It's interesting that you point out BlackBox, since its creator Brad Hughes, last I checked, worked for Trolltech in Norway. As far as I know BlackBox (and perhaps fluxbox and/or openbox) handles integration with the kde/gnome panels if you wish to use them. I was an avid blackbox user, and still am when memory is a precious commodity (ie hd recording with ardour), but even then, that can be done under kde 3.
From what I've read, it seems that the main problems vis a vis speed are either app specific ( ie OpenOffice.org vs. MS Office (where MS Office relies on already loaded libs and OpenOffice.org is just on its first iteration of integration into gtk/qt environments)) or X11 spec specific. I can't really comment intelligently on the latter seeing as I probably messed up the former already, but clearly the redrawing under X leaves something to be desired. The Xorg crew seems to be taking that up now that they have rightly been handed the scepter, pumpkin, conch shell, whathaveyou, of maintaining and improving X.
Honestly, on a 1GHz or higher machine, I can't complain about kde 3.2 speed, especially if you take advantage of the little things (like its really good window manager, not feeling like you're in another planet when you sit at a windows/mac computer, konqueror (aka safari beta bleeding edge:-), etc.) What I see is that it may not be as fast as windows XP with one or two apps running, but with 10+ XP seems to bog down when KDE is still running along at it's peak speed. Not to mention the speed rot of having an XP machine up for a couple of days.
Since I do have access to oed.com, I'll give you this tidbit, verifying your statement (also note that virii isn't in the oed at all):
a. L. vrus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste. Hence also F., Sp., Pg. virus.
In Lanfranc's Cirurgie (c 1400) 77 the word, explained as 'a thin venomy quitter', is merely taken over from the Latin text.
[that's the etymology, here's the def -Rich]
1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. Also fig.
2.Path.a. A morbid principle or poisonous substance produced in the body as the result of some disease, esp. one capable of being introduced into other persons or animals by inoculations or otherwise and of developing the same disease in them. Now superseded by the next sense.
b. Pl. viruses. An infectious organism that is usu. submicroscopic, can multiply only inside certain living host cells (in many cases causing disease) and is now understood to be a non-cellular structure lacking any intrinsic metabolism and usually comprising a DNA or RNA core inside a protein coat (see also quot. 1977).
Formerly referred to as filterable viruses, their first distinguishing characteristic being the ability to pass through filters that retained bacteria.
Oh man. I've been reading this site for a while. This story should just be deleted, or at least have the links removed. There is absolutely no need to give this loon publicity while taxing the jpl site for no reason.
That movie is so good. Probably the best Chinese cinema since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and in some ways better. Totally amazing that it was the director's first action movie. He also directed 'happy times' which was a story set in the modern day urban China which is similar only in its bright colors. Basically Hero is worth buying on the black market, but I can't wait to see it on the big screen. It sends chills down my spine just thinking about it. I wonder if they'll keep the one line translated as "How swift thy sword." Great last words.
I can say that this doesn't surprise me. jetBlue was the first airline in the U.S. to have those locking extra-secure doors installed on their cockpits for their entire flight. Sometime after that devastating event, I was flying from JFK to Buffalo and the CEO of jetBlue was coming on board every flight just to calm people down and tell them that jetBlue was serious about airline security.
Now, because of that seriousness and their cooperation with the TSA, they get a PR nightmare because some private corp posts a PDF with statistics based on their flight transactions online. Why the TSA had to contract this out is beyond me. I'm sure it didn't save us any taxpayer dollars.
Thank god for that tax cut though, that $0 refund I got was worth it:) At least I don't have to worry about estate taxes on my great-grandfather's multi-million dollar estate. Oh wait, my great-grandfather(s) were subsistence farmers. </please_let_someone_who_can_beat_gwb-aka-clark-wi n_the_dem_primary_rant>
I still love jetBlue, if for nothing more than the scads of free headphones. Go ahead, give my social security number, etc. to the government, they're the one's who issued it to me in the first place. It's what the government allegedly did with my secret (btwn me and the script kiddies who've stolen it from other corps over the years) info that disturbs me.
is someone who's not afraid of a $250,000 max. fine and a 5 year max. federal prison sentence to electronically write in Kermit the Frog for president. Seems like it would be impossible change the outcome of even a local election without getting caught if the election wasn't tight, but not that hard if it was.
If you're diabolical enough to want to change the outcome of an election for whatever reason, you could probably find a way to circumvent any elections system, be they paper ballots or mind reading machines from the 24 and a half century. Either by direct bribes to registered voters, or dissuading blocks of voters through disinformation, etc.
My kneejerk reaction was, "yeah right." But after doing a teensy weensy
bit of skimming at his site, he has a very good point. As major points of
access are bought by large corporations, control becomes easier and easier.
Perhaps in ways that savvy users can circumvent, but one would bet that for
example, most Chinese internet users don't have any idea how to circumvent the
great firewall.
Also, spam really does prevent email from getting through. I know that
nearly anyone actually trying to email me at nutate at hotmail isn't going to
get through to me unless I know them already... (and in which case they
wouldn't be using that email address to contact me.)
The man's been looking at the internet since 1974, so he seen what's
happened firsthand. But here's an analogy (of sorts) that just popped into my
head. Last week I saw the documentary film Catching Out and the filmmaker did a
Q&A about it afterward. One of the audience members asked her whether she
thought that freight train hopping (the centerpiece to the film) was dying.
She said that there are two schools of thought. One is from the old folks,
who say "It's just too hard these days. Security's too tight, so I quit" But
the young kids, she said, who'd grown up with this higher security think it's
still a thriving enterprise.
Personally, I'm young enough to think the internet is going to be used and
free for me for as long as I can concieve of.
But for those who don't care to fight the restrictions (or don't notice them), they'll be, for lack of a better word, stuck (w/ msnbc as their homepage?...).
I feel like this story would've been better left sitting on his obscure blog than on the/. frontpage where it'll be routinely ripped to pieces. ____ is dying is like so totally over.;)
Dear SCO Group,
My life has been lacking any good legal excitement since I gave up watching Law & Order and I need more street credibility in the Open Source world. I would been honored if your group sued me for using Linux on my home computer. Please don't sue me for using it on my work computer, because that would open up a much larger can of worms for your organization.
I realize that I have very little cash on hand to pay a legal defense team to handle my case, but my lack of resources will be a bounty for your crack legal team.
Please contact me at nutate @ hotmail . com with the subject: "We would like to sue you."
This was covered in the marketplace section of today's WSJ. The odd thing about that article was that it quoted Eric Raymond as saying that Linus had said that he had some other license he would agree to switch Linux to if the GPL was invalidated. Anyone have anymore detail on that aspect?
I think of the free ones, Chromium B.S.U. is the best. Abuse is good, but it's not really a side scrolling shooter in my opinion, it's more like Contra or something. If Chromium could only get more than the three weapons, some sort of phalanx type thing would be awesome.
-Rich
From that different page, down at the bottom, you see that airo-linux supports the card now, at least in CVS. I guess there are difficulties if you get a 3rd party Cisco card, but her machine came with one preinstalled from IBM. The model number is 237375U if you're curious.
My girlfriend, yesterday, got a T40. It's pentium m, but not centrino, because it comes with a Cisco Mini-PCI wifi card. Which, incidentally works with Linux, unlike the intel (centrino) chipset. I mean, Theodore T'so uses a T40p, what more endorsement do you need... (of course he is an IBM employee).
Her university employee discount factored heavily into the purchase, but they can still be had sub-$2000 with pretty nice internals from web dealers. I think the machine is going to last her a long time.
Ardour does MMC (MIDI Machine Control), though, so some mixers can control the virtual sliders on the screen with their real sliders, etc. I don't have one of those, but I do have a peavey PC1600, which maybe I can get to work with ardour... maybe.:)
No, it doesn't even do that. You specify them all through what are known as USE flags in a file called/etc/make.conf, as in gnuchess USEs opengl (or whatever, actually it doesn't depend on any USE flags). But portage can also do cool things like build straight from cvs repositories for apps like ardour that don't currently have even tarballs out. All of this is pretty darn well documented on the gentoo site, and I recommend people check it out. (Especially if you have tons of time on your hands;))
I was/am interested in getting a USB KVM for my Sun Blade 100 at work, so we ordered one (a Belkin Pro series), but get this: You can't have the mouse/keyboard on the Sun not plugged in as root devices on boot. For those of you that may not know, Plus the 1280x1024 picture on my monitor got flickery. Argh.
I'll keep looking, but at the moment I'm sticking with 2 monitors, 2 keyboards, and 2 mice... Most salient point is that USB support on the SunBlade 100 isn't up to par (along with CDROM support). You get what you pay for I guess, but we can hope that if Sun makes a sequel to the Blade 100 it will fix these dumb problems.
If anyone knows of a USB KVM that lets two devices pass through straight (ie doesn't act like a hub) I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Once I was at the great Cedar Point, I was probably 13 or 14 or so, and I got in the back car of that one seemingly rickety (but new) wooden coaster they have. (the wolf, or something). And it flew down, and at the end of the big hill, the wind was completely knocked the heck out of me.
The coaster continued on it's frenzied path, really a great coaster, and then, right before our set of cars slid back into the loading dock, and the other set of cars flew down the first hill, the coaster was halted. The people in front of me were all messed up. One really overweight guy was all red, and apparently I looked rather strange due to my gasping for air during the majority of the ride. We probably sat there for 10 or so minutes before they started the coaster back up again.
Final point is that I think the coaster designers/handsomely paid completely sober operators can handle their machines...
Exactly. I'll be in my dinghy, waiting for you and the ark to come pick me up with my pairs of fertile animals. I'll be near the tip of the Empire State building, which will hopefully still be standing.
"Before Pooch will accept commands from another Pooch, it must receive a passcode that matches its own." In other words, all of the Pooch systems need to be from the same install. Which, for the free download would be a max of 4.
Viewing the media (slashdot being just one example) is like watching a student eagerly tell the teacher and class an utterly uninformed and wrong answer to a question nobody asked. I don't mean to take this out on you pb, but my god. Pooch has a 1 page quick start guide. Good... its manual is 46 pages long. It is pretty obvious that Pooch is easier to set up, and for that may win the hearts of many researchers.
Personally, my imagination leads me to believe that the NSA has a few thousand or more mac cubes Pooched together in a subterranean cluster hive in Alaska translating satellite communication and doing linguistic analysis.
Now, if what I have outlined isn't possible, please let me know...:)
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It's interesting that you point out BlackBox, since its creator Brad Hughes, last I checked, worked for Trolltech in Norway. As far as I know BlackBox (and perhaps fluxbox and/or openbox) handles integration with the kde/gnome panels if you wish to use them. I was an avid blackbox user, and still am when memory is a precious commodity (ie hd recording with ardour), but even then, that can be done under kde 3.
From what I've read, it seems that the main problems vis a vis speed are either app specific ( ie OpenOffice.org vs. MS Office (where MS Office relies on already loaded libs and OpenOffice.org is just on its first iteration of integration into gtk/qt environments)) or X11 spec specific. I can't really comment intelligently on the latter seeing as I probably messed up the former already, but clearly the redrawing under X leaves something to be desired. The Xorg crew seems to be taking that up now that they have rightly been handed the scepter, pumpkin, conch shell, whathaveyou, of maintaining and improving X.
Honestly, on a 1GHz or higher machine, I can't complain about kde 3.2 speed, especially if you take advantage of the little things (like its really good window manager, not feeling like you're in another planet when you sit at a windows/mac computer, konqueror (aka safari beta bleeding edge :-), etc.) What I see is that it may not be as fast as windows XP with one or two apps running, but with 10+ XP seems to bog down when KDE is still running along at it's peak speed. Not to mention the speed rot of having an XP machine up for a couple of days.
-Rich
a. L. vrus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste. Hence also F., Sp., Pg. virus.
In Lanfranc's Cirurgie (c 1400) 77 the word, explained as 'a thin venomy quitter', is merely taken over from the Latin text.
[that's the etymology, here's the def -Rich]
1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. Also fig.
2. Path. a. A morbid principle or poisonous substance produced in the body as the result of some disease, esp. one capable of being introduced into other persons or animals by inoculations or otherwise and of developing the same disease in them. Now superseded by the next sense.
b. Pl. viruses. An infectious organism that is usu. submicroscopic, can multiply only inside certain living host cells (in many cases causing disease) and is now understood to be a non-cellular structure lacking any intrinsic metabolism and usually comprising a DNA or RNA core inside a protein coat (see also quot. 1977).
Formerly referred to as filterable viruses, their first distinguishing characteristic being the ability to pass through filters that retained bacteria.
Stick something like this into google:
"imperfect knowledge" "perfect knowledge" economic ~theory
That should give you a sampling of current economic thinking that can get you past your simple ideas of the way things work. Good luck.
I believe the most magic way to do it would be to change the name in /etc/redhat-release from:
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
to:
Fedora Core release 2
or something
then try yum update (or maybe yum upgrade)
I'm not adventurous to even try r2 yet. the fedora.us wiki may have better info.
-Rich
Xerox has been doing this for a while now. Lookup U.S. patent #5,533,144.
Oh man. I've been reading this site for a while. This story should just be deleted, or at least have the links removed. There is absolutely no need to give this loon publicity while taxing the jpl site for no reason.
That movie is so good. Probably the best Chinese cinema since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and in some ways better. Totally amazing that it was the director's first action movie. He also directed 'happy times' which was a story set in the modern day urban China which is similar only in its bright colors. Basically Hero is worth buying on the black market, but I can't wait to see it on the big screen. It sends chills down my spine just thinking about it. I wonder if they'll keep the one line translated as "How swift thy sword." Great last words.
I can say that this doesn't surprise me. jetBlue was the first airline in the U.S. to have those locking extra-secure doors installed on their cockpits for their entire flight. Sometime after that devastating event, I was flying from JFK to Buffalo and the CEO of jetBlue was coming on board every flight just to calm people down and tell them that jetBlue was serious about airline security.
Now, because of that seriousness and their cooperation with the TSA, they get a PR nightmare because some private corp posts a PDF with statistics based on their flight transactions online. Why the TSA had to contract this out is beyond me. I'm sure it didn't save us any taxpayer dollars.
Thank god for that tax cut though, that $0 refund I got was worth it :) At least I don't have to worry about estate taxes on my great-grandfather's multi-million dollar estate. Oh wait, my great-grandfather(s) were subsistence farmers. </please_let_someone_who_can_beat_gwb-aka-clark-wi n_the_dem_primary_rant>
I still love jetBlue, if for nothing more than the scads of free headphones. Go ahead, give my social security number, etc. to the government, they're the one's who issued it to me in the first place. It's what the government allegedly did with my secret (btwn me and the script kiddies who've stolen it from other corps over the years) info that disturbs me.
is someone who's not afraid of a $250,000 max. fine and a 5 year max. federal prison sentence to electronically write in Kermit the Frog for president. Seems like it would be impossible change the outcome of even a local election without getting caught if the election wasn't tight, but not that hard if it was.
If you're diabolical enough to want to change the outcome of an election for whatever reason, you could probably find a way to circumvent any elections system, be they paper ballots or mind reading machines from the 24 and a half century. Either by direct bribes to registered voters, or dissuading blocks of voters through disinformation, etc.
As others have said, support the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 by writing or calling your representative. At least we can try to make it harder for fraud to occur.
My kneejerk reaction was, "yeah right." But after doing a teensy weensy bit of skimming at his site, he has a very good point. As major points of access are bought by large corporations, control becomes easier and easier. Perhaps in ways that savvy users can circumvent, but one would bet that for example, most Chinese internet users don't have any idea how to circumvent the great firewall.
Also, spam really does prevent email from getting through. I know that nearly anyone actually trying to email me at nutate at hotmail isn't going to get through to me unless I know them already... (and in which case they wouldn't be using that email address to contact me.)
The man's been looking at the internet since 1974, so he seen what's happened firsthand. But here's an analogy (of sorts) that just popped into my head. Last week I saw the documentary film Catching Out and the filmmaker did a Q&A about it afterward. One of the audience members asked her whether she thought that freight train hopping (the centerpiece to the film) was dying. She said that there are two schools of thought. One is from the old folks, who say "It's just too hard these days. Security's too tight, so I quit" But the young kids, she said, who'd grown up with this higher security think it's still a thriving enterprise.
Personally, I'm young enough to think the internet is going to be used and free for me for as long as I can concieve of. But for those who don't care to fight the restrictions (or don't notice them), they'll be, for lack of a better word, stuck (w/ msnbc as their homepage?...).
Oh, he just represented the U.S. and Canada at ICANN when it was still a democratic organization...
Here.
I feel like this story would've been better left sitting on his obscure blog than on the /. frontpage where it'll be routinely ripped to pieces. ____ is dying is like so totally over. ;)
Oblique UCB reference...
Dear SCO Group,
My life has been lacking any good legal excitement since I gave up watching Law & Order and I need more street credibility in the Open Source world. I would been honored if your group sued me for using Linux on my home computer. Please don't sue me for using it on my work computer, because that would open up a much larger can of worms for your organization.
I realize that I have very little cash on hand to pay a legal defense team to handle my case, but my lack of resources will be a bounty for your crack legal team.
Please contact me at nutate @ hotmail . com with the subject: "We would like to sue you."
Thanks,
R. Seymour
This was covered in the marketplace section of today's WSJ. The odd thing about that article was that it quoted Eric Raymond as saying that Linus had said that he had some other license he would agree to switch Linux to if the GPL was invalidated. Anyone have anymore detail on that aspect?
-Rich
I think of the free ones, Chromium B.S.U. is the best. Abuse is good, but it's not really a side scrolling shooter in my opinion, it's more like Contra or something. If Chromium could only get more than the three weapons, some sort of phalanx type thing would be awesome. -Rich
He has also announced a suit against the tatoo artist who gave him a tatoo on the side of his face.
From that different page, down at the bottom, you see that airo-linux supports the card now, at least in CVS. I guess there are difficulties if you get a 3rd party Cisco card, but her machine came with one preinstalled from IBM. The model number is 237375U if you're curious.
My girlfriend, yesterday, got a T40. It's pentium m, but not centrino, because it comes with a Cisco Mini-PCI wifi card. Which, incidentally works with Linux, unlike the intel (centrino) chipset. I mean, Theodore T'so uses a T40p, what more endorsement do you need... (of course he is an IBM employee).
Her university employee discount factored heavily into the purchase, but they can still be had sub-$2000 with pretty nice internals from web dealers. I think the machine is going to last her a long time.
Ardour does MMC (MIDI Machine Control), though, so some mixers can control the virtual sliders on the screen with their real sliders, etc. I don't have one of those, but I do have a peavey PC1600, which maybe I can get to work with ardour... maybe. :)
-Rich
"...asks you some config questions..."
/etc/make.conf, as in gnuchess USEs opengl (or whatever, actually it doesn't depend on any USE flags). But portage can also do cool things like build straight from cvs repositories for apps like ardour that don't currently have even tarballs out. All of this is pretty darn well documented on the gentoo site, and I recommend people check it out. (Especially if you have tons of time on your hands ;))
No, it doesn't even do that. You specify them all through what are known as USE flags in a file called
I was/am interested in getting a USB KVM for my Sun Blade 100 at work, so we ordered one (a Belkin Pro series), but get this: You can't have the mouse/keyboard on the Sun not plugged in as root devices on boot. For those of you that may not know, Plus the 1280x1024 picture on my monitor got flickery. Argh.
I'll keep looking, but at the moment I'm sticking with 2 monitors, 2 keyboards, and 2 mice... Most salient point is that USB support on the SunBlade 100 isn't up to par (along with CDROM support). You get what you pay for I guess, but we can hope that if Sun makes a sequel to the Blade 100 it will fix these dumb problems.
If anyone knows of a USB KVM that lets two devices pass through straight (ie doesn't act like a hub) I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Peace or something like it,
Rich
Once I was at the great Cedar Point, I was probably 13 or 14 or so, and I got in the back car of that one seemingly rickety (but new) wooden coaster they have. (the wolf, or something). And it flew down, and at the end of the big hill, the wind was completely knocked the heck out of me.
The coaster continued on it's frenzied path, really a great coaster, and then, right before our set of cars slid back into the loading dock, and the other set of cars flew down the first hill, the coaster was halted. The people in front of me were all messed up. One really overweight guy was all red, and apparently I looked rather strange due to my gasping for air during the majority of the ride. We probably sat there for 10 or so minutes before they started the coaster back up again.
Final point is that I think the coaster designers/handsomely paid completely sober operators can handle their machines...
peace, rich
Exactly. I'll be in my dinghy, waiting for you and the ark to come pick me up with my pairs of fertile animals. I'll be near the tip of the Empire State building, which will hopefully still be standing.
Reading is fundamental.
"Before Pooch will accept commands from another Pooch, it must receive a passcode that matches its own." In other words, all of the Pooch systems need to be from the same install. Which, for the free download would be a max of 4.
Viewing the media (slashdot being just one example) is like watching a student eagerly tell the teacher and class an utterly uninformed and wrong answer to a question nobody asked. I don't mean to take this out on you pb, but my god. Pooch has a 1 page quick start guide. Good... its manual is 46 pages long. It is pretty obvious that Pooch is easier to set up, and for that may win the hearts of many researchers.
Personally, my imagination leads me to believe that the NSA has a few thousand or more mac cubes Pooched together in a subterranean cluster hive in Alaska translating satellite communication and doing linguistic analysis.
Now, if what I have outlined isn't possible, please let me know... :)
peace