Bugs bugs bugs but ... pretty
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Review: KDE 3.2
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Two days ago I installed KDE 3.2 and decided to give it a try (in fact I turn irritated with Gnome opening 15 nautilus and 12 xemacs windows after login, saving the session will probably work some day as one can expect...). Since then, my main tool is http://bugs.kde.org where I report different bugs and annoyances.
But... KDE made me to write down those bug reports, just because it gives so much promise that I would like to keep using it. After all, for the very first time, to use some truetype fonts on Linux I had to open some tool and do a few clicks - instead of guessing where to copy them, editing xfstt and XFree config files etc. And the idea that konsole can remember the working dirs is fascinating for the programmer...
If each slashdot reader just more-or-less randomly selected some software patent and filed request to revoke it due to some prior art, the patent office could be effectively disabled due to amount of work related to fighting those requests. And then maybe they would do something with the problem?
At sth like 1995 I worked in the large office divided into cubicles (almost 100 people in one large room). We got 8 new Digital Unix workstations which happened to be distributed around the whole room. Most of the users did not know Unix too well (they were mainly Win programmers migrated to Unix and learning it slowly while doing the job). I got one of the workstations and I found that for some reason: - all those workstations were in the single NIS domain, so having account on the one of them allowed to login everywhere - all workstations were equipped with soundcard and the embedded speaker (people didn't know about it) - there were a couple of music files containing recordings of voices of different animals
Having a lazy day I wrote small script which selected random machine, rsh-ed to it, selected random file and played it - and then repeated it after a few seconds. The effect was fantastic: random animal voices raising from the different places in the office, in the way absolutely strange for the users of the computers playing the sounds...
I must say that later the event caused educating people what does it mean that X-server is a server a bit easier....
BTW: I think most jokes harm at least people productivity and one should better consider whether something is really funny and harmless....
About 2 years ago some cameras were installed in the 'dangerous' places in Warsaw (the capital of Poland), for a huge amount of money. A few weeks later it occured, that a women was killed under the eye of a camera. The film was recovered later and helped to check what has happened but... the man watching the camera picture just missed the whole happening.
Sending often 50 mails a day (business conversations with cooperants, mailing lists, friend communications,...) I really hate the idea. I must say it will be easier for spammers to employ character recognizing software than for me to reply to all those confirmations.
The problem is somewhere else and there is solution. The real problem with spam is to force senders to identify themselves correctly (if they identify, they can be easily filtered, maybe including databases of the spam senders being just the lists). And the solution is to require the email to be digitally signed so one can verify it against the sender public key.
Running many databases is easy. Organizing and serializing replication is hard. Even if one have distributed transactions handy - not present in this case. But let's read their code...
I live in Poland. Ten years ago I used to wear T-shirt, sometimes a pullover in April. Today I see the snow behind the window. Brrr. And this year winter was one of the coldest I remember.
I use and like Zope - the nice open-source product fairly directly competing with Interwoven's. I am afraid, the patent can hurt them seriously (and I suspect Zope implemented some ideas first...)
As a lot of people will probably whitelist cryptogram, if one wishes to spam technical people, he just needs to set From to Bruce.
Re:Extremly offensive language in 2.5.4 ChangeLog
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2.5.4 Kernel Out
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I can assure you, that the word we discuss is
offensive. As far as I know (and I am Polish), it has
just one meaning in my language. And this is by far
the most offensive word for the thing.
And yes, I would find the p1zda or similar word offensive too.
As it was said: this is low-class and rude.
Re:ChangeLogs in adult filter???
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It works for Russian the same way. And probably for another Slavic languages too.
Dave's wife has name Nina, she is Polish and she uses account on similarly named computer (pierdol.ninka.net) to post the news. So you see the real email on real computer named so in DNS. And the p**** word means in Polish the same as in Russion.
1) We have currently some fresh events in the version-control software. Bitkeeper, arch, subversion are or soon will be competing with CVS
(one can also mention aegis). Seems one can _start_ gathering data for the new book about version control (to be published when subversion reaches 1.0).
2) The good book about bugtrackers (bugzilla, jitterbug,...) would probably sell some copies.
3) It really is good time to publish some book about ant.
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Two days ago I installed KDE 3.2 and decided to give it a try (in fact I turn irritated with Gnome opening 15 nautilus and 12 xemacs windows after login, saving the session will probably work some day as one can expect...). Since then, my main tool is http://bugs.kde.org where I report different bugs and annoyances.
But ... KDE made me to write down those bug reports, just because it gives so much promise that I would like to keep using it. After all, for the very first time, to use some truetype fonts on Linux I had to open some tool and do a few clicks - instead of guessing where to copy them, editing xfstt and XFree config files etc. And the idea that konsole can remember the working dirs is fascinating for the programmer...
If each slashdot reader just more-or-less randomly selected some software patent and filed request to revoke it due to some prior art, the patent office could be effectively disabled due to amount of work related to fighting those requests. And then maybe they would do something with the problem?
One can setup CVS so multiple client accounts are mapped into single or a few unix accounts. There are plenty interesting files in CVSROOT ;-)
At sth like 1995 I worked in the large office divided into cubicles (almost 100 people in one large room). We got 8 new Digital Unix workstations which happened to be distributed around the whole room. Most of the users did not know Unix too well (they were mainly Win programmers migrated to Unix and learning it slowly while doing the job). I got one of the workstations and I found that for some reason:
- all those workstations were in the single NIS domain, so having account on the one of them allowed to login everywhere
- all workstations were equipped with soundcard and the embedded speaker (people didn't know about it)
- there were a couple of music files containing recordings of voices of different animals
Having a lazy day I wrote small script which selected random machine, rsh-ed to it, selected random file and played it - and then repeated it after a few seconds. The effect was fantastic: random animal voices raising from the different places in the office, in the way absolutely strange for the users of the computers playing the sounds...
I must say that later the event caused educating people what does it mean that X-server is a server a bit easier....
BTW: I think most jokes harm at least people productivity and one should better consider whether something is really funny and harmless....
I have just read the first 'null dereference' claim and it seems to me that in fact it is not possible. Maybe we got amount of reasoning bugs?
About 2 years ago some cameras were installed in the 'dangerous' places in Warsaw (the capital of Poland), for a huge amount of money. A few weeks later it occured, that a women was killed under the eye of a camera. The film was recovered later and helped to check what has happened but ... the man watching the camera picture just missed the whole happening.
Sending often 50 mails a day (business conversations with cooperants, mailing lists, friend communications,...) I really hate the idea. I must say it will be easier for spammers to employ character recognizing software than for me to reply to all those confirmations.
The problem is somewhere else and there is solution. The real problem with spam is to force senders to identify themselves correctly (if they identify, they can be easily filtered, maybe including databases of the spam senders being just the lists). And the solution is to require the email to be digitally signed so one can verify it against the sender public key.
Running many databases is easy. Organizing and serializing replication is hard. Even if one have distributed transactions handy - not present in this case. But let's read their code...
I live in Poland. Ten years ago I used to wear T-shirt, sometimes a pullover in April. Today I see the snow behind the window. Brrr. And this year winter was one of the coldest I remember.
If someone could warm it a bit, I'd be grateful.
I use and like Zope - the nice open-source product fairly directly competing with Interwoven's. I am afraid, the patent can hurt them seriously (and I suspect Zope implemented some ideas first...)
As a lot of people will probably whitelist cryptogram, if one wishes to spam technical people, he just needs to set From to Bruce.
I can assure you, that the word we discuss is offensive. As far as I know (and I am Polish), it has just one meaning in my language. And this is by far the most offensive word for the thing. And yes, I would find the p1zda or similar word offensive too. As it was said: this is low-class and rude.
It works for Russian the same way. And probably for another Slavic languages too.
Dave's wife has name Nina, she is Polish and she uses account on similarly named computer (pierdol.ninka.net) to post the news. So you see the real email on real computer named so in DNS. And the p**** word means in Polish the same as in Russion.
For me, this really is not funny.
1) We have currently some fresh events in the version-control software. Bitkeeper, arch, subversion are or soon will be competing with CVS
...) would probably sell some copies.
(one can also mention aegis). Seems one can _start_ gathering data for the new book about version control (to be published when subversion reaches 1.0).
2) The good book about bugtrackers (bugzilla, jitterbug,
3) It really is good time to publish some book about ant.