Conversation with #compiz-fusion at Tue 03 Mar 2009 12:12:07 PM SAST on davidfraser@irc.freenode.net (irc) (12:12:43 PM) davidfraser: I'm trying to get compiz to switch my Viewports independently for two screens - the mmmode setting seems to have no effect (12:13:00 PM) davidfraser: I'm using Xrandr - do I need to rather configure multiple monitors in my xorg.conf to make this work? (12:21:34 PM) maniac103: davidfraser: you need separate X screens (separate screen sections in xorg.conf), otherwise it's not possible (12:21:50 PM) davidfraser: thanks maniac103 (12:22:12 PM) ***davidfraser thinks this is suboptimal, particularly for laptops where screens are attached and removed mid-session (12:34:55 PM) crdlb: davidfraser: regardless, xrandr-output-specific viewport movement would be total crack (12:56:40 PM) davidfraser: crdlb: Why do you say xrandr-output-specific viewport movement would be total crack? Methinks it would totally rock (12:57:23 PM) adamk_: It would be one massive hack to implement. (12:57:41 PM) davidfraser: That's true... (12:58:15 PM) adamk_: Well what developer wants to constantly maintain a nasty hack moving forward? (01:02:40 PM) davidfraser: OK the question is is it a desirable feature - if so perhaps more APIs etc need to be added to X to make it feasible in a non-hacky way (01:09:52 PM) adamk_: I don't like it in e17, so I doubt I'd like it in compiz. I'm quite sure others would feel differently. (01:09:56 PM) adamk_: So get coding then:-) (01:13:52 PM) davidfraser::-)
Actually he did not run away from them - see the wikipedia article on him - the original reports that he vaulted the barrier and that the police challenged him seem to be false too.
> At some point Menezes entered the Tube station at about 10: 00 a.m., stopping to pick up a free Metro newspaper. He used his Oyster card to pay the fare, walked through the barriers, and descended the escalator slowly. He then ran across the platform to board the newly arrived train. Menezes boarded the train and found one of the first available seats.
How is it more decentralized? Google wave is designed so that you can run your own servers and they all communicate over a federated XMPP network. The protocols are open extensions to XMPP, and their server code will be released as open source...
The question I ask is, why on earth do we allow branding of drugs? If they were sold just explicitly listing the proper medical names of their components it would clear things up a lot.
We create things that travel faster than the speed of light in other media all the time. The blue Cherenkov Radiation glow in fission reactors is caused by particles exceeding the speed of light in water, and creating a light shockwave analogous to the sound shockwave that e.g. supersonic aircraft produce.
When you say "we", I'm presuming you're referring to all those of us who have fission reactors giving off Cherenkov Radiation glow in our back sheds...
Not really - that "OpenDocument Foundation" wasn't an official group representing the OpenDocument format or committee, but just a few people trying to push it the way they wanted it to go...
This is rubbish. If you can't get explicit agreement from a contributor you need to trace them down or replace their contribution, unless you have explicitly obtained the contribution under a licensing agreement.
In this case, Wikimedia's licensing agreement under which contributions were made explicitly allows changing the license to a later version of GFDL, and the latest version of that allows relicensing under CC-BY-SA 3.0 - see many other posts here for the full explanation.
So the voting is about whether Wikimedia's community agree with the policy, not about whether you agree with your submissions being relicensed - you already gave them that right (without assigning copyright to them)
So what do the people running the cloud do at Christmas if most of the people they're supporting need 10 times the load? Clearly there could be an advantage in other situations, but it doesn't solve everything...
You have to remember motorbikes and auto-rickshaws which are another common form of transport. Cheap low-emissions cars could well replace those, reducing the net pollution per person transported...
You could probably combine it with the WikiInclude plugin, so you can add a fold that then includes text from another wiki page (which you can therefore share to multiple pages in different folds)
In the article it said that they had some of the mice raised by mice who hadn't been exposed to the better environment and had the same genetic defect as the parents - these offspring also experienced a memory benefit from their biological parents
This is likely to be untrue - it depends on the platform the TV runs on; presumably the boot images are for x86; it's unlikely that's what the TV is running...
Last time I checked, knowing how to compile a kernel does NOT make someone a "hardcore user"
I think you mean knowing how to get a computer to compile a kernel. If you actually know how to compile a kernel yourself, without any machine assistance, I'd rank you a "hardcore user" alright.
That all validates my scheme of naming machines after names from translations of Tolkien... besides it makes an interesting exercise in searching the web (how do you Google for a translation of a name in a book? There are some lists which help... and inter-lingual wikipedia links), so:
Hear hear. Trac's nifty integration of wiki syntax into every field and the ability to easy cross-reference wiki, revision control, and tickets make it a winner for me.
Absolutely - Michael Ramsden has pointed out that "tolerating" something is actually quite a derogatory stance - I'd rather have someone disagree with me or agree with me than tolerate me - it implies a patronizing attitude.
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I tried to suggest this on IRC last year:
:-) :-)
Conversation with #compiz-fusion at Tue 03 Mar 2009 12:12:07 PM SAST on davidfraser@irc.freenode.net (irc)
(12:12:43 PM) davidfraser: I'm trying to get compiz to switch my Viewports independently for two screens - the mmmode setting seems to have no effect
(12:13:00 PM) davidfraser: I'm using Xrandr - do I need to rather configure multiple monitors in my xorg.conf to make this work?
(12:21:34 PM) maniac103: davidfraser: you need separate X screens (separate screen sections in xorg.conf), otherwise it's not possible
(12:21:50 PM) davidfraser: thanks maniac103
(12:22:12 PM) ***davidfraser thinks this is suboptimal, particularly for laptops where screens are attached and removed mid-session
(12:34:55 PM) crdlb: davidfraser: regardless, xrandr-output-specific viewport movement would be total crack
(12:56:40 PM) davidfraser: crdlb: Why do you say xrandr-output-specific viewport movement would be total crack? Methinks it would totally rock
(12:57:23 PM) adamk_: It would be one massive hack to implement.
(12:57:41 PM) davidfraser: That's true...
(12:58:15 PM) adamk_: Well what developer wants to constantly maintain a nasty hack moving forward?
(01:02:40 PM) davidfraser: OK the question is is it a desirable feature - if so perhaps more APIs etc need to be added to X to make it feasible in a non-hacky way
(01:09:52 PM) adamk_: I don't like it in e17, so I doubt I'd like it in compiz. I'm quite sure others would feel differently.
(01:09:56 PM) adamk_: So get coding then
(01:13:52 PM) davidfraser:
Correction, Komodo Edit is open source - free as in speech - the full IDE contains proprietary extensions to it
Actually he did not run away from them - see the wikipedia article on him - the original reports that he vaulted the barrier and that the police challenged him seem to be false too. > At some point Menezes entered the Tube station at about 10: 00 a.m., stopping to pick up a free Metro newspaper. He used his Oyster card to pay the fare, walked through the barriers, and descended the escalator slowly. He then ran across the platform to board the newly arrived train. Menezes boarded the train and found one of the first available seats.
How is it more decentralized? Google wave is designed so that you can run your own servers and they all communicate over a federated XMPP network. The protocols are open extensions to XMPP, and their server code will be released as open source...
The question I ask is, why on earth do we allow branding of drugs? If they were sold just explicitly listing the proper medical names of their components it would clear things up a lot.
We create things that travel faster than the speed of light in other media all the time. The blue Cherenkov Radiation glow in fission reactors is caused by particles exceeding the speed of light in water, and creating a light shockwave analogous to the sound shockwave that e.g. supersonic aircraft produce.
When you say "we", I'm presuming you're referring to all those of us who have fission reactors giving off Cherenkov Radiation glow in our back sheds...
You do realize that the Bible was written by men with an odd woman thrown in, right?
What was odd about the woman? :-)
Ah cool thanks
It's worth clarifying that although his blog post did help to point out a particular performance problem, he wasn't the one who coded the fix ...
And what's the cost of producing those solar cells, etc?
Not really - that "OpenDocument Foundation" wasn't an official group representing the OpenDocument format or committee, but just a few people trying to push it the way they wanted it to go...
Woops, selected Overrated instead of Funny by mistake when moderating, so commenting to overturn it...
This is rubbish. If you can't get explicit agreement from a contributor you need to trace them down or replace their contribution, unless you have explicitly obtained the contribution under a licensing agreement.
In this case, Wikimedia's licensing agreement under which contributions were made explicitly allows changing the license to a later version of GFDL, and the latest version of that allows relicensing under CC-BY-SA 3.0 - see many other posts here for the full explanation.
So the voting is about whether Wikimedia's community agree with the policy, not about whether you agree with your submissions being relicensed - you already gave them that right (without assigning copyright to them)
So what do the people running the cloud do at Christmas if most of the people they're supporting need 10 times the load? Clearly there could be an advantage in other situations, but it doesn't solve everything...
You have to remember motorbikes and auto-rickshaws which are another common form of transport. Cheap low-emissions cars could well replace those, reducing the net pollution per person transported...
Mod parent up, this is useful info...
You could probably combine it with the WikiInclude plugin, so you can add a fold that then includes text from another wiki page (which you can therefore share to multiple pages in different folds)
In the article it said that they had some of the mice raised by mice who hadn't been exposed to the better environment and had the same genetic defect as the parents - these offspring also experienced a memory benefit from their biological parents
This is likely to be untrue - it depends on the platform the TV runs on; presumably the boot images are for x86; it's unlikely that's what the TV is running...
Last time I checked, knowing how to compile a kernel does NOT make someone a "hardcore user"
I think you mean knowing how to get a computer to compile a kernel. If you actually know how to compile a kernel yourself, without any machine assistance, I'd rank you a "hardcore user" alright.
19 cross-sectional studies, 5 case-control studies, 3 cohort studies, and 1 partner study showed that the relative risk for HIV infection was 44% lower in circumcised men. Where's your evidence?
Hear hear. Trac's nifty integration of wiki syntax into every field and the ability to easy cross-reference wiki, revision control, and tickets make it a winner for me.
You can't say "thank God" - it's agnostic kaching!
Absolutely - Michael Ramsden has pointed out that "tolerating" something is actually quite a derogatory stance - I'd rather have someone disagree with me or agree with me than tolerate me - it implies a patronizing attitude.