A WM can be a session manager too. The apps must cooperate (set relevant session hints) though.
Now, it'd be wrong for each app to do the session management for itself, because the user might want to switch between several sessions, or several session policies. So, all session settings oughtta be kept in a central repository ($HOME/.xsession perhaps).
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From the claims it appears that they've patented My Yahoo. Claim 2 seems to affect all user-customizable sites with real-time data feed, such as weather reports or stock quotes.
Fortunately this does not appear to affect our beloved./ as it's no real time data here. Or is it? Better cut that wire now! --
There's a "message" field that you are supposed to fill with a shameless plug (I am a VC++ 6.0 expert! Give me your hard-earned $2399.99, and I'll tell you how to convert a long to a string!). Put your answer there instead. If the answer is too long, put a URL.
When they kick you out, register again. Hoopla! A promising business model ruined by rabid Open Knowledge(tm) advocates! --
That's what I sometimes do in various forums, like newsgroups, mailing lists, and Slashdot.
I may consider to do the same with Infomarco, if their site ever takes off. For the time being they have only a dozen or so questions, most are lame. --
Announce that you'll convert uncompressed and RLE-compressed GIFs to LZW-compressed ones, for anybody who asks, FOR FREE, while supplies last (that is while you still have some spare cycles/bandwidth). No warranty blah blah.
Now, if you serve GIFs from your site, let UNISYS prove that your GIFs were not processed by such a filter.
I mean, if say Photoshop output GIFs with a comment "Created by Photoshop" or somesuch, and your GIF bears such a comment, it must be created by Photoshop, right? And if you don't have Photoshop it doesn't matter, because your generous neighbour does have one, and he did the conversion for you online, for free.
Umm...better have a log file to back it up <g>. --
If they really want to spot ghosts (as opposed to generating some traffic on their page), they better digitally sign every image they post. Makes manipulation really hard, without having to store the whole bunch-o-jpegs. --
Warning: this is totally offtopic. Please moderate accordingly.
Erm...it's Open Source. I'm afraid that means that you'll have to encourage speakers of Hebrew and Arabic to contribute some time and effort.
They do, but they often have trouble integrating their work back into mainstream distributions. There's for instance a separate Hebrew version of TeX, but it's, well, a separate version. It is bound to lag behind the "official" version forever.
FYI Hebrew is written mostly right to left. That's why KDE work, although very welcome, is inadequate. It's mostly message translation stuff a la gettext(). I still cannot type Hebrew text properly.
Now, it's relatively easy to add basic Hebrew support (it's slightly more complicated with Arabic) to single-font no-markup plain text widgets in each major toolkit (Qt 2.0 has it), and even have reasonable inter-toolkit consistency.
But then there are KOffice and AbiWord and Gnome Workshop and Mozilla and... I don't think any progress is possible here unless some sort of coordinated effort happens Right Now(tm), which is unlikely. --
Mindstorms brick has 16K ROM and 32K RAM. And it is priced at about $100.
Here is the challenge. Develop an alternative hardware, with more sensible specs. Like 1M flash ROM and 1M RAM, or more. Also, has to be extensible (3 sensors and 3 motors are not enough). Has to fit into Mindstorms case. Alternatively, has to have its own Lego-compatible case with at least 6 motor ports and 6 sensor ports.
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A WM can be a session manager too. The apps must cooperate (set relevant session hints) though.
Now, it'd be wrong for each app to do the session management for itself, because the user might want to switch between several sessions, or several session policies. So, all session settings oughtta be kept in a central repository ($HOME/.xsession perhaps).
Please moderate this post down for your protection.
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...controlled by Micro-Lego Micro-Mindstorms...which is of course a DNA computer...oh, nevermind.
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Or more than 100 uncompressed 16-bit-per-color 16K x 16K pictures. Now, make that recordable and fast so I can put it in a digital camera...
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Fortunately this does not appear to affect our beloved ./ as it's no real time data here. Or is it? Better cut that wire now!
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When they kick you out, register again. Hoopla! A promising business model ruined by rabid Open Knowledge(tm) advocates!
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That's what I sometimes do in various forums, like newsgroups, mailing lists, and Slashdot.
I may consider to do the same with Infomarco, if their site ever takes off. For the time being they have only a dozen or so questions, most are lame.
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If you (yes, I mean YOU):
- Have spare cycles/bandwidth on your server AND
- live in a SW-patent-free country OR
- have a licensed GIF-production software
please do this.Announce that you'll convert uncompressed and RLE-compressed GIFs to LZW-compressed ones, for anybody who asks, FOR FREE, while supplies last (that is while you still have some spare cycles/bandwidth). No warranty blah blah.
Now, if you serve GIFs from your site, let UNISYS prove that your GIFs were not processed by such a filter.
I mean, if say Photoshop output GIFs with a comment "Created by Photoshop" or somesuch, and your GIF bears such a comment, it must be created by Photoshop, right? And if you don't have Photoshop it doesn't matter, because your generous neighbour does have one, and he did the conversion for you online, for free.
Umm...better have a log file to back it up <g>.
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If they really want to spot ghosts (as opposed to generating some traffic on their page), they better digitally sign every image they post. Makes manipulation really hard, without having to store the whole bunch-o-jpegs.
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FYI Hebrew is written mostly right to left. That's why KDE work, although very welcome, is inadequate. It's mostly message translation stuff a la gettext(). I still cannot type Hebrew text properly.
Now, it's relatively easy to add basic Hebrew support (it's slightly more complicated with Arabic) to single-font no-markup plain text widgets in each major toolkit (Qt 2.0 has it), and even have reasonable inter-toolkit consistency.
But then there are KOffice and AbiWord and Gnome Workshop and Mozilla and... I don't think any progress is possible here unless some sort of coordinated effort happens Right Now(tm), which is unlikely.
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I feel sorry for my own country (which is called Israel for the time being). Such a proposal would never make it here.
Why? Because no single Open Source(TM) project worth mentioning has adequate support for freakin' Hebrew, much less for Arabic.
Most of Israeli geeks can live with English-only software; our government cannot. So it MUST use non-free software.
(Moderation suggestion: -1; offtopic.)
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There are numerous Deja front ends on the Web. They try to filter out all the crap.
If you use "My Deja" for reading/posting, use this instead:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/mydn_forums.xp
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Also, I don't understand why they split this tiny review into three pages -- to show us more ad banners or what?
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Here is the challenge. Develop an alternative hardware, with more sensible specs. Like 1M flash ROM and 1M RAM, or more. Also, has to be extensible (3 sensors and 3 motors are not enough). Has to fit into Mindstorms case. Alternatively, has to have its own Lego-compatible case with at least 6 motor ports and 6 sensor ports.
This is probably a good place to start.
If priced at $100 (heck, even at $200) I'll buy it.
Then I'll consider to drive it with JINI. (I'll probably wont't do it anyway.)
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Now I have a question. If I make an API that makes it easy to use any kind of plugin, including a crypto plugin, am I safe?
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This should explain a lot.
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autoconf?
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who needs it, all I want is a modern incarnation of The Handy Board. I have a really cool Lego project in mind...
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Also noticed that UML books are popular in Europe.
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Israel: Israel and the Bomb, Susanne Vega, Design Patterns, Effective C++, The C++ Programming Language, More effective C++.
Lebanon: Day trading stuff, Satanic verses (Ok that's fiction), How-to-become-a-millionaire stuff.
Ukraine: GMAT (that's not GNAT, mind you).
China: EVERYTHING is about China.
Qatar: Oracle, Oracle, Oracle.
Papua New Guinea: The Camel book is among the 7 that listed (it's 20 for most countries).
Barbados: Java stuff (also 7 books listed. Coincidence?)
Also, Microsoft stuff (of course) and Motley Fool are everywhere. Hmm, interesting...
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So ok it is SGI's enhanced version.
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Yahoo people search reveals that this guy is/was reachable @ msn dot com. Which basically proves the subject line. He is probably incapable of it.
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Here.
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Sitting in front of IRIX 6.4 box recently downgraded from 6.5 because of severe problems with the debugger (and gdb won't work on IRIX 6.x either).
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