
Am i missing something, or is what people are so excited about in this thread just a slightly improved plain text formatting engine?
Is it just my imagination or are the two tops of this article linking perls extended new plain text rendering capabilities with perl 6 and the parrot vm? Is that what Larry has been working towards all this time? Better faster plain text reports?
As another poster mentioned, Opera is excellent in this area: having had state saving for years and years AND years.
There are a few moz/fire add ons to do this, but i've found them all problematic when i've tried them in the past. They may save the state of a single browser window (and tabs) okay... but if you have multiple browser windows (each with multiple tabs)? I haven't tried any of them in a while, but they have always just overwritten each other's state in the past.
The only browser currenty to fully get this right is Konqueror. It saves all the states of all windows and tabs (and in fact the state of most KDE apps! Shouldn't all apps be able to save state, not just browsers... KDE almost delivers this). However, ALAS, the feature is not easy to control. The power is there, but just out of reach!
The main state saving mechanism by default in KDE is that the state of all apps is saved when you exit (shut down/log out) KDE. When you restart KDE all states on all desktops are restored.
There is an option burried in the control center that puts a "save session" option on the "K-Menu"... so you can manually save your states. However when you turn on this manual control it no longer automatically saves sessions when exiting; and also there's no sessoin manager to arbitrarily restore sessions.
This is so frustrating! Because clearly KDE/Konqueror have the most amazing capabilities and power... but there's no UI for it! Sigh.
Still, for most purposes, Konqueror sessions are a beautiful thing.
Actually this isn't quite so funny. I would ike some Mozilla "O/S integration" on my BSD box. Well, not O/S integration, but desktop integration. Mozilla does integrate with Windows to some degree. But on BSD/Linux it is much more awkward.
Which is one reason I use Konqueror most of the time. It's not as good as Mozilla... but it is good enough usually, and feels better, due to desktop integration.
Replying to point 1. Yeah, i guess it's good that SVN doesn't rely on apache. But it is actually one of the features I love about it. I think many of the people who worry about having an apache front end have not stopped to think about the flexibility and power of such an arangement. Apache is a familiar tool to many of us which provides a lot of interesting possibilities. It gives you a lot of excellent control over exactly how your repository is accessed. It gives you excellent security. You don't have to create system accounts (you can use any of the multitude of apache auth mods to authenticate against virtually anything).
In short, the apache front end is a wonderful thing. Those of you who worry: do not be afraid of the goodness!
Python, infinitely useful "out of the box", has come bundled with a module called "rotor" which is basically an enigma-like scrambler. You can add as many rotors as you like to your digital enigma-like machine.
Sadly this module has been marked for deprecation in python 2.3, though it is still there. I found the module very useful for some things --- a simple, light weight encryption can be a handy thing. Everyone knows that it is weak encryption these days though... but still useful, in my opinion.
It's an absolute relative pain in the ass to install on FreeBSD as well. Normally one is blessed by the FreeBSD port system... "make install", done. Not so with Java... where you first have to jump through a bunch of hoops, visiting multiple web sites, clicking through all sorts of agreements... and so on.
To add insult to injury one must install linux emulation, and download Sun's binary linux Java distribution to bootstrap building of FreeBSD native java.
It's getting slightly better now that JDK 1.3 has an official native binary release for FreeBSD, and 1.4 is coming... but this is thanks to the hard work of the volunteers of the FreeBSD java team, little thanks to Sun.
And it's still a pain in the ass... compared to just about any other FreeBSD port.
Part of the reason is because in many cases when Gnome is chosen it seems to be a largely "political" decision; and this irks the KDE users, who feel the sting of having been slandered by the Gnome FUD attacks (the licencing issue) for so long.
Distros that choose KDE tend just to be more pragmatic and populist.
The utter bizarrity of people defending Jackson's clearly idiotic handling of Arwen by saying they needed 'well rounded' or 'stronger' or even just more sex-appealing female characters is nuts.
How the heck did Arwen add anything to the movie. Which of her pouty crying scenes aided the cause of women, or even interested many of the men watching? It was obvious and gratuitous pandering to some cliche which did more damage to the film trilogy than anything else. In short, the most commercial pandering of all of the pandering changes backfired on every level.
Tolkien had a blind spot for female characters? Maybe so, but it's like saying my cat has a real blind spot for calculus. Oh sure, the cat solves the odd equation, but he doesn't make it a part of his daily routine. Think about it. The reason Tolkien's work is so powerful is because of the incredible attention to detail, and the building of a stunningly complex and internally coherent world. The activities the protagonists are involved in, in the type of society they are a part of, really don't give a lot of opportunity for feminine companionship (alas). Thrusting one in for the sake of "modern" sensitibilities just exposed the weakness and destructive to art nature of the commercial medium.
I was amazed to find that I actually liked the movies for the most part myself; it was incredible what Jackson pulled off. I'm quite forgiving of many of the changes he made... or rather the changes to the character of the characters he made. But clearly the Arwen sequences were just almost entirely completely forced crap.
If you are worried about the story, and wanting to justify having more gender balance... why didn't jackson throw in some pouty female orcs as well?
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I have noticed this as a general problem with linux people trying FreeBSD... but i suppose it's just the way life works. The problem is that they have trained their minds to jump through all the linux hack hoops. Who using linux (except maybe some corporate person who 'doesn't know better') would first consult "the linux manual"? No, they will go googling through ten thousand "how to" files (many of which look like they were written by 12 year olds). There are frustrating things about FreeBSD... but the FreeBSD manual is for the most part really excellent and comprehensive... and so simple to look things up in.
Same problem I've found with mysql users trying out postgresql. They have corrupted their brains with all of the non-standard mysql hacks... now confronted with a real db system without all of these hacks they don't know the *real* SQL way to do things... and they get very frustrated.
It really does affect many people later on the choices they make early on... and train their brains with.
Thank God I started seriously (though i had computers before it) with C64. (-:
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And here is a very long and detailed response on the DSpam site by Jonathan A. Zdziarski himself..
Also Konqueror tabs support most of the things you list, with light, fast load/response times. Re-ordering tabs is an absolute must-have feature. Really easy to do in Konqueror via keyboard... ALT-SHIFT arrow. Konsole works the same way. (Probably all KDE tab controls are capable of it, i'd guess.)
Undoing the closing of a tab would be nice though; i've greatly annoyed myself by accidentally closed the wrong tab not a few times. Too many tabs!
Uh, and why are you smiling, exactly??
I just out of idle curiosity looked up the slashdot story again curious to see how things were going. I had been babbling to my wife in the grocery story about this appeal for full time funding, and how I hoped it was going to work out... for the good of ALL... yes, i was babbling, but she pretended to by sympathetic at least.
This is really, really great.
It would be even greater if the FreeBSD Foundation also benefits from this drive, and they (or someone) can be an organizing force to promote more such dedicated development. Maybe the community needs to sponsor someone to work full time with the Foundation to do this. Anyhow, big thanks to all the doners (even if this is a dead old story no one will read the new comments for), and to Poul-Henning for taking the chance of putting himself boldly forward like this.
There is a great difference in knowing where to send something to somone, and being able to watch them come to the door in their underwear and fish it out of the mailbox secretly from a remote location.
A similar, but only 2d, visualization in some ways similar to these, but which is really useful is kdirstat.
Damn you Slashdot, and damn you Jason Bergman. Damn you, damn you all! i wanted this one to be true!
Just don't outsource to Switzerland. (I'm surprised this didn't make slashdot front page, actually).
It's obvious, this guy just wants the cyborgs to colonise the other planets first! Manufacture a gigantic robotic army, and then return to subdue the puny fleshlings. In fact, he's probably from the future cyborg society come back to cause all of this to happen... do not listen to him! (Even if he does make a lot of sense, and probably plays a mean game of chess... damned robots!)
Unfortunately it's simply someting approaching irresponsible of you to think that people are going to be "responsible" for themselves in this sort of situation. And you probably know it.
I just got an email forwarded from my own father in law asking me if this trick someone forwarded him will work. The email encourages everyone to create an "AAAAA@AAAAAA.AAA" entry in their outlook address book: they go on to explain that the worms will try this first and when it fails they will quit.
By the extreme number of angle brackets on the left side of this forwarded message... i'd say there's a lot of people with AAAAAA@AAAAAA.AAA in their outlook address book at this moment.
I think you are asking too much of these people to have them actually understand about patching, updates (btw, my father in law dials up via a not-too-fast modem... and lives somewhat out int he country), HTML exploits, etc etc.
GTK finally starting to fix the file dialog is sort of like Microsoft starting to fix its security problems... too little, too late... but the long afflicted faithful hail it as a great triumph and step forward.
Bought and paid for by daddy.
Much of the Enron shenanigans were ongoing before he even took office.
Yes, there certainly is no end fo the "shenanigans" bush was up to before he took^H^H^H^H was given office.
No, Bush got tired of UN corruption and inaction, and going around the UN
No, bush cronies wanted to implement their own oil-and-money-and-power-for-us-and-haliburton program.
If those "rules" include reining in WMD proliferators
If you say "WMD proliferators" five times and click your heels together... um... probably still no WMD will appear. Oh well.
If they're terrorists,
Thank you for the links, but it is clear to everyone else that Bush crew reserves the right to define terrorist for himself, any way that is convenient at any given time.
It's OK that you hate Bush... really.
Thanks. If someone deserves it, this is the man. But probably it would be more productive to hate his government's self-serving, civil-rights-erroding, good-will-squandering and environment-destroying policies first.
We don't have that many clients using our mail server, but one noticed one day that mail to him to friends was bouncing. He reported this and we discovered that we were on SpamCop's RBL list.
I did a quick audit of the mail server, fearing we'd been highjacked, but found no evidence anywhere of spam going out.
Being generally sympathetic to RBLs I was eagre to get to the bottom of this, and cooporate with whatever needed to be done to prove our innocence.
But i found the SpamCop web site to be extremely frustrating to find any information. I found some references stating that to refute being listed you must reply to the email that SpamCop sent you: I searched and searched but we recieved no mail from spamcop.
As I spent a precious day trying to figure out what to do, as mysteriously as we'd been listed, our IP disappeared from spamcop's list.
To this day I don't know what happened; but have a somewhat more bitter taste in my mouth regarding the arbitrary power of RBLs.
(Though I still tend to more blame the system which blindly obeys a single RBL: I think SpamAssassin is more democratic in that it only assigns a probability, and an IP has to be on multiple block lists before it goes over a threshold. This gives spammers more lead time before they are blocked, but also prevents any single RBL from weilding absolute power... a sort of check-and-balance.)
Is it just my imagination or are the two tops of this article linking perls extended new plain text rendering capabilities with perl 6 and the parrot vm? Is that what Larry has been working towards all this time? Better faster plain text reports?
Ouch. (-:
There are a few moz/fire add ons to do this, but i've found them all problematic when i've tried them in the past. They may save the state of a single browser window (and tabs) okay... but if you have multiple browser windows (each with multiple tabs)? I haven't tried any of them in a while, but they have always just overwritten each other's state in the past.
The only browser currenty to fully get this right is Konqueror. It saves all the states of all windows and tabs (and in fact the state of most KDE apps! Shouldn't all apps be able to save state, not just browsers... KDE almost delivers this). However, ALAS, the feature is not easy to control. The power is there, but just out of reach!
The main state saving mechanism by default in KDE is that the state of all apps is saved when you exit (shut down/log out) KDE. When you restart KDE all states on all desktops are restored.
There is an option burried in the control center that puts a "save session" option on the "K-Menu"... so you can manually save your states. However when you turn on this manual control it no longer automatically saves sessions when exiting; and also there's no sessoin manager to arbitrarily restore sessions.
This is so frustrating! Because clearly KDE/Konqueror have the most amazing capabilities and power... but there's no UI for it! Sigh.
Still, for most purposes, Konqueror sessions are a beautiful thing.
Which is one reason I use Konqueror most of the time. It's not as good as Mozilla... but it is good enough usually, and feels better, due to desktop integration.
I think this is ncurses big chance for a come back. Everyone looking for XFree86 alternative, look no further!
In short, the apache front end is a wonderful thing. Those of you who worry: do not be afraid of the goodness!
Sadly this module has been marked for deprecation in python 2.3, though it is still there. I found the module very useful for some things --- a simple, light weight encryption can be a handy thing. Everyone knows that it is weak encryption these days though... but still useful, in my opinion.
To add insult to injury one must install linux emulation, and download Sun's binary linux Java distribution to bootstrap building of FreeBSD native java.
It's getting slightly better now that JDK 1.3 has an official native binary release for FreeBSD, and 1.4 is coming... but this is thanks to the hard work of the volunteers of the FreeBSD java team, little thanks to Sun.
And it's still a pain in the ass... compared to just about any other FreeBSD port.
Distros that choose KDE tend just to be more pragmatic and populist.
SWT looks like a horrible festering piece of crap on Unix. Gtk file dialog... Ugh... Swing at least looks half decent everywhere.
How the heck did Arwen add anything to the movie. Which of her pouty crying scenes aided the cause of women, or even interested many of the men watching? It was obvious and gratuitous pandering to some cliche which did more damage to the film trilogy than anything else. In short, the most commercial pandering of all of the pandering changes backfired on every level.
Tolkien had a blind spot for female characters? Maybe so, but it's like saying my cat has a real blind spot for calculus. Oh sure, the cat solves the odd equation, but he doesn't make it a part of his daily routine. Think about it. The reason Tolkien's work is so powerful is because of the incredible attention to detail, and the building of a stunningly complex and internally coherent world. The activities the protagonists are involved in, in the type of society they are a part of, really don't give a lot of opportunity for feminine companionship (alas). Thrusting one in for the sake of "modern" sensitibilities just exposed the weakness and destructive to art nature of the commercial medium.
I was amazed to find that I actually liked the movies for the most part myself; it was incredible what Jackson pulled off. I'm quite forgiving of many of the changes he made... or rather the changes to the character of the characters he made. But clearly the Arwen sequences were just almost entirely completely forced crap.
If you are worried about the story, and wanting to justify having more gender balance... why didn't jackson throw in some pouty female orcs as well?
Ami Pro. Yes. Amen.
Same problem I've found with mysql users trying out postgresql. They have corrupted their brains with all of the non-standard mysql hacks... now confronted with a real db system without all of these hacks they don't know the *real* SQL way to do things... and they get very frustrated.
It really does affect many people later on the choices they make early on... and train their brains with.
Thank God I started seriously (though i had computers before it) with C64. (-: