As I said perviously, the shortcuts are consistant throughout the Gnome environment except in the case of gnome-terminal. I think anyone clever enough to use the terminal would not begrudge this minor inconsistency.
I use the X11 clipboard, rather than the mouse-controlled primary selection buffer, for two reasons: my hand is always on the keyboard, and I want to copy text to the clipboard independent of whatever I have in the primary selection buffer.
On the topic of using Alt as the default shortcut modifier, I agree with you. However it's too late to change all our old applications now, and if a migration started no doubt you would point to it as further examples of inconsistency.:)
As I said before, the only real problems with the X11 clipboard is that it is crap: it only deals with text, and the clipboard contents are lost when the process that owns them disconnects from the X server.
Keyboard shortcuts seem pretty consistant on my platform (Gnome). Ctrl-C copies, Ctrl-V pastes. The one exception is in gnome-terminal, where it's Ctrl-Shift-[CV], for the perfectly reasonable that Ctrl-C clashes with the command to interrupt the foreground program in the terminal.
You are addressing the wrong problem. Users can deal with keyboard shortcuts being different accross platforms.
Call me back when I can copy an image from Mozilla and paste it into the Gimp; or copy some spreadsheet cells from Gnumeric and paste them into an Openoffice.org Writer or Calc document.
The problem with the X11 clipboard is that it only deals in text. Of course, I'm sure if I was to turn to chapter 34.1.5 section 7.12.5.3a32-4.5.2 of the ICCCM, I would find an insanely complicated and obsolete explanation of how I should use the clipboard for things other than text, if I was writing an app 20 years ago...
But today, and the forseeable future, X11 apps--the apps Joe Luser runs under GNU/Linux--are text-only.
> rename *2004*.txt *2005*.txt > > One mental thing I do with cmd's rename tool. When asking in linux help channel > on day, I was given a *SCRIPT* to do this.
"The cool part is, ultimately you don't have to worry about being careful during a trip to the past, because your actions are already accounted for."
I'm not so sure about this. I assume you mean being careful to not screw up the time line?
Unless you checked your history books to make sure that your body wasn't found anywhere on the earth between your destination time and the year you could have expected to die of old age in the past (and even then...), you yourself could still be harmed.
arose has already gotten here, but perhaps you landed there, made the footprints, and then the guy laying the cement saw them and smoothed it over. Or maybe your time machine malfunctioned and you ended up inside the Sun. Basically, any course of events that results in a world that matches your observations prior to your time trip, is possible.
> If you go back, are you physically prevented from firing the gun or will the gun > misfire?
Something like that. Or you miss. Or you are killed in a traffic accident while crossing the street on your way to kill the guy.
Basically, anything you could do in the past, you have already done. History records that Hitler wasn't killed by a sniper--therefore events have already prevented you from going back in time and shooting him.
This thread is a microcosm of US politics. I note with glee how you waste all your energy fighting each other, rather than the actual government that ires you so.
Regardless of whether it was the right thing to do or note, you can't argue that the process didn't put pressure on you to switch hosting providers, or at least put pressure on your hosts to ensure that they never host another spammer again...
I'm not sure about the correct name for ISO MPEG, but it's a standardised media container based off Quicktime. It seems to be able to do everything DMF can do, but without stupid trademarked feature names beginning with X.;)
I thought Ogg was general purpose, and could contain anything, but I might be wrong about that.
It's for desktop software, not system daemons, but this is basically how GConf works. Applications that use GConf are also notified by gconfd when a configuration value has changed--this makes writing applications really sweet.:)
As I understand it, the only thing Apple has said was the quoted sentence, "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac". The rest of the text was Micheal Robertson's commentary.
Now you can interpret the quoted text in many ways. I recon it'll be reasonably straightfoward for a geek to run OS X on a white box machine, modulo driver availability. The comment is saying that Apple will not make it easy for mundanes to run OS X on their white box machines.
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Pretty much any GNU/Linux distribution over a certain popularity/size, modifies the software you mention.
One of the best reasons being able to modify your software is good is to stave off obscelescence. Every time a new version of Windows comes out, thousands of programs break. Now I'm not saying that those programs aren't poorly coded: but if the original developer has gone out of business, or wants to sell the upgrade, or just doesn't care, then the end user is screwed.
So a business just writes upgrades (or migration if an upgrade is impossible) off as a running cost--but when a (good) game becomes impossible to run then IMO, the world has lost a piece of art. With open source software, this is pretty much impossible.
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As British MPs wake up to the likelihood that ID cards may be a multibillion pound failure thanks to poor biometric trial results and big predicted increases in costs, warnings from the United States don't bode well either.
When the White House office of management and budget investigated 33 homeland security initiatives involving many firms that are potential ID card contractors, it found that only four of the projects had been effective.
Of the ineffective ones, a scheme called US-Visit is particularly relevant to the ID card debate here in Britain. The 10-year, $10bn contract for a computer network to screen foreigners visiting or leaving the US, recording their details and checking them against terrorist suspect databases, was won by Accenture. It promised a futuristic system with "biometrc" face and fingerprint recognition, but as the US general accounting office (GAO) found, costs would be well above the $7.2bn estimate and this "very risky endeavor" would probably cost "in the tens of billions".
Even less encouraging was its conclusion that "it is uncertain that US-Visit will be able to measurably and appreciably achieve the Department of Homeland Security's stated goals for the program".
Guess what! Accenture is a likely bidder for ID card work in Britain; and Ian Watmore, head of "E Government" here, is a former Accenture chief executive and ID card enthusiast. When he was appointed last year he suggested he would lead the project. So that's all right, then.
So check the source out of CVS and build it yourself. Or subscribe for the minumum time (3 months I think) and cancel. Or get it off a dodgy Bittorrent site.
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As I said perviously, the shortcuts are consistant throughout the Gnome environment except in the case of gnome-terminal. I think anyone clever enough to use the terminal would not begrudge this minor inconsistency.
:)
I use the X11 clipboard, rather than the mouse-controlled primary selection buffer, for two reasons: my hand is always on the keyboard, and I want to copy text to the clipboard independent of whatever I have in the primary selection buffer.
On the topic of using Alt as the default shortcut modifier, I agree with you. However it's too late to change all our old applications now, and if a migration started no doubt you would point to it as further examples of inconsistency.
As I said before, the only real problems with the X11 clipboard is that it is crap: it only deals with text, and the clipboard contents are lost when the process that owns them disconnects from the X server.
Try the European Software Patent Horror Gallery.
He's just bitching because GONME/GOMONE/whatever the hell it was called turned out to be nothing but a load of hot air. :)
Keyboard shortcuts seem pretty consistant on my platform (Gnome). Ctrl-C copies, Ctrl-V pastes. The one exception is in gnome-terminal, where it's Ctrl-Shift-[CV], for the perfectly reasonable that Ctrl-C clashes with the command to interrupt the foreground program in the terminal.
You are addressing the wrong problem. Users can deal with keyboard shortcuts being different accross platforms.
Call me back when I can copy an image from Mozilla and paste it into the Gimp; or copy some spreadsheet cells from Gnumeric and paste them into an Openoffice.org Writer or Calc document.
The problem with the X11 clipboard is that it only deals in text. Of course, I'm sure if I was to turn to chapter 34.1.5 section 7.12.5.3a32-4.5.2 of the ICCCM, I would find an insanely complicated and obsolete explanation of how I should use the clipboard for things other than text, if I was writing an app 20 years ago...
But today, and the forseeable future, X11 apps--the apps Joe Luser runs under GNU/Linux--are text-only.
> rename *2004*.txt *2005*.txt
>
> One mental thing I do with cmd's rename tool. When asking in linux help channel
> on day, I was given a *SCRIPT* to do this.
rename s/2004/2005/ *.txt
I expect it's 'insightful' because that is the closest moderation Slashdot has to 'true'.
Except that the COPYRIGHT LICENSE PREVENTS YOU FROM DOING SO.
If you're going to be a rude asshole, at least make sure that what you say is actually correct.
"The cool part is, ultimately you don't have to worry about being careful during a trip to the past, because your actions are already accounted for."
I'm not so sure about this. I assume you mean being careful to not screw up the time line?
Unless you checked your history books to make sure that your body wasn't found anywhere on the earth between your destination time and the year you could have expected to die of old age in the past (and even then...), you yourself could still be harmed.
arose has already gotten here, but perhaps you landed there, made the footprints, and then the guy laying the cement saw them and smoothed it over. Or maybe your time machine malfunctioned and you ended up inside the Sun. Basically, any course of events that results in a world that matches your observations prior to your time trip, is possible.
> If you go back, are you physically prevented from firing the gun or will the gun
> misfire?
Something like that. Or you miss. Or you are killed in a traffic accident while crossing the street on your way to kill the guy.
Basically, anything you could do in the past, you have already done. History records that Hitler wasn't killed by a sniper--therefore events have already prevented you from going back in time and shooting him.
mount -t tempfs none ~/.mozilla
Put this at the beginning of your Mozilla launch script
mountpoint ~/.mozilla || { echo 'Mozilla profile directory not a tempfs'; exit 1; }
If voting did change anything, it'd be illegal...
This thread is a microcosm of US politics. I note with glee how you waste all your energy fighting each other, rather than the actual government that ires you so.
Morons can damage their computers -- flim at eleven?
Regardless of whether it was the right thing to do or note, you can't argue that the process didn't put pressure on you to switch hosting providers, or at least put pressure on your hosts to ensure that they never host another spammer again...
I'm not sure about the correct name for ISO MPEG, but it's a standardised media container based off Quicktime. It seems to be able to do everything DMF can do, but without stupid trademarked feature names beginning with X. ;)
I thought Ogg was general purpose, and could contain anything, but I might be wrong about that.
Do we *really* need a new container format, or is this just a case of "not invented here" syndrome?
We already have AVI, Ogg, Matroska, Quicktime, ISO MPEG, Real and ASF. Why do we need Divx Media Format (DMF)?
> And, do I need to remind you about stability issues with Debian Sarge?
Yes. No problems here...
It's for desktop software, not system daemons, but this is basically how GConf works. Applications that use GConf are also notified by gconfd when a configuration value has changed--this makes writing applications really sweet. :)
As I understand it, the only thing Apple has said was the quoted sentence, "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac". The rest of the text was Micheal Robertson's commentary.
Now you can interpret the quoted text in many ways. I recon it'll be reasonably straightfoward for a geek to run OS X on a white box machine, modulo driver availability. The comment is saying that Apple will not make it easy for mundanes to run OS X on their white box machines.
Pretty much any GNU/Linux distribution over a certain popularity/size, modifies the software you mention.
Debian's modifications for Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 are 986 KB uncompressed; Linux 2.6.8: 3.5 MB uncompressed; Openoffice.org 1.1.3: 15 MB uncompressed(!).
One of the best reasons being able to modify your software is good is to stave off obscelescence. Every time a new version of Windows comes out, thousands of programs break. Now I'm not saying that those programs aren't poorly coded: but if the original developer has gone out of business, or wants to sell the upgrade, or just doesn't care, then the end user is screwed.
So a business just writes upgrades (or migration if an upgrade is impossible) off as a running cost--but when a (good) game becomes impossible to run then IMO, the world has lost a piece of art. With open source software, this is pretty much impossible.
Wasn't that leomekenkamp's point?
ID CARDS: The War on Error
As British MPs wake up to the likelihood that ID cards may be a multibillion pound failure thanks to poor biometric trial results and big predicted increases in costs, warnings from the United States don't bode well either.
When the White House office of management and budget investigated 33 homeland security initiatives involving many firms that are potential ID card contractors, it found that only four of the projects had been effective.
Of the ineffective ones, a scheme called US-Visit is particularly relevant to the ID card debate here in Britain. The 10-year, $10bn contract for a computer network to screen foreigners visiting or leaving the US, recording their details and checking them against terrorist suspect databases, was won by Accenture. It promised a futuristic system with "biometrc" face and fingerprint recognition, but as the US general accounting office (GAO) found, costs would be well above the $7.2bn estimate and this "very risky endeavor" would probably cost "in the tens of billions".
Even less encouraging was its conclusion that "it is uncertain that US-Visit will be able to measurably and appreciably achieve the Department of Homeland Security's stated goals for the program".
Guess what! Accenture is a likely bidder for ID card work in Britain; and Ian Watmore, head of "E Government" here, is a former Accenture chief executive and ID card enthusiast. When he was appointed last year he suggested he would lead the project. So that's all right, then.
So check the source out of CVS and build it yourself. Or subscribe for the minumum time (3 months I think) and cancel. Or get it off a dodgy Bittorrent site.