What's the point of Microsoft making a web browser? They obviously can't keep up with all these standards like CSS, XSL and XUL... I think they should just quit.
This site is the top of the pile in the (not all that new) game of "let's see how tiny i can make the article space on the page!!!!" with its gargantuan, 120x600px ad on the right, the even larger navigator on the left, and the Java (WHY?!?) navigator on top for the article. Let's ignore for the moment that using Java for that is completely unecessary and wasteful, and focus on how the foolish thing rotates while you're reading. If you can't read each hacker's bio in 5 seconds, you're gonna have to click the arrows a few times just to find where you left off!
Are they trying to piss off these legends with their own abysmal "hacking" skills?
Don't specialize yet. Do Comp Eng/Sci at MIT. Not even because they're probably the best school for most technology-related things. If you can make it through MIT, you're studious enough to make up for any potential failings of the school itself.
***** Server Too Busy ***** Description:An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details:System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy] System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpW orkerRequest wr) +147
Version Information: Microsoft.NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573
WRT Debian + KDE
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Review: KDE 3.2
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· Score: 3, Informative
I've been using unofficial KDE 3.2 CVS debs for about 4 months. I'm loving it. For all those who are wondering about Debian/KDE, 3.2.0 will enter unstable when 3.1.5 enters testing. First, however, 3.2.0 will be in experimental. If you can't wait, however, fear not. At the Debian/KDE FAQ there are instructions to get KDE 3.2 whether you be on stable, unstable or (for some fool reason) testing. It only involves adding one or two APT sources and dist-upgrading. If you run into problems, come to #debian-kde on irc.freenode.net and ask around. The folks there are really helpful.
Many jobs will be outsourced. No, not just to India, but to anywhere labor is cheaper (Sidenote: I'd rather see white-collar jobs outsource to India than manufacturing jobs outsourced to children in Asia, which is now the norm). This includes coders, artists, writers, and their managers. Eventually, a few executives. This will mark the abandonment of America by a few, or many, large corporations. After all, the folks at the top of the chain, who make the real money, belong to no nation. They belong to their desires. America's economy will slowly deflate to a level more equal with the rest of the world, while nations with more jobs will rise a bit. Globally, I think this possibly will have an equalizing effect in general. But those with the deep pockets will greatly benefit. Otherwise, they wouldn't do it.
The above stands for privately-owned corps. I have no idea what may happen with publicly-traded ones. It's obviously a bit more complicated.
"unstable" actually has nothing to do with how stable the OS is. It just means it's constantly changing. Ignore mwilson... he uses a command-line browser for everything. I use lynx sometimes too, but only when it's necessary. Fuck anyone who bitches about KDE. Many of the folks in #debian are quite helpful, provided you're not a lazy ass who asks first and thinks second. I'm in there a lot as sirReal, and I'm also in #debian-kde a lot. Those folks are *always* friendly, btw. You'll get a chance to talk to the maintainers as well.
It's actually not that hard. With Debian, installing apps is just a simple "aptitude update; aptitude install [package name]." For starters, get a copy of MEPIS Linux which is based off Knoppix, but makes for a cleaner, closer-to-Debian install. Dig around on the website - they want you to pay, but you can get an ISO free of charge. Burn it, boot it, you'll have an off-CD KDE 3.1.4 environment on kernel 2.4.22. When KDE 3.2 hits the "unstable" distro, you'll have it when you do a "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade". KPackage is a decent GUI to APT, if you prefer. But the command line is much faster. Before you can install any apps, though, you've got to install on your hard drive. The MEPIS Installation Center will help you. You can set up your partitions with QTParted from there. Once you've got an installation, feel free to screw around. Don't worry about it, just try it out. If you don't feel like installing right away, you can use many, many apps right off the booted CD. Any questions, I hang out in #debian and #debian-kde and #mepis on irc.freenode.net as sirReal.
I mean, Debian with KDE? Wow man - debian-fanboys look at you in a very frightning way...;)
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? KDE in Debian unstable is 3.1.5 currently, and will be 3.2.0 within a couple days. I've had unofficial packages of 3.2b2 and 3.2rc1 since the official trees were tagged. They work great. I will, however, be lurking in #debian-kde@freenode so I can get the news when the packaging is done.
tried Debian (installation simply sucks)
The new installer is much better. It's not graphical (it shouldn't be) but it's easy as pie. Also, there are numberous LiveCD installers for Debian - none are official however. Some are faithful to Debian standards, some have trouble but are still okay.
I'm a Debian user, but my fanboyism belongs to Free Software. So use your Gentoo if that makes you happy. Just don't bullshit about other distros.
since programmers are ~ 1% of total market, u will get ~ 1% total dollars
They're not in it for the money. KDE is Free Software. Among many, many other things, it means you can get it free of charge. KDE is made for everyone, not just coders. The thing is, it's in active development... new features being constantly added, bugs being constantly fixed. KDE is not the type of organization to rush a half-assed product with, say, 40,000+ known bugs to market. And yes, they know they're going against the grain of the big moneymakers. Their aim is to make good software, not money. And they know it's not perfect yet, so don't be a dick about it. You want features, tell them about it. They like new ideas, and you may actually have some decent ones (even if you have a hard time spelling them).
KDE is fully themeable - two major components. "Styles" cover things like buttons, scrollbars, etc... all that. "Window Decorations" are titlebars and borders. They are separate, but most decent themes have matching styles/windecos. All KDE apps will respect these theme choices. Oh yeah, and there are color schemes that apply to styles, and you can change font sizes, etc...
They may not care, but if they start distributing X under a GPL-incompatible license, it will rapidly lose popularity. Developers will flock to freedesktop.org's xserver/xlibs, and users will do the same. I'm not worried, because I think xserver will eclipse XFree.
i don't know about windows, but osx uses GL for most/all graphics. fdo's xserver aims to do the same thing. it's a completely new X server based on keithp's kdrive. afaik xfree doesn't use GL for anything 2D.
wrt to getting IP addresses of kazaa users: kazaa is just a product which runs on the network called fasttrack. there are many other implementations of fasttrack. you can easily use one of those to harvest ip addresses. or just use 'netstat' while downloading from the person...
Sharman, targeted by studios and record companies because its software is used to trade music and video files, has sought to turn the tables on the industry, accusing it of misusing Kazaa software to invade users' privacy and send corrupt files and threatening messages.
stop me if i'm wrong, but isn't "invading users' privacy" half the reason (the profitable half) that Sharman made Kazaa? Oh wait, now i see where the "infringement" lies...
If forking is one of the "bad things" that can happen to OSS, merging is one of the "good things." Multiple similar projects, each with their own advantages, merge together to make... damnit, what was that huge robot in the Power Rangers called...
Slashdot Mirror
...now 2.6GHz machines with 800MHz FSB's and HT are "network appliances?"
I guess nobody told my P4-1.4 that, because it's certainly handling its duties as a web/file server, router and workstation quite well.
What's the point of Microsoft making a web browser? They obviously can't keep up with all these standards like CSS, XSL and XUL... I think they should just quit.
It cuts both ways.
Disclaimer: This is roughly 90% OT.
This site is the top of the pile in the (not all that new) game of "let's see how tiny i can make the article space on the page!!!!" with its gargantuan, 120x600px ad on the right, the even larger navigator on the left, and the Java (WHY?!?) navigator on top for the article. Let's ignore for the moment that using Java for that is completely unecessary and wasteful, and focus on how the foolish thing rotates while you're reading. If you can't read each hacker's bio in 5 seconds, you're gonna have to click the arrows a few times just to find where you left off!
Are they trying to piss off these legends with their own abysmal "hacking" skills?
Don't specialize yet. Do Comp Eng/Sci at MIT. Not even because they're probably the best school for most technology-related things. If you can make it through MIT, you're studious enough to make up for any potential failings of the school itself.
and no, I didn't get in. Proceed to poke fun.
Server Error in '/' Application.
W orkerRequest wr) +147
.NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET
***** Server Too Busy *****
Description:An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details:System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy] System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(Http
Version Information: Microsoft
Version:1.1.4322.573
I've been using unofficial KDE 3.2 CVS debs for about 4 months. I'm loving it. For all those who are wondering about Debian/KDE, 3.2.0 will enter unstable when 3.1.5 enters testing. First, however, 3.2.0 will be in experimental. If you can't wait, however, fear not. At the Debian/KDE FAQ there are instructions to get KDE 3.2 whether you be on stable, unstable or (for some fool reason) testing. It only involves adding one or two APT sources and dist-upgrading. If you run into problems, come to #debian-kde on irc.freenode.net and ask around. The folks there are really helpful.
Many jobs will be outsourced. No, not just to India, but to anywhere labor is cheaper (Sidenote: I'd rather see white-collar jobs outsource to India than manufacturing jobs outsourced to children in Asia, which is now the norm). This includes coders, artists, writers, and their managers. Eventually, a few executives. This will mark the abandonment of America by a few, or many, large corporations. After all, the folks at the top of the chain, who make the real money, belong to no nation. They belong to their desires. America's economy will slowly deflate to a level more equal with the rest of the world, while nations with more jobs will rise a bit. Globally, I think this possibly will have an equalizing effect in general. But those with the deep pockets will greatly benefit. Otherwise, they wouldn't do it.
The above stands for privately-owned corps. I have no idea what may happen with publicly-traded ones. It's obviously a bit more complicated.
"unstable" actually has nothing to do with how stable the OS is. It just means it's constantly changing. Ignore mwilson... he uses a command-line browser for everything. I use lynx sometimes too, but only when it's necessary. Fuck anyone who bitches about KDE. Many of the folks in #debian are quite helpful, provided you're not a lazy ass who asks first and thinks second. I'm in there a lot as sirReal, and I'm also in #debian-kde a lot. Those folks are *always* friendly, btw. You'll get a chance to talk to the maintainers as well.
It's actually not that hard. With Debian, installing apps is just a simple "aptitude update; aptitude install [package name]." For starters, get a copy of MEPIS Linux which is based off Knoppix, but makes for a cleaner, closer-to-Debian install. Dig around on the website - they want you to pay, but you can get an ISO free of charge. Burn it, boot it, you'll have an off-CD KDE 3.1.4 environment on kernel 2.4.22. When KDE 3.2 hits the "unstable" distro, you'll have it when you do a "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade". KPackage is a decent GUI to APT, if you prefer. But the command line is much faster. Before you can install any apps, though, you've got to install on your hard drive. The MEPIS Installation Center will help you. You can set up your partitions with QTParted from there. Once you've got an installation, feel free to screw around. Don't worry about it, just try it out. If you don't feel like installing right away, you can use many, many apps right off the booted CD. Any questions, I hang out in #debian and #debian-kde and #mepis on irc.freenode.net as sirReal.
I mean, Debian with KDE? Wow man - debian-fanboys look at you in a very frightning way... ;)
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? KDE in Debian unstable is 3.1.5 currently, and will be 3.2.0 within a couple days. I've had unofficial packages of 3.2b2 and 3.2rc1 since the official trees were tagged. They work great. I will, however, be lurking in #debian-kde@freenode so I can get the news when the packaging is done.
tried Debian (installation simply sucks)
The new installer is much better. It's not graphical (it shouldn't be) but it's easy as pie. Also, there are numberous LiveCD installers for Debian - none are official however. Some are faithful to Debian standards, some have trouble but are still okay.
I'm a Debian user, but my fanboyism belongs to Free Software. So use your Gentoo if that makes you happy. Just don't bullshit about other distros.
since programmers are ~ 1% of total market, u will get ~ 1% total dollars
They're not in it for the money. KDE is Free Software. Among many, many other things, it means you can get it free of charge. KDE is made for everyone, not just coders. The thing is, it's in active development... new features being constantly added, bugs being constantly fixed. KDE is not the type of organization to rush a half-assed product with, say, 40,000+ known bugs to market. And yes, they know they're going against the grain of the big moneymakers. Their aim is to make good software, not money. And they know it's not perfect yet, so don't be a dick about it. You want features, tell them about it. They like new ideas, and you may actually have some decent ones (even if you have a hard time spelling them).
KDE is fully themeable - two major components. "Styles" cover things like buttons, scrollbars, etc... all that. "Window Decorations" are titlebars and borders. They are separate, but most decent themes have matching styles/windecos. All KDE apps will respect these theme choices. Oh yeah, and there are color schemes that apply to styles, and you can change font sizes, etc...
They may not care, but if they start distributing X under a GPL-incompatible license, it will rapidly lose popularity. Developers will flock to freedesktop.org's xserver/xlibs, and users will do the same. I'm not worried, because I think xserver will eclipse XFree.
'We wanted to do this in a way that's going to foster his interest in technology'
Then what the hell is he going to do with a Microsoft cert?
Argh. Thanks ;)
i don't know about windows, but osx uses GL for most/all graphics. fdo's xserver aims to do the same thing. it's a completely new X server based on keithp's kdrive. afaik xfree doesn't use GL for anything 2D.
I wouldn't complain too much, since you don't seem to be able to spell "writers" ...
wrt to getting IP addresses of kazaa users: kazaa is just a product which runs on the network called fasttrack. there are many other implementations of fasttrack. you can easily use one of those to harvest ip addresses. or just use 'netstat' while downloading from the person...
Sharman, targeted by studios and record companies because its software is used to trade music and video files, has sought to turn the tables on the industry, accusing it of misusing Kazaa software to invade users' privacy and send corrupt files and threatening messages.
stop me if i'm wrong, but isn't "invading users' privacy" half the reason (the profitable half) that Sharman made Kazaa? Oh wait, now i see where the "infringement" lies...
If forking is one of the "bad things" that can happen to OSS, merging is one of the "good things." Multiple similar projects, each with their own advantages, merge together to make... damnit, what was that huge robot in the Power Rangers called...
let me get this straight... your name is Kola Banc Linucks Hat Koka Redd Appul Jonsen?
forget about that, i'm not sure how they're so uncertain with HP's ability to reencode.. WMA->WAV->AAC, in fact *->WAV->*
but i guess we'll "wait and see" what their crack team comes up with... either that's a joke or HP is run by preschool students.
yeah and "The Democrats explicitly state in their private documents that ... they're guilty of racial discrimination."
see, it's easy to screw up the context of a statement by mangling it with ellipses.
Um, yeah. Notice how I said "distribution" not "disconnected array of themes and widget sets."
That's the silver lining. You're missing the cloud. Which is generally bigger?