There are millions of people designing webpages. Is it really good to teach every designer to keep
this in mind? It's impossible. You can fix it easily at the top, or let the end users worry about it.
And there are a hell of a lot more end users than there are designers. Fix it at the top, yes, but you can't fix Netscape 4.0 anymore. ---
apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.0-test5
cd/usr/src
tar -xzf kernel-source-2.4.0-test5.tar.gz
cd kernel-source-2.4.0-test5
make (config|menuconfig|xconfig)
make dep
make bzLilo
And you're done, WITH a Debian approved 2.4.0-test5 kernel at that. It's probably not as modular as the binary release will be.. but do you really care? ---
with my Athlon 500 and 256 ram
I cannot run an IE 5 session without getting skips out of winamp.
That's amusing, given that my Celeron 400 with 64 megs can do it fine. Hell, even my P75 can play MP3s and run Opera at the same time (just barely). There's something very very wrong here... ---
But as we get more fine-grained kernel locks, the need to do so decreases. 2.4 introduced some, I'm sure 2.5/6 will have even more fine-grained locks. ---
I find this interesting from a different point of view than organizing the vast sea of mp3s available on the 'net. I'm currently working on finding a good way to organize my mp3s for creating playlists from them, and one of the things that's definitely going into it is a database of various `boxes' (to use Adam Curry's term) that each given song fits into.
So, lets say I've got a hankering for some ambient industrial techno. It'll pull out some Kraftwerk, since it most closely fits. (I haven't decided on fuzzy matching yet, but I think it'll prolly fit the bill).
Instead of having a traditional playlist to wake me in the morning, I'd have something like this:
I think the function of the above example is pretty obvious. Just know that ^ is being used for negation.
Now, maybe that's the wrong format, but I think it's a much better way to do it than flat playlists. It could be rendered to a flat playlist to retain compatability with current players, although then it wouldn't have some other features I want.. but that's another story.
Any comments? Suggestions? URLs of implementations of similar systems? ---
The GPL is granting you rights that you don't have, while those click licenses are removing rights (or trying to). That's the different. All the software is under copyright; the GPL grants you rights you don't have, given no license whatsosever, while the EULAs take away rights you do have, given no license whatsoever. ---
In unix, the "everything is file" model accomplishes this too. Permissions in the/dev/ directory,
for example, can be changed to allow/restrict users access to particular devices (floppy, serial
port, soundcard, etc.).
Too bad parallel ports aren't included in that in 2.2.x. At least 2.4 finally introduces userspace parallel port drivers. ---
I've seen a lot of systems popping up on the web over the last few years to allow dynamic additions of content to an information system. Things that allow commentary to be added to webpages, which others can then view; sites like Everything or Everything2.
Why not such a system for documenting code? I know that systems for publishing and linking code to itself exists (like LXR). How about such a system that would allow links to be placed in the text to user-contributed documentation? Said documentation could be anything from "this statement is doing such-and-such" to an overview of an entire module.
This documentation would be user-contributed and, of course, user edited. Editing would need to be done based on a voting system... just saying whether a given bit of doc is useful ought to be enough. Attribution is easily done, as well.
The hardest bit would probably be telling the system where you want to place a link. Do you want to doc the line? The function definition? That word? These 3 functions? That bit of code and that one over there in a different file that happen to work together? Where does the link go?
Anyone have an idea on how to do that? I know I'm up for contributing to the development of such a system (playing with Zope has gotten me interested in dynamic web stuff). ---
Intel seems to be doing this a lot lately. They're trying to control the whole computer by leveraging their market share in CPUs. If you want to use Intel's CPU, you have to use the case that Intel dictates. I suspect that they'll have a lot of influence over this case design. ---
The GS Cube is one of Sony's latest devices. It's got the rendering power of 16 PS2 chipsets in it, and it was recently demoed rendering scenes from Antz in real time. I can't find a link on the web, but it's in the latest EGM, which, amazingly, appears not to have a website.
The shot in the mag looked a little blurry around the edges of the screen, but that could be because it was shot from motion. Still, it looked pretty good. Damn good, for rendering in real time.
Of course, this box has $5000 of PS2 in it, so I don't think you'll be watching real-time rendered Antz in your home anytime soon. EGM speculated that their eventual plan was to use it for broadband realtime 3D broadcasting, though.
Let's just hope.
Can anyone find mention of the GS Cube on Sony's website? I can find it on other sites, but not there. ---
One group controls the distribution method, the media...
One group controls the playback...
One group controls everything between the artist and the speakers...
If that one group wants the market to go a certain way, say towards pervasive copy-protection, then it will. ---
You want to be able to use Emacs from a terminal, but guess what, you can use both FSF Emacs and XEmacs for that! Why in heaven's name you don't want run X though, thus wasting your precious colour graphics monitor and grahics board is beyond me;
Actually, I do run X. I'm just not always in X when I'm editing files. Sometimes I'm remote over telnet or ssh, sometimes X is broken (rarely, of late), sometimes I'm on a real term..
I hadn't realized that Xemacs was just another Emacs, not Emacs for X. Thanks. ---
It's bloated because, as I said, I would need GNOME to use Galeon. I don't use GNOME. Installing GNOME just to use Galeon is a huge space/time waster for me. And then I have to use the GNOME control panel to change some settings, which isn't terribly easy w/o running the GNOME desktop; which I don't do, and am not willing to just to use an unbloated browser.
The browser itself isn't bloated, no, it just passes off all the bloat onto GNOME. Granted, all that stuff does something, but I don't need all that something just for a web browser. ---
Too bad Galeon requires me to install all of GNOME as well. Not exactly unbloated if you don't use GNOME, is it? It even requires you to use the GNOME control panel to set such things as your mailer, and to have GNOME programs beyond the base GNOME libs, such as GTM (Gnome Transfer Manager, for downloads).
I'm sorry, but Galeon doesn't quite cut it for me. Too bad there aren't many binding for embedding Mozilla yet, only the gtk bindings. Of course, you could just use the embedding interface interface of Mozilla itself and build your own wrapper. Judging by gtkmozembed, it'd only take around 70kbyes of code.
You'd also, of course, have to understand the very confusing embedding docs, and while the gtkmozembed code might help a bit, it's very Gtk specific.
Perhaps someone will start developing some other bindings so that you don't need to implement 5 different objects to interface with the embedding objects. Oh, and create the associated IDL files, whatever those are, I haven't figured them out yet.
One of Mozilla's major claims to fame is its embeddability. Too bad it's not very embeddable yet.
Wow, I went just a bit off my train of thought.. well. Galeon requires GNOME, K-Meleon requires Windows.. I guess that evens it out a bit. I'd really like to see a Gtk-only Mozilla-based webbrowser, though; no GNOME, no KDE, just Gtk, Mozilla code, Linux, and X. ---
Are you kidding? Are you seriously praising Emacs as having an interface usable by beginners and experts? It may be great for experts, but as a beginner (with Emacs anyways), I can tell you it definitely isn't. It's hard for me to do the simplest things, like having two files open at once. Even the damn HELP is hard to use! There're thousands of commands accessible at any moment, no way to tell what's accessible and what isn't, and no easy way to learn slowly. There's a very very steep learning curve for emacs, especially if you don't want to use the (admittedly slightly better) Xemacs (don't want the bloat, don't like X, want to be able to edit w/o X, etc.) and thus have no (usable) menus. Have you ever tried to get to the menus in Emacs with only a keyboard? I have. I still can't.
Emacs is not only unintuitive, difficult to learn, and requiring too many shortcuts accessible to it (I like being able to hit alt-t and get a term, thank you very much), but it's bloated to boot. I find it difficult to justify spending 100 megs of disk space on a program that I can't use and probably won't be able to use effectively for a looong time. I've found even VI to be easier to learn and use. Much less frustrating. ---
I'm fairly certain that they cannot legally require you to give them your social security number. There are relatively few organizations that can, and they're all connected with the fedgov. ---
Yeah, and here I was hoping that all the rest of us would evolve while Kansas residents just stayed the same! I was looking forwarding to laughing at them when we're all energy beings, and they're still running around, two legs, two arms, and NO psuedopods!
DISCLAIMER: Yes, I do know that evolution would not result in my own self changing. ---
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And there are a hell of a lot more end users than there are designers. Fix it at the top, yes, but you can't fix Netscape 4.0 anymore.
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Or an ISA sound card. ::laughs::
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apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.0-test5 /usr/src
cd
tar -xzf kernel-source-2.4.0-test5.tar.gz
cd kernel-source-2.4.0-test5
make (config|menuconfig|xconfig)
make dep
make bzLilo
And you're done, WITH a Debian approved 2.4.0-test5 kernel at that. It's probably not as modular as the binary release will be.. but do you really care?
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with my Athlon 500 and 256 ram I cannot run an IE 5 session without getting skips out of winamp.
That's amusing, given that my Celeron 400 with 64 megs can do it fine. Hell, even my P75 can play MP3s and run Opera at the same time (just barely). There's something very very wrong here...
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But as we get more fine-grained kernel locks, the need to do so decreases. 2.4 introduced some, I'm sure 2.5/6 will have even more fine-grained locks.
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I find this interesting from a different point of view than organizing the vast sea of mp3s available on the 'net. I'm currently working on finding a good way to organize my mp3s for creating playlists from them, and one of the things that's definitely going into it is a database of various `boxes' (to use Adam Curry's term) that each given song fits into.
So, lets say I've got a hankering for some ambient industrial techno. It'll pull out some Kraftwerk, since it most closely fits. (I haven't decided on fuzzy matching yet, but I think it'll prolly fit the bill).
Instead of having a traditional playlist to wake me in the morning, I'd have something like this:
I think the function of the above example is pretty obvious. Just know that ^ is being used for negation.
Now, maybe that's the wrong format, but I think it's a much better way to do it than flat playlists. It could be rendered to a flat playlist to retain compatability with current players, although then it wouldn't have some other features I want.. but that's another story.
Any comments? Suggestions? URLs of implementations of similar systems?
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They may not be my friend, but they can still help me.
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The GPL is granting you rights that you don't have, while those click licenses are removing rights (or trying to). That's the different. All the software is under copyright; the GPL grants you rights you don't have, given no license whatsosever, while the EULAs take away rights you do have, given no license whatsoever.
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First line, "Ok Linux 2.2.17 official is now out. This is the same as 2.2.17pre20 without the -pre20 id string"
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Oh and hey you've got the same name as my PC (give or take an e).
So is your PC "wintermute" or "wintrmut"?
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In unix, the "everything is file" model accomplishes this too. Permissions in the /dev/ directory,
for example, can be changed to allow/restrict users access to particular devices (floppy, serial
port, soundcard, etc.).
Too bad parallel ports aren't included in that in 2.2.x. At least 2.4 finally introduces userspace parallel port drivers.
---
I've seen a lot of systems popping up on the web over the last few years to allow dynamic additions of content to an information system. Things that allow commentary to be added to webpages, which others can then view; sites like Everything or Everything2.
Why not such a system for documenting code? I know that systems for publishing and linking code to itself exists (like LXR). How about such a system that would allow links to be placed in the text to user-contributed documentation? Said documentation could be anything from "this statement is doing such-and-such" to an overview of an entire module.
This documentation would be user-contributed and, of course, user edited. Editing would need to be done based on a voting system... just saying whether a given bit of doc is useful ought to be enough. Attribution is easily done, as well.
The hardest bit would probably be telling the system where you want to place a link. Do you want to doc the line? The function definition? That word? These 3 functions? That bit of code and that one over there in a different file that happen to work together? Where does the link go?
Anyone have an idea on how to do that? I know I'm up for contributing to the development of such a system (playing with Zope has gotten me interested in dynamic web stuff).
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Intel seems to be doing this a lot lately. They're trying to control the whole computer by leveraging their market share in CPUs. If you want to use Intel's CPU, you have to use the case that Intel dictates. I suspect that they'll have a lot of influence over this case design.
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The GS Cube is one of Sony's latest devices. It's got the rendering power of 16 PS2 chipsets in it, and it was recently demoed rendering scenes from Antz in real time. I can't find a link on the web, but it's in the latest EGM, which, amazingly, appears not to have a website.
The shot in the mag looked a little blurry around the edges of the screen, but that could be because it was shot from motion. Still, it looked pretty good. Damn good, for rendering in real time.
Of course, this box has $5000 of PS2 in it, so I don't think you'll be watching real-time rendered Antz in your home anytime soon. EGM speculated that their eventual plan was to use it for broadband realtime 3D broadcasting, though.
Let's just hope.
Can anyone find mention of the GS Cube on Sony's website? I can find it on other sites, but not there.
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This is the beauty of the free market, da?
Too bad we don't have a free market, isn't it?
One group controls the distribution method, the media...
One group controls the playback...
One group controls everything between the artist and the speakers...
If that one group wants the market to go a certain way, say towards pervasive copy-protection, then it will.
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Overall, I wouldn't recommend you to use Galeon if you don't use Gnome.
I agree. I just wish that there was a non-GNOME Mozilla based browser.
So many worthwhile projects, so little time..
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You want to be able to use Emacs from a terminal, but guess what, you can use both FSF Emacs and XEmacs for that! Why in heaven's name you don't want run X though, thus wasting your precious colour graphics monitor and grahics board is beyond me;
Actually, I do run X. I'm just not always in X when I'm editing files. Sometimes I'm remote over telnet or ssh, sometimes X is broken (rarely, of late), sometimes I'm on a real term..
I hadn't realized that Xemacs was just another Emacs, not Emacs for X. Thanks.
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It's bloated because, as I said, I would need GNOME to use Galeon. I don't use GNOME. Installing GNOME just to use Galeon is a huge space/time waster for me. And then I have to use the GNOME control panel to change some settings, which isn't terribly easy w/o running the GNOME desktop; which I don't do, and am not willing to just to use an unbloated browser.
The browser itself isn't bloated, no, it just passes off all the bloat onto GNOME. Granted, all that stuff does something, but I don't need all that something just for a web browser.
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This is a response to Galeon?
Saying it is "also" light and unbloated?
Too bad Galeon requires me to install all of GNOME as well. Not exactly unbloated if you don't use GNOME, is it? It even requires you to use the GNOME control panel to set such things as your mailer, and to have GNOME programs beyond the base GNOME libs, such as GTM (Gnome Transfer Manager, for downloads).
I'm sorry, but Galeon doesn't quite cut it for me. Too bad there aren't many binding for embedding Mozilla yet, only the gtk bindings. Of course, you could just use the embedding interface interface of Mozilla itself and build your own wrapper. Judging by gtkmozembed, it'd only take around 70kbyes of code.
You'd also, of course, have to understand the very confusing embedding docs, and while the gtkmozembed code might help a bit, it's very Gtk specific.
Perhaps someone will start developing some other bindings so that you don't need to implement 5 different objects to interface with the embedding objects. Oh, and create the associated IDL files, whatever those are, I haven't figured them out yet.
One of Mozilla's major claims to fame is its embeddability. Too bad it's not very embeddable yet.
Wow, I went just a bit off my train of thought.. well. Galeon requires GNOME, K-Meleon requires Windows.. I guess that evens it out a bit. I'd really like to see a Gtk-only Mozilla-based webbrowser, though; no GNOME, no KDE, just Gtk, Mozilla code, Linux, and X.
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Windows has documentation?
I've found a LOT more docs for Linux apps/kernel than anything in Windows.
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Are you kidding? Are you seriously praising Emacs as having an interface usable by beginners and experts? It may be great for experts, but as a beginner (with Emacs anyways), I can tell you it definitely isn't. It's hard for me to do the simplest things, like having two files open at once. Even the damn HELP is hard to use! There're thousands of commands accessible at any moment, no way to tell what's accessible and what isn't, and no easy way to learn slowly. There's a very very steep learning curve for emacs, especially if you don't want to use the (admittedly slightly better) Xemacs (don't want the bloat, don't like X, want to be able to edit w/o X, etc.) and thus have no (usable) menus. Have you ever tried to get to the menus in Emacs with only a keyboard? I have. I still can't.
Emacs is not only unintuitive, difficult to learn, and requiring too many shortcuts accessible to it (I like being able to hit alt-t and get a term, thank you very much), but it's bloated to boot. I find it difficult to justify spending 100 megs of disk space on a program that I can't use and probably won't be able to use effectively for a looong time. I've found even VI to be easier to learn and use. Much less frustrating.
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You can search for the package that owns a given file with dpkg -S
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I'm fairly certain that they cannot legally require you to give them your social security number. There are relatively few organizations that can, and they're all connected with the fedgov.
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I was referring to any form of Windows, not just NT.
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Yeah, and here I was hoping that all the rest of us would evolve while Kansas residents just stayed the same! I was looking forwarding to laughing at them when we're all energy beings, and they're still running around, two legs, two arms, and NO psuedopods!
DISCLAIMER: Yes, I do know that evolution would not result in my own self changing.
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