Way better than I'd imagined, I'm hooked. Recent excellent geeky interviews include Jeff Waugh (of GNOME and Ubuntu) and Mark Shuttleworth (founder and funder of Ubuntu.)
"I RTFA, but I fail to understand how opening the protocol make it so that more people will use their client/clients that they would profit from."
The article doesn't say they're opening up the protocol. They're not "opening AIM up to the community" like I saw at least one other post say, they're "opening up the AIM community to third parties." Advertisers, product tie-ins. If this affects Gaim/Trillian at all, it's just more reason for AOL to block them.
If this is anything at all, it's just one more little reason to get everyone you've converted to Gaim already to use Jabber.
There doesn't always have to be. With DeDRMs/hymn there's not. You could possibly just go from protected wmv to regular wmv without any steps in between.
Apple has a policy about this, it's in one of the emails you'll receive after buying anything from the store. If the price falls within 10 days of shipping, they'll refund you the difference.
The Mac version isn't perfect, but it's only a few months old. I've used every beta release and development has been FAST. In the last month they added an Enchant back-end for the native spell checking, a major integration boost. I'm sure the issues you listed will start dropping fast, and hey, have to say it, especially things like dialog button order . . . easy to contribute yourself.
It's only about five months old, and a million times more integrated than openoffice via X11. I'm still massively thankful for the port, and can't wait to see it five more months from now.
I have a timbuk2 for my aluminum powerbook, I have the detour (the laptop backpack model.)
I haul my unhealthily loved 'book to class in it at least 4 days a week. It was absolutely worth the investment considering I feel good biking with the thing over 10 miles each week. The backpack straps hideaway very easily, so it's ultra versatile as a carryon on a plane. I've flown with mine once.
However, I almost returned the thing when I first got it. (ebags has an awesome return policy by the way, it won't cost you anything if you don't like it.) It's not as big as I'd imagined. Its dimensions make it seem more like a laptop bag with backpack straps than a backpack with a laptop compartment. I can fit one large textbook and a couple pads of paper in the main compartment and that's about it. Still plenty of room for laptop accessories though. Do consider the size issue, I was a little putoff, for some reason thinking I really needed the ability to haul around 5 books at a time, even though I never actualyl do that.
Still, great bag. I bought mine at ebags, it's very often $90 shipped on weekend special, much better than the $100 + shipping at timbuk2.com.
"I listen to music at work on headphones; it would be great if I could come back to my desk, put them back on and have the same song playing that I interrupted when I left. I'm a bit surprised that Apple hasn't figured out how to do this yet....Hey Apple and Oakley -- you listening?"
Romeo can more or less do this. You can have various scripts run when your bluetooth cell phone comes in and out of range, pausing and resuming itunes/dvd player are built in. Good stuff.
Press Ctrl+L in the new file selector. Then you have a nice completion-line. Works in Spacial Nautilus, too.
Sweet I didn't know this, but I'm not at all surprised it's there. I'd mod you up as insightful but I guess I'll just have to respond. It seems to me 99% of the whiners about "power user" desktops don't even want to know how to use their desktops. Toggling every single one of the 3 bajillion options put in front of you does not make you an expert. Knowing your system makes you an expert.
They tried something like this with nautilus a while back. It was . . . unpleasant.
There is an expert mode in gnome: it's called gnome-terminal. Why do purported "power users" want anything else? A power users desktop, in my opinion, should be simple and elegant above all, for the rest, our unix nerdery should get us by. This is why I love gnome, and my mac.
I don't agree with every recent change in the UI for gnome, lack of tab completion in the file selector is heinous. However, the mac has two file selectors, but I leave the simple one on 99% of the time and just use hidden option #3, OS X's "open" command in the terminal.
Yes Ted Turner is easily the center of the evils he's complaining about . . . . but well, did anyone RTFA before bashing him?
Sure there's hypocrisy in Turner saying big media should be broken up, but he explains himself rather well. I admit I haven't even read the whole article yet. Maybe he's a little bit bitter (AOL), but he starts by explaining that he could never have gotten started in the current environment and then goes on to detail lots of real problems with the current media. Why can't he just be a very smart old man, who knows more about this topic than probably any of us, and is pissed because his industry is going to hell?
To everyone saying this will kill the independent distro, chill.
If you were going to make a new distro right now, in my opinion you'd be better off starting with Fedora or Progeny's Componetized Linux or vanilla Debian or something as it is, stand on some shoulders people. Linus and his crew produce a kernel, not an operating system, I'm sure they're doing this to produce the best kernel they can, not because they hate you.
Like other people said, 2.4 had so many changes go in during it's "stable" life, maybe their just trying to be realistic and make 2.6 actually be more stable than 2.4 this way?
Can a reverse firewall tell the difference between spam being sent out, and someone emailing his entire family with good news about his daughters report card?
If it can, I'll buy one for every member of my family.
OK, I'm done with this thread, but you did get that the parent is linking to that card? That card is what we've been talking about. Also, I can find "DVI Dual Link" all over, but haven't seen it with the DDL acronym once.
Someone linked to that card, said it stands for "Dual Data Link." It doesn't in that context at least, it stands for "Dual Dual Link."
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Way better than I'd imagined, I'm hooked. Recent excellent geeky interviews include Jeff Waugh (of GNOME and Ubuntu) and Mark Shuttleworth (founder and funder of Ubuntu.)
lugradio.org
"I RTFA, but I fail to understand how opening the protocol make it so that more people will use their client/clients that they would profit from."
The article doesn't say they're opening up the protocol. They're not "opening AIM up to the community" like I saw at least one other post say, they're "opening up the AIM community to third parties." Advertisers, product tie-ins. If this affects Gaim/Trillian at all, it's just more reason for AOL to block them.
If this is anything at all, it's just one more little reason to get everyone you've converted to Gaim already to use Jabber.
Linksys is pretty great. In my area they seem to be much more reliable than "default."
There doesn't always have to be. With DeDRMs/hymn there's not. You could possibly just go from protected wmv to regular wmv without any steps in between.
Apple has a policy about this, it's in one of the emails you'll receive after buying anything from the store. If the price falls within 10 days of shipping, they'll refund you the difference.
Yeah, I was disappointed too. I didn't have to write a single line of Java to solve the "Java Challenge."
iPhoto supports this, you can make a smart album with a range of dates.
A plugin for Gaim already exists, at least one compatible with ichat.
r endezvous/rendezvous.c
http://cr.yp.to/2004-494/gaim/0.81-src/protocols/
What's not working? It fixed the issues I had after 10.3.6.
The Mac version isn't perfect, but it's only a few months old. I've used every beta release and development has been FAST. In the last month they added an Enchant back-end for the native spell checking, a major integration boost. I'm sure the issues you listed will start dropping fast, and hey, have to say it, especially things like dialog button order . . . easy to contribute yourself.
It's only about five months old, and a million times more integrated than openoffice via X11. I'm still massively thankful for the port, and can't wait to see it five more months from now.
A response has shown up on downhillbattle, it covers some of the points people have talked about in this thread.
I have a timbuk2 for my aluminum powerbook, I have the detour (the laptop backpack model.)
I haul my unhealthily loved 'book to class in it at least 4 days a week. It was absolutely worth the investment considering I feel good biking with the thing over 10 miles each week. The backpack straps hideaway very easily, so it's ultra versatile as a carryon on a plane. I've flown with mine once.
However, I almost returned the thing when I first got it. (ebags has an awesome return policy by the way, it won't cost you anything if you don't like it.) It's not as big as I'd imagined. Its dimensions make it seem more like a laptop bag with backpack straps than a backpack with a laptop compartment. I can fit one large textbook and a couple pads of paper in the main compartment and that's about it. Still plenty of room for laptop accessories though. Do consider the size issue, I was a little putoff, for some reason thinking I really needed the ability to haul around 5 books at a time, even though I never actualyl do that.
Still, great bag. I bought mine at ebags, it's very often $90 shipped on weekend special, much better than the $100 + shipping at timbuk2.com.
"I listen to music at work on headphones; it would be great if I could come back to my desk, put them back on and have the same song playing that I interrupted when I left. I'm a bit surprised that Apple hasn't figured out how to do this yet....Hey Apple and Oakley -- you listening?"
Romeo can more or less do this. You can have various scripts run when your bluetooth cell phone comes in and out of range, pausing and resuming itunes/dvd player are built in. Good stuff.
"no one using Safari has yet visited"
They have now.
(I couldn't resist.)
I think they meant complacency. In the sense of "contented to a fault."
What size/model is your powerbook?
My 1.25 15 inch has a usb port on both sides, it's handy.
Press Ctrl+L in the new file selector. Then you have a nice completion-line. Works in Spacial Nautilus, too.
Sweet I didn't know this, but I'm not at all surprised it's there. I'd mod you up as insightful but I guess I'll just have to respond. It seems to me 99% of the whiners about "power user" desktops don't even want to know how to use their desktops. Toggling every single one of the 3 bajillion options put in front of you does not make you an expert. Knowing your system makes you an expert.
They tried something like this with nautilus a while back. It was . . . unpleasant.
There is an expert mode in gnome: it's called gnome-terminal. Why do purported "power users" want anything else? A power users desktop, in my opinion, should be simple and elegant above all, for the rest, our unix nerdery should get us by. This is why I love gnome, and my mac.
I don't agree with every recent change in the UI for gnome, lack of tab completion in the file selector is heinous. However, the mac has two file selectors, but I leave the simple one on 99% of the time and just use hidden option #3, OS X's "open" command in the terminal.
Did you read the article?
For starters, it's titled "How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me."
Yes Ted Turner is easily the center of the evils he's complaining about . . . . but well, did anyone RTFA before bashing him?
Sure there's hypocrisy in Turner saying big media should be broken up, but he explains himself rather well. I admit I haven't even read the whole article yet. Maybe he's a little bit bitter (AOL), but he starts by explaining that he could never have gotten started in the current environment and then goes on to detail lots of real problems with the current media. Why can't he just be a very smart old man, who knows more about this topic than probably any of us, and is pissed because his industry is going to hell?
To everyone saying this will kill the independent distro, chill.
If you were going to make a new distro right now, in my opinion you'd be better off starting with Fedora or Progeny's Componetized Linux or vanilla Debian or something as it is, stand on some shoulders people. Linus and his crew produce a kernel, not an operating system, I'm sure they're doing this to produce the best kernel they can, not because they hate you.
Like other people said, 2.4 had so many changes go in during it's "stable" life, maybe their just trying to be realistic and make 2.6 actually be more stable than 2.4 this way?
Can a reverse firewall tell the difference between spam being sent out, and someone emailing his entire family with good news about his daughters report card?
If it can, I'll buy one for every member of my family.
OK, I'm done with this thread, but you did get that the parent is linking to that card? That card is what we've been talking about. Also, I can find "DVI Dual Link" all over, but haven't seen it with the DDL acronym once.
Someone linked to that card, said it stands for "Dual Data Link." It doesn't in that context at least, it stands for "Dual Dual Link."
I did a search on google for "DVI Dual Link DDL" to see if I could find any place that used DDL to mean that.
First thing I found, apple's page.
"Even better, with two connectors, or Dual Dual Link (DDL),"
here
In other news, SCO wins $699 from Satan, Lord of Lies.
Yep.