ICANN is useless - if you get a domain name stolen or some crooked registrar like DomainMonkeys/TotalNIC locks your domain name, then ICANN are no help unless you pay them $7000 to "asses the situation" (i.e. that 7k does not guarantee your domain back).
If ICANN can't remove a crooked registrar's accreditation or get back stolen domains for you, what use are they?
As a charitable organisation, they seem pretty good at taking your money for doing nothing....
I think you hit the nail on the head there - the GUI's for the scanner programs probably were written for Win 3.1, then the backend drivers updated for Win32 (although usually you will find that they're only drivers for '98/NT4, that just happen to work with ME/2000/XP!)
I've only used GAIM with the classic (2000) styled XP, so haven't noticed the difference, but the menus certainly look weird - more like the Win2003 style, but not quite!
As far as wxWidgets goes, I've only really used the Python implementation, but the thing I hate the most is that you basically have to code it just like C++, it's not at all Pythonic - widget IDs are just one example.
The wx.GridSizer (not Matrix) is not as nice as Qt's "layout in grid", in fact it's usually better to make a "grid" out of multiple rows of horizontal wx.BoxSizers!
I've used Qt in C++, and it was pretty nice, even easier than WinForms in C#
Why do all scanner programs look like they've been written by some 4 year old from Taiwan? All of them - Lexmark, Epson, Canon - they all use stupid bitmap buttons and non-standard widgets (like Adobe).
As far as wimp-themed GTK goes, have a look at GAIM for Windows, that's what it uses, looks alright to me. However if you look at Ethereal for Windows, it's a joke, looks just like it does under Linux - which is really odd under Windows!
Personally I've come across the problem of wxWidgets being too limited BECAUSE it uses Windows native widgets - like no way to put other widgets inside a ListCtrl or AboutDialogs being centered to the screen inside of the parent window....
I also am fed up with the spacer/sizer methods in wxWidgets, the way Qt does it seems so much better (but aren't they the same?!) or maybe it's just QtDesigner is much more intuitive than wxDesigner, BoaConstructor, VisualWX et al.
I'm switching from wxPython to PyQt for my next project.
Personally I'm going to make the switch from wxPython for me upcoming project, by the time it's finished, we should have a way to run it on Windows (as well as Linux that I shall develop it on).
I've been using rusko.us for the last couple of years - I get way too much bandwidth and 2.5Gb of space (of which I use about a quarter!) for 300usd a year.
The problems I keep seeing are:
1. it's a shared server, and spammers keep getting our IP blacklisted;
2. the spam filtering is really hosing the machine's performance;
3. the DNS is on the same machine as the web/Email etc; so if the machine is down, you can't even resolve my domains, so Email bounces;
I used to use DSVR in the UK, they were the opposite - great reliabiity, but very expensive (300ukp for 300Mb) and would charge you for every little thing - adding domains, new IP, SSL setup etc.
I'm leaning towards just getting Godaddy to do my DNS (that's where I buy my domains) and co-locate a box on work's T1 (I currently have a machine on my DSL, but that doesn't have fixed IP or do Email).
I want to do something similar using my old PIII/500 laptop, that currently runs Fedora3.
I'm planning to plug it's headphone out into my hifi and run some sort of web application that allows machines to connect to it remotely and control what's playing.
I'd really prefer to just let the clients tell the server what to play rather than the server stream the file to the clients to play themselves. I figure that way, the only ethernet traffic is small HTTP requests, rather than whole MP3 files, much better for 802.11b.
Isn't there just a software system that could do this - maybe even something as simple as a web interface for XMMS?!
I'd rather not go the VNC route either.
I could write the web frontend and probably a client/server system myself, but what would the backend be - mpg123 is a bit crap, do XMMS/MPlayer/Xine have any kind of console mode?
I hate to say it, but after some experimentation transcoding movies on Linux and Windows, I have to say that the WMV9 format kicks the arse of XviD (QuickTime is a joke) in terms of quality and filesize.
One example that floored me was a DV AVI that I converted to WMV9, it came out as a lovely looking 700Kb file.
Converting the same AVI to XviD came out as an artifact-filled 5Mb file (looked like a VCD MPEG) and took twice as long to encode.
I just don't understand how WMV9 was faster, looked better and was smaller by so much (plus I don't have to tell my friends to go search for a Windows binary of XviD).
1. Micro-manager: wants to know everything you do, to the degree where you have to send weekly emails explaining what you've done this week, and what you plan to do next week. This goes on top of project plans and meetings.
Very bad for morale, shows lack of trust, wastes time. Generally is a "company man", not at all technical. Always going on about teamwork.
2. Hands-off: just lets you get on with it, which is generally OK if there's plenty to do, but when there is not much to do, it's boring and eventually the boss will come to think of you as surplus, as he sees no evidence of you doing any work (yeah those products just magically write themselves!)
3. Geek-now-manager: has no clue how to manage people, ends up being a strange mixture of the above two due to trying to fit in with the geeks, whilst mixing with management. Generally will lose all geek skills due to being out of touch. Forgets even the syntax of the 'route' command.
Higher management blame geeks for the lack of progress, when in reality it's the geek-now-manager's fault for not managing. Geeks resent geek-now-manager for being no help to them (and earning more) and not sticking up for them to management.
I wish I didn't skip class so much during 6th form college (16-18, dunno what the US equivalent is). I made some bad choices - didn't like the classes I chose, did the self-taught-because-we-don't-have-enough-teachers classes, ended up doing 5 classes instead of the average 3.5, doing 2 years of Electronics class in 6 months etc....
I ended up getting all E's and F's, coming from an average B at high school. I worked hard at high school, I enjoyed it, I wish I'd gotten off with more girls;-)
I loved university, it was the best 3 years of my life, I also wish I'd given an extra 10% effort in the final year to get the 2.1 instead of the 2.2+
Don't let people tell you what you want to do (like parents, careers councilors etc.) as it's *essential* you enjoy what you're doing, or you won't succeed.
Yeah no shit, why would you agree to outsource to someone who hides the source from you - that's just asking for them to rip you off and hold you to ransom for future bugfixes.
MS have the money, instead of wasting it trying to do what Spybot S&D and Adaware haven't managed to do in years, why don't they just buy up and close down some spyware companies - that's what they usually do to threats.....
Personally I hope this product doesn't work, as Spyware/viruses are currently the main reason people I know are moving from Windows to Linux.
My main personal project is at a standstill for now until I can figure out how to make my own wxWidgets widgets and wxPython wrapper.
I basically need a way of putting a checkbox into the last column of a wxListCtrl, kinda like a ColumnSorterMixin in the wxDemo, but I need a checkbox widget, not just a bitmap.
If anyone knows how to do this, it would mean I could do a lot more development (maybe even finish) my cross-platform Livejournal client.
Where I used to work, the decision was to go with Qt for all C++ GUI work, mainly because of lack of widgets in GTK+ and wxWindows as it then was known, plus it's easy to make your own custom widgets in QtDesigner.
My Perl ethereal clone is coming along nicely, I would convert it to Python, but don't have time to research libpcap support.
Just this week I was reading about how spyware authors are fighting against each other, and now Google and Yahoo are doing it!
I won't even install the Google Toolbar, there's NO WAY I'm installing something that searches my hard disk and feeds the results *via a remote server* to my browser!
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ICANN is useless - if you get a domain name stolen or some crooked registrar like DomainMonkeys/TotalNIC locks your domain name, then ICANN are no help unless you pay them $7000 to "asses the situation" (i.e. that 7k does not guarantee your domain back).
If ICANN can't remove a crooked registrar's accreditation or get back stolen domains for you, what use are they?
As a charitable organisation, they seem pretty good at taking your money for doing nothing....
I think you hit the nail on the head there - the GUI's for the scanner programs probably were written for Win 3.1, then the backend drivers updated for Win32 (although usually you will find that they're only drivers for '98/NT4, that just happen to work with ME/2000/XP!)
I've only used GAIM with the classic (2000) styled XP, so haven't noticed the difference, but the menus certainly look weird - more like the Win2003 style, but not quite!
As far as wxWidgets goes, I've only really used the Python implementation, but the thing I hate the most is that you basically have to code it just like C++, it's not at all Pythonic - widget IDs are just one example.
The wx.GridSizer (not Matrix) is not as nice as Qt's "layout in grid", in fact it's usually better to make a "grid" out of multiple rows of horizontal wx.BoxSizers!
I've used Qt in C++, and it was pretty nice, even easier than WinForms in C#
Why do all scanner programs look like they've been written by some 4 year old from Taiwan? All of them - Lexmark, Epson, Canon - they all use stupid bitmap buttons and non-standard widgets (like Adobe).
As far as wimp-themed GTK goes, have a look at GAIM for Windows, that's what it uses, looks alright to me. However if you look at Ethereal for Windows, it's a joke, looks just like it does under Linux - which is really odd under Windows!
Personally I've come across the problem of wxWidgets being too limited BECAUSE it uses Windows native widgets - like no way to put other widgets inside a ListCtrl or AboutDialogs being centered to the screen inside of the parent window....
I also am fed up with the spacer/sizer methods in wxWidgets, the way Qt does it seems so much better (but aren't they the same?!) or maybe it's just QtDesigner is much more intuitive than wxDesigner, BoaConstructor, VisualWX et al.
I'm switching from wxPython to PyQt for my next project.
Riverbank say they will do a GPL Windows version, although it may take some time to get to Qt4....
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http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/pipermail/pykde/2
Personally I'm going to make the switch from wxPython for me upcoming project, by the time it's finished, we should have a way to run it on Windows (as well as Linux that I shall develop it on).
I've been using rusko.us for the last couple of years - I get way too much bandwidth and 2.5Gb of space (of which I use about a quarter!) for 300usd a year.
The problems I keep seeing are:
1. it's a shared server, and spammers keep getting our IP blacklisted;
2. the spam filtering is really hosing the machine's performance;
3. the DNS is on the same machine as the web/Email etc; so if the machine is down, you can't even resolve my domains, so Email bounces;
I used to use DSVR in the UK, they were the opposite - great reliabiity, but very expensive (300ukp for 300Mb) and would charge you for every little thing - adding domains, new IP, SSL setup etc.
I'm leaning towards just getting Godaddy to do my DNS (that's where I buy my domains) and co-locate a box on work's T1 (I currently have a machine on my DSL, but that doesn't have fixed IP or do Email).
I want to do something similar using my old PIII/500 laptop, that currently runs Fedora3.
I'm planning to plug it's headphone out into my hifi and run some sort of web application that allows machines to connect to it remotely and control what's playing.
I'd really prefer to just let the clients tell the server what to play rather than the server stream the file to the clients to play themselves. I figure that way, the only ethernet traffic is small HTTP requests, rather than whole MP3 files, much better for 802.11b.
Isn't there just a software system that could do this - maybe even something as simple as a web interface for XMMS?!
I'd rather not go the VNC route either.
I could write the web frontend and probably a client/server system myself, but what would the backend be - mpg123 is a bit crap, do XMMS/MPlayer/Xine have any kind of console mode?
I hate to say it, but after some experimentation transcoding movies on Linux and Windows, I have to say that the WMV9 format kicks the arse of XviD (QuickTime is a joke) in terms of quality and filesize.
One example that floored me was a DV AVI that I converted to WMV9, it came out as a lovely looking 700Kb file.
Converting the same AVI to XviD came out as an artifact-filled 5Mb file (looked like a VCD MPEG) and took twice as long to encode.
I just don't understand how WMV9 was faster, looked better and was smaller by so much (plus I don't have to tell my friends to go search for a Windows binary of XviD).
I've seen three management types in my time:
1. Micro-manager:
wants to know everything you do, to the degree where you have to send weekly emails explaining what you've done this week, and what you plan to do next week. This goes on top of project plans and meetings.
Very bad for morale, shows lack of trust, wastes time. Generally is a "company man", not at all technical. Always going on about teamwork.
2. Hands-off:
just lets you get on with it, which is generally OK if there's plenty to do, but when there is not much to do, it's boring and eventually the boss will come to think of you as surplus, as he sees no evidence of you doing any work (yeah those products just magically write themselves!)
3. Geek-now-manager:
has no clue how to manage people, ends up being a strange mixture of the above two due to trying to fit in with the geeks, whilst mixing with management. Generally will lose all geek skills due to being out of touch. Forgets even the syntax of the 'route' command.
Higher management blame geeks for the lack of progress, when in reality it's the geek-now-manager's fault for not managing. Geeks resent geek-now-manager for being no help to them (and earning more) and not sticking up for them to management.
...to a beautiful woman:
You let her know who's in control, make her really work for it, then fuck her in the arse!
I wish I didn't skip class so much during 6th form college (16-18, dunno what the US equivalent is). I made some bad choices - didn't like the classes I chose, did the self-taught-because-we-don't-have-enough-teachers classes, ended up doing 5 classes instead of the average 3.5, doing 2 years of Electronics class in 6 months etc....
;-)
I ended up getting all E's and F's, coming from an average B at high school. I worked hard at high school, I enjoyed it, I wish I'd gotten off with more girls
I loved university, it was the best 3 years of my life, I also wish I'd given an extra 10% effort in the final year to get the 2.1 instead of the 2.2+
Don't let people tell you what you want to do (like parents, careers councilors etc.) as it's *essential* you enjoy what you're doing, or you won't succeed.
...for April Fools guys.
Is it me, or are some of those LJ users' expressions of thanks just a bit OTT?
The way the comments go, you'd think this was a life support system or something!
I mean, well done for getting the site back up after like 24 hours or something, but hey I'm not creaming my shorts over it!
Yeah no shit, why would you agree to outsource to someone who hides the source from you - that's just asking for them to rip you off and hold you to ransom for future bugfixes.
Sorry mate, but you're a fucking idiot!
No, Mr Comcast, I'm not running a website on my cable, it's just my firewall isn't very good, so it seems to be exposing port 80 on my PC...
;-)
So sorry
Personally I think OO.org is much better than OfficeXP under Crossover, maybe not better than OfficeXP under WindowsXP, but Crossover Pro 4.1 is crap.
2. is actually a good question - can I install this, get rid of any spyware, then uninstall it?
that would make a great rescue cd addition....
another question - does it prevent wmp10 sending all your listening habits/licenses to microsoft?
MS have the money, instead of wasting it trying to do what Spybot S&D and Adaware haven't managed to do in years, why don't they just buy up and close down some spyware companies - that's what they usually do to threats.....
Personally I hope this product doesn't work, as Spyware/viruses are currently the main reason people I know are moving from Windows to Linux.
This is why I don't bother with offline magazines anymore, by the time you read them, they're already a month behind the internet!
It's also some bloody ugly Python code - which is quite an accomplishment seeing how beautiful Python code looks (when compared to Java/Perl).
"It also has 256MB of internal memory and stores up to 1500 images."
My 2MP camera makes JPEGs of over 400K, so that makes around 500 images on a 256Mb card (I have one).
So are they refering to 1500 Webcam-style VGA images?
http://www.livejournal.org/download/code/
If 6A screw it up, we just make our own!
He, maybe my LJ client will never get finished now, they'll probably shut down the API.
My main personal project is at a standstill for now until I can figure out how to make my own wxWidgets widgets and wxPython wrapper.
I basically need a way of putting a checkbox into the last column of a wxListCtrl, kinda like a ColumnSorterMixin in the wxDemo, but I need a checkbox widget, not just a bitmap.
If anyone knows how to do this, it would mean I could do a lot more development (maybe even finish) my cross-platform Livejournal client.
Where I used to work, the decision was to go with Qt for all C++ GUI work, mainly because of lack of widgets in GTK+ and wxWindows as it then was known, plus it's easy to make your own custom widgets in QtDesigner.
My Perl ethereal clone is coming along nicely, I would convert it to Python, but don't have time to research libpcap support.
So Symantec are now the MS of the security world?
;-)
They just bought Powerquest to put their Drive Image 7 functionality into Ghost 9, after killing DI at 7.03 (Powerquest was at 7.01)
Acronis had better watch out next or it won't make v9
Then who's left? The author(s) of dd/parted?
It's "let alone" not "little lone".
And yeah, I agree with you about the iPod only playing [broken] AAC and MP3 and still selling well (to Joe AOL).
The Rio Karma is a horrible device IMHO, but it plays FLAC, WAV, MP3, Ogg, WMA.....
People write these things as it means the can insert their own adware and spyware and direct your searches towards sites that pay them.
Gullable people will install them as they are marketted - I doubt most people who install this crap even know the Explorer has a search function....
Just this week I was reading about how spyware authors are fighting against each other, and now Google and Yahoo are doing it!
I won't even install the Google Toolbar, there's NO WAY I'm installing something that searches my hard disk and feeds the results *via a remote server* to my browser!
What's wrong with find . -name '*pr0n*' ?