I type incorrectly as well, and I also type blazingly fast.
Back when I was in high school, in a computer lab, and I finished my assignments early, sometimes I'd fire up Micro Type Pro (or whatever it was called) and practice. I'd type with two fingers (both my index fingers), only using my others for keys on the far sides of the keyboard, like punctuation, and modifier keys. I'd usually get around 93 WPM with decent (but not perfect) accuracy.
I decided to take those tests on those sites to see if I could still do it, and while I'm a bit rusty, my speed's not bad. Not bad at all.
TypingTest.com, on the first time, showed me as having 85 WPM and 94% accuracy (damn--forgot if 85 was net or gross...probably net).
TypingPal.com, first time, showed 84 WPM with 13 errors.
Trying TypingTest.com again, with two minutes, I got 84 net WPM (91 WPM gross, 13 errors, 92% accuracy). Going back to 1 minute, I got 85 net WPM (95 WPM gross, 10 errors, 89% accuracy).
Hmm...I think that's it for now. Not bad, if I do say so myself.
Ack. I knew I was forgetting something. For some reason, after I replaced XFree86 with Xorg, Luxi Sans morphed into a completely different font, one that happens to be quite ugly. I'm still trying to figure out how in the blue hell that happened.
So that whole thing about how Luxi Sans was almost identical to my old, damn good Sans Serif font isn't always true, depending on your configuration. I'm not sure what changed it--it happened right around the time I replaced XFree86 with Xorg, but I might've upgraded another package or two then, like freetype (it's been a while, so I don't remember).
Funny, as I used to use a Sans Serif font that was almost identical to Luxi Sans (I'll get to the ``almost'' part later), and I loved it. Btw, I'm also a Gentoo user, but I hate antialiasing and keep it disabled all the time.
Then, one day, I emerged ttf-bitstream-vera because I heart people talking about how good it was. Not only did I find the BV fonts ugly, but the BV Sans Serif font clobbered my existing Sans Serif font. I don't know how to restore it (I tried unmerging ttf-bitstream-vera, didn't work--I ended up re-emerging it in case I needed it). I look through my font lists, and saw two similar fonts to my old Sans Serif: Luxi Sans and Helvetica.
Luxi Sans looks virtually identical to my old Sans Serif font, except for one aspect (either the height, the kerning, or both) that just looks off, making it highly distracting to read.
Helvetica, while similar, is different from my old Sans Serif font, and by extension, Luxi Sans. However, it doesn't have the issue Luxi Sans has (that my old Sans Serif font didn't have), and thus doesn't distract me.
So, my choice came down to ``similar in glyph shape'' or ``similar because it's not distracting''. Since easiness of reading is more important, I went with the latter and chose Helvetica.
Btw, my preferred fonts are from a hodgepodge of families--I don't use just one. I mostly use Helvetica as my sans-serif font, tho Luxi Sans isn't distracting in some areas, so I use it in some apps. I use Lucida Typewriter as my main monospaced font, tho I use Fixed (the version that says Misc, not Sony or GNU) for my terminal. I use Times and Courier as Firefox's serif and monospaced fonts, respectively (Helvetica remains the sans-serif font, of course). Looks like my font choices are a tad biased towards Adobe, however (Helvetica, Times, and Courier).
Anti-aliasing is screenshot-pretty, but for actual use, it makes me want to scratch my eyes out.
Thank you. Finally, there's someone else here who can't stand to read antialiased fonts.
I'm pretty obsessive about not having my fonts antialiased. I've turned off AA in KDE's Fonts control centre dialog. I've grepped/etc for the variable GDK_USE_XFT (cd/etc && grep -R GDK_USE_XFT *), and set each occurence of it to 0. I always compile Firefox with the moznoxft USE flag.
You're also right in that AA is good for one thing: screenshots. I find screenshots of OS X, antialiased fonts and all, to be quite pretty. But I would never want to actually use a system with antialiased fonts--they're horribly grating on the eyes if you're doing anything but looking at a screenshot.
The first part of your post might be why I can't stand the Bitstream Vera Sans Serif font--if the BV fonts only look good when antialiased, and I go out of my way to not have antialiased fonts, then logically, the BV fonts would look ugly.
*looks up at the parent again*
Dear Zod, why is your post at 0? Someone mod this guy up!
Out of curiosity, are you saying that Bitstream Vera is not good enough, or just that you've never heard of it?
Meh. I don't like the Bitstream Vera Sans Serif font. It looks way too big, ugly, and spaced out.
Before I installed the ttf-bitstream-vera package, I really liked the Sans Serif font I had--it looked like something halfway between Luxi Sans and Helvetica. But I heard good things about BV, so I installed it. After installation? The big, ugly BV Sans Serif font replaced the nice one I had, forcing me to switch all my system fonts to Helvetica.
And the fonts still look off on my system--Helvetica isn't quite like the font I had, but it's closer to what I had than Bitstream Vera Sans Serif. Luxi Sans actually looks more like the Sans Serif font I had than Helvetica does, but there's something wrong with either the kerning or the height (maybe both), something that neither my old Sans Serif nor Helvetica had, and it's extremely distracting, so I'm using Helvetica.
Shame, as except for that distracting aspect, Luxi Sans is virtually identical to my old Sans Serif--Helvetica has a different appearance from both (but not too different), but it's not as distracting as LS is (or BV Sans is, for that matter), and that's more important, IMO.
GPLland is operating under the mistaken belief that source code is a God-given right.
Actually, yes it is. Not so much source code per se, but the ability to redistribute and modify software is a natural right. Source code just goes with it, as it's virtually impossible to modify software if you don't have the source code.
Furthermore, writing proprietary software is immoral. Anything that infringes on the freedom of others is immoral. True, it's not as immoral is murder or rape, but it's still immoral. Burglary isn't as immoral as murder or rape, but it's still immoral.
Knowingly enabling someone to commit an immorality makes you just as immoral as the first person. If you give or sell a gun to someone who you know is planning to commit murder, you're just as culpable and immoral.
Or, for something less ghastly than murder: let's say you're the sole night watchman at a store, but not the owner, and you have a friend who's a thief and wants to rob the store. You want to help him out, so on the night he intends to rob the store, you unlock all the doors, and shut down all the cameras and alarms. He walks in, starts putting some of the store's more expensive items in his bag, you do nothing, and he walks out with his bag. You're just as culpable and immoral as your friend.
Going back to software--again, writing proprietary software is immoral. Writing software licensed in a way that it will help other people to write proprietary software makes you just as immoral. Sure, they can still do it themselves if your code is GPL: they can pirate it, find a similar library, or just write the library they want from scratch. But they're not getting any help from you.
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Your definition of "freedom" is self serving and wrong. Given two licenses the one with the fewer strings is the more free, i.e. GPL is the less free of the two.
Bull. Let's use an analogy of countries to compare the BSD License and the GPL...
- The BSD License is like a country where the government is forbidden from infringing on the people's freedoms, and turns a blind eye to its citizens committing violence against other citizens, claiming that if it arrests criminals, it's infringing on the people's freedoms.
- The GPL is like a country where people are free to do whatever they like, as long as they don't infringe on other people's freedoms, commit violence against other people, etc. It knows that the only way to protect freedom is to punish those who infringe on the rights of others.
In other words, the GPL is like a modern, Western-style democracy, where freedoms are protected from all forms of attack (at least in theory--implementations aren't perfect), and the BSD license is like pure anarchy.
That could be the dumbest thing i've ever heard of in my life.
Let the people watch the people? If you can't tell why that would be open to abuse by our not-so-lawabiding fellow citizens then you need to pay attention to the real-world of free and open society as it is right now.
The people watching the people is what the concepts of free elections and democracy are based on. I guess, by your beliefs, the American Revolution should never have happened.
I'll probably be modded down for this, but anti-Americanism like yours just pisses me off.
The only other thing that's annoyed me with gentoo is when etc-update hoses my fstab (and half a dozen other important files.) Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly.
1) Don't just hit -5 everytime you use etc-update. Look at the list. If there's a file you want to keep, exit with -1 and either remove the._cfg0000 file or move it somewhere else (I used/root/cfgblackhole/). After that, run etc-update and -5.
2) You might want to use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update (it's part of portage, no need to emerge it separarely) -- it's much smarter, allows you to compare diffs, and has better options for keeping the old file. Also, you'll to edit/etc/dispatch-conf.conf -- set every yes/no option to yes, and make sure the archive-dir exists (create it yourself if you have to). Oh, and emerge rcs if you've not done so already, dispatch-conf needs it to do version control.
After I switched to dispatch-conf, updating config files stopped being a pain.
Nokia's phones have recently been designed really poorly, IMHO. They are either too big or have a weird, non-standard design that doesn't always improve functionality.
Indeed. I hate Nokia phones largely because they focus on making their keypads as arty as possible when they should be making conservative, usable keypads.
That's the one thing I like about my Sony Ericsson T226--the key layout is perfect. If only it was capable of keeping a connection without cutting me off...
D'oh! I remember trying entities sometime in the past, and it not working at all. So I figured that the AC was doing something to get the angle brackets to appear as themselves, no entities. It completely didn't dawn on me that it was possible that entities have since been added to Slashcode. Which they have. D'oh!
Before you donate, you might want to check out a certain scandal on KDE-Look (hint: you might want to use the menu there to view comments older than July 8).
I, for one, will not support the Mozilla foundation after seeing this.
Ok, that's just weird. Looks like Slashcode's preview mode is FUBAR.
(ok, after a preview, both the quoted tags and the tags around the above paragraph didn't show--I'm going to try to post now, and if they show up, then the preview mode is definitely broken)
My attention span and imagination is limited by the number of colours in comics..
Heh. [sarcasm]Most comics nowadays are done in full digital colour (usually with Photoshop), so if you consider an attention span of the full CMYK range to be short, you've got high standards indeed...[/sarcasm]
Actually, it was required reading when I went to high school. Had to read it in 11th grade and loved it.
I loved it enough that I ended up buying all the sequels and reading them all in the span of just under a week, which also happened to be finals week (yes, I like to live dangerously:P).
It was a good thing I avoided the AP English class, as they didn't get to read Ender's Game. I feel sorry for them.
default style/window decoration won't be changed during minor releases. I think new ones will be next in KDE 4...
Well, it happened in 3.1. The KDE2 style was used as default through 3.0.x, then they switched to Keramik with 3.1. Tho I do doubt they would ditch Keramik at this stage--the first beta is already out.
For the most part, I love KDE, but Keramik is a horrible style. Horrible, horrible, horrible. That goes for Crystal too. Too bloody colourful.
After some experimenting, I've found that the most visually pleasing look for KDE is: Plastik widgets, Pale Gray colour scheme, Slick icons, and Glow window decorations (with a forced button order--gotta have the closebox on the left). Sleek, subdued, and beautiful.
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I, for one, welcome our new beowulf cluster overlords.
Ah, what the hell, I'll play...
People don't die if their mail client is buggy.
FALLACY! FOUND!!!!! <applause>
Apparently they changed their name to the Open Source Technology Group.
I type incorrectly as well, and I also type blazingly fast.
Back when I was in high school, in a computer lab, and I finished my assignments early, sometimes I'd fire up Micro Type Pro (or whatever it was called) and practice. I'd type with two fingers (both my index fingers), only using my others for keys on the far sides of the keyboard, like punctuation, and modifier keys. I'd usually get around 93 WPM with decent (but not perfect) accuracy.
I decided to take those tests on those sites to see if I could still do it, and while I'm a bit rusty, my speed's not bad. Not bad at all.
TypingTest.com, on the first time, showed me as having 85 WPM and 94% accuracy (damn--forgot if 85 was net or gross...probably net).
TypingPal.com, first time, showed 84 WPM with 13 errors.
Trying TypingTest.com again, with two minutes, I got 84 net WPM (91 WPM gross, 13 errors, 92% accuracy). Going back to 1 minute, I got 85 net WPM (95 WPM gross, 10 errors, 89% accuracy).
Hmm...I think that's it for now. Not bad, if I do say so myself.
Ack. I knew I was forgetting something. For some reason, after I replaced XFree86 with Xorg, Luxi Sans morphed into a completely different font, one that happens to be quite ugly. I'm still trying to figure out how in the blue hell that happened.
So that whole thing about how Luxi Sans was almost identical to my old, damn good Sans Serif font isn't always true, depending on your configuration. I'm not sure what changed it--it happened right around the time I replaced XFree86 with Xorg, but I might've upgraded another package or two then, like freetype (it's been a while, so I don't remember).
Funny, as I used to use a Sans Serif font that was almost identical to Luxi Sans (I'll get to the ``almost'' part later), and I loved it. Btw, I'm also a Gentoo user, but I hate antialiasing and keep it disabled all the time.
Then, one day, I emerged ttf-bitstream-vera because I heart people talking about how good it was. Not only did I find the BV fonts ugly, but the BV Sans Serif font clobbered my existing Sans Serif font. I don't know how to restore it (I tried unmerging ttf-bitstream-vera, didn't work--I ended up re-emerging it in case I needed it). I look through my font lists, and saw two similar fonts to my old Sans Serif: Luxi Sans and Helvetica.
Luxi Sans looks virtually identical to my old Sans Serif font, except for one aspect (either the height, the kerning, or both) that just looks off, making it highly distracting to read.
Helvetica, while similar, is different from my old Sans Serif font, and by extension, Luxi Sans. However, it doesn't have the issue Luxi Sans has (that my old Sans Serif font didn't have), and thus doesn't distract me.
So, my choice came down to ``similar in glyph shape'' or ``similar because it's not distracting''. Since easiness of reading is more important, I went with the latter and chose Helvetica.
Btw, my preferred fonts are from a hodgepodge of families--I don't use just one. I mostly use Helvetica as my sans-serif font, tho Luxi Sans isn't distracting in some areas, so I use it in some apps. I use Lucida Typewriter as my main monospaced font, tho I use Fixed (the version that says Misc, not Sony or GNU) for my terminal. I use Times and Courier as Firefox's serif and monospaced fonts, respectively (Helvetica remains the sans-serif font, of course). Looks like my font choices are a tad biased towards Adobe, however (Helvetica, Times, and Courier).
Anti-aliasing is screenshot-pretty, but for actual use, it makes me want to scratch my eyes out.
/etc for the variable GDK_USE_XFT (cd /etc && grep -R GDK_USE_XFT *), and set each occurence of it to 0. I always compile Firefox with the moznoxft USE flag.
Thank you. Finally, there's someone else here who can't stand to read antialiased fonts.
I'm pretty obsessive about not having my fonts antialiased. I've turned off AA in KDE's Fonts control centre dialog. I've grepped
You're also right in that AA is good for one thing: screenshots. I find screenshots of OS X, antialiased fonts and all, to be quite pretty. But I would never want to actually use a system with antialiased fonts--they're horribly grating on the eyes if you're doing anything but looking at a screenshot.
The first part of your post might be why I can't stand the Bitstream Vera Sans Serif font--if the BV fonts only look good when antialiased, and I go out of my way to not have antialiased fonts, then logically, the BV fonts would look ugly.
*looks up at the parent again*
Dear Zod, why is your post at 0? Someone mod this guy up!
Out of curiosity, are you saying that Bitstream Vera is not good enough, or just that you've never heard of it?
Meh. I don't like the Bitstream Vera Sans Serif font. It looks way too big, ugly, and spaced out.
Before I installed the ttf-bitstream-vera package, I really liked the Sans Serif font I had--it looked like something halfway between Luxi Sans and Helvetica. But I heard good things about BV, so I installed it. After installation? The big, ugly BV Sans Serif font replaced the nice one I had, forcing me to switch all my system fonts to Helvetica.
And the fonts still look off on my system--Helvetica isn't quite like the font I had, but it's closer to what I had than Bitstream Vera Sans Serif. Luxi Sans actually looks more like the Sans Serif font I had than Helvetica does, but there's something wrong with either the kerning or the height (maybe both), something that neither my old Sans Serif nor Helvetica had, and it's extremely distracting, so I'm using Helvetica.
Shame, as except for that distracting aspect, Luxi Sans is virtually identical to my old Sans Serif--Helvetica has a different appearance from both (but not too different), but it's not as distracting as LS is (or BV Sans is, for that matter), and that's more important, IMO.
GPLland is operating under the mistaken belief that source code is a God-given right.
Actually, yes it is. Not so much source code per se, but the ability to redistribute and modify software is a natural right. Source code just goes with it, as it's virtually impossible to modify software if you don't have the source code.
Furthermore, writing proprietary software is immoral. Anything that infringes on the freedom of others is immoral. True, it's not as immoral is murder or rape, but it's still immoral. Burglary isn't as immoral as murder or rape, but it's still immoral.
Knowingly enabling someone to commit an immorality makes you just as immoral as the first person. If you give or sell a gun to someone who you know is planning to commit murder, you're just as culpable and immoral.
Or, for something less ghastly than murder: let's say you're the sole night watchman at a store, but not the owner, and you have a friend who's a thief and wants to rob the store. You want to help him out, so on the night he intends to rob the store, you unlock all the doors, and shut down all the cameras and alarms. He walks in, starts putting some of the store's more expensive items in his bag, you do nothing, and he walks out with his bag. You're just as culpable and immoral as your friend.
Going back to software--again, writing proprietary software is immoral. Writing software licensed in a way that it will help other people to write proprietary software makes you just as immoral. Sure, they can still do it themselves if your code is GPL: they can pirate it, find a similar library, or just write the library they want from scratch. But they're not getting any help from you.
Your definition of "freedom" is self serving and wrong. Given two licenses the one with the fewer strings is the more free, i.e. GPL is the less free of the two.
Bull. Let's use an analogy of countries to compare the BSD License and the GPL...
- The BSD License is like a country where the government is forbidden from infringing on the people's freedoms, and turns a blind eye to its citizens committing violence against other citizens, claiming that if it arrests criminals, it's infringing on the people's freedoms.
- The GPL is like a country where people are free to do whatever they like, as long as they don't infringe on other people's freedoms, commit violence against other people, etc. It knows that the only way to protect freedom is to punish those who infringe on the rights of others.
In other words, the GPL is like a modern, Western-style democracy, where freedoms are protected from all forms of attack (at least in theory--implementations aren't perfect), and the BSD license is like pure anarchy.
So, EekkoBSD really is dying, eh?
I really need to learn to spellcheck my posts. It's EkkoBSD (or ekkoBSD?), not EekkoBSD.
So, EekkoBSD really is dying, eh?
C'mon, guys, you're just giving it right to the trolls...
That could be the dumbest thing i've ever heard of in my life. Let the people watch the people? If you can't tell why that would be open to abuse by our not-so-lawabiding fellow citizens then you need to pay attention to the real-world of free and open society as it is right now.
The people watching the people is what the concepts of free elections and democracy are based on. I guess, by your beliefs, the American Revolution should never have happened.
I'll probably be modded down for this, but anti-Americanism like yours just pisses me off.
The only other thing that's annoyed me with gentoo is when etc-update hoses my fstab (and half a dozen other important files.) Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly.
._cfg0000 file or move it somewhere else (I used /root/cfgblackhole/). After that, run etc-update and -5.
/etc/dispatch-conf.conf -- set every yes/no option to yes, and make sure the archive-dir exists (create it yourself if you have to). Oh, and emerge rcs if you've not done so already, dispatch-conf needs it to do version control.
After I switched to dispatch-conf, updating config files stopped being a pain.
1) Don't just hit -5 everytime you use etc-update. Look at the list. If there's a file you want to keep, exit with -1 and either remove the
2) You might want to use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update (it's part of portage, no need to emerge it separarely) -- it's much smarter, allows you to compare diffs, and has better options for keeping the old file. Also, you'll to edit
Nokia's phones have recently been designed really poorly, IMHO. They are either too big or have a weird, non-standard design that doesn't always improve functionality.
Indeed. I hate Nokia phones largely because they focus on making their keypads as arty as possible when they should be making conservative, usable keypads.
That's the one thing I like about my Sony Ericsson T226--the key layout is perfect. If only it was capable of keeping a connection without cutting me off...
I guess that it's not dead after all...
No, he uses BSD, so his business is dying.
D'oh! I remember trying entities sometime in the past, and it not working at all. So I figured that the AC was doing something to get the angle brackets to appear as themselves, no entities. It completely didn't dawn on me that it was possible that entities have since been added to Slashcode. Which they have. D'oh!
Eh? Ok, I give the bloody hell up...I've no idea how the grandparent managed to do that.
Before you donate, you might want to check out a certain scandal on KDE-Look (hint: you might want to use the menu there to view comments older than July 8).
I, for one, will not support the Mozilla foundation after seeing this.
Oh, did you?
Ok, that's just weird. Looks like Slashcode's preview mode is FUBAR.
(ok, after a preview, both the quoted tags and the tags around the above paragraph didn't show--I'm going to try to post now, and if they show up, then the preview mode is definitely broken)
That only applies if your text isn't HTML formatted, and I wanted to quote his post.
My attention span and imagination is limited by the number of colours in comics..
Heh. [sarcasm]Most comics nowadays are done in full digital colour (usually with Photoshop), so if you consider an attention span of the full CMYK range to be short, you've got high standards indeed...[/sarcasm]
(grrr..stupid bloody slashcode doesn't allow entities...I can't use angle brackets, dammit)
Ender's Game ought to be required reading.
:P).
Actually, it was required reading when I went to high school. Had to read it in 11th grade and loved it.
I loved it enough that I ended up buying all the sequels and reading them all in the span of just under a week, which also happened to be finals week (yes, I like to live dangerously
It was a good thing I avoided the AP English class, as they didn't get to read Ender's Game. I feel sorry for them.
default style/window decoration won't be changed during minor releases. I think new ones will be next in KDE 4...
Well, it happened in 3.1. The KDE2 style was used as default through 3.0.x, then they switched to Keramik with 3.1. Tho I do doubt they would ditch Keramik at this stage--the first beta is already out.
For the most part, I love KDE, but Keramik is a horrible style. Horrible, horrible, horrible. That goes for Crystal too. Too bloody colourful.
After some experimenting, I've found that the most visually pleasing look for KDE is: Plastik widgets, Pale Gray colour scheme, Slick icons, and Glow window decorations (with a forced button order--gotta have the closebox on the left). Sleek, subdued, and beautiful.
Indeed. And let's not forget fish, which lets you do the same over ssh.
Yep, you can use KDE to remotely manage files over an ssh connection. Kool, eh?