Yeah.
I mean, my opinion would be that the browser should, like, make pages look really cool, even if they are really badly made, and do, like, lots of cool stuff.
Why can't they do what I want? I mean, I made a web page, and it looks crap in all the browser I've tried.
Yes, I am using xcompmgr now (KDE's new code is based on it, but it doesn't integrate with KDE 3.3 much).I don't always use it because it is buggy, but it does cool things like fading in new windows.
Any idea when the official stable 3.4 comes out?
IANAL, but AFAIK distributing your code under the GPL only means that anyone who gets that distribution is bound by the GPL.
That doesn't stop you releasing it under other agreements too, because essentially you have a copy from before it was GPLed (if other people have contributed to your GPL project it is another story). I don't think it is any different from modifying unlicensed code (source explicitly distributed without any restrictions) and releasing the fork under the GPL. The original can still be used in closed applications.
There are many people/corporations that will release software under the GPL but sell it under other licences for money.
Xorg is great.
Before the fork there was very little new stuff being added to X, and now we have cool stuff like translucency, etc.
(BTW anyone know when KDE 3.4 (which takes advantage of translucency and dropshadows) will be released? I thought it was scheduled for today.)
I think you'll find that Cambridge, UK is far more well known in any part of the world except North America, especially as in many places it is a common ambition to study there (if you really don't know, Oxford and Cambridge are the UK's most famous universities).
$ cat/proc/version Linux version 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 (root@maktaba) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #6 Mon Feb 28 21:02:34 GMT 2005 $ uname -a Linux maktaba 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 #6 Mon Feb 28 21:02:34 GMT 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Maybe it's something about SMP? Or some kind of security feature. Other than being dual-processor (is it dual-processor?) is it basically normal x86 architecture?
Linux.
You do have llamas. You must have them, because you typed that command in. The command line of a running process must be stored in memory.
You need to be root for this, obviously.
Beagle 2 was transported to Mars on ESA's Mars Express. It was built and funded independently, but they had problems fitting in with ESA's timetable and having it ready in time for ESA to fit it to the orbiter.
ESA and NASA have both had their own internal problems with communication and organization (units of measurement; Beagle 2). With both of them cooperating, won't they be almost certain to make a big mistake somewhere? I know Europeans use metric:-)
To tell the truth, so am I. And it doesn't stop me posting. Anyone who has ever installed service packs on windows will know that compiling stuff slows you system down less than some other update methods...
Why the fuck do you need electricity to compost stuff? I do it this way:
Take vegetable scraps, cardboard etc. (maybe not stuff like potatos, because they attract rats)
Put them in a large bin outside. Special compost bins are nice because you can get to the bottom of them where the stuff that has had time to decompose is.
Wait ages. Have more than one bin, so that after the first wait there is always compost available.
Starting from source from the net and compiling usually takes me the better part of the day.
One day for stage 1? Does that include compiling xorg, a desktop environment, a browser, etc.?
Or do you just work with impresively fast hardware that needs only a minimal text-only environment?
Re:Not all cheap webcams have filters.
on
Infrared Webcam HOWTO
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I have a camcorder (analog, large by modern standards) which has a mode in which it takes infrared images. It has a bright infrared LED on the front, so it can work as an active infrared system in total darkness (it gives weird green-and-white images). The thing is, when it is in normal daylight mode it can still see IR, and you can see, as you say, remote controls as flashing lights. Which makes it's own remote control look silly when we use it to start/stop recording.
I think this is a misunderstanding. If you use the minimal live CD everything that goes on your HD is downloaded from the net or compiled from sources from the net during the installation, so that the system is fully up-to-date at the end of the installation. The only people who need to wait for 2005.0 are those who can't use the live CD because something like the display or the network card doesn't work. No matter what is supported by the live CD, the installed system uses the latest drivers, so it doesn't really matter if the live CD can't use something like the mouse, or draws the display in black-and-white.
There are, believe it or not, rational people who don't like Gentoo for good reasons.
I know. That's why I want to know those good reasons. I am genuinly puzzled as to why there are so many people like that, and I wonder if they might all have a good reason for me to switch to something better. Seriously.
Basically, is Gentoo fatally flawed in some way, or are Gentoo fans more annoying than others, or is this just the general tendancy of Slashdotters to be rude to people with other distributions?
What has Slashdot got against Gentoo?
Seven comments after all this time?
I mean, I know it's a boring story, but with anything else we would have found something to flame about at least...
Also, while the "still compiling" jokes are usually fairly good-natured, why are there always so many people ready to really rubbish Gentoo? Is it actually crap? (I use it, and find configuration to be nicer than, say, Mandrake.)
Or maybe even complete before release.
They might just announced that major parts of the "new" film will be back-ported to the LOTR Collector's Edition DVD...
I know this is OT.
Has anyone else had a problem which causes Gaim to fail to connect to MSN, and then crash on the second attempt? (I get this using Gentoo's ebuild of gaim).
I guess the legal excuse is probably something like "the person downloading from you may have distributed it to the world", and then presumably you are considered as guilty as if you has sold a master tape (one copy) to someone you knew was planning to sell thousands of bootleg DVDs.
Azureus.
So, either you have a high-end games machine but don't play games, or you don't use your machine for much other than BT, or you just like things slow...
Slashdot Mirror
That was exactly why I was waiting for KDE 3.4.
Now when will Gentoo mark it stable? Weekend probably...
Yeah.
I mean, my opinion would be that the browser should, like, make pages look really cool, even if they are really badly made, and do, like, lots of cool stuff.
Why can't they do what I want? I mean, I made a web page, and it looks crap in all the browser I've tried.
Yes, I am using xcompmgr now (KDE's new code is based on it, but it doesn't integrate with KDE 3.3 much).I don't always use it because it is buggy, but it does cool things like fading in new windows.
Any idea when the official stable 3.4 comes out?
IANAL, but AFAIK distributing your code under the GPL only means that anyone who gets that distribution is bound by the GPL.
That doesn't stop you releasing it under other agreements too, because essentially you have a copy from before it was GPLed (if other people have contributed to your GPL project it is another story).
I don't think it is any different from modifying unlicensed code (source explicitly distributed without any restrictions) and releasing the fork under the GPL. The original can still be used in closed applications.
There are many people/corporations that will release software under the GPL but sell it under other licences for money.
You had trouble moving from xfree to xorg? Maybe I can help:I don't think you have really used both, or even one of them.
Xorg is great.
Before the fork there was very little new stuff being added to X, and now we have cool stuff like translucency, etc.
(BTW anyone know when KDE 3.4 (which takes advantage of translucency and dropshadows) will be released? I thought it was scheduled for today.)
I think you'll find that Cambridge, UK is far more well known in any part of the world except North America, especially as in many places it is a common ambition to study there (if you really don't know, Oxford and Cambridge are the UK's most famous universities).
Maybe it's something about SMP? Or some kind of security feature. Other than being dual-processor (is it dual-processor?) is it basically normal x86 architecture?
Linux.
You do have llamas. You must have them, because you typed that command in. The command line of a running process must be stored in memory.
You need to be root for this, obviously.
Beagle 2 was transported to Mars on ESA's Mars Express. It was built and funded independently, but they had problems fitting in with ESA's timetable and having it ready in time for ESA to fit it to the orbiter.
ESA and NASA have both had their own internal problems with communication and organization (units of measurement; Beagle 2). With both of them cooperating, won't they be almost certain to make a big mistake somewhere? :-)
I know Europeans use metric
To tell the truth, so am I. And it doesn't stop me posting.
Anyone who has ever installed service packs on windows will know that compiling stuff slows you system down less than some other update methods...
Why the fuck do you need electricity to compost stuff? I do it this way:
Take vegetable scraps, cardboard etc. (maybe not stuff like potatos, because they attract rats)
Put them in a large bin outside. Special compost bins are nice because you can get to the bottom of them where the stuff that has had time to decompose is.
Wait ages. Have more than one bin, so that after the first wait there is always compost available.
Or do you just work with impresively fast hardware that needs only a minimal text-only environment?
I have a camcorder (analog, large by modern standards) which has a mode in which it takes infrared images. It has a bright infrared LED on the front, so it can work as an active infrared system in total darkness (it gives weird green-and-white images). The thing is, when it is in normal daylight mode it can still see IR, and you can see, as you say, remote controls as flashing lights. Which makes it's own remote control look silly when we use it to start/stop recording.
I think this is a misunderstanding. If you use the minimal live CD everything that goes on your HD is downloaded from the net or compiled from sources from the net during the installation, so that the system is fully up-to-date at the end of the installation. The only people who need to wait for 2005.0 are those who can't use the live CD because something like the display or the network card doesn't work. No matter what is supported by the live CD, the installed system uses the latest drivers, so it doesn't really matter if the live CD can't use something like the mouse, or draws the display in black-and-white.
Basically, is Gentoo fatally flawed in some way, or are Gentoo fans more annoying than others, or is this just the general tendancy of Slashdotters to be rude to people with other distributions?
What has Slashdot got against Gentoo?
Seven comments after all this time?
I mean, I know it's a boring story, but with anything else we would have found something to flame about at least...
Also, while the "still compiling" jokes are usually fairly good-natured, why are there always so many people ready to really rubbish Gentoo? Is it actually crap? (I use it, and find configuration to be nicer than, say, Mandrake.)
Or maybe even complete before release.
They might just announced that major parts of the "new" film will be back-ported to the LOTR Collector's Edition DVD...
I know this is OT.
Has anyone else had a problem which causes Gaim to fail to connect to MSN, and then crash on the second attempt? (I get this using Gentoo's ebuild of gaim).
I guess the legal excuse is probably something like "the person downloading from you may have distributed it to the world", and then presumably you are considered as guilty as if you has sold a master tape (one copy) to someone you knew was planning to sell thousands of bootleg DVDs.
There may not be an import option, but have you tried just copying the mailbox to the right folder?
Yes, but Microsoft is evil.
Azureus.
So, either you have a high-end games machine but don't play games, or you don't use your machine for much other than BT, or you just like things slow...