X is when something is changed/removed from the API that breaks plugins, Y is when something is added to the API but doesn't break anything (because all the old stuff is still there), and Z is any other change.
I think it's funny, looking at the ICQ list with ugly, garish colors and the big ad that you blocked. AIM is similarly bad, but it's not an ad, just the big "AOL Instant Messenger" graphic. Too much clutter for my tastes.
I have my gaim chat window to be similarly pared down, but it's not really worth a screenshot. All it is is a menubar, chat window showing what we've said, text entry field for typing my messages, and then a list of tabs for all the people I'm chatting with. no big buttons or anything.
It's a totally different situation than you describe, though.
yes, profitting off other people's work is the nature of capitalism. BUT, in a healthy capitalistic society, people are paid for their work. SCO is not trying to profit off the work of it's employees, it's trying to profit off the work of others, without paying them. Even that is ok sometimes (eg, redhat is allowed to make money selling the work of the linux kernel team), but SCO is trying to invalidate the GPL, steal ownership of the work from the people they haven't paid, and then make a profit off of it.
A Desktop Environment is a comprehensive set of applications that provide a full suite of tools that allow the user to get work done.
For example, lets say you use blackbox. Does blackbox have it's own calculator, PDF viewer, web browser, file manager, image viewer, card game, etc? No, it does not have any of these things. That's because blackbox is just a window manager -- ALL it does is sits there and draws a window border around your window and provides you with a way to move windows around the screen.
Gnome is a desktop environment because it has all the things I mentioned and much, much more. Ideally, the term "environment" means that it is completely immersive, eg, if you were using gnome you would never need to launch a non-GNOME app to get your work done, but the real world doesn't work like that... for example, I use GNOME but I swapped out metacity for xfwm4 because I like it more (3 reasons: window focus policies, window snapping, and independant horizontal/vertical maximization by clicking on the maximize button with right/middle mouse buttons). Then I also use k3b for burning CDs as it is more flexible than nautilus's cd burner, and I also use firefox, thunderbird, etc. But still, most of the simple apps (file manager, calculator, etc) are provided by gnome and I use them, that makes gnome a desktop environment.
That sounds like what I'm doing now, except there's no Job Y:(
(I quit my last job frustrated with crap corporate policies, decided I had a nice big fat swack of cash in my savings so I went on a 2 week vacation, came back and I haven't been able to find a new job yet... I've been unemployed for almost 2 months now).
"So, when can you start?" "Well, I have to give my current boss my two weeks notice" "Of course. I wouldn't hire you if you didn't."
2 weeks later, my last day on the job was a friday, I had the weekend to myself, and I started work at the new place on a monday.
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no no, once he got it perfect... his family was rich, and it rained donuts. Of course, nobody knew what a donut was, so homer ran away screaming and changed it to some other world.
Some spoken languages are crap, specifically I'm thinking about English. If you take a quick look here you can see a consistent theme is how English speakers are constantly adopting elements from other languages. This has created an inconsistent language with an extremely large and unnecessary vocabulary, which often give multiple ways to say the same thing.
So what you're saying is that Perl is a lot like English then?
"Bill Gates, the court hereby declares that you are guilty of predatory pricing and monopoly tactics. For your actions, you will be rewarded with an extension of your monopoly in the form of vouchers: it will cost you next to nothing to fulfill the vouchers and it will mean more people are stuck with your crap."
You could probably get away with running Windows in VMWare or something, and then monitoring changes in the disk image in real time from the host OS.
In fact, that's probably more reliable, as windows might change files around just by booting up (who knows, why risk it?). this way it's easier to isolate which actions actually made which changes to the file.
When I was in highschool, everybody who was anybody was on ICQ, then I went to university and everybody had a brand new Dell/Gateway/whatever POS computer with XP preloaded that forced MSN on them, so everybody I knew in university had MSN. I just use Gaim now so that I can talk to all my AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Jabber buddies with one program.
I think a google-branded Jabber client would be a great idea; Jabber would allow them to really innovate quickly and it would be a big push for a good technology.
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AIM and ICQ are the only IM services I use, so for me, it makes more sense to run both AIM and ICQ instead of running gaim
Only if your RAM is more important than your screen clutter. Frankly, I wouldn't give up having all my buddies in one buddy list for the world.
Actually, you're wrong.
X is when something is changed/removed from the API that breaks plugins, Y is when something is added to the API but doesn't break anything (because all the old stuff is still there), and Z is any other change.
Your AIM and ICQ buddy lists are positively bloated.
I think it's funny, looking at the ICQ list with ugly, garish colors and the big ad that you blocked. AIM is similarly bad, but it's not an ad, just the big "AOL Instant Messenger" graphic. Too much clutter for my tastes.
I have my gaim chat window to be similarly pared down, but it's not really worth a screenshot. All it is is a menubar, chat window showing what we've said, text entry field for typing my messages, and then a list of tabs for all the people I'm chatting with. no big buttons or anything.
Use the prefs, Luke!
It's a totally different situation than you describe, though.
yes, profitting off other people's work is the nature of capitalism. BUT, in a healthy capitalistic society, people are paid for their work. SCO is not trying to profit off the work of it's employees, it's trying to profit off the work of others, without paying them. Even that is ok sometimes (eg, redhat is allowed to make money selling the work of the linux kernel team), but SCO is trying to invalidate the GPL, steal ownership of the work from the people they haven't paid, and then make a profit off of it.
Why not just take the nth root of x?
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Jeez, you guys always do things the hard way.
Considering that you paid for a slashdot account, it's not surprising that you're sceptical about getting a free ipod.
Slashdot does emit code to an HTML standard, it just happens to be HTML 3.2.
Yep, you sure didn't say it was valid, but "emitting code to an HTML standard" is something you're certainly not doing.
The bug has been fixed in the .10 trunk
Yeah? It's a shame they broke it again in the version that I downloaded.
A Desktop Environment is a comprehensive set of applications that provide a full suite of tools that allow the user to get work done.
For example, lets say you use blackbox. Does blackbox have it's own calculator, PDF viewer, web browser, file manager, image viewer, card game, etc? No, it does not have any of these things. That's because blackbox is just a window manager -- ALL it does is sits there and draws a window border around your window and provides you with a way to move windows around the screen.
Gnome is a desktop environment because it has all the things I mentioned and much, much more. Ideally, the term "environment" means that it is completely immersive, eg, if you were using gnome you would never need to launch a non-GNOME app to get your work done, but the real world doesn't work like that... for example, I use GNOME but I swapped out metacity for xfwm4 because I like it more (3 reasons: window focus policies, window snapping, and independant horizontal/vertical maximization by clicking on the maximize button with right/middle mouse buttons). Then I also use k3b for burning CDs as it is more flexible than nautilus's cd burner, and I also use firefox, thunderbird, etc. But still, most of the simple apps (file manager, calculator, etc) are provided by gnome and I use them, that makes gnome a desktop environment.
Well, the map has a couple highways and interstates in it... surely you could figure out which springfields are on those roads to narrow it down.
blind our politicians stupid.
I think you are much, much too late.
That sounds like what I'm doing now, except there's no Job Y :(
(I quit my last job frustrated with crap corporate policies, decided I had a nice big fat swack of cash in my savings so I went on a 2 week vacation, came back and I haven't been able to find a new job yet... I've been unemployed for almost 2 months now).
Especially if you're using IE, they can make the URL appear to be exactly correct, when you're in fact looking at a page on some other website.
Been there, except it went more like this:
"So, when can you start?"
"Well, I have to give my current boss my two weeks notice"
"Of course. I wouldn't hire you if you didn't."
2 weeks later, my last day on the job was a friday, I had the weekend to myself, and I started work at the new place on a monday.
no no, once he got it perfect... his family was rich, and it rained donuts. Of course, nobody knew what a donut was, so homer ran away screaming and changed it to some other world.
Some spoken languages are crap, specifically I'm thinking about English. If you take a quick look here you can see a consistent theme is how English speakers are constantly adopting elements from other languages. This has created an inconsistent language with an extremely large and unnecessary vocabulary, which often give multiple ways to say the same thing.
So what you're saying is that Perl is a lot like English then?
"Almost kills him" is an understatement, there was a mushroom cloud that blew the roof off of the house ;)
I do, in a sense. All my CDs are ripped onto my computer. This has many advantages:
1. Jukebox software like Rhythmbox allows me to listen to all of my music without having to constantly change CDs.
2. I can listen to it as many times as I want with the original CDs safely in their jewel cases, no chance of getting scratched.
3. The original CDs act as a backup for what's on my computer, in case the harddrive ever fries.
"Bill Gates, the court hereby declares that you are guilty of predatory pricing and monopoly tactics. For your actions, you will be rewarded with an extension of your monopoly in the form of vouchers: it will cost you next to nothing to fulfill the vouchers and it will mean more people are stuck with your crap."
Then I have a question: was there this much trouble reverse engineering FAT32? Or was FAT32 easier because it was a simpler file system?
You could probably get away with running Windows in VMWare or something, and then monitoring changes in the disk image in real time from the host OS.
In fact, that's probably more reliable, as windows might change files around just by booting up (who knows, why risk it?). this way it's easier to isolate which actions actually made which changes to the file.
And pretty much any other page that gets linked to from slashdot.
I'm in the same boat, basically.
When I was in highschool, everybody who was anybody was on ICQ, then I went to university and everybody had a brand new Dell/Gateway/whatever POS computer with XP preloaded that forced MSN on them, so everybody I knew in university had MSN. I just use Gaim now so that I can talk to all my AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Jabber buddies with one program.
I think a google-branded Jabber client would be a great idea; Jabber would allow them to really innovate quickly and it would be a big push for a good technology.
Wow, that's a great story. Do you happen to have any references?
Hmmmm... the version that I've heard goes "Figures can lie and liars can figure"