I'm especially looking forward to this. I need design tools. But Windows upsets me. I'd get a Mac, but they're more costly and I work in MSlandia anyway.
Now, with the (seemingly) confirmation that this *will* run on x86. I'm happy. I sincerely hope that I can seamlessly move over to this. It's gonna be stable, efficent and nice. The "nice" part, becuase it will run on x86 (albiet hi-specced systems).
Still, doing Video on a 512mb G4 IS a nice experience:P
Okay, we know M$ stoop to low levels. I can't see why they would want to steal a load of Sharks though?
Unless you mean Microsoft Sharks - I mean, there were never any other kind? Sharks were always made by Microsoft? I thought everything was made by Microsoft? You don't mean there are other Sharks? They're free? The other Sharks are free? Can you connect to Microsoft Oceans with them? My God! If only I'd known... I'm gonna get me one of those BlueCoat Sharx - I mean, it's... You know...?
In the UK, various companies and Universities run schemes to give financial incentives to female students to enroll on technical and scientific courses. A while back, the government used to even offer lump sums (1000UK per year) to female students who got good college grades, and went on to study something "Techie" at Uni.
Like I posted elsewhere, it still wasn't enough - On my friends CS course, they had ONE female student.
Slightly confused as to the point you are trying to make?
I meen, if this is your way of "coming out", announcing it to the world, I can think of better ways to do it.
I mean - Do your close family and friends read Slashdot? Do you think they'd realise you go by the name of "FraggleMI - The Anonymous Coward", when you turn your tricks on a Saturday night?
No. I'd suggest the old fashioned "Dad, I got something to tell you... argh! No, put the gun down, put the gun down you homophobiiiiargh!".
I never really believed it anyway. I thought "There is NO way any kid can gain access to this via the.net". However, the official press release still leaves a *tiny* amount of room for speculation... Scary.
> [MP3, in car]
This is cool. I worry that having so many tunes at your disposal, all on a cool toy, could lead to (ahem) "mishaps".
Note: Schumacher once blamed a car crash on "I was adjusting the radio". If it can happen to him...
> [Penguins]
Poor little *&%$!!!'s - They get covered in oil, then get told "And now you have to swim 800kms back home". Ain't Mankind just the greatest?
> [Women, Comp Sci]
Sorry guys - In the UK at least. Geeks are still geeks. Albeit with nice salaries, cars, homes... But still. At Uni, my friend had ONE woman on his computer science course.
I suggest St Helena/Ascension to reg' the ship. They're "kinda" British, but not quite, so the flag is a flag of convienience. Also, if you station yourself there, Ascension has this really fat pipe...
Failing that, simply get a load of flags, and decide which one to use, depending on where you are and who is bothering you.
Of course, make a copy to tape, to play in the car. Make MP3 to play on your computer(s). As long as YOU are the person using.
Now, this ruling (or whatever) is a little silly in this respect. But the whole point is that they don't want you to make a copy to your computer if you intend to give it to somebody else.
When you buy a CD, you buy ONE copy of the contents, you can lend it (for free) to other people, you can even sell it, when you're bored with it. You CANNOT profit in anyway from it. Giving away copies to whoever counts as profit, as they now have a copy of the song.
This is what the idea, if not the wording of this all means.
No, you're right. Your comment won't be moderated into oblivion - it should be promoted to Godhood (why are you AC if you are inteligent enough to write like this?).
Scenario: Somebody registers YOUR name, they make money out of things YOU have done. They trade on YOUR brand, on YOUR image (well, maybe not image - Geek!).
You'd like that? I mean, recently there was a case of http://www.manchesterunited.co.uk/ - it was registered by a fan of a rival team (Arsenal), for two reasons:
1. To make money (by trading football stuff) 2. To hurt ManUtd (he plans to put propoganda there) 3. To eventually sell to Man Utd.
Why shouldn't Man Utd be able to say "No, the name belongs to us"? They're the biggest club in the world, so they class as a Big Corporation. With typical/. logic applied, they become Bad People. When in actual fact, they are just protecting their name.
They took the guy to court btw.
Now, it's not a great example, but I just read about it, so it's the best I have. But seriously, think about it.
How would you like me to register www.slashdot.com and use it to vent my frustrations against everything/. stands for?
Let's stop being so typically/. kneejerk reactionary, start being the adult professionals we're supposed to be.
I suffer daily from this Bandwidth Hog problem. About 10 people in our office use Napster. They all do it via our feeble 64k line, mainly becuase the 400k DirectPC thingie sucks.
They discovered Napster en Masse, about three weeks ago. (They're Mexicans!)
I typically view/. at 500-800 BYTES per second. It's ridiculous. Part of the problem is that it uses HTTP (afaik), so throttling or even blocking it doesn't work.
Besides, our Sys Admin is this quiet guy who knows what kind of grief he'll get if he attempts to impose sanctions.
The plus side? The management don't understand why the line is suddenly so amazingly slow. We're upgrading to 512k in a month:P
But yeah, I'm all for the Uni's doing this - sorry!
We DO need a standard. A basic look and feel which is default upon installation of any of the Window Managers. What does it need to look like? It needs to look a bit like Windows. I know, it hurts to hear this, but if we want to see Linux/BSD on the Desktop, we need to provide a comfortable migration for the legions of Windows users.
KDE and Gnome should have "Windows" as the default scheme. I know the very idea is not especially likeable, but...
This is not to say that we can't completely customise our desktops - of course we should be able to! But we need a "standard" interface which is entirely accesible by the average Windows user.
I use both, Windows is a lot more intuituve. Still.
Oh, and the "graphical file manager" thing - I guess he's talking about MC?
*Note* All comments here are the authors,and should not be seen to represent the feelings of/. in general:P
"This happens to me rather often. Sometimes, the problem isn't solved at all,and I actually have to shut down NS. But even then, the damned program keeps floating around in the background, invisible, and I have to manually shut it down with ctrl-alt-del.
Another thing that annoys me is that it closed itself with the message "This program has cused an illegal operation...[bla bla]". The program closes, but the message box just seems unable to bugger off! I then just move it down to the bottom of the screen, so that the start bar overlaps it when I make it inactive, and start NS again. It then works perfectly, but has a larger chance of shutting down with the same message, refusing to go away, again.
I was hoping that NS would fulfill all of my needs as a browser, but now it's clear to me that MicroSoft actually has produced a superior product. It's sad but true, but in any case, I'll wait for the next version of NS too see if the problems are fixed before I convert to the dark side."
"The problem has oocured in versions 4.6 and 4.7 on Win95, Win98 and NT. Sometimes, Netscape doesn't allow you to follow links. Like, the pointer will change to the "hand" when you move over the link, but a click doesn't do anything.
The only way to solve the problem is to reboot windows. It's very strange. It's happened to me regularly for about 6 months, I can't be the only one?
I'm considering reporting it to Netscape.
Mo."
I got the following within a few minutes. Come on NS! I'm using IE5 now - it's better, a lot better!
"No, I experience the same thing. Except that sometimes, a click *does* do anything, even when the mouse pointer isn't in hand shape."
"I've experienced this with Netscape for Linux. It only happens when I have two or more windows open at the same time, and another one (than the one I'm clicking in) is trying to load something. If I cancel that load by hitting ESC,things usually "pop" back into working order. Usually, I say, but it's only happened to me two or three times."
"Have the same problem (Netscape 4.6 on Linux and also on Digital UNIX 4.0D), but: It even happens, when there's only one window. And it doesn't change back, only restarting of Netscape is a cure.
Seems to be a coded feature.:)"
Really NS - Can we have our favourite browser working properly in it's next release? You know? Links, that can be followed?
Earlier today, I wrote how, if Photoshop and Macromedia ported their programs (even older ones) to Linux, then I'd finally have the excuse I was looking for...
Well! This is it! Photoshop, Dreameaver, Flash, Illustrator... all on BSD! I guess you can even run MS Office (which many of us do, if we admit it!).
Ladies and Gentlemen. I firmly belive that this is going to be something close to the Holy Grail... the perfect OS. I'd heard rumors, now they appear to be confirmed.
Come August, with bugs fixed, and wishlist instated... That was when I was planning on buying a new desktop... Well, guess what I (hope) I'll be getting?
Oh, the MySQL worked fine for me... I did wonder why it was done this way, it was only a handfull of pics... But they looked great!
Head: Top of head, level with top of screen. The screen should be an armslength away.
Arms: Bent at elbows. Forearms run STRAIGHT, with wrists LEVEL with keyboard, and keyboard SLIGHTLY angled upward, from the front.
Legs: Like arms, STRAIGHT. You chair should enable you to have your feet flat on the ground, with the heels just ahead of the edge of your seat.
Chair: SLIGHTLY reclined, with plenty of lumbar support.
Oh, the monitor should be in front of you, not to the side.
NOW! How many of us actually sit like this? My (Mexican) employers don't seem to give a damn. That said, when I worked for the UK Government, it was even worse...
Maybe one of those head sticks, that really disabled people use?
Or maybe that totally-possible-and-in-production system that Denzel Washington has in "The Bone Collector". You know? The single button/trackpad combo, with complex voice commands...?
Yeah, that'd be it.
Oh, on the ergo keyboard I had, the "home" and "end" keys were switched, never figured out why...
Yet another "big" product, coming over to Linux. I like this.
With the upcoming K "Office" and KDE2. Maybe, just maybe, I'll finally make Linux my main way of working, and only use Windows when I need Photoshop and Dreamweaver etc (No, GIMP is NOT anywhere like as good as Photoshop5.5).
I'm about to reinstall NT, becuase Real Player doesn't seem to work with SP6, and Illustrator is playing me up.
Hmm, I've gotten off topic here. But yeah, this is yet another boost. You think Adobe and Macromedia will follow suit?:P
Indeed. In fact, this is probably a Good Thing(TM). Seriously, MS can't expect to have a great deal of input into the project. However, what if Good Things(TM) were to somehow to drift from MS over to the project? DirectX being a good example. No, really, there's no need to worry. Really. I wonder though, how long before we DO see MS Linux? Mong. * Paul Madley...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Dang useless weather satellites, who cares how the weather is going to be, hurricanes are much more fun if you no warning about them.
I didn't say ALL space projects were a waste. Many are NOT. We're talking about this Mars petition thing here.
Military recon satellites, a big effin' waste. I feel much more secure not knowing how much weapons my enemy has, and whether or not they're massing arms at my border. Let's just start a war on a whim, or a guess about an oncoming attack.
Well, we could get really introspective, and wonder why we need weapons in the first place.
The Mars Society is talking a $20 billion dollar price tag. Assume half the Earth is starving, poor and diseased, and we split that $20 billion among 3 billion people. $7 is going to make their life better?
You have no idea. A few cents can per person can pay for a years clean water, a few more for grain, a few more for medicine. $7 is a HELL of a lot for a HELL of a lot of people.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm especially looking forward to this. I need design tools. But Windows upsets me. I'd get a Mac, but they're more costly and I work in MSlandia anyway.
:P
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Now, with the (seemingly) confirmation that this *will* run on x86. I'm happy. I sincerely hope that I can seamlessly move over to this. It's gonna be stable, efficent and nice. The "nice" part, becuase it will run on x86 (albiet hi-specced systems).
Still, doing Video on a 512mb G4 IS a nice experience
Mong.
*
They're Americans (and possibly Norwegian). Says it all really.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Mong.
*
I've just sent him pictures of you at a party, without your shirt on.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
He'd like to meet up. I'll charge my usual 35%.
Mong.
*
Mong agrees with you my son.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Mong.
*
Okay, we know M$ stoop to low levels. I can't see why they would want to steal a load of Sharks though?
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Unless you mean Microsoft Sharks - I mean, there were never any other kind? Sharks were always made by Microsoft? I thought everything was made by Microsoft? You don't mean there are other Sharks? They're free? The other Sharks are free? Can you connect to Microsoft Oceans with them? My God! If only I'd known... I'm gonna get me one of those BlueCoat Sharx - I mean, it's... You know...?
Anyway...
Mong.
*
In the UK, various companies and Universities run schemes to give financial incentives to female students to enroll on technical and scientific courses. A while back, the government used to even offer lump sums (1000UK per year) to female students who got good college grades, and went on to study something "Techie" at Uni.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Like I posted elsewhere, it still wasn't enough - On my friends CS course, they had ONE female student.
Mong.
*
Slightly confused as to the point you are trying to make?
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
I meen, if this is your way of "coming out", announcing it to the world, I can think of better ways to do it.
I mean - Do your close family and friends read Slashdot? Do you think they'd realise you go by the name of "FraggleMI - The Anonymous Coward", when you turn your tricks on a Saturday night?
No. I'd suggest the old fashioned "Dad, I got something to tell you... argh! No, put the gun down, put the gun down you homophobiiiiargh!".
Ahem,
Mong.
*
> [Nasa, Medical]
.net". However, the official press release still leaves a *tiny* amount of room for speculation... Scary.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
I never really believed it anyway. I thought "There is NO way any kid can gain access to this via the
> [MP3, in car]
This is cool. I worry that having so many tunes at your disposal, all on a cool toy, could lead to (ahem) "mishaps".
Note: Schumacher once blamed a car crash on "I was adjusting the radio". If it can happen to him...
> [Penguins]
Poor little *&%$!!!'s - They get covered in oil, then get told "And now you have to swim 800kms back home". Ain't Mankind just the greatest?
> [Women, Comp Sci]
Sorry guys - In the UK at least. Geeks are still geeks. Albeit with nice salaries, cars, homes... But still. At Uni, my friend had ONE woman on his computer science course.
Anyway, I'm spent now...
Mong.
*
They aren't in trouble. No matter what happens, they still have the bucks to make any "Mini Bills" into sizeable corporations in their own rights.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
This dominance of a show was just one example of what we can expect. However, in the future we could have 2,3 or 4 "Microsofts" there.
Bill is still the worlds richest man. Bill will continue to be the worlds richest man - possibly it will make him richer.
Mong.
* Paul Madley
Various countries are fine about this.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
I suggest St Helena/Ascension to reg' the ship. They're "kinda" British, but not quite, so the flag is a flag of convienience. Also, if you station yourself there, Ascension has this really fat pipe...
Failing that, simply get a load of flags, and decide which one to use, depending on where you are and who is bothering you.
Remember Radio Carolina?
Mong.
* Paul Madley
What's to stop you cracking the PIN Code? Then you have multiple IPs, deleted cookies...
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Somebody with access to a LOT of IPs and a little time could make a big difference, no?
Mong.
* Paul Madley
Of course, make a copy to tape, to play in the car. Make MP3 to play on your computer(s). As long as YOU are the person using.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Now, this ruling (or whatever) is a little silly in this respect. But the whole point is that they don't want you to make a copy to your computer if you intend to give it to somebody else.
When you buy a CD, you buy ONE copy of the contents, you can lend it (for free) to other people, you can even sell it, when you're bored with it. You CANNOT profit in anyway from it. Giving away copies to whoever counts as profit, as they now have a copy of the song.
This is what the idea, if not the wording of this all means.
Mong.
* Paul Madley
No, you're right. Your comment won't be moderated into oblivion - it should be promoted to Godhood (why are you AC if you are inteligent enough to write like this?).
/. logic applied, they become Bad People. When in actual fact, they are just protecting their name.
/. stands for?
/. kneejerk reactionary, start being the adult professionals we're supposed to be.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Scenario: Somebody registers YOUR name, they make money out of things YOU have done. They trade on YOUR brand, on YOUR image (well, maybe not image - Geek!).
You'd like that? I mean, recently there was a case of http://www.manchesterunited.co.uk/ - it was registered by a fan of a rival team (Arsenal), for two reasons:
1. To make money (by trading football stuff)
2. To hurt ManUtd (he plans to put propoganda there)
3. To eventually sell to Man Utd.
Why shouldn't Man Utd be able to say "No, the name belongs to us"? They're the biggest club in the world, so they class as a Big Corporation. With typical
They took the guy to court btw.
Now, it's not a great example, but I just read about it, so it's the best I have. But seriously, think about it.
How would you like me to register www.slashdot.com and use it to vent my frustrations against everything
Let's stop being so typically
Mong.
* Paul Madley
I suffer daily from this Bandwidth Hog problem. About 10 people in our office use Napster. They all do it via our feeble 64k line, mainly becuase the 400k DirectPC thingie sucks.
/. at 500-800 BYTES per second. It's ridiculous. Part of the problem is that it uses HTTP (afaik), so throttling or even blocking it doesn't work.
:P
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
They discovered Napster en Masse, about three weeks ago. (They're Mexicans!)
I typically view
Besides, our Sys Admin is this quiet guy who knows what kind of grief he'll get if he attempts to impose sanctions.
The plus side? The management don't understand why the line is suddenly so amazingly slow. We're upgrading to 512k in a month
But yeah, I'm all for the Uni's doing this - sorry!
Mong.
* Paul Madley
We DO need a standard. A basic look and feel which is default upon installation of any of the Window Managers. What does it need to look like? It needs to look a bit like Windows. I know, it hurts to hear this, but if we want to see Linux/BSD on the Desktop, we need to provide a comfortable migration for the legions of Windows users.
/. in general :P
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
KDE and Gnome should have "Windows" as the default scheme. I know the very idea is not especially likeable, but...
This is not to say that we can't completely customise our desktops - of course we should be able to! But we need a "standard" interface which is entirely accesible by the average Windows user.
I use both, Windows is a lot more intuituve. Still.
Oh, and the "graphical file manager" thing - I guess he's talking about MC?
*Note* All comments here are the authors,and should not be seen to represent the feelings of
Mong.
* Paul Madley
And more comments from FIX...
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
"This happens to me rather often. Sometimes, the problem isn't solved at all,and I actually have to shut down NS. But even then, the damned program keeps floating around in the background, invisible, and I have to manually shut it down with ctrl-alt-del.
Another thing that annoys me is that it closed itself with the message "This program has cused an illegal operation...[bla bla]". The program closes, but the message box just seems unable to bugger off! I then just move it down to the bottom of the screen, so that the start bar overlaps it when I make it inactive, and start NS again. It then works perfectly, but has a larger chance
of shutting down with the same message, refusing to go away, again.
I was hoping that NS would fulfill all of my needs as a browser, but now it's clear to me that MicroSoft actually has produced a superior product. It's sad but true, but in any case, I'll wait for the next version of NS too see if the
problems are fixed before I convert to the dark side."
Mo.
* Paul Madley
Makes perfect sense, it's pretty much what I guessed. Wish I'd thought to kill the process, instead of rebooting.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Thanks.
Mo.
* Paul Madley
Slightly offtopic...
:)"
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
On the FIX BBS I recently posted this:
"The problem has oocured in versions 4.6 and 4.7 on Win95, Win98 and NT.
Sometimes, Netscape doesn't allow you to follow links. Like, the pointer will change to the "hand" when you move over the link, but a click doesn't do anything.
The only way to solve the problem is to reboot windows. It's very strange. It's happened to me regularly for about 6 months, I can't be the only one?
I'm considering reporting it to Netscape.
Mo."
I got the following within a few minutes. Come on NS! I'm using IE5 now - it's better, a lot better!
"No, I experience the same thing. Except that sometimes, a click *does* do anything, even when the mouse pointer isn't in hand shape."
"I've experienced this with Netscape for Linux. It only happens when I have two or more windows open at the same time, and another one (than the one I'm clicking in) is trying to load something. If I cancel that load by hitting ESC,things usually "pop" back into working order. Usually, I say, but it's only happened to me two or three times."
"Have the same problem (Netscape 4.6 on Linux and also on Digital UNIX 4.0D), but: It even happens, when there's only one window. And it doesn't change back, only restarting of Netscape is a cure.
Seems to be a coded feature.
Really NS - Can we have our favourite browser working properly in it's next release? You know? Links, that can be followed?
Mong.
* Paul Madley
Earlier today, I wrote how, if Photoshop and Macromedia ported their programs (even older ones) to Linux, then I'd finally have the excuse I was looking for...
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Well! This is it! Photoshop, Dreameaver, Flash, Illustrator... all on BSD! I guess you can even run MS Office (which many of us do, if we admit it!).
Ladies and Gentlemen. I firmly belive that this is going to be something close to the Holy Grail... the perfect OS. I'd heard rumors, now they appear to be confirmed.
Come August, with bugs fixed, and wishlist instated... That was when I was planning on buying a new desktop... Well, guess what I (hope) I'll be getting?
Oh, the MySQL worked fine for me... I did wonder why it was done this way, it was only a handfull of pics... But they looked great!
Yeah, this is it.
Mong.
* Paul Madley
Nahnahnah.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
The correct position is as follows.
Head: Top of head, level with top of screen. The screen should be an armslength away.
Arms: Bent at elbows. Forearms run STRAIGHT, with wrists LEVEL with keyboard, and keyboard SLIGHTLY angled upward, from the front.
Legs: Like arms, STRAIGHT. You chair should enable you to have your feet flat on the ground, with the heels just ahead of the edge of your seat.
Chair: SLIGHTLY reclined, with plenty of lumbar support.
Oh, the monitor should be in front of you, not to the side.
NOW! How many of us actually sit like this? My (Mexican) employers don't seem to give a damn. That said, when I worked for the UK Government, it was even worse...
Mong.
* Paul Madley
Maybe one of those head sticks, that really disabled people use?
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
Or maybe that totally-possible-and-in-production system that Denzel Washington has in "The Bone Collector". You know? The single button/trackpad combo, with complex voice commands...?
Yeah, that'd be it.
Oh, on the ergo keyboard I had, the "home" and "end" keys were switched, never figured out why...
They are better though.
Mong.
* Paul Madley
Yet another "big" product, coming over to Linux. I like this.
:P
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
With the upcoming K "Office" and KDE2. Maybe, just maybe, I'll finally make Linux my main way of working, and only use Windows when I need Photoshop and Dreamweaver etc (No, GIMP is NOT anywhere like as good as Photoshop5.5).
I'm about to reinstall NT, becuase Real Player doesn't seem to work with SP6, and Illustrator is playing me up.
Hmm, I've gotten off topic here. But yeah, this is yet another boost. You think Adobe and Macromedia will follow suit?
Mong.
* Paul Madley
It should be "Dilburrito", surely?
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
I like the sound of this though - since moving to Mexico (from GB), I've gotten seriously into Mexican food.
The "CmdrTaco" would be just superb!
Mong.
* Paul Madley
Indeed. In fact, this is probably a Good Thing(TM). Seriously, MS can't expect to have a great deal of input into the project. However, what if Good Things(TM) were to somehow to drift from MS over to the project? DirectX being a good example. No, really, there's no need to worry. Really. I wonder though, how long before we DO see MS Linux? Mong. ...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
* Paul Madley
Dang useless weather satellites, who cares how the weather is going to be, hurricanes are much more fun if you no warning about them.
...Student, Artist, Techie - Geek *
I didn't say ALL space projects were a waste. Many are NOT. We're talking about this Mars petition thing here.
Military recon satellites, a big effin' waste. I feel much more secure not knowing how much weapons my enemy has, and whether or not they're massing arms at my border. Let's just start a war on a whim, or a guess about an oncoming attack.
Well, we could get really introspective, and wonder why we need weapons in the first place.
The Mars Society is talking a $20 billion dollar price tag. Assume half the Earth is starving, poor and diseased, and we split that $20 billion among 3 billion people. $7 is going to make their life better?
You have no idea. A few cents can per person can pay for a years clean water, a few more for grain, a few more for medicine. $7 is a HELL of a lot for a HELL of a lot of people.
Mong.
* Paul Madley