So one of the main reasons to switch to one is identical on the other.
That's not true at all. Actually, IE for mac is (at least almost) fully CSS 1 and 2 compliant, whereas IE for Win even lacks a lot of basic css 1 things. Therefore, one of the huge benefits of switching over to win ist that you will no longer have to see correctly displayed versions of well programmed websites created (probably) by anti-microsoft guys (check this mozilla demo as an example).
Put a burning candle in a glas jar which can be totally cealed, but is big enough for the candle to burn for some ten or twenty seconds. Ask the students what they think will happen if you let the jar (with the burning candle in it and the lid closed) fall to the ground (closing the jar is just to prevent any kind of wind blowing out candle during its descent). As a burning candle's oxygen supply depends on convection, and the falling jar is a zero gravity-system (in which there isn't any convection), the candle will cease to burn after far less then a second of falling. Just make sure you don't waste too much time between closing the lid and letting the jar fall down.
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Now, I *will* grant that compiling mplayer from source, as you really should do, is at least a couple notches closer to "Herculean", but that's always been the case.
Hmmm, that's strange. On debian it was just a./configure --enable-gui, make, make install, download a skin and font, and get going. Of course you should have a couple of libraries and maybe divx-codecs installed, but they're pretty clear on that on their homepage. What's really a pain in the ass (I think) is getting dvdrip to run properly (or, rather: installing transcode).
I can't see what's so ugly about the bluecurve theme. Of course it looks a bit like teletubby-land, but it's not as bad as XP. And then the blue corners of the window frames are a good idea - it looks as though they might be sort of interactive;-)
The xmms theme is ugly _but_ it's one of the very few themes with clearly visible buttons for playlist/equalizer/shuffle/repeat. What bothers me most is them calling the thing "media player" making users believe it might do a lot of things it probably doesn't (like playing avis, dvds or calling home).
Dear friend, how on earth am I supposed to see what's so great about that font in OpenOffice.org? Couldn't you have scaled it up a little? Oh, and if you want to demonstrate the nice antialiased look of fonts, you shouldn't use a lossy image format like jpeg...
One last thing: psyche has both KDE's kontrol center and nautilus system settings. What I'd like to know is how well those two cooperate as far as system-wide settings (i.e. settings that are not specific for either KDE or gnome) are concerned.
... but only the first three are needed, as four and five contain the sources (don't accuse me, if that's wrong, it's just what everybody else says so... actually... this post is sort of redundant).
My only real outstanding issues are suspend (which swsusp should cover if I can't get Toshiba's ACPI BIOS to cooperate) and scanner support.
Unforch, the latter was a problem in 7.3 as well, and I never did get it working. Worked fine in 7.2, IIRC. Epson Perfection 1200U Photo is the scanner model. I haven't really done any looking into the issue, though, just tried SANE and it couldn't find the scanner.
Well, this shouldn't be a redhat issue, 'cause the 1200 is supportet by the Sane epson backend (and support is really good, not to say great). So it's probably you who has not edited/etc/sane.d/epson.conf (or wherever it is on redhat systems) or your kernel that doesn't have usb scanner support or... something I don't know.
In short, I approve of 8.0. The new compiler tool chain, Python 2.2.1, Mozilla 1.0.1, GTK+/GNOME 2.0, etc. made upgrading an eazy decision for me.
I've been running limbo for a couple of days and gnome 2.0 there was not exactly stable (panel crashing every five minutes or so), same problem with gnome 2.0 on sourcemage. So... would you say that this might be better with psyche?
Couldn't they come up with a better name than ogg vorbis? It sounds like something out of Germany.
Things aren't always what they seem to be.
Funny it doesn't bother you that the "Fraunhofer Gesellschaft" is a German institution and mp3 seems to have quite something to do with them;-)
I don't think that's true. I just encoded (oggenc v0.9, libvorbis rc3) my newest aquisition (aimee mann, lost in space) as mp3 and ogg at bitrates of 128kb/s each and the ogg version amounts to 41386496 bytes, whereas the mp3 version is 41366016 bytes big. So for 42:56 minutes of music the difference is just some 20k or relatively, the oggs consume 1.000495 times (0.05 per cent more) the space the mp3s do. On a tack-by-track base, the oggs are between 0.2 percent bigger and 0.7 percent smaller than the mp3s.
Taking into account that the oggs have a variable bitrate somewhere around 128kb/s which varies from 124kb/s to 136 kb/s I think one can rightfully say that both formats seem to produce equally sized output.
O my god. Did you ever learn latin or do you just "know" that the plural of all latin words is something like ${word%us}i?
The above is valid for words like dominus (powerful guy), so lots of powerful guys (two at least) would be domini. It's what we call o-declination in German.
Virus however is a word that belongs to what we call u-declination. The Nominativ (1st case, don't know how this is called in English) plural of these words is ${word%us}us=$word _but_ the "us" of the plural form has a long "u". So if you want to introduce latin as the second official language at slashdot, the first step would be to use virus as the plural of virus.
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Who says penguins can't fly?
Yep, it's on mine.
Put a burning candle in a glas jar which can be totally cealed, but is big enough for the candle to burn for some ten or twenty seconds. Ask the students what they think will happen if you let the jar (with the burning candle in it and the lid closed) fall to the ground (closing the jar is just to prevent any kind of wind blowing out candle during its descent). As a burning candle's oxygen supply depends on convection, and the falling jar is a zero gravity-system (in which there isn't any convection), the candle will cease to burn after far less then a second of falling. Just make sure you don't waste too much time between closing the lid and letting the jar fall down.
I can't see what's so ugly about the bluecurve theme. Of course it looks a bit like teletubby-land, but it's not as bad as XP. And then the blue corners of the window frames are a good idea - it looks as though they might be sort of interactive ;-)
The xmms theme is ugly _but_ it's one of the very few themes with clearly visible buttons for playlist/equalizer/shuffle/repeat. What bothers me most is them calling the thing "media player" making users believe it might do a lot of things it probably doesn't (like playing avis, dvds or calling home).
Dear friend, how on earth am I supposed to see what's so great about that font in OpenOffice.org? Couldn't you have scaled it up a little? Oh, and if you want to demonstrate the nice antialiased look of fonts, you shouldn't use a lossy image format like jpeg...
One last thing: psyche has both KDE's kontrol center and nautilus system settings. What I'd like to know is how well those two cooperate as far as system-wide settings (i.e. settings that are not specific for either KDE or gnome) are concerned.
O my god. Did you ever learn latin or do you just "know" that the plural of all latin words is something like ${word%us}i?
The above is valid for words like dominus (powerful guy), so lots of powerful guys (two at least) would be domini. It's what we call o-declination in German.
Virus however is a word that belongs to what we call u-declination. The Nominativ (1st case, don't know how this is called in English) plural of these words is ${word%us}us=$word _but_ the "us" of the plural form has a long "u". So if you want to introduce latin as the second official language at slashdot, the first step would be to use virus as the plural of virus.
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