Who needs virtual desktops when you can have multiple monitors? Too bad linux does not support them out of box (i.e., without tricking with command prompt)
A former Winnipeg police officer was given a conditional sentence of two years less a day Monday for killing a woman in a car accident on the outskirts of the city in 2005.
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In a deal with prosecutors, Harveymordenzenk pleaded guilty in July to a single charge of dangerous driving causing death in the crash that killed Crystal Ann Taman, a 40-year-old mother of three whose convertible was stopped at a traffic light at the corner of Highway 59 and the Perimeter Highway when it was hit from behind.
Harveymordenzenk was initially charged with refusing a breathalyzer, impaired driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death, but those charges were dropped without explanation when Harveymordenzenk pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.
The court heard that Harveymordenzenk had been out at an after-shift party with off-duty colleagues in the hours before the crash, but no evidence was offered in the case about whether the former officer had been drinking.
I've been watching this project for a while.. I found it while hacking a cheap DX PMP device that uses the same SoC. ( sku.28751 )
The Qi project is much more than open source software. It's an entire embedded system that you can have full datasheets for, and not have to sign any NDA agreement to get them. For anybody wanting to learn about embedded devices, this is a great project play with. For anyone looking to replace their iPad, they should look elsewhere probably.
I think the problem is how much they are spending to accomplish nothing.
Did you know they spent more money last year, advertising how expensive the gun registry is, than the gun registry costs us for 2 years?
This is by far the longest lasting minority government in Canadian history, and it is surprisingly stable.
Twice during this term they prorogued to end the session in order to avoid losing power completely. A government that gets nothing done because the doors are closed might technically be "stable", but it isn't very productive.
They might not have the chance to go that far. Poll results published by La Presse today says that people are ready to go for a NDP-Liberal coalition as long as NDP leader, Jack Layton is prime minister. I am not sure if the Conservatives could form a majority government given an election. They have been a minority government for quite a while.
Thankfully history tells us the conservabots usually get elected for two minority governments, then they go back to the opposition benches where they belong.
In practice, this bill will never happen. This conservative government hasn't finished a session of parliament yet. They introduce a whole bunch of scary bills, then prorogue the house, or call an early election. They are the party that cried wolf.
China admits to executing ten times more people per capita than we do here in the USA, and it's pretty safe to assume that the actual numbers are much, much higher.
China and Iran execute more people than the U.S.. In most of the civilized world, murder is murder whether you do it or your government does.
Without copyright law, source code can be legally copied no matter what.
It's copyright law that makes the GPL enforceable. Without it, there would be a lot less source code around, things would become public domain once the source code was released. Companies would have to guard their source code much more closely.
At least I still have my vendetta against the asshole who stole UIN 125359 from me, and my backup 492110.
I don't remember my previous phone number though... Funny how that works.
Seriously though, good riddance to you ICQ. The maximum password length for a long time was 6 alphanumeric characters. I hate you for stealing my contacts twice with a poorly designed authentication system, and no way to recover without access to a long since dead email account.
Same here.. I pay for cable, but the only thing I've watched on it in months is the CTV news in the morning before work. Everything else I watch shows up in a directory on my drive. I watch it when I want. I'm getting a lot more out of my giganews monthly payments than I am to my cable tv provider.
We traded a bunch of whacked out right wing conservative asshats for a bunch of whacked out left wing asshats. All of which still serving the corporations that bought them as whores.
At least your new leader is a lot less 'rootin-tootin', and we thank you for not blowing up anymore countries, or starting any new wars.
I'd skip the gimmicky arduino stuff, and get:
Atmel STK500 link ($80 at digikey)
A handful of AVRs.. a bunch of small cheap ones (atmega48p, attiny45), a few of more expensive ones with a lot of pins (atmega16/164).
What's a beginnger going to do with that, that a $30 arduino won't do? It also works with AVR Studio.
You might start with the very popular PIC. Although the architecture is a bit long in the tooth and is a poor target for C, there loads of example projects for it so it's easy to learn. There are also many high-level building blocks (Basic stamp etc) that can get you up and running quickly.
I would highly recommend the Arduino to beginners. It's a great target for C, and there's loads of example projects for it too. Seeed Studio has been a great resource for me, especially the store, and the forum. #arduino on Freenode is popular and very helpful too.
Who's turn is next at beating the corpse of SCO though? There was a whole bunch of companies lined up waiting for this trial to end so they could sue SCO.. IBM, Red Hat, Autozone..
In any event, hiding the dialogs when GIMP loses focus makes a hell of a lot more sense than dialogs that won't minimize or hide at all. When I want to see the desktop, I want to see it without any stupid unhideable dialogs in the way.
Why not click the 'show desktop' button, or put gimp on its own workspace? I'm not sure why you can't minimize them. They minimize just fine for me.
I don't want a single window mode. I want the things I mentioned. Unless I maximize the window, and then perhaps yes a single-window mode would be better than letting the floating palettes overlap the image window.
I don't like the word 'letting'. This is type of thing that users sometimes use convince developers to constrain things in unhelpful ways. Like preventing me from resizing certain dialog boxes. The application itself shouldn't 'let' me or 'not let me', that's the window manager's job.
Make them go away when GIMP doesn't have focus. ...
For bonus points, dock them to the sides of the screen when the GIMP image window is maximized, and maximize the window to fill the remaining space. Or switch to a single-window mode. But the multi-window, non-maximized UI needs to be fixed. Badly.
Terrible ideas. Just terrible. They have made a single window mode available, that's what we're talking about. The question was, why?
Yeah! Though I think they'd win more supporters if they enabled it by default instead of making it just an option that can be turned on. The article didn't seem really clear about that.
I still don't understand the point of sticking the tools in the same window as the image. I tend to have the image fullscreen one display, and the tools, layer selector, etc on another. What exactly is gained by putting them all in a big window?
I agree. I'm sticking with my HD3200 and free drivers for the forseeable future. The video playback is beautiful compared to what it looked like with nvidia. The proprietary driver didn't seem to work at all for me, but I had two free drivers to choose from, "radeon", and "radeonhd". Both work great, and I don't even need an xorg.conf unless I want to choose radeonhd over the radeon driver.
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Welcome to the future. (5 years ago)
"Automotive pioneer Henry Ford first built a car made of hemp fibre and resin more than half a century ago."
-- TFA
Why not just use Ekiga (formerly known as Gnomemeeting)? I've been using it for videoconferencing for years, and it's very stable.
-40 is superchilled? That's what we call "morning" from December through February here.
Our government has gone insane..
In other news today.. Our "Heritage Minister" said that people who oppose their new DMCA anti-circumvention legislation are radical extremists.
Any day now, we'll wake up and the Stephen Harper nightmare will be over.
I've been watching this project for a while.. I found it while hacking a cheap DX PMP device that uses the same SoC. ( sku.28751 )
The Qi project is much more than open source software. It's an entire embedded system that you can have full datasheets for, and not have to sign any NDA agreement to get them. For anybody wanting to learn about embedded devices, this is a great project play with. For anyone looking to replace their iPad, they should look elsewhere probably.
I think the problem is how much they are spending to accomplish nothing. Did you know they spent more money last year, advertising how expensive the gun registry is, than the gun registry costs us for 2 years?
Twice during this term they prorogued to end the session in order to avoid losing power completely. A government that gets nothing done because the doors are closed might technically be "stable", but it isn't very productive.
Thankfully history tells us the conservabots usually get elected for two minority governments, then they go back to the opposition benches where they belong.
In practice, this bill will never happen. This conservative government hasn't finished a session of parliament yet. They introduce a whole bunch of scary bills, then prorogue the house, or call an early election. They are the party that cried wolf.
China and Iran execute more people than the U.S.. In most of the civilized world, murder is murder whether you do it or your government does.
People in glass houses, and all that jazz.
It's copyright law that makes the GPL enforceable. Without it, there would be a lot less source code around, things would become public domain once the source code was released. Companies would have to guard their source code much more closely.
At least I still have my vendetta against the asshole who stole UIN 125359 from me, and my backup 492110.
I don't remember my previous phone number though... Funny how that works.
Seriously though, good riddance to you ICQ. The maximum password length for a long time was 6 alphanumeric characters. I hate you for stealing my contacts twice with a poorly designed authentication system, and no way to recover without access to a long since dead email account.
Same here.. I pay for cable, but the only thing I've watched on it in months is the CTV news in the morning before work. Everything else I watch shows up in a directory on my drive. I watch it when I want. I'm getting a lot more out of my giganews monthly payments than I am to my cable tv provider.
We traded a bunch of whacked out right wing conservative asshats for a bunch of whacked out left wing asshats. All of which still serving the corporations that bought them as whores.
At least your new leader is a lot less 'rootin-tootin', and we thank you for not blowing up anymore countries, or starting any new wars.
The real question is... How many Libraries of Congress will fit on the grain of salt using this technology?
I'd skip the gimmicky arduino stuff, and get: Atmel STK500 link ($80 at digikey) A handful of AVRs.. a bunch of small cheap ones (atmega48p, attiny45), a few of more expensive ones with a lot of pins (atmega16/164).
What's a beginnger going to do with that, that a $30 arduino won't do? It also works with AVR Studio.
You might start with the very popular PIC. Although the architecture is a bit long in the tooth and is a poor target for C, there loads of example projects for it so it's easy to learn. There are also many high-level building blocks (Basic stamp etc) that can get you up and running quickly.
I would highly recommend the Arduino to beginners. It's a great target for C, and there's loads of example projects for it too. Seeed Studio has been a great resource for me, especially the store, and the forum. #arduino on Freenode is popular and very helpful too.
Who's turn is next at beating the corpse of SCO though? There was a whole bunch of companies lined up waiting for this trial to end so they could sue SCO.. IBM, Red Hat, Autozone..
My Gimp
Why?
In any event, hiding the dialogs when GIMP loses focus makes a hell of a lot more sense than dialogs that won't minimize or hide at all. When I want to see the desktop, I want to see it without any stupid unhideable dialogs in the way.
Why not click the 'show desktop' button, or put gimp on its own workspace? I'm not sure why you can't minimize them. They minimize just fine for me.
I don't want a single window mode. I want the things I mentioned. Unless I maximize the window, and then perhaps yes a single-window mode would be better than letting the floating palettes overlap the image window.
I don't like the word 'letting'. This is type of thing that users sometimes use convince developers to constrain things in unhelpful ways. Like preventing me from resizing certain dialog boxes. The application itself shouldn't 'let' me or 'not let me', that's the window manager's job.
Make them go away when GIMP doesn't have focus.
...
For bonus points, dock them to the sides of the screen when the GIMP image window is maximized, and maximize the window to fill the remaining space. Or switch to a single-window mode. But the multi-window, non-maximized UI needs to be fixed. Badly.
Terrible ideas. Just terrible. They have made a single window mode available, that's what we're talking about. The question was, why?
Yeah! Though I think they'd win more supporters if they enabled it by default instead of making it just an option that can be turned on. The article didn't seem really clear about that.
I still don't understand the point of sticking the tools in the same window as the image. I tend to have the image fullscreen one display, and the tools, layer selector, etc on another. What exactly is gained by putting them all in a big window?
I agree. I'm sticking with my HD3200 and free drivers for the forseeable future. The video playback is beautiful compared to what it looked like with nvidia. The proprietary driver didn't seem to work at all for me, but I had two free drivers to choose from, "radeon", and "radeonhd". Both work great, and I don't even need an xorg.conf unless I want to choose radeonhd over the radeon driver.