The problem is with nspluginwrapper (or is it nspluginviewer? I forget), the wrapper code that is supposed to allow a 64-bit firefox to use a 32-bit browser plugin. It is very, very unreliable. If any of these people chose instead to install 32-bit Firefox, they would cease to experience the problems (on OpenSUSE 11.0 this even comes as a separate package for convenience).
I'm sorry, this gets +5 insightful? Jesus you people have some weird ideas about autism. There are plenty of people with Aspergers who can speak more eloquently than you or I.
This Thinkpad T41p (a four year old machine, according to the review I read, but lets be generous and say three years) is worth MORE to me than the Toshiba u300 I recently purchased for GBP600. For while the newer machine is shinier and ostensibly has a faster processor, the older machine is better built, looks better (because the casing was designed by a sensible person, the Toshiba looks like shit already) is more portable, has a better and more practical screen and, quite frankly, is better in every way. When the Toshiba Portege 7200 my wife was previously using (another old but peerless machine) finally died, it was a no-brainer which of the two machines I was going to give her. Should I chose to sell this (I won't) I would be quite justified in charging a decent sum of money for it. Which I would get.
It's in fact, basically NTL. As far as the board (and decision makers) are concerned, anyway. Telewest was a half-decent company before it was swallowed.
I'm not sure that India has ever "respected" Pakistan. What did happen (although this is a relatively recent development, I don't know when Pakistan got their nukes) is that (through a wonderful piece of political manoevering by Sonia Gandhi) they ousted the strongly-nationalistic warmongering BJP and appointed a much more moderate Congress government in its place.
With their (imaginatively titled) track CCTV:
You're starring in a film
every weekend
On video and stills
With all your friends
You're there in Black and White
Hundreds watch you every night
You're great in every scene
You're very natural
It's as if you cannot see
the spotlight on you
But when you fluff a line
the director says
You're doing time
When you're walking home
In the evening after dark
Remember don't hide
And show your best side
Cos you're the star in a film
They also did a fantastic track about Tony Blair, before he became PM:
He thought he was as drunk as can be
New white skinny rebel was he
Because he knew what mattered
It's all in a clatter of the bands he's seen
His words of wisdom would shock
Whether he meant them or not
He'd save the world
All the boys and the girls
But another single's all he'd be
That's sad
That's right
Another night
Of someone else's fantasy
He thought he was cool with his tunes
He practised the knack in his room
And in the evening he'd DJ
With the slider at eight plus
Believing that at his feet we swoom
Now he's always there in the queue
While down on the dance floor it's you
And when he starts playing
He's up there playing
You don't notice that they're not his tunes
He thought he could measure the world
Because he loved the flag when unfurled
First he's a lawyer, excellent debator
You should have heard the mud he hurled
Now you've seen his face on TV
Leading parliamentary
When he makes decisions
That meet your derision
He reminds us all that we're free
Although irritatingly I can't find any reference to the intended meaning of this song, and now I can't remember why I think it's about Tony Blair.
Yes, 3G phones do have worse battery life. Take, for example, the Sony Ericsson K800i. When used as a 3G handset it lasts barely longer than a day between charges.
Also, video calling has not taken off in the UK (even though most handsets and networks now support it) for two reasons:
"You need a tray" "I do not need a tray to kill you! I can kill you with a single thought! For I am Darth Vader. Although I could kill you with a tray if I wished for I would hack at your neck with the thin bit..."
"How about you stop and think what specs PC's had at the beginning of the 90's, and still people somehow managed to get their stuff done. Apps haven't changed that much in between, we basically do most of the same stuff now that we did back then."
No, apps haven't changed a lot in that time, but the internet certainly has - rather a large amount. Most sites now rely on DHTML/AJAX/CSS/whatever to render properly, and are significantly larger (in terms of amount of rendering code, number and size of images, etc.) than they were even in the late 90s. Add to that the fact that most web designers take a 1024x768 screen and a broadband connection as a benchmark to design for, and suddenly browsing the internet on a low-powered device becomes a lot more problematic.
No, although I did recently purchase a blue&white G3 as a replacement for my beige G3 DT. Both of these machines are entirely usable under OS X 10.3 (if a tad slow, but no slower than my PIII laptop running Linux).
Funny though this may be... initially, the default behaviour of Kopete when pressing [enter] was to insert a new line, not to send the message. Many people pointed out that this was rather counter-intuitive, but the devs quite rightly pointed out that it fitted in with the way KDE worked, and the way to change it (by using Configuring Shortcuts) was entirely consistent with the rest of KDE.
However, unlike the Pidgin devs, they caved to public opinion and changed it.
With the OLPC, designed for the developing world, it's "we'll give mesh wifi, and lots of games and software, the source code of which will all be available, so they can tinker and work stuff out".
With this, designed for the American market, it's "take away the optical drive! That'll stop them playing those useless games and they're all stupid anyway, so they'll never figure out a way around it".
Amongst the techies, yes, and I suppose amongst the users, since it was often used for tech support. In this case, however, the guy was an external contractor from Computacenter.
I did essntially the same thing with PC Anywhere. All our PCs had it installed, and they had a location-based naming scheme, so I could work out the machine name of a machine diagonally opposite myself, where a temp was wasting time on Ebay.
I just hit one extra key every time he tried to enter his ebay password. To his credit, he worked it out after about five minutes.
I'm all for proper usage of the British language and not giving in to Americanisms (ass vs arse) but a "jackass" is a type of donkey, and has nothing to do with the buttocks.
"It's true perhaps that Israel goes a little overboard in their responses to people attacking them"
I believe that may be the understatement of the century.
"Even the Arabs living in Israel who AREN'T happy with Israel would rather live in Israel than in Palastine (West Bank/Gaza)."
So what you're saying is that they'd rather live in what they consider to be their homeland, than in the crappy area that the Israelis have herded the rest of their kind to?
2) Unlike music, which existed before the modern age, and has business models that could survive an EMP taking out every piece of electronics on the planet; movies are a whole cloth product of the "middle man" era. The studios "own" movie making in a way that the record industry can never "own" music making. I can go to a local bar an see a decent unsigned band, I could learn to play an instrument and make my own music if I wanted. I could never do this with movies (at least beyond the "slightly edited home video" level"). Even "independent" film makers are the owners or employees of studios, just smaller studios. The entire process of making movies, from the production to the distribution is tied to the studio model.
You're forgetting about the theatre. If there were a permanent global electronics outage, people looking for their video fix would be going to the theatre, in the same way that people looking for their audio fix would be going to live acoustic gigs.
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Don't! A recent study found that kernel hacking is fifty time worse than heroin.
The problem is with nspluginwrapper (or is it nspluginviewer? I forget), the wrapper code that is supposed to allow a 64-bit firefox to use a 32-bit browser plugin. It is very, very unreliable. If any of these people chose instead to install 32-bit Firefox, they would cease to experience the problems (on OpenSUSE 11.0 this even comes as a separate package for convenience).
Well, it's not a DIRECT quote, but Ep III spawned "DO NOT WANT!" thanks to some bad subtitles ...
You're posting here, of all places, and you think we need wikipedia to tell us what a Tribble is?
I'm sorry, this gets +5 insightful? Jesus you people have some weird ideas about autism. There are plenty of people with Aspergers who can speak more eloquently than you or I.
What does he mean? He means he would like to see Kwrite ported natively to Windows.
The word processing component of Koffice, to which I assume you think he is referring, is called "KWord".
This Thinkpad T41p (a four year old machine, according to the review I read, but lets be generous and say three years) is worth MORE to me than the Toshiba u300 I recently purchased for GBP600. For while the newer machine is shinier and ostensibly has a faster processor, the older machine is better built, looks better (because the casing was designed by a sensible person, the Toshiba looks like shit already) is more portable, has a better and more practical screen and, quite frankly, is better in every way. When the Toshiba Portege 7200 my wife was previously using (another old but peerless machine) finally died, it was a no-brainer which of the two machines I was going to give her. Should I chose to sell this (I won't) I would be quite justified in charging a decent sum of money for it. Which I would get.
That has never been the case, to my knowledge. Certainly since 7.2 (when I started using it).
It's in fact, basically NTL. As far as the board (and decision makers) are concerned, anyway. Telewest was a half-decent company before it was swallowed.
I'm not sure that India has ever "respected" Pakistan. What did happen (although this is a relatively recent development, I don't know when Pakistan got their nukes) is that (through a wonderful piece of political manoevering by Sonia Gandhi) they ousted the strongly-nationalistic warmongering BJP and appointed a much more moderate Congress government in its place.
It's entirely possible to love and admire your spiritual advisor while thinking that his more worldly theories are insane.
Stallman, anyone?
With their (imaginatively titled) track CCTV: You're starring in a film every weekend On video and stills With all your friends You're there in Black and White Hundreds watch you every night You're great in every scene You're very natural It's as if you cannot see the spotlight on you But when you fluff a line the director says You're doing time When you're walking home In the evening after dark Remember don't hide And show your best side Cos you're the star in a film They also did a fantastic track about Tony Blair, before he became PM: He thought he was as drunk as can be New white skinny rebel was he Because he knew what mattered It's all in a clatter of the bands he's seen His words of wisdom would shock Whether he meant them or not He'd save the world All the boys and the girls But another single's all he'd be That's sad That's right Another night Of someone else's fantasy He thought he was cool with his tunes He practised the knack in his room And in the evening he'd DJ With the slider at eight plus Believing that at his feet we swoom Now he's always there in the queue While down on the dance floor it's you And when he starts playing He's up there playing You don't notice that they're not his tunes He thought he could measure the world Because he loved the flag when unfurled First he's a lawyer, excellent debator You should have heard the mud he hurled Now you've seen his face on TV Leading parliamentary When he makes decisions That meet your derision He reminds us all that we're free Although irritatingly I can't find any reference to the intended meaning of this song, and now I can't remember why I think it's about Tony Blair.
Yes, 3G phones do have worse battery life. Take, for example, the Sony Ericsson K800i. When used as a 3G handset it lasts barely longer than a day between charges.
Also, video calling has not taken off in the UK (even though most handsets and networks now support it) for two reasons:
1. it's rubbish, and
2. it's expensive
"You need a tray" ..."
"I do not need a tray to kill you! I can kill you with a single thought! For I am Darth Vader. Although I could kill you with a tray if I wished for I would hack at your neck with the thin bit
Exactly. If a normal member of the public did something like this, they'd be facing jail time.
No, apps haven't changed a lot in that time, but the internet certainly has - rather a large amount. Most sites now rely on DHTML/AJAX/CSS/whatever to render properly, and are significantly larger (in terms of amount of rendering code, number and size of images, etc.) than they were even in the late 90s. Add to that the fact that most web designers take a 1024x768 screen and a broadband connection as a benchmark to design for, and suddenly browsing the internet on a low-powered device becomes a lot more problematic.
No, although I did recently purchase a blue&white G3 as a replacement for my beige G3 DT. Both of these machines are entirely usable under OS X 10.3 (if a tad slow, but no slower than my PIII laptop running Linux).
Funny though this may be ... initially, the default behaviour of Kopete when pressing [enter] was to insert a new line, not to send the message. Many people pointed out that this was rather counter-intuitive, but the devs quite rightly pointed out that it fitted in with the way KDE worked, and the way to change it (by using Configuring Shortcuts) was entirely consistent with the rest of KDE.
However, unlike the Pidgin devs, they caved to public opinion and changed it.
It says a lot, doesn't it?
With the OLPC, designed for the developing world, it's "we'll give mesh wifi, and lots of games and software, the source code of which will all be available, so they can tinker and work stuff out".
With this, designed for the American market, it's "take away the optical drive! That'll stop them playing those useless games and they're all stupid anyway, so they'll never figure out a way around it".
Amongst the techies, yes, and I suppose amongst the users, since it was often used for tech support. In this case, however, the guy was an external contractor from Computacenter.
I did essntially the same thing with PC Anywhere. All our PCs had it installed, and they had a location-based naming scheme, so I could work out the machine name of a machine diagonally opposite myself, where a temp was wasting time on Ebay.
I just hit one extra key every time he tried to enter his ebay password. To his credit, he worked it out after about five minutes.
Kudos to you, sir. Kudos.
I'm all for proper usage of the British language and not giving in to Americanisms (ass vs arse) but a "jackass" is a type of donkey, and has nothing to do with the buttocks.
"It's true perhaps that Israel goes a little overboard in their responses to people attacking them"
I believe that may be the understatement of the century.
"Even the Arabs living in Israel who AREN'T happy with Israel would rather live in Israel than in Palastine (West Bank/Gaza)."
So what you're saying is that they'd rather live in what they consider to be their homeland, than in the crappy area that the Israelis have herded the rest of their kind to?
You're forgetting about the theatre. If there were a permanent global electronics outage, people looking for their video fix would be going to the theatre, in the same way that people looking for their audio fix would be going to live acoustic gigs.