This means no web bugs or any referenced (as opposed to inlined) images are ever displayed.
Well, I use thunderbird, and it's configured never to load remote images, and all things like javascript, plugins, etc, are all disabled for reading mail. I don't need any special firewall software for this:)
I'm still waiting for tabbed windows (originally in PWM, but most famous in Fluxbox)to become standard in both GNOME and KDE
A similar effect can be achieved in KDE by setting your titlebar style to BeOS, and then maximizing all your windows. If one of the titlebars becomes completely obscured (as in, you can't see any of it), it'll slide along the top of the window until it is visible.
Because people here are always complaining about how "bad" Windows is, yet cheer when one of its features is ripped off.
Sounds like a straw man argument to me, unless you can show examples of where one person flames windows and then goes on to cheer this file dialog. Perhaps the group of people flaming windows and the group of people cheering this dialog are two different groups of people?
Personally, I'm indifferent. I don't like windows, and I don't care either way what the file dialog looks or acts like, as long as I can open/save my files with it.
Somebody else mentioned ROX's drag-n-drop method for opening and saving files, too. That looked like a really cool idea, but I doubt the GNOME people will pick it up.
My solution is to have two of those totally standard digital alarm clocks with the bright red displays that burns a hole in your eyes when you look at it (and I have them on the other side of the room, so I have to get up and walk a short distance to turn them off; once I'm on my feet it doesn't take much more to wake me up completely).
As far as I can tell, they all use the exact same circuitboard inside, because every single unit I've seen is absolutely identical in operation, with the exception of the shape and layout of buttons.
Basically, the snooze button is large and in front of all the others, just smashing the thing with my fist generally hits the snooze button reliably. The other buttons (for setting the time and the alarm) are smaller and near the back, which is ok because you only ever use them when you're awake anyway. The switch for whether or not the alarm should go off the next day is a tiny switch on the back, so there's no danger of accidentally turning off the alarm completely when you just want the beeping to stop.
Although, I have had an idea for a better alarm clock if that kind of thing won't work: set up a cron job on your computer so that this mp3 plays when you need to wake up. Make sure your speakers are cranked up and very close to your head while you are sleeping:)
well if you've just invented the concept of Free Software
Stallman didn't invent Free Software, not by a long shot. He just gave it a name and formalised it.
In the beginning of software, all software was "Free Software". It was traded freely as source code and nobody gave a thought about it. At the time, software was treated a lot like recipes: Sure, you had to pay for the food (hardware), but instructions for preparing the food (software) was written by anybody and given to anybody who wanted it.
It was Bill Gates that pioneered the idea of licensing software for money.
Stallman also believed that it was ok to use proprietary software for developing Free Software (the idea was that since it was impossible to operate a computer without proprietary software at the time, it must be acceptable to use proprietary software for the purpose of developing Free Software to replace the proprietary software with).
Yes, sorry. I hadn't read the article when I posted that, but I've watched the movies now. It looks pretty cool:)
Actually, I think that their choice to put the tabs along the side instead of along the top is an improvement in itself. Monitors are naturally wider than they are tall, and 90% of websites are long but not wide (ie, you have to scroll vertically, but not horizontally). Granted, the tabs along the side *do* take up more space than the tabs along the top, it's possible that the horizontal space they eat is less valuable than the vertical space eaten by other browsers.
Suffice it to say, I wish Firebird did something like that with tabs (firebird already has a sidebar feature for things like download, bookmarks, history, and there's an extension to make another sidebar for RSS feeds... I wonder how hard it would be to write an extension that puts tabs into a sidebar with optional screenshots? hmmmm....)
I've found that thumbnails generally convey much more useful information than page titles.
Except that they don't.
The way I read slashdot, I open up all the new stories in their own tabs, then I close each tab as I finish with it, until I'm down to the last tab, then I go somewhere else. If it's been a day or more since I've been here, there will be a lot of stories, and thus a lot of tabs. Every page on slashdot, when thumbnail-ized, will look essentially the same. Now you want me to try and find the story I want by choosing one from a bunch of identical images? No thanks, the blurb in the page title is at least *unique*, I'd like to go by that, please.
Since the only remotely valid point SCO has raised is the question of validating intellectual property rights on all code submitted
IMHO, the Linux development community already has much more stringent IP validation techniques than any proprietary shop. I mean, Linux can't just go around stealing people's IP because all the Linux code is out there in the open; if something's not theirs, it's obvious and hard to hide. A place like Microsoft on the other hand, all the code is secret and jealously guarded, so they don't have to worry if other people's IP slips in, since nobody will ever see it and nobody will find out anyway.
I'm not saying for certain that Linux is inherently "more pure" in the IP department, I'm just pointing out that the current environment seems to encourage open source to keep better track of it's IP than does proprietary software.
Mplayer does have a playlist, but it is broken and annoying.
First, the playlist doesn't support drag and drop, so you have to use mplayer's builtin file browser (which *always* starts you out displaying the root heirarchy, not something useful like your home directory), and often if you're in fullscreen mode, every time it changes files the screen will go black, and you'll have to go out of and back into fullscreen mode to get the picture back. Sometimes it even plays the first file on the playlist twice for no apparent reason.
Suffice it to say, a directory full of movies being viewed in a file browser like Nautilus, configured to open the files with mplayer by default, will provide a much better "playlist" experience than anything mplayer can give you.
it was like the weekly trip to the hardware store after you've bought a new house, where one day you get there and you realize that you just don't need anything else, and you turn around and leave.
Yes! I experienced precisely that same thing a few months ago! I'm actually loving it because it means I'm more able to save my money for important things like tuition:)
When I first started working (I started my second job ever last spring, though my first job isn't relevant to the story), every week it was like "Ok, what can I spend this paycheque on?" I'd buy a couple 80 GB HDs, double my RAM, CD burner, new speakers/subwoofer, CD binder + new spindle of CDs, etc.
At some point I just stopped needing new stuff. I could buy a 120GB HD, but I already have to 80's and I don't need more space, I can just as easily delete the files I don't need. I could upgrade my video card (radeon 9000), but why bother? I don't have a windows partition for gaming and I only play tuxracer and quake3 on linux. Maybe I could buy a DVD burner, but I don't use the CD-R's that I've bought as it is, so what's the point?
Thanks to living with my mother and having very few monthly bills to pay (at most, my living expenses are $200/mo and that's being extremely generous). The result is that my paycheques just keep piling up and I have more money sitting in my chequing account than I know what to do with. In a couple months I should have enough money for tuition, and I don't even start school until September:)
Well, the outgoing gnutella connections are being blocked. Either it's your firewall (which is why you need to at least try using it on a directly-network connected box) or by an upstream firewall/router (eg. Your ISP).
My OUTPUT table has a "default accept" policy, and no rules in it. The router, of course, is the same (who would buy a router that would block you from doing what you want to do?). The only possible thing is that my ISP is blocking it, but I doubt that (in the past, my ISP has shown that they're not anti-p2p bandwidth nazis -- in the first two weeks of December I had a combined upload/download total of 65GBs and the only thing my ISP did was send me a friendly email asking me to tone it down, even though the TOS allows them to charge me outrageous fees for exceeding my 8GB monthly limit).
IOW, my ISP doesn't block bittorrent and they don't block kazaa (mom's using kazaa), so I don't see why they'd be blocking gnutella. It just doesn't make sense, sorry.
From what I've heard, GTA3/Vice City offer enough to do to allow a person to spend almost a little too much time in its environment.
I've been a fan of GTA ever since it was a top-down 2d game in it's first incarnation.
On the one hand, there is a huge variety of side missions you can do that are only tangentially related to the plot, if at all. These little side missions can keep the game interesting for a little while, but if you're stuck on the plot missions and can't get past them (*cough* DRIVER *cough*), and you've done all the side missions to death (taxi, vigilante, rampage, ambulance, racing, "ice cream" delivery, RC cars, hidden packages, etc), it can get very boring.
I think what GTA needs is Diablo-II style map randomness. Either that, or just a wider selection of maps (imagine a "choose city" screen at the beginning of the game:)
I'm not sure what you mean completely here, but yes, one way to see the file viewer would be to create a "My Documents" directory as a link to the same directory under Windows.
But the file viewer would have to display files on the windows partition and the linux partiton, in the same window (ie, you'd have to be able to see all of the files in "My Documents" on the windows partition, and all of the files in "/home/user" on the linux partition, as though they were files in the same directory. This is not possible with the stock Konqueror or Nautilus source code, so there would have to be lots of modifications made to stock software. Jitux, in effect, would have to be a distribution in itself; it couldn't just use packages from other distributions.
So what if modified packages are available publically?
People would be able to trace the file's origins back to the owner, which would be a huge liability for the worm writer (ie, he'd get caught).
You don't. If user opens, edits and re-saves a file, you would simply save it on Linux partition.
Ok, but that brings us back to my previous point; all software on the system would have to be recoded to "merge" the files on the windows partitions onto the linux partition in such a way that the user can't tell that there are two separate file heirarchies. That would require tons of modifications, leading to the liability issue again.
Sun will wrap a GNU userland around the Solaris kernel and (perhaps, if licensing allows) libc. Richard Stallman will publicly embrace this distribution in an effort to differentiate FSF/GNU from Linux. Hurd development may slow. Linux adoption may slow.
You obviously don't know anything about Richard Stallman.
Unless you're also predicting Sun to release that Solaris kernel under the GPL, Stallman will berate the hell out of Sun for being too proprietary, even with the whole GNU system there.
Interesting read, but ultimately this would be a horror story, it could never work perfectly, and whatever broke would make people hate linux forever.
The hardest part looks like making the file viewer show files from the windows partition and the linux partition in the same window -- at the very least, that would require Jitux to have it's own repository of packages somewhere, and that would be discoverable. It couldn't just install Lindows and then let people deal with lindows. Another problem I see here is that Windows doesn't have anything similar to a/home directory like Linux has, which means that a person's files will tend to be scattered all over the harddrive. How will you find them all? How do you tell the difference between an important user file and an unimportant system file? How would you figure out what Outlook's settings are so that you could configure mozilla similarly?
Etc etc etc. In other words, what you describe is a pipe dream at best, and that's ignoring the negative stigma that will be attached to linux when it fails miserably (even moreso than the negative stigma that windows zealots already have for linux).
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This is the very same heatsink that I use, and I've been *very* happy with it.
In fact, I've done a bit of work on silencing an AMD myself...
This means no web bugs or any referenced (as opposed to inlined) images are ever displayed.
:)
Well, I use thunderbird, and it's configured never to load remote images, and all things like javascript, plugins, etc, are all disabled for reading mail. I don't need any special firewall software for this
I'm still waiting for tabbed windows (originally in PWM, but most famous in Fluxbox)to become standard in both GNOME and KDE
:)
A similar effect can be achieved in KDE by setting your titlebar style to BeOS, and then maximizing all your windows. If one of the titlebars becomes completely obscured (as in, you can't see any of it), it'll slide along the top of the window until it is visible.
It's not perfect, but it is a neat effect
Because people here are always complaining about how "bad" Windows is, yet cheer when one of its features is ripped off.
Sounds like a straw man argument to me, unless you can show examples of where one person flames windows and then goes on to cheer this file dialog. Perhaps the group of people flaming windows and the group of people cheering this dialog are two different groups of people?
Personally, I'm indifferent. I don't like windows, and I don't care either way what the file dialog looks or acts like, as long as I can open/save my files with it.
Somebody else mentioned ROX's drag-n-drop method for opening and saving files, too. That looked like a really cool idea, but I doubt the GNOME people will pick it up.
My solution is to have two of those totally standard digital alarm clocks with the bright red displays that burns a hole in your eyes when you look at it (and I have them on the other side of the room, so I have to get up and walk a short distance to turn them off; once I'm on my feet it doesn't take much more to wake me up completely).
:)
As far as I can tell, they all use the exact same circuitboard inside, because every single unit I've seen is absolutely identical in operation, with the exception of the shape and layout of buttons.
Basically, the snooze button is large and in front of all the others, just smashing the thing with my fist generally hits the snooze button reliably. The other buttons (for setting the time and the alarm) are smaller and near the back, which is ok because you only ever use them when you're awake anyway. The switch for whether or not the alarm should go off the next day is a tiny switch on the back, so there's no danger of accidentally turning off the alarm completely when you just want the beeping to stop.
Although, I have had an idea for a better alarm clock if that kind of thing won't work: set up a cron job on your computer so that this mp3 plays when you need to wake up. Make sure your speakers are cranked up and very close to your head while you are sleeping
So while pop-ups are a curse for your average folk, we geeks can make a little use out of the situation.
"I don't want Mozilla, I want the internet!"
*sigh*
I just installed mozilla anyway and made the Internet Explorer and Outlook Express icons launch moz instead.
well if you've just invented the concept of Free Software
Stallman didn't invent Free Software, not by a long shot. He just gave it a name and formalised it.
In the beginning of software, all software was "Free Software". It was traded freely as source code and nobody gave a thought about it. At the time, software was treated a lot like recipes: Sure, you had to pay for the food (hardware), but instructions for preparing the food (software) was written by anybody and given to anybody who wanted it.
It was Bill Gates that pioneered the idea of licensing software for money.
Stallman also believed that it was ok to use proprietary software for developing Free Software (the idea was that since it was impossible to operate a computer without proprietary software at the time, it must be acceptable to use proprietary software for the purpose of developing Free Software to replace the proprietary software with).
I'm not sure if he still believes this.
I wanted to get some money out of the automatic ATM teller machine, but I forgot my personal PIN identification number, so I had to do without. :)
Yes, sorry. I hadn't read the article when I posted that, but I've watched the movies now. It looks pretty cool :)
Actually, I think that their choice to put the tabs along the side instead of along the top is an improvement in itself. Monitors are naturally wider than they are tall, and 90% of websites are long but not wide (ie, you have to scroll vertically, but not horizontally). Granted, the tabs along the side *do* take up more space than the tabs along the top, it's possible that the horizontal space they eat is less valuable than the vertical space eaten by other browsers.
Suffice it to say, I wish Firebird did something like that with tabs (firebird already has a sidebar feature for things like download, bookmarks, history, and there's an extension to make another sidebar for RSS feeds... I wonder how hard it would be to write an extension that puts tabs into a sidebar with optional screenshots? hmmmm....)
I've found that thumbnails generally convey much more useful information than page titles.
Except that they don't.
The way I read slashdot, I open up all the new stories in their own tabs, then I close each tab as I finish with it, until I'm down to the last tab, then I go somewhere else. If it's been a day or more since I've been here, there will be a lot of stories, and thus a lot of tabs. Every page on slashdot, when thumbnail-ized, will look essentially the same. Now you want me to try and find the story I want by choosing one from a bunch of identical images? No thanks, the blurb in the page title is at least *unique*, I'd like to go by that, please.
No, it just looked like lots of work.
;)
It was lots of fun, too. Then again, a friend helped me and everything we do together is fun. I guess that's the social aspect of it, though.
At the very least, I appreciate being able to hear my music without having it drowned out by the noise of the computer.
You really appreciate "quiet". You should run a sound studio!
I wish I had that kind of money
All I can say is: Wow...
:)
Is that "Wow" as "Good Job!" or as in "You're a nutcase!"?
Since the only remotely valid point SCO has raised is the question of validating intellectual property rights on all code submitted
IMHO, the Linux development community already has much more stringent IP validation techniques than any proprietary shop. I mean, Linux can't just go around stealing people's IP because all the Linux code is out there in the open; if something's not theirs, it's obvious and hard to hide. A place like Microsoft on the other hand, all the code is secret and jealously guarded, so they don't have to worry if other people's IP slips in, since nobody will ever see it and nobody will find out anyway.
I'm not saying for certain that Linux is inherently "more pure" in the IP department, I'm just pointing out that the current environment seems to encourage open source to keep better track of it's IP than does proprietary software.
Mplayer does have a playlist, but it is broken and annoying.
First, the playlist doesn't support drag and drop, so you have to use mplayer's builtin file browser (which *always* starts you out displaying the root heirarchy, not something useful like your home directory), and often if you're in fullscreen mode, every time it changes files the screen will go black, and you'll have to go out of and back into fullscreen mode to get the picture back. Sometimes it even plays the first file on the playlist twice for no apparent reason.
Suffice it to say, a directory full of movies being viewed in a file browser like Nautilus, configured to open the files with mplayer by default, will provide a much better "playlist" experience than anything mplayer can give you.
(especially after putting the Athlon with jet-engine-like fan in the next room; door shut)
I might be able to help you with that.
it was like the weekly trip to the hardware store after you've bought a new house, where one day you get there and you realize that you just don't need anything else, and you turn around and leave.
:)
:)
Yes! I experienced precisely that same thing a few months ago! I'm actually loving it because it means I'm more able to save my money for important things like tuition
When I first started working (I started my second job ever last spring, though my first job isn't relevant to the story), every week it was like "Ok, what can I spend this paycheque on?" I'd buy a couple 80 GB HDs, double my RAM, CD burner, new speakers/subwoofer, CD binder + new spindle of CDs, etc.
At some point I just stopped needing new stuff. I could buy a 120GB HD, but I already have to 80's and I don't need more space, I can just as easily delete the files I don't need. I could upgrade my video card (radeon 9000), but why bother? I don't have a windows partition for gaming and I only play tuxracer and quake3 on linux. Maybe I could buy a DVD burner, but I don't use the CD-R's that I've bought as it is, so what's the point?
Thanks to living with my mother and having very few monthly bills to pay (at most, my living expenses are $200/mo and that's being extremely generous). The result is that my paycheques just keep piling up and I have more money sitting in my chequing account than I know what to do with. In a couple months I should have enough money for tuition, and I don't even start school until September
Well, the outgoing gnutella connections are being blocked. Either it's your firewall (which is why you need to at least try using it on a directly-network connected box) or by an upstream firewall/router (eg. Your ISP).
My OUTPUT table has a "default accept" policy, and no rules in it. The router, of course, is the same (who would buy a router that would block you from doing what you want to do?). The only possible thing is that my ISP is blocking it, but I doubt that (in the past, my ISP has shown that they're not anti-p2p bandwidth nazis -- in the first two weeks of December I had a combined upload/download total of 65GBs and the only thing my ISP did was send me a friendly email asking me to tone it down, even though the TOS allows them to charge me outrageous fees for exceeding my 8GB monthly limit).
IOW, my ISP doesn't block bittorrent and they don't block kazaa (mom's using kazaa), so I don't see why they'd be blocking gnutella. It just doesn't make sense, sorry.
From what I've heard, GTA3/Vice City offer enough to do to allow a person to spend almost a little too much time in its environment.
:)
I've been a fan of GTA ever since it was a top-down 2d game in it's first incarnation.
On the one hand, there is a huge variety of side missions you can do that are only tangentially related to the plot, if at all. These little side missions can keep the game interesting for a little while, but if you're stuck on the plot missions and can't get past them (*cough* DRIVER *cough*), and you've done all the side missions to death (taxi, vigilante, rampage, ambulance, racing, "ice cream" delivery, RC cars, hidden packages, etc), it can get very boring.
I think what GTA needs is Diablo-II style map randomness. Either that, or just a wider selection of maps (imagine a "choose city" screen at the beginning of the game
I'm not sure what you mean completely here, but yes, one way to see the file viewer would be to create a "My Documents" directory as a link to the same directory under Windows.
But the file viewer would have to display files on the windows partition and the linux partiton, in the same window (ie, you'd have to be able to see all of the files in "My Documents" on the windows partition, and all of the files in "/home/user" on the linux partition, as though they were files in the same directory. This is not possible with the stock Konqueror or Nautilus source code, so there would have to be lots of modifications made to stock software. Jitux, in effect, would have to be a distribution in itself; it couldn't just use packages from other distributions.
So what if modified packages are available publically?
People would be able to trace the file's origins back to the owner, which would be a huge liability for the worm writer (ie, he'd get caught).
You don't. If user opens, edits and re-saves a file, you would simply save it on Linux partition.
Ok, but that brings us back to my previous point; all software on the system would have to be recoded to "merge" the files on the windows partitions onto the linux partition in such a way that the user can't tell that there are two separate file heirarchies. That would require tons of modifications, leading to the liability issue again.
I know I'm not participating unless "fuck it" is the official battle cry of this movement.
I don't think that "fuck it", in this context, means that you will be getting laid.
Sorry.
The halo is off and linux will have to prove itself by the same measures other IT components are judged.
You mean the same stringent quality requirements that have allowed Windows to capture so much market share?
Sun will wrap a GNU userland around the Solaris kernel and (perhaps, if licensing allows) libc. Richard Stallman will publicly embrace this distribution in an effort to differentiate FSF/GNU from Linux. Hurd development may slow. Linux adoption may slow.
You obviously don't know anything about Richard Stallman.
Unless you're also predicting Sun to release that Solaris kernel under the GPL, Stallman will berate the hell out of Sun for being too proprietary, even with the whole GNU system there.
Interesting read, but ultimately this would be a horror story, it could never work perfectly, and whatever broke would make people hate linux forever.
/home directory like Linux has, which means that a person's files will tend to be scattered all over the harddrive. How will you find them all? How do you tell the difference between an important user file and an unimportant system file? How would you figure out what Outlook's settings are so that you could configure mozilla similarly?
The hardest part looks like making the file viewer show files from the windows partition and the linux partition in the same window -- at the very least, that would require Jitux to have it's own repository of packages somewhere, and that would be discoverable. It couldn't just install Lindows and then let people deal with lindows. Another problem I see here is that Windows doesn't have anything similar to a
Etc etc etc. In other words, what you describe is a pipe dream at best, and that's ignoring the negative stigma that will be attached to linux when it fails miserably (even moreso than the negative stigma that windows zealots already have for linux).
Although I agree with you, did you want your tax dollars to be spent on space exploration, or bandwidth costs? :)