That may work for mouse driven apps like you mention, but what about text? Suppose I have a web page with a form open in Firefox on one monitor and a Word document open in another. If they're both running in the foreground, which gets my input?
I do see your point about having palette windows disappear when an application is not in the foreground. It may make sense on a single screen with overlapping windows, but not if you have multiple screens, or a large enough screen where the windows don't overlap. I'm not sure if it's a system thing that is making the palettes disappear or an application thing, but it ought to be a user-selectable preference since this might still be an issue for people with a single smaller screen (such as 15" MacBook Pros).
I'm a gentoo user (at home), and as much as I love the fiddling I do with it, it's a major pain to have to install the entirity of MySQL just to get MySQL client support
Maybe with Ubuntu's default kernel, but my Gentoo PPC box has read/write HFS+ support just fine. I use it whenever I need to mount the Mac OS 9 partition to install a new kernel (it's an Old World PowerPC 603 machine, so the Linux kernel sits in the Mac OS 9 System Folder).
I'd like to see IBM counter with a publicized statement that says "Windows appears to be infringing 12,440 of our patents, (or whatever number they can pull together on short notice) and IBM is considering our litigation options. We're not saying we'll get an injunction to stop Vista from shipping, but we haven't ruled out that possibility. Oh, and the Xbox 360 is infringing 130 patents and we're going to court over them right now."
I'd like to think that in this scenario, Microsoft might also find itself with a shortage of PowerPC processors for the Xbox 360...
Neat, I wasn't aware of the capability to purge individual revisions of an article. Agreed this is better than deleting and recreating the entire article, exactly because of the attribution issue.
Since the link doesn't contain a properly formatted protocol prefix (it should be http://) the browser assumes its a local link and prepends the current page's server name to it. If you change the url to browse the page using a different section (say apple.slashdot.org), then the link goes to apple.slashdot.org/example.com/...
There is a way to deal with this. If an article is deleted, the history gets erased. An administrator could copy the current, clean content of the article, delete the article, then recreate it from the clean version.
Look at it this way, now when you use a computer that for whatever reason you can't install Firefox on, you will at least have a half way modern browser rather than the piece of trash that is IE6.
You're assuming that the computer you can't install Firefox on will be updated from IE6 to IE7 sometime soon. Remember all those intranet apps that you have to keep IE around for? Nobody said they'd still work in IE7.
I have a Panasonic VCR that I bought in 2003 that has the same feature. Only it doesn't show a blue screen while fast forwarding, instead you see everything moving fast, just as if you were pressing fast forward during playback. Works pretty well, not 100% though.
I guess this points out the difference between ask-slashdot and a real interview: in a real interview, if somebody tried to weasel out of a question, you could ask a more pointed question. With ask-slashdot, if they don't like a question, they can just put down a bunch of words that don't answer the question and move on.
This looks like the definition of a real interview as used by Fox News. Now if you're using the Daily Show's definition of a real interview, then we run into problems...;)
I don't see any reason they couldn't set the default home page for a bundled Firefox to MSN. Even if that somehow meant they couldn't use the Firefox trademarks (the IceWeasel situation), they could call it something else... like... Internet Explorer 8.
Actually, that doesn't seem like an unreasonable course for a bundled version of Firefox to be called IE. Alternatively, they could leave the front end code essentially unchanged, and basically replace MSHTML and Trident with Gecko or KHTML. Basically, take the Safari approach, focus on the front end and let someone else handle the back end stuff.
Maybe I don't understand the world of large support contracts, but this doesn't really make sense. You installed Internet Explorer on Solaris, and when there were problems, you called Sun? Assuming you weren't having problems before, when there were problems with IE, wouldn't it make more sense to call Microsoft?
Lets put it another way. Suppose your Windows XP desktops are working great. Then you install Adobe Photoshop and start running into problems. Who would you call, Microsoft or Adobe?
You might want to look at an optimized build. I'm using the G5-optimized 2.0rc3 (same as 2.0) from this MozillaZine forum thread and it doesn't bother me too much. It aquafies most of the widgets (if a web page trys to style a widget, you get the styled version; only unstyled widgets get aquafied) and I do notice a little transparency in the context menu. I don't know if it's in the official 2.0, I haven't tried it. There are also some G3, G4, and Intel optimized builds, but I can't recommend any since I haven't tried them.
So what if you pressed the upper left button to launch a browser last week? This week you'd rather press the middle right one to do it, and it'll damn well launch your browser!
I believe it's been explained that the panels are user-configurable. Each user can have their own layout of how they want stuff, and presumably can change it whenever they want to. I can do it today with KDE, so I see no reason LCARS can't do it too.
Simple business controls would eliminate that risk. Like ensuring that the person with the ability to set or change the hard drive image cannot be the person who also checks its integrity.
How does that eliminate the risk? Reduce it, sure, since the bad guy now needs to payoff two people rather than one. There is still risk.
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That may work for mouse driven apps like you mention, but what about text? Suppose I have a web page with a form open in Firefox on one monitor and a Word document open in another. If they're both running in the foreground, which gets my input?
I do see your point about having palette windows disappear when an application is not in the foreground. It may make sense on a single screen with overlapping windows, but not if you have multiple screens, or a large enough screen where the windows don't overlap. I'm not sure if it's a system thing that is making the palettes disappear or an application thing, but it ought to be a user-selectable preference since this might still be an issue for people with a single smaller screen (such as 15" MacBook Pros).
This one is pretty easy to fix:
# echo "dev-db/mysql minimal" >>
Found here:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061127-newsle
Will Lt. Kaylen Donal do?
http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/donal.jpg
You mean like in these incidents, when someone drove into the Kahului, Maui airport? Fortunately in these incidents, nobody was hurt:
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http://starbulletin.com/2005/10/24/news/story01.h
http://starbulletin.com/2004/03/03/news/story8.ht
Maybe with Ubuntu's default kernel, but my Gentoo PPC box has read/write HFS+ support just fine. I use it whenever I need to mount the Mac OS 9 partition to install a new kernel (it's an Old World PowerPC 603 machine, so the Linux kernel sits in the Mac OS 9 System Folder).
I'd like to think that in this scenario, Microsoft might also find itself with a shortage of PowerPC processors for the Xbox 360...
Neat, I wasn't aware of the capability to purge individual revisions of an article. Agreed this is better than deleting and recreating the entire article, exactly because of the attribution issue.
Well, I did look at the page source:
<a href="http:example.com/some/virus/ise/here.exe" title="example.com">No_Virus_Realy.exe</a>
Since the link doesn't contain a properly formatted protocol prefix (it should be http://) the browser assumes its a local link and prepends the current page's server name to it. If you change the url to browse the page using a different section (say apple.slashdot.org), then the link goes to apple.slashdot.org/example.com/...
There is a way to deal with this. If an article is deleted, the history gets erased. An administrator could copy the current, clean content of the article, delete the article, then recreate it from the clean version.
You're assuming that the computer you can't install Firefox on will be updated from IE6 to IE7 sometime soon. Remember all those intranet apps that you have to keep IE around for? Nobody said they'd still work in IE7.
I have a Panasonic VCR that I bought in 2003 that has the same feature. Only it doesn't show a blue screen while fast forwarding, instead you see everything moving fast, just as if you were pressing fast forward during playback. Works pretty well, not 100% though.
So they are saying he's lying about TSA security sucking ass?
No, they are saying he's lying by presenting a fake boarding pass to TSA agents, or making it easy for other people to do so.
I guess this points out the difference between ask-slashdot and a real interview: in a real interview, if somebody tried to weasel out of a question, you could ask a more pointed question. With ask-slashdot, if they don't like a question, they can just put down a bunch of words that don't answer the question and move on.
;)
This looks like the definition of a real interview as used by Fox News. Now if you're using the Daily Show's definition of a real interview, then we run into problems...
I don't see any reason they couldn't set the default home page for a bundled Firefox to MSN. Even if that somehow meant they couldn't use the Firefox trademarks (the IceWeasel situation), they could call it something else... like... Internet Explorer 8.
Actually, that doesn't seem like an unreasonable course for a bundled version of Firefox to be called IE. Alternatively, they could leave the front end code essentially unchanged, and basically replace MSHTML and Trident with Gecko or KHTML. Basically, take the Safari approach, focus on the front end and let someone else handle the back end stuff.
Maybe I don't understand the world of large support contracts, but this doesn't really make sense. You installed Internet Explorer on Solaris, and when there were problems, you called Sun? Assuming you weren't having problems before, when there were problems with IE, wouldn't it make more sense to call Microsoft?
Lets put it another way. Suppose your Windows XP desktops are working great. Then you install Adobe Photoshop and start running into problems. Who would you call, Microsoft or Adobe?
Ah. I'm using the English/United States dictionary.
Yes, the abomination known as "Netscape 8". Fortunately, they only felt the need to make it for Windows.
firefox shows up as misspelled. Firefox on the other hand, does not show as misspelled--and one of the suggestions for firefox.
Try the Third Party/Unofficial Builds forum at MozillaZine:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42
You might want to look at an optimized build. I'm using the G5-optimized 2.0rc3 (same as 2.0) from this MozillaZine forum thread and it doesn't bother me too much. It aquafies most of the widgets (if a web page trys to style a widget, you get the styled version; only unstyled widgets get aquafied) and I do notice a little transparency in the context menu. I don't know if it's in the official 2.0, I haven't tried it. There are also some G3, G4, and Intel optimized builds, but I can't recommend any since I haven't tried them.
"Close Other Tabs" is still there in 2.0. And to answer another reply, you don't need the Tab Mix Plus extension.
I believe it's been explained that the panels are user-configurable. Each user can have their own layout of how they want stuff, and presumably can change it whenever they want to. I can do it today with KDE, so I see no reason LCARS can't do it too.
No, they're not the same. CAC is a smart card, but no RFID.
I agree, the lack of games isn't a con. After all, World of Warcraft runs on Macs, and isn't that the only game anyone is playing nowadays anyway? :P
How does that eliminate the risk? Reduce it, sure, since the bad guy now needs to payoff two people rather than one. There is still risk.