We started talking about IRC sniffing and no more than a quarter of a page below we're already discussing how to become a successful serial killer. Perhaps these feds are right after all.
You CAN tweak the hell out of FC3 and get it to look and feel very pretty, but the important things to most long-time RHL and Fedora users are careful integration of new features combined with a smooth transition from previous releases. I get all of the above from FC3.
If you want a tweakable Linux distro, there are better choices than FC to start from. Let's face it, the grandparent hit the nail right on. Other than people who are forced to keep Red Hat legacy systems I don't see who would want it and for what special reason. Plus, it has been acknowledged as a testbed for RH Enterprise distro's, so you can't exactly hope for rock solid stability.
Your point may be this: by being a "neutral" and "middle-ground" distro, FC could be an average, good-for-all starting point. Which is a strong point in itself, albeit a bit of a strange one. But as I recall, the former RH distro catered to this approach too.
It's strange, but too many Americans no longer understand the strengths of the U.S. Constitution, and fail to realize that those strengths actually allow the country to function in a time of 'war', and change presidents.
Well, guess what? They *WILL* have to do that in four years.
That is, if there won't be a dictatorship in place four years from now, or some similar silliness. It's often been said that one of the most plausible demises of a democracy is people voting themselves into a dead end.
Should all the money have been spent on Gravity Probe B to prove something everyone accepts, or should other ways (like digging up 11 years of satellite data) have been used and the money spent on something that might actually give a bang for the buck?
I think a "definitive", fancy and high-cost experiment where all the considerents have been included is useful to put this issue aside once and for all. No matter how "sure" one may be about frame dragging being true, it helps to actually prove it with a lot of precision.
The plural to venom or poison? You're kidding, right? "Virus" in Latin doesn't have a plural. Even if the "viri" form existed (my Latin is very rusty but I kinda doubt it), it would be in singural.
In addition to being dorky, it simply doesn't exist, apparently. The following page sums it up nicely, to prove that "virii" is simply a spelling mistake, not jargon, not underground term, not Latin:
http://spl.haxial.net/viruses.html
- people talking;
- people eating stuff from noisy bags;
- people slurping the last few drops of their drink;
- kids kicking the back of the seat;
- any number of other annoyances.
Also add: people moving around; couples making out; the odd idiot (or bunch of) who laughs in a high-pitched maniacal laugh in all the wrong places; cellphones ringing and people picking up and talking at leisure; the smartass who comments out loud and thinks he's witty; the guy in the next seat who has to explain *everything* to his numbskull girlfriend; the bitch you took out to the movies who gets bored stiff halfway through and wants to leave... oh just the hell with it.
Obviously, not all of this happens at once. Otherwise you'd see me on the news as "crazed man runs amok in cinema, slaughters dozens barehanded".
But the point is that the entire movie experience has gone down the toilet. Nowadays it's just a cheap (as in no quality) way of losing some time before getting layed just so you can say "we went out".
As a more or less movie buff, I miss the real thing. I miss the respect people used to have about going out to the movies, where they would dress and act nicely. I miss being able to let myself be swept by the magic of a good movie and only come to at the end, hands clenched and at the edge of my seat. I miss having the entire room gasp and breath and laugh and applaud like one, with me.
No doubt, it's also the fault of the kind of movies we have out today. Damn I wish I lived in the 60's.
What's there left to do? Theater seems to retain some of that, too bad I don't like theater (pretentious, pompous, overacted, snobs). Small cinemas catering to buffs like myself are good, but they are very hard to find and the odd asshole can still appear.
So you get your good movies on any kind of media that's popular (VHS, DVD, DIVX) and watch them in the privacy of your own home, with friends and family. Screw all the insensitive assholes out there and the movie industry of today, thank you very much.
Remember hotmail can ( and does ) track the IP address used to setup and access the email account. IP tracks back to your ISP, which ( again, its been shown due to the RIAA suits ) can be tracked back to the user..
Hey everyone, my name is Bill Gates. I just wanted to let everyone here know that if you develop your new software for Windows Lower^h^h^hnghorn, we'll protect your software from piracy with strong DRM. We'll make sure those nasty pirates can't change their system date, unless we say so.
This is funny, but it does raise a question as to where this whole arms race of pirating vs piracy prevention will go eventually. It has reached some silly levels in some cases already.
It certainly makes me wonder how the world would be if only software piracy was simply ignored by software makers. Distribute versions with fewer features for free, ship CD's & DVD's with full features for those who pay. Forget any kind of copy protection, serial number and so on and put all the time spent on developing said protections into improving the application. At most, stick a "please don't be an asshole, pay us for our work" note on the full version CD.
Because copy protection doesn't work anyway, right? and yet they keep spending time and effort and money on it, and most people who pirate wouldn't have bought a legit copy anyway, so they're not really lost customers.
So what's the use? Going around and around this same old tired issue, hoping that someday you'll get to push a merciless tehnology such as DRM which will make all software users your slaves and make you hated for it?
I say, better just let everything get solved by common sense. But I guess that's too much to ask, isn't it...
You know guys, trying to delete the user's home directory or messing with them in other ways might seem clever, but what if they decide to run their program in a chroot jail?
There's no need to go to such lengths. Just set your user's home to something like/tmp/bogus. Let the app delete it to its heart's pleasure.
"Why do I need to read the intro text and then click "Next" to go to page 2?"
More room for advertising.
True, but to be fair most such articles have a "print" mode which displays the entire article in one page, with most of the bells and whistles gone. So look for the printer icon and use it, I sure do.
Some of the things you listed are pretty "core". If they did this they'd have to have a dependency system, because extensions like "Tabbrowser extensions" would depend on "Tabbed browsing". Which idea may not sit well with everybody.
I introduced my step-daughter's girl friend to Firefox when she was complaining about all the pop-ups in IE, but after about 5 minutes she switched back to IE. The only reason: In IE you can copy an image to the clip buffer and paste it into Photoshop or some other graphic program (she was grabbing pictures to make her Livejournal icons), but in Firefox (and Mozilla) you have to save the image and then open it in Photoshop as an extra step. Evidently managing all those little files was more effort to her than dismissing all the popups.
Here's how a non-techie person thinks: "Damn, I can't do that thing I used to do in this Firefox. Back to Explorer, because there the thing works and I'm used to it already."
No, thoughts like "perhaps there's a trick or a setting to do this thing in Firefox" will not cross their mind. They're not stupid, it's just not obvious to them that (or how) computer applications' functionality can be altered by the user.
When I got my DVD writer I had already been using xcdroast (and implicitly cdrtools) for a long time with CD's. It seemed the simplest to just get cdrecord-prodvd for this setup.
It amounted to downloading one (1) binary file, placing it as executable in the xcdroast bin dir and a copy/paste operation of the license key from a README found at the same place as the binary.
It worked right away, took a couple of minutes not counting the download and now I can use xcdroast with DVD's as well as CD's without any headache at all.
True, the license is only for home and personal use and will expire after about a year, but really, for a home user that's all I need.
I like my DVD/CD writing graphical, so there. By comparison with xcdroast, K3B always seemed like a kitchen sink to me. I've tried it several times but couldn't get used to it. Since so many people seem to be very happy with K3B I must be the odd one out.
I have most of JavaScript (including "change statusbar text") disabled in Firefox. So the status bar was very blank for me when I hovered those links. Now I see why.
Anyway, I had to resort to some other sort of reasoning. Namely, I counted as fraud all the messages that offered links, and I was double wary of those that tried to seem even more legitimate by having an URL as the link text.
I happen to love spatial nautilus and find I acutally use a file manager now. The browser model makes no sense to me as a way of managing files. For usability purposes operating systems are moving towards abstracting out the concept of file hierarchy. You shouldn't have to browse for files at all. The browser model is outdated for file management. It's a kludge to get around a deficiency in how files are found and accessed.
Ah, but we're not there yet. We still have the hierarchical file system underneath, so all spatial navigation is at this point is a hack. The browser model is the one most perfectly adapted to the filesystems we use today. Get meta- and search- based filesystems and then we'll talk about spatial being the only thing that makes sense.
I beg of you to provide examples. In the end, aren't both ways just aspects of navigation? The organization underneath it isn't still based on a tree in both cases? Then how can spatial navigation improve organization? You could achieve the same improvement with classical navigation after you've reorganized your files. Did Gnome get the fabled search-based-filesystem to work too, along with spatial navigation? Because if they didn't there's no way you can claim the spatial navigation alone affected your file organization.
I guess this would be a good time to puth forth Rasmus Lerdorf's excellent explanation for this issue. In short, due to there being many many different packages and applications and libs on Linux, and not ALL of them being threadsafe, I don't see anytime soon that Apache 2 will be "stable".
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We started talking about IRC sniffing and no more than a quarter of a page below we're already discussing how to become a successful serial killer. Perhaps these feds are right after all.
You CAN tweak the hell out of FC3 and get it to look and feel very pretty, but the important things to most long-time RHL and Fedora users are careful integration of new features combined with a smooth transition from previous releases. I get all of the above from FC3.
If you want a tweakable Linux distro, there are better choices than FC to start from. Let's face it, the grandparent hit the nail right on. Other than people who are forced to keep Red Hat legacy systems I don't see who would want it and for what special reason. Plus, it has been acknowledged as a testbed for RH Enterprise distro's, so you can't exactly hope for rock solid stability.
Your point may be this: by being a "neutral" and "middle-ground" distro, FC could be an average, good-for-all starting point. Which is a strong point in itself, albeit a bit of a strange one. But as I recall, the former RH distro catered to this approach too.
It's strange, but too many Americans no longer understand the strengths of the U.S. Constitution, and fail to realize that those strengths actually allow the country to function in a time of 'war', and change presidents.
Well, guess what? They *WILL* have to do that in four years.
That is, if there won't be a dictatorship in place four years from now, or some similar silliness. It's often been said that one of the most plausible demises of a democracy is people voting themselves into a dead end.
Should all the money have been spent on Gravity Probe B to prove something everyone accepts, or should other ways (like digging up 11 years of satellite data) have been used and the money spent on something that might actually give a bang for the buck?
I think a "definitive", fancy and high-cost experiment where all the considerents have been included is useful to put this issue aside once and for all. No matter how "sure" one may be about frame dragging being true, it helps to actually prove it with a lot of precision.
The plural to venom or poison? You're kidding, right? "Virus" in Latin doesn't have a plural. Even if the "viri" form existed (my Latin is very rusty but I kinda doubt it), it would be in singural.
In addition to being dorky, it simply doesn't exist, apparently. The following page sums it up nicely, to prove that "virii" is simply a spelling mistake, not jargon, not underground term, not Latin: http://spl.haxial.net/viruses.html
- people talking; - people eating stuff from noisy bags; - people slurping the last few drops of their drink; - kids kicking the back of the seat; - any number of other annoyances.
Also add: people moving around; couples making out; the odd idiot (or bunch of) who laughs in a high-pitched maniacal laugh in all the wrong places; cellphones ringing and people picking up and talking at leisure; the smartass who comments out loud and thinks he's witty; the guy in the next seat who has to explain *everything* to his numbskull girlfriend; the bitch you took out to the movies who gets bored stiff halfway through and wants to leave... oh just the hell with it.
Obviously, not all of this happens at once. Otherwise you'd see me on the news as "crazed man runs amok in cinema, slaughters dozens barehanded".
But the point is that the entire movie experience has gone down the toilet. Nowadays it's just a cheap (as in no quality) way of losing some time before getting layed just so you can say "we went out".
As a more or less movie buff, I miss the real thing. I miss the respect people used to have about going out to the movies, where they would dress and act nicely. I miss being able to let myself be swept by the magic of a good movie and only come to at the end, hands clenched and at the edge of my seat. I miss having the entire room gasp and breath and laugh and applaud like one, with me.
No doubt, it's also the fault of the kind of movies we have out today. Damn I wish I lived in the 60's.
What's there left to do? Theater seems to retain some of that, too bad I don't like theater (pretentious, pompous, overacted, snobs). Small cinemas catering to buffs like myself are good, but they are very hard to find and the odd asshole can still appear.
So you get your good movies on any kind of media that's popular (VHS, DVD, DIVX) and watch them in the privacy of your own home, with friends and family. Screw all the insensitive assholes out there and the movie industry of today, thank you very much.
Remember hotmail can ( and does ) track the IP address used to setup and access the email account. IP tracks back to your ISP, which ( again, its been shown due to the RIAA suits ) can be tracked back to the user..
Firefox + SwitchProxy.
Shareaza allows eDonkey, Gnutella, Gnutella2 (Their extension) and even Bittorrent.
Except the BT implementation is *still* not up to par, which may get Shareaza users banned from BT trackers.
Hey everyone, my name is Bill Gates. I just wanted to let everyone here know that if you develop your new software for Windows Lower^h^h^hnghorn, we'll protect your software from piracy with strong DRM. We'll make sure those nasty pirates can't change their system date, unless we say so.
This is funny, but it does raise a question as to where this whole arms race of pirating vs piracy prevention will go eventually. It has reached some silly levels in some cases already.
It certainly makes me wonder how the world would be if only software piracy was simply ignored by software makers. Distribute versions with fewer features for free, ship CD's & DVD's with full features for those who pay. Forget any kind of copy protection, serial number and so on and put all the time spent on developing said protections into improving the application. At most, stick a "please don't be an asshole, pay us for our work" note on the full version CD.
Because copy protection doesn't work anyway, right? and yet they keep spending time and effort and money on it, and most people who pirate wouldn't have bought a legit copy anyway, so they're not really lost customers.
So what's the use? Going around and around this same old tired issue, hoping that someday you'll get to push a merciless tehnology such as DRM which will make all software users your slaves and make you hated for it?
I say, better just let everything get solved by common sense. But I guess that's too much to ask, isn't it...
You know guys, trying to delete the user's home directory or messing with them in other ways might seem clever, but what if they decide to run their program in a chroot jail?
There's no need to go to such lengths. Just set your user's home to something like /tmp/bogus. Let the app delete it to its heart's pleasure.
More room for advertising.
True, but to be fair most such articles have a "print" mode which displays the entire article in one page, with most of the bells and whistles gone. So look for the printer icon and use it, I sure do.
Some of the things you listed are pretty "core". If they did this they'd have to have a dependency system, because extensions like "Tabbrowser extensions" would depend on "Tabbed browsing". Which idea may not sit well with everybody.
Maybe there is an extension to add 'copy image'.
There is, it's called Copy image to clipboard.I introduced my step-daughter's girl friend to Firefox when she was complaining about all the pop-ups in IE, but after about 5 minutes she switched back to IE. The only reason: In IE you can copy an image to the clip buffer and paste it into Photoshop or some other graphic program (she was grabbing pictures to make her Livejournal icons), but in Firefox (and Mozilla) you have to save the image and then open it in Photoshop as an extra step. Evidently managing all those little files was more effort to her than dismissing all the popups.
Here's how a non-techie person thinks: "Damn, I can't do that thing I used to do in this Firefox. Back to Explorer, because there the thing works and I'm used to it already."
No, thoughts like "perhaps there's a trick or a setting to do this thing in Firefox" will not cross their mind. They're not stupid, it's just not obvious to them that (or how) computer applications' functionality can be altered by the user.
More ideas about how to organize your toolbars in this handy Mozillazine forum topic:
Post your 0.9 custom toolbars here.
"Roxio" is the company name, the products they offer on the Windows platform include Easy Media Creator, Easy DVD Copy, and Easy CD & DVD Creator.
Which reminds me: no more Roxio burning software in the near future.
Here you go, a completely free graphical DVD/CD burner for Windows: CDBurnerXP.
When I got my DVD writer I had already been using xcdroast (and implicitly cdrtools) for a long time with CD's. It seemed the simplest to just get cdrecord-prodvd for this setup.
It amounted to downloading one (1) binary file, placing it as executable in the xcdroast bin dir and a copy/paste operation of the license key from a README found at the same place as the binary.
It worked right away, took a couple of minutes not counting the download and now I can use xcdroast with DVD's as well as CD's without any headache at all.
True, the license is only for home and personal use and will expire after about a year, but really, for a home user that's all I need.
I like my DVD/CD writing graphical, so there. By comparison with xcdroast, K3B always seemed like a kitchen sink to me. I've tried it several times but couldn't get used to it. Since so many people seem to be very happy with K3B I must be the odd one out.
Actually, I found the one allegedly from PayPal with the UPS link to be one of the most suspicious...
I have most of JavaScript (including "change statusbar text") disabled in Firefox. So the status bar was very blank for me when I hovered those links. Now I see why.
Anyway, I had to resort to some other sort of reasoning. Namely, I counted as fraud all the messages that offered links, and I was double wary of those that tried to seem even more legitimate by having an URL as the link text.
I happen to love spatial nautilus and find I acutally use a file manager now. The browser model makes no sense to me as a way of managing files. For usability purposes operating systems are moving towards abstracting out the concept of file hierarchy. You shouldn't have to browse for files at all. The browser model is outdated for file management. It's a kludge to get around a deficiency in how files are found and accessed.
Ah, but we're not there yet. We still have the hierarchical file system underneath, so all spatial navigation is at this point is a hack. The browser model is the one most perfectly adapted to the filesystems we use today. Get meta- and search- based filesystems and then we'll talk about spatial being the only thing that makes sense.
I beg of you to provide examples. In the end, aren't both ways just aspects of navigation? The organization underneath it isn't still based on a tree in both cases? Then how can spatial navigation improve organization? You could achieve the same improvement with classical navigation after you've reorganized your files. Did Gnome get the fabled search-based-filesystem to work too, along with spatial navigation? Because if they didn't there's no way you can claim the spatial navigation alone affected your file organization.
About time they added it. RoX had it for a while now.r
I guess this would be a good time to puth forth Rasmus Lerdorf's excellent explanation for this issue. In short, due to there being many many different packages and applications and libs on Linux, and not ALL of them being threadsafe, I don't see anytime soon that Apache 2 will be "stable".