Dude, fork() is a FUNCTION NAME! How else am I supposed to write software if I don't know any functions? It's exactly because of this kind of behavior, the belittleling of developers, why people like you are always looked down on.
Something tells me you're not using the latest versions. Don't go sit here idling and complain about bugs in older versions, upgrade and enjoy the bug fixes! I'm using Gnumeric 1.2.1 and OpenOffice 1.1.0.
That's funny, copying with Mozilla always works for me (though I've never copied more than 64 kb of text; people say Mozilla can't copy more than that.) Make sure you're using the latest version of Mozilla.
This is a bug in Mozilla itself. The standard *is* clearly defined, see also the link I posted. It's just that Mozilla's implementation is buggy or not completely complaint. Blame the Mozilla developers.
As others have mentioned, the selection buffer and the clipboard are different things. The former is the traditional middleclick-to-paste behavior mainly for power users, the latter behaves exactly like MS Windows's clipboard.
Select something in game, type Ctrl+X, go to Mozilla, select the address bar, type Delete, type Ctrl+V - and it works. It's exactly like in Windows.
This is all documented in the standard. Read it. I think the problem is that you know about the middle click method and get it confused with the clipboard. People who don't know the middle click method will use the clipboard like they do in Windows and not run into problem. This is an education issue with old users, not lack of standards.
"1. He was NOT talking about "left-select, middle-paste" (which is more like drag and drop than copy and paste). He was talking about selecting copy and paste from the menu. (The shortcuts are Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V)."
Err... so was I. That's why I said "click Copy/Paste".
"A printing system that works AS EASILY as Windows"
Use a modern distribution. Most distros have switched to CUPS by now. Fedora has a nice printer configuration tool which autodetected my printer. I believe KDE ships a printer configuration tool (for CUPS).
Printing anything is just as easy in Windows. Click Print, click OK, done.
Nonsense. Just look at the comments at every single desktop Linux article. People are very critical against Linux. Have you never seen those tons of "unless Linux does this and that/until the Linux crowd realizes this and that, Linux will never succeed"?
Besides, most of the actual developers don't even take Slashdot stories seriously anymore after the years of trolling, flaming, bashing, belittleling and insulting of developers.
My school runs Citrix MetaFrame XP. It works nicely -- until something crashes. If a client crashes and reboots, you have to wait 10 or more minutes before you can login again. Internet Explorer crawls when scrolling. If you encounter one of those sites with animated ads, you're doomed - the client will freeze in an infinite loop trying to redraw the ad over and over. And the most annoying thing of them all: YOU CAN'T ALT+TAB BETWEEN WINDOWS!
Have you tried X with NX compression? It makes X usable even over a modem connection.
If a kioslave failed to load then your system is hosed. You CAN'T solve it yourself!
You can keep on saying that the Linux community "does not get it" or something, but do you have a better suggestion of what else to put in that dialog instead? Look, I'm all for friendly error messages, but if fork() failed then what else can I say but "Unable to fork a process"?
1. Start gedit. 2. Type in something. Select all and click Copy. 3. Start kedit. 4. Click Paste. It works.
The standard is clearly defined here: http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/clipboards-sp ec QT 3.0+, GTK 1.2+, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Motif, and probably a lot more other apps and toolkits out there all comply to this standard (though Mozilla has a few bugs). These apps and toolkits cover 99% of all apps that Linux users use today.
One problem D has is that it has no stable ABI, which could make distributing binaries written in D a pain. Just look at the C++ ABI breakages between GCC 2.95, 2.96, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1 and 3.2.
It looks more like a competitor to Perl than bash even though they call it a "shell". I don't see why people are so excited. If you want "objects" why don't you just use Perl?
I'm not entirely sure but as far as I know, the X11 license (and BSD licenses) allows you to relicense the code even without other contributors' permission.
If you submit GPL'ed code to a GPL'ed project, and they accepted your code, and they want to change the project's license, then they have 2 choices: 1. Ask every contributor whether he agrees on the license change. Only if everybody agrees, the license can be changed. 2. If not everybody agrees, then they can remove your code and write their own, and change license anyway.
So no - once your code has been GPL'ed, it cannot be relicensed, unless you agree.
In Linux I can still switch to a terminal to kill the misbehaving process. In Windows XP I can do NOTHING. Heck, even in Win9x I can still kill misbehaving processes with Ctrl+Alt+Del but in Windows XP if a process locks the screen, there's NOTHING I can do. Why don't you people just give up and admit that Windows XP isn't fool proof?
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Ah, good suggestion. Thanks (in contrast to that other anonymous flamer).
Dude, fork() is a FUNCTION NAME! How else am I supposed to write software if I don't know any functions?
It's exactly because of this kind of behavior, the belittleling of developers, why people like you are always looked down on.
Yeah sorry I was replying to the wrong thread. :p
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I just tried. It worked.
Something tells me you're not using the latest versions. Don't go sit here idling and complain about bugs in older versions, upgrade and enjoy the bug fixes! I'm using Gnumeric 1.2.1 and OpenOffice 1.1.0.
That's funny, copying with Mozilla always works for me (though I've never copied more than 64 kb of text; people say Mozilla can't copy more than that.)
Make sure you're using the latest version of Mozilla.
This is a bug in Mozilla itself. The standard *is* clearly defined, see also the link I posted. It's just that Mozilla's implementation is buggy or not completely complaint. Blame the Mozilla developers.
As others have mentioned, the selection buffer and the clipboard are different things. The former is the traditional middleclick-to-paste behavior mainly for power users, the latter behaves exactly like MS Windows's clipboard.
Select something in game, type Ctrl+X, go to Mozilla, select the address bar, type Delete, type Ctrl+V - and it works. It's exactly like in Windows.
This is all documented in the standard. Read it.
I think the problem is that you know about the middle click method and get it confused with the clipboard. People who don't know the middle click method will use the clipboard like they do in Windows and not run into problem. This is an education issue with old users, not lack of standards.
"1. He was NOT talking about "left-select, middle-paste" (which is more like drag and drop than copy and paste). He was talking about selecting copy and paste from the menu. (The shortcuts are Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V)."
Err... so was I. That's why I said "click Copy/Paste".
"A printing system that works AS EASILY as Windows"
Use a modern distribution. Most distros have switched to CUPS by now. Fedora has a nice printer configuration tool which autodetected my printer. I believe KDE ships a printer configuration tool (for CUPS).
Printing anything is just as easy in Windows. Click Print, click OK, done.
Nonsense. Just look at the comments at every single desktop Linux article. People are very critical against Linux. Have you never seen those tons of "unless Linux does this and that/until the Linux crowd realizes this and that, Linux will never succeed"?
Besides, most of the actual developers don't even take Slashdot stories seriously anymore after the years of trolling, flaming, bashing, belittleling and insulting of developers.
My school runs Citrix MetaFrame XP. It works nicely -- until something crashes. If a client crashes and reboots, you have to wait 10 or more minutes before you can login again. Internet Explorer crawls when scrolling. If you encounter one of those sites with animated ads, you're doomed - the client will freeze in an infinite loop trying to redraw the ad over and over. And the most annoying thing of them all: YOU CAN'T ALT+TAB BETWEEN WINDOWS!
Have you tried X with NX compression? It makes X usable even over a modem connection.
If a kioslave failed to load then your system is hosed. You CAN'T solve it yourself!
You can keep on saying that the Linux community "does not get it" or something, but do you have a better suggestion of what else to put in that dialog instead? Look, I'm all for friendly error messages, but if fork() failed then what else can I say but "Unable to fork a process"?
Huh? What are you talking about?
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1. Start gedit.
2. Type in something. Select all and click Copy.
3. Start kedit.
4. Click Paste. It works.
The standard is clearly defined here: http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/clipboards-s
QT 3.0+, GTK 1.2+, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Motif, and probably a lot more other apps and toolkits out there all comply to this standard (though Mozilla has a few bugs). These apps and toolkits cover 99% of all apps that Linux users use today.
One problem D has is that it has no stable ABI, which could make distributing binaries written in D a pain. Just look at the C++ ABI breakages between GCC 2.95, 2.96, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1 and 3.2.
You mean things like extended attributes? Ext2 and ext3 support them, as does ReiserFS. Does that make ext2 and ext3 database filesystems?
What are the advantages of a database filesystem other than being able to associate metadata to it?
It looks more like a competitor to Perl than bash even though they call it a "shell".
I don't see why people are so excited. If you want "objects" why don't you just use Perl?
What's the difference between a "database filesystem" and a non-database filesystem?
So it's better to find information then vote, than not vote at all.
I'm not entirely sure but as far as I know, the X11 license (and BSD licenses) allows you to relicense the code even without other contributors' permission.
If you submit GPL'ed code to a GPL'ed project, and they accepted your code, and they want to change the project's license, then they have 2 choices:
1. Ask every contributor whether he agrees on the license change. Only if everybody agrees, the license can be changed.
2. If not everybody agrees, then they can remove your code and write their own, and change license anyway.
So no - once your code has been GPL'ed, it cannot be relicensed, unless you agree.
Those who don't live by politics die by politics. If you don't vote against the next Hitler who knows what may happen.
The moderators don't seem to think so. They modded him up.
Did you read the release notes? There have been tons of cleanups and bug fixes.
On modern distributions, scrollwheel mice are autodetected. I installed Fedora not too long ago and my mouse wheel works out-of-the-box.
In Linux I can still switch to a terminal to kill the misbehaving process. In Windows XP I can do NOTHING. Heck, even in Win9x I can still kill misbehaving processes with Ctrl+Alt+Del but in Windows XP if a process locks the screen, there's NOTHING I can do.
Why don't you people just give up and admit that Windows XP isn't fool proof?
It does make sense. It doesn't matter whose fault it is, a well-designed operating system should not let buggy programs lock the entire system!