Two things I'd love to see are opening up YAST and Ximian's exchange connector. Its would nice to see a Truly Free,Open, and Redistributable Suse. An open Connector would really help out in getting Linux on those corportate desktops.
While I don't use Suse, I'd love to see YAST opened up. I get really pissed off about how much flack Red Hat takes when they give all their tools back to the community and Suse doesn't.
Regarding Connector, it'd be cool but I doubt it would happen. They're pushing the Groupwise plugin. More likely they would leave the Connector plugin as is ($), and open the Groupwise plugin. Or at least make it free beer.
Gnome took a turn for the worse when Gnome 2.0 was released and it hasn't recovered since.
Matter of opinion. I happen to think the jump from 2.0 to 1.4 was the first big leap towards being useable on a personal desktop, and it's been getting better ever since. I think File Type application association sucked ass in earlier versions of GNOME. Nautilus has made considerable speed and memory improvements. The panel kicks butt. they used to have different kinds of panels you could add/configure. Finally in 2.4 they figured out that they're all just panels. So now it's one kind of panel you can put whereever you want, and you can put any and all available applets on it. Some people really hate metacity. I can honestly say that I've had no change in usage patterns or productivity during the transition from Enlightenment to Sawfish to Metacity. Now we have the emerging gstreamer audio/video subsystem for GNOME apps to hook into. Totem and Rhythmbox are pretty sweet. I still use xmms every now and then, but I like having my little systray applet for rhytmbox. (I never liked the xmms gnome panel applet)
What exactly do you think got worse from 1.4 to 2.0?
GNOME and KDE are desktop environments, not operating systems. You can run either one on just about any unix or linux available (including Mac OS X, I believe).
KWin is the WM that KDE uses. KDE is a desktop environment, which basically means it consists of the WM, a 'panel', a file manager, and a few other things. All KWin does is draw the decorations on window borders (the title bars, min/max/close/sticky buttons, etc) and places windows when apps are launched. Apparently you mean KDE is the most customizable DE.
You don't actually have to run the WM provided with the DE, either. So you can actually run KDE with Enlightenment rather than KWin. I'm not sure how to do that in KDE, but my reply to Dunbar tells how to do so in GNOME, so you can probably extrapolate from there.
What annoys me about the Metacity manifesto is how it ruined the future of what *had been* my preferred interface.
Do you honestly believe you have to use Metacity? You can use any GNOME-compliant WM. In the Sessions pref. panel, just disable the restart status of metacity, launch the WM you want, and flag it with restart status. Logout, checking the 'save session' checkbox, and log back in. Pretty easy.
But then you would marginalize the more radical views- the tendency with a ranked voting system is towards the center. This would defeat the purpose of having the ranking system to start with.
Well, we already have a system where the moderate wins anyways. I didn't say it was likely to get a fringe candidate elected, but it would certainly give a better understanding of what the people want. Right now you have people who just go around preaching to vote the DEM/REP instead of anything else so the election isn't 'thrown' a la Nader in 2000. Imagine how the numbers might have been different if people could say "I really want Nader, but if that doesn't happen I want Gore." For things like federal campaign funding, the green party might have received enough votes to get the funding, and Gore might have one, shutting up all the people whining about how Nader cost Gore the election.
The problem is that this system could never accomplish much of anything. In countries where this has been attempted the results have not been pretty.
I'll certainly concede that more voices means longer discussions, and less efficiency. Perhaps that should be a signal that other processes within the government need to change, though. I'd prefer that to an inefficient election process which makes people think that a vote for anyone other than a DEM/REP is a wasted vote.
Anyway, I think there's just way to much empahsis on all the BS labeling. Truth be told, I don't think representatives should be allowed to have their own opinions. I think they should be required to vote on every bill ($85 trillion approved by what, 6 people?!) and they should be forced to poll their constituents before doing so.
Secondly, when there are more than two parties it is likely that representatives will be elected with less than 50% of their constituents supporting them. It is not unusual for candidates to win seats with only 30-35% support
That's because our voting system sucks for anything but a two-party system, mathematically. If voters could rank the candidates, rather than just pick one then you wouldn't have the whole 30% winner thing.
Finally, some multi-party systems allocate a percentage of the popular vote to a percentage of seats in the house of representatives. So, if a party can muster 2-3% of the popular vote they get 2-3% of the seats. The result of this is that there can be 20-30 parties elected to office. The deal-making that needs to be conducted before any decisions can be made can go on for many, many months.
You see a system bogged down by having to cater to different groups, I see a system which is a truer erpersentative democracy. Imagine if there were more representatives of the technology sector when the DMCA was passed. (Industry lobyists don't count as representatives)
You know what would make sense, at least in my mind after ~45 seconds of thinking about it? Have the funds paying for campaign advertising come from the government holding the election (state legislature pays for campaign advertising of all candidates for governor's office). Individual media outlets can still give their own endorsements on their own dime, but particular parties can't go buy 4-page ads in every local paper, or primetime commercials, or other things that smaller parties can't afford. Just have one big ad that says "these are all the candidates who are running and which party they are affilliated with," including mailing address, phone/fax number, email address, and web site. Seems fairly egalitarian, at least on the surface.
You also can't run for President or get a senior citizen's discount at Denny's. What's your point? None of those things have anything to do with drinking age.
my point is that the things I said you can do are indications of being considered a mature and responsible adult in the eyes of the law. I mostly understand the minimum age to be President, but I think it should be more about prior qualifications than an arbitrary age. The discount at Denny's is discrimination by a private corporation, not by the government, so it doesn't apply to my rant (notice that they were all things the government has decided I can do at the magic age of 18). I just don't see how someone can be considered to be of sound enough mind and maturity to kill for their country or to be legally responsible of a child, but not to have a drink.
Campaigners can't run ads for the 30 days leading up to an election.
Hadn't realised that was part of the finance reform law. I think it's funny you call it the incumbent protection act. Not because I necessarily disagree, I don't know enough about it. Rather because what I have read about current campaign finance says Democrats and Republicans who objected to the bill were objecting to regulations which were statistically in favor of their respective parties.
I dunno, I'm in the U.S. and I think Black Adder (particularly the 3rd), Red Dwarf, and Dragon Ball are pretty funny. I never did think mutch of that guy in the bumblebee suit though.
if the activity itself can have a substantial effect on interstate commerce its fair game (and pretty much anything has a substantial effect
As evidenced by the retarded we-can-sell-to-customers-18-or-older-but-you-can't -buy-until-you're-21 drinking age in Louisiana. Sorry for the off-topic rant but what the hell is up with that. At 18 I can die for my country, elect a government, have sex with a 16 year old girl (in many places there's a wierd 3 year age difference window, possibly requiring parental approval), and be legal guardian, but I can't have a beer. Can anyone explain how that makes sense?
yes I read the article, but I didn't notice it say that the servers he sent the spam from were also in NC. I was just pointing out that he could have been sitting at home in NC, remotely accessing servers in VA and sending spam from them. In such a scenario, the crime would have been commited in VA, and no interstate commerce complications would arise.
I'm fairly certain there's enough 1st Amendment case history to ensure that any such 'no porn' law won't stand up being challenged as unConstitutional.
Not if the originating servers were located in Virginia. Many spammers are located in the U.S., but use offshore servers, so they are not entirely in violation of local law. That's why I maintain a legal solution will never work, only a global technological effort to deny spammers the resources.
All it takes is having your address listed in plain text on a web page and it will likely be spider'ed into a list. If you post to newsgroups or archives mailing lists, be sure not to have it in your signature, even putting a single space somewhere in it should be enought to counter the bots. Studies have shown that this is the most common way that adresses are obtained. Although that was before they started using viruses to harvest the MS Address Books of all the windows users.
Caldera bought DR-DOS, which was a competing product with MS-DOS. They didn't claim to own parts of DOS. They said Microsoft's business practices illegaly killed DR-DOS in the market.
have you or any friends of yours taken part in SCO DDOS attack? If the overwhelming answer on Slashdot is no, then I guess we know the value of SCO's claims.
That's specious logic.
A single machine on cable or DSL can SYN flood a machine. The attacker sends a stream of SYN packets with forged source addresses, the victim machine replies back to the bogus IP and waits.. and waits.. and waits.. It takes negligible bandwidth to do this.
I'm intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I have this, and I have frequent problems with it dropping scheduled recordings. I've only seen this with shows that I schedule to record 'all episodes' of. Another big complaint is it has no checks in place to see if it already has that episode recorded. The Daily Show is aired 4 times (10pm, 12am, 9am, and 6pm CST), and I get every single one if I set it to record all episodes. I can't tell it to record all episodes in a particular timeslot (se the Daily Show listings). Last, the clock is not at all syncronized with the actual shows, so I frequently lose the beginning or ending 30 seconds of shows.
The only real way to sell components to China without worrying they will just clone it and ditch you is to sell it to them cheap enough to where making it themselves won't be any cheaper, which isn't easy.
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While I don't use Suse, I'd love to see YAST opened up. I get really pissed off about how much flack Red Hat takes when they give all their tools back to the community and Suse doesn't.
Regarding Connector, it'd be cool but I doubt it would happen. They're pushing the Groupwise plugin. More likely they would leave the Connector plugin as is ($), and open the Groupwise plugin. Or at least make it free beer.
man, GMC sucked.
Matter of opinion. I happen to think the jump from 2.0 to 1.4 was the first big leap towards being useable on a personal desktop, and it's been getting better ever since. I think File Type application association sucked ass in earlier versions of GNOME. Nautilus has made considerable speed and memory improvements. The panel kicks butt. they used to have different kinds of panels you could add/configure. Finally in 2.4 they figured out that they're all just panels. So now it's one kind of panel you can put whereever you want, and you can put any and all available applets on it. Some people really hate metacity. I can honestly say that I've had no change in usage patterns or productivity during the transition from Enlightenment to Sawfish to Metacity. Now we have the emerging gstreamer audio/video subsystem for GNOME apps to hook into. Totem and Rhythmbox are pretty sweet. I still use xmms every now and then, but I like having my little systray applet for rhytmbox. (I never liked the xmms gnome panel applet)
What exactly do you think got worse from 1.4 to 2.0?
GNOME and KDE are desktop environments, not operating systems. You can run either one on just about any unix or linux available (including Mac OS X, I believe).
DOH! I forgot to mention killing metacity after disabling the restart status. Not sure what would happen if you have two WM's running at once.
KWin is the WM that KDE uses. KDE is a desktop environment, which basically means it consists of the WM, a 'panel', a file manager, and a few other things. All KWin does is draw the decorations on window borders (the title bars, min/max/close/sticky buttons, etc) and places windows when apps are launched. Apparently you mean KDE is the most customizable DE.
You don't actually have to run the WM provided with the DE, either. So you can actually run KDE with Enlightenment rather than KWin. I'm not sure how to do that in KDE, but my reply to Dunbar tells how to do so in GNOME, so you can probably extrapolate from there.
Do you honestly believe you have to use Metacity? You can use any GNOME-compliant WM. In the Sessions pref. panel, just disable the restart status of metacity, launch the WM you want, and flag it with restart status. Logout, checking the 'save session' checkbox, and log back in. Pretty easy.
Well, we already have a system where the moderate wins anyways. I didn't say it was likely to get a fringe candidate elected, but it would certainly give a better understanding of what the people want. Right now you have people who just go around preaching to vote the DEM/REP instead of anything else so the election isn't 'thrown' a la Nader in 2000. Imagine how the numbers might have been different if people could say "I really want Nader, but if that doesn't happen I want Gore." For things like federal campaign funding, the green party might have received enough votes to get the funding, and Gore might have one, shutting up all the people whining about how Nader cost Gore the election.
The problem is that this system could never accomplish much of anything. In countries where this has been attempted the results have not been pretty.
I'll certainly concede that more voices means longer discussions, and less efficiency. Perhaps that should be a signal that other processes within the government need to change, though. I'd prefer that to an inefficient election process which makes people think that a vote for anyone other than a DEM/REP is a wasted vote.
Anyway, I think there's just way to much empahsis on all the BS labeling. Truth be told, I don't think representatives should be allowed to have their own opinions. I think they should be required to vote on every bill ($85 trillion approved by what, 6 people?!) and they should be forced to poll their constituents before doing so.
That's because our voting system sucks for anything but a two-party system, mathematically. If voters could rank the candidates, rather than just pick one then you wouldn't have the whole 30% winner thing.
Finally, some multi-party systems allocate a percentage of the popular vote to a percentage of seats in the house of representatives. So, if a party can muster 2-3% of the popular vote they get 2-3% of the seats. The result of this is that there can be 20-30 parties elected to office. The deal-making that needs to be conducted before any decisions can be made can go on for many, many months.
You see a system bogged down by having to cater to different groups, I see a system which is a truer erpersentative democracy. Imagine if there were more representatives of the technology sector when the DMCA was passed. (Industry lobyists don't count as representatives)
You know what would make sense, at least in my mind after ~45 seconds of thinking about it? Have the funds paying for campaign advertising come from the government holding the election (state legislature pays for campaign advertising of all candidates for governor's office). Individual media outlets can still give their own endorsements on their own dime, but particular parties can't go buy 4-page ads in every local paper, or primetime commercials, or other things that smaller parties can't afford. Just have one big ad that says "these are all the candidates who are running and which party they are affilliated with," including mailing address, phone/fax number, email address, and web site. Seems fairly egalitarian, at least on the surface.
my point is that the things I said you can do are indications of being considered a mature and responsible adult in the eyes of the law. I mostly understand the minimum age to be President, but I think it should be more about prior qualifications than an arbitrary age. The discount at Denny's is discrimination by a private corporation, not by the government, so it doesn't apply to my rant (notice that they were all things the government has decided I can do at the magic age of 18). I just don't see how someone can be considered to be of sound enough mind and maturity to kill for their country or to be legally responsible of a child, but not to have a drink.
Hadn't realised that was part of the finance reform law. I think it's funny you call it the incumbent protection act. Not because I necessarily disagree, I don't know enough about it. Rather because what I have read about current campaign finance says Democrats and Republicans who objected to the bill were objecting to regulations which were statistically in favor of their respective parties.
I dunno, I'm in the U.S. and I think Black Adder (particularly the 3rd), Red Dwarf, and Dragon Ball are pretty funny. I never did think mutch of that guy in the bumblebee suit though.
thank you, please click again.
As evidenced by the retarded we-can-sell-to-customers-18-or-older-but-you-can't -buy-until-you're-21 drinking age in Louisiana. Sorry for the off-topic rant but what the hell is up with that. At 18 I can die for my country, elect a government, have sex with a 16 year old girl (in many places there's a wierd 3 year age difference window, possibly requiring parental approval), and be legal guardian, but I can't have a beer. Can anyone explain how that makes sense?
yes I read the article, but I didn't notice it say that the servers he sent the spam from were also in NC. I was just pointing out that he could have been sitting at home in NC, remotely accessing servers in VA and sending spam from them. In such a scenario, the crime would have been commited in VA, and no interstate commerce complications would arise.
I'm fairly certain there's enough 1st Amendment case history to ensure that any such 'no porn' law won't stand up being challenged as unConstitutional.
Not if the originating servers were located in Virginia. Many spammers are located in the U.S., but use offshore servers, so they are not entirely in violation of local law. That's why I maintain a legal solution will never work, only a global technological effort to deny spammers the resources.
All it takes is having your address listed in plain text on a web page and it will likely be spider'ed into a list. If you post to newsgroups or archives mailing lists, be sure not to have it in your signature, even putting a single space somewhere in it should be enought to counter the bots. Studies have shown that this is the most common way that adresses are obtained. Although that was before they started using viruses to harvest the MS Address Books of all the windows users.
yes. because it uses numbers instead of vowels.
watch the 'bear tax' episode of the simpsons
Caldera bought DR-DOS, which was a competing product with MS-DOS. They didn't claim to own parts of DOS. They said Microsoft's business practices illegaly killed DR-DOS in the market.
I'm intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I have this, and I have frequent problems with it dropping scheduled recordings. I've only seen this with shows that I schedule to record 'all episodes' of. Another big complaint is it has no checks in place to see if it already has that episode recorded. The Daily Show is aired 4 times (10pm, 12am, 9am, and 6pm CST), and I get every single one if I set it to record all episodes. I can't tell it to record all episodes in a particular timeslot (se the Daily Show listings). Last, the clock is not at all syncronized with the actual shows, so I frequently lose the beginning or ending 30 seconds of shows.
The only real way to sell components to China without worrying they will just clone it and ditch you is to sell it to them cheap enough to where making it themselves won't be any cheaper, which isn't easy.