I'm not talking about the look. I'm talking about a particular desktop's penchant for removing entire swaths of functionality. If you're lucky you might find them still there but hidden as an undocumented field in a registry.
To abuse a Bob Young analogy, you don't weld the hood of a car shut and then tell everyone who complains that they should shut up and use a blow torch if they want access.
I fully understand that the US rarely wins international academic competitions. That was not my point. No nation got a grade of "A" or "B" on this survey. That's nothing to be proud of no matter where you live.
Keeping an interface similar allows for an easier migration of people who've been using Windows for years
I'm tired of everybody catering to the Windows user. Here's a cluestick, this isn't Windows! What about catering to us <gasp> Linux/BSD/Unix users?
I really hate it when my bank gives out Steuben crystal to new accounts. I've been with them for twenty years and they've never once given me even a paper cup with coffee in it! My landlord is giving new tenents their first month rent free, but I don't see me getting any bonus for not moving out when the dot.bomb blew up. For once I would like to be rewarded for NOT being the newbie!
If all you need is a barebones window manager, then by all means stick with FluxBox. But some of us want applications to go with it...
Seriously, FluxBox is just a window manager. A window manager (KWin) is only one small part of KDE. You also have a panel which can hold a task manager, applets, systray, subpanels, etc. And a desktop (e.g., smart root window). And a file manager / webbrowser integrated into everything. Easy to edit menus with icons. Drag and drop from anywhere to anywhere. Complete network transparency and flexible IO protocols. Complete development toolkit for the hacker in you. Loads of eye candy. Etc, etc, etc.
That's without getting into the bundled applications. It may be more than you need, but you cannot claim that FluxBox fills the same ecological niche. That's like claiming Honda automobiles are too expensive and heavy so you're going to ride a Scwinn bycicle instead. There's nothing wrong with bicycles but don't pretend they serve the same purpose as cars.
BTW, you don't have to install all of KDE in order to use KDE. Just install kdelibs and kdebase and you'll still have the full desktop.
konstruct is pretty much a Linux-only tool. I've tried to run it under FreeBSD but with no success.
In the meantime, the FreeBSD/KDE team is busily testing KDE 3.3 packages. They've been testing for almost a week now, and it looks like they're near done. They reason it seems like they're taking so long is because they are. Just like any Linux distro does (or should). There's also the snag of -CURRENT rolling out yet another backwardly incompatible GNU compiler.
Why do people keep bringing up this misleading survey? Actually the survey isn't misleading, Just NetGeo's doom and gloom donation-seeking summary. Let me do a tiny bit to set the record straight.
Yes, American school kids are largely ignorant of geography. But the survey also points out the gross ignorance of students in other nations. Reporters and pundits tend to forget this in their zeal to portray the US as a bunch of nincompoops. It is a good thing that this geographical ignorance in the US is highlighted, because it means that we can now move to correct the problem. But it does not imply that other nations are let off the hook!
This was a survey done by a US organization for a US audience. Then the US media reported about are dumb kids. Then the non-US media came along and quoted the US media, and suddenly the whole world is awed at the stupidity of US schoolchildren.
But if you look at the actual results, or merely read a bit further down in the summary, you'll find a slightly different story. That's what's not being reported: the US is not alone in its geographical ignorance!
It doesn't bother me that the world is picking the US for getting a "D" in geography. What bothers me is that the world thinks getting a "C-" in the same class is a resounding success!
It really doesn't matter if Hollywood liberals get elected, testify before congress, sponsor state initiatives, or just sit home and sulk. The fact remains that Hollywood is significantly tilted towards the left. While not as liberal as San Fransisco or Boston, it's still a long ways away from being a key Bush district.
Of course they removed it. After last week's story suggesting more Linux users than Mac users, they didn't want to fan the flames by providing evidence that the Mac is three times more popular than Linux.
Are you asserting that Byrd is not a racist and ex-KKK member? Wow! It's amazing the facts that people like you will dismiss when it's not convenient to address them.
Want to put a little more bite in your bark? Put all your political activism into threatening (and backing it up) to vote for someone else until politicians start representing you instead of playing the game.
Then please, please, please vote for someone besides Kerry. All you do by voting Democrat is to assert that you agree with the two party either/or system that has so alienated the populace that most people don't even bother to vote.
Maybe your Libertarian|Green|Reform|Other vote this year will mean Bush will be in office for four more. But that's a small price to pay to make sure that "we'll start getting a little better representation in 20 or 30 years" for our children and grandchildren.
Please remember, being a hacker does not make one a Democrat, so let's not let the actions of a few unsavory hackers convince the world at large that we are all marching to the Democrat drum.
The hacker community consists of conservatives, liberals, libertarians, socialists, and even <gasp> non-ideologue moderates. It's stupid to assume that two people would share similar political ideologies just because they share similar interests in coding.
Heck, yYfigures who have crossed over into politics. Or maybe you didn't forget because you they're mainly liberal instead of conservative. Reiner, Asner, Baldwin, Streisand, etc. They might not have gotten themselves elected, but that's only because it isn't Hollywood who's doing the voting.
Everything I know about British town councils I learned from "Monty Python" and "Yes, Minister", so really, anything silly they do would not surprise me.
It would be really nice if the Slashdot would tell us what the story is about. I realize that there's a link, but it would be supremely convenient if I didn't have to click through in order to find out if the story is worth my time.
Please note that this story is posted in the "Developers" section. I would expect stories here to be about programming languages, algorithms, a Mono vs dotGNU flamewars, or a party at the DNA Lounge. So when I read the title "NSLU2 Now More Useful", and the blurb "the WRT54G's not the only hackable kid on the block", I'm not instantly associating it with network storage devices.
Do you really expect me to instantly recognize the "NSLU2" and "WRT54G" names? I can barely remember that "GX240" is the name of my workstation and "iFP-790" is the name of my ogg player, without having to memorize tens of thousands of other equally non-mnemonic product names in order to understand what Slashdot is talking about.
However, in the world of intelectual property, there is no such thing as scarcity
True, but then again, there never was a free market in intellectual property to begin with. The "free" in "free market" rejects the idea of copyrights and patents.
Could someone tell me how this would be useful? Honestly, I don't know.
I don't know either. Since I can't find any currently selling wireless cards that work with Linux or FreeBSD, the idea of any sort of wireless access point is as useless to me as teats on a boar. I've got drivers for several hundred popular cards, but none of them can be found at Fry's, MicroCenter, BestBuy, etc. (no, NDIS is not an option).
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I see that their news blurbs aren't praising Kerry as the savior of all mankind, but other than that I can't detect much of a political bias.
I have a hardware broadband router/firewall with default settings. I run FreeBSD on the desktop with all services except sshd turned off. What else do I need? Or am I just being paranoid in thinking I need more?
Most of the security HOWTOs I've found for Linux and BSD have been heavily oriented geared towards servers. Are there any out there for client desktop systems? Am I being foolish by not running emacs in a jail?
Use BSD, and you will see your project be used for profit, and you getting nothing out of it.
A) I'm still waiting. And waiting. Think of the publicity if Microsoft went and embraced and extended my stuff. But it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Heck, if they're still dragging their heels in their drive to steal and proprietarize FreeBSD, Apache and X.org, what hope do I have as a tiny guy with a tiny project?
B) What's wrong with *using* stuff for profit? Doesn't the GPL say it doesn't regulate and restrict *use* of the software? Or were you thinking of another license?
C) Think of all the poor GPL developers who are still waiting to be paid by Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, IBM, HP, SGI, Sun, etc. Is it somehow okay for some companies to exploit Free Software developers, but not for others? I'm sure you'll say you meant something else, but your unconscious slip gave you away.
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I'm not talking about the look. I'm talking about a particular desktop's penchant for removing entire swaths of functionality. If you're lucky you might find them still there but hidden as an undocumented field in a registry.
To abuse a Bob Young analogy, you don't weld the hood of a car shut and then tell everyone who complains that they should shut up and use a blow torch if they want access.
I fully understand that the US rarely wins international academic competitions. That was not my point. No nation got a grade of "A" or "B" on this survey. That's nothing to be proud of no matter where you live.
Not at all. The cost for Qt is a one time fee. No royalties. No per-seat charges. Buy it and it's yours. *Just* like a hammer.
Developers complaining about the cost of commercial Qt are like carpenters complaining about the cost of hammers.
Keeping an interface similar allows for an easier migration of people who've been using Windows for years
I'm tired of everybody catering to the Windows user. Here's a cluestick, this isn't Windows! What about catering to us <gasp> Linux/BSD/Unix users?
I really hate it when my bank gives out Steuben crystal to new accounts. I've been with them for twenty years and they've never once given me even a paper cup with coffee in it! My landlord is giving new tenents their first month rent free, but I don't see me getting any bonus for not moving out when the dot.bomb blew up. For once I would like to be rewarded for NOT being the newbie!
At least this way I have strictly what I need.
If all you need is a barebones window manager, then by all means stick with FluxBox. But some of us want applications to go with it...
Seriously, FluxBox is just a window manager. A window manager (KWin) is only one small part of KDE. You also have a panel which can hold a task manager, applets, systray, subpanels, etc. And a desktop (e.g., smart root window). And a file manager / webbrowser integrated into everything. Easy to edit menus with icons. Drag and drop from anywhere to anywhere. Complete network transparency and flexible IO protocols. Complete development toolkit for the hacker in you. Loads of eye candy. Etc, etc, etc.
That's without getting into the bundled applications. It may be more than you need, but you cannot claim that FluxBox fills the same ecological niche. That's like claiming Honda automobiles are too expensive and heavy so you're going to ride a Scwinn bycicle instead. There's nothing wrong with bicycles but don't pretend they serve the same purpose as cars.
BTW, you don't have to install all of KDE in order to use KDE. Just install kdelibs and kdebase and you'll still have the full desktop.
If you are using an LCD screen, try using subpixel hinting.
konstruct is pretty much a Linux-only tool. I've tried to run it under FreeBSD but with no success.
In the meantime, the FreeBSD/KDE team is busily testing KDE 3.3 packages. They've been testing for almost a week now, and it looks like they're near done. They reason it seems like they're taking so long is because they are. Just like any Linux distro does (or should). There's also the snag of -CURRENT rolling out yet another backwardly incompatible GNU compiler.
Why do people keep bringing up this misleading survey? Actually the survey isn't misleading, Just NetGeo's doom and gloom donation-seeking summary. Let me do a tiny bit to set the record straight.
Yes, American school kids are largely ignorant of geography. But the survey also points out the gross ignorance of students in other nations. Reporters and pundits tend to forget this in their zeal to portray the US as a bunch of nincompoops. It is a good thing that this geographical ignorance in the US is highlighted, because it means that we can now move to correct the problem. But it does not imply that other nations are let off the hook!
This was a survey done by a US organization for a US audience. Then the US media reported about are dumb kids. Then the non-US media came along and quoted the US media, and suddenly the whole world is awed at the stupidity of US schoolchildren.
But if you look at the actual results, or merely read a bit further down in the summary, you'll find a slightly different story. That's what's not being reported: the US is not alone in its geographical ignorance!
Some choice quotes: "Others outside the U.S., most notably young adults in Mexico, also struggled with basic geography facts. Young people in Canada and Great Britain fared almost as poorly as those in the U.S.".
Or how about, "Young adults worldwide are not markedly more literate about geography than the Americans. On average, fewer than 25% of young people worldwide could locate Israel on the map. Only about 20% could identify hotspots like Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq", and "In France, 24% did not know that that their own country was a nuclear nation."
It doesn't bother me that the world is picking the US for getting a "D" in geography. What bothers me is that the world thinks getting a "C-" in the same class is a resounding success!
So much for the GPL 'never being tested in court.'
Welcome to the club, glad you could make it.
Sincerely, BSD License
It really doesn't matter if Hollywood liberals get elected, testify before congress, sponsor state initiatives, or just sit home and sulk. The fact remains that Hollywood is significantly tilted towards the left. While not as liberal as San Fransisco or Boston, it's still a long ways away from being a key Bush district.
Of course they removed it. After last week's story suggesting more Linux users than Mac users, they didn't want to fan the flames by providing evidence that the Mac is three times more popular than Linux.
Sheesh, Michael Moore has enough right wing conspiracy theories as it is, without you making up more for him to lob in his next movie.
Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if Moore used your post as "proof" of DDOS-gate in his next movie...
Are you asserting that Byrd is not a racist and ex-KKK member? Wow! It's amazing the facts that people like you will dismiss when it's not convenient to address them.
Want to put a little more bite in your bark? Put all your political activism into threatening (and backing it up) to vote for someone else until politicians start representing you instead of playing the game.
Then please, please, please vote for someone besides Kerry. All you do by voting Democrat is to assert that you agree with the two party either/or system that has so alienated the populace that most people don't even bother to vote.
Maybe your Libertarian|Green|Reform|Other vote this year will mean Bush will be in office for four more. But that's a small price to pay to make sure that "we'll start getting a little better representation in 20 or 30 years" for our children and grandchildren.
Please remember, being a hacker does not make one a Democrat, so let's not let the actions of a few unsavory hackers convince the world at large that we are all marching to the Democrat drum.
The hacker community consists of conservatives, liberals, libertarians, socialists, and even <gasp> non-ideologue moderates. It's stupid to assume that two people would share similar political ideologies just because they share similar interests in coding.
All Republicans.
Heck, yYfigures who have crossed over into politics. Or maybe you didn't forget because you they're mainly liberal instead of conservative. Reiner, Asner, Baldwin, Streisand, etc. They might not have gotten themselves elected, but that's only because it isn't Hollywood who's doing the voting.
I like my women how like my chocolate; Bitter.
I've more often heard it said, "I like my women how I like my coffee: cold and bitter." That being a twist on the ususal "hot and black".
Everything I know about British town councils I learned from "Monty Python" and "Yes, Minister", so really, anything silly they do would not surprise me.
It would be really nice if the Slashdot would tell us what the story is about. I realize that there's a link, but it would be supremely convenient if I didn't have to click through in order to find out if the story is worth my time.
Please note that this story is posted in the "Developers" section. I would expect stories here to be about programming languages, algorithms, a Mono vs dotGNU flamewars, or a party at the DNA Lounge. So when I read the title "NSLU2 Now More Useful", and the blurb "the WRT54G's not the only hackable kid on the block", I'm not instantly associating it with network storage devices.
Do you really expect me to instantly recognize the "NSLU2" and "WRT54G" names? I can barely remember that "GX240" is the name of my workstation and "iFP-790" is the name of my ogg player, without having to memorize tens of thousands of other equally non-mnemonic product names in order to understand what Slashdot is talking about.
However, in the world of intelectual property, there is no such thing as scarcity
True, but then again, there never was a free market in intellectual property to begin with. The "free" in "free market" rejects the idea of copyrights and patents.
Could someone tell me how this would be useful? Honestly, I don't know.
I don't know either. Since I can't find any currently selling wireless cards that work with Linux or FreeBSD, the idea of any sort of wireless access point is as useless to me as teats on a boar. I've got drivers for several hundred popular cards, but none of them can be found at Fry's, MicroCenter, BestBuy, etc. (no, NDIS is not an option).
I see that their news blurbs aren't praising Kerry as the savior of all mankind, but other than that I can't detect much of a political bias.
I have a hardware broadband router/firewall with default settings. I run FreeBSD on the desktop with all services except sshd turned off. What else do I need? Or am I just being paranoid in thinking I need more?
Most of the security HOWTOs I've found for Linux and BSD have been heavily oriented geared towards servers. Are there any out there for client desktop systems? Am I being foolish by not running emacs in a jail?
Use BSD, and you will see your project be used for profit, and you getting nothing out of it.
A) I'm still waiting. And waiting. Think of the publicity if Microsoft went and embraced and extended my stuff. But it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Heck, if they're still dragging their heels in their drive to steal and proprietarize FreeBSD, Apache and X.org, what hope do I have as a tiny guy with a tiny project?
B) What's wrong with *using* stuff for profit? Doesn't the GPL say it doesn't regulate and restrict *use* of the software? Or were you thinking of another license?
C) Think of all the poor GPL developers who are still waiting to be paid by Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, IBM, HP, SGI, Sun, etc. Is it somehow okay for some companies to exploit Free Software developers, but not for others? I'm sure you'll say you meant something else, but your unconscious slip gave you away.