"Both Gnome and KDE tried the whole component thing with CORBA and abandoned it for performance and complexity reasons."
Actually KDE came up with KParts, which are used all throughout KDE. In fact, Konqueror is pretty much just a universal KParts viewer (which feeds the KParts info from KIO-Slaves).
XUL is too slow to make an entire DE. Can you imagine a desktop environment WRITTEN IN JAVASCRIPT?!?!?! (or technically emca script?) My god, thats one freakishly scary (and slow, and memory intensive) desktop environment... I think it would make the people running XFCE and enlightenment scream, and the people running blackbox, rat poison, and other tiny WM head's explode.
And don't forget that on *nix XUL uses GTK's widgets... I can see the OOM Killer going wild already!
XUL is already blamed for a lot of the speed issues with Firefox, why would I want the DE to be even slower? And why would Mozilla do this other than to try and get more attention? Do they have any ideas that are different enough from the existing environments (like KDE and GNOME or even enlightenment and XFCE) that they need to make a NEW environment?
In all honesty, unless Mozilla Corporation/Foundation has an actually INCREDIBLY AMAZING NEW idea that CANT be done with any of the existing DEs this is probably the stupidest ideas I've heard in a LONG time.
Except you can do all sorts of nasty tricks with javascript to obfuscate the redirection and other stuff. I remember a long time ago on Xanga's blog site you were allowed to put a limited subset of javascript in one section, but eventually someone can up with a way to get around the limits (I think it involved using document.write to write more javascript code) which you could then use to steal the cookies of anyone that was logged in to visit your page (so you could access most parts of their account, except posting and a couple other things, though you could view all their posts even ones marked private/protected).
If you don't know that Intel Macs are PCs, STFU. If you claim your Intel Mac is better than a PC, STFU. If you claim you're superior to PC users, please contact your local firing squad, then STFU.
Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real PC users. Keep your filthy "PowerPC" fingers to yourselves.
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"KWallet appears to be closer to the gnome password manager than the newer gpg management feature. Since I removed KDE from my system a year and a half ago, I cannot verify this."
Link is work safe. He looks like a mix of michael jackson and some stupid emo kid that has been crying (it looks like he has black eyeliner thats running down his face!).
I probably shouldn't be calling people emo while listening to My Chemical Romance...
You can buy the HDMI cables for as cheap as $6 from what I've read. And as for Monster Cables, the 'Monster' refers to the price (plus gold sounds more expensive so they can charge more!)
Actually DVI is NOT digital only. DVI includes extra pins so you can plug and DVI-to-VGA converter into it then a VGA monitor and have it work fine. If you plug in a DVI monitor that can do digital, the signal will be pure digital. So really its digital only, or analog only, depending on what you plug in.
What makes you say opera was 'fast tracked' by that email (other than the author's email ended with @opera.com, and it was CCed to w3.org people/lists)?
Eco-Terrorists have already blown stuff up (including at least one time where they accidentally started a forest fire when trying to burn down a car dealership, it was estimated they had a bigger impact on the environment from that than all of the cars on the dealership would have had in 20 years).
Don't bother, the exact quote "The mechanism for carbon dioxide IR trapping has been known since 1935 and it's not up for debate." has been posted about a dozen times in response to this article, he has obviously made up his mind and will not listen to any evidence that would contradict his beliefs.
Yes it is. A good scientist will tell you science is always up for debate, and anyone that says otherwise has just turned that version of science into their own religion.
Your article was from 2005, through 2006 there was far more evidence showing Mars was warming (including reports from NASA and other groups saying exactly that).
Um... No. The GPL doesn't to take away your rights to distribute a closed source program. You can distribute them all the time. But if you link against a GPL program/lib THEN distribute your program/lib, you would have to follow the GPL. If you don't accept the GPL you have to follow normal copyright law which means you can't distribute it REGARDLESS of your license if you link against it.
The GPL is NOT limiting anyones rights beyond copyright law, you might say its more limiting than the LGPL or modified BSD, but you can't say its more restrictive than no license at all.
Also an EULA is an agreement the end user is supposed to agree to to be able to use the software, the GPL is a copyright license that a distributor must agree to to be legally able to distribute any program that includes/links against GPL code.
You can not agree to the GPL and still use GPL software. You just can't distribute the software in any form without agreeing to it. GPL just covers 'copying'.
I haven't been very involved with the Fedora world for a few years now, but back when I used Fedora it was possible to upgrade a live machine from one version to another, but it was recommended against. I believe they recommended that you reinstall, or use the 'upgrade' option on the DVD/CD. I don't really have much of a problem doing a live upgrade (though I used apt4rpm, not yum... I hated yum, so slow, and would always crap out on any even slightly complex dependencies... at least back in the days of FC1/2/3).
That'll protect against everything, yep... except other drivers... or DMA devices (I remember a while back someone created a USB device that when it was plugged into the computer could arbitrarily access all data in RAM because of problems with the USB stack), or having the OS ran in a VM, or simply using a key logger to capture the password. I've only seen the Windows password stuff come up a couple times (when writing a VBA application of all things!) and it didn't come up in the 'secure desktop' or anything so it most likely would have been vulnerable to any key logger.
News outlets completely screw up the facts all the time (they don't really have much of an issue reporting incorrect information, since who's gonna call them out on it, their own people?). I'm gonna guess in this case someone at the BBC either heard something along the lines of along the lines that build 7 is going to collapse and then accidentally had it reported as 'did collapse', or maybe they just mixed up which buildings were gonna collapse.
But really, why is this one media screw up an issue, when theres probably countless ones on a daily basis where the media reports 'hear say' as facts (I remember a while ago when one of the mining incidents occurred that a reporter over heard some random person asking over the phone something along the 'they're all alive?' and then the reporter and his network started broadcast that they're all alive (quickly followed by every single other network they heard one report it), eventually the rescue crews announced i think that only 1 survived and then the media tried to pretend that they never were saying they were all alive. Pretty much all of the networks want to be the first to report every single thing that they'll be willing to use sketchy (and sometimes even obviously fake) sources. Don't forget Occam's razor, since the options are "they just fucked it up again and don't want to admit it", or "its some sort of vast cospiracy that for some reason they were in on".
As a recent Windows convert, i'll be the first to admit that Internet Explorer is a better browser for both Mac and PC.
Firefox incorrectly renders lots of sites. Internet Explorer seems to be better about most sites.
And....it's free.
-- My point is that a lot of the sites that are rendered incorrectly do so because they were made non standard to work with Netscape, so Firefox just keeps on misrendering them. WebKit/KHTML are actually far more standards compliant than Firefox (which is probably one of the least standards compliant browsers, not counting IE which is just so bad as to make Firefox look good), they just don't handle bad code (that Netscape/IE helped create) as well as Firefox and IE. How browsers handle bad code is important though, which is why tests like the Acid2 test ARE important (browsers need to render both bad code and good code the same so this horrible nightmare of crappy websites that only rendering in one browser will end).
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"Both Gnome and KDE tried the whole component thing with CORBA and abandoned it for performance and complexity reasons."
Actually KDE came up with KParts, which are used all throughout KDE. In fact, Konqueror is pretty much just a universal KParts viewer (which feeds the KParts info from KIO-Slaves).
XUL is too slow to make an entire DE. Can you imagine a desktop environment WRITTEN IN JAVASCRIPT?!?!?! (or technically emca script?) My god, thats one freakishly scary (and slow, and memory intensive) desktop environment... I think it would make the people running XFCE and enlightenment scream, and the people running blackbox, rat poison, and other tiny WM head's explode.
And don't forget that on *nix XUL uses GTK's widgets... I can see the OOM Killer going wild already!
XUL is already blamed for a lot of the speed issues with Firefox, why would I want the DE to be even slower? And why would Mozilla do this other than to try and get more attention? Do they have any ideas that are different enough from the existing environments (like KDE and GNOME or even enlightenment and XFCE) that they need to make a NEW environment?
In all honesty, unless Mozilla Corporation/Foundation has an actually INCREDIBLY AMAZING NEW idea that CANT be done with any of the existing DEs this is probably the stupidest ideas I've heard in a LONG time.
Except you can do all sorts of nasty tricks with javascript to obfuscate the redirection and other stuff. I remember a long time ago on Xanga's blog site you were allowed to put a limited subset of javascript in one section, but eventually someone can up with a way to get around the limits (I think it involved using document.write to write more javascript code) which you could then use to steal the cookies of anyone that was logged in to visit your page (so you could access most parts of their account, except posting and a couple other things, though you could view all their posts even ones marked private/protected).
It isn't as easy as you'd think it would be.
If you don't know that Intel Macs are PCs, STFU.
If you claim your Intel Mac is better than a PC, STFU.
If you claim you're superior to PC users, please contact your local firing squad, then STFU.
Bandwagon jumpers are not welcome among real PC users. Keep your filthy "PowerPC" fingers to yourselves.
Nope, more mono in fact (Tomboy is mono IIRC).
"KWallet appears to be closer to the gnome password manager than the newer gpg management feature. Since I removed KDE from my system a year and a half ago, I cannot verify this."
Sounds like you're looking for KGpg then.
http://edified.org/external/crook
Link is work safe. He looks like a mix of michael jackson and some stupid emo kid that has been crying (it looks like he has black eyeliner thats running down his face!).
I probably shouldn't be calling people emo while listening to My Chemical Romance...
You can buy the HDMI cables for as cheap as $6 from what I've read. And as for Monster Cables, the 'Monster' refers to the price (plus gold sounds more expensive so they can charge more!)
Actually DVI is NOT digital only. DVI includes extra pins so you can plug and DVI-to-VGA converter into it then a VGA monitor and have it work fine. If you plug in a DVI monitor that can do digital, the signal will be pure digital. So really its digital only, or analog only, depending on what you plug in.
What makes you say opera was 'fast tracked' by that email (other than the author's email ended with @opera.com, and it was CCed to w3.org people/lists)?
Eco-Terrorists have already blown stuff up (including at least one time where they accidentally started a forest fire when trying to burn down a car dealership, it was estimated they had a bigger impact on the environment from that than all of the cars on the dealership would have had in 20 years).
Don't bother, the exact quote "The mechanism for carbon dioxide IR trapping has been known since 1935 and it's not up for debate." has been posted about a dozen times in response to this article, he has obviously made up his mind and will not listen to any evidence that would contradict his beliefs.
You do realize realclimate.org is owned by Environmental Media Services which is owned by a Fenton Communications which is an advertising company?
Yes it is. A good scientist will tell you science is always up for debate, and anyone that says otherwise has just turned that version of science into their own religion.
Your article was from 2005, through 2006 there was far more evidence showing Mars was warming (including reports from NASA and other groups saying exactly that).
Um... Everyone who purchases music from any of the members of the RIAA for starters?
Um... No. The GPL doesn't to take away your rights to distribute a closed source program. You can distribute them all the time. But if you link against a GPL program/lib THEN distribute your program/lib, you would have to follow the GPL. If you don't accept the GPL you have to follow normal copyright law which means you can't distribute it REGARDLESS of your license if you link against it.
The GPL is NOT limiting anyones rights beyond copyright law, you might say its more limiting than the LGPL or modified BSD, but you can't say its more restrictive than no license at all.
Also an EULA is an agreement the end user is supposed to agree to to be able to use the software, the GPL is a copyright license that a distributor must agree to to be legally able to distribute any program that includes/links against GPL code.
You can not agree to the GPL and still use GPL software. You just can't distribute the software in any form without agreeing to it. GPL just covers 'copying'.
I haven't been very involved with the Fedora world for a few years now, but back when I used Fedora it was possible to upgrade a live machine from one version to another, but it was recommended against. I believe they recommended that you reinstall, or use the 'upgrade' option on the DVD/CD. I don't really have much of a problem doing a live upgrade (though I used apt4rpm, not yum... I hated yum, so slow, and would always crap out on any even slightly complex dependencies... at least back in the days of FC1/2/3).
Obligatory: You must be new here.
Dupe means it was previously posted before... As in duplicate. Not as in fake.
Just don't fly it during the day.
That'll protect against everything, yep... except other drivers... or DMA devices (I remember a while back someone created a USB device that when it was plugged into the computer could arbitrarily access all data in RAM because of problems with the USB stack), or having the OS ran in a VM, or simply using a key logger to capture the password. I've only seen the Windows password stuff come up a couple times (when writing a VBA application of all things!) and it didn't come up in the 'secure desktop' or anything so it most likely would have been vulnerable to any key logger.
News outlets completely screw up the facts all the time (they don't really have much of an issue reporting incorrect information, since who's gonna call them out on it, their own people?). I'm gonna guess in this case someone at the BBC either heard something along the lines of along the lines that build 7 is going to collapse and then accidentally had it reported as 'did collapse', or maybe they just mixed up which buildings were gonna collapse.
But really, why is this one media screw up an issue, when theres probably countless ones on a daily basis where the media reports 'hear say' as facts (I remember a while ago when one of the mining incidents occurred that a reporter over heard some random person asking over the phone something along the 'they're all alive?' and then the reporter and his network started broadcast that they're all alive (quickly followed by every single other network they heard one report it), eventually the rescue crews announced i think that only 1 survived and then the media tried to pretend that they never were saying they were all alive. Pretty much all of the networks want to be the first to report every single thing that they'll be willing to use sketchy (and sometimes even obviously fake) sources. Don't forget Occam's razor, since the options are "they just fucked it up again and don't want to admit it", or "its some sort of vast cospiracy that for some reason they were in on".
As a recent Windows convert, i'll be the first to admit that Internet Explorer is a better browser for both Mac and PC.
Firefox incorrectly renders lots of sites. Internet Explorer seems to be better about most sites.
And....it's free.
--
My point is that a lot of the sites that are rendered incorrectly do so because they were made non standard to work with Netscape, so Firefox just keeps on misrendering them. WebKit/KHTML are actually far more standards compliant than Firefox (which is probably one of the least standards compliant browsers, not counting IE which is just so bad as to make Firefox look good), they just don't handle bad code (that Netscape/IE helped create) as well as Firefox and IE. How browsers handle bad code is important though, which is why tests like the Acid2 test ARE important (browsers need to render both bad code and good code the same so this horrible nightmare of crappy websites that only rendering in one browser will end).