X-Windows is the first window environment I worked with where copy/paste works the X-way.
Then for me came MacOS 5.x ( <APP>Z, <APP>X, <APP>C and <APP>V ). MS Windows basically copied the MacOS behavior but with the <APP> key missing on the AT keyboard, the <APP> was replaced by ^ (Control). Now how am I supposed to differ between an interrupt signal and a copy command? Sure, shift-insert etc... Bugger!
Most of the time (say 99% of the cases) I intend the selection to be put into the copy buffer and I want to paste it somewhere else. I hate having to do ^C and ^V on MS Windows and love the selection/middle button from X-Windows.
In fact, I find the MS Windows user interface the prohibitive factor in being productive on MS Windows. Just watch me writing code on xterm/vi!
People have the habit if actually using their bluetooth head-set when walking, biking or kick-boarding -IMHO bluetooth head-set are supposed to be just a joke.
Like what's so important that can't wait a couple of minutes? The really bad thing is that it looks very geeky but most of the people that do this are actually mere exhibitionist wannabe managers.
I'm a programmer and I hate GUIs for writing stuff.
Moving in a document is hell with a mouse. Sure it works but doesn't compare
with vi and emacs. Text search requires most of the times an extra window
(dialog) which may/will screw up the focus, requiring one or more ALT-TABs.
Should I go on with substitutes?
Mozilla has done some decent work in the keyboard driven GUI control but
it's still not mainstream.
If I'd have the choice of a decent ASCII based language that is incorporated
in an office suite I'd switch straight away.
And no, runoff and TeX are no alternatives because non technical users neither
use them nor their derived formats. Maybe I'm looking for the Holy Grail.
Reluctantly using MS Office and a bit less reluctantly Openoffice.
Try typing LIST with a recalcitrant T
You don't need to!! Just type li followed by the symbol that looks like and upper right corner -which is used as a wildcard kind of thing. I did this back in 1979 so you need to check...
that the unnamed country was in fact Switzerland
And now you want me to respond to that so you can narrow down your search domain. No way buddy. You must be a CIA newbie. I deduct that easily on account that Switzerland has no sea shore.
I know of a hotel owner (owner, resort and country shall remain unnamed) with
a reputation of being a prankster, that used to ask his American guests when
leaving whether they had a stamp of the resort in their passports. Most of his
guests answered with the innocent/naive "No, we didn't get one when we
passed customs." Whereupon he kindly offered and actually succeeded in
providing one. After a couple of months he received an official letter from the
US embassy where he was asked to stop his actions otherwise they'd send in
the US navy. What better statement of your whit would you like?
Please I'd like to be modded down as insulting to the US of A.
The thing is that you can't prove a causal relationship between file sharing and record sales. Your local franchise of the RIAA will be inclined to state that actually a 12% increase was expected and the hence file sharing harms business.
I vaguely recollect: The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford (1871-1937)
Of women have a sense of humour - most of us end up dating/married to men.
No offense intended and I do not want to sound patronizing but in modern western society dating is easier for women and marrying is easier for men.
Ever since people started relying on these, their spelling has gone way downhill simly because they don't bother thinking.
Disagreed. Spell checkers show me the mistakes/typos I make and allow me to reflect on them. Since decent, general purpose spell checkers are around my spelling has been improving. Especially English which isn't my native language.
FYI: I made just one small mistake in this posting.
We all know that free SW isn't necessarily gratis. It costs to write it
and it costs even a lot more to administer, maintain and support it.
You can try selling your services just like RMS says and try to keep control
over the SW you produce. This is not easy but neither is it impossible. I
manage to work this way since a couple of years now.
Businesses hire me to develop/support business systems and pay me a very
decent amount of money. The first SW I produce is usually to meet the
time-to-market needs and hence more often than not it is specific for the
customer, so I don't care too much about GPL-ing it. Then I try abstracting
general purpose knowledge I obtained in the process and cast it into
general purpose GPL SW which eventually will be used by my client. (I must add that although I'm not too bad a programmer I realize that
there are a lot of guys [mainly] out there that out-program me, that have
much fresher and usable ideas and that work in larger groups/communities
that are prone to achieve much more than I do. And so my contribution
to free software is minute (but not NULL) compared to programmer gods.)
It is also realistic to realize that you're most likely to be a main stream/mortal programmer (otherwise you wouldn't be reading this post but programming
for big money) and that you're prone to spend more time administering your work
than writing actual programs. Since I started offering GPL SW of a reasonable
quality to the world my qualities as a SW pro boosted. I combine these two
facts and I conclude that "giving away" GPL software doesn't cost me too much
and results in me getting better.
With that in mind it's easier for me to accept "the loss" of control and
exclusive ownership over GPL SW I wrote.
As usual, it helps if you actually have to deliver something because goals
inspire -unless you are very very lazy.
You can almost do anything you want with Perl (although I personally think
it's best suited for heavy duty text parsing and system
programming) so that makes your choise of goal easy.
In Perl I've written syadmin tools (for quiter nights), an MIS (to
reduce manager questions), mass C code mutation programs (to save on C
programmers which I would not have gotten anyway), a primitive multi access
DB (manegement dissallowed the use of anything else than C,/bin/sh or
Perl), DB/info sytem access tools, daemons, schedulers, code generators,
CGI programs and much more.
Fedora seemed bent on making everything I need to do hard as hell and putting things out of the way. Most irritating was GDM, which decided that if I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace I really didn't want to kill X so I could install the NVIDIA drivers, I just wanted X to restart. It shipped with a broken kudzu meaning that hardware detection didn't work properly...gah.
Which person do you think made the better impression? The best communicator of course!
You're fixating on sugar coating. You can actually use technical OS flaws to build up a presentation long bond with people. You can also portray yourself as a down to earth person that uses any available technology to bring a message.
A techno-fixation is likely to distract you from the topic and from the audience.
the clutch
Boy clutches and shift-sticks are for commies and other thugs that don't
abide no law. Besides that the use of the clutch as you describe is bound
to be a DMCA violation!
Stick with good ole American automatic cars, Sony and Microsoft products and
blue jeans. And don't forget to dedicate your prayers to the RIAA.
Er, "m" in Europe/Africa is 1e6, right?
No. "m" stands for milli, "M" stands form million. In a semi-scientific notation you should probably write 30m$/30M$/30mUSD/30MUSD.
In the context 30MUSD is probably meant although as you already put it, it might as well be 30mUSD as both figures don't look equally silly.
since when do end users get a say in their operating system? Never underestimate the political power of doctors in a hospital. In most cases hospitals are organized like the army. That is, doctors -and not managers- are in charge of departments even though they are not trained to be managers but to cure people. The most obvious sad case is where a doctor manages a nursing department. Doctors cure and nurses nurse.
Don't expect the IT department to be free of doctors' influence. You're in luck if they think rationally and even more if the IT and the doctor's ideas coincide -in one perverse way or another.
Slashdot Mirror
I want my communication to be asynchronous and broadcast based like on Usenet or slashdot.
Like hell I'll be wasting my time looking for cyberbuddies. Now please excuse me, I need to barf.
X-Windows is the first window environment I worked with where copy/paste works the X-way.
Then for me came MacOS 5.x ( <APP>Z, <APP>X, <APP>C and <APP>V ). MS Windows basically copied the MacOS behavior but with the <APP> key missing on the AT keyboard, the <APP> was replaced by ^ (Control). Now how am I supposed to differ between an interrupt signal and a copy command? Sure, shift-insert etc... Bugger!
Most of the time (say 99% of the cases) I intend the selection to be put into the copy buffer and I want to paste it somewhere else. I hate having to do ^C and ^V on MS Windows and love the selection/middle button from X-Windows.
In fact, I find the MS Windows user interface the prohibitive factor in being productive on MS Windows. Just watch me writing code on xterm/vi!
to run some kind of dodgy business.
Anyway, I find cdrdao quite helpful.
People have the habit if actually using their bluetooth head-set when walking, biking or kick-boarding -IMHO bluetooth head-set are supposed to be just a joke.
Like what's so important that can't wait a couple of minutes? The really bad thing is that it looks very geeky but most of the people that do this are actually mere exhibitionist wannabe managers.
I'm a programmer and I hate GUIs for writing stuff.
Moving in a document is hell with a mouse. Sure it works but doesn't compare with vi and emacs. Text search requires most of the times an extra window (dialog) which may/will screw up the focus, requiring one or more ALT-TABs. Should I go on with substitutes?
Mozilla has done some decent work in the keyboard driven GUI control but it's still not mainstream.
If I'd have the choice of a decent ASCII based language that is incorporated in an office suite I'd switch straight away.
And no, runoff and TeX are no alternatives because non technical users neither use them nor their derived formats. Maybe I'm looking for the Holy Grail.
Reluctantly using MS Office and a bit less reluctantly Openoffice.
In about 1k files. My Perl skills got an instant boost and by that it wasn't that boring.
Try typing LIST with a recalcitrant T
You don't need to!! Just type li followed by the symbol that looks like and upper right corner -which is used as a wildcard kind of thing. I did this back in 1979 so you need to check...
So you'd better look for a "really-good" FAQ. :)
Couldn't resist
that the unnamed country was in fact Switzerland
And now you want me to respond to that so you can narrow down your search domain. No way buddy. You must be a CIA newbie. I deduct that easily on account that Switzerland has no sea shore.
I know of a hotel owner (owner, resort and country shall remain unnamed) with a reputation of being a prankster, that used to ask his American guests when leaving whether they had a stamp of the resort in their passports. Most of his guests answered with the innocent/naive "No, we didn't get one when we passed customs." Whereupon he kindly offered and actually succeeded in providing one. After a couple of months he received an official letter from the US embassy where he was asked to stop his actions otherwise they'd send in the US navy. What better statement of your whit would you like?
Please I'd like to be modded down as insulting to the US of A.
Let's all chip in for a humanitarian donation! I'll kick off with 5 karma points.
The thing is that you can't prove a causal relationship between file sharing and record sales. Your local franchise of the RIAA will be inclined to state that actually a 12% increase was expected and the hence file sharing harms business.
I vaguely recollect:
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford (1871-1937)
Of women have a sense of humour - most of us end up dating/married to men.
No offense intended and I do not want to sound patronizing but in modern western society dating is easier for women and marrying is easier for men.
Ever since people started relying on these, their spelling has gone way downhill simly because they don't bother thinking.
Disagreed. Spell checkers show me the mistakes/typos I make and allow me to reflect on them. Since decent, general purpose spell checkers are around my spelling has been improving. Especially English which isn't my native language.
FYI: I made just one small mistake in this posting.
C has it's problems.
C has no problems. It does exactly what it's supposed to do.
You create problems when using C for business purposes. Business programmers don't want to waste time chasing memory leaks and array overflows.
We all know that free SW isn't necessarily gratis. It costs to write it and it costs even a lot more to administer, maintain and support it.
You can try selling your services just like RMS says and try to keep control over the SW you produce. This is not easy but neither is it impossible. I manage to work this way since a couple of years now.
Businesses hire me to develop/support business systems and pay me a very decent amount of money. The first SW I produce is usually to meet the time-to-market needs and hence more often than not it is specific for the customer, so I don't care too much about GPL-ing it. Then I try abstracting general purpose knowledge I obtained in the process and cast it into general purpose GPL SW which eventually will be used by my client.
(I must add that although I'm not too bad a programmer I realize that there are a lot of guys [mainly] out there that out-program me, that have much fresher and usable ideas and that work in larger groups/communities that are prone to achieve much more than I do. And so my contribution to free software is minute (but not NULL) compared to programmer gods.)
It is also realistic to realize that you're most likely to be a main stream/mortal programmer (otherwise you wouldn't be reading this post but programming for big money) and that you're prone to spend more time administering your work than writing actual programs. Since I started offering GPL SW of a reasonable quality to the world my qualities as a SW pro boosted. I combine these two facts and I conclude that "giving away" GPL software doesn't cost me too much and results in me getting better.
With that in mind it's easier for me to accept "the loss" of control and exclusive ownership over GPL SW I wrote.
Go for a).
/bin/sh or
Perl), DB/info sytem access tools, daemons, schedulers, code generators,
CGI programs and much more.
As usual, it helps if you actually have to deliver something because goals inspire -unless you are very very lazy.
You can almost do anything you want with Perl (although I personally think it's best suited for heavy duty text parsing and system programming) so that makes your choise of goal easy.
In Perl I've written syadmin tools (for quiter nights), an MIS (to reduce manager questions), mass C code mutation programs (to save on C programmers which I would not have gotten anyway), a primitive multi access DB (manegement dissallowed the use of anything else than C,
1. It will probably be a crime to disable the device.
He'll move state then.
Fedora seemed bent on making everything I need to do hard as hell and putting things out of the way. Most irritating was GDM, which decided that if I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace I really didn't want to kill X so I could install the NVIDIA drivers, I just wanted X to restart. It shipped with a broken kudzu meaning that hardware detection didn't work properly...gah.
/etc/X11/prefdm in /etc/inittab
1) Comment out
2) Run "telinit q"
3) Install NVIDIA drivers
4) Follow NVIDIA instructions
5) Undo 1)
6) Redo 2)
This is basic SVR4/Linux knowledge.
Which person do you think made the better impression?
The best communicator of course!
You're fixating on sugar coating. You can actually use technical OS flaws to build up a presentation long bond with people. You can also portray yourself as a down to earth person that uses any available technology to bring a message.
A techno-fixation is likely to distract you from the topic and from the audience.
Yeah and the budget allows for a diner at Taco Bell, a couple of bears and a (dirty) DVD.
Your funny Valentine
the clutch
Boy clutches and shift-sticks are for commies and other thugs that don't abide no law. Besides that the use of the clutch as you describe is bound to be a DMCA violation!
Stick with good ole American automatic cars, Sony and Microsoft products and blue jeans. And don't forget to dedicate your prayers to the RIAA.
Hell you might even be saved one day.
C'mon there must be at least one ./er living in China with enough dough to buy a phone and immediately ask for source code!
Just to be a pain in the butt, out of sheer interest, out of boredom or to actually exercise the GPL rights,.. Whatever reason.
Er, "m" in Europe/Africa is 1e6, right?
No. "m" stands for milli, "M" stands form million. In a semi-scientific notation you should probably write 30m$/30M$/30mUSD/30MUSD.
In the context 30MUSD is probably meant although as you already put it, it might as well be 30mUSD as both figures don't look equally silly.
First, I worked in a huge hospital.
since when do end users get a say in their operating system?
Never underestimate the political power of doctors in a hospital. In most cases hospitals are organized like the army. That is, doctors -and not managers- are in charge of departments even though they are not trained to be managers but to cure people. The most obvious sad case is where a doctor manages a nursing department. Doctors cure and nurses nurse.
Don't expect the IT department to be free of doctors' influence. You're in luck if they think rationally and even more if the IT and the doctor's ideas coincide -in one perverse way or another.