We've already started, and have a basic setup going with python, but it's extremely volatile and will likely change alot before it ever gets to a release-able state. If he's alive then he has a funny way of showing it, a lot of people in #waimea have emailed him, and in recent weeks/months, people have stopped getting responses. He hasn't updated the website since last december, and he doesn't even use CVS how it's supposed to be. As far as we can tell, he is determined to be the single member of the Waimea development community, and that sucks.
BTW, some of the code is good, but some of it is really bad. Just the command line argument parsing was a thorn's nest (although trivial to fix), there are gargantuan methods going up to 600 lines in places. This is the type of stuff we want to get OUT of c++ and let a scripting language do. Parsing text files in c++ is "teh suck".
BTW, anyone interested, please feel free to stop by #kahakai on irc.freenode.net.:)
What is wrong with icons? Really.. icons are a perfectly good way to launch applications that you use often. The desktop isn't doing anything else, so why not put some icons on there.
What sense does it make to put icons in a place where they will just get covered up by windows? I have never understood or liked icons myself.
Whats up with 1px borders? Those must be easy to grab onto and manipulate at high resolutions.. oh yeah you can use the keyboard. Whats the point of having borders that you can manipulate if you can't really do anything with out using the keyboard.
AFAIK, a long time ago, Enlightenment introduced this nifty feature, where you could alt+drag or alt+right drag to resize windows. Since then, essentially all window managers have picked that up. If you've read about fitt's law then you would know that window titlebars are a pretty damn bad design. They're maybe, oh, 15 pixels tall? Why would you want to try to peck at a 15 pixel tall bar when you could just slap alt and grab the window anywhere? That's how I do it nowadays, probably 95% of the time. About the only reason I don't nuke all titlebars altogether is the fact that I sometimes like to see the name of a window.
I prefer using key and mouse bindings _I_ like, not the ones that the would-be-god-of-interaction who codes my window manager likes. Waimea is the best one I've found in this respect, and now, after the author has seemed to disappear, we have forked it, planning to add a mechanism to script it with any scripting language, to make it more hackable than any other wm. That's what's important to me, hackability. AFAIK EvilWM only lets you assign key bindings to control-alt combinations, and doesn't let you configure mouse bindings whatosever. I'll pass.
What's next? demanding a seperate phone circuit for every person in a country/city/area?
More like one address for every person. I don't think ipv6 entails giving everyone their own t1 circuit or whatever. So that would be like one phone number per person, and these days, many people have more than one phone. So your analogy sucks (as does my explanation after re-reading it, oh well...)
And you do know the phrase "To literal minded to get the joke", don't you?
Sheesh, lighten up...
I'm well aware it was a joke, I was just pointing out a little bit of info that alot of people have misconceptions about. Maybe you should lighten up : )
I'm pretty sure you'd have to find an insane magnet to do any harm. You do know that there are super-strong magnets right *inside* of the drive, don't you?
Yeah, Soulseek! Even for free, it rocks, lots of obscure stuff, even some ebooks, movies, etc. The reliability of downloads is awesome compared to alot of other p2p apps, and for every $5 you donate, you get a month of priority downloads - that is, you get bumped straight to the front of queues. It's also cool because it's a little more people-centric and friendly, not like alot of p2p apps where you're just downloading from user3423523661@kazaa.com or whatever. It runs on unix, mac, and windows too (the python client should run damn near anywhere).
Anyways, not trying to be OT, but for those people who aren't sympathetic to the twisted billionaire fuckfaces at RIAA et al, it's a great thing.
Eh, I have a 85MB table. Not that it's anything heavy duty, just an apache access_log in database form, very fun for figuring out all kinds of neat statistics. Much more flexible, and much faster, than parsing a 98MB access_log. And this is only for my personal site, which is a little over a year old. 650MB? Bah. : )
I have never met a self-taught person who has done an order analysis of an algorithm or searched for an optimal mechanism to implement beyond the obvious.
This is a good point. When you are self-taught, you aren't "forced" to learn the seemingly more mundane underpinnings of the "science" part of computer science. The great thing, though, is that after you do know this stuff, it actually helps you design more intelligently. Not that I would know though, I've barely stepped foot in a college, much less attended one. : )
Personally I think I'm in the middle. I've been self taught, and will remain to learn stuff on my own, but I also want to go to college and learn the science-ey stuff.
Windows 98 doesn't come with it because Windows 98 generally doesn't "come" at all anymore, it's 5+ years old. How can you complain about something that old, and fault it for something that was fairly new at tha time? Maybe I should go complain to GM about my 79 buick not having airbags and anti-lock breaks. Yeesh..
Yep, I was considering an ITX machine but decided on a Tualeron+micro atx motherboard. Bigger, yes, but much more powerful, and perhaps a tad cheaper depending on what models you're looking at and whatnot.
I think you miss the point. People are getting sued for putting up websites that say bad things about other companies. They're getting sued for writing search engine software. They're getting sued for, as he pointed out, registering domains for their own personal family names.
As annoying as this is, the same situation is true in real life as well as the internet. I don't see it as being an internet-specific problem whatsoever (but yeah, it's definitely a problem).
You don't get any spam - I hope you realize that you're a part of a very small minority
The odd thing is - you can find my email address (in un-obfuscated form, food for web spiders essentially) on google, yet I never get spam. The only thing I could think of is that maybe the spammers disregard me since my mail server is running on a residential cable ip block. But then again, if that were the case, you'd figure my ip range would also be on blacklists - yet I have no problems whatsoever communicating with the world.
(you may also want to contact your MX admin, the mail server could just be down;) ).
I'm on a few mailing lists, so even if I ever do start getting a bunch of spam, it won't seem quite as severe is it does to people who don't use email much, in comparison to the amount of mail I get as it is. : )
And then there is the issue that I've seen a few people bring up - it's not THAT hard to just delete them. Certainly it's easier than having to actually deal with extra crap via snail mail that you actually have to physically throw away, not to mention being a complete waste of paper and postage.
Consider that half the people I know are now afraid to put up websites for fear that if they link to somone or say the wrong thing online, they will get sued.
Such as? DeCSS? Warez? Mp3s? There aren't a whole lot of things that are potentially illegal to link to, and the few that are, are well known by everyone (and no one has all that much of an urge to link to them).
Thanks to spam, email has become near-useless
Kinda funny. First off, it's easy to protect against spam. Second, just because you have a bunch of spam doesn't mean that all of a sudden all other email is just worthless. I use email for a few different very useful things every day. FWIW, I don't even have any spam protection, yet I never get spam.
And if the internet died a long time ago, then how/why are you here? You are too alarmist for your own good.
Livin' with mama does most of it. I have a car, in fact a gas guzzler at that, but it's paid. The only bill I have is for internet access, and other than that, it's just gas and food, everything else is extra.
On a somewhat irrelevant note, I take home about $140 a week (20 hours though, not 40) being a DEVELOPER! (and mini-sysadmin, and other misc things). Heh, but I am young and unexperienced so I honestly don't feel like I'm getting screwed. And I actually have a bunch of money saved up, money in my wallet, and I haven't even cashed this weeks' check. Amazing what happens when you quit buying junk all of the time:)
I remember hearing about Steve Gibson's rant but I never read it (he annoys me), I only recently learned a tiny bit about raw sockets thanks to someone on my LUG's mailing list. (in fact here is the exact message)
Access to raw sockets allows people to do all kinds of nasty things, things that affect much more than just the compromised machine in question, and things that could very well cause lots of problems on a cable network.
...Things that I can't be specific about because I don't really know : P
I'm sure someone can chime in and describe just what can be done.
Was about to mention xenogears but I did a control+F first and it's not surprising someone already mentioned it. Definitely an AMAZING game. Final Fantasy 4, 6, 7, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Suikoden, Parasite Eve, Saga Frontier 2, Final Fantasy Tactics.. These are games (and there are others, but these are the ones that I liked enough to keep around to this day) that I have played starting in around 3rd grade, all the way up through a year or two ago. Needless to say, playing all of those plot-driven games for my entire childhoood definitely had a huge effect on me.
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We've already started, and have a basic setup going with python, but it's extremely volatile and will likely change alot before it ever gets to a release-able state. If he's alive then he has a funny way of showing it, a lot of people in #waimea have emailed him, and in recent weeks/months, people have stopped getting responses. He hasn't updated the website since last december, and he doesn't even use CVS how it's supposed to be. As far as we can tell, he is determined to be the single member of the Waimea development community, and that sucks.
:)
BTW, some of the code is good, but some of it is really bad. Just the command line argument parsing was a thorn's nest (although trivial to fix), there are gargantuan methods going up to 600 lines in places. This is the type of stuff we want to get OUT of c++ and let a scripting language do. Parsing text files in c++ is "teh suck".
BTW, anyone interested, please feel free to stop by #kahakai on irc.freenode.net.
All modern (and even not so modern) window managers have alt+drag.
What sense does it make to put icons in a place where they will just get covered up by windows? I have never understood or liked icons myself.
AFAIK, a long time ago, Enlightenment introduced this nifty feature, where you could alt+drag or alt+right drag to resize windows. Since then, essentially all window managers have picked that up. If you've read about fitt's law then you would know that window titlebars are a pretty damn bad design. They're maybe, oh, 15 pixels tall? Why would you want to try to peck at a 15 pixel tall bar when you could just slap alt and grab the window anywhere? That's how I do it nowadays, probably 95% of the time. About the only reason I don't nuke all titlebars altogether is the fact that I sometimes like to see the name of a window.
I prefer using key and mouse bindings _I_ like, not the ones that the would-be-god-of-interaction who codes my window manager likes. Waimea is the best one I've found in this respect, and now, after the author has seemed to disappear, we have forked it, planning to add a mechanism to script it with any scripting language, to make it more hackable than any other wm. That's what's important to me, hackability. AFAIK EvilWM only lets you assign key bindings to control-alt combinations, and doesn't let you configure mouse bindings whatosever. I'll pass.
More like one address for every person. I don't think ipv6 entails giving everyone their own t1 circuit or whatever. So that would be like one phone number per person, and these days, many people have more than one phone. So your analogy sucks (as does my explanation after re-reading it, oh well...)
I'm well aware it was a joke, I was just pointing out a little bit of info that alot of people have misconceptions about. Maybe you should lighten up : )
I'm pretty sure you'd have to find an insane magnet to do any harm. You do know that there are super-strong magnets right *inside* of the drive, don't you?
I've heard lots of people mention this, but it seems some keyboards don't survive. Washer beware.
Cool, didn't know about cruft. Try "debfoster" too, helps you get rid of all of that crap you installed on a whim and don't use anymore.
Anyways, not trying to be OT, but for those people who aren't sympathetic to the twisted billionaire fuckfaces at RIAA et al, it's a great thing.
Eh, I have a 85MB table. Not that it's anything heavy duty, just an apache access_log in database form, very fun for figuring out all kinds of neat statistics. Much more flexible, and much faster, than parsing a 98MB access_log. And this is only for my personal site, which is a little over a year old. 650MB? Bah. : )
This is a good point. When you are self-taught, you aren't "forced" to learn the seemingly more mundane underpinnings of the "science" part of computer science. The great thing, though, is that after you do know this stuff, it actually helps you design more intelligently. Not that I would know though, I've barely stepped foot in a college, much less attended one. : )
Personally I think I'm in the middle. I've been self taught, and will remain to learn stuff on my own, but I also want to go to college and learn the science-ey stuff.
Windows 98 doesn't come with it because Windows 98 generally doesn't "come" at all anymore, it's 5+ years old. How can you complain about something that old, and fault it for something that was fairly new at tha time? Maybe I should go complain to GM about my 79 buick not having airbags and anti-lock breaks. Yeesh..
Yep, I was considering an ITX machine but decided on a Tualeron+micro atx motherboard. Bigger, yes, but much more powerful, and perhaps a tad cheaper depending on what models you're looking at and whatnot.
Bah, should have done a left join ;)
As annoying as this is, the same situation is true in real life as well as the internet. I don't see it as being an internet-specific problem whatsoever (but yeah, it's definitely a problem).
The odd thing is - you can find my email address (in un-obfuscated form, food for web spiders essentially) on google, yet I never get spam. The only thing I could think of is that maybe the spammers disregard me since my mail server is running on a residential cable ip block. But then again, if that were the case, you'd figure my ip range would also be on blacklists - yet I have no problems whatsoever communicating with the world.
I'm on a few mailing lists, so even if I ever do start getting a bunch of spam, it won't seem quite as severe is it does to people who don't use email much, in comparison to the amount of mail I get as it is. : )
And then there is the issue that I've seen a few people bring up - it's not THAT hard to just delete them. Certainly it's easier than having to actually deal with extra crap via snail mail that you actually have to physically throw away, not to mention being a complete waste of paper and postage.
Such as? DeCSS? Warez? Mp3s? There aren't a whole lot of things that are potentially illegal to link to, and the few that are, are well known by everyone (and no one has all that much of an urge to link to them).
Kinda funny. First off, it's easy to protect against spam. Second, just because you have a bunch of spam doesn't mean that all of a sudden all other email is just worthless. I use email for a few different very useful things every day. FWIW, I don't even have any spam protection, yet I never get spam.
And if the internet died a long time ago, then how/why are you here? You are too alarmist for your own good.
This is slashdot, remember? Such logic does not exist here. But linux rulez dude! Go GPL!
Are you saying that this OS has cd burning capabilities?
Livin' with mama does most of it. I have a car, in fact a gas guzzler at that, but it's paid. The only bill I have is for internet access, and other than that, it's just gas and food, everything else is extra.
On a somewhat irrelevant note, I take home about $140 a week (20 hours though, not 40) being a DEVELOPER! (and mini-sysadmin, and other misc things). Heh, but I am young and unexperienced so I honestly don't feel like I'm getting screwed. And I actually have a bunch of money saved up, money in my wallet, and I haven't even cashed this weeks' check. Amazing what happens when you quit buying junk all of the time :)
I remember hearing about Steve Gibson's rant but I never read it (he annoys me), I only recently learned a tiny bit about raw sockets thanks to someone on my LUG's mailing list. (in fact here is the exact message)
...Things that I can't be specific about because I don't really know : P
I'm sure someone can chime in and describe just what can be done.
Was about to mention xenogears but I did a control+F first and it's not surprising someone already mentioned it. Definitely an AMAZING game. Final Fantasy 4, 6, 7, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Suikoden, Parasite Eve, Saga Frontier 2, Final Fantasy Tactics.. These are games (and there are others, but these are the ones that I liked enough to keep around to this day) that I have played starting in around 3rd grade, all the way up through a year or two ago. Needless to say, playing all of those plot-driven games for my entire childhoood definitely had a huge effect on me.
:)
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GTK and QT are both a PITA if you ask me. Hopefully GTK3 is a big improvement. Anyone know when .debs will be available?