I have a dual monitor set up that is, you might say, like a three-monitor setup missing the left-hand monitor. Perhaps the two monitors on one stand idea makes the seam look like it should be central, but you can always offset and turn the thing a bit so that whichever side suits your fancy is the "primary" display--that is, directly in front of you.
I used to do something like this with xmodmap. I shifted the keyboard up a row (numbers and punctuation above numbers was accessed by modeshift), used the space bar for control, c for modeshift, v for backspace/delete, b for alt, n for space and m for shift. I basically stopped because I had a dual-boot setup with windows and couldn't do the same remapping. Although I'm a touch-typist, the misplaced letters threw me off. I know this option isn't available for the author of the article, being a windows user, but it was a nice keyboard layout. Having an apple keyboard (thrift store, $5) helped. All key caps of the same size are exactly the same shape--tilt is controlled by the backplane of the keyboard itself.
Matlab's symbolic toolkit is based on Maple. The simplify function doesn't always seem to work as well as it could. I haven't really used it much, I mostly do numerical (and plotting). Cosine doesn't quite work right, either (1e15 when it should be 0, IIRC). Maybe it's a floating point precision thing.
If you're stuck in dependency hell (can't find dependencies?), your package system is probably out of date. If installing a dependency resolver causes another dependency hell, I would recommend you back up your configs and data, make a list of what you installed, and start again with a distro that automatically resolves dependencies. Debian and Gentoo both do this. Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros do it. I think the latest versions of the popular RPM-based distros (Redhat, Mandriva, etc.) do this as well.
Just take off your shoes while watching TV. If your floors are sufficiently clean (and your feet sufficiently lacking odor), it makes perfect sense; it's more comfortable, no matter how comfortable the shoes.
This one is running Debian, so ssh is the obvious way to talk to it. For graphics, just tunnel X over ssh (`ssh -X $address` and start the X program normally after login).
Sort of show. I believe the OEM agreements had to be changed from "Current Microsoft OS" to "An OS". An OEM can bundle with FreeDOS to get around this without much (if any) increase in support.
I believe (could be wrong) there are other issues that may be a dealbreaker with Linux-on-Powerbooks (no Airport card support and limited sleep and sound functionality.)
Just letting you and others know--you are wrong (at least sort of). I have an iBook running Linux--working airport (I had to buy an old one though, since airport extreme was not supported last I checked), sleep and sound (I'm not sure what limitations you mean, but they're fine for me).
It doesn't even need to be on both phones, unless they are both going to send morse code. A java program can translate from morse to letters, then send a regular SMS. At least this should be the case. I haven't actually done SMS programs, but from reading the documents for my phone and J2ME, I found you can use special SMS messages to make a multi-user program (you should also be able to do regular SMS). The grandparent post seems to additionally want the morse entry to work anywhere text entry usually does (adding someone to your phone book, for example). I, too, would like this kind of thing, as my phone's non-alphanumeric character entry is terrible (and it includes some characters that are useless to me while excluding some that I really want).
The real reason for open hardware (some would say) is for interoperability with open software. Full specs and probably an open-source driver will be released with the card, so that others can write/modify drivers that take full advantage of the card*. IIRC, this card will also use an FPGA, which might be available to the kernel, allowing drivers/users to "reprogram" the card's hardware layout as they wish.
*currently, drivers for video cards tend to be binary-only or reverse-engineered and not fully implementing 3d accelleration, etc.
Have you tried del.icio.us ("social bookmarks")? I haven't used it, but it might be worth a try. You add bookmarks by selecting a bookmarklet, and view them by visiting a webpage. Not the most integrated, but it's here now and might do the trick at least until real syncronization is available.
Another (too difficult) approach would be to have your Mozilla preferences/bookmarks on an NFS , SMB or other network-mounted partition.
The commercial Wine forks are able to use restricted licenses because Wine used to be licensed under a BSD-type license. Though Wine is now licensed solely under the GNU LGPL, the commercial versions used a BSD licensed version as their code base.
The Mozilla license (MPL) requires availability and redistributability of source code (BSD licenses do not). It seems legal, though, with a program under the LGPL or MPL, to create and not provide source for add-ons which can run with unmodified binaries (or modified binaries with source code available).
I've found window managers for Windows to be kind of cumbersome. Partially because the system isn't designed for that sort of thing, partially because they're not well done. And there's no ratpoison for Windows.
As for X on OS X, that's kind of cumbersome, too. Again, not designed for it, and it doesn't manage the cocoa/aqua applications, which means either having two "window managers" or replacing the system applications.
As jefe289 pointed out, this article has a good description of one blind Linux user's setup, including a custom ls command and line editor/web browser available for download. I believe there's a distro called blinux so you don't have to compile a kernel and find all the programs for her. If all she needs, though, is email, speakup and an email-to-text-to-email system (fetchmail and sendmail?) should be easy enough (for a POSIX/*NIX user--some set up by a non-blind user will be required for any configuration) to set up with a pop or imap server. I'll provide more information if requested.
It was intended to be sung to the tune of Sadi Moma (a Bulgarian dance tune). The Free software song on the GNU website. The sheet music.
[Un]fortunately you can also actually listen to RMS singing it. You can find that on the web page I've linked.
As a developer of my own window manager, I can disagree with your last two paragraphs. I have crashed X many times, but that was dealing directly with Xlib. Also, X is supposed to have copy&paste and drag&drop standards, but people are often too lazy to implement them in their X clients. The ICCM (X standards) isn't exactly easy to use, but it does specify a lot of features and behaviours.
Does anyone know how to see the fanfilms being played at fanzillacon without going to Worcester? They are being played for free...but no recording is allowed. It's unethical and illegal to sell these films...but are electronic copies being given away somewhere? I didn't see any downloads on the fanzillacon website.
I don't know about the G5, but I have an iBook running GNU/Linux (just linux, not dual boot). The iBook is very light weight, slim, and quiet. There are a bunch of other good mechanical/design features as well.
Everything is dirtier than a toilet! It's really that simple. Everyone should start making things out of toilets. 1) Find everything to be dirtier than toilets 2) Make things out of toilets 3) Profit! There's no missing step! Well, except that these things will not actually be toilets, and thus will be found dirtier than toilets. But why? Because people know that toilets are "dirty", and thus clean them! So many things are assumed to be clean because they are not specifically used in a way that would seem to make them dirty, and so they don't get cleaned. No story here, move along.
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I have a dual monitor set up that is, you might say, like a three-monitor setup missing the left-hand monitor. Perhaps the two monitors on one stand idea makes the seam look like it should be central, but you can always offset and turn the thing a bit so that whichever side suits your fancy is the "primary" display--that is, directly in front of you.
I used to do something like this with xmodmap. I shifted the keyboard up a row (numbers and punctuation above numbers was accessed by modeshift), used the space bar for control, c for modeshift, v for backspace/delete, b for alt, n for space and m for shift. I basically stopped because I had a dual-boot setup with windows and couldn't do the same remapping. Although I'm a touch-typist, the misplaced letters threw me off. I know this option isn't available for the author of the article, being a windows user, but it was a nice keyboard layout.
Having an apple keyboard (thrift store, $5) helped. All key caps of the same size are exactly the same shape--tilt is controlled by the backplane of the keyboard itself.
Matlab's symbolic toolkit is based on Maple. The simplify function doesn't always seem to work as well as it could. I haven't really used it much, I mostly do numerical (and plotting). Cosine doesn't quite work right, either (1e15 when it should be 0, IIRC). Maybe it's a floating point precision thing.
If you're stuck in dependency hell (can't find dependencies?), your package system is probably out of date. If installing a dependency resolver causes another dependency hell, I would recommend you back up your configs and data, make a list of what you installed, and start again with a distro that automatically resolves dependencies. Debian and Gentoo both do this. Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros do it. I think the latest versions of the popular RPM-based distros (Redhat, Mandriva, etc.) do this as well.
Just take off your shoes while watching TV. If your floors are sufficiently clean (and your feet sufficiently lacking odor), it makes perfect sense; it's more comfortable, no matter how comfortable the shoes.
This one is running Debian, so ssh is the obvious way to talk to it. For graphics, just tunnel X over ssh (`ssh -X $address` and start the X program normally after login).
I know your comment was a joke, but Sun Microsystems calls their latest mouse a Crossbow. Google image search.
Sort of show. I believe the OEM agreements had to be changed from "Current Microsoft OS" to "An OS". An OEM can bundle with FreeDOS to get around this without much (if any) increase in support.
It doesn't even need to be on both phones, unless they are both going to send morse code. A java program can translate from morse to letters, then send a regular SMS. At least this should be the case. I haven't actually done SMS programs, but from reading the documents for my phone and J2ME, I found you can use special SMS messages to make a multi-user program (you should also be able to do regular SMS).
The grandparent post seems to additionally want the morse entry to work anywhere text entry usually does (adding someone to your phone book, for example). I, too, would like this kind of thing, as my phone's non-alphanumeric character entry is terrible (and it includes some characters that are useless to me while excluding some that I really want).
The real reason for open hardware (some would say) is for interoperability with open software. Full specs and probably an open-source driver will be released with the card, so that others can write/modify drivers that take full advantage of the card*. IIRC, this card will also use an FPGA, which might be available to the kernel, allowing drivers/users to "reprogram" the card's hardware layout as they wish.
*currently, drivers for video cards tend to be binary-only or reverse-engineered and not fully implementing 3d accelleration, etc.
Have you tried del.icio.us ("social bookmarks")? I haven't used it, but it might be worth a try. You add bookmarks by selecting a bookmarklet, and view them by visiting a webpage. Not the most integrated, but it's here now and might do the trick at least until real syncronization is available.
Another (too difficult) approach would be to have your Mozilla preferences/bookmarks on an NFS , SMB or other network-mounted partition.
The commercial Wine forks are able to use restricted licenses because Wine used to be licensed under a BSD-type license. Though Wine is now licensed solely under the GNU LGPL, the commercial versions used a BSD licensed version as their code base.
The Mozilla license (MPL) requires availability and redistributability of source code (BSD licenses do not). It seems legal, though, with a program under the LGPL or MPL, to create and not provide source for add-ons which can run with unmodified binaries (or modified binaries with source code available).
I've found window managers for Windows to be kind of cumbersome. Partially because the system isn't designed for that sort of thing, partially because they're not well done. And there's no ratpoison for Windows. As for X on OS X, that's kind of cumbersome, too. Again, not designed for it, and it doesn't manage the cocoa/aqua applications, which means either having two "window managers" or replacing the system applications.
iMovie and iDVD can't play all of the video formats that quicktime does.
As jefe289 pointed out, this article has a good description of one blind Linux user's setup, including a custom ls command and line editor/web browser available for download. I believe there's a distro called blinux so you don't have to compile a kernel and find all the programs for her. If all she needs, though, is email, speakup and an email-to-text-to-email system (fetchmail and sendmail?) should be easy enough (for a POSIX/*NIX user--some set up by a non-blind user will be required for any configuration) to set up with a pop or imap server. I'll provide more information if requested.
It was intended to be sung to the tune of Sadi Moma (a Bulgarian dance tune).
The Free software song on the GNU website.
The sheet music.
[Un]fortunately you can also actually listen to RMS singing it. You can find that on the web page I've linked.
As a developer of my own window manager, I can disagree with your last two paragraphs. I have crashed X many times, but that was dealing directly with Xlib. Also, X is supposed to have copy&paste and drag&drop standards, but people are often too lazy to implement them in their X clients. The ICCM (X standards) isn't exactly easy to use, but it does specify a lot of features and behaviours.
Should this be modded up or down for being an obvious astroturfing?
Does anyone know how to see the fanfilms being played at fanzillacon without going to Worcester? They are being played for free...but no recording is allowed. It's unethical and illegal to sell these films...but are electronic copies being given away somewhere? I didn't see any downloads on the fanzillacon website.
He was left-handed. It makes sense.
I don't know about the G5, but I have an iBook running GNU/Linux (just linux, not dual boot). The iBook is very light weight, slim, and quiet. There are a bunch of other good mechanical/design features as well.
Everything is dirtier than a toilet! It's really that simple. Everyone should start making things out of toilets.
1) Find everything to be dirtier than toilets
2) Make things out of toilets
3) Profit!
There's no missing step! Well, except that these things will not actually be toilets, and thus will be found dirtier than toilets. But why? Because people know that toilets are "dirty", and thus clean them! So many things are assumed to be clean because they are not specifically used in a way that would seem to make them dirty, and so they don't get cleaned. No story here, move along.