It's really easy. I've done this numerous times, at home and at work, and on various OSes.
On Linux, all you need to do is: on the console, type 'loadkeys dvorak.map'; on X, type 'setxkbmap dvorak' (put them in your.bashrc/.Xinitrc to make it fixed). On KDE there's a GUI-friendly way to do this too, IIRC, Keyboard Layout in Control Center.
On Windows, again IIRC, it's under International in the Control Panel (just click your way around until eventually you stumble upon it -- it slightly changes places from version to version anyway). But be mindful that on Windows each app can have its own keyboard map (stupid, I know) -- so keep an eye at the keyboard icon in the system tray (restarting the session would be advisable, I guess.)
On the Mac, once again IIRC, it's in System Preferences and then International (on Tiger, type in "keyboard" in Spotlight -- I think it will take you there). Then pick Dvorak in the huge list.
OS support is not a hassle when switching to Dvorak. Even when working at other people's machines it's quick and easy to switch temporarily and then switch back (that is, after you learn typing without looking at the keys -- I haven't even bothered to swap the keycaps on my iBook yet).
It took me about a month to fully switch to Dvorak, and I don't regret a single thing (except maybe not having done this earlier!)
True, but I was referring to the title. Think "Microsoft Pitches PHP Security Repository". Disclaimer: I work with Lua, so the association was probably more natural for me than for most.
So this doesn't sound like a typical anti-Microsoft post, I will say that Microsoft products are far easier to learn than the Linux equivalents, and that Microsoft made some beautiful fonts the blow away anything for Linux.
Microsoft didn't make the fonts, they licensed them from Monotype. And IMHO they don't blow away Bitstream Vera.
Nice try though, appreciated. So this doesn't sound like a typical anti-Microsoft post, I will say that... uhm... they make nice joysticks!:)
I still think that if Opera were open source, 99% of the/. users that bash it now would be drooling all over it.
Yes, I possibly would, but since it's not OSS, I won't. I like the reliability that OSS gives me, that to whatever platform I'll go, my software will go with me. I routinely alternate between Linux/PPC and Linux/x86. Those days a friend was showing me his Linux/ARM and another was talking about his Linux/AMD64. And I just talked about Linux (then there are my BSD-nut friends). Add to that upgrades that effectively introduce new ABIs (GCC major/middle releases). I can't afford to wait for the proprietary vendor to ship me new binaries every time, for something as essential as a browser.
So, I may not fit into the "average user" profile (then again, this is/.), but no matter how awesome it may be, no, a non-OSS browser won't cut it for me.
Hey there! Gotta love how this world is so small. Still in Almaden or already back for the Swedish winter?:) Down here, the Brazilian summer is just around the corner....;)
This post from another thread seems to do so -- stuff confirming the participants are actors when the show claims they're not. Some counterarguments follow in the linked thread, but it sounds like a reasonable theory with fairly good evidence to me.
Not really. The flaw is in IE and Google's use of CSS exposed it to their users. They were able to change their use of CSS to work around the exploit, but the exploit still remains in IE. Even Microsoft admits that.
I see. In that case, that's working around the bug, not fixing it. If I said "yesterday I was coding when I stumbled in a Glibc bug -- it took me a while but I fixed it" you'd probably infer that I actually went into Glibc's code and corrected the problem. I understand now how calling it a "Google Desktop bug" is not right either, but I still think "fixes IE bug" is misleading. Or I might be just too nit-picky.:)
The title sounds as if Google had fixed a bug in Internet Explorer's code. Shouldn't it be "Google fixes Google Desktop bug"?
Granted, it does make it sound less like news... but I suppose it's because it isn't, really. You don't see stories like "Adobe fixes Photoshop bug", "KDE team fixes Konqueror bug", etc... since of course that's just part of the daily life in development.
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The Qt library is released under the GNU GPL. Free software. It was not always the case, so that's where the old controversies come from. But Qt 3 is most definitely free software.
The bias here towards Linux is really getting old at this point. Might as well redo the slogan to be "News for Linux nerds. Stuff that matters as long as it's Linux."
Yes, please! It's about time to make things blatantly clear, because it seems the newcomers just don't get it! Think the Linux bias here is old? It's because it is as old as the site itself -- Slashdot is a Linux site (or at least it was until it started morphing into a more general tech site).
Just take a look at the number of Linux-related categories, the "Borg" icon for Microsoft news, the "broken windows" icon for Windows news, etc.
Actually, often I think Slashdot has too little Linux focus.
Never? Then you're missing out. I have, a lot. Sometimes the quickest way to figure how to do something is grab the sources of a program that you know that does what you want and look at it.
First I see circletimessquare posting on Slashdot, and now K5ARP. WTF!? Apple goes Intel, Pink Floyd reunited, Sarge is released... K5 becomes the "other site"? Is the world truly coming to an end?
This seems to go against my favorite aspect of the internet: the fact that anyone, individual people, can publish whatever they want in it. Having any kind of organization controlling the "quality" of websites (even if only in structure/syntax and not content/semantics) means that things like geocities.mobi/user, mit.mobi/~student and something.sourceforge.mobi would be essentially impossible.
An internet without this kind of content would be extremely different from what we've grown used to. Hemos hit the nail in the head, "sterile" indeed.
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It's really easy. I've done this numerous times, at home and at work, and on various OSes.
.bashrc/.Xinitrc to make it fixed). On KDE there's a GUI-friendly way to do this too, IIRC, Keyboard Layout in Control Center.
On Linux, all you need to do is: on the console, type 'loadkeys dvorak.map'; on X, type 'setxkbmap dvorak' (put them in your
On Windows, again IIRC, it's under International in the Control Panel (just click your way around until eventually you stumble upon it -- it slightly changes places from version to version anyway). But be mindful that on Windows each app can have its own keyboard map (stupid, I know) -- so keep an eye at the keyboard icon in the system tray (restarting the session would be advisable, I guess.)
On the Mac, once again IIRC, it's in System Preferences and then International (on Tiger, type in "keyboard" in Spotlight -- I think it will take you there). Then pick Dvorak in the huge list.
OS support is not a hassle when switching to Dvorak. Even when working at other people's machines it's quick and easy to switch temporarily and then switch back (that is, after you learn typing without looking at the keys -- I haven't even bothered to swap the keycaps on my iBook yet).
It took me about a month to fully switch to Dvorak, and I don't regret a single thing (except maybe not having done this earlier!)
True, but I was referring to the title. Think "Microsoft Pitches PHP Security Repository". Disclaimer: I work with Lua, so the association was probably more natural for me than for most.
Made me instantly think of the Lua programming language.
So this doesn't sound like a typical anti-Microsoft post, I will say that Microsoft products are far easier to learn than the Linux equivalents, and that Microsoft made some beautiful fonts the blow away anything for Linux.
:)
Microsoft didn't make the fonts, they licensed them from Monotype. And IMHO they don't blow away Bitstream Vera.
Nice try though, appreciated. So this doesn't sound like a typical anti-Microsoft post, I will say that... uhm... they make nice joysticks!
I still think that if Opera were open source, 99% of the /. users that bash it now would be drooling all over it.
/.), but no matter how awesome it may be, no, a non-OSS browser won't cut it for me.
Yes, I possibly would, but since it's not OSS, I won't. I like the reliability that OSS gives me, that to whatever platform I'll go, my software will go with me. I routinely alternate between Linux/PPC and Linux/x86. Those days a friend was showing me his Linux/ARM and another was talking about his Linux/AMD64. And I just talked about Linux (then there are my BSD-nut friends). Add to that upgrades that effectively introduce new ABIs (GCC major/middle releases). I can't afford to wait for the proprietary vendor to ship me new binaries every time, for something as essential as a browser.
So, I may not fit into the "average user" profile (then again, this is
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Hey there! Gotta love how this world is so small. Still in Almaden or already back for the Swedish winter? :) Down here, the Brazilian summer is just around the corner.... ;)
Two words for you: prove it.
This post from another thread seems to do so -- stuff confirming the participants are actors when the show claims they're not. Some counterarguments follow in the linked thread, but it sounds like a reasonable theory with fairly good evidence to me.
Come on, the LA public transit system isn't that bad. At least they have 24h bus lines.
Now San Jose, on the other hand... *sigh*
I'm sure there's a joke in there involving KDE, Clippy and Soviet Russia just waiting to be made. But I'm not the one who's gonna do it.
Any takers?
Well, you can just go with Google's free operating system of choice... ;)
My gripe wasn't so much with the "IE" part but with the "fixes" part. Working around broken APIs and fixing broken APIs are two different things...
Not really. The flaw is in IE and Google's use of CSS exposed it to their users. They were able to change their use of CSS to work around the exploit, but the exploit still remains in IE. Even Microsoft admits that.
:)
I see. In that case, that's working around the bug, not fixing it. If I said "yesterday I was coding when I stumbled in a Glibc bug -- it took me a while but I fixed it" you'd probably infer that I actually went into Glibc's code and corrected the problem. I understand now how calling it a "Google Desktop bug" is not right either, but I still think "fixes IE bug" is misleading. Or I might be just too nit-picky.
The title sounds as if Google had fixed a bug in Internet Explorer's code. Shouldn't it be "Google fixes Google Desktop bug"?
Granted, it does make it sound less like news... but I suppose it's because it isn't, really. You don't see stories like "Adobe fixes Photoshop bug", "KDE team fixes Konqueror bug", etc... since of course that's just part of the daily life in development.
The Qt library is released under the GNU GPL. Free software. It was not always the case, so that's where the old controversies come from. But Qt 3 is most definitely free software.
The bias here towards Linux is really getting old at this point. Might as well redo the slogan to be "News for Linux nerds. Stuff that matters as long as it's Linux."
Yes, please! It's about time to make things blatantly clear, because it seems the newcomers just don't get it! Think the Linux bias here is old? It's because it is as old as the site itself -- Slashdot is a Linux site (or at least it was until it started morphing into a more general tech site).
Just take a look at the number of Linux-related categories, the "Borg" icon for Microsoft news, the "broken windows" icon for Windows news, etc.
Actually, often I think Slashdot has too little Linux focus.
Never? Then you're missing out. I have, a lot. Sometimes the quickest way to figure how to do something is grab the sources of a program that you know that does what you want and look at it.
Crap, now that's a stupid name. Or should I say, StUpId NaMe.
"Astro-geek" is priceless and "I think that happened to the Enterprise a couple times" is just what came to my mind after reading the headline. :)
First I see circletimessquare posting on Slashdot, and now K5ARP. WTF!? Apple goes Intel, Pink Floyd reunited, Sarge is released... K5 becomes the "other site"? Is the world truly coming to an end?
'This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I hate that,' said board member Janet Waugh.
...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Well, I'm sorry, Janet. I know you tried your best but it's just that...
People of Kansas, remember in the next election that you're the ones to blame for putting these people in charge (either by action or inaction).
Did you go to school in Kansas?
I have a feeling that the above phrase will become a popular put-down around these parts...
Yes! A new Slashdot tradition is born!
Isn't pomme "potato"?
Informative comments indeed, and thanks also for the explanation on the "Statesman of the Year" issue.
This seems to go against my favorite aspect of the internet: the fact that anyone, individual people, can publish whatever they want in it. Having any kind of organization controlling the "quality" of websites (even if only in structure/syntax and not content/semantics) means that things like geocities.mobi/user, mit.mobi/~student and something.sourceforge.mobi would be essentially impossible.
An internet without this kind of content would be extremely different from what we've grown used to. Hemos hit the nail in the head, "sterile" indeed.