Don't know about xinerama, but you're certainly right about screwed up focus settings. Metacity is pretty much unusable for me.
I've got plain Gnome 2.2 (for the moment) and I've replaced metacity with another WM. Unfortunatley, all the Gnome stuff seems 'integrated' enough that all kinds of things seem to break if you use something other than what they designed in. I'm afraid XD2 would probably be even less flexible.
I'd be willing to put up with Metacity's other warts if it had a rational focus policy (or could be configured to have one.) I'm going to keep on hammering on Gnome a bit longer and if I can't find a configuration that works right I'll give up and switch to KDE.
I don't like KDE, but it gets focus right. That excuses a multitude of sins, even ugliness.
The amplification part is not nearly as important as the equalization part. LPs have some serious frequency alteration going on in the recording process, with the expectation that the phono stage of your amplifier will be backing that out. If you don't do that, you'll get sound, but it won't sound at all like it's supposed to.
If you want it to sound like it was recorded (correct bass, etc.) you have to have a *phono* preamp, not just a preamp. If that doesn't matter to you, then knock yourself out...
Does it require Metacity?
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I've been trying to get used to Gnome 2.2 on my new Gentoo system. I always hated Sawfish, but now I discover its great redeeming quality was that it wasn't Metacity.
I was *eventually* able to convince Sawfish not to raise a window just because I clicked on it, but Metacity sems to have even fewer customization options.
I might get used to its inability to set up any sort of useful root menu, but the lack of a rational focus policy makes Metacity pretty much unusable.
KDE works correctly, but it's just plain ugly, and not terribly configurable either.
Gnome 2.2 with Enlightenment fixes the focus problem (root menu too) but it fights with Nautilus. The only way to get Nautilus to behave is to turn off its desktop handling functions. All or nothing.
I'm starting to think that KDE might be the way to go. Ugly as it is, it looks far better than it used to, and it *mostly* seems to work better these days than Gnome.
I should take another look at it then. Last time I tried, the runtime either did not come with it, or I didn't find it.
But it's also a drawback (in my opinion) that you are required to use the Enterprise Manager. That it's available as an option, fine, but it would really be nice if Oracle had retained the command line tools as well. Not to mention the command line installer.
I don't trust any "installer" that requires something other than "tar xzvf" to use. ( although RPM can be nice sometimes if you haven't hosed your install yet ).
Me neither. Which was my big beef last time I tried to install Oracle. Bad enough they used to require X installed on the server. Now you have to have a full-fledged Java environment. Just for the installer to run. Oh yeah, and X too.
Usenet is pretty much opt-in, and assuming the forum is moderated with a heavy hand to keep it on topic it may even be a better way to keep your channel of communications open.
Mailing lists such as he is talking about are pretty much opt-in also. And much less hassle for the end user.
Mark me redundant if you like, since I mentioned this in another thread, but...
Ms. Frisch has a Windows book called "Essential NT System Administration". It is not as large or complete as this one, but it is still a book I would recommend for starting NT admins.
It's worth noting that Ms. Frisch also wrote "Essential NT System Administration."
It wasn't as excellent as "Essential System Administration", but it's pretty good. NT admin told from the perspective of a Unix admin.
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Hmm. Did you make the cable yourself? I looked all over, and the longest I found was 12'. The USB specs said that the official limit was somewhere arounf 4m, although I don't remember exactly.
I'd love to see a superior replacement for parallel ports for the average user. Network printers are better, but for individual users they are too expensive.
Of all the many printers I have set up in the past few years, far less than half were physically close enough to the PC to fall within the distance limits imposed by USB cables. I recently had to set up a printer for a user who had moved the printer to a more accessable location and in my research to find a long enough USB cable discovered that there is a practical 10 foot limit. It's nearly impossible to find a longer than 6 foot cable, and the reason is that the USB spec is sharply limited in distance supported. You're expected to use an amplifier every so many feet if you need more than about 10 feet.
USB may be great for a lot of things, but some peripherals (particularly printers) are commonly much further away than that. We have serial terminals all over the building hooked up to one server. That would never work with USB.
Unfortunately, recent (past several years) versions of Oracle require X (and now Java) to install it.
A real pain when you carefully set up a server to be a SERVER, leaving off all the non-essentials, and then have to back up and reinstall stuff just because Oracle dropped the command line installer.
In many cases, people can't [easily] get anything else.
You can build a machine with no MS products. You can go to a custom builder and get an MS-free system. But you cannot just go to a store or a major manufacturer and ask for an MS-free system. Well, you can ask, but they'll say no because MS has the manufacturers locked in. Since most people are not capable of building their own or even finding a custom builder, the choice is not effectively offered to them. There is no free market in this case.
Microsoft should not be prevented from selling their wares in a free market. They should be prevented from locking out all other options.
It's not illegal to be a monopoly. MS is. It's not illegal to use dirty tricks to get ahead. (Immoral, but not illegal.) MS does. But it is illegal to be a monopoly and to use dirty tricks to maintain and extend that monopoly.
It's interesting that you mke such a big deal about dictionaries, yet you have obviously never consulted one. Try looking up virus in 4 or 5 different dictionaries and see if you find any that specify anything other than viruses as the plural of virus.
You might look up dwarf and dwarfs too. Dwarfs has been the traditonal plural for centuries. Dwarves is a very recent usage, mostly due to Tolkien.
Before I got the TP dispensors with the top guard, my cats liked to unroll it frequently. Rerolling never became an issue though -- in conjunction with unrolling it they would chew a big gouge in what was left. Replacing the roll was the only option. And cleaning up the shredded paper.
The current dispensor has a chrome 'mud-flap' arrangement that simultaneously discourages the cats and enforces an over-the-top loading of the TP. As a bonus it provides a tiny bit of friction which simplifies the 'tear off' process. Decorative too.
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Don't know about xinerama, but you're certainly right about screwed up focus settings. Metacity is pretty much unusable for me.
I've got plain Gnome 2.2 (for the moment) and I've replaced metacity with another WM. Unfortunatley, all the Gnome stuff seems 'integrated' enough that all kinds of things seem to break if you use something other than what they designed in. I'm afraid XD2 would probably be even less flexible.
I'd be willing to put up with Metacity's other warts if it had a rational focus policy (or could be configured to have one.) I'm going to keep on hammering on Gnome a bit longer and if I can't find a configuration that works right I'll give up and switch to KDE.
I don't like KDE, but it gets focus right. That excuses a multitude of sins, even ugliness.
Cool!
Did he take it under the wires or go inverted in the turns?
As a matter of fact, they claim to have designed RPM for Red Hat. RH disputes this :)
Not even close.
The amplification part is not nearly as important as the equalization part. LPs have some serious frequency alteration going on in the recording process, with the expectation that the phono stage of your amplifier will be backing that out. If you don't do that, you'll get sound, but it won't sound at all like it's supposed to.
If you want it to sound like it was recorded (correct bass, etc.) you have to have a *phono* preamp, not just a preamp. If that doesn't matter to you, then knock yourself out...
I've been trying to get used to Gnome 2.2 on my new Gentoo system. I always hated Sawfish, but now I discover its great redeeming quality was that it wasn't Metacity.
I was *eventually* able to convince Sawfish not to raise a window just because I clicked on it, but Metacity sems to have even fewer customization options.
I might get used to its inability to set up any sort of useful root menu, but the lack of a rational focus policy makes Metacity pretty much unusable.
KDE works correctly, but it's just plain ugly, and not terribly configurable either.
Gnome 2.2 with Enlightenment fixes the focus problem (root menu too) but it fights with Nautilus. The only way to get Nautilus to behave is to turn off its desktop handling functions. All or nothing.
I'm starting to think that KDE might be the way to go. Ugly as it is, it looks far better than it used to, and it *mostly* seems to work better these days than Gnome.
Hmm.
Coherence really is overrated.
Interesting.
And it's also interesting that it *has* run on SCO in the past and they've switched.
This sounds truly interesting.
But I like the Neuros' capability to transmit via RF -- mainly because I'd like car capability and the Rio Car went away.
Are you equating 'religion' with 'moral framework'?
Thye might (arguably) be related, but they're certainly not synonymous.
Hee.
I'm not worried. Got my tinfoil hat.
Aside from the (undisclosed) settlement from their DR-DOS lawsuit a few years ago.
Wonder what else was in the settlement?
I should take another look at it then. Last time I tried, the runtime either did not come with it, or I didn't find it.
But it's also a drawback (in my opinion) that you are required to use the Enterprise Manager. That it's available as an option, fine, but it would really be nice if Oracle had retained the command line tools as well. Not to mention the command line installer.
I don't trust any "installer" that requires something other than "tar xzvf" to use. ( although RPM can be nice sometimes if you haven't hosed your install yet ).
Me neither. Which was my big beef last time I tried to install Oracle. Bad enough they used to require X installed on the server. Now you have to have a full-fledged Java environment. Just for the installer to run. Oh yeah, and X too.
Usenet is pretty much opt-in, and assuming the forum is moderated with a heavy hand to keep it on topic it may even be a better way to keep your channel of communications open.
Mailing lists such as he is talking about are pretty much opt-in also. And much less hassle for the end user.
That might be interesting if John Varley were writing it...
Mark me redundant if you like, since I mentioned this in another thread, but...
Ms. Frisch has a Windows book called "Essential NT System Administration". It is not as large or complete as this one, but it is still a book I would recommend for starting NT admins.
It's worth noting that Ms. Frisch also wrote "Essential NT System Administration."
It wasn't as excellent as "Essential System Administration", but it's pretty good. NT admin told from the perspective of a Unix admin.
Hmm. Did you make the cable yourself? I looked all over, and the longest I found was 12'. The USB specs said that the official limit was somewhere arounf 4m, although I don't remember exactly.
I'd love to see a superior replacement for parallel ports for the average user. Network printers are better, but for individual users they are too expensive.
Of all the many printers I have set up in the past few years, far less than half were physically close enough to the PC to fall within the distance limits imposed by USB cables. I recently had to set up a printer for a user who had moved the printer to a more accessable location and in my research to find a long enough USB cable discovered that there is a practical 10 foot limit. It's nearly impossible to find a longer than 6 foot cable, and the reason is that the USB spec is sharply limited in distance supported. You're expected to use an amplifier every so many feet if you need more than about 10 feet.
USB may be great for a lot of things, but some peripherals (particularly printers) are commonly much further away than that. We have serial terminals all over the building hooked up to one server. That would never work with USB.
Unfortunately, recent (past several years) versions of Oracle require X (and now Java) to install it.
A real pain when you carefully set up a server to be a SERVER, leaving off all the non-essentials, and then have to back up and reinstall stuff just because Oracle dropped the command line installer.
Forward's science is second to none. His ideas are fascinating.
Most cardboard is far more three dimensional than his characters, and his stories are pretty thin too.
But the ideas are very interesting.
People don't want their product too much.
In many cases, people can't [easily] get anything else.
You can build a machine with no MS products. You can go to a custom builder and get an MS-free system. But you cannot just go to a store or a major manufacturer and ask for an MS-free system. Well, you can ask, but they'll say no because MS has the manufacturers locked in. Since most people are not capable of building their own or even finding a custom builder, the choice is not effectively offered to them. There is no free market in this case.
Microsoft should not be prevented from selling their wares in a free market. They should be prevented from locking out all other options.
It's not illegal to be a monopoly. MS is. It's not illegal to use dirty tricks to get ahead. (Immoral, but not illegal.) MS does. But it is illegal to be a monopoly and to use dirty tricks to maintain and extend that monopoly.
Hmm. You must have different security guards than any I've ever seen.
In my experience, the most roly-poly chairbound computer nerd could probably run circles around the average security guard.
It's interesting that you mke such a big deal about dictionaries, yet you have obviously never consulted one. Try looking up virus in 4 or 5 different dictionaries and see if you find any that specify anything other than viruses as the plural of virus.
You might look up dwarf and dwarfs too. Dwarfs has been the traditonal plural for centuries. Dwarves is a very recent usage, mostly due to Tolkien.
Before I got the TP dispensors with the top guard, my cats liked to unroll it frequently. Rerolling never became an issue though -- in conjunction with unrolling it they would chew a big gouge in what was left. Replacing the roll was the only option. And cleaning up the shredded paper.
The current dispensor has a chrome 'mud-flap' arrangement that simultaneously discourages the cats and enforces an over-the-top loading of the TP. As a bonus it provides a tiny bit of friction which simplifies the 'tear off' process. Decorative too.