nice to see another wmii user. I've been mentioning it a bunch myself lately. I came across it in trying to find a decent window manager that I could control, comfortably, all via the keyboard, and wmii fit the bill best for me. especially if you live in a bunch of xterms (which I do at work), having a tiling mode in your session is sooo much more efficient, and compared to others I tried, wmii was simply the best in terms of balancing features and ease of use (at least to me).
at home though, it's mainly gnome or kde for me. having the wife and kids learn metakey-combos to cycle through windows and open up programs isn't all that practical;-)
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hey that was supposed to be plain text...
shift + arrow keys I meant.
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although (for work) I use 'real' xterms in a wmii tiled window session, one thing I do appreciate about konsole is the ability to quickly shift through your open tabs with -arrowkeys. Very natural and very fast.
last I checked on it, gnome-terminal was terrible in it's tab shifting ability requiring either some awkward key combo or moving via your mouse, which just sucks.
I guess if you're a windows or mac user you'd have a harder time with this, but lately I've been developping a number of signs of badness in my right hand/arm. There may be a number of factors there, but one thing I've identified was mouse usage (one thing is I seem to show signs of problem with the ulnar nerve, I'm thinking in part from my poor posture re mousing, e.g. pressing my wrist on the edge of the desk). As such, I've moved myself (at work, not home) to try to minimize mouse usage, using a window manager that allows me to effectively control stuff as much as possible, and easily, with keystrokes.
Some folks at my work use ion; I tried it but didn't get into it. So searching around came to this: http://wmii.de/ which for me has done the trick. (really nice wm btw, particularly if like me you live in a bunch of open xterms, most people haven't even heard of it though)
Still dealing with pain, (I _really_ need to get myself to a doctor...) but I think the above has helped me in improving my habits.
small bit of info for you, but slackware certainly did _not_ come from redhat. in fact, it's the oldest surviving distro out there (originally based on a now deceased distro called SLS)
I don't imagine the root of the exploit was due to the hardware, osx is osx for the most part. from what I understand, osx server edition, eg. the one they put on xserves, is pretty much the same as what you'll get on your regular mac + the addition of a number of extra services and gui tools to configure them. if anything (wild guess here) I'd think it'd be more open to potential vulneribilities than it's smaller brother.
true, though a timeshare box on a college campus is somewhere you would easily see such a setup. remember though, this is (supposed to be) a *nix we're talking about. local user accounts should not be able to inflict such damage due to better seperation of priviliedges that exist in this world.
except for the fact that the really "interesting" boxes out there for crackers are (most?)often linux/solaris/*nix boxes. it ain't grandma jones' windows 95 compie that she plays solitaire on, it's that sunfire running oracle with the employee payroll database they'll be after.
it was setup as a typical server. without ssh, how exactly would you propose enabling access to it? telnet?? unless you actually like having to console in to 100+ servers via a serial cable...
the problem with the statement is that (to me) it implies that it's what google uses for it's production linux, i.e. it's immense farm of linux servers (which from I understood are a heavily modified version of redhat or something), not just what some in-house developpers have running on their desktop.
even as to the latter, unless google has changed, and they may very well have, I thought that in house people there had various preferences as to what their distro of choice to use was. I didn't think there was a company wide, you shall all use this one distro rule. If so, that would actually surprise me considering the way google works. (google employees feel free to correct me...)
"Ubuntu (open source software being used by Google) founder and leader Mark Shuttleworth"
well there's a little mistatement, or at least exageration about google + ubuntu...
anyhow, not a judgement call on it, but does it seem M Shuttleworth seems to be becoming the talking head for Linux stuff nowadays, simalar to ESR before (as in the go to guy for the press, not in the raving, neo-con who's "not conservative", gun nut, wacko type sense...)
mentioned some this in an above post, but here's some good ones for kids (at least on linux):
for games: tuxracer (ppracer), tuxkart, supertux, pingus
for education: gcompris, tuxpaint, tuxtype, tuxmath, tuxspeed, childsplay (haven't tried that one)
hmm, notice a lot of penguins in there?;-)
mind you, my oldest son's (7) _favorite_ games on linux are actually battle for wesnoth and freecraft. WARNING: you might not want to let 'em on those 2, very addictive...
though I do enforce my kid in grade 2 to learn proper handwriting, I have to confess I'm not sure how useful it is either right now. I don't use it much now myself either... I have to wonder if one day handwriting might go the way of calligraphy.
there are some pretty nice games out there for kids in linux land, thankfully. this is something I actually care about quite a bit (particularly since I now have 2 young boys of my own). I'd like to see more effort in this direction personally, sadly we still don't have anything of the quality of say the jumpstart games or learning rabbit (whatever it's called). I wonder, is there a site out there that bring together all this info for linux + kids stuff?
agreed. I not to long ago sold our nintendo gamecube due to my oldest son's negative behaviour when he'd be playing it. Now, the console of choice in our house is an Atari 2600. Guess what, he and his brother (7 and 2) love the thing. I even can play with them and have some fun doing it... (joust, combat, checkers are all pretty good 2 player games). It's my vague, distant memory from childhood that when the atari first came out it was actually a family gaming system, not just from 16 year old males.
plus, bonus end, you can still find games for it in second hand shops, and they tend to be dirt cheap.
since he's 13, I'd think he'd be old enough for something more complex than logo for instance. so, since he likes games, a good language would be one he could write some in (i.e. no COBOL for him), but as a bonus might turn into a marketable/useful skill later on in the non-gaming world if he keeps an interest. There's a number of C++ for beginning games books out there, but I might actually lean more toward learning something with quicker results, say perl combined with SDL_perl (recently mentioned here on/.) or python + pygame.
and as the parent of young 'uns, I've (or rather my oldest son (7)) been discovering how much there is out there in terms of kids flash based games. and not just the old yahoo! type space invaders games of yore, full blown stuff a while back you would have had to pay for. one of my oldest's favorite site lately appears to be this: http://club.lego.com/eng/games/ , there many more (pbs kids, kids wb, tvo kids, etc...) mind you, I have noticed that flash on safari here (osx on a g4 with a gig of ram) really can bring the system to a crawl (haven't used firefox on osx much, though extensively on other platforms)
I know what you mean. I got a powerbook here from my work, and may soon have the opportunity to get a new laptop. I don't think it'll be a powerbook (or macbook) again... OSX is alright, but I'm a linux guy, it's what I work with, and what I prefer for various and sundry reasons. You can of course get linux to work on them, but it's really not all that functional (no wireless, single button for the mousepad, no DRI support (at least on the PPC models)). I'm open to alternative suggestions.
I remember not all that long ago schwartz suggesting in an open letter just that. I thought it was just wishful thinking/postering, but maybe he really meant it. Got to admit, it would be an interesting merger of technologies.
"Nobody really needs it and it definitely is bad as a default setting."
Except I do. In my case, and I'd suspect a number of folk at the uni I work for, it allows me to see my inbox contents, an open email, and all the umpteen bboards I subscribe at the same college telling me which ones have new messages in them. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant...
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nice to see another wmii user. I've been mentioning it a bunch myself lately. I came across it in trying to find a decent window manager that I could control, comfortably, all via the keyboard, and wmii fit the bill best for me. especially if you live in a bunch of xterms (which I do at work), having a tiling mode in your session is sooo much more efficient, and compared to others I tried, wmii was simply the best in terms of balancing features and ease of use (at least to me).
;-)
at home though, it's mainly gnome or kde for me. having the wife and kids learn metakey-combos to cycle through windows and open up programs isn't all that practical
hey that was supposed to be plain text...
shift + arrow keys I meant.
although (for work) I use 'real' xterms in a wmii tiled window session, one thing I do appreciate about konsole is the ability to quickly shift through your open tabs with -arrowkeys. Very natural and very fast.
last I checked on it, gnome-terminal was terrible in it's tab shifting ability requiring either some awkward key combo or moving via your mouse, which just sucks.
Some folks at my work use ion; I tried it but didn't get into it. So searching around came to this: http://wmii.de/ which for me has done the trick. (really nice wm btw, particularly if like me you live in a bunch of open xterms, most people haven't even heard of it though)
Still dealing with pain, (I _really_ need to get myself to a doctor...) but I think the above has helped me in improving my habits.
small bit of info for you, but slackware certainly did _not_ come from redhat. in fact, it's the oldest surviving distro out there (originally based on a now deceased distro called SLS)
I don't imagine the root of the exploit was due to the hardware, osx is osx for the most part. from what I understand, osx server edition, eg. the one they put on xserves, is pretty much the same as what you'll get on your regular mac + the addition of a number of extra services and gui tools to configure them. if anything (wild guess here) I'd think it'd be more open to potential vulneribilities than it's smaller brother.
true, though a timeshare box on a college campus is somewhere you would easily see such a setup. remember though, this is (supposed to be) a *nix we're talking about. local user accounts should not be able to inflict such damage due to better seperation of priviliedges that exist in this world.
except for the fact that the really "interesting" boxes out there for crackers are (most?)often linux/solaris/*nix boxes. it ain't grandma jones' windows 95 compie that she plays solitaire on, it's that sunfire running oracle with the employee payroll database they'll be after.
it was setup as a typical server. without ssh, how exactly would you propose enabling access to it? telnet?? unless you actually like having to console in to 100+ servers via a serial cable...
open directory? been working with too much ms stuff have we?
the problem with the statement is that (to me) it implies that it's what google uses for it's production linux, i.e. it's immense farm of linux servers (which from I understood are a heavily modified version of redhat or something), not just what some in-house developpers have running on their desktop.
even as to the latter, unless google has changed, and they may very well have, I thought that in house people there had various preferences as to what their distro of choice to use was. I didn't think there was a company wide, you shall all use this one distro rule. If so, that would actually surprise me considering the way google works. (google employees feel free to correct me...)
"Ubuntu (open source software being used by Google) founder and leader Mark Shuttleworth"
well there's a little mistatement, or at least exageration about google + ubuntu...
anyhow, not a judgement call on it, but does it seem M Shuttleworth seems to be becoming the talking head for Linux stuff nowadays, simalar to ESR before (as in the go to guy for the press, not in the raving, neo-con who's "not conservative", gun nut, wacko type sense...)
mentioned some this in an above post, but here's some good ones for kids (at least on linux):
;-)
for games: tuxracer (ppracer), tuxkart, supertux, pingus
for education: gcompris, tuxpaint, tuxtype, tuxmath, tuxspeed, childsplay (haven't tried that one)
hmm, notice a lot of penguins in there?
mind you, my oldest son's (7) _favorite_ games on linux are actually battle for wesnoth and freecraft. WARNING: you might not want to let 'em on those 2, very addictive...
though I do enforce my kid in grade 2 to learn proper handwriting, I have to confess I'm not sure how useful it is either right now. I don't use it much now myself either... I have to wonder if one day handwriting might go the way of calligraphy.
there are some pretty nice games out there for kids in linux land, thankfully. this is something I actually care about quite a bit (particularly since I now have 2 young boys of my own). I'd like to see more effort in this direction personally, sadly we still don't have anything of the quality of say the jumpstart games or learning rabbit (whatever it's called). I wonder, is there a site out there that bring together all this info for linux + kids stuff?
hmm, maybe I should make one....
agreed. I not to long ago sold our nintendo gamecube due to my oldest son's negative behaviour when he'd be playing it. Now, the console of choice in our house is an Atari 2600. Guess what, he and his brother (7 and 2) love the thing. I even can play with them and have some fun doing it... (joust, combat, checkers are all pretty good 2 player games). It's my vague, distant memory from childhood that when the atari first came out it was actually a family gaming system, not just from 16 year old males.
plus, bonus end, you can still find games for it in second hand shops, and they tend to be dirt cheap.
since he's 13, I'd think he'd be old enough for something more complex than logo for instance. so, since he likes games, a good language would be one he could write some in (i.e. no COBOL for him), but as a bonus might turn into a marketable/useful skill later on in the non-gaming world if he keeps an interest. There's a number of C++ for beginning games books out there, but I might actually lean more toward learning something with quicker results, say perl combined with SDL_perl (recently mentioned here on /.) or python + pygame.
And let's not forget the "real" vanguard for you old schoolers out there:
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http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?Softwa
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http://coinop.org/g.aspx/100208/Vanguard.html
well, actually perl-sdl 1.19, not 2.x, but still, shows some of what can be done.
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ example of a nifty game written with sdl_perl
and as the parent of young 'uns, I've (or rather my oldest son (7)) been discovering how much there is out there in terms of kids flash based games. and not just the old yahoo! type space invaders games of yore, full blown stuff a while back you would have had to pay for. one of my oldest's favorite site lately appears to be this: http://club.lego.com/eng/games/ , there many more (pbs kids, kids wb, tvo kids, etc...) mind you, I have noticed that flash on safari here (osx on a g4 with a gig of ram) really can bring the system to a crawl (haven't used firefox on osx much, though extensively on other platforms)
I know what you mean. I got a powerbook here from my work, and may soon have the opportunity to get a new laptop. I don't think it'll be a powerbook (or macbook) again... OSX is alright, but I'm a linux guy, it's what I work with, and what I prefer for various and sundry reasons. You can of course get linux to work on them, but it's really not all that functional (no wireless, single button for the mousepad, no DRI support (at least on the PPC models)). I'm open to alternative suggestions.
of course, as someone else pointed out before, the macheads might now go claiming that "sure it's intel, but it's _apple optimized_ intel..."
I remember not all that long ago schwartz suggesting in an open letter just that. I thought it was just wishful thinking/postering, but maybe he really meant it. Got to admit, it would be an interesting merger of technologies.
"Nobody really needs it and it definitely is bad as a default setting."
Except I do. In my case, and I'd suspect a number of folk at the uni I work for, it allows me to see my inbox contents, an open email, and all the umpteen bboards I subscribe at the same college telling me which ones have new messages in them. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant...