Well, this is very interesting, because I have always wanted Thunderbird to have the option to filter based on body content. Problem is, my Thunderbirds (all versions except this new one on Win32 and Linux) just don't have that option. I can only set Subject, To,... the usual header parts, but not body. How do I?
I play a lot in my office hours on a cheap (?) AOC LM720 17" TFT with no problem, and since recently my old CRT at home started to behave strangely after 6 years, I got myself a shiny new Samsung SyncMaster 710T (17" TFT, both VGA and DVI input, Pivot, 12ms response time). No problem at all with blurring whatsoever, and since I already had a TFT in my office, "getting used to it" was no problem either. And I play both slower stuff (NWN, Guild Wars) and FPS on my machine.
Slightly related: I bought this monitor due to its dual inputs,and when it came, I connected it via the DVI cable to my GeForce4 Ti 4200's DVI-out. The picture was sharp as hell, but the colors looked like it was 8 bit. No joke. I googled around a bit and only found one thread were someone had a similar problem, but they never solved it on that thread. I then used ye olde analog cable, and everything has been fine since, and (to my eye) as sharp. Anyone ever had that? Known problem with certain drivers/GeForce4 cards/certain cable types/Samsung TFTs/Win32? Defective input?
Well, thanks for putting these links up, you just saved my day!
I had not yet made up my mind on Nickelback, it was more of a could-care-less attitude here, but this mp3 just did it for me! As well as the 2 videos, those were real great evidence for the decline of the "music industry" as we know it...
Might be a reason for declining sales, now, might it now, if artists are as shitty as this?
Well, you could also set up quick keys for cycling through your spells, just like you use your mousewheel to cycle through your weapons. And then you could launch the spell by using your spell button, just like the attack button for your weapon. So, your whole complaint is no more. Yes, I played the game on the PC, not the Xbox, and finished it. I did not think it was console-ish at all, only flawed in some aspects, though not seriously IMHO.
And I actually liked the inteface. It allowed you to rearrange all the windows and saved the last position. The only problem I had with it was that the ESC key always brought up the main menu, instead of getting you out of whatever else you had open, so you ended up with 2 layers of menues open...
And about the other concern: it is being developed for PC first, and ported to Xbox2 and PS3. This was stated somewhere on their forums over at elderscrolls.com, I think, but I am too lazy ATM to search this for you.
I actually do not think that the parent is "Funny". While at first it seems so, for me as an atheist both the bible and LOTR are in essence stories, with the main difference that over one of these story books wars were fought.
I do realize that there are some truths in the bible (names, places, events,...), but so are in other books which nobody with a sane mind would take as non-fiction (pick a random piece of literature).
My point now is that I find it highly dangerous when somebody with as much power as the president of the USA seeks truth in a book which might be "90% crap" (see above), and (ab)uses his power based on guidance based on this book. Is it based on the 90%? Or the 10%? Who decides what passages of the bible fall into which category? What about people in his influence that do not see the bible as binding or guiding?
It might be that you tried (as I did first) the link http://ftp.mozilla.org/... - which does not work.
I do not know how they set up the http interface (?) to their ftp server, but try using ftp instead. For me it did the trick. Someplace else I read it might be because using http for this enables the mozilla mirroring system, and the file might not yet be on all the mirrors...
I think what you are forgetting here right now seems to be the possibility to automatically create this metadata. I guess (and like you would dismiss WinFS as wrong for mie if it ain't so) that all future MS products and those adhering to the next-gen Win32/.NET/whatever API will automatically add metadata to the system.
Today, files get a creation date, and that's about it. Why not automatically create metadata entries for who sent the email under what subject that had this pdf as an attachment? What was the title of the webpage were you download this file from? Additionally, add all the already present metadata of Word (and similar) documents into WinFS instead of storing them inside the file, as it is done now.
I know this tracking of information could also be very dangerous, but you do have lots of potential automatic input on a systemlike this - provided all the applications play nicely and follow the standards.
I know a separate composer is being worked-on, but at the moment, you have to download the whole Mozilla
No, you don't, try Nvu. Based on the Mozilla Composer source and maintained/developed by the Moz Composer dude. Funded by Lindows, because they want to have a Frontpage/Dreamweaver competitor on Linux, but works on windows as well.
Well now, this sounds really nice. I have always wondered why MGN never really took off, but then PNG never really took off either (you all know the MSFT story...). Just never knew this had a big-decoder-problem.
So naturally I was disappointed when Mozilla took out MNG support back then, but this seems to make it better (read: more chances of survival in the real world out there) standard, and that is always a good thing.
One more reason to finally get rid of all them GIFs, even if they are no longer patent-encumbered - the format is still not capable of alpha transparency...
I guess this would lead to some bad sueing, maybe even class action type, though, since consumers bought this piece of software in several countries (meaning that in some countries, you get to own your copy, not license it) and cannot be forced to upgrade it just because MS is throwing a fit.
Well, might be a shameless plug, but this is definitely the right place to advertise PS. Here on/., verybody always bitches about how MMORPGs should be more about Roleplaying, and that is PS's goal.
On the other hand: stop posting here, for fucks sake! You got a game to complete;) But I see from CVS that you are really coming along nicely. I am also lurking on your forums every day...
I am kind of in charge for the history department (yeah, thats right), and we still have NN 4.7 for our users. Of course, there is also Mozilla on their machines, and every time we see some user clicking on the Netscape icon, we advise them to switch (and tell them we do not support NN4.7 for years now and tell them stuff about security and better web rendering, carefully worded for them), but most of them will have forgotten about it by tomorrow.
They are soo stupid. Really. When we first installed Mozilla department-wide at all (around 1.0 or 1.1), one person even told us she really could not work with it because it was so different. We fired both NN and Mozilla up and tiled them horizontally on the monitor and asked her what she meant. No response their...
My point is, if we just removed the Netscape icon (and application), we had the phone ringing in our office for a week straight. If we replaced it with NN7.2, maybe a little less, but they will protest and be unable to use it even if to us, the tech savvy, it looks and feels the same. To them, if at first glance it doesn't, they give up. And sometimes, a new logo or name counts as "at first glance". Sadly.
Another point is that I do not entirey see a motivation (I do not, they obviously do) to recreate TA, even make it load TAs resources, and then not release it as open source. I mean, there already is a closed source application that can do that, namely TA itself, and if this new one stays closed source, it will not be any better in terms of "runs on new and different OSs" and all that, because it will do so only at their goodwill, just like the original TA.
All the other open source game engines (freecraft, scummvm,...) had the goal to make it possible for users of new or different operating systems to play some old games, what is their goal? Just learning to code an engine is fine too, sure thing. Is that it though? Am I missing something here?
Anyone that knows the md5 hash for the German version? Filename seems to be WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-DEU.exe as I found it on the net (via FileMirrors), but my educated guess would be it will have another hash...
Well, that is just what we do. We are 4 sysadmins in one office, with 4 windows boxens (administering a Novell/WinXP network).
If we want to share files, we do have some shared network drives, but they take up space on the server, and we sometimes have biig files...
So, we also each have ~80 GB local ide drives... and a filezilla server, because it just is the easiest way to do it. Shared drives and stuff never really worked. But getting an ftp server (and for convenience we set them all up with the same users/pass combinations) on each box just works for some years now.
Does not really show that Linux is better than Windows, but certainly that out-of-the-box or the-way-you-should-do-it solutions often don't work, but the simple ones with a little tinkering do. YMMV.
I am a student at the university here in Bielefeld, and the whole library has been using linux for the terminals in the library for years now, and recently I noticed they switched to Firefox.
Made me happy when I found out, to see that some big institutions can make the switch (but public libraries actually should be among the first to switch, they usually have a low budget and can just slap some downsized linux distro on an "old" machine with Firefox and there you go).
The most popular car in europe, the VW Golf, is right now in its 5th incarnation, since about a year or so. I bought my own Golf IV in 2000, and it was already 2 years old then (my car, not the general Golf IV model, that was older). It is not a "98' Golf", though, but a "Golf IV", and nobody really cares about the production year, except maybe a local garage, when a certain part changed due to some production reason.
And that is really different from the habit of labeling american cars by their production year and the model name. It just is. No amount of "Puhleaaase!" can change that.
Thanks... I was a bit sceptiv after reading some of the negative comments and the "not much has changed", but I see two of my most hated bugs have been fixed:
oading tons of images no longer makes Firefox not redraw its interface and
A point that really got me: Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible, and the "master" folders (something like My Images or My Music folders known from Windows) should have their own shortcuts on a GNOME panel (...)
WTF? Can I please not put all my mp3s/oggs in one folder (d:\mp3s\) and only have an album subfolder? I want to (at least!) use subfolders for genres, please, and then I know of people who then do subfolders for artists, and then for albums (I merge this step).
I also would not put all pictures I took with a camera into one folder, but instead sort them, either by date (probably), and maybe also by other criteria (occasion, filmed person/object,...).
This My Music and My Pictures crap is always so getting on my nerves on the newer versions of windows... I have all my stuff on d:\, thank you. Yes, I set my profile to point there, so applications point there first for saving and loading. Could you not please recreate all your subfolders in d:\'s root on every other boot?
I can't mod right now, so I have to comment: this is probably the best analysis (even if it is only 3 paragraphs long) of the whole problem.
I work as tech support in a university (part timie, while studying comp. science myself), and I am always amazed at how bad people with degrees are at keeping order with their files. They throw all their crap in their home directory, have hundreds of files in there, and if they are advanced, they even know the difference between Word and Windows ("my file doesn't work" - "what did you write it with at home?" - "windows 97").
And then, there are like 5 people in our department who figured out by themselves why Mozilla is better than Netscape 4.7, that you can browse your files with the explorer (and you do not have to use the File Open dialog Word offers), and who can create subfolders.
I really doubt even anyone in that last group would benefit from spatial nautilus. "Us geeks" here will not, for sure.
Well, I have to add that I just recently got Neverwinter Nights like 2 months ago off Ebay, finished the original campaign, bought the regular Hordes of the Underdark, which is quite new (even on Windows), and started playing multiplayer just a week ago. And I plan on staying with this game for a while (at least until Guild Wars is out).
Why? Because right now, there are (basically) only mature gamers around, and that is quite fun for me. Last night, some asked me how old I was, I replied with "27" and was waiting for the replay "OMFGu r a some old haxxor there dude !!!1". Bit no, the answer was "hey, than we both are old enough for beer, I am 32".
Sure, it is not with most of my friends, who play UT2K4 right now, but WTH, I still enjoy it!
Gotta mention I play under Win32 right now, because I have trouble ATM getting the nvidia driver to work with my Debian, but that is beyond the point, I think...
Slashdot Mirror
Well, this is very interesting, because I have always wanted Thunderbird to have the option to filter based on body content. Problem is, my Thunderbirds (all versions except this new one on Win32 and Linux) just don't have that option. I can only set Subject, To, ... the usual header parts, but not body. How do I?
I play a lot in my office hours on a cheap (?) AOC LM720 17" TFT with no problem, and since recently my old CRT at home started to behave strangely after 6 years, I got myself a shiny new Samsung SyncMaster 710T (17" TFT, both VGA and DVI input, Pivot, 12ms response time). No problem at all with blurring whatsoever, and since I already had a TFT in my office, "getting used to it" was no problem either. And I play both slower stuff (NWN, Guild Wars) and FPS on my machine.
Slightly related: I bought this monitor due to its dual inputs,and when it came, I connected it via the DVI cable to my GeForce4 Ti 4200's DVI-out. The picture was sharp as hell, but the colors looked like it was 8 bit. No joke. I googled around a bit and only found one thread were someone had a similar problem, but they never solved it on that thread. I then used ye olde analog cable, and everything has been fine since, and (to my eye) as sharp. Anyone ever had that? Known problem with certain drivers/GeForce4 cards/certain cable types/Samsung TFTs/Win32? Defective input?
Well, thanks for putting these links up, you just saved my day!
I had not yet made up my mind on Nickelback, it was more of a could-care-less attitude here, but this mp3 just did it for me! As well as the 2 videos, those were real great evidence for the decline of the "music industry" as we know it...
Might be a reason for declining sales, now, might it now, if artists are as shitty as this?
Well, you could also set up quick keys for cycling through your spells, just like you use your mousewheel to cycle through your weapons. And then you could launch the spell by using your spell button, just like the attack button for your weapon. So, your whole complaint is no more. Yes, I played the game on the PC, not the Xbox, and finished it. I did not think it was console-ish at all, only flawed in some aspects, though not seriously IMHO.
And I actually liked the inteface. It allowed you to rearrange all the windows and saved the last position. The only problem I had with it was that the ESC key always brought up the main menu, instead of getting you out of whatever else you had open, so you ended up with 2 layers of menues open...
And about the other concern: it is being developed for PC first, and ported to Xbox2 and PS3. This was stated somewhere on their forums over at elderscrolls.com, I think, but I am too lazy ATM to search this for you.
I actually do not think that the parent is "Funny". While at first it seems so, for me as an atheist both the bible and LOTR are in essence stories, with the main difference that over one of these story books wars were fought.
I do realize that there are some truths in the bible (names, places, events, ...), but so are in other books which nobody with a sane mind would take as non-fiction (pick a random piece of literature).
My point now is that I find it highly dangerous when somebody with as much power as the president of the USA seeks truth in a book which might be "90% crap" (see above), and (ab)uses his power based on guidance based on this book. Is it based on the 90%? Or the 10%? Who decides what passages of the bible fall into which category? What about people in his influence that do not see the bible as binding or guiding?
It might be that you tried (as I did first) the link http://ftp.mozilla.org/... - which does not work.
I do not know how they set up the http interface (?) to their ftp server, but try using ftp instead. For me it did the trick. Someplace else I read it might be because using http for this enables the mozilla mirroring system, and the file might not yet be on all the mirrors...
Try it here.
I think what you are forgetting here right now seems to be the possibility to automatically create this metadata. I guess (and like you would dismiss WinFS as wrong for mie if it ain't so) that all future MS products and those adhering to the next-gen Win32/.NET/whatever API will automatically add metadata to the system.
Today, files get a creation date, and that's about it. Why not automatically create metadata entries for who sent the email under what subject that had this pdf as an attachment? What was the title of the webpage were you download this file from? Additionally, add all the already present metadata of Word (and similar) documents into WinFS instead of storing them inside the file, as it is done now.
I know this tracking of information could also be very dangerous, but you do have lots of potential automatic input on a systemlike this - provided all the applications play nicely and follow the standards.
$> go dennis
You are now in a dark Jeffries Tube with a blinking access panel. What will you do?
$> open access panel
You can't open ye panel!
I know a separate composer is being worked-on, but at the moment, you have to download the whole Mozilla
No, you don't, try Nvu. Based on the Mozilla Composer source and maintained/developed by the Moz Composer dude. Funded by Lindows, because they want to have a Frontpage/Dreamweaver competitor on Linux, but works on windows as well.
Well now, this sounds really nice. I have always wondered why MGN never really took off, but then PNG never really took off either (you all know the MSFT story...). Just never knew this had a big-decoder-problem.
So naturally I was disappointed when Mozilla took out MNG support back then, but this seems to make it better (read: more chances of survival in the real world out there) standard, and that is always a good thing.
One more reason to finally get rid of all them GIFs, even if they are no longer patent-encumbered - the format is still not capable of alpha transparency...
I guess this would lead to some bad sueing, maybe even class action type, though, since consumers bought this piece of software in several countries (meaning that in some countries, you get to own your copy, not license it) and cannot be forced to upgrade it just because MS is throwing a fit.
Would make for one interesting case, IMO.
Well, might be a shameless plug, but this is definitely the right place to advertise PS. Here on /., verybody always bitches about how MMORPGs should be more about Roleplaying, and that is PS's goal.
On the other hand: stop posting here, for fucks sake! You got a game to complete ;) But I see from CVS that you are really coming along nicely. I am also lurking on your forums every day...
I am kind of in charge for the history department (yeah, thats right), and we still have NN 4.7 for our users. Of course, there is also Mozilla on their machines, and every time we see some user clicking on the Netscape icon, we advise them to switch (and tell them we do not support NN4.7 for years now and tell them stuff about security and better web rendering, carefully worded for them), but most of them will have forgotten about it by tomorrow.
They are soo stupid. Really. When we first installed Mozilla department-wide at all (around 1.0 or 1.1), one person even told us she really could not work with it because it was so different. We fired both NN and Mozilla up and tiled them horizontally on the monitor and asked her what she meant. No response their...
My point is, if we just removed the Netscape icon (and application), we had the phone ringing in our office for a week straight. If we replaced it with NN7.2, maybe a little less, but they will protest and be unable to use it even if to us, the tech savvy, it looks and feels the same. To them, if at first glance it doesn't, they give up. And sometimes, a new logo or name counts as "at first glance". Sadly.
Another point is that I do not entirey see a motivation (I do not, they obviously do) to recreate TA, even make it load TAs resources, and then not release it as open source. I mean, there already is a closed source application that can do that, namely TA itself, and if this new one stays closed source, it will not be any better in terms of "runs on new and different OSs" and all that, because it will do so only at their goodwill, just like the original TA.
All the other open source game engines (freecraft, scummvm, ...) had the goal to make it possible for users of new or different operating systems to play some old games, what is their goal? Just learning to code an engine is fine too, sure thing. Is that it though? Am I missing something here?
Like exercising your cats with a laser pointer.
Well, sad thing, that you did not get modded up, ppl, because this one got patented.
The German SP2 can be found here.
The accompanying website is here.
Anyone that knows the md5 hash for the German version? Filename seems to be WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-DEU.exe as I found it on the net (via FileMirrors), but my educated guess would be it will have another hash...
Or Pornzilla, for that matter...
Well, that is just what we do. We are 4 sysadmins in one office, with 4 windows boxens (administering a Novell/WinXP network).
If we want to share files, we do have some shared network drives, but they take up space on the server, and we sometimes have biig files...
So, we also each have ~80 GB local ide drives... and a filezilla server, because it just is the easiest way to do it. Shared drives and stuff never really worked. But getting an ftp server (and for convenience we set them all up with the same users/pass combinations) on each box just works for some years now.
Does not really show that Linux is better than Windows, but certainly that out-of-the-box or the-way-you-should-do-it solutions often don't work, but the simple ones with a little tinkering do. YMMV.
I am a student at the university here in Bielefeld, and the whole library has been using linux for the terminals in the library for years now, and recently I noticed they switched to Firefox.
Made me happy when I found out, to see that some big institutions can make the switch (but public libraries actually should be among the first to switch, they usually have a low budget and can just slap some downsized linux distro on an "old" machine with Firefox and there you go).
No, your parent was right.
The most popular car in europe, the VW Golf, is right now in its 5th incarnation, since about a year or so. I bought my own Golf IV in 2000, and it was already 2 years old then (my car, not the general Golf IV model, that was older). It is not a "98' Golf", though, but a "Golf IV", and nobody really cares about the production year, except maybe a local garage, when a certain part changed due to some production reason.
And that is really different from the habit of labeling american cars by their production year and the model name. It just is. No amount of "Puhleaaase!" can change that.
Thanks... I was a bit sceptiv after reading some of the negative comments and the "not much has changed", but I see two of my most hated bugs have been fixed:
Just enough reason for me to try it, I say.
A point that really got me: Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible, and the "master" folders (something like My Images or My Music folders known from Windows) should have their own shortcuts on a GNOME panel (...)
WTF? Can I please not put all my mp3s/oggs in one folder (d:\mp3s\) and only have an album subfolder? I want to (at least!) use subfolders for genres, please, and then I know of people who then do subfolders for artists, and then for albums (I merge this step).
I also would not put all pictures I took with a camera into one folder, but instead sort them, either by date (probably), and maybe also by other criteria (occasion, filmed person/object, ...).
This My Music and My Pictures crap is always so getting on my nerves on the newer versions of windows... I have all my stuff on d:\, thank you. Yes, I set my profile to point there, so applications point there first for saving and loading. Could you not please recreate all your subfolders in d:\'s root on every other boot?
I can't mod right now, so I have to comment: this is probably the best analysis (even if it is only 3 paragraphs long) of the whole problem.
I work as tech support in a university (part timie, while studying comp. science myself), and I am always amazed at how bad people with degrees are at keeping order with their files. They throw all their crap in their home directory, have hundreds of files in there, and if they are advanced, they even know the difference between Word and Windows ("my file doesn't work" - "what did you write it with at home?" - "windows 97").
And then, there are like 5 people in our department who figured out by themselves why Mozilla is better than Netscape 4.7, that you can browse your files with the explorer (and you do not have to use the File Open dialog Word offers), and who can create subfolders.
I really doubt even anyone in that last group would benefit from spatial nautilus. "Us geeks" here will not, for sure.
Well, I have to add that I just recently got Neverwinter Nights like 2 months ago off Ebay, finished the original campaign, bought the regular Hordes of the Underdark, which is quite new (even on Windows), and started playing multiplayer just a week ago. And I plan on staying with this game for a while (at least until Guild Wars is out).
Why? Because right now, there are (basically) only mature gamers around, and that is quite fun for me. Last night, some asked me how old I was, I replied with "27" and was waiting for the replay "OMFGu r a some old haxxor there dude !!!1". Bit no, the answer was "hey, than we both are old enough for beer, I am 32".
Sure, it is not with most of my friends, who play UT2K4 right now, but WTH, I still enjoy it!
Gotta mention I play under Win32 right now, because I have trouble ATM getting the nvidia driver to work with my Debian, but that is beyond the point, I think...