I'm only replying to this because it was modded so highly interesting... but unfortunately does not have an "ignorant" rating. I don't mean this in a deflamatory way, but just simply that the parent message clearly shows that the writes does not know what he is talking about.
The main thing I'd like to clear up is this business about "the propensity to scatter config files/etc around the filesystem". One of the main reasons that OpenBSD does this is to give the servers the ability to run in chroot prisons, which increases server security vastly. On OpenBSD at this time you barely even have to worry about 3rd party app root holes, if you've set things up the way OpenBSD prefers... most of the major OpenBSD packages have this option, if it is indeed not the default.
It does make adminning a bit more of a pain... but as an admin who values security, you should understand why this is done. And finding the config files in this case is usually very logical. But there's always "locate" or pkg_info if you get lost... it's not hard to find things.
I might further suggest that if as an admin you find the OpenBSD installer that cryptic then I wouldn't want you adminning one of my systems. No offense. It's stuff you should learn... even if it does take a whopping $40 book to do (but of course it doesn't, as everything you need and more is on the net).
KDE file dialog is certainly a very great thing. Though when the side shortcuts showed up I wasn't all that thrilled. Many of them there I would never use, just making things noisy. Then one day I was frustrated with changing directories and was thinking... if only, if only you could right click and add your own shortcuts... and idly i right clicked on the pannel....
Good God, it worked!!!!! Context menu comes up allowing me to add (app specific, or globally) my own shortcuts with my own icons... i was amazed. Then i removed the useless floppy shortcut... and the rest is history.
Though speaking of history the KDE file dialog does fall short in some areas. For example, it could use a "history" view. It also is frustrating that it lacks basic file management capabilities like windows has. You can't copy or move, or drag and drop from a KDE file dialog. This is handy sometimes I find in windows.
Being spoiled by the generally amazingly useful KDE dialog is one of the things that makes using gnome/gtk apps under KDE sooooo painful.
Ah the Atkin's religion's mythos. Unfortunately ignores and tends to obscure with far off half truths of no provable scientific value what is right in front of sad obese Americans who will grasp at any straw (take a look a the diet industry in general... barely a step up from the penis enlargement community... you know, some of that stuff really will enlarge your penis)... Atkins is a part of this, though the white coat has somehow imbued it with respectability even beyond that of the miraculous shark cartilage hawkers. Just another "quick fix" mentality (all of which always claim to be just the first radical step, as atkins does, don't you know?).
All these carbs... all these carbs... we're gonna die.
Look at even relatively recent history, people. YOu don't have to go back to supposed cave men. Take a look at the stats just for the last few hundred hears in the USA alone... or specific parts of it. Actually european countries can be more interesting, smaller and more distinct patterns in some cases. What has been happening? More bakeries have sprung up like mushrooms spreading death and desease and environmental destruction? Not quite.
Maybe slabs of meat are the closest thing may of ye geeks get to "real food". "whole food". That is to say, as pumped full of hormones and various feed supliments designed to maximize profits from the muscle tissue farms if they can at all be justified as seemingly reasonable "safe" (for humans, at least; the odd mad cow not withstanding)... compare it to the rest of your very likely very "processed" diet.
Most process carb heavy products are also relatively fat/sugar-laden.
Now if you want to do the historical and ethnic studies start looking cat high meat consumption cultures other long-term historical health problems. Heart/circulation diseases and conditions like, osteoperosis, and the big one... cancer. Lots of fun stuff.
Just for fun, compare with more vegetarian based cultures... just for fun, compare. Whee. If anyone actually cares about anything besides their sagging fat asses... probably not. No, didn't think so. Okay, fair enough.
It's certainly true that Covenant is a collosal Middle Earth ripp-off. But it is without a doubt the very best complete rip off yet accomplished. I would that all Tolkien rip-offs were written half so well, with such a level of level of detail and texture, and with these unique psychological twists.
I actually read the Covenant series as a youth, before I'd read LOTR... and I was mightily impressed. It was only years later when finally getting to LOTR did i realise... wait a minute, this is the *real* thing! But still... Covenant was a rare worthy rip-off in this world of rip-offs.
(I say this even despite finding the tragically pathetic final conclusion of White Gold one of the greatest disappointments of my reading life.)
is not intended for hobbyists who are going to be installing random applications
Yeah, it's for people who love to torture themselves with file dialogs so painful you'll suddenly realised how wonderful Windows is.... er... oh, hmmm....
This great advance of consistency from the company who has forced me to endure CDE as the standard default desktop right up to solaris 9. And their brand new Solaris Patch Pro tool still standardized on Netscape 4.7x! Don't expect too much here... move along.
Just trying to figure out if this plot is intended to make Windows look good, or to make Swing look good... hard choice... very sneaky.
Quite simply, you're not as important and good as you thought you were.
In fact, none of us are. Some of use are just luckier bastards than others, and probably should be shot for our excess. Except for Bill Gates, who is obviously the goodest and most important of us all!
He gives computers to schools too. And helps Indians fight AIDs... and the even more horrible Linux Virus.
My cat used to live in a computer box; and found it quite cozy, too. Move over, kitty...
I've been getting to know the Quakers around here a bit better lately. Very interesting people with an extremely compelling perspective.
It strikes me as utterly bizarre though the number of people I mention the Quakers to respond: "Nixon was a Quaker." Nixon, the man who while Quakers in general are fairly extreme passifists (though you don't have to be a passifist to be a Quaker) presided over half of the most cynical (until GW came along) and brutal wars America was involved with. Quakers, when you research them, one finds just are astonishing in their depths of historical social activism... as already mentioned... yet whenever you mention Quaker's someone says "Nixon was a Quaker".
Honestly I don't know that much about Nixon, except that in the public general consciousness he is associated with cynical and power abusing government, illegal wire-tapping (invasion of privacy), the bloodiest part of the Viet Nam war, and so on. Everything that Quakers would oppose.
The only thing I can figure it that Quakers must simply be too nice to turf anyone out most of hte time. Though some of them I have noticed seem to insist on adding that Nixon may have been a Quaker, but he was "non-practicing". Ah well.
Actually, having just installed Red Hat 9 a few days ago, normally being a FreeBSD user, I have to say the RedHat installer is only marginally less confusing, in my opinion. The main wart in the really very straight forward FreeBSD installer is when it pops you off to do the disk partitioning. Actually this interface is as easy to use as Red Hat as well, after you read the instructions and simply press "a" to "auto" create all of the slices. If people want to do something more complicated "disk druid" with Red Hat really isn't that much simpler than FreeBSD's disklabel editor.
Though I must admit I did a "linux text" install, because I didn't have a mouse hooked up to this box, and red hat would not let me run the GUI without a mouse.
I've only had Red Hat installed for a few days here, and already i've been beating my head against the absolutely excruciating RPM dependancy hell I've heard so much about. I suppose Red Hat works better when you stick to the bundled software... but that is... for me... painful. I'd compile stuff myself, but then uninstalling is a mess.
Gentoo I've attempted to install once and failed. Debian I had installed for a few months, and found its package management to be pretty much hell as well---if you fall from the beaten ultra-conservative "stable" path.
I've Never encountered any issues like these with FreeBSD after years of running it as my desktop system. And I tend to churn through a lot of software installs, uninstalls, and updates.
We have a homegrown web app we use, which while rough around the edges in a few places, I've come to love quite a bit. We call it "NetTask Manager". We are in the process of opening (quite cheap) commercial hosted accounts with it; but we also offer a licence for it for stand alone installations.
It is designed to be a very general purpose tool, with a very simple interface. When I first joined the company I thought the interface was ridiculously simple, and I took it upon myself to demo a lot of other free issue trackers... and all of them i found quickly just irritating to work with. They are often too specific in application, often horribly complicated to set up the way you want (and then to maintain). I came to realise the simplicity of our clean interface "just works"... it doesn't get in the way.
We have used it ourselves for years, while working on it. Another moderately sized local corporation, which has in part co-ownership, (I think around 50 people) have used it for several years as well: they use it for nearly all facets of their organisation. The programming department uses it for bug and project tracking, and marketting department uses it for tracking their activities. Management uses it to keep on top of everything.
Unfortunately we don't have an live demo set up at the moment; and the following page shows just the barest basics... but for what its worth if anyone wants to have a look: NetTask Manager Overview.
The latest addition is a priority queue system for fine control over ordering one's assigned tasks.
If anyone by any chance is interested in more information you can contact us via our website. It is a bit rough, but its also relatively cheap, and the developers are very responsive. (-;
Both examples are pretty sad, in my opinion... in that you can't actually read even the full filename in either... let alone any actual useful info one may want to sort or select by.
(Perhaps this is forgivable in the interface that seemed clearly show hundreds and hundreds of files represented on one screen; but on an interface with just ten or half a dozen files and loads of space... and you can't even read a full filename... that's just sad.)
Another reply points you to the mozilla googlebar. I've tried it an various other search add ons -- some of them are really good. But I always end up forgetting about them and just going back to using google searches from the address bar.
I love way the Mozilla does it, adding the search option to the bottom of the history bar. I like it a lot better than having to always insert a "gg:" in konqueror; or having to have a seperate input taking up space such as in Firebird or Opera...
It's just too convenient and efficient in every way. And google's web interface does everything i want... especially when you combine it with mozilla's amazingly handly type-ahead (is that what they call it) search...
Thank God there's someone here that remembers the TRUE classics (previous reference to Swift notwithstanding).
I still remember the first time i saw this episode as a kid... it was absolutely brilliantly executed. What was brilliant in the story telling was the contrast that was set up. While the theme ends up being overpopulation, in fact most of the episode is played out by just two people, with a whole starship to themselves.
Brief synopsis for those who may not remember:
Kirk wakes up on the Enterprise. But strangely he is alone. No one else there. He wanders the decks trying to find any trace of anyone.
He finally does find comes across a single woman also wandering the decks... much of the episode is taken up with him trying to figure out what role she plays in the strange events, and how they came to be there all alone.
So most of the episode has these two people in this vast space. But towards the end (spoiler?) the view screens go up revealing the most horrific crowd of people looking in: the whole enterprise had been recreated on this planet for Kirk and this woman... despite the planet apparently being so overcrowded, due to science having achieved virtual immortality, that probably the term "elbow room" had no meaning there.
But why did the government of this planet take all this space to build an entire (seemingly) working replica of the enterprise? How does it relate to the population problem?
On FreeBSD there are two excellent ports... i rarely use "make" or pkg_* utils anymore. You need to install "portupgrade" and "porteasy". The former is everything needed to build and update ports (or packages). The latter, while it also has port building options, is mostly good for keeping your ports tree up to date selectively. With "porteasy" you don't need to maintain the entire ports tree, but only update the ports you are interested (their dependancies will be automatically updated too); or with a single command using a couple of switches update all your installed ports.
Oops, i forgot my final point, which is how my previous post relates back to the topic at hand: Howard Dean's blogging campaign. It seems to me that Dean is by far doing the best of any candidate to use grass roots technology to energize the optimistic heart of "Democratic" support. That's all.
The great strength of the Republican party is that they fully realise just how sheltered (some may say stupid) and gulable and eager to be lead the American people are. The Democrats only have a slight inkling of this fact.
The thing the Democrats have going for them is a certain amount of optimism, pig-headedly believing that "ordinary americans" will magically become less short sighted and understand the complex ramifications of their choices; whereas the Republics are just utterly cynical in their every action (though they paint it with a righteous face).
Me, i'm sadly disgustingly cyncial myself, and yet admire most the optimistic point of view. Where does that leave me?
Some will think this is a troll, and it can't help but be in a way. It is an over simplification, and it is dangerous using terms like "ordinary americans". But I think in this case the thoughtful americans have noticed these patterns also (just witness the retarded parrot cliches of the lies which were the basis of american support for the Iraq "war" still here on Slashdot): it's just that it seems even the Democrat optimism is failing and they just have no idea what to do.
BTW, i am a Canadian... so flame away on my socialist ass!
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It is frequently stated that these creatures are supposed to be the closest genetically to humans (whatever a percentage means--at various times in history all sorts of 'similarities' have been used as the basis for bad science in practically every field): however, do not over look that they are even more geneticaly similar to other species than they are to humans, and those other species which are closer to them have different various behaviors. So it would seem, as often is the case, that the comparison of social behavior between humans and bonobos is tenuous at best, and perhaps more of a product of social preconceptions at the current moment in history than genenetic similarities. Ah, but what's the use of pointing any of this out. Feel free to run out and have sex with as many genetically similar kin as your social customs will allow. I do not care.
The KDE Usabilty Team should abandon their mostly unnoticable tweaking of kicker and get on this "k" thing right away.
Until someone manages to rename all the apps to something sensible, perhaps the following could options could be implented:
Automatic spellcheck on all filenames and menu items... in cases where the difference between a real word spelling and the filename/menu item is only Ks, display the correct spelling.
Same as above, but also check for initial K's that can be stripped to produce a real word...
Rename "KDE" itself to some unpronounceable (or at least awkward to type) symbol to discourage the use in [file]names.
Kroupware as a working name; as stated by the parent post the server will be called Kolab. The client (integration of all the various KDE clients) is to be called Kontact.
Because of KDE's excellent KParts mechanisms, and goal of reusing the existing applications for the most part (with better communication and integratoin between them), the project is moving fast despite the lack of recent "news" on the site above. It all exists within the KDE PIM package.
Still too many gratiutous K's in the names for my tastes... but at least it's a lot better than the working name given to the project.
It's hard to understand people who run their browser maximised at high resolutions like 1600x1200 (i do know one such person)... especially when most sites are fixed width at 640, or 800 pixels. At least half your screen is blank, and you're constantly having to look leftwards for content.
But of course, as others have mentioned, these sites often have microscopic hard coded font sizes which make it a strain to read on higher resolutions to start with.
But if you have that much screen space, why not use it for something other htan your maximised browser. Your browser can be resized to fit half the screen width and you can actually see the stuff your supposed to be doing in the other half.... all the pathetic fixed with pages will
fit in your browser without overly exceessive space wastage; and nicely flowed pages will be
of the exact width you find ideal.
There are many well known roots to these problems: web sites being designed by sadly clueless print designers (there's hardly a greater frustration in my life than my trying to explain to my sister who is a [good] graphics designer why her nice mockup just isn't going to work on the web... in any sort of web-like way); people too lazy (or stupid) to cope with the implications of flowed content; people ignorant of the fact that not everyone's screen looks exactly the same as their own.
It's funny though that the poster I'm replying to complains about the article's linked site for "long lines" (ie. non-fixed width layout), while posting on slashdot which admirably has a non-fixed width content column... but then I can't recall anyone ever accusing slashdot of being beautiful, or a fine example of web layout either.
Anyhow, the point I am not making (simply because so many others have already made it) is that the user should decide how wide to make their browser window and get some sort of reasonable display... fixed width sites settle on the "most popular" width to fix on... so many are either aflicted with gigantic unused spaces, where others are forced to scroll horizontally (unless they have Opera's superb zoom feature). And hey, there are even some freaks out there who actually (apparently having no sense of proprotion or aesthetics) like long lines... it means they can scan content faster, and have to scroll down less often.
That's all. Nothing new or of much interest here. Sorry.
I was thinking of putting up a torrent for this, but figured i'd look around and see if anyone else did first. Besides the one on this thread, i found this useful site which creates torrents for slashdot linked files in general (and already has the FreeBSD 5.1 discs up), worth noting:
http://f.scarywater.net/
Only "vacuum full" currently locks tables. Normal vacuums do not lock tables. If you need to reclaim space on your HD that often you have other problems, and postgresql probably isn't suited to your limited resources.
As to your speed problems, you must have other problems. We run billing databases on postgresql and they are in no way slow.
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The main thing I'd like to clear up is this business about "the propensity to scatter config files/etc around the filesystem". One of the main reasons that OpenBSD does this is to give the servers the ability to run in chroot prisons, which increases server security vastly. On OpenBSD at this time you barely even have to worry about 3rd party app root holes, if you've set things up the way OpenBSD prefers... most of the major OpenBSD packages have this option, if it is indeed not the default.
It does make adminning a bit more of a pain... but as an admin who values security, you should understand why this is done. And finding the config files in this case is usually very logical. But there's always "locate" or pkg_info if you get lost... it's not hard to find things.
I might further suggest that if as an admin you find the OpenBSD installer that cryptic then I wouldn't want you adminning one of my systems. No offense. It's stuff you should learn... even if it does take a whopping $40 book to do (but of course it doesn't, as everything you need and more is on the net).
Good God, it worked!!!!! Context menu comes up allowing me to add (app specific, or globally) my own shortcuts with my own icons... i was amazed. Then i removed the useless floppy shortcut... and the rest is history.
Though speaking of history the KDE file dialog does fall short in some areas. For example, it could use a "history" view. It also is frustrating that it lacks basic file management capabilities like windows has. You can't copy or move, or drag and drop from a KDE file dialog. This is handy sometimes I find in windows.
Being spoiled by the generally amazingly useful KDE dialog is one of the things that makes using gnome/gtk apps under KDE sooooo painful.
All these carbs... all these carbs... we're gonna die.
Look at even relatively recent history, people. YOu don't have to go back to supposed cave men. Take a look at the stats just for the last few hundred hears in the USA alone... or specific parts of it. Actually european countries can be more interesting, smaller and more distinct patterns in some cases. What has been happening? More bakeries have sprung up like mushrooms spreading death and desease and environmental destruction? Not quite.
Maybe slabs of meat are the closest thing may of ye geeks get to "real food". "whole food". That is to say, as pumped full of hormones and various feed supliments designed to maximize profits from the muscle tissue farms if they can at all be justified as seemingly reasonable "safe" (for humans, at least; the odd mad cow not withstanding)... compare it to the rest of your very likely very "processed" diet.
Most process carb heavy products are also relatively fat/sugar-laden.
Now if you want to do the historical and ethnic studies start looking cat high meat consumption cultures other long-term historical health problems. Heart/circulation diseases and conditions like, osteoperosis, and the big one... cancer. Lots of fun stuff.
Just for fun, compare with more vegetarian based cultures... just for fun, compare. Whee. If anyone actually cares about anything besides their sagging fat asses... probably not. No, didn't think so. Okay, fair enough.
Ooops, just slipped into trolldom. Bleah.
Sounds more than a little like KDE/dcop ... check out this recent article.
It's certainly true that Covenant is a collosal Middle Earth ripp-off. But it is without a doubt the very best complete rip off yet accomplished. I would that all Tolkien rip-offs were written half so well, with such a level of level of detail and texture, and with these unique psychological twists.
I actually read the Covenant series as a youth, before I'd read LOTR... and I was mightily impressed. It was only years later when finally getting to LOTR did i realise... wait a minute, this is the *real* thing! But still... Covenant was a rare worthy rip-off in this world of rip-offs.
(I say this even despite finding the tragically pathetic final conclusion of White Gold one of the greatest disappointments of my reading life.)
Yeah, it's for people who love to torture themselves with file dialogs so painful you'll suddenly realised how wonderful Windows is.... er... oh, hmmm....
This great advance of consistency from the company who has forced me to endure CDE as the standard default desktop right up to solaris 9. And their brand new Solaris Patch Pro tool still standardized on Netscape 4.7x! Don't expect too much here... move along.
Just trying to figure out if this plot is intended to make Windows look good, or to make Swing look good... hard choice... very sneaky.
In fact, none of us are. Some of use are just luckier bastards than others, and probably should be shot for our excess. Except for Bill Gates, who is obviously the goodest and most important of us all!
He gives computers to schools too. And helps Indians fight AIDs... and the even more horrible Linux Virus.
My cat used to live in a computer box; and found it quite cozy, too. Move over, kitty...
Vendors. Vendors of free software. Shoving gnome down our throats. While the free continue to massively choose KDE... strange, isn't it.
Damn it, think of all the vulnerable Knoppix CD's out there... with no way to upgrade the kernel!
It strikes me as utterly bizarre though the number of people I mention the Quakers to respond: "Nixon was a Quaker." Nixon, the man who while Quakers in general are fairly extreme passifists (though you don't have to be a passifist to be a Quaker) presided over half of the most cynical (until GW came along) and brutal wars America was involved with. Quakers, when you research them, one finds just are astonishing in their depths of historical social activism... as already mentioned... yet whenever you mention Quaker's someone says "Nixon was a Quaker".
Honestly I don't know that much about Nixon, except that in the public general consciousness he is associated with cynical and power abusing government, illegal wire-tapping (invasion of privacy), the bloodiest part of the Viet Nam war, and so on. Everything that Quakers would oppose.
The only thing I can figure it that Quakers must simply be too nice to turf anyone out most of hte time. Though some of them I have noticed seem to insist on adding that Nixon may have been a Quaker, but he was "non-practicing". Ah well.
Though I must admit I did a "linux text" install, because I didn't have a mouse hooked up to this box, and red hat would not let me run the GUI without a mouse.
I've only had Red Hat installed for a few days here, and already i've been beating my head against the absolutely excruciating RPM dependancy hell I've heard so much about. I suppose Red Hat works better when you stick to the bundled software... but that is... for me... painful. I'd compile stuff myself, but then uninstalling is a mess.
Gentoo I've attempted to install once and failed. Debian I had installed for a few months, and found its package management to be pretty much hell as well---if you fall from the beaten ultra-conservative "stable" path.
I've Never encountered any issues like these with FreeBSD after years of running it as my desktop system. And I tend to churn through a lot of software installs, uninstalls, and updates.
That's my experience anyhow.
It is designed to be a very general purpose tool, with a very simple interface. When I first joined the company I thought the interface was ridiculously simple, and I took it upon myself to demo a lot of other free issue trackers... and all of them i found quickly just irritating to work with. They are often too specific in application, often horribly complicated to set up the way you want (and then to maintain). I came to realise the simplicity of our clean interface "just works"... it doesn't get in the way.
We have used it ourselves for years, while working on it. Another moderately sized local corporation, which has in part co-ownership, (I think around 50 people) have used it for several years as well: they use it for nearly all facets of their organisation. The programming department uses it for bug and project tracking, and marketting department uses it for tracking their activities. Management uses it to keep on top of everything.
Unfortunately we don't have an live demo set up at the moment; and the following page shows just the barest basics... but for what its worth if anyone wants to have a look: NetTask Manager Overview.
The latest addition is a priority queue system for fine control over ordering one's assigned tasks.
If anyone by any chance is interested in more information you can contact us via our website. It is a bit rough, but its also relatively cheap, and the developers are very responsive. (-;
(Perhaps this is forgivable in the interface that seemed clearly show hundreds and hundreds of files represented on one screen; but on an interface with just ten or half a dozen files and loads of space... and you can't even read a full filename... that's just sad.)
I love way the Mozilla does it, adding the search option to the bottom of the history bar. I like it a lot better than having to always insert a "gg:" in konqueror; or having to have a seperate input taking up space such as in Firebird or Opera...
It's just too convenient and efficient in every way. And google's web interface does everything i want... especially when you combine it with mozilla's amazingly handly type-ahead (is that what they call it) search...
I still remember the first time i saw this episode as a kid... it was absolutely brilliantly executed. What was brilliant in the story telling was the contrast that was set up. While the theme ends up being overpopulation, in fact most of the episode is played out by just two people, with a whole starship to themselves.
Brief synopsis for those who may not remember:
Kirk wakes up on the Enterprise. But strangely he is alone. No one else there. He wanders the decks trying to find any trace of anyone.
He finally does find comes across a single woman also wandering the decks... much of the episode is taken up with him trying to figure out what role she plays in the strange events, and how they came to be there all alone.
So most of the episode has these two people in this vast space. But towards the end (spoiler?) the view screens go up revealing the most horrific crowd of people looking in: the whole enterprise had been recreated on this planet for Kirk and this woman... despite the planet apparently being so overcrowded, due to science having achieved virtual immortality, that probably the term "elbow room" had no meaning there.
But why did the government of this planet take all this space to build an entire (seemingly) working replica of the enterprise? How does it relate to the population problem?
Watch the reruns!
Ouch. Double ouch. I'm going to lie down now.
See the man pages for details.
Oops, i forgot my final point, which is how my previous post relates back to the topic at hand: Howard Dean's blogging campaign. It seems to me that Dean is by far doing the best of any candidate to use grass roots technology to energize the optimistic heart of "Democratic" support. That's all.
The thing the Democrats have going for them is a certain amount of optimism, pig-headedly believing that "ordinary americans" will magically become less short sighted and understand the complex ramifications of their choices; whereas the Republics are just utterly cynical in their every action (though they paint it with a righteous face).
Me, i'm sadly disgustingly cyncial myself, and yet admire most the optimistic point of view. Where does that leave me?
Some will think this is a troll, and it can't help but be in a way. It is an over simplification, and it is dangerous using terms like "ordinary americans". But I think in this case the thoughtful americans have noticed these patterns also (just witness the retarded parrot cliches of the lies which were the basis of american support for the Iraq "war" still here on Slashdot): it's just that it seems even the Democrat optimism is failing and they just have no idea what to do.
BTW, i am a Canadian... so flame away on my socialist ass!
It is frequently stated that these creatures are supposed to be the closest genetically to humans (whatever a percentage means--at various times in history all sorts of 'similarities' have been used as the basis for bad science in practically every field): however, do not over look that they are even more geneticaly similar to other species than they are to humans, and those other species which are closer to them have different various behaviors. So it would seem, as often is the case, that the comparison of social behavior between humans and bonobos is tenuous at best, and perhaps more of a product of social preconceptions at the current moment in history than genenetic similarities. Ah, but what's the use of pointing any of this out. Feel free to run out and have sex with as many genetically similar kin as your social customs will allow. I do not care.
Until someone manages to rename all the apps to something sensible, perhaps the following could options could be implented:
Because of KDE's excellent KParts mechanisms, and goal of reusing the existing applications for the most part (with better communication and integratoin between them), the project is moving fast despite the lack of recent "news" on the site above. It all exists within the KDE PIM package.
Still too many gratiutous K's in the names for my tastes... but at least it's a lot better than the working name given to the project.
But of course, as others have mentioned, these sites often have microscopic hard coded font sizes which make it a strain to read on higher resolutions to start with.
But if you have that much screen space, why not use it for something other htan your maximised browser. Your browser can be resized to fit half the screen width and you can actually see the stuff your supposed to be doing in the other half.... all the pathetic fixed with pages will fit in your browser without overly exceessive space wastage; and nicely flowed pages will be of the exact width you find ideal.
There are many well known roots to these problems: web sites being designed by sadly clueless print designers (there's hardly a greater frustration in my life than my trying to explain to my sister who is a [good] graphics designer why her nice mockup just isn't going to work on the web... in any sort of web-like way); people too lazy (or stupid) to cope with the implications of flowed content; people ignorant of the fact that not everyone's screen looks exactly the same as their own.
It's funny though that the poster I'm replying to complains about the article's linked site for "long lines" (ie. non-fixed width layout), while posting on slashdot which admirably has a non-fixed width content column... but then I can't recall anyone ever accusing slashdot of being beautiful, or a fine example of web layout either.
Anyhow, the point I am not making (simply because so many others have already made it) is that the user should decide how wide to make their browser window and get some sort of reasonable display... fixed width sites settle on the "most popular" width to fix on... so many are either aflicted with gigantic unused spaces, where others are forced to scroll horizontally (unless they have Opera's superb zoom feature). And hey, there are even some freaks out there who actually (apparently having no sense of proprotion or aesthetics) like long lines... it means they can scan content faster, and have to scroll down less often.
That's all. Nothing new or of much interest here. Sorry.
I was thinking of putting up a torrent for this, but figured i'd look around and see if anyone else did first. Besides the one on this thread, i found this useful site which creates torrents for slashdot linked files in general (and already has the FreeBSD 5.1 discs up), worth noting: http://f.scarywater.net/
As to your speed problems, you must have other problems. We run billing databases on postgresql and they are in no way slow.