It's the building blocks for windowmaker, but
it's not a window manager itself.
Actually Wnidow Maker doesn't use any GNUStep libraries that I'm aware of. And Window Maker is moving futher away from the original GNUStep/NeXT interface. Not that that's a totally bad thing. Most of the enhancements have been pretty good.
The main problem I had with CS at uni (in the UK btw) was that the courses they were teaching were not keeping up with current technology. This is unavoidable to a certain extent, since those teaching the course have to learn all this new stuff before they can teach the rest of us. I started in 94, and that was the first year they started teaching C++. They still didn't have a proper course on Java when I graduated in 98. Unless the uni is well funded and can afford to hire people with the appropriate knowledge, this is going to continue. As far as I can tell, there isn't a simple solution.
A good proportion of the knowledge I gathered during uni was gained from working on my own projects, hacking away til 4 in the morning on some new piece of code that interested me. Had I not gone to uni this would probably never have happened. The enivronment is as important to the learning process as what is actually officially taught in my opinion. As long as you want to learn that is.
Show me a new piece of technology and I'll show you a way it can be abused. This is pretty much the case for anything that may be used by the police/government, so I don't think this is any different. Personally I couldn't give two hoots that they are filming me picking my nose and scratching my arse whilst walking down the street. I have nothing to hide, and neither should any other law abiding citizen.
The fact that so few people I've spoken to even really care about it shows that the vast majority of people are happy for these to be in place. Those that aren't are either just your average kick-up-a-fuss arseholes, or criminals themselves.
I have been using Mozilla for about 3 months as my main browser. It's pretty good, has some nice features and generally renders everything properly. The only minor exception to this is borders around tables, which it sometimes seems to chop off at the bottom.
My only other grumble is psm, which quite regularly goes off on one, consuming all my memory and cpu time. Most annoying. But I live with these little problems becauses its still a thousand times better than Netscape 4.x.
Hats off to everyone involved. Its getting better by the day.
Not all that many cable companys are offering broadband access. And since cable only reaches about half of the population its not going to work for everyone (neither does ADSL either, but thats another problem).
All the cable companies I've seen that do offer broadband access place far too many restrictions on what you can and cannot do with your line. Many ADSL providers however allow you to network, run servers and other such niceties that are usually expressly forbidden in the terms for cable use. So, to cut a long rant short, ADSL is the least restrictive of broadband solutions. And yes, BT does piss everyone about.
Hmm.. interesting point, but I'd consider that direct physical damage, i.e. heat. But if there is enough microwave radiation to destroy all the CDROM's, wouldn't all the life on the planet be in trouble anyway?;-)
I don't think you *can* scramble a CDROM can you? the data is physically burnt in the substrate. Anything magentic could be affected though. But I would have thought optical storage would survive anything but direct physical damage.
But get how they plan to launch it: on a Russian submarine ICBM.
Why is that particular point made? Because its Russian, or because it's an ICBM? Neither seem overly unusual to me. Russians have a good deal of expertise when it comes to space technology, arguably more so than the US. And using an ICBM kinda makes sense. I believe they've been bandying this idea around for quite a few years.
Yeah, and this annoys me somewhat. You will never be able to get these people to see your point of view.
They have faith in God, and thats all they need. The fact that the rest of us thinks its silly at best, and ludicrous at worst seems inconsequential to them.
They won't be doing this with Linux or other open OSes, so why should I worry about it? I'll just point at Windows users and snicker. Much like I do now...;-)
You have an option to use another system if you're unhappy with the way your current one is heading. This can only be good for the open software movement in the end.
Loser? I wouldn't say that. He's got free advertising... something every business wants. I think it's quite funny myself. I wonder how often this has occured before.
You may complain that being forced to upgrade isn't right, and I'd agree to a certain degree. But the sheer amount of work people have to put in to support old and buggy browsers when devloping web sites is tremendous. Just imagine a world where all browsers support the standards. At some point you have to get rid of the kruft, and this is at least one way to do it. If anyone has any better suggestions I'm listening...
The jury is still out on that one. Release it as open source by all means, but choose whichever license fits you best. I use the Artistic License myself. Other's will dissagree with it, but thats their choice.
For me this shows the problm with open source - people are more interested in playing silly games than actually getting something constructive done.
I can just see Kryten now... "Fun? Ah, yes. The employment of time in a profitless and non-practicable way." So what if it's pointless. It's nice to do seomthing for fun every now and then. We aren't supposed to be writing top-notch code 24/7.
Because not doing so is the metaphorical equivalent of flopping your wedding tackle into a lions mouth and flicking his love-spuds with a wet towel. Total insanity!;-)
Shamelessly stolen from Red Dwarf, but an apt quote. If you're going to mess with your filesystems, back them up. Nuff said.
While I think the window looks cool, esepcially with the light, wouldn't chopping a huge chunk of metal from the side of the case and replacing it with glass leave a gap for electronic emissions? I thought the idea was to create a faraday cage to restrict this? Anyone know what affect this would have?
Didn't I read somewhere that they gave them suicide pills for just such an event. I know I'd take the easy way out rather than suffocate. Nasty way to go...
Depends on why you mean by service provider. If you mean a company that provides net access then there are tons of them, some are very good, others poor. If you mean the companies that provide the hardware infrastructure, they are very few, with BT the only one to have 100% nationwide coverage. And, quite obviously, they're shite. They want to keep their stranglehold on the market for as long as they possibly can, and they're just pissing everyone off.
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It's the building blocks for windowmaker, but
it's not a window manager itself.
Actually Wnidow Maker doesn't use any GNUStep libraries that I'm aware of. And Window Maker is moving futher away from the original GNUStep/NeXT interface. Not that that's a totally bad thing. Most of the enhancements have been pretty good.
The main problem I had with CS at uni (in the UK btw) was that the courses they were teaching were not keeping up with current technology. This is unavoidable to a certain extent, since those teaching the course have to learn all this new stuff before they can teach the rest of us. I started in 94, and that was the first year they started teaching C++. They still didn't have a proper course on Java when I graduated in 98. Unless the uni is well funded and can afford to hire people with the appropriate knowledge, this is going to continue. As far as I can tell, there isn't a simple solution.
A good proportion of the knowledge I gathered during uni was gained from working on my own projects, hacking away til 4 in the morning on some new piece of code that interested me. Had I not gone to uni this would probably never have happened. The enivronment is as important to the learning process as what is actually officially taught in my opinion. As long as you want to learn that is.
Show me a new piece of technology and I'll show you a way it can be abused. This is pretty much the case for anything that may be used by the police/government, so I don't think this is any different. Personally I couldn't give two hoots that they are filming me picking my nose and scratching my arse whilst walking down the street. I have nothing to hide, and neither should any other law abiding citizen.
The fact that so few people I've spoken to even really care about it shows that the vast majority of people are happy for these to be in place. Those that aren't are either just your average kick-up-a-fuss arseholes, or criminals themselves.
the big reply button at the top of the comments should probably be your first port of call ;-)
I have been using Mozilla for about 3 months as my main browser. It's pretty good, has some nice features and generally renders everything properly. The only minor exception to this is borders around tables, which it sometimes seems to chop off at the bottom.
My only other grumble is psm, which quite regularly goes off on one, consuming all my memory and cpu time. Most annoying. But I live with these little problems becauses its still a thousand times better than Netscape 4.x.
Hats off to everyone involved. Its getting better by the day.
Not all that many cable companys are offering broadband access. And since cable only reaches about half of the population its not going to work for everyone (neither does ADSL either, but thats another problem).
All the cable companies I've seen that do offer broadband access place far too many restrictions on what you can and cannot do with your line. Many ADSL providers however allow you to network, run servers and other such niceties that are usually expressly forbidden in the terms for cable use. So, to cut a long rant short, ADSL is the least restrictive of broadband solutions. And yes, BT does piss everyone about.
Hmm.. interesting point, but I'd consider that direct physical damage, i.e. heat. But if there is enough microwave radiation to destroy all the CDROM's, wouldn't all the life on the planet be in trouble anyway? ;-)
I don't think you *can* scramble a CDROM can you? the data is physically burnt in the substrate. Anything magentic could be affected though. But I would have thought optical storage would survive anything but direct physical damage.
But get how they plan to launch it: on a Russian submarine ICBM.
Why is that particular point made? Because its Russian, or because it's an ICBM? Neither seem overly unusual to me. Russians have a good deal of expertise when it comes to space technology, arguably more so than the US. And using an ICBM kinda makes sense. I believe they've been bandying this idea around for quite a few years.
Yeah, and this annoys me somewhat. You will never be able to get these people to see your point of view.
They have faith in God, and thats all they need. The fact that the rest of us thinks its silly at best, and ludicrous at worst seems inconsequential to them.
They won't be doing this with Linux or other open OSes, so why should I worry about it? I'll just point at Windows users and snicker. Much like I do now... ;-)
You have an option to use another system if you're unhappy with the way your current one is heading. This can only be good for the open software movement in the end.
Indeed I have. What I really meant to say was how many have gone undetected.
Loser? I wouldn't say that. He's got free advertising... something every business wants. I think it's quite funny myself. I wonder how often this has occured before.
You may complain that being forced to upgrade isn't right, and I'd agree to a certain degree. But the sheer amount of work people have to put in to support old and buggy browsers when devloping web sites is tremendous. Just imagine a world where all browsers support the standards. At some point you have to get rid of the kruft, and this is at least one way to do it. If anyone has any better suggestions I'm listening...
Make sure you release it under GPL though.
The jury is still out on that one. Release it as open source by all means, but choose whichever license fits you best. I use the Artistic License myself. Other's will dissagree with it, but thats their choice.
For me this shows the problm with open source - people are more interested in playing silly games than actually getting something constructive done.
I can just see Kryten now... "Fun? Ah, yes. The employment of time in a profitless and non-practicable way." So what if it's pointless. It's nice to do seomthing for fun every now and then. We aren't supposed to be writing top-notch code 24/7.
And pretty soon, AMD is left out in the cold. How tragic.
Err, AMD are creating a 64-bit chip too y'know. And it will apparently have similar 32-bit perfomance to todays Athlons. Can't be bad...
But then why should I backup my data ?
;-)
Because not doing so is the metaphorical equivalent of flopping your wedding tackle into a lions mouth and flicking his love-spuds with a wet towel. Total insanity!
Shamelessly stolen from Red Dwarf, but an apt quote. If you're going to mess with your filesystems, back them up. Nuff said.
Faraday cages only protect what's inside them from outside radiation. They don't stop radiation from inside them going out...
Really? Why? I don't understand why there should be a difference. Care to enlighten me?
While I think the window looks cool, esepcially with the light, wouldn't chopping a huge chunk of metal from the side of the case and replacing it with glass leave a gap for electronic emissions? I thought the idea was to create a faraday cage to restrict this? Anyone know what affect this would have?
This strikes me as a somewhat flawed design, because if laws apply, they should apply everywhere!
Well, no. The normal laws of physics break down when you get down to quantumn mechanics. Well, so I've read, I'm no expert in it.
Hmmmm.. you mean... an "off" button? ;-)
Didn't I read somewhere that they gave them suicide pills for just such an event. I know I'd take the easy way out rather than suffocate. Nasty way to go...
Depends on why you mean by service provider. If you mean a company that provides net access then there are tons of them, some are very good, others poor. If you mean the companies that provide the hardware infrastructure, they are very few, with BT the only one to have 100% nationwide coverage. And, quite obviously, they're shite. They want to keep their stranglehold on the market for as long as they possibly can, and they're just pissing everyone off.
This would be the same Windows 95 that when booting on a new motherboard I bought, completely trashed the BIOS? Twice. Linux worked fine. Go figure.