...if any Congressmen agrees with Darl, and if so, their names. Why? So I can campaign for whoever's running against them, and if they're in Texas, I'll vote for one of their opponents too.
Not only is supporting SCO's actions unethical, but agreeing with Darl's statements re: open source (regardless of who says them, Darl or not) is just plain anti-freedom. And the idea of someone who hates freedom being in Congress scares me.
Almost three and a half years ago, I replaced my mouse with a Logitech TrackMan Marble Wheel. I still use it today--it's the oldest piece of hardware I still use, and it still works perfectly. I have never used a pointing device that works as perfectly as this. Here are some of its features:
- It can plug into either USB or PS/2--if I need another USB port, all I have to do is shut down, attach the USB->PS/2 adaptor, and plug it into my PS/2 port.
- It's optical. Yes, you heard me, it's an optical trackball. I've never had to clean the bloody thing once in all the years I've owned it.
- It's hand-shaped. IMO, that is the single most perfect layout for a pointing device I've seen in my life. I already said I don't like mice, nor do I like non-hand-shaped trackballs (e.g. Kensington Turbo/Expert mouse...ugh). This, however, is perfect.
And since this article is on both mice and keyboards, I'll say this: where have all the good keyboards gone?
I despise multimedia keyboards. I despise keyboards with funky key layouts (I'm referring to not only very esoteric layouts here, but also keyboards with L-shaped enter keys as well). I'd just like a nice, standard 104-key keyboard.
Thankfully, one company still makes them: IBM. The IBM Active Response keyboard is just about the only keyboard I'll ever use. And most stores try to hide it--last time I bought one, CompUSA only had multimedia keyboards and keyboards with funky layouts on their display shelves. Next to their display shelves, however, was a tall stack of IBM Active Response keyboards. Goes to show you what respect CompUSA has for them--they don't have a display model, they don't even put them on the shelves. They just have a stack of them on the floor. At least they had them, tho--I bought two just in case CompUSA soon decides not to sell them anymore.
Btw, I've not used either new keyboard yet--I'm still using the IBM AR keyboard I've been using for a year or two--I just bought the new ones as my current one was getting dirty, and I thought it'd be nice to have some backups around in case this one goes on the fritz. That was almost half a year ago.
I'd love to see how they can make me see those full-motion ads, when I've got these two extensions installed. And if I have to, I'll disable JavaScript, and uninstall all my plugins. Which I won't need to--I'll just filter out their ad URL mask with AdBlock.
Firebird also has an extension called ``Flash Click to View'' (self-explanatory) which is an incredible feature. No more annoying Flash ads!
And to really kill ads, download and set up the Internet JunkBuster proxy, which has a blockfile you can use to filter out ad sites. A quick Google will find some nice blocklists you can use as a base to build your own.
I hope they use the same plain, barebones, simplistic look on their webmail service that they use for their search engine. One thinga I hate about Yahoo! Mail was the overload of junk and heavy graphics on their main page.
Hmm...if Google does do what I suggested, it'll look kinda like FastMail.FM. And I dumped by Yahoo! address for FastMail.FM a while ago, and I imagine more have done the same...this will be a good move on Google's part.
First, most of these programs you mention aren't GNOME. Mozilla, Gaim, GIMP are not GNOME apps. They are plain GTK+ apps. GNOME is based on GTK+, but they are not the same thing.
And just because some GTK+ apps are better than KDE/Qt equivalents doesn't mean KDE/Qt doesn't have it's own killer apps. Quanta+ is by far the best HTML editor around, Kate is the ultimate GUI text editor, Konqueror in file manager mode beats Nautilus hands down. KMPlayer plays formats most other media players can't.
And as far as office suites go, don't discount KOffice. True, it's not as mature as OpenOffice.org, but the interface is perfect. Give it a year or two and it'll overtake OO.o and the GNOME office apps (AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc).
In fact, the only GNOME app I regularly use is Galeon (which I'm using to post this). And I'm referring to Galeon 1.2.x here...1.3.x is truly horrid, but 1.2.x rocks. And even with web browsers, the gap is closing...Konqueror isn't quite as good as Galeon 1.2.x, but it's getting there.
I do, however, use some non-GNOME GTK+ apps. I use Gaim, GIMP, Mozilla Thunderbird, and XMMS quite frequently. GTK-Gnutella and XChat are also good programs.
And even with both Qt and GTK+ being themable, Qt still just...looks better than GTK+. Qt just feels less clunky than GTK+. Don't ask me to explain it...I've tried various themes for both toolkits, and Qt always just looks better.
Don't just relay her orders. Tell the contractors to obey her orders without question or they're fired. Make certain that they know that the next time you have to tell them to do something she told them to do because they ignored her, they're gone.
If you have to keep relaying her orders then they'll keep on ignoring her and just keep listening to your relays.
I went in UE once, and after that, I vowed to never come back.
Why? The salesmen virtually stalked me. Everywhere I turned, some salesman would come up to me and say ``Can I help you?''. This happened about every 20 seconds. Perhaps less. The salesmen in the store outnumbered the customers by about three to one. From what I saw, they did this to both men and women in the store.
Quite frankly, I'd rather be ignored than harrassed.
Here in the Dallas area, we have the station WRR 101.1 FM.
It's publicly owned by the city, so it's free of the usual garbage from the likes of ClearChannel. It's mostly a classical music station, but it also has news and weather, and some other stuff (e.g. religious programming on sunday mornings, if you're into that sort of thing). They also cover Dallas events, such as the July 4 TrinityFest fireworks show.
In addition, they also sell some CDs in their online store, which I've also seen in various music stores around Dallas.
But I only need or want the fan, not the hard drive spinning.
I found this out a few days ago--for whatever reason, my computer's HD was spinning like crazy when I was trying to sleep. So I said ``screw this'' and just shut the thing down.
That made the problem far worse--I couldn't sleep due to the lack of noise. So I ended up having to boot it up again in order to sleep.
1) Combinations like fuch, fvck, focker, schit, schidt, "suck my dictionary" 2) Non-swearing such as cockpit, cocktail -- if you use a dictionary of acceptable words to sidestep the filter, would it still filter out non-English words such as soshite (a Japanese word)? 3) What about words that can either be used as swears or as non-swears? Dick is a man's name, and there's nothing offencive about cocking a gun or using ``ass'' to describe a donkey
I agree with most of your comments except for one thing:
There's also a Windows version of GTK. It's not too commonly used, but the Windows ports of gAIM, the GIMP, and probably some other programs do use it. And just like on Linux, GTK-Win32 is themable.
IMAP is fine...POP3 on the other hand needs to go.
I love IMAP and use it exclusively (I've no need for web-based mail...if I can't get to a mail client, I'll just ssh into my college's shell account and call up Pine from there). POP3 has so many problems. One is the fact that without server-based mail storage, portability is seriously harmed. Deleting messages in particular...I used to run into problems with quotas because I'd set my client not to delete mail from the server on download--deleting messages wouldn't work and I'd have to telnet into the server to delete them. HELO, USER, PASS, STAT, DELE ad infinitum. Why didn't I set my client to delete messages on download? Because if I did, I'd only be able to get mail on one computer.
Besides, the worth of IMAP and POP3 wasn't what TFA was talking about. He was talking about how M$ would take advantage of the deluge of spam in order to push their own, proprietary mail protocols. Just like they've done with every other open standard they've encountered.
Nice size, but I'll go with 1280x960 instead. True, I sacrifice a height of 64 pixels, but I get the advantage of using a nice 4:3 resolution, rather than an awkward 5:4.
Doesn't matter to me. I play all my RealAudio/RealVideo/RealCrap files with KMPlayer. It's really a very nice program.
I tried RealPlayer for Linux a while ago and hated it (I'm not a fan of the Windows version, but at least it worked right)..the interface sucked, and it had no aRts support, which meant things like my volume wouldn't work right (my sound card isn't too well supported on Linux...the only volume control that works is artscontrol). So I said ``screw it'' and tried to configure XMMS to use the RealAudio plugin. That failed spectacularly, so I decided to just play an RA in KMPlayer. Worked like a charm, and I've been using it since. And I'll most certainly not be usng Helix.
My only problem is that I have three separate programs I use for media:
XMMS for most audio Xine for most video KMPlayer for everything else (e.g. Real*, QuickTime)
Or, if you have to use winblows, use 98Lite. It can completely remove IE from winblows, so yes, it's quite possible to run winblows without IE (``integrated operating system component''? don't make me laugh).
Mandrake 9.1, which I use, already includes XFree86 4.3, with perfect support for my Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel's scroll wheel. In fact, it supports it better than Windoze does.
If you go to the License Builder link at the top, you'll see that there are various options you can choose, one option set governing derivative works. There are 3 options in that set:
1) Derivative works allowed with no restriction 2) No derivative works allowed 3) Derivative works allowed as long as they are licensed under the same license (i.e. GPL-style)
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...if any Congressmen agrees with Darl, and if so, their names. Why? So I can campaign for whoever's running against them, and if they're in Texas, I'll vote for one of their opponents too.
Not only is supporting SCO's actions unethical, but agreeing with Darl's statements re: open source (regardless of who says them, Darl or not) is just plain anti-freedom. And the idea of someone who hates freedom being in Congress scares me.
Am I the only one who can't stand mice?
Almost three and a half years ago, I replaced my mouse with a Logitech TrackMan Marble Wheel. I still use it today--it's the oldest piece of hardware I still use, and it still works perfectly. I have never used a pointing device that works as perfectly as this. Here are some of its features:
- It can plug into either USB or PS/2--if I need another USB port, all I have to do is shut down, attach the USB->PS/2 adaptor, and plug it into my PS/2 port.
- It's optical. Yes, you heard me, it's an optical trackball. I've never had to clean the bloody thing once in all the years I've owned it.
- It's hand-shaped. IMO, that is the single most perfect layout for a pointing device I've seen in my life. I already said I don't like mice, nor do I like non-hand-shaped trackballs (e.g. Kensington Turbo/Expert mouse...ugh). This, however, is perfect.
And since this article is on both mice and keyboards, I'll say this: where have all the good keyboards gone?
I despise multimedia keyboards. I despise keyboards with funky key layouts (I'm referring to not only very esoteric layouts here, but also keyboards with L-shaped enter keys as well). I'd just like a nice, standard 104-key keyboard.
Thankfully, one company still makes them: IBM. The IBM Active Response keyboard is just about the only keyboard I'll ever use. And most stores try to hide it--last time I bought one, CompUSA only had multimedia keyboards and keyboards with funky layouts on their display shelves. Next to their display shelves, however, was a tall stack of IBM Active Response keyboards. Goes to show you what respect CompUSA has for them--they don't have a display model, they don't even put them on the shelves. They just have a stack of them on the floor. At least they had them, tho--I bought two just in case CompUSA soon decides not to sell them anymore.
Btw, I've not used either new keyboard yet--I'm still using the IBM AR keyboard I've been using for a year or two--I just bought the new ones as my current one was getting dirty, and I thought it'd be nice to have some backups around in case this one goes on the fritz. That was almost half a year ago.
At least you can turn a cell phone off with a button. With a land line, you need to unplug every phone connected to the line.
So, with a cell, you can take it anywhere and easily turn it off anytime. With a land line, you can't take it anywhere, and it's a pain to turn off.
It's why when I moved in August, I kept my cell phone and decided not to get a land line.
AdBlock + Flash Click to View = No Annoying Ads
I'd love to see how they can make me see those full-motion ads, when I've got these two extensions installed. And if I have to, I'll disable JavaScript, and uninstall all my plugins. Which I won't need to--I'll just filter out their ad URL mask with AdBlock.
And to really kill ads, download and set up the Internet JunkBuster proxy, which has a blockfile you can use to filter out ad sites. A quick Google will find some nice blocklists you can use as a base to build your own.
I hope they use the same plain, barebones, simplistic look on their webmail service that they use for their search engine. One thinga I hate about Yahoo! Mail was the overload of junk and heavy graphics on their main page.
Hmm...if Google does do what I suggested, it'll look kinda like FastMail.FM. And I dumped by Yahoo! address for FastMail.FM a while ago, and I imagine more have done the same...this will be a good move on Google's part.
First, most of these programs you mention aren't GNOME. Mozilla, Gaim, GIMP are not GNOME apps. They are plain GTK+ apps. GNOME is based on GTK+, but they are not the same thing.
And just because some GTK+ apps are better than KDE/Qt equivalents doesn't mean KDE/Qt doesn't have it's own killer apps. Quanta+ is by far the best HTML editor around, Kate is the ultimate GUI text editor, Konqueror in file manager mode beats Nautilus hands down. KMPlayer plays formats most other media players can't.
And as far as office suites go, don't discount KOffice. True, it's not as mature as OpenOffice.org, but the interface is perfect. Give it a year or two and it'll overtake OO.o and the GNOME office apps (AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc).
In fact, the only GNOME app I regularly use is Galeon (which I'm using to post this). And I'm referring to Galeon 1.2.x here...1.3.x is truly horrid, but 1.2.x rocks. And even with web browsers, the gap is closing...Konqueror isn't quite as good as Galeon 1.2.x, but it's getting there.
I do, however, use some non-GNOME GTK+ apps. I use Gaim, GIMP, Mozilla Thunderbird, and XMMS quite frequently. GTK-Gnutella and XChat are also good programs.
And even with both Qt and GTK+ being themable, Qt still just...looks better than GTK+. Qt just feels less clunky than GTK+. Don't ask me to explain it...I've tried various themes for both toolkits, and Qt always just looks better.
Don't just relay her orders. Tell the contractors to obey her orders without question or they're fired. Make certain that they know that the next time you have to tell them to do something she told them to do because they ignored her, they're gone.
If you have to keep relaying her orders then they'll keep on ignoring her and just keep listening to your relays.
I went in UE once, and after that, I vowed to never come back.
Why? The salesmen virtually stalked me. Everywhere I turned, some salesman would come up to me and say ``Can I help you?''. This happened about every 20 seconds. Perhaps less. The salesmen in the store outnumbered the customers by about three to one. From what I saw, they did this to both men and women in the store.
Quite frankly, I'd rather be ignored than harrassed.
I thought they were the same thing...
It's publicly owned by the city, so it's free of the usual garbage from the likes of ClearChannel. It's mostly a classical music station, but it also has news and weather, and some other stuff (e.g. religious programming on sunday mornings, if you're into that sort of thing). They also cover Dallas events, such as the July 4 TrinityFest fireworks show.
In addition, they also sell some CDs in their online store, which I've also seen in various music stores around Dallas.
That's exactly the same situation with me.
But I only need or want the fan, not the hard drive spinning.
I found this out a few days ago--for whatever reason, my computer's HD was spinning like crazy when I was trying to sleep. So I said ``screw this'' and just shut the thing down.
That made the problem far worse--I couldn't sleep due to the lack of noise. So I ended up having to boot it up again in order to sleep.
In Soviet Russia, article reads YOU!
Heh...I couldn't resist that one.
More than 12 have to read it--after all, if only 12 people read it, how would the server get Slashdotted?
Here's the correct link: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
That was 30 business days. According to the SCO Countdown, there are still over 3 days left.
That's nice, but would it filter out these:
1) Combinations like fuch, fvck, focker, schit, schidt, "suck my dictionary"
2) Non-swearing such as cockpit, cocktail -- if you use a dictionary of acceptable words to sidestep the filter, would it still filter out non-English words such as soshite (a Japanese word)?
3) What about words that can either be used as swears or as non-swears? Dick is a man's name, and there's nothing offencive about cocking a gun or using ``ass'' to describe a donkey
Here are some useful KDE programs:
t hers...
KOffice (also competes with AbiWord)
Kate
Quanta
K3b
KMPlayer
Konsole
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I agree with most of your comments except for one thing:
There's also a Windows version of GTK. It's not too commonly used, but the Windows ports of gAIM, the GIMP, and probably some other programs do use it. And just like on Linux, GTK-Win32 is themable.
IMAP is fine...POP3 on the other hand needs to go.
I love IMAP and use it exclusively (I've no need for web-based mail...if I can't get to a mail client, I'll just ssh into my college's shell account and call up Pine from there). POP3 has so many problems. One is the fact that without server-based mail storage, portability is seriously harmed. Deleting messages in particular...I used to run into problems with quotas because I'd set my client not to delete mail from the server on download--deleting messages wouldn't work and I'd have to telnet into the server to delete them. HELO, USER, PASS, STAT, DELE ad infinitum. Why didn't I set my client to delete messages on download? Because if I did, I'd only be able to get mail on one computer.
Besides, the worth of IMAP and POP3 wasn't what TFA was talking about. He was talking about how M$ would take advantage of the deluge of spam in order to push their own, proprietary mail protocols. Just like they've done with every other open standard they've encountered.
Nice size, but I'll go with 1280x960 instead. True, I sacrifice a height of 64 pixels, but I get the advantage of using a nice 4:3 resolution, rather than an awkward 5:4.
Doesn't matter to me. I play all my RealAudio/RealVideo/RealCrap files with KMPlayer. It's really a very nice program.
I tried RealPlayer for Linux a while ago and hated it (I'm not a fan of the Windows version, but at least it worked right)..the interface sucked, and it had no aRts support, which meant things like my volume wouldn't work right (my sound card isn't too well supported on Linux...the only volume control that works is artscontrol). So I said ``screw it'' and tried to configure XMMS to use the RealAudio plugin. That failed spectacularly, so I decided to just play an RA in KMPlayer. Worked like a charm, and I've been using it since. And I'll most certainly not be usng Helix.
My only problem is that I have three separate programs I use for media:
XMMS for most audio
Xine for most video
KMPlayer for everything else (e.g. Real*, QuickTime)
Or, if you have to use winblows, use 98Lite. It can completely remove IE from winblows, so yes, it's quite possible to run winblows without IE (``integrated operating system component''? don't make me laugh).
Mandrake 9.1, which I use, already includes XFree86 4.3, with perfect support for my Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel's scroll wheel. In fact, it supports it better than Windoze does.
If you go to the License Builder link at the top, you'll see that there are various options you can choose, one option set governing derivative works. There are 3 options in that set:
1) Derivative works allowed with no restriction
2) No derivative works allowed
3) Derivative works allowed as long as they are licensed under the same license (i.e. GPL-style)