Re:I wonder if Cygwin really has much of a future
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One of the first things I install on a new work computer is Cygwin. What's wrong with the install process? It's a pretty much standard "Next, Next, Next" Windows install.
Two things that I do after installation for better integration with the Windows environment is creating/c,/d, etc symlinks to/cygdrive/c, cygdrive/d, etc and making Cygwin's "/home" a symlink to C:\Documents and Settings or C:\Users
Of the the most compelling (for its market) features of the OLPC is its tiny energy consumption, which can even be recharged with a hand crank. Some of these people don't even have an energy outlet at home. Try that with a 2001 Toshiba Satellite.
You do realize that regulation is the worst possible scenario for OSS in the US, right? If your government chooses to regulate OSS, all other countries in the world would automatically have an advantage over the US...
If you really, absolutely must kill the power, use the "Magic SysRq" key! Alt+PrintScreen+S will sync the filesystems, and Alt+PrintScreen+U will remount them read-only.
...one of the standard OOP pitfalls -- implementing object properties using inheritance...
No. That is not some accidental pitfall that clutzes randomly walk into. Ascribing special properties to the special class in a generalization relation is part of the plan. It's intended usage.
No! Good inheritance is behaviour inheritance, not structural inheritance. Structural inheritance only saves typing, but won't guarantee maintainability. That's what polymorphism is for, and you only get polymorphism with behaviour inheritance.
"Counted Iterations" and "Break on value" are available and very easy to use in Eclipse.
If you do Java, try Eclipse. It made me switch from 4+ years of Emacs!!!:) I know Eclipse also supports C++, but I never tried it, so I don't know how good the C++ support is.
Package managers (or installation programs) shouldn't put anything under/usr/local, there's where programs compiled by hand should go. In fact, I think making a mess out of/usr/local is even work than/usr
No need to do the dirty work by hand, that's what GNU Stow is for. Quoting from the Debian package's description:
GNU Stow helps the system administrator organise files under/usr/local/ by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under/usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that all the software is installed in the same place.
is that they don't sacrifice a portion of the (already tiny) screen exclusively for graffiti.
Don't get me wrong, I've had my PalmPilot (original + the PalmIII expansion card) for 4 years, and wouldn't replace it with Windows for nothing, but I first put my hands on a WinCE device (a Cassiopeia) last week and I think its input method is MUCH better.
That graffity area is part of the screen, and when you want to input text, you click on a button and the graffiti (Jot, really) area appears, just like the Palm's on-screen keyboard. Hasn't any PalmOS device manufacturer thought about incorporating this ingenious idea???
That would be THE real "must-have" feature for a PalmOS device.
You could use GnomeICU's chat feature for that. The other party can see what you type in real-time. The only problem is a silly bug that won't let you accept chat requests, only originate.
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One of the first things I install on a new work computer is Cygwin.
What's wrong with the install process? It's a pretty much standard "Next, Next, Next" Windows install.
Two things that I do after installation for better integration with the Windows environment is creating /c, /d, etc symlinks to /cygdrive/c, cygdrive/d, etc and making Cygwin's "/home" a symlink to C:\Documents and Settings or C:\Users
Of the the most compelling (for its market) features of the OLPC is its tiny energy consumption, which can even be recharged with a hand crank. Some of these people don't even have an energy outlet at home.
Try that with a 2001 Toshiba Satellite.
There's an extension (PalmSync) to sync Thunderbird Contacts with the Palm, maybe it works with Sunbird?
Why not use nullmailer? If it's just for local mail, it's much slicker than Postfix.
That's called the "stupid tax"
You do realize that regulation is the worst possible scenario for OSS in the US, right? If your government chooses to regulate OSS, all other countries in the world would automatically have an advantage over the US...
I know the parent is supposed to be funny (actually, it kinda is), but since I found out SoulSeek (and specially Nicotine), I don't miss Kazaa at all.
If you really, absolutely must kill the power, use the "Magic SysRq" key! Alt+PrintScreen+S will sync the filesystems, and Alt+PrintScreen+U will remount them read-only.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt.
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Or, you could simply move to a really free country.
If you do Java, try Eclipse. It made me switch from 4+ years of Emacs!!! :) I know Eclipse also supports C++, but I never tried it, so I don't know how good the C++ support is.
Package managers (or installation programs) shouldn't put anything under /usr/local, there's where programs compiled by hand should go. In fact, I think making a mess out of /usr/local is even work than /usr
Don't get me wrong, I've had my PalmPilot (original + the PalmIII expansion card) for 4 years, and wouldn't replace it with Windows for nothing, but I first put my hands on a WinCE device (a Cassiopeia) last week and I think its input method is MUCH better.
That graffity area is part of the screen, and when you want to input text, you click on a button and the graffiti (Jot, really) area appears, just like the Palm's on-screen keyboard. Hasn't any PalmOS device manufacturer thought about incorporating this ingenious idea???
That would be THE real "must-have" feature for a PalmOS device.
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Desktop publishing (PageMaker, CorelDraw). These are the only apps I miss from Winblows
You could use GnomeICU's chat feature for that. The other party can see what you type in real-time. The only problem is a silly bug that won't let you accept chat requests, only originate.
You really got TrueType fonts working? Maybe you could write a mini-HOWTO or something, I still haven't got it to work.