am I just a conspiracy theorist, or is there something very weird and significant going on with the number '2600'? I mean, you've got the hacker group, you've got the venerable Atari, and now you've got Windows XP... as soon as I saw that my copy of XP (and almost everyone else's) was build number 2600, I started scratching my head and looking for correlations! (for fun, mind you)
wow, and I thought I was special. Right now I've been relegated to another computer, because I'm using the family computer too much ^_^ The machine itself is decent; a 533 MHz Celeron, but the only monitor I could find was an ugly 14-incher that only does 640x480. It says "Everdata" and was made in 1991. I tell ya, it was not fun trying to guess my way through the GNOME menu looking for screen resolution when 1024x768 worth of pixels are screaming up and down the monitor. And don't ask why I didn't just comment out the lines in X; I did and the X server wouldn't start up (???)
You know, I have no problem with 'innovation' being touted as an absolute virtue. Yes, innovation is good, and it's always nice to develop new, more efficient ways of doing things, but... what if something already works fine? Why not copy from someone else if their idea is great? I sorely wish the GTK+ file selector has shortcuts, and I was ecstatic when I installed KDE 3.0 a year ago and found out they had added them in.
Innovation isn't the important thing. Usefulness is. Innovation is only one of the many tools used to create something useful.
It's not a special file selector, no, but GTK has had (in most people's opinion) a crappy file selector until now. While the whole toolkit (and the GNOME environment) have been progressing marvellously, the file selector has been busying itself grunting and trying to figure out how to invent fire.
I've been watching XFCE for a short while, and it looks like a superb light-to-medium-weight desktop environment. Its toolkit is GTK2, so you can use a lot of the existing GTK2 themes out there. As for the window manager, it's not Metacity or Sawfish (the two popular GNOME window managers), but it has a window manager of its own that is apparently fairly skinnable. The dock reminds me of CDE or OS/2 Warp, and I remember Warp's dock being very nice. Way back in 1995... wow, that was ages ago.
I haven't installed it myself, but I really want to give it a spin as soon as I fire up Linux again.
from what I've read somewhere in the wild blue of mailing lists et al, apparently the new file selector class can be extended by developers to include things like preview panes. (Actually, developers for GTK+ 2.2 and earlier can do that with the current file selector too -- you can see an example in GIMP 1.3.)
The GTK+ developers are taking care to include as many good features as possible, and then develop a framework that allows easy extension. It's not apparent from this example, but the checkbox to send love to Eugenia is supposed to be an example of this extensibility.
It could be argued, actually, that IBM is trying to do some hardcore psychological engineering: "Look! We've got so much confidence in our legal position with Linux, that we're installing it on the world's mpost powerful supercomputer!"
just for the record, I am one of those who think that SCO has neither a claim or a prayer... just trying to be devil's advocate here.
okay, well if you won't say it, I will. Because it has to be said! Otherwise the gods of karma will be angry, and no interesting stories will be posted for seven days.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Blue Gene/L clusters? That would be teh cool!
problem is, all we saw was a few console programs, and that coulda been Solaris or IRIX, for all we know... not that a techno-savvy geek with not enough money for a decent apartment would have anything but Linux or BSD on their computers... so I suppose it would be fair to assume it was a free beer OS ^_^
I noticed that too... but it looks like they've fixed the mimetype problem, because all of a sudden the JPEGs started working in Mozilla... YMMV, but it worked for me.
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Whoops. didn't see the part where the questioner asked about being able to see the source code. I guess I just wanted to mention PDF995 to the world-at-large... actually, I knew that my answer wasn't gonna answer the guy's question... that's why I said "sorry" to him in my post.
Mod me OT if you like, but I was aware I was slightly OT in the first place.
PDF995 is a (non-open-source, ad-supported) application that sits between your Windows printer driver and ps2pdf, and streamlines the process. I love it... it's made out of open-source parts, but it's not open-source itself though. sorry. ^_^
Actually, PDF995 sounds a lot like PDFCreator; I'm gonna check PDFCreator out.
I guess the problem with a solution like PDF995, ps2pdf, and PDFCreator is that they're not complete tools that would bridge your gap between SQL queries and finished PDF... probably the best bet is to install PHP for Windows, along with the LDF libraries.
wow! I'm gonna check that out. Also, to the original poster I thought I'd mention that PHP has built-in functions for creating PDFs out of raw elements (curves, text blocks, etc), if you're so inclined. Just check to make sure that your PHP administrator has installed the necessary libraries.
I had a serious case of PHP scales once; I thought it was a rare disease, but now I see it's being given exposure in respected news sites like Slashdot. Word to the wise: cortisone cream gets rid of it. Worked for me!
It's amazing how there's such a spectrum of different opinions on subjects like this. It's like stepping into a Baskin Robbins store; you never knew there were so many options!!! Coming to a site like this makes one realise that people have completely different, but equally valid, opinions and needs.
For instance, the parent loves the integration ("swiss army knife approach") of the Seamonkey suite. And is obviously enamoured of it, and would do violence to those who would force him to part with it. But myself, I couldn't care less; when I go browsing I just want something that Just Works, works well, works efficiently, and has features to speed up surfing like tabs and the wonderful Google search box. Sure, Seamonkey has all that, but so does Firebird, and I couldn't care less about integration with my e-mail. (To tell the truth, I'm not quite sure what benefit integration would have for me; as long as I can click on a mailto: link and have Thunderbird start up, I'm happy ^_^)
oh brave new world, that hath such creatures in it!
Dangit, why do I never had mod points? I loved this post! It was a very incisive and clever comment on people's stubborn scepticism and failure to think outside the box.
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am I just a conspiracy theorist, or is there something very weird and significant going on with the number '2600'? I mean, you've got the hacker group, you've got the venerable Atari, and now you've got Windows XP... as soon as I saw that my copy of XP (and almost everyone else's) was build number 2600, I started scratching my head and looking for correlations! (for fun, mind you)
wow, and I thought I was special. Right now I've been relegated to another computer, because I'm using the family computer too much ^_^ The machine itself is decent; a 533 MHz Celeron, but the only monitor I could find was an ugly 14-incher that only does 640x480. It says "Everdata" and was made in 1991. I tell ya, it was not fun trying to guess my way through the GNOME menu looking for screen resolution when 1024x768 worth of pixels are screaming up and down the monitor. And don't ask why I didn't just comment out the lines in X; I did and the X server wouldn't start up (???)
but a nine-inch monitor... that's just insane.
first of all, thanks to all mods... it's nice to get modded up instead of down for a change ^_^ But here are the mistakes I discovered:
You see, I'm just as terrible and despotic a language policeman to myself as I am to others :)
You know, I have no problem with 'innovation' being touted as an absolute virtue. Yes, innovation is good, and it's always nice to develop new, more efficient ways of doing things, but... what if something already works fine? Why not copy from someone else if their idea is great? I sorely wish the GTK+ file selector has shortcuts, and I was ecstatic when I installed KDE 3.0 a year ago and found out they had added them in.
Innovation isn't the important thing. Usefulness is. Innovation is only one of the many tools used to create something useful.
It's not a special file selector, no, but GTK has had (in most people's opinion) a crappy file selector until now. While the whole toolkit (and the GNOME environment) have been progressing marvellously, the file selector has been busying itself grunting and trying to figure out how to invent fire.
I've been watching XFCE for a short while, and it looks like a superb light-to-medium-weight desktop environment. Its toolkit is GTK2, so you can use a lot of the existing GTK2 themes out there. As for the window manager, it's not Metacity or Sawfish (the two popular GNOME window managers), but it has a window manager of its own that is apparently fairly skinnable. The dock reminds me of CDE or OS/2 Warp, and I remember Warp's dock being very nice. Way back in 1995... wow, that was ages ago.
I haven't installed it myself, but I really want to give it a spin as soon as I fire up Linux again.
from what I've read somewhere in the wild blue of mailing lists et al, apparently the new file selector class can be extended by developers to include things like preview panes. (Actually, developers for GTK+ 2.2 and earlier can do that with the current file selector too -- you can see an example in GIMP 1.3.)
The GTK+ developers are taking care to include as many good features as possible, and then develop a framework that allows easy extension. It's not apparent from this example, but the checkbox to send love to Eugenia is supposed to be an example of this extensibility.
okay, where on earth did that come from?
shhhhhh shhhhhh shhhhhh! don't suggest anything to them! you don't want them suing Apple too...
actually, that may come to pass, if you believe SCO's vague suggestion that it has its sights set on BSD in the distant future.
Dangit, now I feel stupid. I'd just finished posting the very thing when someone else refused to say it.
It could be argued, actually, that IBM is trying to do some hardcore psychological engineering: "Look! We've got so much confidence in our legal position with Linux, that we're installing it on the world's mpost powerful supercomputer!"
just for the record, I am one of those who think that SCO has neither a claim or a prayer... just trying to be devil's advocate here.
okay, well if you won't say it, I will. Because it has to be said! Otherwise the gods of karma will be angry, and no interesting stories will be posted for seven days.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Blue Gene/L clusters? That would be teh cool!
Crap, I just ran out of mod points this morning. Is there no justice?!?
problem is, all we saw was a few console programs, and that coulda been Solaris or IRIX, for all we know... not that a techno-savvy geek with not enough money for a decent apartment would have anything but Linux or BSD on their computers... so I suppose it would be fair to assume it was a free beer OS ^_^
I noticed that too... but it looks like they've fixed the mimetype problem, because all of a sudden the JPEGs started working in Mozilla... YMMV, but it worked for me.
Whoops. didn't see the part where the questioner asked about being able to see the source code. I guess I just wanted to mention PDF995 to the world-at-large... actually, I knew that my answer wasn't gonna answer the guy's question... that's why I said "sorry" to him in my post.
Mod me OT if you like, but I was aware I was slightly OT in the first place.
PDF995 is a (non-open-source, ad-supported) application that sits between your Windows printer driver and ps2pdf, and streamlines the process. I love it... it's made out of open-source parts, but it's not open-source itself though. sorry. ^_^
Actually, PDF995 sounds a lot like PDFCreator; I'm gonna check PDFCreator out.
I guess the problem with a solution like PDF995, ps2pdf, and PDFCreator is that they're not complete tools that would bridge your gap between SQL queries and finished PDF... probably the best bet is to install PHP for Windows, along with the LDF libraries.
wow! I'm gonna check that out. Also, to the original poster I thought I'd mention that PHP has built-in functions for creating PDFs out of raw elements (curves, text blocks, etc), if you're so inclined. Just check to make sure that your PHP administrator has installed the necessary libraries.
Rio Audio makes a player that support Ogg. I can only find one, but I could swear they made more than that.
ummmm, pardon? I believe you spelled it wrong. It's 'Intarweb' with an 'a'.
I had a serious case of PHP scales once; I thought it was a rare disease, but now I see it's being given exposure in respected news sites like Slashdot. Word to the wise: cortisone cream gets rid of it. Worked for me!
It's amazing how there's such a spectrum of different opinions on subjects like this. It's like stepping into a Baskin Robbins store; you never knew there were so many options!!! Coming to a site like this makes one realise that people have completely different, but equally valid, opinions and needs.
For instance, the parent loves the integration ("swiss army knife approach") of the Seamonkey suite. And is obviously enamoured of it, and would do violence to those who would force him to part with it. But myself, I couldn't care less; when I go browsing I just want something that Just Works, works well, works efficiently, and has features to speed up surfing like tabs and the wonderful Google search box. Sure, Seamonkey has all that, but so does Firebird, and I couldn't care less about integration with my e-mail. (To tell the truth, I'm not quite sure what benefit integration would have for me; as long as I can click on a mailto: link and have Thunderbird start up, I'm happy ^_^)
oh brave new world, that hath such creatures in it!
I work at a RadioShack store in Canada, and at the fall dealers' conference they gave out these silly USB fans to all the attendants.
Dangit, why do I never had mod points? I loved this post! It was a very incisive and clever comment on people's stubborn scepticism and failure to think outside the box.
oh, how I wish I had mod points...... I almost had a seizure that was so funny. And so topical too ^_^