Why of course, everything done in Linux is done first and foremost to spite BSD users and not for any other reason whatsoever. I thought everyone knew that already.
/Janne
Re:Google and online language shift
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Google Recaps 2001
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· Score: 1, Interesting
It's even more interesting that a Swedish word manages to get the fifth spot; Half the population must have been searching for it to get this high...
I agree. I use Gnome on my main desktop, but my poor little P133 laptop is feeling a lot better with something lighter. I'm continuously waffling between WindowMaker and XFce on that machine, and I don't really see me decide for one over the other in the near future, but we'll see how this new release stands up.
Mplayer is using some libraries whose licence forbids binary distribution. They are working on replacing these, but until then you won't have binaries of the thing.
I'm an avid Linux user, but I think this is correct; Linux will not have penetrated the desktop far enough to be a major player in 2004. It will probably have made some pretty great strides by then (I figure both GNOME and KDE will be fully useable for newbies by 2003 - and no, they aren't today), but it will take longer than that (if ever) to become the dominant desktop.
You might want to watch movies, especially if you have a DVD player in your computer and don't feel the need for a separate DVD player for your television. It may come as a surprise, but there are quite a few people who prefer to watch movies in their couch, rather than by their desk.
I've gone in the other direction; I've sold my tv and bought a tv card instead. After all, my desk chair is the most comfortable seat in my home and I spend a lot of time there anyway.
True, but what to do when the next security vulnerability shows up - and the patch is not signed by your trusted certificate, but by another Microsoft certificate? Upgrade, and install a patch that could be trojaned; or refrain, and leave a vulnerability wide open.
FLOPS is just as bad; it only measures FPU performance, so it's only remotely accurate for math intensive apps; also, just as for CPU speed, it totally ignores how much work you actually accomplish during a cycle. We might as well go with BOGOMips - at least we know those aren't accurate...
/Janne
First, on a typical system, not all data is really worth backing up; the OS and all applications can be reinstalled in the event of a crash (for Linux, it might even be slightly beneficial, as you'll reinstall newer versions and get rid of various cruft you've forgotten you have). Some data has been saved just because it's convenient or simply less bother than having to actively remove it (for me, I tend to collect old logs, various mails I never will look at again and documentation that's several revisions old). A lot of mp3:s and movies may already be burned onto CD:s. That filled 40Gb drive may actually 'only' contain 4-5 Gb of data that actually needs to be backed up.
The data I actually need to back up I manage by having the important stuff an specified directories, then mirroring them over the net to my machine at work. By doing it incrementally, there is little time or bandwith wasted.
Except, of course, if the fuel cell runs out, you just replace a fuel canister, whereas a backup battery has a very definite time limit before failing.
OK, I can't comment on the statistics. I suspect it's fairly accurate, though; it depends of course on the definition of 'disabled'.
Sometimes, people forget (I'm not accusing you of this) that making things easier for the disabled makes things easier for the rest of us as well. A wide elevator and access ramps are essential for someone in a whellchair, but are also a great help whenever you need to move something heavy. Kitchen utensils designed for arthritic use are usually also much easier to use for everybody. Websites designed to comply with standards for screenreaders are easier to navigate with a text browser as well. Consistent menu and button placements are a help both for visually impaired and for everyone else.
Yes, there is a very strong current of materialism in the whole Christmas phenomenon (one reason I don't celebrate it anymore). Drooling over a flat-screen monitor is for me a bit more than crass commercialism, though. My computer is my primary work tool, and I spend many hours a day in front of it. Having a steady, flicker-free screen (as well as a good keyboard) is a health matter as much as anything else; it's less tiring and gives less headaches. Same thing with a good keyboard or a decent chair. That _is_ happiness in the long run.
har man engelska som förstaspråk har man inte samma behov av att lära sig andra språk heller. Vi har tur som _måste_ lära oss fler språk för att kunna göra oss förstådda.
Sen har översättningens kvalitet ingenting med att göra med att jag inte vill ha textat; förstår man engelska obehindrat är det bara störigt med textremsan.
/Janne
New GTK+
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Don't forget that an all-new GTK+ version is just coming out, a cleaner design, vastly improved i18n support, and all. I suggest you look at GTK2 (and it's C++ wrappers) as well, as this is what's going to be used, rather than the current version.
Fuel cells aren't really batteries at all in the normal sense. They aren't closed systems, so you don't recharge them, you refill with more methanol. This is a good thing, as it would only take a matter of a minute to get from empty to full, so no more need to have two sets of batteries lying around.
Since they aren't recharged (pushing the chemical reaction in reverse) there is no memory problem either.
MI3 was fairly playable under Wine (with the occasional rough spot). Maybe it's time to dust off the first two and go through them again. Let's see, was it the blue and green drinks you mixed?
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Why of course, everything done in Linux is done first and foremost to spite BSD users and not for any other reason whatsoever. I thought everyone knew that already.
/Janne
It's even more interesting that a Swedish word manages to get the fifth spot; Half the population must have been searching for it to get this high...
/Janne
I agree. I use Gnome on my main desktop, but my poor little P133 laptop is feeling a lot better with something lighter. I'm continuously waffling between WindowMaker and XFce on that machine, and I don't really see me decide for one over the other in the near future, but we'll see how this new release stands up.
/Janne
It's a quarter million here in the USA.
In other parts of the world it is a
quarter billion.
Eh, no. An american Billion (10^9) is a Milliard in the rest of the world, while a Billion in the rest of the world is 10^12. The Million is the same.
/Janne
Mplayer is using some libraries whose licence forbids binary distribution. They are working on replacing these, but until then you won't have binaries of the thing.
/Janne
I'm an avid Linux user, but I think this is correct; Linux will not have penetrated the desktop far enough to be a major player in 2004. It will probably have made some pretty great strides by then (I figure both GNOME and KDE will be fully useable for newbies by 2003 - and no, they aren't today), but it will take longer than that (if ever) to become the dominant desktop.
/Janne
What illegal product? In most of the world it is not illegal, and it has yet to be found illegal even in the unilted states.
/Janne
I'd rather bring a girl to the movies. At home there are better things to do than staring at a television...
You might want to watch movies, especially if you have a DVD player in your computer and don't feel the need for a separate DVD player for your television. It may come as a surprise, but there are quite a few people who prefer to watch movies in their couch, rather than by their desk.
I've gone in the other direction; I've sold my tv and bought a tv card instead. After all, my desk chair is the most comfortable seat in my home and I spend a lot of time there anyway.
/Janne
True, but what to do when the next security vulnerability shows up - and the patch is not signed by your trusted certificate, but by another Microsoft certificate? Upgrade, and install a patch that could be trojaned; or refrain, and leave a vulnerability wide open.
/Janne
FLOPS is just as bad; it only measures FPU performance, so it's only remotely accurate for math intensive apps; also, just as for CPU speed, it totally ignores how much work you actually accomplish during a cycle. We might as well go with BOGOMips - at least we know those aren't accurate...
/Janne
First, on a typical system, not all data is really worth backing up; the OS and all applications can be reinstalled in the event of a crash (for Linux, it might even be slightly beneficial, as you'll reinstall newer versions and get rid of various cruft you've forgotten you have). Some data has been saved just because it's convenient or simply less bother than having to actively remove it (for me, I tend to collect old logs, various mails I never will look at again and documentation that's several revisions old). A lot of mp3:s and movies may already be burned onto CD:s. That filled 40Gb drive may actually 'only' contain 4-5 Gb of data that actually needs to be backed up.
The data I actually need to back up I manage by having the important stuff an specified directories, then mirroring them over the net to my machine at work. By doing it incrementally, there is little time or bandwith wasted.
/Janne
Except, of course, if the fuel cell runs out, you just replace a fuel canister, whereas a backup battery has a very definite time limit before failing.
/Janne
OK, I can't comment on the statistics. I suspect it's fairly accurate, though; it depends of course on the definition of 'disabled'.
Sometimes, people forget (I'm not accusing you of this) that making things easier for the disabled makes things easier for the rest of us as well. A wide elevator and access ramps are essential for someone in a whellchair, but are also a great help whenever you need to move something heavy. Kitchen utensils designed for arthritic use are usually also much easier to use for everybody. Websites designed to comply with standards for screenreaders are easier to navigate with a text browser as well. Consistent menu and button placements are a help both for visually impaired and for everyone else.
/Janne
Take a look at the GNOME accessibility project to see what is being done under GNOME.
/Janne
so the whole "but its free" doesn't really offset the fact that its not fully compatible.
No, I agree. The whole "Do you want more Outlook viruses in your company intranet?" might well do it, however.
/Janne
And Gnumeric is slated to go 1.0 around the end of the year. Things are looking good for my favorite apps.
/Janne
Yes, there is a very strong current of materialism in the whole Christmas phenomenon (one reason I don't celebrate it anymore). Drooling over a flat-screen monitor is for me a bit more than crass commercialism, though. My computer is my primary work tool, and I spend many hours a day in front of it. Having a steady, flicker-free screen (as well as a good keyboard) is a health matter as much as anything else; it's less tiring and gives less headaches. Same thing with a good keyboard or a decent chair. That _is_ happiness in the long run.
/Janne
Oh, that's fine for miniature models, I suppose. I carry mine in a scabbard on my back.
/janne
har man engelska som förstaspråk har man inte samma behov av att lära sig andra språk heller. Vi har tur som _måste_ lära oss fler språk för att kunna göra oss förstådda.
Sen har översättningens kvalitet ingenting med att göra med att jag inte vill ha textat; förstår man engelska obehindrat är det bara störigt med textremsan.
/Janne
Don't forget that an all-new GTK+ version is just coming out, a cleaner design, vastly improved i18n support, and all. I suggest you look at GTK2 (and it's C++ wrappers) as well, as this is what's going to be used, rather than the current version.
/Janne
Fuel cells aren't really batteries at all in the normal sense. They aren't closed systems, so you don't recharge them, you refill with more methanol. This is a good thing, as it would only take a matter of a minute to get from empty to full, so no more need to have two sets of batteries lying around.
Since they aren't recharged (pushing the chemical reaction in reverse) there is no memory problem either.
/Janne
Almost as annoying are people that start out their reply with `No.' -- and then follow it with complete drivel.
No. The churchmans driveyard if filled with cucumber patties. "Whallyop!" cried the toady queen, of the mice that lists the bardic salamanders.
MI3 was fairly playable under Wine (with the occasional rough spot). Maybe it's time to dust off the first two and go through them again. Let's see, was it the blue and green drinks you mixed?
/Janne
I think you are due a humour transplant.
/Janne