If Apple patent issues can be avoided, perhaps Gnome should default to a singular Mac-like global menu at the top? (menus in windows would still be available as an option)
I'm running a patched Gnome 1.4 with this setup right now. I'm not the author of the patches, but I've done a little integration work with them
(added them to the relevant Ximian source rpms) and I wrote the sawfish support that they currently need. The Gnome global menu uses the same window hints as KDE, so the global menu on Gnome apps will work fine under KDE and vice versa.
For those not willing to apply patches, Gnome will have an optional global menu (based pretty much on the same code, I think) in 2.0, which is unfortunately a long way off.
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BO actually COULD serve a legitimate purpose, but rootkits really don't. Their very existance gives script kiddies fuel they need without even the justification of providing a useful resource to someone else.
I'll grant that full rootkits don't have a legitimate purpose, but I think you have to treat published exploits separately. As a sysadmin, I often find them quite useful to test my systems to see if they are vulnerable to specific attacks. Often (because of local patches or details of installations) it's not possible to tell simply from a package's version number whether the version of a package we're running is actually vulnerable. A published exploit is also the easiest way to weed out false alarms, where a package is claimed to be vulnerable but isn't. (On the other hand, there's the problem of checking published exploits for trojans -- just because it's on a reputable mailing list like bugtraq doesn't mean it's safe to simply run it).
Of course, it can be argued that a published exploit should run 'id' with elevated privs rather than running 'sh'; then the truly clueless won't be able to use it for eee-ville.
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Re:Konqueror is good but it has its share of issue
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Will it be possible to turn off?
Yes; it's controlled by an environment variable,
just like antialiasing in QT.
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Re:Konqueror is good but it has its share of issue
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Konqueror is great, and web pages look terrific with anti aliasing is turned on. Galeon / moz can't do it as far as I know (may be with GTK 2?)
GTK+ 2 will have antialiasing in all apps, so
you can bet that Galeon will. I saw a bit of
talk on the Galeon development list about a
port to the GTK+ 2 beta, but I don't know if
anything will come of it quite yet. Mozilla
will have to also be ported to GTK 2 to get
antialiasing in the actual web pages.
If you're brave and you feel up to recompiling
gtk+, mozilla, and galeon, there are patches
available against gtk+ 1.2.9 or later and
mozilla 0.9 or later that provide antialiasing.
I've got galeon running with antialiased fonts
using this approach. The one caveat is that
some apps will break. Many of them
can be convinced to work by recompiling, some
of them (notably nautilus and xemacs-gtk-gnome)
can't. If you feel lucky, the patches are at
http://www.chez.com/alex9858/gtkaa/.
I'm not currently using them, because I need
xemacs-gtk-gnome and I like nautilus, but if
anyone's interested I can post source rpms and
i386 (rh6.x) rpms.
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Anthropology in the News has links to a lot more news stories on these findings. The BBC story is very short, but noteworthy for including a little bit of information on the dating methods used in the Australian case.
Anthropology in the News updates a lot and doesn't keep stuff on its front page for very long, so
for the sake of Slashdot's archives, I'm copying the links here.
If you want the twm look and feel, but with GNOME compliance, you can achieve it with sawfish. There are two twm themes at sawfish.themes.org.
Take a look at the screenshots and try one or both of them out.
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Have you been able to install PSM and Java under your home directory? I make nightly builds, and it's a pain to have to re-install such things every time I get a build I like well enough to use long enough to need them. A pointer to a HOWTO or something would be very handy! --
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Yes, but the idea is that to port to FreeBSD,
you don't have to port everything -- the needed
kernel support is abstracted into the module.
You should be able to rewrite the module for
FreeBSD, and recompile everything else more or
less out of the box.
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I played with reiserfs some recently, because
ext2's performance on directories with lots of
small files is a real problem where I work.
Reiserfs is lots faster, but there's one
show-stopper that means we won't be using it.
Reiserfs doesn't support quotas, which
limits its utility quite a bit.
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Ah, the old notion of CYA. What Censorware will allow the libraries to do is to transfer
blame to the censorware vendors (as long as the license agreements warrants this).
They can say, "Hey, we installed 'sufficient' safeguards for the purposes of filtering
that which some may find objectionable, so it's not our fault." This may be important
for a small community library, who can ill-afford lawsuits.
Hrm...looks like a business opportunity to
me. Make a null-filtering program that doesn't
actually do any filtering, but advertise it
as offering perfect 100% blocking of whatever
parents happen to want. Yes, this would be
fraudulent, but if your licenses were correctly
worded, DMCA and UCITA would guarantee that
proving that your software did nothing
would be illegal. Now let it out around the
librarians grapevine that your software lets
them meet legal requirements, protects them
from lawsuits, and doesn't put them in the
position of censoring anything, and watch
the money roll in.
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Apple is saying 'We don't agree with your putting up rumors, so we've
decided that unless you stop doing it, we cannot advertise with you anymore'. This is
called VOTING WITH YOUR MONEY.
And if Apple were to say, instead, "We don't
agree with the insufficiently worshipful tone
of your review of the 'snow' iMac, so we've
decided that unless all future reviews are at
least as positive as our press releases, we
cannot advertise with you anymore." that would
be fine, too? After all, this is essentially
what gives Microsoft editorial control over
Ziff-Davis publications.
It's time to put down your copy of Atlas
Shrugged and admit that some business
practices can be unethical, without involving
abuse of the courts or other government
intervention.
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You're totally missing the point of the original
article. The idea is not that computers should
not be made easy to use; it's that ease of use
should not be allowed to become (remain?)
something that is disempowering for users,
something that makes them dependent on something
they don't understand.
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I recommend qmail in its place. Using it, you can put all of your dialup user's ips. This is assuming that you are the one handing out IP's -- you will have a specific block of them, so you can force that you only relay from those hosts.
If you control your remote users IPs, you don't have a problem with any MTA. If you don't, then qmail is not going to solve this problem (alone). I administer a site running qmail with a lot of virtualdomains, and since we don't provide dialup access, all of our users are remote on untrusted IP's. We're probably going to go to with the POP-before-SMTP method, which can be done with more-or-less any combination of MTA's with a little scripting. The right thing to do is not to relay if you're not a dialup or bandwidth provider, but for business reasons, that option's not available to us. -- The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must cover Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
Yes, but that's not secure, since anyone can forge a From header (message or envelope). It might cut down on the amount of spam yourelay, but it won't keep you off ORBS. -- The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must cover Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
I'm interested in replies from anybody who has visited
mill's web page and thinks that his is a voice worth listening to on the subject of creating web pages.
I'm willing to say he is. Okay, the colour choices are pretty hideous, but take a look at the page in your fancy-schmancy browser with stylesheets turned on. Now look at it in your fancy-schmancy browser with stylesheets turned off. Now look at it in Lynx. Now look at the source.
Those floating yellow boxes with quotes in them are just <blockquote> elements. No layout is done on a per-quote basis. Compare that to trying to acheive the same thing with tables.
In short, this page rules, and has really made me rethink the viability of doing all of your page layout with CSS.
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Of couse the ACLU won on that, otherwise it would not have been mentioned on their website.
I don't know about the ACLU in particular, but I'm sure that many similar organizations post their prominent defeats as well. I know for a fact that People for the American Way does. Even taking a cynical view of it, they should do so in order to provoke outrage from their readers at the outcome and encourage them to send donations to prevent similar defeats in the future.
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Harvard entomologist James Wilson wrote in the late l970?s that no species, including the human one, has any real purpose beyond the imperatives created by its particular genetic history.
Who the hell is James Wilson? I'm pretty sure you mean E. O. Wilson, author of Sociobiology. And that's such a misleading and inaccurate summary of his thesis, I won't even go into it.
In response, I would say that a mechanistic understanding of human behavior is no barrier towards the search for enlightenment. Knowing what kind of animal you are is the first step to not whistling when you're pissing. Don't think with two minds when one is enough.
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Red Hat Linux followed NetWare in file performance overall and even outpaced the leader in file tests where the read/write loads were small. However, Linux did not perform well handling large loads - those tests in which there were more than 100 users. Under heavier user loads, Linux had a tendency to stop servicing file requests for a short period and then start up again.
This looks like Samba is being started from inetd, which by default limits connections to 40 per minute. Can someone verify that RedHat's Samba RPMs install Samba under inetd by default? If so, that's the cause of the problem right there. Samba can be run either from inetd or as a standalone daemon, but if you had a box up doing nothing but serving SMB, it would be silly to run it from inetd.
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That's not going to happen until linux 2.4 is out. There's USB support in the 2.3.x series, but you won't see USB in a distribution until it's in the stable kernel series.
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I'm not sure if Katz really gets Frankenstein, or if he's just repeating the pop picture of a man dabbling in ``things man was not meant to know.''
In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein's sin was to reject his creation when he saw what he had made. He was not wrong to create it in the first place. In a few passages, it seems like Katz is aware of this, but the fact that he has chosen Frankenstein as one of his catchwords for biological research tends to suggest that he isn't.
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Slashdot Mirror
I'm running a patched Gnome 1.4 with this setup right now. I'm not the author of the patches, but I've done a little integration work with them (added them to the relevant Ximian source rpms) and I wrote the sawfish support that they currently need. The Gnome global menu uses the same window hints as KDE, so the global menu on Gnome apps will work fine under KDE and vice versa.
For those not willing to apply patches, Gnome will have an optional global menu (based pretty much on the same code, I think) in 2.0, which is unfortunately a long way off.
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I'll grant that full rootkits don't have a legitimate purpose, but I think you have to treat published exploits separately. As a sysadmin, I often find them quite useful to test my systems to see if they are vulnerable to specific attacks. Often (because of local patches or details of installations) it's not possible to tell simply from a package's version number whether the version of a package we're running is actually vulnerable. A published exploit is also the easiest way to weed out false alarms, where a package is claimed to be vulnerable but isn't. (On the other hand, there's the problem of checking published exploits for trojans -- just because it's on a reputable mailing list like bugtraq doesn't mean it's safe to simply run it).
Of course, it can be argued that a published exploit should run 'id' with elevated privs rather than running 'sh'; then the truly clueless won't be able to use it for eee-ville.
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Yes; it's controlled by an environment variable, just like antialiasing in QT.
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Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
GTK+ 2 will have antialiasing in all apps, so you can bet that Galeon will. I saw a bit of talk on the Galeon development list about a port to the GTK+ 2 beta, but I don't know if anything will come of it quite yet. Mozilla will have to also be ported to GTK 2 to get antialiasing in the actual web pages.
If you're brave and you feel up to recompiling gtk+, mozilla, and galeon, there are patches available against gtk+ 1.2.9 or later and mozilla 0.9 or later that provide antialiasing. I've got galeon running with antialiased fonts using this approach. The one caveat is that some apps will break. Many of them can be convinced to work by recompiling, some of them (notably nautilus and xemacs-gtk-gnome) can't. If you feel lucky, the patches are at http://www.chez.com/alex9858/gtkaa/. I'm not currently using them, because I need xemacs-gtk-gnome and I like nautilus, but if anyone's interested I can post source rpms and i386 (rh6.x) rpms.
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Used to? He still does.
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Anthropology in the News has links to a lot more news stories on these findings. The BBC story is very short, but noteworthy for including a little bit of information on the dating methods used in the Australian case.
Anthropology in the News updates a lot and doesn't keep stuff on its front page for very long, so for the sake of Slashdot's archives, I'm copying the links here.
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Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
If you want the twm look and feel, but with GNOME compliance, you can achieve it with sawfish. There are two twm themes at sawfish.themes.org. Take a look at the screenshots and try one or both of them out.
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I will not buy this tobbaconist, it is scratched.
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Have you been able to install PSM and Java under your home directory? I make nightly builds, and it's a pain to have to re-install such things every time I get a build I like well enough to use long enough to need them. A pointer to a HOWTO or something would be very handy!
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Yes, but the idea is that to port to FreeBSD, you don't have to port everything -- the needed kernel support is abstracted into the module. You should be able to rewrite the module for FreeBSD, and recompile everything else more or less out of the box.
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In the interest of accuracy, here's the actual numbers:
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For the record:
$ lynx -head -dump http://www.votenader.org/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:10:50 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) AuthMySQL/2.20 PHP/4.0.0
Last-Modified: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:37:37 GMT
ETag: "1b057-3a06-39f074d1"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 14854
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
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I played with reiserfs some recently, because ext2's performance on directories with lots of small files is a real problem where I work. Reiserfs is lots faster, but there's one show-stopper that means we won't be using it. Reiserfs doesn't support quotas, which limits its utility quite a bit.
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Hrm...looks like a business opportunity to me. Make a null-filtering program that doesn't actually do any filtering, but advertise it as offering perfect 100% blocking of whatever parents happen to want. Yes, this would be fraudulent, but if your licenses were correctly worded, DMCA and UCITA would guarantee that proving that your software did nothing would be illegal. Now let it out around the librarians grapevine that your software lets them meet legal requirements, protects them from lawsuits, and doesn't put them in the position of censoring anything, and watch the money roll in.
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Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
And if Apple were to say, instead, "We don't agree with the insufficiently worshipful tone of your review of the 'snow' iMac, so we've decided that unless all future reviews are at least as positive as our press releases, we cannot advertise with you anymore." that would be fine, too? After all, this is essentially what gives Microsoft editorial control over Ziff-Davis publications.
It's time to put down your copy of Atlas Shrugged and admit that some business practices can be unethical, without involving abuse of the courts or other government intervention.
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I thought someone already did this, posting enough links on /. that goatse.cx became the
number one response for searches on "natalie
portman grits"
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You're totally missing the point of the original article. The idea is not that computers should not be made easy to use; it's that ease of use should not be allowed to become (remain?) something that is disempowering for users, something that makes them dependent on something they don't understand.
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Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
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Yes, but that's not secure, since anyone can forge a From header (message or envelope). It might cut down on the amount of spam yourelay, but it won't keep you off ORBS.
--
The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must cover
Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
I'm willing to say he is. Okay, the colour choices are pretty hideous, but take a look at the page in your fancy-schmancy browser with stylesheets turned on. Now look at it in your fancy-schmancy browser with stylesheets turned off. Now look at it in Lynx. Now look at the source.
Those floating yellow boxes with quotes in them are just <blockquote> elements. No layout is done on a per-quote basis. Compare that to trying to acheive the same thing with tables.
In short, this page rules, and has really made me rethink the viability of doing all of your page layout with CSS.
--
The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must cover
Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
I don't know about the ACLU in particular, but I'm sure that many similar organizations post their prominent defeats as well. I know for a fact that People for the American Way does. Even taking a cynical view of it, they should do so in order to provoke outrage from their readers at the outcome and encourage them to send donations to prevent similar defeats in the future.
--
The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must cover
Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
Who the hell is James Wilson? I'm pretty sure you mean E. O. Wilson, author of Sociobiology. And that's such a misleading and inaccurate summary of his thesis, I won't even go into it.
In response, I would say that a mechanistic understanding of human behavior is no barrier towards the search for enlightenment. Knowing what kind of animal you are is the first step to not whistling when you're pissing. Don't think with two minds when one is enough.
--
The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must cover
Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
This bit makes me think ...
This looks like Samba is being started from inetd, which by default limits connections to 40 per minute. Can someone verify that RedHat's Samba RPMs install Samba under inetd by default? If so, that's the cause of the problem right there. Samba can be run either from inetd or as a standalone daemon, but if you had a box up doing nothing but serving SMB, it would be silly to run it from inetd.
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That's not going to happen until linux 2.4 is out. There's USB support in the 2.3.x series, but you won't see USB in a distribution until it's in the stable kernel series.
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The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must cover
Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)
I'm not sure if Katz really gets Frankenstein, or if he's just repeating the pop picture of a man dabbling in ``things man was not meant to know.''
In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein's sin was to reject his creation when he saw what he had made. He was not wrong to create it in the first place. In a few passages, it seems like Katz is aware of this, but the fact that he has chosen Frankenstein as one of his catchwords for biological research tends to suggest that he isn't.
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Yhtill forever. (R. W. Chambers, the King in Yellow)