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FTP sites are fine if the music you want is some crap mainstream pop, rap, hip-hop or whatever it is that is popular now. If you want anything obscure, the lack of any centralized search makes it nearly impossible to get what you want.
I know. I like OOo. I think it is good. Essentially what I am saying is that open source is playing catch up because many of the projects are very recent, but look at how far they've come when the competing proprietary software has been developing for much longer.
The formatting is a bit of an issue, but surely there exists a command-line interface to the filters? Couldn't you write a bash script or a perl one-liner in about 30 seconds that will convert all of those files?
Reveal codes exists because of how WordPerfect was designed. WordPerfect works with streams of text which have formatting codes interspersed in them. This is probably due to the time WordPerfect was created and how printers worked then. Dot Matrixes (Matrices?) print text a certain way until you send them a formatting code (let's say bold). Then they keep printing bold until you tell it to do otherwise. This is consistent with how WordPerfect views documents.
Word takes a more modern (but not necessarily better) approach by applying styles to containers. I imagine that OOo works the same way. Note that both have much better style sheet abilities than WordPerfect..
Yes, I didn't mention it in the post but it is fairly usable once it is started. I'm hoping a 2.6 kernel will improve things.... and don't get me started on Mozilla. I can't use it at all on my P133. It literally lags while I type addresses.
Of course the other comments on not relying on colour as indicators is important, but remember 'colourblindness' is a very wide range of problems that don't mean the same thing.
For example, I have a red/green and slight red/blue colourblindess. I can tell you the difference between red and green. I can tell you the difference between red and blue. I can read a stoplight. But if you put red text on a green background or vice versa, it is very difficult to read. This is especially a problem around Christmas as TV advertisers and such think it is a good idea to put red text on a green background or something like that.
So, basically, what I am saying is don't put red and green or blue on top of each other, as some really awful web designers have a habit of doing.
ironically it gets even worse now that people use ssh and ssh-keys to log in. it makes the network less not more secure. its simpler to attack a client with remote mounted home directory using ssh keys than it is to sniff for telnet passwords!
This is getting off-topic, but I'd like to know more about this. I was under the impression that ssh keys were more secure than just using a password.
Yes, it's slow on a PII 450. But it is a LOT worse than MS Office. MS Office is very usable on a machine of that class. I'm using a P2 350 and it runs Office 97 just fine.
I can go and get a cup of coffee while OpenOffice loads on it. (Under RedHat 9.)
Your point is still valid though, it will run slower than MS Office on a P4.
My god. Openoffice on a Palm? Not likely. It is way too bloated to be usable on a Pentium 133, I doubt it would be portable to the Palm. Not to mention you'd have to completely rewrite the UI...
Yes, an OLD version of MS Office (4.0?) would work well on a 386 with 8MB of RAM on an OLD version of Windows. Try and run Office XP on that 386.
What? Can't do that?
An old version of Linux with an old word processing or typesetting system (TeX?) would would work well on a 386.
Microsoft has more developers and has been going at this for longer. Star/OpenOffice has been around for what, 5 years? Microsoft has been doing office apps since the mid eighties.
Considering how quickly OpenOffice has matured I think this really says something about the open source development model.
Nope.
The Sega Dreamcast discs (Gigabyte Discs) have two sections - a high density and a low density section. The low density section is normal CD and can have audio tracks, data tracks, whatever stored on it and can be accessed with a normal CD-ROM drive.
The high-density section is normal CD but is written with the data in a tighter spiral making it unreadable to computer CD-ROMS drives. This also has the unfortunate effect of making them very succeptable to death by scratching.
These Dreamcast will boot games/programs off of regular CDs.. good for homebrew software (http://www.dcemulation.com and http://homebrew.dcemulation.com). It was only a matter of time before someone wrote a program that reads data off of the GD-ROMS and passes it out the serial port on the back of the Dreamcast. They made a cable that goes from the Dreamcast to an RS-232 serial port on a computer. From there it is a simple matter of using a terminal emulator to download the data off of the disk. (it is send using XMODEM.)
From there it just needs copy-protection removed (on the later games that Sega release with copy-protection when they realized that the GD-ROM format wasn't going to provide protection anymore), and if there is too much data to fit on a 700MB CD, movies resampled, audio downmixed to mono, or worse-case scenario, ripped.
The thing is, when you mix-n-match binary installers and RPM packages, at least in RedHat, it gets very confused as to what is installed on the system, screws up dependencies and your upgrade path. rpm -Uvh --force is not fun.
IMHO, a single package format (for all software on a machine) is needed to allow easy upgrading, dependency checking, and so on.
I don't think anyone would bother doing this if NYT didn't annoy the crap out of you by wasting 5 minutes of your time to register with a (fake) name, (fake) e-mail address, etc, when they just want to read the article.
If it was JUST "some relatively non-intrusive advertisements" I wouldn't see any reason for people to post the article text but unfortunately that is not how NYT works.
Personally, I believe that violent video games should have better ground to stand on than guns.
While there are good reasons for owning a gun (namely, hunting) note that they are primarily designed to kill animals or people, which, in most cases, is bad.
Violent video games do not directly kill animals or people, and there is no conclusive evidence that they influence the behaviour of those who are playing them.
It's funny, but sad.
What's even more sad is that 7 out of 10 American youths can't locate New Jersey on a map, and 1 in 10 can't even locate the US itself!
http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography. quiz/
Right. I know that Amazon (from when they opened their Canadian site) has local warehouses in it's country-specific sites, thereby neatly sidestepping all the consumer goods customs issues, crazy brokerage fees (i.e. UPS charging a hidden $30 to ship to Canada) and so on..
This was in the news somehere.. Chapters (crappy Canadian chain) wasn't happy because it made Amazon a real competitor here.
This is not necessarily the case. Personally, I find it the tearing artifacts you see playing most DivX video annoying -- Even when you use the various sync options, your screen will refresh in the middle of a frame when your framerates and refresh rates don't divide together to produce a whole number;
a 24fps video is going exhibit tearing artifacts unless your refresh rate is 72hz, etc..
Part of the problem is that there is so much bureaucracy it takes a while for the books to be purchased, catalogued and available. For example, most computer books at my local library (Clarington Public Library)are at least 2 years old, but that isn't too bad.
I recently got O'Reilly's HTML & XHTML 4th Edition and a couple of Windows 2000 books, but don't expect many books on WinXP for another couple months.
Going by the famous soundbyte you hear when you use the (now deprecated) RedHat sound configurator, "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce it..."
What is the difference between lee-nooks and lih-nucks? Personally, I always though that lih-nooks was lee-nooks without the Finnish accent.
As far as IIS goes... it's alot easier to administer a web server from a gui if you're not an expert which 99% takes care of 99% of the people administering web servers. It's just easier to use a gui - not faster but certainly easier. Please don't come back with, "well if you're not an expert you shouldn't touch it yadda yadda." That said... IIS has to runs on Windows which is a train wreck for a server. Don't get me started on security either.
I'm going to come back with this anyway. You have siad that "Windows... is a train wreck for a server", and that the security is bad too. But you are saying it is okay for someone who doesn't know what they are doing to use the pointy-clicky tools to administer the server? They'll get r00ted inside of a week.
I'm not saying GUI tools are bad -- I wouldn't mind some good GUI tools to configurate the more annoying Linux configuration such as SysV init and network interfaces, but if you have to use a GUI tool to run the server because you don't understand what you are doing, you HAVE no business running it.
Yes, blocking all would be hard -- but since the port numbers for a lot of common games are well known, couldn't a combination of ip blocking (i.e. web based games) and port blocking be done to prevent most gaming?
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FTP sites are fine if the music you want is some crap mainstream pop, rap, hip-hop or whatever it is that is popular now. If you want anything obscure, the lack of any centralized search makes it nearly impossible to get what you want.
What the hell are you talking about? If you steal my car does that not deprive me the use of it? It is the same thing.
Modded informative?! I thought this was a joke!
I know. I like OOo. I think it is good. Essentially what I am saying is that open source is playing catch up because many of the projects are very recent, but look at how far they've come when the competing proprietary software has been developing for much longer.
The formatting is a bit of an issue, but surely there exists a command-line interface to the filters? Couldn't you write a bash script or a perl one-liner in about 30 seconds that will convert all of those files?
Word takes a more modern (but not necessarily better) approach by applying styles to containers. I imagine that OOo works the same way. Note that both have much better style sheet abilities than WordPerfect..
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Yes, I didn't mention it in the post but it is fairly usable once it is started. I'm hoping a 2.6 kernel will improve things.. .. and don't get me started on Mozilla. I can't use it at all on my P133. It literally lags while I type addresses.
Of course the other comments on not relying on colour as indicators is important, but remember 'colourblindness' is a very wide range of problems that don't mean the same thing.
For example, I have a red/green and slight red/blue colourblindess. I can tell you the difference between red and green. I can tell you the difference between red and blue. I can read a stoplight. But if you put red text on a green background or vice versa, it is very difficult to read. This is especially a problem around Christmas as TV advertisers and such think it is a good idea to put red text on a green background or something like that.
So, basically, what I am saying is don't put red and green or blue on top of each other, as some really awful web designers have a habit of doing.
ironically it gets even worse now that people use ssh and ssh-keys to log in. it makes the network less not more secure. its simpler to attack a client with remote mounted home directory using ssh keys than it is to sniff for telnet passwords!
This is getting off-topic, but I'd like to know more about this. I was under the impression that ssh keys were more secure than just using a password.
Yes, it's slow on a PII 450. But it is a LOT worse than MS Office. MS Office is very usable on a machine of that class. I'm using a P2 350 and it runs Office 97 just fine.
I can go and get a cup of coffee while OpenOffice loads on it. (Under RedHat 9.)
Your point is still valid though, it will run slower than MS Office on a P4.
My god. Openoffice on a Palm? Not likely. It is way too bloated to be usable on a Pentium 133, I doubt it would be portable to the Palm. Not to mention you'd have to completely rewrite the UI...
Bullshit argument.
Yes, an OLD version of MS Office (4.0?) would work well on a 386 with 8MB of RAM on an OLD version of Windows. Try and run Office XP on that 386.
What? Can't do that?
An old version of Linux with an old word processing or typesetting system (TeX?) would would work well on a 386.
Microsoft has more developers and has been going at this for longer. Star/OpenOffice has been around for what, 5 years? Microsoft has been doing office apps since the mid eighties.
Considering how quickly OpenOffice has matured I think this really says something about the open source development model.
Never mind that you'll lose a bunch of formatting a long the way...
Nope. The Sega Dreamcast discs (Gigabyte Discs) have two sections - a high density and a low density section. The low density section is normal CD and can have audio tracks, data tracks, whatever stored on it and can be accessed with a normal CD-ROM drive. The high-density section is normal CD but is written with the data in a tighter spiral making it unreadable to computer CD-ROMS drives. This also has the unfortunate effect of making them very succeptable to death by scratching. These Dreamcast will boot games/programs off of regular CDs.. good for homebrew software (http://www.dcemulation.com and http://homebrew.dcemulation.com). It was only a matter of time before someone wrote a program that reads data off of the GD-ROMS and passes it out the serial port on the back of the Dreamcast. They made a cable that goes from the Dreamcast to an RS-232 serial port on a computer. From there it is a simple matter of using a terminal emulator to download the data off of the disk. (it is send using XMODEM.) From there it just needs copy-protection removed (on the later games that Sega release with copy-protection when they realized that the GD-ROM format wasn't going to provide protection anymore), and if there is too much data to fit on a 700MB CD, movies resampled, audio downmixed to mono, or worse-case scenario, ripped.
The thing is, when you mix-n-match binary installers and RPM packages, at least in RedHat, it gets very confused as to what is installed on the system, screws up dependencies and your upgrade path. rpm -Uvh --force is not fun.
IMHO, a single package format (for all software on a machine) is needed to allow easy upgrading, dependency checking, and so on.
I don't think anyone would bother doing this if NYT didn't annoy the crap out of you by wasting 5 minutes of your time to register with a (fake) name, (fake) e-mail address, etc, when they just want to read the article. If it was JUST "some relatively non-intrusive advertisements" I wouldn't see any reason for people to post the article text but unfortunately that is not how NYT works.
Personally, I believe that violent video games should have better ground to stand on than guns. While there are good reasons for owning a gun (namely, hunting) note that they are primarily designed to kill animals or people, which, in most cases, is bad. Violent video games do not directly kill animals or people, and there is no conclusive evidence that they influence the behaviour of those who are playing them.
It's funny, but sad. What's even more sad is that 7 out of 10 American youths can't locate New Jersey on a map, and 1 in 10 can't even locate the US itself! http://www.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/11/20/geography. quiz/
Right. I know that Amazon (from when they opened their Canadian site) has local warehouses in it's country-specific sites, thereby neatly sidestepping all the consumer goods customs issues, crazy brokerage fees (i.e. UPS charging a hidden $30 to ship to Canada) and so on..
This was in the news somehere.. Chapters (crappy Canadian chain) wasn't happy because it made Amazon a real competitor here.
This is not necessarily the case. Personally, I find it the tearing artifacts you see playing most DivX video annoying -- Even when you use the various sync options, your screen will refresh in the middle of a frame when your framerates and refresh rates don't divide together to produce a whole number;
a 24fps video is going exhibit tearing artifacts unless your refresh rate is 72hz, etc..
Yes, I know, but most people won't go to the trouble. My point is they can easily stop most of it.
Part of the problem is that there is so much bureaucracy it takes a while for the books to be purchased, catalogued and available. For example, most computer books at my local library (Clarington Public Library)are at least 2 years old, but that isn't too bad. I recently got O'Reilly's HTML & XHTML 4th Edition and a couple of Windows 2000 books, but don't expect many books on WinXP for another couple months.
Going by the famous soundbyte you hear when you use the (now deprecated) RedHat sound configurator, "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce it..." What is the difference between lee-nooks and lih-nucks? Personally, I always though that lih-nooks was lee-nooks without the Finnish accent.
I'm going to come back with this anyway. You have siad that "Windows... is a train wreck for a server", and that the security is bad too. But you are saying it is okay for someone who doesn't know what they are doing to use the pointy-clicky tools to administer the server? They'll get r00ted inside of a week. I'm not saying GUI tools are bad -- I wouldn't mind some good GUI tools to configurate the more annoying Linux configuration such as SysV init and network interfaces, but if you have to use a GUI tool to run the server because you don't understand what you are doing, you HAVE no business running it.
Yes, blocking all would be hard -- but since the port numbers for a lot of common games are well known, couldn't a combination of ip blocking (i.e. web based games) and port blocking be done to prevent most gaming? IANANA (I am not a network administrator!)