SpamAssassin is also good for this: it lets people know up front that there's an executable there, so if the user has half a brain, he should know not to click on it.
That's the idea, anyway. Of course, the most common elements on this planet are hydrogen and stupidity...
Isn't searching supposed to be getting the things which match?
Yup. That's why the rest of the world just uses Google. Last time I used Yahoo (long ago) it was a frustrating experience, which didn't inspire me to persevere.
RH is just another American company without ideals
While RedHat does not produce my my favourite distribution I get very tired of this bashing. RH has contributed probably more man-hours in terms of software development, maintenance and suport than (probably) any other company without charging a cent.
I challenge you to (honestly) say that for Microsoft.
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but I know too many people that can't even cope with Windows which (despite it's flaws) goes out of it's way to be easy enough for a child to use
My wife (a militant non-geek History postgrad) has no difficulty in coping with Gnomeish interfaces on a Slackware box I set up for her. (And how many Windows users install their own OSs?)
I even heard her gloating the other day to a friend who had been bitten by the virus du jour that since she runs Linux it didn't affect her...
Heh. And who said Linux wasn't ready for the desktop?
I wondered how long it would be before someone with a long memory mentioned Enlightenment. I thought that project was damn cool years ago, it's kind of a pity it seems to have got stuck.
Except when it's Microsoft... then it's "lack of innovation".
Well, I for one haven't seen this feature on Macs (since I have rarely used one) so it's new to me.
When I read the original post, I thought "So what? No big deal". Looking at that screenshot, though, I can see this will be damn useful, so I'm going to give it a try.
Yes, you did have to chord. Only 10 keys, though (0123456789) quite heavily spring-loaded. Damn useful for quick patches to source code, and I used it from time to time to code whole programs when the girls punching batch data into tape-encoding machines were busy...
I can only agree about this issue of Mozilla's management. Much as I love the browser (it has been my default for years), idiocies such as arbitrarily deciding bugs are fixed when they are not, dropping of MNG support and the failure to properly implement SVG do nothing to promote the browser as a tool for anyone other than geeks. If decent features are implenented properly at the outset, Mozilla has a chance to lead the market rather than dance to Microsoft's fiddle.
I'm not saying Mozilla can't be used by anyone other than a geek (my wife uses Mozilla as much as I do) but we would all benefit if some of the developers/maintainers could take their heads out of the sand.
Everything can be useful somewhere, if you look hard enough
Like the old Burroughs 029 card-punch I have holding the door open here. I haven't used the thing for its original purpose in 21 years, but I still know how...
As far as the (mostly conservative) scientific community is concerned, the traditional resources will continue to thrive. These resources are increasingly becoming available on an online basis (almost 100% in my own area), partly because of the storage space required for print media. Since most of the more important or frequently-cited journals are available on a subscription-only basis, the proprietors have an interest in making sure that information is available at any time to those who are willing to pay for it.
While the idea is attractive, we can't expect much in the way of GPLing of research.
Essentially, there is little difference now from the days when if you wanted a journal article, the quickest way to get it was to write (snail-mail) to the author asking for a copy. It's just got a bit quicker, that's all.
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The arrival of more morons
to the mailing lists? No thanks.
That's not exactly an attitude that's going to pursuade the world that Linux is a viable alternative.
OK, none of us have time to be full-time babysitters, but it doesn't hurt to give the newbie a bit of friendly help when it's required, and it goes a long way towards the user feeling good about it at a time when getting anything to work can be frustrating.
I can still remember the frustration 9 years ago when I was struggling to get an X server running on my hardware, and scrolling through usenet responses from asshat geeks who couldn't be bothered being polite. Fortunately there was enough positive response to make me want to persevere.
Personally, I can't see Fedora taking off at all. There are several mature distros available for the desktop that have been proven to be reliable and relatively bug-free, and which have an established presence in terms of user-base. Fedora seems to have claimed most of RedHat's weaknesses, and few of its strengths.
This could be a model for getting much-needed projects off the ground if there were some mechanisn for individuals to contribute to a "bounty fund".
If I had the money, I would offer a bounty to anyone who could come up with an equivalent of EndNote that works seamlessly with OpenOffice (I would happily pay for the package if they produced a version for Linux) or a bounty to anyone who can come up with an interface as easy-to-use as SPSS for any of the existing (powerful but hard-to-use) statistical programs...
That's my wishlist, anyway, but as I'm a student I can't afford to do it alone, and don't have the time to code these interfaces...
Slashdot Mirror
It gets the message across.
(in troubleshooting section)
Problem: Sparks fly from commutator
Cause: Groceries in commutator.
Solution: Remove groceries from commutator.
That's the idea, anyway. Of course, the most common elements on this planet are hydrogen and stupidity...
Posted by pudge on Wednesday March 03, @12:37PM
Someone's asleep here...
Yup. That's why the rest of the world just uses Google. Last time I used Yahoo (long ago) it was a frustrating experience, which didn't inspire me to persevere.
That's because you need a separate unit for African and European Swallows... :-)
:-D
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Solaris x86 might be losing to RedHat, but saying that Sun itself is losing market share to RH might be drawing a long bow...
While RedHat does not produce my my favourite distribution I get very tired of this bashing. RH has contributed probably more man-hours in terms of software development, maintenance and suport than (probably) any other company without charging a cent.
I challenge you to (honestly) say that for Microsoft.
My wife (a militant non-geek History postgrad) has no difficulty in coping with Gnomeish interfaces on a Slackware box I set up for her. (And how many Windows users install their own OSs?)
I even heard her gloating the other day to a friend who had been bitten by the virus du jour that since she runs Linux it didn't affect her...
Heh. And who said Linux wasn't ready for the desktop?
A sojourn in the slammer might just do the trick.
That's charitable, but this particular idiocy seems to be becoming widespread.
The sense of the original Latin word has no particularly valid plural, so we might just as well drop the pretensiousness and call them viruses.
Didn't we see this a couple of days ago?
RedHat is far from being my favourite distribution, but I get very tired of hearing people lump RH in the same category as MS.
RedHat have contributed a lot of work to the Linux user community, which has not been required to pay them a cent for it.
Nobody can say that about Microsoft.
2000-10-27 22:00 enlightenment-0.16.5.tar.gz
2003-11-02 21:00 enlightenment-0.16.6.tar.gz
Looks fairly stuck to me.
I wondered how long it would be before someone with a long memory mentioned Enlightenment. I thought that project was damn cool years ago, it's kind of a pity it seems to have got stuck.
Well, I for one haven't seen this feature on Macs (since I have rarely used one) so it's new to me.
When I read the original post, I thought "So what? No big deal". Looking at that screenshot, though, I can see this will be damn useful, so I'm going to give it a try.
Yes, you did have to chord. Only 10 keys, though (0123456789) quite heavily spring-loaded. Damn useful for quick patches to source code, and I used it from time to time to code whole programs when the girls punching batch data into tape-encoding machines were busy...
I'm not saying Mozilla can't be used by anyone other than a geek (my wife uses Mozilla as much as I do) but we would all benefit if some of the developers/maintainers could take their heads out of the sand.
Like the old Burroughs 029 card-punch I have holding the door open here. I haven't used the thing for its original purpose in 21 years, but I still know how...
While the idea is attractive, we can't expect much in the way of GPLing of research.
Essentially, there is little difference now from the days when if you wanted a journal article, the quickest way to get it was to write (snail-mail) to the author asking for a copy. It's just got a bit quicker, that's all.
That's not exactly an attitude that's going to pursuade the world that Linux is a viable alternative.
OK, none of us have time to be full-time babysitters, but it doesn't hurt to give the newbie a bit of friendly help when it's required, and it goes a long way towards the user feeling good about it at a time when getting anything to work can be frustrating.
I can still remember the frustration 9 years ago when I was struggling to get an X server running on my hardware, and scrolling through usenet responses from asshat geeks who couldn't be bothered being polite. Fortunately there was enough positive response to make me want to persevere.
Personally, I can't see Fedora taking off at all. There are several mature distros available for the desktop that have been proven to be reliable and relatively bug-free, and which have an established presence in terms of user-base. Fedora seems to have claimed most of RedHat's weaknesses, and few of its strengths.
If I had the money, I would offer a bounty to anyone who could come up with an equivalent of EndNote that works seamlessly with OpenOffice (I would happily pay for the package if they produced a version for Linux) or a bounty to anyone who can come up with an interface as easy-to-use as SPSS for any of the existing (powerful but hard-to-use) statistical programs...
That's my wishlist, anyway, but as I'm a student I can't afford to do it alone, and don't have the time to code these interfaces...