With RH 7.4 in beta now, ximian needs to get in gear.
Ximian should NOT release Gnome just to beat RH7.4 to the finish line. They should release when the product is ready. Initial reports show that Gnome2.0 is almost ready, but still has a few issues to work out.
Plus, I run Ximian Gnome on Solaris, which means that I'll probably get it a month after all you RedHat Weenies^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husers , so I need to be EXTRA patient:)
The Center for Exotic Pest Research at UC Davis said if ferret ownership was to become legal, there is a "high risk" of feral populations.
Groups like Ferets Anonymous say that Ferets cannot survive in the wild and grow in population. This does not make sense. All other domesticated animals; Cats, dogs, rabbits, rats, cows, and even parrots, can and have established feral populations. But some magical force prevents ferrets from breeding outside of a human house? That doesn't add up.
Domestic Ferrets are legal in all continental states including Alaska, and excepting California.
California & Hawaii also have the most to protect. California has more native plants an animals then any other state, and the second highest percentage of surving native species (Hawaii is first) (Sorry, can't find a link, and I've sold my biology texts).
Indiginous animal populations are already threatened by feral housecats, feral ferrets would only threaten more species.
Tell me, when it comes to protecting the environment, who do you trust more: The Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, the California Department of Fish & Game, and UC Davis ; or Ferrets Anonymous?
but ferrets are starting to look fun too. Which pets are especially trainable? Which will be entertained by (yet not intrusive upon) a typist with a flashing screen in front of them? Is cable-gnawing an issue?
I know several people with ferrets (Including my mother in law).
Ferrets are very cute and very fun, but they don't meet all of your criteria. They are difficult to train to to tricks, they are pretty dirty animals (They don't potty train very well, and often prefer to poop in a dark corner vs in a bed of kitty litter), play with and chew cables (My mother-in-law had one that kept chewing through hot electrical wires), they do not enjoy cages, and they are hyper hyper hyper... nonstop nocturnal action. They do like to cuddle with you, but they are also libel to pee and poop on your bed while you are sleeping.
Also note that ferrets are master escape artists, so if you do get one, make sure that ferral ferrets won't threaten indiginous bird populations in your area (Which is why ferrets are illegal in California & Hawaii, and should remain illegal according to the Audubon Society, the Waterfowl Association, and The Sierra Club).
Something tells me I can do better than simply a dog or a cat."
Don't disregard a dog or cat simply because they are common pets. There are hundreds of millions of dog & cat owners in the world, with good reason: dogs & cats are (usually) intelligent, clean, easy to train, and very loving animals.
I should mention; I've also tried two different those FM transmitter things (Send a radio signal from your portable CD Player to the radio), but they also have serious problems: I get a lound whine from the engine, if I pass by a building or under an underpass, I get wierd static noise, etc. It's like listening to a radio station which fades in an out (But the quality of the sound was pretty good).
A wire that connects the portable CD Player directly to the stereo would be much less noisy then the FM Transmitter thing.
It also has an auxilliary input that allows connection of an MP3 player, tape, MD player, (...) it's still nice to see a major car audio manufacturer delivering what the public wants."
Why do more car stereos NOT have an Auxilliary Input?
The only thing I really want in a car stereo is an Auxillary Input. I want to be able to take my portable CD player, iPod, whatever, and plug it into my car stereo with a minimum of sound quality loss.
I have used one of those Tape Deck inputs (One end looks like a cassette tape, other end is a stereo jack. Plug the stereo jack into your device, insert the cassette into your tape deck, hit play), on & off for 15 years, but the sound for those things is horrible: all treble, no base. Sound is muffled (This is on 5 different stereos).
Is there some conspiracy against manufacturers putting a simple stereo input jack on the front of my stereo?
I'm not entitled to a single penny of their money.
But when you give tax cuts to the rich, and not to the rest of us, you are saying that they are entitled to MY money.
Why not make tax cuts even, across the board, for all income levels? No no, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan... they all worked for the rich.
Will the movie be available by phone?
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TMBG used to have an inovative service called "dial-a-song". You call a phone number which is answered by a restored vintage answering machine and listen to an unreleased song. A computer hooked up to the answering machine changes the song to another unreleased song once an hour.
The album liner notes always said something like "Remember, the call is free if you call from work".
I just noticed that they now have a dial-a-song webpage, which is also free when you connect from work!
Just think of what could happen if your tie got caught in the bitstream!
*ZOINK* there goes access to Poland!
Wedding rings? *ZAAM* Oh damn, I think we just transported Roger's ring finger into the shared computer in Ms. Kingston's 3rd Grade class in Manchester, UK.
You gotta be careful when working around heavy data processing machinery, man! They aren't safe or simple, like a table saw or anything!
The city lights also automatically turn on/off via an X10 cronjob on my home Linux server
You know what? Tell your X10 cronjob to take a break. I think we're gonna turn off your lights for you tonight... no no, don't thank us. It's our pleasure.
.... in fact, you don't really have much of a choice now, do you:)
Thank you very much for your advice. I've posted this on a dozen different forums, and you're the first person to actully propose a fix (Everyone else made fun of me for using such a slow machine).
It improved the speed of mozilla tremendously.
MozillaRC3 is still a little slower then NS4.7 in some regards (But it is faster in rendering pages, so the speed trade offs are worth it_, but it is completely usable now. As time goes on, I'm sure some developers will introduce some speed tweaks for we Solaris users.
I didn't realize that a slow NFS would impact Mozilla this much. After all, the NS4.7 cache is on the same NFS drive, so I assumed the NFS impact would be similar.
Plus, I was using RC2, which does not have the option "Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Cache->D isk Cache Folder". (RC3 wasn't available on http://www.mozilla.org/releases until a few days ago, and the netadmins don't allow FTP access, so no ftp.mozilla.org for me. So now I'm wating for 1.0 to appear for Solaris users:).
Hey, at some conventions they have games like "Spot the Narc" or "Spot the Fed". WE could have games like "spot the hidden goatse.cx link", "Who is the most Anonymous Coward?", pin the first post on the troll, etc.
I have not downloaded Mozilla 1.0 yet, but I do have RC3 installed on this Ultra5/270Mhz/512Mb.
While this monster is by no means a speed demon, Mozilla is so slow it is unusable. Takes 30 seconds to start up, 1-2 seconds to register a click. The rendering of pages is fine, but everything else is really, really slow.
Netscape4.7, on the other hand, is fine. Not fast, but perfectly usable.
I also use Mozilla all the time on a Win98 & RH7.2 (Dual boot/366Mhz/512Mb), and it's way way FASTER then Netscape4.7.
Undercover Terrorist asks: "I need to take pictures and video in an area where soldiers/police will try to stop me if they saw what I am doing or/and confiscate my equipment.
Ooo! Ooo! John Ashcroft asked me to be aware of these people!
Well, everyone knows that Slashdot is the place to ask if you want to remain unobtrusive.
1000 ways they could have written the code
better the first time.
Oh come on, are you complaining because MS had bugs in their program? All programs have bugs.
How many bugs were fixed on the way to Gnome 2.0 or Mozilla 1.0 ? Thousands! Are you accusing the developers of those products for not doing it right the first time?
We are on the brink of nuclear war between Pakistan and India, the govt is using every excuse in the book to spy on its citizens, big companies are destroying our democtracy and YOU are quoting Star Trek.
YOU on the other hand, are saving the world by reading Slashdot.
One superstition, however, seems to be actually gaining prominence: Feng Shui
Many of the things that you mention, like the rabbits foot, or knocking on wood, are just a superstition. They don't have any practical use in real life.
Feng Shui is largely a superstition, but it also has a great practical aspect to it: It is also a great decoration & design strategy.
Houses that follow Feng Shui can look nice, clean and organized: not because of the spiritual aspects, but rather because Feng Shui helps you to reduce the clutter, keep things clean, and to find a place to put the flowerpot and hang the mirror.
And really, these houses would probably look nice if they followed any design strategy, but Feng Shui just happens to be the buzzword of the decade...
Slashdot, news for individuals who consider themselves might enjoy computers in a fashionable sense, while sufficiently transporting information that some may find important.
And yet the US donates more food to needy people then any other country (or bloc of countries).
The horrors committed by US generocity.
Certainly, we can be doing alot more (allowing the countries to feed themselves instead of providing beef cattle for McDonalds, for example); but the US isn't the only one that needs to do it.
>First of all, there is a finite supply of fossil fuels on the planet.
There is a finite supply of air on the planet so I suggest you stop breathing.
Bad analogy. While the supply of air on the planet is finite, it's also constantly being regenerated quicky, on a large scale by the ecosystem.
Oil is also finite, and is being regenerated on a small scale over a period of millions of years.
Its not that we love fossil fuels but currently they are the only economically viable fuel source we have.
Yes, but it's also a heavily subsidized fuel source. Since the birth of the automobile, our governments (especially here in the US) have given away huge amounts of money to the oil industry to fuel research, build oil pipelines, build refineries, etc.
We go to war, remove governements and in the past colonized dozens of countries to maintain a steady supply of oil.
If it oil is such a great fuel source, then why do we keep subsidizing the oil industry?
The downside is that is ships with CDE by default, which is an eyesore (it can be changed, provided you have root access). I wonder if Sol 9 is shipping with CDE or Gnome?
I believe Solaris 9 is initially shipping with CDE, but Sun no longer supports CDE. Sun will ship with and support Gnome2.0 later this year.
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With RH 7.4 in beta now, ximian needs to get in gear.
:)
Ximian should NOT release Gnome just to beat RH7.4 to the finish line. They should release when the product is ready. Initial reports show that Gnome2.0 is almost ready, but still has a few issues to work out.
Plus, I run Ximian Gnome on Solaris, which means that I'll probably get it a month after all you RedHat Weenies^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husers , so I need to be EXTRA patient
However, according to various reports,(none of which I can find right now) there are no "Feral" Ferret populations in the USA.
But according to the State of California ferrets can establish ferral populations, and have done so in New Zealand & the UK, among other places.
The Center for Exotic Pest Research at UC Davis said if ferret ownership was to become legal, there is a "high risk" of feral populations.
Groups like Ferets Anonymous say that Ferets cannot survive in the wild and grow in population. This does not make sense. All other domesticated animals; Cats, dogs, rabbits, rats, cows, and even parrots, can and have established feral populations. But some magical force prevents ferrets from breeding outside of a human house? That doesn't add up.
Domestic Ferrets are legal in all continental states including Alaska, and excepting California.
California & Hawaii also have the most to protect.
California has more native plants an animals then any other state, and the second highest percentage of surving native species (Hawaii is first) (Sorry, can't find a link, and I've sold my biology texts).
Indiginous animal populations are already threatened by feral housecats, feral ferrets would only threaten more species.
Tell me, when it comes to protecting the environment, who do you trust more: The Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, the California Department of Fish & Game, and UC Davis ; or Ferrets Anonymous?
but ferrets are starting to look fun too. Which pets are especially trainable? Which will be entertained by (yet not intrusive upon) a typist with a flashing screen in front of them? Is cable-gnawing an issue?
I know several people with ferrets (Including my mother in law).
Ferrets are very cute and very fun, but they don't meet all of your criteria. They are difficult to train to to tricks, they are pretty dirty animals (They don't potty train very well, and often prefer to poop in a dark corner vs in a bed of kitty litter), play with and chew cables (My mother-in-law had one that kept chewing through hot electrical wires), they do not enjoy cages, and they are hyper hyper hyper... nonstop nocturnal action. They do like to cuddle with you, but they are also libel to pee and poop on your bed while you are sleeping.
Also note that ferrets are master escape artists, so if you do get one, make sure that ferral ferrets won't threaten indiginous bird populations in your area (Which is why ferrets are illegal in California & Hawaii, and should remain illegal according to the Audubon Society, the Waterfowl Association, and The Sierra Club).
Something tells me I can do better than simply a dog or a cat."
Don't disregard a dog or cat simply because they are common pets. There are hundreds of millions of dog & cat owners in the world, with good reason: dogs & cats are (usually) intelligent, clean, easy to train, and very loving animals.
I should mention; I've also tried two different those FM transmitter things (Send a radio signal from your portable CD Player to the radio), but they also have serious problems: I get a lound whine from the engine, if I pass by a building or under an underpass, I get wierd static noise, etc. It's like listening to a radio station which fades in an out (But the quality of the sound was pretty good).
A wire that connects the portable CD Player directly to the stereo would be much less noisy then the FM Transmitter thing.
It also has an auxilliary input that allows connection of an MP3 player, tape, MD player, (...) it's still nice to see a major car audio manufacturer delivering what the public wants."
Why do more car stereos NOT have an Auxilliary Input?
The only thing I really want in a car stereo is an Auxillary Input. I want to be able to take my portable CD player, iPod, whatever, and plug it into my car stereo with a minimum of sound quality loss.
I have used one of those Tape Deck inputs
(One end looks like a cassette tape, other end is a stereo jack. Plug the stereo jack into your device, insert the cassette into your tape deck, hit play), on & off for 15 years, but the sound for those things is horrible: all treble, no base. Sound is muffled (This is on 5 different stereos).
Is there some conspiracy against manufacturers putting a simple stereo input jack on the front of my stereo?
And yes, it's the game that "you-know-who" plays.
... Voldemort?
Yes, I did play with him. For a long time, actually - don't ask about it.
Who is "you-know-who"
I'm not entitled to a single penny of their money.
But when you give tax cuts to the rich, and not to the rest of us, you are saying that they are entitled to MY money.
Why not make tax cuts even, across the board, for all income levels? No no, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan... they all worked for the rich.
TMBG used to have an inovative service called "dial-a-song". You call a phone number which is answered by a restored vintage answering machine and listen to an unreleased song. A computer hooked up to the answering machine changes the song to another unreleased song once an hour.
The album liner notes always said something like "Remember, the call is free if you call from work".
I just noticed that they now have a dial-a-song webpage, which is also free when you connect from work!
You can't wear a tie in a shop like that!
Just think of what could happen if your tie got caught in the bitstream!
*ZOINK* there goes access to Poland!
Wedding rings? *ZAAM* Oh damn, I think we just transported Roger's ring finger into the shared computer in Ms. Kingston's 3rd Grade class in Manchester, UK.
You gotta be careful when working around heavy data processing machinery, man! They aren't safe or simple, like a table saw or anything!
The city lights also automatically turn on/off via an X10 cronjob on my home Linux server
:)
You know what? Tell your X10 cronjob to take a break. I think we're gonna turn off your lights for you tonight... no no, don't thank us. It's our pleasure.
.... in fact, you don't really have much of a choice now, do you
Oh my God! The Load Gunmen had a show??
And I've been wondering about Apple. Many web designers still use Macs for web design.
If Apple started to distribute Mozilla as the default browser instead of IE, it would also help Mozilla to gain market share.
Thank you very much for your advice. I've posted this on a dozen different forums, and you're the first person to actully propose a fix (Everyone else made fun of me for using such a slow machine).
:).
It improved the speed of mozilla tremendously.
MozillaRC3 is still a little slower then NS4.7 in some regards (But it is faster in rendering pages, so the speed trade offs are worth it_, but it is completely usable now. As time goes on, I'm sure some developers will introduce some speed tweaks for we Solaris users.
I didn't realize that a slow NFS would impact Mozilla this much. After all, the NS4.7 cache is on the same NFS drive, so I assumed the NFS impact would be similar.
Plus, I was using RC2, which does not have the option "Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Cache->D isk Cache Folder". (RC3 wasn't available on http://www.mozilla.org/releases until a few days ago, and the netadmins don't allow FTP access, so no ftp.mozilla.org for me. So now I'm wating for 1.0 to appear for Solaris users
Once again, thank you very much for your help.
At night, after the conference, we could go out and pick up a couple of Karma Whores...
Hey, at some conventions they have games like "Spot the Narc" or "Spot the Fed". WE could have games like "spot the hidden goatse.cx link", "Who is the most Anonymous Coward?", pin the first post on the troll, etc.
I have not downloaded Mozilla 1.0 yet, but I do have RC3 installed on this Ultra5/270Mhz/512Mb .
While this monster is by no means a speed demon, Mozilla is so slow it is unusable. Takes 30 seconds to start up, 1-2 seconds to register a click. The rendering of pages is fine, but everything else is really, really slow.
Netscape4.7, on the other hand, is fine. Not fast, but perfectly usable.
I also use Mozilla all the time on a Win98 & RH7.2 (Dual boot/366Mhz/512Mb), and it's way way FASTER then Netscape4.7.
Why is Mozilla so slow on Solaris?
Finally! Peter Jackson, Hemos & CmdrTaco all in one room.
Which is the best way to destroy a troll? Sunlight or (Score:-1, Troll)?
Undercover Terrorist asks: "I need to take pictures and video in an area where soldiers/police will try to stop me if they saw what I am doing or/and confiscate my equipment.
Ooo! Ooo! John Ashcroft asked me to be aware of these people!
Well, everyone knows that Slashdot is the place to ask if you want to remain unobtrusive.
1000 ways they could have written the code
better the first time.
Oh come on, are you complaining because MS had bugs in their program? All programs have bugs.
How many bugs were fixed on the way to Gnome 2.0 or Mozilla 1.0 ? Thousands! Are you accusing the developers of those products for not doing it right the first time?
We are on the brink of nuclear war between Pakistan and India, the govt is using every excuse in the book to spy on its citizens, big companies are destroying our democtracy and YOU are quoting Star Trek .
YOU on the other hand, are saving the world by reading Slashdot .
One superstition, however, seems to be actually gaining prominence: Feng Shui
Many of the things that you mention, like the rabbits foot, or knocking on wood, are just a superstition. They don't have any practical use in real life.
Feng Shui is largely a superstition, but it also has a great practical aspect to it: It is also a great decoration & design strategy.
Houses that follow Feng Shui can look nice, clean and organized: not because of the spiritual aspects, but rather because Feng Shui helps you to reduce the clutter, keep things clean, and to find a place to put the flowerpot and hang the mirror.
And really, these houses would probably look nice if they followed any design strategy, but Feng Shui just happens to be the buzzword of the decade...
Slashdot, news for individuals who consider themselves might enjoy computers in a fashionable sense, while sufficiently transporting information that some may find important.
And yet the US donates more food to needy people then any other country (or bloc of countries).
The horrors committed by US generocity.
Certainly, we can be doing alot more (allowing the countries to feed themselves instead of providing beef cattle for McDonalds, for example); but the US isn't the only one that needs to do it.
>First of all, there is a finite supply of fossil fuels on the planet.
There is a finite supply of air on the planet so I suggest you stop breathing.
Bad analogy. While the supply of air on the planet is finite, it's also constantly being regenerated quicky, on a large scale by the ecosystem.
Oil is also finite, and is being regenerated on a small scale over a period of millions of years.
Its not that we love fossil fuels but currently they are the only economically viable fuel source we have.
Yes, but it's also a heavily subsidized fuel source. Since the birth of the automobile, our governments (especially here in the US) have given away huge amounts of money to the oil industry to fuel research, build oil pipelines, build refineries, etc.
We go to war, remove governements and in the past colonized dozens of countries to maintain a steady supply of oil.
If it oil is such a great fuel source, then why do we keep subsidizing the oil industry?
The downside is that is ships with CDE by default, which is an eyesore (it can be changed, provided you have root access). I wonder if Sol 9 is shipping with CDE or Gnome?
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I believe Solaris 9 is initially shipping with CDE, but Sun no longer supports CDE. Sun will ship with and support Gnome2.0 later this year.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/gnome/events/
I use Solaris and Gnome1.4 at work, and MAN is Gnome slow. I'm really looking forward to 2.0 , which is supposedly faster in many areas.