about:config options related to the Firefox UI (e.g. tabs, but also other features that necessarily have a different implementation) will generally have no effect in Camino. The reason they show up at all is that purging them would be a lot of work. However, most options dealing with page rendering, javascript, etc. work the same across all Mozilla browsers. As for the missing browser.tabs.closeButtons (and undoubtedly others), the latest Camino release is from a branch made long before the introduction of said options.
The list of about:config entries has lots of info on what the various options do, and some of the detail pages specify whether the pref has an effect in Camino. I can't vouch for the thoroughness of the "has an effect in" sections however, and AFAIK there's no list dealing just with Camino-compatible prefs.
Ok, looking at the ClearType FAQ, it seems Windows doesn't support the vertical arrangements, but they're probably even rarer. Hopefully you don't have one of those.
Sounds like your display has one of the less common subpixel arrangements. Most displays (I believe) line them up as RGB from left to right, but it's possible to have the order reversed, or to have either order from top to bottom. Try playing around with the ClearType Tuner (the web version requires IE, or there's a downloadable version that installs in Control Panel) and see if one of the other configurations helps. It also works better if your display is set to its native resolution, but you probably already knew that.
They can be, but it's not necessary. I believe BIOS-locking is done in lieu of activation, which pretty much only happens with Dells and the like where you don't get the actual Windows CD, just a "recovery disc." My mom has an OEM copy of XP with her computer from a local shop, and the last time I upgraded my computer, we switched her hardware to my old box with no trouble at all.
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It's definitely possible. I remember the behavior from 10.0 and 10.1, but can't remember if it did that as far back as 9.3.
Ubuntu Edgy's GTK 2.10.3, which I just upgraded to, is a significant improvement. When it completes inline, the completion text is highlighted so it overwrites instead of adding to the end. It also appears to lack the bug where if I type a path with a filename at the end, instead of opening the file it opens the directory containing the file. No idea how much of this is upstream and how much is Ubuntu.
I still think the design is ass-backwards, but it's not a total pain to use anymore.
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Yeah, then you get the joy of the "smart" autocomplete randomly deciding to fill in single matches while you're still typing (and not slowly, either) so that you get stuff like "pictures/ctures" before you can stop and backspace. Other times, you know there's only one autocomplete match, so you pause for it to fill in, but it only gives you the autocomplete dropdown (of one item). And if, by some gracious act of the gods, there is a pref to change this behavior somewhere, it's nowhere a human could find. After all, if you set your computer up the way you want it, the terrorists have won.
This was all on whatever the latest GNOME for SuSE 10.1 was as of about two weeks ago. I've since switched to (k)ubuntu (nothing against SuSE, just got a new AMD64 system and decided to give something new a try) and the GTK filepicker (in the Edgy packages at least) is less broken, but still stupid.
Yeah, I've noticed a few spam messages in my Gmail inbox where the plaintext content (which gmail uses for the preview snippet) is completely different from the html content. I don't know that this would affect filtering, but it might be an attempt to trick people into viewing a malicious html email in some unsafe (i.e. Outlook) client.
Around here (San Francisco) there are a whole mess of 2Wire access points, since that's the wireless router SBC offers at a discount with new DSL service. It's actually a damn good router from my personal experience. Anyway, security is enabled by default, and the factory password is different for every unit. I can't speak for the defaults on Linksys or Netgear though.
They're considered "experimental" and the ftp servers are still more or less hosed (torrents are working fine though) but for anyone who wants to give Jigdo a shot, it's there.
Not only that, the "pod" part is pretty inaccurate, since the iPod itself has nothing to do with the technology, it's just a way to play the downloaded audio.
Same way there are different compression rates for zip, gzip, etc. which are all lossless. Basically, the higher the compression ratio, the more time it spends looking for patterns to compress.
Along those lines, apparently Dreamworks had to pay to use the "HOLLYWOOD"-esque "FAR, FAR AWAY" sign in Shrek 2, even though that should fall under parody.
...when I heard about Google maps. I wondered how long it would take Google to start their own wiki, then I decided they wouldn't be likely to duplicate the efforts of Wikipedia. Didn't occur to me that they might do this instead. Cool.
Except that with mice, the extra buttons do different things, instead of all working together to do the same thing.
I don't think most people are suggesting anything beyond the two buttons + scroll wheel, anyway. Personally, I think adding a thumb button wouldn't hurt, but anything beyond that is overkill for the vast majority of users.
Not true. Start Menu style is configured in Taskbar Properties, and is independent of whether you have Visual Styles on or not.
That said, both the Luna and Classic styles are pretty bad (Luna would be ok if everything weren't so goddamned huge), but now I only have to deal with them when I'm doing stuff with my sister's computer. It's not worth the trouble to patch uxtheme.dll for her.
The Alexa link was the only tangible example I could find. I distinctly recall seeing a post by Brad himself mentioning how much more traffic LJ handles, but obviously I can't link to it at the moment.
Anyway, as of Google's last crawl of the stats page (shortly before the outage), there were almost 6 million LJ users, a little under half of those "active." I don't know if/. has any stats available, but skimming through this page, the highest UID I see is in the 800,000 range. I'm not going to even attempt to guess what the relative activity level of LJ users is compared to/., or which has bigger pages or whatever, but I would offhand say that LJ probably handles more image traffic (user pictures, and now the in-testing photo hosting service). I know they used to use Akamai for that, but I seem to recall that fairly recently they switched over to doing something else. (I think they handle it themselves again, but I'm not sure.) There's also the audio files from phone posts. I'd say there's little question that LJ is the more heavily trafficked site.
Besides, a lot of the DB load on Slashdot is eased tremendously by Memcached, developed by... Danga Interactive, i.e. LJ. Wikipedia uses it too, and just started using Perlbal. (And I do mean "just") Ditto for Audioscrobbler/Last.fm. So/. isn't in much of a position to pooh-pooh the technical ability of Brad/LJ.
You do realize that LiveJournal handles far more traffic than Slashdot, and when Slashdot got linked on the front page of LJ, Slashdot started spewing out errors (more than normal).
Oh hey, Slashdot just went down as I was typing this. Smooth.
I would think (hope?) that Firefox would use its built-in caching and HTTP 1.1 conditional get for Live Bookmarks, since those things are all there for the browser already.
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about:config options related to the Firefox UI (e.g. tabs, but also other features that necessarily have a different implementation) will generally have no effect in Camino. The reason they show up at all is that purging them would be a lot of work. However, most options dealing with page rendering, javascript, etc. work the same across all Mozilla browsers. As for the missing browser.tabs.closeButtons (and undoubtedly others), the latest Camino release is from a branch made long before the introduction of said options.
The list of about:config entries has lots of info on what the various options do, and some of the detail pages specify whether the pref has an effect in Camino. I can't vouch for the thoroughness of the "has an effect in" sections however, and AFAIK there's no list dealing just with Camino-compatible prefs.
Ok, looking at the ClearType FAQ, it seems Windows doesn't support the vertical arrangements, but they're probably even rarer. Hopefully you don't have one of those.
Sounds like your display has one of the less common subpixel arrangements. Most displays (I believe) line them up as RGB from left to right, but it's possible to have the order reversed, or to have either order from top to bottom. Try playing around with the ClearType Tuner (the web version requires IE, or there's a downloadable version that installs in Control Panel) and see if one of the other configurations helps. It also works better if your display is set to its native resolution, but you probably already knew that.
They can be, but it's not necessary. I believe BIOS-locking is done in lieu of activation, which pretty much only happens with Dells and the like where you don't get the actual Windows CD, just a "recovery disc." My mom has an OEM copy of XP with her computer from a local shop, and the last time I upgraded my computer, we switched her hardware to my old box with no trouble at all.
It's definitely possible. I remember the behavior from 10.0 and 10.1, but can't remember if it did that as far back as 9.3.
Ubuntu Edgy's GTK 2.10.3, which I just upgraded to, is a significant improvement. When it completes inline, the completion text is highlighted so it overwrites instead of adding to the end. It also appears to lack the bug where if I type a path with a filename at the end, instead of opening the file it opens the directory containing the file. No idea how much of this is upstream and how much is Ubuntu.
I still think the design is ass-backwards, but it's not a total pain to use anymore.
Yeah, then you get the joy of the "smart" autocomplete randomly deciding to fill in single matches while you're still typing (and not slowly, either) so that you get stuff like "pictures/ctures" before you can stop and backspace. Other times, you know there's only one autocomplete match, so you pause for it to fill in, but it only gives you the autocomplete dropdown (of one item). And if, by some gracious act of the gods, there is a pref to change this behavior somewhere, it's nowhere a human could find. After all, if you set your computer up the way you want it, the terrorists have won.
This was all on whatever the latest GNOME for SuSE 10.1 was as of about two weeks ago. I've since switched to (k)ubuntu (nothing against SuSE, just got a new AMD64 system and decided to give something new a try) and the GTK filepicker (in the Edgy packages at least) is less broken, but still stupid.
Yeah, I've noticed a few spam messages in my Gmail inbox where the plaintext content (which gmail uses for the preview snippet) is completely different from the html content. I don't know that this would affect filtering, but it might be an attempt to trick people into viewing a malicious html email in some unsafe (i.e. Outlook) client.
Around here (San Francisco) there are a whole mess of 2Wire access points, since that's the wireless router SBC offers at a discount with new DSL service. It's actually a damn good router from my personal experience. Anyway, security is enabled by default, and the factory password is different for every unit. I can't speak for the defaults on Linksys or Netgear though.
http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/ SL-10.0-OSS/jigdo/
They're considered "experimental" and the ftp servers are still more or less hosed (torrents are working fine though) but for anyone who wants to give Jigdo a shot, it's there.
Not only that, the "pod" part is pretty inaccurate, since the iPod itself has nothing to do with the technology, it's just a way to play the downloaded audio.
Any way you pronounce it, they've pretty much chosen the gayest name possible. I believe my boyfriend would concur. ;)
Same way there are different compression rates for zip, gzip, etc. which are all lossless. Basically, the higher the compression ratio, the more time it spends looking for patterns to compress.
Submitted back to the original projects? Sort of, but not in anything resembling a useful manner, at least in the case of KHTML. Even better, their WebCore 1.2 source release is based on KDE 3.0.2, and they suggest running a diff to figure out what was changed.
Honestly, they couldn't get much more unhelpful without actually breaking the LGPL.
Did you sign a contract for your cell phone subscription? Cable modem? Insurance?
Nice try, but those are all ongoing services, not a one-time purchase of goods.
"Intellectual property" is not like physical property.
Which is EXACTLY why all these laws attempting to burden "IP" to make it more like physical property are absurd.
Lucida Grande is quite good, but I haven't been able a PC version that includes boldface. this site is supposed to have it, but it... doesn't.
Along those lines, apparently Dreamworks had to pay to use the "HOLLYWOOD"-esque "FAR, FAR AWAY" sign in Shrek 2, even though that should fall under parody.
...when I heard about Google maps. I wondered how long it would take Google to start their own wiki, then I decided they wouldn't be likely to duplicate the efforts of Wikipedia. Didn't occur to me that they might do this instead. Cool.
Except that with mice, the extra buttons do different things, instead of all working together to do the same thing.
I don't think most people are suggesting anything beyond the two buttons + scroll wheel, anyway. Personally, I think adding a thumb button wouldn't hurt, but anything beyond that is overkill for the vast majority of users.
I'd buy one.
Not true. Start Menu style is configured in Taskbar Properties, and is independent of whether you have Visual Styles on or not.
That said, both the Luna and Classic styles are pretty bad (Luna would be ok if everything weren't so goddamned huge), but now I only have to deal with them when I'm doing stuff with my sister's computer. It's not worth the trouble to patch uxtheme.dll for her.
The difference is that Xanga has all the lame 14-year-old walking stereotypes as LJ, but not a single redeeming quality.
The Alexa link was the only tangible example I could find. I distinctly recall seeing a post by Brad himself mentioning how much more traffic LJ handles, but obviously I can't link to it at the moment.
/. has any stats available, but skimming through this page, the highest UID I see is in the 800,000 range. I'm not going to even attempt to guess what the relative activity level of LJ users is compared to /., or which has bigger pages or whatever, but I would offhand say that LJ probably handles more image traffic (user pictures, and now the in-testing photo hosting service). I know they used to use Akamai for that, but I seem to recall that fairly recently they switched over to doing something else. (I think they handle it themselves again, but I'm not sure.) There's also the audio files from phone posts. I'd say there's little question that LJ is the more heavily trafficked site.
/. isn't in much of a position to pooh-pooh the technical ability of Brad/LJ.
Anyway, as of Google's last crawl of the stats page (shortly before the outage), there were almost 6 million LJ users, a little under half of those "active." I don't know if
Besides, a lot of the DB load on Slashdot is eased tremendously by Memcached, developed by... Danga Interactive, i.e. LJ. Wikipedia uses it too, and just started using Perlbal. (And I do mean "just") Ditto for Audioscrobbler/Last.fm. So
You do realize that LiveJournal handles far more traffic than Slashdot, and when Slashdot got linked on the front page of LJ, Slashdot started spewing out errors (more than normal).
Oh hey, Slashdot just went down as I was typing this. Smooth.
Because the nightlies have recently been a tad fucked up due to merging the Aviary branch back into the trunk.
Also, there's an implied "and counting" there since it would be a little hard for the latest nightly to have been running for much longer than a day.
I would think (hope?) that Firefox would use its built-in caching and HTTP 1.1 conditional get for Live Bookmarks, since those things are all there for the browser already.