Write what? It's not that Word is a bad wysiwyg, it's that wysiwyg is bad per se. It's not a matter of taste. LaTeX is MUCH more productive, gives better result, and you concentrate on content, rather than fighting with Word about format details. Fighting, because Word keeps changing the breaks, formatting, and stuff.
Sourceforge is not a software directory, it's a central host for development.
Freshmeat, while being really a software announcment site, happens to be a much better place to search for software. I always sort by popularity. The activity score is important too. The dates of project initial announcement and last update, the popularity and activity scores are displayed also in the search results, giving a quick hint where the good choice may be.
So instead of crowd-control we have gone to torture?
Aparently, yes. From the article (second page):... the device sends out streams of noise in intervals of about 10 seconds. The specific sonic frequencies chosen affect the inner ear, creating dizziness and nausea in human targets.
Since when thechnical merits have anything to do with market dominance? As others posters have pointed out, the situation has not changed much, and will not.
Personally, I don't care that much. Maybe Windows is good for the average ignorant (normal non-computer-geek people) because, unlike Linux, it's focused on doing the tasks they way, having to think the least possible.
Maybe someday a big company --- whith enough power to fitht Microsoft, and whose name the public already respect (Google?) --- will make a successful Linux distro with this same focus.
I use SIM (Simple Instant Message), it was the closest to Miranda-IM I found for Linux. Anyone out there has manage to connect to Google talk using this client? I haven't found the right config yet..:/
The user name is mynick@gmail.com or just mynick? The Jabber server is talk.google.com or gmail.com? Do I check the 'Register new account' checkbox or not? SSL or not?
Yes, Vim for taking notes. He mentioned mkdir and ln as a way to organize stuff, and insert multi-media, or any kind of elements. Vim can conveniently be used as a file browser, try:
:S
(that's an uppercase S), then walk around with cursor keys, use enter to edit a file or enter a directory.
A clueless Ralph Spoilsport repeated: BUT: take that CD lock it away in a box for 500 years, and (...)
The AC is right, he is just pointing another aspect than yours: number of times you can play it. And that means that you will NOT be able to regularly use it (as opposed to lock in a box) for 500 years either.
And while your argument that no machine will be able to read the CD in 500 years is true, it is the wrong way to look at the digital data. For digital data to live, it needs people (at least one) that will keep it, together with other digital data, and will naturally transfer it to the next medium that will replace the current one.
That, and in the near future the mediums will be more durable, physically and tecnologicaly. The requirement for more and more space will soon slow down, as it reaches the stage where the standard medium (as today's HDs) can hold 10 times the movie collection one will ever want to keep/watch/collect. Just as it's already true with music. Just as it's already true with RAM and CPU power for regular computer use but the latest cutting-edge game.
You (and the previous poster) give good reason for THEY to keep this model. But obviously it's not a fair one.
Again, they sell hardware.
The use of this practice to explore firmware upgrades to force the sell of new models is an abuse. Period.
That's why hacking is good (and DMCA is bad). Thanks god the USA (still) does not rule the rest of the world to force us their pathetic corporation-profit-preserving laws.
It's not like telling a programmer how to communicate with the underlying hardware is going to tell them how it (the PCB/silicon) was designed, so why make this information secret?
Not only that, it would make the hardware more useful in the long run, and thus, more appealing.
I also wonder why don't they open-source the firmware. For example, my Sony digicam. There are a lot of improvements that could be made to the interface, the camera could be a lot better with an community-improved firmware. One example: I would like to setup it to take one shot every seconds. Another: mass resizing photos. To delete, you have the option to select the thumbnais of the photos, then delete them all at once. If my memory fills and I need to take more shots, resizing down existing photos is a good workaround, but doing so one by one is a pain.
They sell hardware, not software.
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XMMS has a plugin to play videos using MPlayer. But I miss AVS. There are some XMMS vis plugins that does something in the lines of AVS (a scriptable generic effect engine), but the real value of AVS is on the fantastic presets that comes with it.
This is one case where clsoed source has open source beat. With sufficient fundage which I don't have now, I can go out and pop a scheduler in, pop the jobs I want in it and have exactly what I had asked for.
Open source is better for me, and for many with sufficient fundage, but is not, and is not meat to be, better for everyone.
Make for dependencies? What am I doing? Compiling?? Care to point to examples?
Make is for managing a multi-part process with inter-dependencies. Compiling is just the most common use for make. I have used make on a classwork that had to produce a print document with the data from my simulation. I have the many parts of the source code, and the source of the data for the simulation, which produces other data, and also the source for the LaTeX document, which includes the data produced by the simulator. Make takes care of all the dependency for me. I just run 'make' and it does just the steps necessary to produce the PDF output, based on which parts of the source was modified.
I don't want ot have to go dig through mail spool or mbox to find out if jobs had finished correctly.
Cron is meant to send email only if the job has NOT finished correctly. That is what the wraper scripts I mentioned before are for.
Even with the scripts and using make like you descirbe here, it's STILL not enough and STILL sucks.
Wrong. It IS enough, and IS (for me) much better than anything else. Just because I am in the control of everything.
That's why this solution is better for me, but not for you. You don't want to be in control, you just want it to work somehow.
In fact, I never go to google.com. I use the "Quick Search" feature of Firefox to do all my searches (g for google
l for google/linux
img google images
def for google define
fm for freshmeat
man for man pages
cpan for perl modules
w for wikipedia
and so on..)
There's also a handy extension that allows me to select text and open a right-click menu with all those searches for that text.
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Write what? It's not that Word is a bad wysiwyg, it's that wysiwyg is bad per se. It's not a matter of taste. LaTeX is MUCH more productive, gives better result, and you concentrate on content, rather than fighting with Word about format details. Fighting, because Word keeps changing the breaks, formatting, and stuff.
Sourceforge is not a software directory, it's a central host for development.
Freshmeat, while being really a software announcment site, happens to be a much better place to search for software. I always sort by popularity. The activity score is important too. The dates of project initial announcement and last update, the popularity and activity scores are displayed also in the search results, giving a quick hint where the good choice may be.
So instead of crowd-control we have gone to torture?
... the device sends out streams of noise in intervals of about 10 seconds. The specific sonic frequencies chosen affect the inner ear, creating dizziness and nausea in human targets.
Aparently, yes.
From the article (second page):
Have you tried 7-Zip?
Since when thechnical merits have anything to do with market dominance?
As others posters have pointed out, the situation has not changed much, and will not.
Personally, I don't care that much. Maybe Windows is good for the average ignorant (normal non-computer-geek people) because, unlike Linux, it's focused on doing the tasks they way, having to think the least possible.
Maybe someday a big company --- whith enough power to fitht Microsoft, and whose name the public already respect (Google?) --- will make a successful Linux distro with this same focus.
What Would You Like to See in an Ops Center?
Boobies?
I use SIM (Simple Instant Message), it was the closest to Miranda-IM I found for Linux. :/
Anyone out there has manage to connect to Google talk using this client? I haven't found the right config yet..
The user name is mynick@gmail.com or just mynick?
The Jabber server is talk.google.com or gmail.com?
Do I check the 'Register new account' checkbox or not?
SSL or not?
Yes, Vim for taking notes.
:S
:help browser
He mentioned mkdir and ln as a way to organize stuff, and insert multi-media, or any kind of elements.
Vim can conveniently be used as a file browser, try:
(that's an uppercase S), then walk around with cursor keys, use enter to edit a file or enter a directory.
Use
for more info.
Linux Kernel Internals? A bit too much for a child...
I'd rather teach him BASIC, or LOGO.
It would be nice to point out on the list which of these games have a Linux version.
TCP/IP doesn't serve much of a purpose anymore.
What the fuck?!!
And the whole Internet thing, isn't it enough of a purpose?
A clueless Ralph Spoilsport repeated:
BUT: take that CD lock it away in a box for 500 years, and (...)
The AC is right, he is just pointing another aspect than yours: number of times you can play it. And that means that you will NOT be able to regularly use it (as opposed to lock in a box) for 500 years either.
And while your argument that no machine will be able to read the CD in 500 years is true, it is the wrong way to look at the digital data. For digital data to live, it needs people (at least one) that will keep it, together with other digital data, and will naturally transfer it to the next medium that will replace the current one.
That, and in the near future the mediums will be more durable, physically and tecnologicaly. The requirement for more and more space will soon slow down, as it reaches the stage where the standard medium (as today's HDs) can hold 10 times the movie collection one will ever want to keep/watch/collect. Just as it's already true with music. Just as it's already true with RAM and CPU power for regular computer use but the latest cutting-edge game.
I would, if I could.
Except that the content was already in the game, the mod just enabled it.
That's it!
I had this idea some months ago: select a lot of text that you typed, and a program computes the best keyboard layout for you.
So id lost its crown on that darkness?
Have you ever used a Qt program on a light desktop environment?
Qt is ok (not exactly light), it's KDE that sucks for being bloated as hell.
Same goes for GTK and Gnome.
At least World Wind is open source, so there's a much greater hope for a Linux port.
I would ask just that.
That should be present on every major release.
You (and the previous poster) give good reason for THEY to keep this model.
But obviously it's not a fair one.
Again, they sell hardware.
The use of this practice to explore firmware upgrades to force the sell of new models is an abuse. Period.
That's why hacking is good (and DMCA is bad).
Thanks god the USA (still) does not rule the rest of the world to force us their pathetic corporation-profit-preserving laws.
It's not like telling a programmer how to communicate with the underlying hardware is going to tell them how it (the PCB/silicon) was designed, so why make this information secret?
Not only that, it would make the hardware more useful in the long run, and thus, more appealing.
I also wonder why don't they open-source the firmware.
For example, my Sony digicam.
There are a lot of improvements that could be made to the interface, the camera could be a lot better with an community-improved firmware. One example: I would like to setup it to take one shot every seconds. Another: mass resizing photos. To delete, you have the option to select the thumbnais of the photos, then delete them all at once. If my memory fills and I need to take more shots, resizing down existing photos is a good workaround, but doing so one by one is a pain.
They sell hardware, not software.
I would, if I had mod points.
XMMS has a plugin to play videos using MPlayer.
But I miss AVS.
There are some XMMS vis plugins that does something in the lines of AVS (a scriptable generic effect engine), but the real value of AVS is on the fantastic presets that comes with it.
This is one case where clsoed source has open source beat. With sufficient fundage which I don't have now, I can go out and pop a scheduler in, pop the jobs I want in it and have exactly what I had asked for.
Open source is better for me, and for many with sufficient fundage, but is not, and is not meat to be, better for everyone.
Make for dependencies? What am I doing? Compiling?? Care to point to examples?
Make is for managing a multi-part process with inter-dependencies. Compiling is just the most common use for make. I have used make on a classwork that had to produce a print document with the data from my simulation. I have the many parts of the source code, and the source of the data for the simulation, which produces other data, and also the source for the LaTeX document, which includes the data produced by the simulator. Make takes care of all the dependency for me. I just run 'make' and it does just the steps necessary to produce the PDF output, based on which parts of the source was modified.
I don't want ot have to go dig through mail spool or mbox to find out if jobs had finished correctly.
Cron is meant to send email only if the job has NOT finished correctly. That is what the wraper scripts I mentioned before are for.
Even with the scripts and using make like you descirbe here, it's STILL not enough and STILL sucks.
Wrong. It IS enough, and IS (for me) much better than anything else. Just because I am in the control of everything.
That's why this solution is better for me, but not for you. You don't want to be in control, you just want it to work somehow.
In fact, I never go to google.com. I use the "Quick Search" feature of Firefox to do all my searches (g for google l for google/linux img google images def for google define fm for freshmeat man for man pages cpan for perl modules w for wikipedia and so on..)
There's also a handy extension that allows me to select text and open a right-click menu with all those searches for that text.