The big problem with ebooks lies in the readers; devices capable of reading ebooks are bulky, fragile, expensive, and nominally not as easy on the eyes as paper; in addition, most of them are read-only, which means that you can't write notes in the margin or hilight passages for later use.
Dude, 1999 called. It wants its information back.;)
Seriously. I've got a Zaurus. It weighs 7.1 ounces (comparable to a paperback), fits in my pocket (unlike a paperback), has 96KB of memory and a(n aftermarket) 512 MB SD card for the books. It's not a brick, but I've dropped it from four or five feet to wooden and carpeted floors too many times, and it's fine. It's true it's not as easy n the eyes as paper, but it's full (65,536) color and 320 x 240 with several anti-aliased fonts. It's not read only, in fact it has a thumb keyboard built in, and the ebook reader software (opie reader) allows annotations.
With the Wifi card plugged in, I can read ebooks on the net, on my PC (via samba mount) or copy them to the SD card. I'm currently reading Doctorow's latest, in fact.
Its battery life is a little low (4-6 hours), and it costs $400-$500. An alternative is a $100 Palm Pilot, with a longer battery life and a lower, black and white resolution; you can find after-market fonts for a Palm too. (I read books on a Handspring before I got the Zaurus).
Ebooks aren't dead. People just haven't caught on to the real reasons to read ebooks on your palm pilot
And page turning can be done (easily) with the same hand that holds the book, leaving the other hand free. Free to hold a sandwich, perverts.
And contra Doctorow's speech, ebooks are easier to read in the bathtub or hottub. If you're really worried, put in a ziplock.
And with an ebook, as my eyes get tired, I can increase the font size. When I get tired of hitting the next page button too frequently, I can decrease the font size.
With the qtopia reader I can get any word in the text defined with a single tap on it. Or I can add annotations or bookmarks.
And I can copy intreating quotes to my common-place book more easily. And search for words, etc., etc.
Ebooks lag in two ways: screen resolution, and screen size (a PC monitor is too big, a Zaurus or Palm Pilot a little too small). A super-high resolution screen that folds to the size of a Zaurus and unfolds to the size of a single paper-back page (7" x 4.25") -- essentially a paperback sheet folded into thirds -- will bring eBooks into their own, so long as the greedy and short-sighted don't screw it up with DRM.
I'm the exact opposite. Besides being able to set the font nice and big, the main thing I like is text-to-speech software. I set the speed to about 450wps and comfortably read along.... My book consumption has gone from less than one per year, to about 3-4 a week.
450 words per second??? I had no idea Alvin & the Chipmunks had produced so many audio-books.
And despite 450 words per second, you're still only reading 3-4 a week?
Now that the source code to Paint is out there, we can expect many derivative works to surface in the coming months. The impact on the graphics software market will be devastating.
But, but, Microsoft spent thousands of man-hours of laborious and innovative research to come up with the Bitmap format!
Oh dear god! Will the secret of the Bitmap format be made available to just anyone?
1) Having an open solution means you can't proprietize the protocols.
Very good reasons. As to your second point, while I'd argue that you can learn (and in some cases should) from other sources as well, I'd also have to say I want to see more open source textbooks too.
To install on the 5600, a quick search of the OZ mailing list on SourceForge (well, not so quick...is SF ever stable?) will reveal that you need to flash with 3.3.6pre1 on the 5600 as opposed to the release version. Additionally, the flash process is completely different (simpler in fact) from the better documented/supported 5500.
Thanks! Very informative.
I did attempt to install 3.3.6pre1, but I followed (I think) the standard flash instructions.
Given your report however, I'm willing to wait a bit.;)
In reply to your opinion -- well, lots of people want to see open source software succeed, because they envision things being better when it does. I'd tend to agree; open source software everywhere would be great.
Ok, you're getting closer to answering my question, and I appreciate it.
You say people "envision things being better when" open source succeeds, and "[o]pen source everywhere would be great".
When open source succeeds, and it's "everywhere", what;s going to be different? That's the heart of my original post: I understand that people will freely give open source support type help, and I agree with you that that's part of the spirit of open source -- a spirit I take advantage of and further whenever I'm in IRC --, and you tell me that's because they think things will be better when and if open source is ubiquitous.
But what are they expecting will happen -- what's the "payoff", as it were, when by dint of their efforts, open source "succeeds"? That's the other half of my question.
Ignorant statements like yours show why the OSS community is having trouble getting its message across. Get it through your skull....
Get this through your skull: calling people ignorant and telling people to "get it through your skull" just reinforces stereotypes about open source advocates (and geek in general) being socially awkward know-it-alls who take pride in being jerks and not getting along with people.
To the extent there's any merit to your opinion, it's obscured behind the flood of bitter vitriol and ignored by those who prefer to take their advice from more level-headed posters.
And posting it as "Anonymous Coward" just tells everybody you're not man enough to back up your name-calling.
And yes, I know, you'll spend the next month sitting in your mom's basement, scheming to down-mod any post of mine you see. All hail the Conan the Key-Board-barian! Have fun!
What information do you think should be included to sell Open Source to management at the top-level of any corporation or business?
Ok, this is going to attract down-mods the way that posters named "I'mASingleGeekGirl" attract up-mods, but I have to say it.
Why should we care about "selling" open source for internal business use? Now, I don't blame Stokey for asking -- I'd do the same. And I guess if you're a *nix admin, the more companies using open source, the more business you have. Point taken.
But if you're not a *nix admin, why do you feel the desire to give free advice to a company that's never going to give you a dime? Why do we treat open source like it's a religion that we need to "witness" and proselytize for?
Sure, in a few cases, if a business starts using open source, they'll contribute code modifications back to the community, or maybe even hire a few coders from the community.
But in most cases, the company is just going to install linux and postgresql and Open Office and the open source community won't get so much as a thank you.
And besides, these businesses are forever telling us how much they know, how brilliant their management is, etc. If these men of brilliance can't figure out that $0.00 per seat is less than $200.00 (or whatever the figure is after corporate discounts), that few viruses and exploits are better than the never-ending waves of windows viruses, that never being audited is far less disruptive than repeated visits from the BSA, if the MBA geniuses tat run these companies can't figure this out on their own, why should we Slashdotters who aren't invited along on the expense account lunches sweat to convince them otherwise?
I mean, if no company ever used open source again, there would still be hobbyists producing open source code. and that's a straw man anyway -- companies that want robust servers already use linux in droves.
It's like we all grew up as geeks in hisghschool (ok, I guess we all did) and now that we have decent jobs and decent wardrobes and no more acne, we're still tripping all over ourselves just because a pretty girl -- the "legitimate" business -- smiles at us. How about saying to her, if you can't figure out why you should want me rather than the bloated slob from Redmond with all the viruses -- well, I'm no longer so desperate and lacking in self-esteem that I'll beat my head against a wall trying to convince you.
Again, I'm not saying we shouldn't try to convince companies to go with open source; we should. I'm just saying I think we shouldn't be -- we needn't be -- so desperate to do so.
Being in the Pacific Northwest, I notice alot of the filming that goes on here. Unfortunatly they have moved to Vancover. From my understanding it's because they will let you get away with alot of shit (see Jackie Chan). I don't know this for a fact, but that's the rumor.
By filming in Canada, the production companies don't have to pay union rates to the hordes of support personal required to make the films. This out sourcing significantly brings down costs, while still providing a location with white, English-speaking extras and close proximity to the US, to accommodate "name" US actors.
The X-Files, for example, was mostly filmed in Canada, with US filming limited to some "location" shots of recognizable landmarks.
And as you obviously don't know anything [....] why the fuck did you open your stupid mouth anyway?
Ever notice it's always the Anonymous Cowards who are so vehement in their criticism? Always with the "you're stupid" and the Mr. Tough Guy expletives: "why the fuck...."
Yeah, yeah, I know, Mr. Anonymous Coward: you're powerful and famous, in your mother's basement.
You're assuming the law will be applied fairly and evenly.
Or as Anatole France wrote, "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets or steal bread."
(And no, he wasn't referring to trolls when he mentioned sleeping under bridges.)
I thought Litestep just replaces the shell (ie explorer.exe). Is there any way I can change the click-to-front behavior of Windows to use the Amigas (or WindowLabs) click-to-focus but not click-to-front model.
TxMouse can almost do this. Its default settings are focus on hover but not bring to front; bring to front is accomplished by clicking on the window decoration (titlebar).
TxMouse can also be set to autoraise after a settable delay.
TxMouse can emulate an X-Windows mouse including copy-on-select and paste-with-third-button.
It works a bit better than the PowerToys version too; the PowerToys one regularly screwed up one app (Microspell) when that app was activated by hotkey. TxMouse doesn't screw it up.
On the assumption that a lot of you will want this, I'm going to go into some gory details not included in TxMouse's documentation now. If you have no desire to use TxMouse, you can skip the rest of this post in good conscience; I promise you won't be missing any anti-Ashcroft zingers.
TxMouse also changes the mouse cursor change when select is copying, and allows you to turn off copying by pressing the third button.
On my mouse, turning off copying doesn't work with the middle button, as the middle button gets physically trapped down until the left button is released. TxMouse allows you to set it up so that the right mouse button does all the work the middle would normally do, for people with two-button mice, but a better solution to my problem was to re-assign middle to right and right to middle in the Microsoft Intellimouse driver. So now the middle button drop down context menus, and the right button pastes, except in the browser, where the right works as a "back" button.
The TxMouse mouse cursor that indicates text is being copied does not show up if the "Link Select" cursor is the default (the pointing finger); in that case the copy indicator is the "Handwriting" cursor. So you can customize what shows up on copy if you don't customize "Link Select", and vice-versa.
TxMoue is free but not open source (which sucks, as I'd like to modify it -- any pointers to source for MS_Windows Mouse drivers is appreciated so I can replicate it), and can be found here. Get it while Ashcroft still lets you connect web sites in socialist Sweden.
Microsoft is sooooo obviously trying to pull an SCO here.
If you work on any Open Source project, DO NOT LOOK!
Whoops! I looked. And now it's clear why Microsoft bought a license from SCO.
All these headers start with "Copyright, AT&T" and "Copyright, Regents of the University of California". I wonder what that's all about.
(For the more literal-minded Slashdot readers: no I haven't really seen the code. This is a cheap jab at Microsoft, implying their code is derivative of unix and linux code,)
I tend to disagree with this. If they only gave the gee-whiz, then yes, like you, I'd be inlined [sic] to think them a charlatan. But if what he does is to first give all of the germane numbers, and then say "because 31,288,536,429 isn't a particularly natural number, here, watch me download the librar [sic] of congress. Again. Again. Again." in order to drive it home, that seems perfectly reasonable.
I'm sorry, perhaps you missed reading this part of my post?
A nice chart showing your speed and bandwidth in terms of Tom Clancy novels per minute, or (umcompressed) [sic] Wagner operas per hour, would tend to bring those numbers home.
I installed OZ on my Zaurus 5500 without a hitch. It is known that OZ for 5500 has not (until recently) worked fine on the 5600. So RTFM, troll.
Last I checked (about a week ago), zImage.bin and initrd.bin for the 5600 didn't even have correct md5sums (actually, no md5sum was listed for zImage at all).
So don't go off half-cocked and accuse other people of being trolls, troll.
Sometimes I misspell URLs and I actually *like* having a service that attempts to find the site I'm looking for.
Hey, good point! You can't type, so we should break the internet and one of the few effective anti-spam techniques, so that you don't have to retype "www.hot-mokney-porn.com".
By the way, I'm a fat slob with a heart condition, but I can't keep my fat ass out of McDonalds, inhaling lard-burger after lard-burger. I'd actually like a service that shut down all McDonalds and inconvenienced everybody else who can manage to control their compulsion to have evry meal at McDonalds.
By the way, I'm an alky; I jus' can't stay awy from dat ol' demon rum. Howsabout we Prohibit all alcohol, jus' 'cause I can't figure out how to stop after two drinks?
By the way, I get really afraid of Ay-rabs, and I don't understand why anybody would mind being on camera 24/7 unless they had something to hide. Can we tear up the Fourth Amedment and let John Ashcroft read your mail and tap your phones in order to give me a spurious sense of security?
I mean, that would be really convenient to me if we could do these things. I don't care how it would inconvenience you, becuase I, just like Verisign, am in the business of offloading my costs onto the community, in order to increase the personal profits I keep all to myself.
Now, we have all the equipment needed to measure how well the link is performing, but we'd like to put together a cheap 'Gee Whiz' demonstration.
Speaking for myself, any additional "Gee Whizzery" would at best distract me from your take-home point -- that your network is really fast.
At worst, it would make me wonder why you were trying to distract me, and what you might be hiding, glossing over, or leaving for the fine print.
Now, there are a few things that you could do to make a more effective presentation. Despite years in the business, I still sometimes have a hard time grasping the size of Gigabytes, or remembering how Gigabytes compare to Mebibytes (that's not a misspelling; I'd include a link if I weren't typing on my handheld) to kilobits. I guess that.s why ls and df have a -h switch.
A nice chart showing your speed and bandwidth in terms of Tom Clancy novels per minute, or (umcompressed) Wagner operas per hour, would tend to bring those numbers home.
And for the suspicious, so would demonstrating downloads against encrypted and uncompressable data, so no one has to wonder how much of your speed came from on the fly adaptive Huffman encoding.
Basically, if what you're selling is speed and bandwidth, demonstrate that. Saavy customers aren't going to be swayed by booth girls or Barney the Dinosaur, and saavy customers won't want to waste time on that. If you're still aching to spend money, have a nice lunch delivered during the demo (after you've asked your customers about any dietary restrictions they have).
They call it "VolksLinux", but many of the older Germans expressed fond memories for more ordered times when they used Microsoft's OS, or as it's referred to in German, "EinReich-EinVolk-EinOS"
Except for gcc & related progs, the BSDs do not use gnu tools.
True story: as I was writing the post, I wanted to work in Stallman for the humor, but I wasn't sure if or to what extent the *BSDs used the GNU tool-chain. So I headed over to the bsd irc channel (irc.freenode.net/bsd) and asked. No one answered, so I just decided to go with it.
It's been several hours now, and still no one's answered it. Maybe that means BSD is dying?;)
I will reiterate my recommendation of Gould's The Mismeasure of Man.
As long as you also warn those you recommend that Gould wrote Mismeasure, in large part, to aid in the campaign -- largely grounded in Marxist ideology rather than science -- of denigration of E.O. Wilson and Sociobiology.
To put Gould (and Rose and Lewontin) in context, recommend also Ullica Segerstrale 's Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond, a dense but thoroughly entertaining look at Sociobiology (and later, Evolutionary Psychology) and its ideological attackers.
Basically, E.O. Wilson (since "rehabilitated" among the leftist crowd for his string environmental advocacy) was ruthlessly hounded by Gould and his supporters, for purely ideological reasons. One popular chant of the time was "Racist Wilson you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!" -- once culminating in dousing Wilson with a pitcher* cold water at a 1978 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (One anti-Wilson witness dismisses this assault by complaining that he remembers it as a "small paper cup" -- as if it's ok to disrupt scientific discourse with mob aggression so long you only throw "small cups" of water at those you disagree with.)
The brief take-home point: Gould is known in the lay community -- outside the science and biology community -- as a great defender of evolution against the religious right. Inside the scientific community, the opinion of Gould is far more equivocal, with many considering Gould to have served to discredit evolutionary theory in favor of the "punctuationism" pseudo-theory and Marxist ideology. To some, Gould's actions on Wilson and Sociobiology demonstrate his lack of scientific objectivity.
(Personal note: I hope this post serves to confound anyone who assumed that I'm anti-Bush and anti-Ashcroft because I'm some "hippy-dippy" leftist.;) )
Binary files (e.g..wma and.rar files) served by servers incorrectly sending text/plain should no longer be displayed as garbage in the browser, rather they should be appropriately handled.
Yeah, I saw that.
But they also need to fix it so that anything that ends in.htm[l]..txt, or.jpeg/.gif/.png is displayed in the browser, and anything else, like.tar,.gz,.ipk, (or did they really mean e.g., and not i.e.?) that's unknown is saved to disk.
And is Firefox still overriding file names with mime types, so that foo.tar is saved as foo.tar.gz (or even foo.tar.gz.tar)? That's almost Microsoftian in its unheeding "I know better than you, Mr. user" arrogance.
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The big problem with ebooks lies in the readers; devices capable of reading ebooks are bulky, fragile, expensive, and nominally not as easy on the eyes as paper; in addition, most of them are read-only, which means that you can't write notes in the margin or hilight passages for later use.
;)
Dude, 1999 called. It wants its information back.
Seriously. I've got a Zaurus. It weighs 7.1 ounces (comparable to a paperback), fits in my pocket (unlike a paperback), has 96KB of memory and a(n aftermarket) 512 MB SD card for the books. It's not a brick, but I've dropped it from four or five feet to wooden and carpeted floors too many times, and it's fine. It's true it's not as easy n the eyes as paper, but it's full (65,536) color and 320 x 240 with several anti-aliased fonts. It's not read only, in fact it has a thumb keyboard built in, and the ebook reader software (opie reader) allows annotations.
With the Wifi card plugged in, I can read ebooks on the net, on my PC (via samba mount) or copy them to the SD card. I'm currently reading Doctorow's latest, in fact.
Its battery life is a little low (4-6 hours), and it costs $400-$500. An alternative is a $100 Palm Pilot, with a longer battery life and a lower, black and white resolution; you can find after-market fonts for a Palm too. (I read books on a Handspring before I got the Zaurus).
Ebooks aren't dead. People just haven't caught on to the real reasons to read ebooks on your palm pilot
And page turning can be done (easily) with the same hand that holds the book, leaving the other hand free. Free to hold a sandwich, perverts.
And contra Doctorow's speech, ebooks are easier to read in the bathtub or hottub. If you're really worried, put in a ziplock.
And with an ebook, as my eyes get tired, I can increase the font size. When I get tired of hitting the next page button too frequently, I can decrease the font size.
With the qtopia reader I can get any word in the text defined with a single tap on it. Or I can add annotations or bookmarks.
And I can copy intreating quotes to my common-place book more easily. And search for words, etc., etc.
Ebooks lag in two ways: screen resolution, and screen size (a PC monitor is too big, a Zaurus or Palm Pilot a little too small). A super-high resolution screen that folds to the size of a Zaurus and unfolds to the size of a single paper-back page (7" x 4.25") -- essentially a paperback sheet folded into thirds -- will bring eBooks into their own, so long as the greedy and short-sighted don't screw it up with DRM.
I'm the exact opposite. Besides being able to set the font nice and big, the main thing I like is text-to-speech software. I set the speed to about 450wps and comfortably read along.... My book consumption has gone from less than one per year, to about 3-4 a week.
450 words per second??? I had no idea Alvin & the Chipmunks had produced so many audio-books.
And despite 450 words per second, you're still only reading 3-4 a week?
Now that the source code to Paint is out there, we can expect many derivative works to surface in the coming months. The impact on the graphics software market will be devastating.
But, but, Microsoft spent thousands of man-hours of laborious and innovative research to come up with the Bitmap format!
Oh dear god! Will the secret of the Bitmap format be made available to just anyone?
The world will be turned upside down!
1) Having an open solution means you can't proprietize the protocols.
Very good reasons. As to your second point, while I'd argue that you can learn (and in some cases should) from other sources as well, I'd also have to say I want to see more open source textbooks too.
Thanks.
To install on the 5600, a quick search of the OZ mailing list on SourceForge (well, not so quick...is SF ever stable?) will reveal that you need to flash with 3.3.6pre1 on the 5600 as opposed to the release version. Additionally, the flash process is completely different (simpler in fact) from the better documented/supported 5500.
;)
Thanks! Very informative.
I did attempt to install 3.3.6pre1, but I followed (I think) the standard flash instructions.
Given your report however, I'm willing to wait a bit.
In reply to your opinion -- well, lots of people want to see open source software succeed, because they envision things being better when it does. I'd tend to agree; open source software everywhere would be great.
Ok, you're getting closer to answering my question, and I appreciate it.
You say people "envision things being better when" open source succeeds, and "[o]pen source everywhere would be great".
When open source succeeds, and it's "everywhere", what;s going to be different? That's the heart of my original post: I understand that people will freely give open source support type help, and I agree with you that that's part of the spirit of open source -- a spirit I take advantage of and further whenever I'm in IRC --, and you tell me that's because they think things will be better when and if open source is ubiquitous.
But what are they expecting will happen -- what's the "payoff", as it were, when by dint of their efforts, open source "succeeds"? That's the other half of my question.
Ignorant statements like yours show why the OSS community is having trouble getting its message across. Get it through your skull....
Get this through your skull: calling people ignorant and telling people to "get it through your skull" just reinforces stereotypes about open source advocates (and geek in general) being socially awkward know-it-alls who take pride in being jerks and not getting along with people.
To the extent there's any merit to your opinion, it's obscured behind the flood of bitter vitriol and ignored by those who prefer to take their advice from more level-headed posters.
And posting it as "Anonymous Coward" just tells everybody you're not man enough to back up your name-calling.
And yes, I know, you'll spend the next month sitting in your mom's basement, scheming to down-mod any post of mine you see. All hail the Conan the Key-Board-barian! Have fun!
What information do you think should be included to sell Open Source to management at the top-level of any corporation or business?
Ok, this is going to attract down-mods the way that posters named "I'mASingleGeekGirl" attract up-mods, but I have to say it.
Why should we care about "selling" open source for internal business use? Now, I don't blame Stokey for asking -- I'd do the same. And I guess if you're a *nix admin, the more companies using open source, the more business you have. Point taken.
But if you're not a *nix admin, why do you feel the desire to give free advice to a company that's never going to give you a dime? Why do we treat open source like it's a religion that we need to "witness" and proselytize for?
Sure, in a few cases, if a business starts using open source, they'll contribute code modifications back to the community, or maybe even hire a few coders from the community.
But in most cases, the company is just going to install linux and postgresql and Open Office and the open source community won't get so much as a thank you.
And besides, these businesses are forever telling us how much they know, how brilliant their management is, etc. If these men of brilliance can't figure out that $0.00 per seat is less than $200.00 (or whatever the figure is after corporate discounts), that few viruses and exploits are better than the never-ending waves of windows viruses, that never being audited is far less disruptive than repeated visits from the BSA, if the MBA geniuses tat run these companies can't figure this out on their own, why should we Slashdotters who aren't invited along on the expense account lunches sweat to convince them otherwise?
I mean, if no company ever used open source again, there would still be hobbyists producing open source code. and that's a straw man anyway -- companies that want robust servers already use linux in droves.
It's like we all grew up as geeks in hisghschool (ok, I guess we all did) and now that we have decent jobs and decent wardrobes and no more acne, we're still tripping all over ourselves just because a pretty girl -- the "legitimate" business -- smiles at us. How about saying to her, if you can't figure out why you should want me rather than the bloated slob from Redmond with all the viruses -- well, I'm no longer so desperate and lacking in self-esteem that I'll beat my head against a wall trying to convince you.
Again, I'm not saying we shouldn't try to convince companies to go with open source; we should. I'm just saying I think we shouldn't be -- we needn't be -- so desperate to do so.
Being in the Pacific Northwest, I notice alot of the filming that goes on here. Unfortunatly they have moved to Vancover. From my understanding it's because they will let you get away with alot of shit (see Jackie Chan). I don't know this for a fact, but that's the rumor.
By filming in Canada, the production companies don't have to pay union rates to the hordes of support personal required to make the films. This out sourcing significantly brings down costs, while still providing a location with white, English-speaking extras and close proximity to the US, to accommodate "name" US actors.
The X-Files, for example, was mostly filmed in Canada, with US filming limited to some "location" shots of recognizable landmarks.
Vertical shape plus click and hold would be excellent!
No double-entendre replies about this? Has the "Windows source leaked to the net" thread really tired everybody out that much?
And as you obviously don't know anything [....] why the fuck did you open your stupid mouth anyway?
Ever notice it's always the Anonymous Cowards who are so vehement in their criticism? Always with the "you're stupid" and the Mr. Tough Guy expletives: "why the fuck...."
Yeah, yeah, I know, Mr. Anonymous Coward: you're powerful and famous, in your mother's basement.
You're assuming the law will be applied fairly and evenly.
Or as Anatole France wrote,
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets or steal bread."
(And no, he wasn't referring to trolls when he mentioned sleeping under bridges.)
By the way, the only times "NSA" occurs in the filenames is "scrnsave" and "transact"
Sure is does, "Pakaran2".
That's what you want us to believe, isn't it?
Well, I'm not fooled, and neither is my friend Timmy the Tinfoil hat!
No, we're not fooled, are we, Timmy?
I thought Litestep just replaces the shell (ie explorer.exe). Is there any way I can change the click-to-front behavior of Windows to use the Amigas (or WindowLabs) click-to-focus but not click-to-front model.
TxMouse can almost do this. Its default settings are focus on hover but not bring to front; bring to front is accomplished by clicking on the window decoration (titlebar).
TxMouse can also be set to autoraise after a settable delay.
TxMouse can emulate an X-Windows mouse including copy-on-select and paste-with-third-button.
It works a bit better than the PowerToys version too; the PowerToys one regularly screwed up one app (Microspell) when that app was activated by hotkey. TxMouse doesn't screw it up.
On the assumption that a lot of you will want this, I'm going to go into some gory details not included in TxMouse's documentation now. If you have no desire to use TxMouse, you can skip the rest of this post in good conscience; I promise you won't be missing any anti-Ashcroft zingers.
TxMouse also changes the mouse cursor change when select is copying, and allows you to turn off copying by pressing the third button.
On my mouse, turning off copying doesn't work with the middle button, as the middle button gets physically trapped down until the left button is released. TxMouse allows you to set it up so that the right mouse button does all the work the middle would normally do, for people with two-button mice, but a better solution to my problem was to re-assign middle to right and right to middle in the Microsoft Intellimouse driver. So now the middle button drop down context menus, and the right button pastes, except in the browser, where the right works as a "back" button.
The TxMouse mouse cursor that indicates text is being copied does not show up if the "Link Select" cursor is the default (the pointing finger); in that case the copy indicator is the "Handwriting" cursor. So you can customize what shows up on copy if you don't customize "Link Select", and vice-versa.
TxMoue is free but not open source (which sucks, as I'd like to modify it -- any pointers to source for MS_Windows Mouse drivers is appreciated so I can replicate it), and can be found here. Get it while Ashcroft still lets you connect web sites in socialist Sweden.
Microsoft is sooooo obviously trying to pull an SCO here.
If you work on any Open Source project, DO NOT LOOK!
Whoops! I looked. And now it's clear why Microsoft bought a license from SCO.
All these headers start with "Copyright, AT&T" and "Copyright, Regents of the University of California". I wonder what that's all about.
(For the more literal-minded Slashdot readers: no I haven't really seen the code. This is a cheap jab at Microsoft, implying their code is derivative of unix and linux code,)
I'm sorry, perhaps you missed reading this part of my post?
I installed OZ on my Zaurus 5500 without a hitch. It is known that OZ for 5500 has not (until recently) worked fine on the 5600.
So RTFM, troll.
Last I checked (about a week ago), zImage.bin and initrd.bin for the 5600 didn't even have correct md5sums (actually, no md5sum was listed for zImage at all).
So don't go off half-cocked and accuse other people of being trolls, troll.
Sometimes I misspell URLs and I actually *like* having a service that attempts to find the site I'm looking for.
Hey, good point! You can't type, so we should break the internet and one of the few effective anti-spam techniques, so that you don't have to retype "www.hot-mokney-porn.com".
By the way, I'm a fat slob with a heart condition, but I can't keep my fat ass out of McDonalds, inhaling lard-burger after lard-burger. I'd actually like a service that shut down all McDonalds and inconvenienced everybody else who can manage to control their compulsion to have evry meal at McDonalds.
By the way, I'm an alky; I jus' can't stay awy from dat ol' demon rum. Howsabout we Prohibit all alcohol, jus' 'cause I can't figure out how to stop after two drinks?
By the way, I get really afraid of Ay-rabs, and I don't understand why anybody would mind being on camera 24/7 unless they had something to hide. Can we tear up the Fourth Amedment and let John Ashcroft read your mail and tap your phones in order to give me a spurious sense of security?
I mean, that would be really convenient to me if we could do these things. I don't care how it would inconvenience you, becuase I, just like Verisign, am in the business of offloading my costs onto the community, in order to increase the personal profits I keep all to myself.
Now, we have all the equipment needed to measure how well the link is performing, but we'd like to put together a cheap 'Gee Whiz' demonstration.
Speaking for myself, any additional "Gee Whizzery" would at best distract me from your take-home point -- that your network is really fast.
At worst, it would make me wonder why you were trying to distract me, and what you might be hiding, glossing over, or leaving for the fine print.
Now, there are a few things that you could do to make a more effective presentation. Despite years in the business, I still sometimes have a hard time grasping the size of Gigabytes, or remembering how Gigabytes compare to Mebibytes (that's not a misspelling; I'd include a link if I weren't typing on my handheld) to kilobits. I guess that.s why ls and df have a -h switch.
A nice chart showing your speed and bandwidth in terms of Tom Clancy novels per minute, or (umcompressed) Wagner operas per hour, would tend to bring those numbers home.
And for the suspicious, so would demonstrating downloads against encrypted and uncompressable data, so no one has to wonder how much of your speed came from on the fly adaptive Huffman encoding.
Basically, if what you're selling is speed and bandwidth, demonstrate that. Saavy customers aren't going to be swayed by booth girls or Barney the Dinosaur, and saavy customers won't want to waste time on that. If you're still aching to spend money, have a nice lunch delivered during the demo (after you've asked your customers about any dietary restrictions they have).
Which distro of linux are they using?
They call it "VolksLinux", but many of the older Germans expressed fond memories for more ordered times when they used Microsoft's OS, or as it's referred to in German, "EinReich-EinVolk-EinOS"
Glad to see Germany's just as progressive as it was back in the day. /sarcasm
Hey, they're making progress!
At least they didn't finish the demo by invading Poland.
Except for gcc & related progs, the BSDs do not use gnu tools.
;)
True story: as I was writing the post, I wanted to work in Stallman for the humor, but I wasn't sure if or to what extent the *BSDs used the GNU tool-chain. So I headed over to the bsd irc channel (irc.freenode.net/bsd) and asked. No one answered, so I just decided to go with it.
It's been several hours now, and still no one's answered it. Maybe that means BSD is dying?
I will reiterate my recommendation of Gould's The Mismeasure of Man.
;) )
As long as you also warn those you recommend that Gould wrote Mismeasure, in large part, to aid in the campaign -- largely grounded in Marxist ideology rather than science -- of denigration of E.O. Wilson and Sociobiology.
To put Gould (and Rose and Lewontin) in context, recommend also Ullica Segerstrale 's Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond, a dense but thoroughly entertaining look at Sociobiology (and later, Evolutionary Psychology) and its ideological attackers.
Basically, E.O. Wilson (since "rehabilitated" among the leftist crowd for his string environmental advocacy) was ruthlessly hounded by Gould and his supporters, for purely ideological reasons. One popular chant of the time was "Racist Wilson you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!" -- once culminating in dousing Wilson with a pitcher* cold water at a 1978 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (One anti-Wilson witness dismisses this assault by complaining that he remembers it as a "small paper cup" -- as if it's ok to disrupt scientific discourse with mob aggression so long you only throw "small cups" of water at those you disagree with.)
The brief take-home point: Gould is known in the lay community -- outside the science and biology community -- as a great defender of evolution against the religious right. Inside the scientific community, the opinion of Gould is far more equivocal, with many considering Gould to have served to discredit evolutionary theory in favor of the "punctuationism" pseudo-theory and Marxist ideology. To some, Gould's actions on Wilson and Sociobiology demonstrate his lack of scientific objectivity.
(Personal note: I hope this post serves to confound anyone who assumed that I'm anti-Bush and anti-Ashcroft because I'm some "hippy-dippy" leftist.
Binary files (e.g. .wma and .rar files) served by servers incorrectly sending text/plain should no longer be displayed as garbage in the browser, rather they should be appropriately handled.
.htm[l]. .txt, or .jpeg/.gif/.png is displayed in the browser, and anything else, like .tar, .gz, .ipk, (or did they really mean e.g., and not i.e.?) that's unknown is saved to disk.
Yeah, I saw that.
But they also need to fix it so that anything that ends in
And is Firefox still overriding file names with mime types, so that foo.tar is saved as foo.tar.gz (or even foo.tar.gz.tar)? That's almost Microsoftian in its unheeding "I know better than you, Mr. user" arrogance.