In Phoenix
Page Info->Links
This lists all the links on the page, too bad you can't have it as a sidebar or something (yet).
For opening all links (Or all picture links, or all pictures, or several other options) phoenix has the Linky Extension, which does what you need.
I personally don't think looking at so much Pr0n is a good idea, but I do use those features for other purposes, so I thought I would inform you of their existence
The phoenix web browser has something like this. Instead of including features that only a small group will use in the main release, they have an extension architecture.
You basically install the extension you want (Tabbed Browsing Extensions, Mouse Gestures etc...) , while not getting all the stuff you don't want (In my case that's things like the Digger extension)
This way the overall download size is decreased, and the features usefull (And only the features usefull) are increased.
Many companies do not pay interns, said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Wellesley, Mass.-based Salary.com, a software company that researches corporate pay and employment practices. He estimated that an internship at Microsoft may pay as much as $25 an hour, or $1,000 a week.
While I have never done some things advanced as you have done, (I have never set up raid partitions, for example), I have done much more than what the average user would do using Mandrake.
I'm not suggesting you use it (I'm not sure it has as much support for what you need), but it is enough for the average user, and it configured my printer automagically. Didn't even need me to insert a disk. Just went into the control panel, it auto detected it, and everything was over within 30 seconds, works fine.
Red Hat might not be as easy in some things, but that's not it's primary goal. I think all distros whose primary goal is "ease of use" should have printing under control by now, but they may lack some more powerful, harder to use features. But I think most users would be fine with something like Mandrake once they are educated...
Yeah, but it is also a long way from other peoples estimates. Take into account creationists, for example. These people (Myself Included) believe that the earth is a mere few thousand years old.
Several thousand and several billion are big differences, what they are trying to prove is that it is older than the creationists say, therefore nullifying the faith of three major world religions.
But don't worry, it won't be long before the creationists come up with a counter argument. Here are their answers to why the earth is still young, let's watch and see if they can fight this argument... (Sorry, the format for their arguments is sort of in a "lesson plan" style, don't have time to find something better)
I think it is all to do with advertsising
Microsoft had adds all over the city at the release of XP. Apple currently have adds advertising how easy digial media is, even for the home computer. What does Linux have? A couple of people in online forums, a nerdy cousing who uses it, and that's about it.
Because there is no one company who owns it, there is no one to advertise it. For this reason few people even know why it exists, let alone why it is superior to Windows.
Here's the challenge then: It is up to us, the Linux users to distribute it. We cannot put big advertsising campaigns on, so it has to be a more of a personal thing. Educate your friends and family, then let them do the same to others. It is certainly slower, but in the long range more benefitial.
First of all, could you let us know when (If at all) you last used Linux, and what distribution it was. Things may have come along way since you last used it.
Now, I do respect that you like the Mac, and I don't blame you... There's a high chance I would have one too if I could afford it, but I can't, so cheap hardware and free software are a good choice for me.
Now anyway, I have not had to use emacs, and I don't have to mess around in config files. I use Mandrake 9, it is extremely easy, although a few rough edges, and it comes ready to do pretty much anything, no going to the store and reaching into your wallet to buy more software. It's control center is easily as easy, and more powerful, than the windows equivilant. Admittably the documentation isn't as good, but there is no need for it.
What I do like though, is that if there is something the control center can't do, there is something I can do. Just because it can't be done automagically, doesn't mean it can't be done. If there is some advanced feature I'm looking for, instead of giving up at the control center, I have the option, if necessary, to edit the config files.
You see, ease of use is not about that there is config files, but it is about wether or not you have to use them.
At some point Linux is going to have to stop playing catch-up to MS and start being better if they want me to jump ship.
Mozilla has done this, the Desktop Environments have done this, it's just that users aren't shown how to take advantages of the changes.
For example, tabbed browsing. After raving to my friend about it, and then showing him, he seemed pretty disapointed. It wasn't till I showed him a practical use (A forum he visits) that he would understand. Now he complains every time he has to use IE. Same with virtual desktops. These are incredible, they save me a huge amount of time, and make my computing experience more organised. What's the problem? I had to learn how to use it by myself, there was no tutorial showing me what to do, or how it works. Now I can't stand using Windows or Macs.
I hope you're getting my point. Linux already has many features that are unseen in the Microsoft World, it's just that many don't understand them. You probably won't listen to me rave about virtual desktops, you'll think "I'm fine, and I don't use them", but when you do use them, and understand them, you don't want to go back.
What needs to happen, is for those who don't use these features to be educated. They need to be shown how to use it, how using it makes work easier/faster/better and they need to understand the concepts involved.
Features already exist, but I'm just trying to impress on you the fact that they go largely unused by those who are afraid to try on their own.
there's no global software installation system that Just WorksAutoopackage has some good ideas, hopefully something like this will be implemented across most of the distros...
Sorry, some of the other replies you have recieved don't seem to be very helpful.
Now, when you installed Mandrake, I hope you chose to install "Database Server" (MySQL) and "Web Server" (Apache).
What you need to do:
Pick an Editor
My personal favourite is KATE (K Advanced Text Editor). It has PHP highlighting built in (Easier on the eyes), it can have multiple documents open at the same time, and has some advanced features in comparison to WordPad.
Save it to server directory
This is located at/var/www/html/
Pick a browser
Mandrake comes with several browsers (Start->Networking->WWW) but my personal favourite is Phoenix.
Test it in the browser
Say you saved you PHP script to
/var/www/html/myscript.php then you would be able to access it by typing in the address
http://localhost/myscript.php This should work fine.
Configuration
I found the default configuration fine, but I needed to set up users for mysql.
To do this I used Webmin, it should be on your Install CD if it isn't installed already. Once you have Webmin installed, in your browser visit:
https://localhost:10000/ Log in using your root (Admin) name and password. Then click servers, then click mysql, and there you go.
For a frontend to mysql, i would suggest using PHPMyAdmin
Learning PHP
For learning PHP, I would suggest buying a book (I used "PHP A Beginners's Guide", published by osborne see
here
If you just want to use online resources, I personally think PHP's online manual (Just search The PHP Website. I also find PHP Freaks a good site, with lots of tutorials, examples, free scripts and a friendly forum, if you get stuck
Hopefully that's enough
If you need more help, feel free to email me. People will also be happy to help you at MandrakeExpert.com and for specific PHP needs, go to the above mentioned PHP Freaks.
Hope I was able to help!
Just a quick note, the PHP Freaks site seems to be down now, but hopefully it'll come back up soon, it is a really good site.
Geeks, who usually don't have any aesthetic sense worth speaking of, and who use mice and keyboards more often than any other object, will not get as big a boost in productivity. Sorry.
I'm a geek and have great hand eye coordination. I once played Breakout for 3 hours without the ball touching the ground
I think it will be very similar to pong and tetris.
They will probably have very nice looking versions, while retaining the gameplay. It will probably be free and distributed on all new computers. People will keep telling you to play the latest game, but you enjoy the *original* flavour of the gameplay. I can see this happenning with many games we have today.
I must agree. In Linux (Mandrake 9.0) I run phoenix 0.4 (Just upgraded from 0.3) and am loving it. In my opinion, it has surpassed Mozilla in web browsing, but has a long way to go. It has a lot of good ideas, and is developing them fast.
Phoenix is also noticably faster, especially the startup times. Thankyou to the phoenix team for your great work (May it all be ported back to Mozilla)
This is because of the way the webpage calls the popup. The website in question probably called the popup through a function *they* have defined.
<a href="#top" onclick="window.open('http://yahoo.com',)">
This would open the new window correctly
<a href="#top" onclick="open_the_new_winow()">
Where open_the_new_window() is a function defined by the page to open a new window, and possibly do something else.
This would not work, because most popups are called through page defined functions, these have been blocked. It would be very difficult for the developers to be able to tell the difference between this sort of an open window script, and a popup add. That is why it is not considered a bug.
That's actually a really good idea.
If all the OSS Word Processors created a file format that worked seamlessly from program to program, it would be a major plus for all the smaller word processors.
It would allow for competition in Linux word processors, without having to worry about file format compatibility problems.
Then if someone just creates a script which converts MS Office docs (on mass, like every one inside the directory structure) to this wonderful new format (Should be possible thanks to Open Office) and it would be much easier to then switch to OSS.
I personally have no problems with the current open office format, but if they made it human readable, so it can be created from plain text editors if necessary...
If they where able to copy an entire mind, and get the duplicated mind to run as per normal (Which I really don't think would work anyway) then what would you do with the duplicated mind.
Would it be used as a slave, a backup? I can't imagine that the duplicated mind will wish to become a slave, and staying in backup, doing nothing, without being able to think, I hardly think the duplicated mind will give in to that either.
People think that the duplicated version will be exactly the same, but will submit to anything. If it is exactly duplicated, it would want to be the one on top, and you might end up being the backup / slave. Just think, every bad thing you do to the duplicate, you're causing _yourself_ pain.
Doesn't sound like something I want to be doing,
If I want eternal life I'll wait for heaven
Slashdot Mirror
If you register a domain with google, does it automatically give you free advertising through their search pages?
From the website:
Support for Internet Explorer 6.
In Phoenix Page Info->Links This lists all the links on the page, too bad you can't have it as a sidebar or something (yet). For opening all links (Or all picture links, or all pictures, or several other options) phoenix has the Linky Extension, which does what you need. I personally don't think looking at so much Pr0n is a good idea, but I do use those features for other purposes, so I thought I would inform you of their existence
You basically install the extension you want (Tabbed Browsing Extensions, Mouse Gestures etc...) , while not getting all the stuff you don't want (In my case that's things like the Digger extension) This way the overall download size is decreased, and the features usefull (And only the features usefull) are increased.
it works fine in ooimpress, but the point isn't compatibility. It has those wonderful dissolve animations all through it!!!
Many companies do not pay interns, said Bill Coleman, senior vice president of compensation for Wellesley, Mass.-based Salary.com, a software company that researches corporate pay and employment practices. He estimated that an internship at Microsoft may pay as much as $25 an hour, or $1,000 a week.
While I have never done some things advanced as you have done, (I have never set up raid partitions, for example), I have done much more than what the average user would do using Mandrake.
I'm not suggesting you use it (I'm not sure it has as much support for what you need), but it is enough for the average user, and it configured my printer automagically. Didn't even need me to insert a disk. Just went into the control panel, it auto detected it, and everything was over within 30 seconds, works fine.
Red Hat might not be as easy in some things, but that's not it's primary goal. I think all distros whose primary goal is "ease of use" should have printing under control by now, but they may lack some more powerful, harder to use features. But I think most users would be fine with something like Mandrake once they are educated...
Several thousand and several billion are big differences, what they are trying to prove is that it is older than the creationists say, therefore nullifying the faith of three major world religions.
But don't worry, it won't be long before the creationists come up with a counter argument. Here are their answers to why the earth is still young, let's watch and see if they can fight this argument... (Sorry, the format for their arguments is sort of in a "lesson plan" style, don't have time to find something better)
Microsoft had adds all over the city at the release of XP. Apple currently have adds advertising how easy digial media is, even for the home computer. What does Linux have? A couple of people in online forums, a nerdy cousing who uses it, and that's about it.
Because there is no one company who owns it, there is no one to advertise it. For this reason few people even know why it exists, let alone why it is superior to Windows.
Here's the challenge then: It is up to us, the Linux users to distribute it. We cannot put big advertsising campaigns on, so it has to be a more of a personal thing. Educate your friends and family, then let them do the same to others. It is certainly slower, but in the long range more benefitial.
Now, I do respect that you like the Mac, and I don't blame you... There's a high chance I would have one too if I could afford it, but I can't, so cheap hardware and free software are a good choice for me.
Now anyway, I have not had to use emacs, and I don't have to mess around in config files. I use Mandrake 9, it is extremely easy, although a few rough edges, and it comes ready to do pretty much anything, no going to the store and reaching into your wallet to buy more software. It's control center is easily as easy, and more powerful, than the windows equivilant. Admittably the documentation isn't as good, but there is no need for it.
What I do like though, is that if there is something the control center can't do, there is something I can do. Just because it can't be done automagically, doesn't mean it can't be done. If there is some advanced feature I'm looking for, instead of giving up at the control center, I have the option, if necessary, to edit the config files.
You see, ease of use is not about that there is config files, but it is about wether or not you have to use them.
Mozilla has done this, the Desktop Environments have done this, it's just that users aren't shown how to take advantages of the changes.
For example, tabbed browsing. After raving to my friend about it, and then showing him, he seemed pretty disapointed. It wasn't till I showed him a practical use (A forum he visits) that he would understand. Now he complains every time he has to use IE. Same with virtual desktops. These are incredible, they save me a huge amount of time, and make my computing experience more organised. What's the problem? I had to learn how to use it by myself, there was no tutorial showing me what to do, or how it works. Now I can't stand using Windows or Macs.
I hope you're getting my point. Linux already has many features that are unseen in the Microsoft World, it's just that many don't understand them. You probably won't listen to me rave about virtual desktops, you'll think "I'm fine, and I don't use them", but when you do use them, and understand them, you don't want to go back.
What needs to happen, is for those who don't use these features to be educated. They need to be shown how to use it, how using it makes work easier/faster/better and they need to understand the concepts involved.
Features already exist, but I'm just trying to impress on you the fact that they go largely unused by those who are afraid to try on their own.
Is this just an example of it's implementation or have they added something new?
there's no global software installation system that Just Works Autoopackage has some good ideas, hopefully something like this will be implemented across most of the distros...
My personal favourite is KATE (K Advanced Text Editor). It has PHP highlighting built in (Easier on the eyes), it can have multiple documents open at the same time, and has some advanced features in comparison to WordPad.
This is located at
Mandrake comes with several browsers (Start->Networking->WWW) but my personal favourite is Phoenix.
then you would be able to access it by typing in the address
http://localhost/myscript.php
This should work fine.
I found the default configuration fine, but I needed to set up users for mysql. To do this I used Webmin, it should be on your Install CD if it isn't installed already. Once you have Webmin installed, in your browser visit:
https://localhost:10000/
Log in using your root (Admin) name and password. Then click servers, then click mysql, and there you go. For a frontend to mysql, i would suggest using PHPMyAdmin
For learning PHP, I would suggest buying a book (I used "PHP A Beginners's Guide", published by osborne see here If you just want to use online resources, I personally think PHP's online manual (Just search The PHP Website. I also find PHP Freaks a good site, with lots of tutorials, examples, free scripts and a friendly forum, if you get stuck
If you need more help, feel free to email me. People will also be happy to help you at MandrakeExpert.com and for specific PHP needs, go to the above mentioned PHP Freaks. Hope I was able to help!
Just a quick note, the PHP Freaks site seems to be down now, but hopefully it'll come back up soon, it is a really good site.
Jason O'Neil
I would be surprised if anyone reads this far, but this reaches 3rd place on the hall of fames most active stories. Congratulations people!
I'm a geek and have great hand eye coordination. I once played Breakout for 3 hours without the ball touching the ground
I think it will be very similar to pong and tetris. They will probably have very nice looking versions, while retaining the gameplay. It will probably be free and distributed on all new computers. People will keep telling you to play the latest game, but you enjoy the *original* flavour of the gameplay. I can see this happenning with many games we have today.
Phoenix is also noticably faster, especially the startup times. Thankyou to the phoenix team for your great work (May it all be ported back to Mozilla)
<a href="#top" onclick="window.open('http://yahoo.com',)">
This would open the new window correctly
<a href="#top" onclick="open_the_new_winow()">
Where open_the_new_window() is a function defined by the page to open a new window, and possibly do something else.
This would not work, because most popups are called through page defined functions, these have been blocked.
It would be very difficult for the developers to be able to tell the difference between this sort of an open window script, and a popup add. That is why it is not considered a bug.
If the page was not linked to, google should be unable to find it. (Unless it was added manually something in google, not the web crawler.)
I think most Linux users spend there time at /.
I know that's all I've done in the past month.
It would allow for competition in Linux word processors, without having to worry about file format compatibility problems.
Then if someone just creates a script which converts MS Office docs (on mass, like every one inside the directory structure) to this wonderful new format (Should be possible thanks to Open Office) and it would be much easier to then switch to OSS.
I personally have no problems with the current open office format, but if they made it human readable, so it can be created from plain text editors if necessary...
Quick somebody suggest it to them
Would it be used as a slave, a backup? I can't imagine that the duplicated mind will wish to become a slave, and staying in backup, doing nothing, without being able to think, I hardly think the duplicated mind will give in to that either.
People think that the duplicated version will be exactly the same, but will submit to anything. If it is exactly duplicated, it would want to be the one on top, and you might end up being the backup / slave. Just think, every bad thing you do to the duplicate, you're causing _yourself_ pain.
Doesn't sound like something I want to be doing,
If I want eternal life I'll wait for heaven
Australia doesn't have a nucleur weopens program, that's known to anyone. (Too many secrets to be sure)
Maybe they'll release a light weight, stand alone version of everything (Seperate Mail client, IRC etc)
That would be good, because on Windows, Mozilla Mail is still my favourite mail client.