As far as renting DVDs, it's maths. As soon as you rent a DVD 4-5 times, you might as well have bought it. So if you think you are going to buy it that many times, renting it would be like throwing money away.
DVD should be somewhat simpler. You could theoretically use a rewritable DVD with a UDF filesystem to write whatever you want onto the disk, whenever you want. I think you could even delete files fairly easily using this approach.
Yeah. It would be good if a USB key or another kind of removable storage could overlay the entire filesystem so that you could do things like editing configuration files in-place.
Imagine that for net cafes, though. As an ordinary user, you could get root access and install whatever apps you want, as long as your key is big enough to fit the overlay. As soon as you leave, the computer is automatically back in the pristine state, and when you return, no matter which computer you use, you see the same setup as when you last left... unless, of course, the net cafe has upgraded the distribution at some point, and then you might have some trouble.:-)
Slashdot simply uses too many tables for layout. Style guidelines say that you should never use tables for layout, so in the end it's Slashdot's fault for being so retarded.
1.0.1 has fixed the random resizing, but the left column is now way too thin.:-)
If that web site is the definitive information, then automation in 2005 is no better than it was in 2000. The documentation was last updated in 2000 (so long ago that it's still called the StarOffice API).
And indeed, it looks like you still need to use an existing instance of OpenOffice to do anything at all.
I was really hoping for a version which you could call directly, in-process, as communication to a remote instance has a number of drawbacks. Mainly, needing to start the remove instance and hide it from the user so that they don't see what tricks you're pulling.
All I want to know is whether the new version can be automated more easily than the old version. Suppose I have to convert 50,000 documents from random word processor formats to a more standard format. Am I doomed to do this manually, or is there a way I can easily interface with the process?
The older versions, you had to keep a whole copy of OOo running which you sent remote commands to, and if you kept it running long enough, it would memory leak until you had none left.
I've been hoping that they will eventually make the conversion stuff a single DLL that you can load and call in-process.
I don't care for AcroReader, but if they would release an open source, cross-platform PDF reading library which could read even the latest documents, I would be happy with Adobe.
Anything short of that has no chance of balancing out the fury I feel every time I'm forced to run a piece of shit like Illustrator or Photoshop.
Fingerprint and signature would be good enough, I would think. Even with both of these at the same time, you still save carrying around all the plastic.
Imagining for a second that AIM does decide to implement XMPP such that Server-to-Server connections work properly from the hundreds of existing Jabber servers directly to AIM.
That would bump the number of users on XMPP from an estimated 10 million (old figure from a year ago) to an estimated 45 million (AIM's fiugre from the same time period.) If their other services AOLIM and ICQ switched over at the same time, the total would be more like 80 million.
These sort of numbers would be about enough interoperability to say that the battle has been won, IMO. Although I'm curious to know what sort of numbers MSN command at the moment.
But as a server admin, my main interest is in not needing to run a transport just to give access to foreign services. If the foreign services all used the same, standard protocol, life would be pretty damn sweet.:-)
99.5% of the time, you should trust the compiler. After all, if you are better than optimising than the compiler, you should be writing the compiler. And people who can write optimising compilers are in the other 0.5%. I'm pretty sure you know which side you're in... I know I'm in the 99.5%, and I have no damn intention to go up against people who write these things for a living.
Only problem is the DIV tag these popups use is normally hidden using CSS. Since Lynx has no CSS, I guess the entire DIV tag is displayed.:-)
Of course, a lot of them are just images, so you're safe. But I've seen several dozen which were nothing but colourful text. You will still see that text.:-)
I wonder whether superior text browsers like ELinks with partial CSS support would still show them though. Presumably they would not.
Let's see... With a CAcert certificate, a user only has to add a certificate to their browser once. With a self-signed certificate, they have to add it to their browser once for every single server, and once again every single time the server changes their certificate.
I removed Verisign from my browser's root list when the scandal went down.
Any web site I view now which is signed by Verisign, then, prompts the user.
So I suppose Verisign are just as bad as CAcert. Except that CAcert have never had a major scandal where they incorrectly signed a certificate for someone who didn't own the domain.
Slashdot Mirror
What the hell? No Ogg Vorbis?
As far as renting DVDs, it's maths. As soon as you rent a DVD 4-5 times, you might as well have bought it. So if you think you are going to buy it that many times, renting it would be like throwing money away.
Speaking of unlikely partners, I think I would rather Reiser4 be available for Windows.
That's basically exactly what I meant by "overlay."
Looks a bit non-standard to me. If it won't work on a machine I will willingly use, there isn't a point in using it.
DVD should be somewhat simpler. You could theoretically use a rewritable DVD with a UDF filesystem to write whatever you want onto the disk, whenever you want. I think you could even delete files fairly easily using this approach.
Yeah. It would be good if a USB key or another kind of removable storage could overlay the entire filesystem so that you could do things like editing configuration files in-place.
Imagine that for net cafes, though. As an ordinary user, you could get root access and install whatever apps you want, as long as your key is big enough to fit the overlay. As soon as you leave, the computer is automatically back in the pristine state, and when you return, no matter which computer you use, you see the same setup as when you last left... unless, of course, the net cafe has upgraded the distribution at some point, and then you might have some trouble. :-)
Some countries don't just ban switchblades though, but have other conditions on buying any kind of knife (e.g. age restrictions.)
And as a side note, Linux has Doom 3 as well!
Slashdot simply uses too many tables for layout. Style guidelines say that you should never use tables for layout, so in the end it's Slashdot's fault for being so retarded.
1.0.1 has fixed the random resizing, but the left column is now way too thin. :-)
If that web site is the definitive information, then automation in 2005 is no better than it was in 2000. The documentation was last updated in 2000 (so long ago that it's still called the StarOffice API).
And indeed, it looks like you still need to use an existing instance of OpenOffice to do anything at all.
I was really hoping for a version which you could call directly, in-process, as communication to a remote instance has a number of drawbacks. Mainly, needing to start the remove instance and hide it from the user so that they don't see what tricks you're pulling.
All I want to know is whether the new version can be automated more easily than the old version. Suppose I have to convert 50,000 documents from random word processor formats to a more standard format. Am I doomed to do this manually, or is there a way I can easily interface with the process?
The older versions, you had to keep a whole copy of OOo running which you sent remote commands to, and if you kept it running long enough, it would memory leak until you had none left.
I've been hoping that they will eventually make the conversion stuff a single DLL that you can load and call in-process.
Actually, it does. He said it was only used for compositing, which is exactly what that sentence you quoted describes.
This is Slashdot. People here wouldn't command enough charisma to get the first girl, let alone the second one, let alone AT THE SAME TIME.
I don't care for AcroReader, but if they would release an open source, cross-platform PDF reading library which could read even the latest documents, I would be happy with Adobe.
Anything short of that has no chance of balancing out the fury I feel every time I'm forced to run a piece of shit like Illustrator or Photoshop.
True. People should also all just speak English, to make it easier on the developers.
Fingerprint and signature would be good enough, I would think. Even with both of these at the same time, you still save carrying around all the plastic.
A well-designed system would have a fallback for when the user's preferred language wasn't available on the machine.
Imagining for a second that AIM does decide to implement XMPP such that Server-to-Server connections work properly from the hundreds of existing Jabber servers directly to AIM.
That would bump the number of users on XMPP from an estimated 10 million (old figure from a year ago) to an estimated 45 million (AIM's fiugre from the same time period.) If their other services AOLIM and ICQ switched over at the same time, the total would be more like 80 million.
These sort of numbers would be about enough interoperability to say that the battle has been won, IMO. Although I'm curious to know what sort of numbers MSN command at the moment.
But as a server admin, my main interest is in not needing to run a transport just to give access to foreign services. If the foreign services all used the same, standard protocol, life would be pretty damn sweet. :-)
I'm not sure I want litter in my beer. :-D
99.5% of the time, you should trust the compiler. After all, if you are better than optimising than the compiler, you should be writing the compiler. And people who can write optimising compilers are in the other 0.5%. I'm pretty sure you know which side you're in... I know I'm in the 99.5%, and I have no damn intention to go up against people who write these things for a living.
Only problem is the DIV tag these popups use is normally hidden using CSS. Since Lynx has no CSS, I guess the entire DIV tag is displayed. :-)
Of course, a lot of them are just images, so you're safe. But I've seen several dozen which were nothing but colourful text. You will still see that text. :-)
I wonder whether superior text browsers like ELinks with partial CSS support would still show them though. Presumably they would not.
How do you convince Joe TinFoilHat User that the Thawte/Verisign CA is safe?
Let's see... With a CAcert certificate, a user only has to add a certificate to their browser once. With a self-signed certificate, they have to add it to their browser once for every single server, and once again every single time the server changes their certificate.
I'd say that pays off pretty quickly.
I removed Verisign from my browser's root list when the scandal went down.
Any web site I view now which is signed by Verisign, then, prompts the user.
So I suppose Verisign are just as bad as CAcert. Except that CAcert have never had a major scandal where they incorrectly signed a certificate for someone who didn't own the domain.