Gnome has its own virtual file system driver, for crying out loud ! WTF does a desktop need a file system driver for ?!?
So that Gnome applications are portable wherever Gnome VFS exists, and gain the benefit of working with whatever GnomeVFS works with?
I like how my desktop works pretty well over SFTP/SMB/FTP (and I guess WebDAV but I've never used that) without me caring what protocol the bits are going over. Gnome is a framework in additon to being a desktop.
Gnome has been able to browse remote folders via ssh for quite a while. You can either use the sftp:// protocol in Nautilus, or use the Connect to Server dialog which gives you folder on the desktop to automagically do sftp for you. That dialog also has options for FTP, public FTP, windows share, and WebDAV.
As for liking Gnome, I choose to use it for a few reasons. First, the guys at Dropline make a really nice desktop for Slackware. I also really like Gnome/GTK applications like the Gimp, Evolution, Gaim, Liferea. Finally, as much as people (Linus, et al) decry the Gnome HIG and the ideas around it, I've found the "feel" of Gnome to be more pleasing/useful to me. When I startx into KDE from time to time, I really notice the difference in UI design. It makes me think that the Gnome guys might be on to something, at least as this particular user is concerned.
Yes, but it's not redistributable. I may be able to take the code and port is to any arch I care to dream of, but what's the point when everyone in that same situation has to do that insane amount of work themselves?
I still fail to see the benefits of "open sourcing" Java. How will it be improved?
Porting the JVM to something other than x86, sparc, and amd64 would be a good starting place. It would be spiffy-keen to have a decent JVM on my PPC box running linux, and I'd imagine that java having an official VM for OSX isn't a bad idea either.
I'd imagine fixing the write-once-run-anywhere-that's-one-of-three-archit ectures issue would be high on the TODO list if/when Sun opens up java.
Because it's 20 miles through hilly/rough/hot/dry west texan desert? I grew up about 150 miles away from there, and I wouldn't want to trek over that. You first.:)
That, and it made a good tourist trap. Why kill off something that brings in some tourist dollars to what otherwise is a fairly poor portion of Texas?
As another poster pointed out, the prism54 based Netgear WG511 v1 (AND MAKE SURE ITS A V1 BECAUSE THEY CHANGED CHIPSETS ON THE V2) is very solid under linux.
Also, it would help out with your 802.1x PEAP issue, as I've just recently gotten mine authenticate reliably on a network using 802.1x by using wpa_supplicant (in fact, I'm using such a connection to post this comment:). I've had xsupplicant work with the card once, but I've never been able to recreate it.
Now, it may be that I drink the kool-aid and actually *use* GNOME because I like it, but you're really talking out of your ass right now.
Firefox, in Linux, by default, does *not* use gnome dialogs. Period. Firefox save-as dialog
Cramped, hard to use, file names are trunkated way too soon, and I'm not sure the size field really has a point being there.
Save-as dialog from gedit
Bigger, allows me to select media which I'm pretty likely to want to save to in a hurry, and navigating the file-system tree is quite a bit easier with the buttons instead of a forward-slash delimited string and an up button.
If you're used to the crappy save dialogs from other OSes and DEs, and what firefox offers, you may feel that the gnome filechooser sucks, and that's fine. For me, though, I feel that having something be easier to use from the outset (especially for individuals not familiar with the unix file system or those who just want to save their documents in a hurry). At any rate, bashing both projects because you're ill-informred serves no purpose aside from filling up comments on/.
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It only pastes on Windows or if you have vim open in GNOME-Terminal (which overrides the vim keybinding), and I believe you can controll that by editing your _vimrc or in the case of gnome-term by changing the keybinding in the edit menu.
If what I just did in gvim is any indication, ^V works just peachy in Vim.
IIRC, the LGPL requires the distribution of source and object files of the LGPL'd code if the LGPL'd software is statically linked to your software. I believe that the object files are the issue.
For $99, this thing is a good way to experiment with embedded linux for those who are interested. I haven't gone out to get one myself, but I've seen one with a serial header soldered on (for flashing the ROM with better linux goodness than what is provided). It's rather small, has a wireless connection, and has decent battery life.
The downside to the whole thing is that the device does not fully conform to the LGPL (there's some issue surrounding linking), but most of what they've used is available
While I don't use a Dvorak board, it would be pretty trivial to map whatever the corresponding keys for hjkl in your.vimrc. A quick google brings up this, and I'm sure doing it by yourself wouldn't be bad at all.
I'm aware of that, but it doesn't change that totem will properly fill one monitor when fullscreened, while gxine will try to span both montiors in aspect ratio, but only fils the first monitor (such that I only see half of the image).
I'll second that. If I keep myself to 78 characters per line in my code, I can split my buffer in gvim 4 times at 2560x1024 and have four files up at the same time. Having an API reference up or a terminal up for compilation is also very very handy. (I don't like compiling via vim itself because I need to keep the error messages visible while I'm working through the code fixing whatever error gave the compiler a fit)
Once you realize exactly how much information you can keep visible and how long it takes to change what window it being displayed on a single head system (with a non-trivial amount of applications open. I find while at work I'll have anywhere between 6-12 depending on what I'm doing), you won't want to go back to having one monitor without a fight. Having a (real)desktop pager only partially alleviates this issue, since you can organize what applications you have up in a given desktop, but you can't keep access to it available the instant you need to reference it.
Other nice things are being able to have a video playing on one monitor and still browse/code in the other (assuming your player of choice handles dualhead well. xine+twinview is a mess, while totem and mplayer do a respectable job)
From my week of using OSX (the week after I got a Mini, before Gentoo and then Ubuntu went on it), I have to say that Safari started up first, but in rendering Firefox beat the pants off of Safari. It was shameful how slow the KHTML engine really is, or at least seemed to be in my experience.
Also, why the hell should a browser be using a video cards features? It's a browser. It should display webpages to w3c spec in a reasonably fast, secure, and easy to use manner. I don't see how having it rely on a video card is a feature that's overly valuable in this situation (or desireable in the case of firefox), especially since every major browser out there still needs work in other areas.
Dropline GNOME should have a 2.10 test release out sometime today or tomorrow. The delay was just due to their desire to build this from the ground up, rather than use what Todd had left them with 2.8.
At any rate, having to wait 3 weeks for a new version of GNOME isn't horrible (especially since they are volunteering their time to make GNOME on Slackware better), and it hardly means that the project is standing still.
I have no doubt that Dropline-GNOME 2.10 will be the best release ever, and prove to myself one more time why I continue to personally use GNOME as my desktop and Slackware as my distribution of choice.
You can hack a male USB connector onto the cord of an Xbox controller, and it will work just fine with any USB input. Getting the proper wires soldered together can be a little difficult if the cable end has some funky wire colors, but it's pretty easy to do otherwise.
Perhaps they should just unicode?
I have yet to have issue with viewing sites in Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, or any other language for that matter with Firefox in GNOME (I don't really know how well Windows plays with unicode, to be honest, so that could be the issue. If that's the case, then I don't know what to tell you.).
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I like how my desktop works pretty well over SFTP/SMB/FTP (and I guess WebDAV but I've never used that) without me caring what protocol the bits are going over. Gnome is a framework in additon to being a desktop.
Additionally, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/ They make doing web development *so* much easier.
Gnome has been able to browse remote folders via ssh for quite a while. You can either use the sftp:// protocol in Nautilus, or use the Connect to Server dialog which gives you folder on the desktop to automagically do sftp for you. That dialog also has options for FTP, public FTP, windows share, and WebDAV.
As for liking Gnome, I choose to use it for a few reasons. First, the guys at Dropline make a really nice desktop for Slackware. I also really like Gnome/GTK applications like the Gimp, Evolution, Gaim, Liferea. Finally, as much as people (Linus, et al) decry the Gnome HIG and the ideas around it, I've found the "feel" of Gnome to be more pleasing/useful to me. When I startx into KDE from time to time, I really notice the difference in UI design. It makes me think that the Gnome guys might be on to something, at least as this particular user is concerned.
Pat already does that.
Change your slapt-get sources over to the stable branch, and you'll get security updates.
Yes, but it's not redistributable. I may be able to take the code and port is to any arch I care to dream of, but what's the point when everyone in that same situation has to do that insane amount of work themselves?
I'd imagine fixing the write-once-run-anywhere-that's-one-of-three-archi
Because it's 20 miles through hilly/rough/hot/dry west texan desert? I grew up about 150 miles away from there, and I wouldn't want to trek over that. You first. :)
That, and it made a good tourist trap. Why kill off something that brings in some tourist dollars to what otherwise is a fairly poor portion of Texas?
As another poster pointed out, the prism54 based Netgear WG511 v1 (AND MAKE SURE ITS A V1 BECAUSE THEY CHANGED CHIPSETS ON THE V2) is very solid under linux.
:). I've had xsupplicant work with the card once, but I've never been able to recreate it.
Also, it would help out with your 802.1x PEAP issue, as I've just recently gotten mine authenticate reliably on a network using 802.1x by using wpa_supplicant (in fact, I'm using such a connection to post this comment
Now, it may be that I drink the kool-aid and actually *use* GNOME because I like it, but you're really talking out of your ass right now.
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Firefox, in Linux, by default, does *not* use gnome dialogs. Period.
Firefox save-as dialog
Cramped, hard to use, file names are trunkated way too soon, and I'm not sure the size field really has a point being there.
Save-as dialog from gedit
Bigger, allows me to select media which I'm pretty likely to want to save to in a hurry, and navigating the file-system tree is quite a bit easier with the buttons instead of a forward-slash delimited string and an up button.
If you're used to the crappy save dialogs from other OSes and DEs, and what firefox offers, you may feel that the gnome filechooser sucks, and that's fine. For me, though, I feel that having something be easier to use from the outset (especially for individuals not familiar with the unix file system or those who just want to save their documents in a hurry). At any rate, bashing both projects because you're ill-informred serves no purpose aside from filling up comments on
It only pastes on Windows or if you have vim open in GNOME-Terminal (which overrides the vim keybinding), and I believe you can controll that by editing your _vimrc or in the case of gnome-term by changing the keybinding in the edit menu.
If what I just did in gvim is any indication, ^V works just peachy in Vim.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin /notify.mspx
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I used to subscribe to the mailinglist back when I actually used windows, as I wasn't too keen on stuff getting automagically installed.
IIRC it was what kept me safe during Blaster while the campus network went to crap.
IIRC, the LGPL requires the distribution of source and object files of the LGPL'd code if the LGPL'd software is statically linked to your software. I believe that the object files are the issue.
For $99, this thing is a good way to experiment with embedded linux for those who are interested. I haven't gone out to get one myself, but I've seen one with a serial header soldered on (for flashing the ROM with better linux goodness than what is provided). It's rather small, has a wireless connection, and has decent battery life.
The downside to the whole thing is that the device does not fully conform to the LGPL (there's some issue surrounding linking), but most of what they've used is available
XP stll requires a floppy drive for SATA.
While I don't use a Dvorak board, it would be pretty trivial to map whatever the corresponding keys for hjkl in your .vimrc. A quick google brings up this, and I'm sure doing it by yourself wouldn't be bad at all.
Well, I mean, it's not like there's an easy to use instantly cross-platform language with a large developer base out there or anything.
I'm aware of that, but it doesn't change that totem will properly fill one monitor when fullscreened, while gxine will try to span both montiors in aspect ratio, but only fils the first monitor (such that I only see half of the image).
I'll second that. If I keep myself to 78 characters per line in my code, I can split my buffer in gvim 4 times at 2560x1024 and have four files up at the same time. Having an API reference up or a terminal up for compilation is also very very handy. (I don't like compiling via vim itself because I need to keep the error messages visible while I'm working through the code fixing whatever error gave the compiler a fit)
Once you realize exactly how much information you can keep visible and how long it takes to change what window it being displayed on a single head system (with a non-trivial amount of applications open. I find while at work I'll have anywhere between 6-12 depending on what I'm doing), you won't want to go back to having one monitor without a fight. Having a (real)desktop pager only partially alleviates this issue, since you can organize what applications you have up in a given desktop, but you can't keep access to it available the instant you need to reference it.
Other nice things are being able to have a video playing on one monitor and still browse/code in the other (assuming your player of choice handles dualhead well. xine+twinview is a mess, while totem and mplayer do a respectable job)
From my week of using OSX (the week after I got a Mini, before Gentoo and then Ubuntu went on it), I have to say that Safari started up first, but in rendering Firefox beat the pants off of Safari. It was shameful how slow the KHTML engine really is, or at least seemed to be in my experience.
Also, why the hell should a browser be using a video cards features? It's a browser. It should display webpages to w3c spec in a reasonably fast, secure, and easy to use manner. I don't see how having it rely on a video card is a feature that's overly valuable in this situation (or desireable in the case of firefox), especially since every major browser out there still needs work in other areas.
Dropline GNOME should have a 2.10 test release out sometime today or tomorrow. The delay was just due to their desire to build this from the ground up, rather than use what Todd had left them with 2.8.
At any rate, having to wait 3 weeks for a new version of GNOME isn't horrible (especially since they are volunteering their time to make GNOME on Slackware better), and it hardly means that the project is standing still.
I have no doubt that Dropline-GNOME 2.10 will be the best release ever, and prove to myself one more time why I continue to personally use GNOME as my desktop and Slackware as my distribution of choice.
Yep.
You can hack a male USB connector onto the cord of an Xbox controller, and it will work just fine with any USB input. Getting the proper wires soldered together can be a little difficult if the cable end has some funky wire colors, but it's pretty easy to do otherwise.
Perhaps they should just unicode? I have yet to have issue with viewing sites in Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, or any other language for that matter with Firefox in GNOME (I don't really know how well Windows plays with unicode, to be honest, so that could be the issue. If that's the case, then I don't know what to tell you.).
Also, there's stuff like PVRs.
Recording TV at 2.2GB an hour makes 120GB feel kinda cramped, so something like this drive might make it's way into my Mythbox before too long.
Forgive the typoe, it's lspci.
My apologies.