With a bit of luck, they'll follow your lead over here. Telecom has improved a lot over the last year or so, perhaps in an attempt to head them off, but the prices here are still over the top.
To be fair, zombie processes on linux can't be killed either. Processes stuck doing disk IO often take a very long time to kill as well. The problem isn't limited to Windows.
If you don't allow remote root logins (not remote root access, using su) then the attacker needs to know two passwords - one user and the root. How is this not more secure?
*chortle*
Yeah, I've been playing Diablo 2 again recently, I can't say I've noticed anything that really smacks of AI fullstop, let alone learning. Although the game still entertains me, to be fair.
While absolutely right, you missed the fact that a significant portion of NZs fucking _telephone_ network went down because of this.
Yeah, the fucking phones were out. I work for these guys (http://elections.org.nz/ Electoral Enrolment Centre ) and the timing was a little off, to say the least. Given that we produced the first rolls for the next election here just after, the timing was just a little off...
Terribly said. The piercings you label acceptable are only acceptable now because of people wearing them when they were not acceptable. What is acceptable changes. You want it to stay the same, but that isn't going to happen.
Unfortunately your opinion is the juvenile one, an inability to face facts. I recommend poking your eyes out so as to avoid trauma as this "juvenile" behaviour becomes mainstream.
Offtopic but... you need an apostrophe in your sig, the "its" there stands for "it is" and therefore should be "it's".
This has been a gramatic quality service announcement.
Skip giving the US all your money; how about just paying what it what you owe?
Altogether, your post is excellent. It's as funny as that "Fox News" comedy show that I get to see occasionally.
> For intranet applications, cross-browser
> compatibility will NEVER be the deciding factor.
but...
> Building an application that will work only of
> Firefox (with XUL) might be a more difficult
> decision.
Perhaps there's a nice market for XUL intranet apps then? Whoah! Wait! Then we'd be locking people into the Mozilla platform:D Although anyone else is welcome to implement their own XUL interpreter.
They were covering the reasons for buying; while the function may be there (and is, AFAIK), many people are buying them 'cause they're just so classy;)
Skip gentoo. I've played with it for about 6 months now, and have come to the conclusion that its unstable is just too damn unstable. Debian unstable isn't too far behind, and is, in the main, pretty damn good.
Unfortunately we also use debian for a hundred or so boxes at work; I've been waiting for about 15 months for sarge to become stable now, wanting to upgrade the damn things, but it just isn't happening...
Hang on, we have software patents here? I thought our refusal to allow nuclear ships here had caused enough friction that the states had kinda stomped on any free trade agreements with us, so we were safe from any other shit being slipped in, as happened to Aus with their FTA and the DMCA style shite.
Unless the debian-ised and gentoo-ised versions are significantly different from what you're using...
* Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
Right-click on menu to add or remove stuff... seemed intuitive to me, been there for ages.
* Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
Again, been there for ages.
* No window snapping
As noted elsewhere, shift-drag
* Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
smb:// ssh:// ftp:// in nautilus? Or were you meaning something else?
* Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
Good point. And it's a frigging hog when changing tabs etc.
* Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
Probably, but who wants to use either?
* Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
I was under the impression konqueror was the default browser for KDE? Installing firefox on either is an option, and an advisable one, but could hardly be counted against gnome.
* Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.
I guess. Seems to do what I want (open files) just fine and dandy.
It seems that almost all the problems you have are long fixed. Are you really checking out each release?
That all said, I tried KDE about 3 years ago, hated it, and haven't gone back. I really should check it out again, sounds like it has some appealing aspects.
Unless the debian-ised and gentoo-ised versions are significantly different from what you're using...
* Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
Right-click on menu to add or remove stuff... seemed intuitive to me, been there for ages.
* Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
Again, been there for ages.
* No window snapping
As noted elsewhere, shift-drag
* Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
smb:// ssh:// ftp:// in nautilus? Or were you meaning something else?
* Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
Good point. And it's a frigging hog when changing tabs etc.
* Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
Probably, but who wants to use either?
* Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
I was under the impression konqueror was the default browser for KDE? Installing firefox on either is an option, and an advisable one.
* Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.
I guess. Seems to do what I want (open files) just fine and dandy.
It seems that almost all the problems you have are long fixed. Are you really checking out each release?
That all said, I tried KDE about 3 years ago, hated it, and haven't gone back. I really should check it out again, sounds like it has some appealing aspects.
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Kleptocracy, now that is a cool word. I didn't realise there were so many nifty ones... http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=de fine%3A+cracy
My favourite is now pornocracy - http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=de fine%3A+pornocracy
Firewire can transfer power as well.
With a bit of luck, they'll follow your lead over here. Telecom has improved a lot over the last year or so, perhaps in an attempt to head them off, but the prices here are still over the top.
According to Microsoft, apparently not.
To be fair, zombie processes on linux can't be killed either. Processes stuck doing disk IO often take a very long time to kill as well. The problem isn't limited to Windows.
And will no doubt be posted again in coming years, months or days.
If you don't allow remote root logins (not remote root access, using su) then the attacker needs to know two passwords - one user and the root. How is this not more secure?
*chortle* Yeah, I've been playing Diablo 2 again recently, I can't say I've noticed anything that really smacks of AI fullstop, let alone learning. Although the game still entertains me, to be fair.
Yeah, the fucking phones were out. I work for these guys (http://elections.org.nz/ Electoral Enrolment Centre ) and the timing was a little off, to say the least. Given that we produced the first rolls for the next election here just after, the timing was just a little off...
What, "Insightful"? Obviously crack is more widespread over there than I thought...
The grandparent was fine. However you, sir, are a monkey.
Unfortunately your opinion is the juvenile one, an inability to face facts. I recommend poking your eyes out so as to avoid trauma as this "juvenile" behaviour becomes mainstream.
Offtopic but... you need an apostrophe in your sig, the "its" there stands for "it is" and therefore should be "it's". This has been a gramatic quality service announcement.
Skip giving the US all your money; how about just paying what it what you owe? Altogether, your post is excellent. It's as funny as that "Fox News" comedy show that I get to see occasionally.
HA! I seem to have let my mod points expire, else i'd be modding that up :D
Ah, no, I didn't agree to buy the licence terms... Ah, you mean by.
> For intranet applications, cross-browser > compatibility will NEVER be the deciding factor. but ...
> Building an application that will work only of
> Firefox (with XUL) might be a more difficult
> decision.
Perhaps there's a nice market for XUL intranet apps then? Whoah! Wait! Then we'd be locking people into the Mozilla platform :D Although anyone else is welcome to implement their own XUL interpreter.
They were covering the reasons for buying; while the function may be there (and is, AFAIK), many people are buying them 'cause they're just so classy ;)
I sympathise with you, but if you make your point calmly without abusing people wildly, you'll get it across a lot better.
They run fine with linux. Due to the joy of the debian release process, you can't run stable on them, but testing works fine and dandy.
Skip gentoo. I've played with it for about 6 months now, and have come to the conclusion that its unstable is just too damn unstable. Debian unstable isn't too far behind, and is, in the main, pretty damn good. Unfortunately we also use debian for a hundred or so boxes at work; I've been waiting for about 15 months for sarge to become stable now, wanting to upgrade the damn things, but it just isn't happening...
Hang on, we have software patents here? I thought our refusal to allow nuclear ships here had caused enough friction that the states had kinda stomped on any free trade agreements with us, so we were safe from any other shit being slipped in, as happened to Aus with their FTA and the DMCA style shite.
Unless the debian-ised and gentoo-ised versions are significantly different from what you're using...
* Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find)
Right-click on menu to add or remove stuff... seemed intuitive to me, been there for ages.
* Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying.
Again, been there for ages.
* No window snapping
As noted elsewhere, shift-drag
* Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful
smb:// ssh:// ftp:// in nautilus? Or were you meaning something else?
* Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere)
Good point. And it's a frigging hog when changing tabs etc.
* Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit
Probably, but who wants to use either?
* Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox
I was under the impression konqueror was the default browser for KDE? Installing firefox on either is an option, and an advisable one, but could hardly be counted against gnome.
* Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals.
I guess. Seems to do what I want (open files) just fine and dandy.
It seems that almost all the problems you have are long fixed. Are you really checking out each release?
That all said, I tried KDE about 3 years ago, hated it, and haven't gone back. I really should check it out again, sounds like it has some appealing aspects.
Unless the debian-ised and gentoo-ised versions are significantly different from what you're using... * Inability to edit or affect the panel menus in an intuitive way (somewhat addressed through the addition of applications:/// which was hard to find) Right-click on menu to add or remove stuff... seemed intuitive to me, been there for ages. * Inability to hold down the mouse button (drag through) while navigating the menus. The thinking was accessibility related. A click event occurs after some arbitrary criteria has been met that convinces Gnome that the user really wanted to click and just didn't know to let go of the mouse button and then click again. Very annoying. Again, been there for ages. * No window snapping As noted elsewhere, shift-drag * Non-existance of KIO-slaves equivalent (ability to open and work with files on arbitrary network resources) -- very useful smb:// ssh:// ftp:// in nautilus? Or were you meaning something else? * Gnome terminal lacking ability to rename tabs by interacting with the tab (can be done through menu option somewhere) Good point. And it's a frigging hog when changing tabs etc. * Gedit lacking features as compared with KEdit Probably, but who wants to use either? * Epiphany / Galeon (which is it now?) not as feature complete as Firefox I was under the impression konqueror was the default browser for KDE? Installing firefox on either is an option, and an advisable one. * Until recently, the Gnome file open dialog box was a nightmare. It still has some problems, though. Many of its features are hidden in shortcut keys that one would only know existed if one scoured the Gnome manuals. I guess. Seems to do what I want (open files) just fine and dandy. It seems that almost all the problems you have are long fixed. Are you really checking out each release? That all said, I tried KDE about 3 years ago, hated it, and haven't gone back. I really should check it out again, sounds like it has some appealing aspects.