I have to admit, though, before launch feedback appeared in KDE, I got used to glancing at the HDD activity light to see if my app was launching. I still tend to do that rather than check the feedback icon in KasBar.
(Lack of an HDD activity light is one of my G4 Mac's bigger irritants....)
Who are you that you can say what can be important in someone else situation?
Hypocrite. I quote from you, "[B]ecause the JDK starts up too slowly, because Swing suffers from obesity, and because both memory and disk footprints of the JRE are a disaster." You're not only stating your opinion as if it were fact, but you're also making a global judgement that what you perceive as faults make the JDK, JRE, and Swing useless to anyone.
I like to user ReiserFS on partitions that I know will contain tons of small files, like my/var/spool/news. I prefer to journal data as well as metadata, though, which is why I use ext3fs for most of my partitions, especially my/home.
Nah. It's not cool until the commits automatically download themselves to my PC and recompile the affected software in the background. I want my software updated at random intervals to the most bleeding-edge version possible! Mwah-ha-ha-hahaha!
I tried FreeBSD 4.8 a few weeks ago. I got it installed, configured X with available tools: core dump. I reconfigured for a bare-bones generic VGA display: worked. I tried manually adding relevant configuration options from my Linux XF86Config to the BSD one: started core dumping again after awhile.
I spent an afternoon trying to get X to work under FreeBSD. I had less trouble getting it to work with a Slackware distribution I bought six years ago. Too bad, really. The ports system looked really slick.
You can not only patent actual algorithms, you can also patent simple concepts, like hyperlinking. These sorts of patents are making software development more difficult; and, unless you have a staff of tech lawyers to pore over thousands of patents, you are becoming more likely to violate a patent inadvertantly.
If OUR Marty and Doc went back to Biff's paradise (which was a separate timeline), why weren't their other selves there
It's been a long time since I've seen the movie, but, AFAICR, Marty's counterpart wasn't around
because Biff disliked him, probably because he knew Marty was George McFly's son, not his.
And, of course, Doc Brown's counterpart was in an insane asylum.
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I'd love to, but I'm stuck on a dial-up connection. Is there any way to get a snapshot of all Gentoo on CD-ROM or DVD? I've been checking out the Linux stores without any luck.
I've never heard this assertion before. Got a cite?
How do you "rip off" something in the public domain? Doesn't "public domain" mean "no copyright"?
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I read a book called The Coming of the Quantum Cats years ago. The author decided that one party in the book used straight binary mathematics, and he came up with words to replace base-10 words. Not that this would help with hex, but it was mildly amusing reading (since one character -- an accountant -- had to learn the new language).
Any Desktop that does not give you a term window icon/option at first boot is not worth running.
Hmm. I haven't used KDE past 3.0.1 yet, but kicker has always had a konsole icon on it, IME, all the way back to (at least) KDE 1 beta 4. Has this changed?
the redundant software can just be downloaded off the net.
When I decided to take a look at Xemacs for my Java development last week, I was glad that it was on my SuSE CD so that I didn't have to download the sucker over my lousy dial-up connection.
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I looked into it, myself, but I couldn't find the full distribution on CD. Not all of us have DSL or cable modem. 8-(
I'll occasionally switch temporarily to a lower resolution if I'm browsing an image Web site that uses too-small thumbnails.
Heh. Launch feedback is your friend.
I have to admit, though, before launch feedback appeared in KDE, I got used to glancing at the HDD activity light to see if my app was launching. I still tend to do that rather than check the feedback icon in KasBar.
(Lack of an HDD activity light is one of my G4 Mac's bigger irritants....)
Yeah, that little bit of self-satisfaction makes up for the convenience electricity provides the 99.9% of the time it's working.
BTW, "Creates a shock"? Are the Amish allowed to make puns? I thought that was a mortal sin or somethin'.
Salon's the only content-oriented Web site I've found so far that is worth paying for.
This is a character who can't operate a phone-answering machine and who doesn't think to check the batteries when his PDA goes dead.
And I still can't get my checkbook to balance.
Hypocrite. I quote from you, "[B]ecause the JDK starts up too slowly, because Swing suffers from obesity, and because both memory and disk footprints of the JRE are a disaster." You're not only stating your opinion as if it were fact, but you're also making a global judgement that what you perceive as faults make the JDK, JRE, and Swing useless to anyone.
I can't remember...did he make his "no landing" decision before or after the GP hull went *poof*?
I like to user ReiserFS on partitions that I know will contain tons of small files, like my /var/spool/news. I prefer to journal data as well as metadata, though, which is why I use ext3fs for most of my partitions, especially my /home.
Oh, well. At least he didn't spell it, "Wala!".
Just replace "plasma" by "chroniton", and you've written a Star Trek script!
Nah. It's not cool until the commits automatically download themselves to my PC and recompile the affected software in the background. I want my software updated at random intervals to the most bleeding-edge version possible! Mwah-ha-ha-hahaha!
I spent an afternoon trying to get X to work under FreeBSD. I had less trouble getting it to work with a Slackware distribution I bought six years ago. Too bad, really. The ports system looked really slick.
You can not only patent actual algorithms, you can also patent simple concepts, like hyperlinking. These sorts of patents are making software development more difficult; and, unless you have a staff of tech lawyers to pore over thousands of patents, you are becoming more likely to violate a patent inadvertantly.
No, but you can bankrupt the defendent with legal costs. The best part is, if you lose, you don't have to pay the defendant any reparations!
Anyway, how much money does Linus have? I haven't gotten the impression that he's exactly rolling in dough.
Don't tell me they're on strike. I have to get to work!
It's been a long time since I've seen the movie, but, AFAICR, Marty's counterpart wasn't around because Biff disliked him, probably because he knew Marty was George McFly's son, not his.
And, of course, Doc Brown's counterpart was in an insane asylum.
I'd love to, but I'm stuck on a dial-up connection. Is there any way to get a snapshot of all Gentoo on CD-ROM or DVD? I've been checking out the Linux stores without any luck.
Hell, Appleworks 6 crashes whenever I try to open a Word doc with it. Pretty lame.
How do you "rip off" something in the public domain? Doesn't "public domain" mean "no copyright"?
I read a book called The Coming of the Quantum Cats years ago. The author decided that one party in the book used straight binary mathematics, and he came up with words to replace base-10 words. Not that this would help with hex, but it was mildly amusing reading (since one character -- an accountant -- had to learn the new language).
Hmm. I haven't used KDE past 3.0.1 yet, but kicker has always had a konsole icon on it, IME, all the way back to (at least) KDE 1 beta 4. Has this changed?
When I decided to take a look at Xemacs for my Java development last week, I was glad that it was on my SuSE CD so that I didn't have to download the sucker over my lousy dial-up connection.
Non sequitur.
It opens time up for doing things such as having a life.
Trolling Slashdot != Having a Life