I fucking love Adblock. Even better, its filtering mechanism supports regexps, so with only eight filters I see less than one ad a week. The next version will include the Flash Click to View behavior, and won't download content that matches a filter so you save your bandwidth.
Slackware has long been renowned as one of the most secure and stable GNU/Linux system available, but its desktop has always left something to be desired. Dropline GNOME serves to address this while maintaining the core stability and simplicity of Slackware we all know and love. This is not simply a set of GNOME 2.4 packages; it has been tweaked and modified for a better appearance, cleaner interface, and a nicer integration with Slackware as a whole. Some of these differences are:
A complete set of i686-optimized packages
A convenient network-based installer and update system to easily keep your desktop up-to-date.
The latest release of FreeType combined with X.Org to display crisp, elegant fonts at any resolution on any type of display.
PAM integration, allowing configurable, increased functionality to non-root users (Example: changing the time or date).
FAM integration, allowing Nautilus to display an up-to-the-second accurate representation of your filesystem.
Library support for both ALSA (sound) and CUPS (printing). Niether is required, but the Dropline GNOME packages can take advantage of either.
A simplified, task-based menu system.
A default layout and theme setup designed to stay out of your way while remaining visually elegant.
I've always thought it would be neat to have a fleet of GPSs and transmitters in cars around the nation, with a system that would use the location of each transmitter to draw the roads people drive on.
You could start with any old road map, and use the system to verify and update it.
And if it was accessible through the web, real-time, it would be that much cooler.
You sure it's Javascript that's causing the freeze? Firefox is notorious for freezing some computers (and maxing out CPU usage) when trying to render a tables- and/or forms-heavy site.
(Aside: I heard a rumor that the above issues aren't going to be fixed in 1.0 because it already forked; anyone know more about this?)
No one has addressed your record label point: see Soulseek Records, 8bitpeoples, or a host of other net labels. These labels generally don't pay the artists, because the albums are free to download (DRM-less, of course). There's also Magnatune, which lets people "try before you buy" music, which pays all its artists 50% (of album sales, merchandise, everything) and keeps the rights to the music in the hands of the artists, where they belong.
"More prosaic solutions have surfaced over the years, including the conclusion that the first and last letters ('D' and 'M'), which sit slightly beneath the other letters, are initials for the Latin Diis manibus -- which was etched on Roman tombs to dedicate departing souls." (http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?s tory=520409&host=3&dir=65)
The guy who commissioned the sculpture was in the Navy, and fan of sea codes, and the family has had long interest in the Knights Templar.
AP photo of the couple leading this, in front of the engraving: http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/i mages/20040512/wcode20512/_done_0513shug.jpg
Google gives me only one reference to the line "out of your own sweet vale" that points to where it comes from: "The current Lord Lichfield's great-grandmother believed the letters represented the lines of a poem from Roman mythology about a shepherdess: 'Out of your own sweet vale Alicia vanish vanity twixt Deity and man, thou shepherdess the way.' " (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1214603,00.html)
"They changed what one of the shepherds is pointing to," he said. "He's pointing to a completely different letter than in the painting. And they've added a second sarcophagus to the picture." (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=82& sid=103790)
If you believe _The Da Vinci Code_, the sarcophagus is interesting, 'cause that's supposedly what the "grail" is in. Dunno about the new letter though...wonder which one it is...
I was in Egypt for a couple weeks in January of 2000. The tour boat we were on was also occupied by the Dutch Ambassador to Egypt, and so anywhere we went, we were escorted by three or four Coast Gard zodiacs with a couple armed guards in each one.
Perhaps the Americans you met were in a group with another relatively-high-profile member?
(Or maybe the touring industry has made some big changes in the last four years...)
The hope is that any sufficiently advanced species will not feel the need to dominate/enslave/kill off any other species. (We humans obviously aren't there yet...)
Most of our religions profess to know why we're here and what comes next. Why would we believe what any alien says any more than we believe what the loonies on our own planet say?
Yep, found it right after I posted. I didn't want it around anyway, so renaming it's not an issue. You could hide it and create a new icon that did the same thing...
What about how I can't delete or retame this stupid "Computer" icon on my desktop? That's the only thing that's really bugged me about GNOME 2.6. Feels Windowsy, that I don't have complete control over something as simple as the desktop icons.
new version, and they're calling it a complete re-write (now fully GPL compliant, too)
new web host (in the US, surprisingly, and ballsy too: Babu (creator) says "This [host] is well aware of the DMCA and DRM issues and is very much willing to defend us in case Apple threatens to bring down the site")
now preserves the iTMS header files, including the user's Apple ID ("This proves that our purpose is for fair use and not for piracy and should help us in our legal battles")
"It also knocks quirky hardware and software back into order, which is why it mysteriously starts working once you show up to fix the problem."
My mother hates that effect. "Argh. Argh. ARGH! The Internet's not working!" Then either I or my nerd dad will peek over her shoulder at the monitor, say "do it again", and it'll work. I'm sure she'd happily destroy all the computers in the house if she didn't feel compelled to check her email every five minutes...
"Does it still have that insane default folder structure? (c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\sr5qf9vq.slt\Mai l\ etc. !!)"
Yes, but it's for security reasons. Since all Thunderbird users don't have the same file structure for their settings and things, it makes it harder for nasty bugs security exploits to start changing things on you.
I recently emailed Mozilla's licensing department about using derivative works of their icons. The response I received included this: "the image files are not under the same open source license as the rest of Mozilla. The reason for this is that it helps us preserve the clarity of our trademark."
Fine with me; I can GIMP up the icons on the web site and use them myself as fair use. You should consider doing the same.
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I fucking love Adblock. Even better, its filtering mechanism supports regexps, so with only eight filters I see less than one ad a week. The next version will include the Flash Click to View behavior, and won't download content that matches a filter so you save your bandwidth.
That's pretty funny. I might have to do that for my sister and parents...
Have you really reassigned copy-paste to ^J/^K? I've been thinking about that but I had doubts that I'd be able to get all my GUIs to do it.
Slackware has long been renowned as one of the most secure and stable GNU/Linux system available, but its desktop has always left something to be desired. Dropline GNOME serves to address this while maintaining the core stability and simplicity of Slackware we all know and love. This is not simply a set of GNOME 2.4 packages; it has been tweaked and modified for a better appearance, cleaner interface, and a nicer integration with Slackware as a whole. Some of these differences are:
If you want GNOME, you should check out Dropline, a tweak of GNOME geared for Slackware on i686s.
I've always thought it would be neat to have a fleet of GPSs and transmitters in cars around the nation, with a system that would use the location of each transmitter to draw the roads people drive on.
You could start with any old road map, and use the system to verify and update it.
And if it was accessible through the web, real-time, it would be that much cooler.
You sure it's Javascript that's causing the freeze? Firefox is notorious for freezing some computers (and maxing out CPU usage) when trying to render a tables- and/or forms-heavy site.
(Aside: I heard a rumor that the above issues aren't going to be fixed in 1.0 because it already forked; anyone know more about this?)
I liked the Space Ghost C2C episode that Shatner was on... boy was that a fucked up episode.
Beg to differ -- China loves Microsoft. I have to explain myself whenever I say I don't like Bill Gates.
No one has addressed your record label point: see Soulseek Records, 8bitpeoples, or a host of other net labels. These labels generally don't pay the artists, because the albums are free to download (DRM-less, of course). There's also Magnatune, which lets people "try before you buy" music, which pays all its artists 50% (of album sales, merchandise, everything) and keeps the rights to the music in the hands of the artists, where they belong.
"More prosaic solutions have surfaced over the years, including the conclusion that the first and last letters ('D' and 'M'), which sit slightly beneath the other letters, are initials for the Latin Diis manibus -- which was etched on Roman tombs to dedicate departing souls." (http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?s tory=520409&host=3&dir=65)
i mages/20040512/wcode20512/_done_0513shug.jpg
1 ,1214603,00.html)
The guy who commissioned the sculpture was in the Navy, and fan of sea codes, and the family has had long interest in the Knights Templar.
AP photo of the couple leading this, in front of the engraving: http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/
Google gives me only one reference to the line "out of your own sweet vale" that points to where it comes from: "The current Lord Lichfield's great-grandmother believed the letters represented the lines of a poem from Roman mythology about a shepherdess: 'Out of your own sweet vale Alicia vanish vanity twixt Deity and man, thou shepherdess the way.' " (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,1171
"They changed what one of the shepherds is pointing to," he said. "He's pointing to a completely different letter than in the painting. And they've added a second sarcophagus to the picture." (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=82& sid=103790)
If you believe _The Da Vinci Code_, the sarcophagus is interesting, 'cause that's supposedly what the "grail" is in. Dunno about the new letter though...wonder which one it is...
Well, if Earth gets whacked with a murderous meteorite every 185 million years, we've got another 120 million years left here. Works for me...
I was in Egypt for a couple weeks in January of 2000. The tour boat we were on was also occupied by the Dutch Ambassador to Egypt, and so anywhere we went, we were escorted by three or four Coast Gard zodiacs with a couple armed guards in each one.
Perhaps the Americans you met were in a group with another relatively-high-profile member?
(Or maybe the touring industry has made some big changes in the last four years...)
The hope is that any sufficiently advanced species will not feel the need to dominate/enslave/kill off any other species. (We humans obviously aren't there yet...)
Most of our religions profess to know why we're here and what comes next. Why would we believe what any alien says any more than we believe what the loonies on our own planet say?
Yep, found it right after I posted. I didn't want it around anyway, so renaming it's not an issue. You could hide it and create a new icon that did the same thing...
What about how I can't delete or retame this stupid "Computer" icon on my desktop? That's the only thing that's really bugged me about GNOME 2.6. Feels Windowsy, that I don't have complete control over something as simple as the desktop icons.
According to MacWorld...
(Not really karma whoring, just adding the info that was in my submission... bah.)
That's never gonna stop anyone who really wants to read your old mail.
"It also knocks quirky hardware and software back into order, which is why it mysteriously starts working once you show up to fix the problem."
My mother hates that effect. "Argh. Argh. ARGH! The Internet's not working!" Then either I or my nerd dad will peek over her shoulder at the monitor, say "do it again", and it'll work. I'm sure she'd happily destroy all the computers in the house if she didn't feel compelled to check her email every five minutes...
Even better -- AdBlock understands regular expressions. I have only nine entries, and I rarely see any ads.
"Does it still have that insane default folder structure? (c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\sr5qf9vq.slt\Mai l\ etc. !!)"
Yes, but it's for security reasons. Since all Thunderbird users don't have the same file structure for their settings and things, it makes it harder for nasty bugs security exploits to start changing things on you.
I recently emailed Mozilla's licensing department about using derivative works of their icons. The response I received included this: "the image files are not under the same open source license as the rest of Mozilla. The reason for this is that it helps us preserve the clarity of our trademark."
Fine with me; I can GIMP up the icons on the web site and use them myself as fair use. You should consider doing the same.
Whew, I'm glad you saved me those steps. I'll stick with Sunbird, thanks.