Actually, the plan is to create a new "gtkhtml" widget that's supposed to be able to work with different backends, so that you can use Gecko, Webkit, and existing gtkhtml through the same API. http://www.atoker.com/blog/2008/01/10/putting-the-web-in-gtk/
I used to. And my Gnome using friends that I've talked into trying it still use it.
Compared to Firefox, it's prettier (if you think "fancy colors and icons" is more important than "consistent", you'll disagree), is much better integrated into Gnome, has much nicer "search engine support" (type in the address field, and your installed search engines are at the end of the auto complete list - please, someone, give me a firefox extension for that!), and has a quite nice tag based bookmarking system which can be synchronized with del.icio.us or ma.gnolia.com. All of that, and just a fraction of the memory of Firefox.
I stopped using it approximately the same time as they switched backend, and now use Firefox 3 instead - it doesn't swallow all memory (only almost all), and it actually looks more integrated into Gnome, than Epiphany with a Gecko backend (the times I tried Epiphany/Webkit, it didn't really work yet) since it's not only has a native theme, it also has native form controls (which Epiphany/Webkit apparently has too, but not Epiphany/Gecko). It also works with Online Desktop, and has the famous extensions, which makes up for the other downsides of not using Epiphany.
In other words: people are actually using Epiphany, but I don't think they will for long.
The author of Acid2/3 is not amused by this meta tag. From the tone of that blog post, to me it sounds like he wouldn't shy away from actively try to break a mechanism like that by changing the URI to make sure that the browser that passes the Acid test actually does so for real.
Note, though, that he doesn't say that explicitly, and you shouldn't assume that he will. It's my own conclusion, and you should draw your own, etc...
I remember that in early 2006 KDE 4 was promised to be released about the same time as Vista, or even earlier. But at least the KDE team didn't spend three years writing stuff and then completely dumping it and starting from scratch! ...yet.
But if my wifi chipset would support this, as well as 802.11a/b/g, it would lead to interesting possibilities. I'm thinking ad-hoc connections - let's say I'm at my friend's, and I have this DVD iso that we want to watch on his TV/HTPC. Currently, I can either transfer the file in 27Mbps (802.11g - "54Mbps - it's full duplex and 27 in each direction!"), or I can go find a cable and transfer it in 100Mbps. I hate cables, but for transfering files, I really need one currently. In a few years, we'll be using 802.11n and gigabit ethernet, which will help of course, but at that point the DVD iso will be a Bluray or HD-DVD iso, so we're stuck with basicly the same problem.
What I'm thinking is that I walk up to the HTPC, identify it among the nodes in my wlan subnet, and tell it to use this protocol. A high-speed, link-local network is created, the file is transfered as fast as my hard drive (obviously a solid state one - this is the future) can read, and we can watch the movie in no time. Without cables.
Did you use Compiz in Gutsy but not in Feisty, then? A lot of people add Compiz to their Feisty installations, but it is default only from Gutsy, so I'm going to assume that's a "yes" in this post.
When activating Compiz on my laptop, I start to fear hearing problems, because the fans have to be at maximum speed non-stop (it's a Macbook, and I've been using it in my lap - any reproductive abilities are in other words long gone, so I don't have to fear that), while they are off at all times except when playing games or watching movies when I don't use it. The reason seems to be that the 3d accelerator on the GPU emits huge amounts of heat when being used. This is with intel graphics, which I've heard are relatively cool - I don't even want to think about what it would be like with ati or nvidia.
The solution? System -> Preferences -> Appearance, the tab Visual Effects, set to None. You may need to log out and back in. This gives you plain, old Metacity, with more and better window management abilities, but fewer bugs.
True. Most of the world use Civil Law, while US, UK and a few former colonies use Common Law. And Civil Law is quite different in different parts of the world. In other words: GP:s statement IS true.
For instance, according to the french and the scandinavian copyright traditions (which is a slightly more complicated topic, since it is not divided only into common and civil law, but instead into english, american, french and scandinavian law - however, the two common law countries have similar ideas to each other, and so does the two civil law countries), it is not possible to sign away your copyright at all, since it's not considered to be an economical thing (Victor Hugo created the french version, primary about the moral right to be honored and paid for your work, and the scandinavian version is based of old Westrogothic law, that said something to the effect of "honor he who should be honored", which doesn't even mention money, but only honor), unlike the tradition in US and UK. It is possible to sign away economical rights, but not the whole thing. This has some important effects: one thing is that it makes it impossible for RIAA/MPAA to go after people in this part of the world - they only represent the companies, whose contracts with the employees are illegal over here, and they therefore have no copyright to enforce.
They have rules of evidence in Sweden, as confirmed by a quick search. I can't find a good site on how it works, but any number confirm that they exist. (They are quite necessary for justice.)
It is perfectly fine to use any evidence you may have, no matter how you got hold of it, in court.
The exception being, of course, things that a person have said to their doctor or lawyer, since they are forbidden to talk about what their patients say.
Read chapter 35, paragraph 1 in law 1942:740, "rättegångsbalken" (law of prosecution? means something like that), in the swedish book of law if you do not believe me. You can find the law in question here, although it's obviously in swedish.
It would be very interesting if this evidence they propose will be accepted by any judge as legally obtained evidence. This is Sweden we're talking about. There's no such thing as illegal evidence here.
Cedega is based of an old version of Wine, which was forked off and made proprietary. Since then, Wine changed it's license to make it impossible to do another Cedega-style fork.
So, to merge, we would have to either convince transgaming to make their code completely free and LGPL, or convince all Wine authors to make their code non-free and a part of transgamings commercial product. I don't think either of those two alternatives are very likely.
This is a part of Wikias search engine project, that is supposed to beat Googles web search monopoly. Everything will be open sourced, and there will be a public protocol for communicating between different users. The goal isn't to make one search engine to beat Google, but to create an infrastructure to make it really easy to create lots of search engines, where each is really good at something (say, tech blogs, or the semantic web, or NGO:s, or whatever). The different search engine front ends are supposed to be able to choose what crawlers they want to use, and what "rankers" they want to use to rank the crawlers data. To make it near real time, the system that displays the results will probably have to use a lot of cache.
There is also hope that commercial entities will be able to take part of this, by for instance modifying the crawler to include ads - and, as I said, the front end will be able to choose if it wants to use those results, or not.
Read more about it at http://search.wikia.com/. The selling point (actually, there's four) are on the top of that page.
But it's just WRONG! When FSM/God created the long term memory, it was designed to house your phone number, not your pin code! If it's not housing your phone number, it is no longer a long term memory. When telephones were being invented, it was just the realization of the prophecy!...right?
My friend had a linux server at a building that was being demolished, however, he had problems arranging transportation of the server. One month after the house was going to be demolished, the server was still there, and still worked just fine.
If linux can resist falling buildings, why would you worry about falling bricks?
Actually, that is a word-by-word translation of a swedish expression. A person who can decide what is morally right and wrong is known as a moral police over here.
If they are going to press charges, why is the pirate bay still up? Shouldn't the first step be to shut it down? Well... They did. Don't you remember? They even published some stats about it:
here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes - and how long it usually takes to fix: Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
Moonlight is a great name - not too silly, but still almost made me laugh out loud:)
Although my instincts tell me to say "I don't want no stinking Silverlight" (just like everyone here, apparently), youtube has really teached me an important lession: sooner or later, someone will do something that you actually want to access in these platforms, and that's when I'll be really happy you already did this job, so I don't have to wait forever for it to start working.
To summarise: please go fuck yourself, and thank you in advance for doing this;)
I wrote an essay about that I wanted to blow up the world and/or kill all humans on earth, because I didn't like humankind. My teachers response was to commend my argumentation. Since you're still alive, you might realize that I didn't do any of that - I was just bored.
When studying, you get boring writing assignments all the time. Sooner or later you run out of non-depressing things to say - especially when writing assignments bores you. Believing that students will do everything they write about is as stupid as believing that playing Counter Strike will make you a murderer.
If I did, that was not my intention. What I wanted to say was that the common image of RMS is that he is no longer a hacker fighting for the cause of free software. I personally believe that although he is a bit too fundamentalistic for my taste sometimes, I largely sympathize with him.
GP's point is probably that RMS DID break into a thousand pieces. He used to be a hacker fighting for the cause of free software, and is now seen as mostly fighting to make people refer to a free system as GNU/Linux, or to fight for (according to some) non-free licences like the GNU GPL or FDL.
Of course, I don't know how he started out, since I wasn't there, and I don't know what he's like now, since I haven't met him.
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Actually, the plan is to create a new "gtkhtml" widget that's supposed to be able to work with different backends, so that you can use Gecko, Webkit, and existing gtkhtml through the same API. http://www.atoker.com/blog/2008/01/10/putting-the-web-in-gtk/
I used to. And my Gnome using friends that I've talked into trying it still use it.
Compared to Firefox, it's prettier (if you think "fancy colors and icons" is more important than "consistent", you'll disagree), is much better integrated into Gnome, has much nicer "search engine support" (type in the address field, and your installed search engines are at the end of the auto complete list - please, someone, give me a firefox extension for that!), and has a quite nice tag based bookmarking system which can be synchronized with del.icio.us or ma.gnolia.com. All of that, and just a fraction of the memory of Firefox.
I stopped using it approximately the same time as they switched backend, and now use Firefox 3 instead - it doesn't swallow all memory (only almost all), and it actually looks more integrated into Gnome, than Epiphany with a Gecko backend (the times I tried Epiphany/Webkit, it didn't really work yet) since it's not only has a native theme, it also has native form controls (which Epiphany/Webkit apparently has too, but not Epiphany/Gecko). It also works with Online Desktop, and has the famous extensions, which makes up for the other downsides of not using Epiphany.
In other words: people are actually using Epiphany, but I don't think they will for long.
The author of Acid2/3 is not amused by this meta tag. From the tone of that blog post, to me it sounds like he wouldn't shy away from actively try to break a mechanism like that by changing the URI to make sure that the browser that passes the Acid test actually does so for real.
Note, though, that he doesn't say that explicitly, and you shouldn't assume that he will. It's my own conclusion, and you should draw your own, etc...
So, what you're saying is, basically, that if you use $product, and stop buying more of $product, you eventually run out of $product?
Amazing!
But if my wifi chipset would support this, as well as 802.11a/b/g, it would lead to interesting possibilities. I'm thinking ad-hoc connections - let's say I'm at my friend's, and I have this DVD iso that we want to watch on his TV/HTPC. Currently, I can either transfer the file in 27Mbps (802.11g - "54Mbps - it's full duplex and 27 in each direction!"), or I can go find a cable and transfer it in 100Mbps. I hate cables, but for transfering files, I really need one currently. In a few years, we'll be using 802.11n and gigabit ethernet, which will help of course, but at that point the DVD iso will be a Bluray or HD-DVD iso, so we're stuck with basicly the same problem.
What I'm thinking is that I walk up to the HTPC, identify it among the nodes in my wlan subnet, and tell it to use this protocol. A high-speed, link-local network is created, the file is transfered as fast as my hard drive (obviously a solid state one - this is the future) can read, and we can watch the movie in no time. Without cables.
Did you use Compiz in Gutsy but not in Feisty, then? A lot of people add Compiz to their Feisty installations, but it is default only from Gutsy, so I'm going to assume that's a "yes" in this post.
When activating Compiz on my laptop, I start to fear hearing problems, because the fans have to be at maximum speed non-stop (it's a Macbook, and I've been using it in my lap - any reproductive abilities are in other words long gone, so I don't have to fear that), while they are off at all times except when playing games or watching movies when I don't use it. The reason seems to be that the 3d accelerator on the GPU emits huge amounts of heat when being used. This is with intel graphics, which I've heard are relatively cool - I don't even want to think about what it would be like with ati or nvidia.
The solution? System -> Preferences -> Appearance, the tab Visual Effects, set to None. You may need to log out and back in. This gives you plain, old Metacity, with more and better window management abilities, but fewer bugs.
True. Most of the world use Civil Law, while US, UK and a few former colonies use Common Law. And Civil Law is quite different in different parts of the world. In other words: GP:s statement IS true.
For instance, according to the french and the scandinavian copyright traditions (which is a slightly more complicated topic, since it is not divided only into common and civil law, but instead into english, american, french and scandinavian law - however, the two common law countries have similar ideas to each other, and so does the two civil law countries), it is not possible to sign away your copyright at all, since it's not considered to be an economical thing (Victor Hugo created the french version, primary about the moral right to be honored and paid for your work, and the scandinavian version is based of old Westrogothic law, that said something to the effect of "honor he who should be honored", which doesn't even mention money, but only honor), unlike the tradition in US and UK. It is possible to sign away economical rights, but not the whole thing. This has some important effects: one thing is that it makes it impossible for RIAA/MPAA to go after people in this part of the world - they only represent the companies, whose contracts with the employees are illegal over here, and they therefore have no copyright to enforce.
Finally, a pretty map to show what legal systems exists where: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/LegalSystemsOfTheWorldMap.png
You are free to use the evidence, but the judge is free to laugh at you and ignore the evidence.
They have rules of evidence in Sweden, as confirmed by a quick search. I can't find a good site on how it works, but any number confirm that they exist. (They are quite necessary for justice.)
It is perfectly fine to use any evidence you may have, no matter how you got hold of it, in court.
The exception being, of course, things that a person have said to their doctor or lawyer, since they are forbidden to talk about what their patients say.
Read chapter 35, paragraph 1 in law 1942:740, "rättegångsbalken" (law of prosecution? means something like that), in the swedish book of law if you do not believe me. You can find the law in question here, although it's obviously in swedish.
So, who was misinformative again?
Cedega is based of an old version of Wine, which was forked off and made proprietary. Since then, Wine changed it's license to make it impossible to do another Cedega-style fork.
So, to merge, we would have to either convince transgaming to make their code completely free and LGPL, or convince all Wine authors to make their code non-free and a part of transgamings commercial product. I don't think either of those two alternatives are very likely.
would it be up or down????? Yes
This is a part of Wikias search engine project, that is supposed to beat Googles web search monopoly. Everything will be open sourced, and there will be a public protocol for communicating between different users. The goal isn't to make one search engine to beat Google, but to create an infrastructure to make it really easy to create lots of search engines, where each is really good at something (say, tech blogs, or the semantic web, or NGO:s, or whatever). The different search engine front ends are supposed to be able to choose what crawlers they want to use, and what "rankers" they want to use to rank the crawlers data. To make it near real time, the system that displays the results will probably have to use a lot of cache.
There is also hope that commercial entities will be able to take part of this, by for instance modifying the crawler to include ads - and, as I said, the front end will be able to choose if it wants to use those results, or not.
Read more about it at http://search.wikia.com/. The selling point (actually, there's four) are on the top of that page.
But it's just WRONG! When FSM/God created the long term memory, it was designed to house your phone number, not your pin code! If it's not housing your phone number, it is no longer a long term memory. When telephones were being invented, it was just the realization of the prophecy! ...right?
My friend had a linux server at a building that was being demolished, however, he had problems arranging transportation of the server. One month after the house was going to be demolished, the server was still there, and still worked just fine. If linux can resist falling buildings, why would you worry about falling bricks?
Actually, that is a word-by-word translation of a swedish expression. A person who can decide what is morally right and wrong is known as a moral police over here.
There is a really simple way to get a sneak preview: http://eurovisiontorrents.com/ Their videos are hosted at thevideobay.
:)
Of course, most people probably don't want to see music from the eurovision song contest, but hey!
Speaking of backronyms...
Digital Consumer Enablement. DCE.
Digital Crap Enhancement? Digitally Crapified Entertainment?
Anyone with more suggestions?
Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
Moonlight is a great name - not too silly, but still almost made me laugh out loud :)
;)
Although my instincts tell me to say "I don't want no stinking Silverlight" (just like everyone here, apparently), youtube has really teached me an important lession: sooner or later, someone will do something that you actually want to access in these platforms, and that's when I'll be really happy you already did this job, so I don't have to wait forever for it to start working.
To summarise: please go fuck yourself, and thank you in advance for doing this
I wrote an essay about that I wanted to blow up the world and/or kill all humans on earth, because I didn't like humankind. My teachers response was to commend my argumentation. Since you're still alive, you might realize that I didn't do any of that - I was just bored.
When studying, you get boring writing assignments all the time. Sooner or later you run out of non-depressing things to say - especially when writing assignments bores you. Believing that students will do everything they write about is as stupid as believing that playing Counter Strike will make you a murderer.
If I did, that was not my intention. What I wanted to say was that the common image of RMS is that he is no longer a hacker fighting for the cause of free software. I personally believe that although he is a bit too fundamentalistic for my taste sometimes, I largely sympathize with him.
GP's point is probably that RMS DID break into a thousand pieces. He used to be a hacker fighting for the cause of free software, and is now seen as mostly fighting to make people refer to a free system as GNU/Linux, or to fight for (according to some) non-free licences like the GNU GPL or FDL.
Of course, I don't know how he started out, since I wasn't there, and I don't know what he's like now, since I haven't met him.
That is for scheduling background tasks that run once a day (or whatever you set it to)
This is for scheduling CPU resouces in real time. To decide if Firefox or Apache is going to be executed the following split second.