arrgh. opensuse initially disabled touchpad tapping in kde because it was disabled in gnome, then disabled it in xorg (which includes installer). i almost reported it as a bug, only to discover somebody broke it on purpose.
the thinking behind that just is not understandable to me.
sorry about the delay, gmail decided to filter this notification as spam...
anyway - it doesn't matter. users DON'T CARE. even if they are longtime more or less advanced users:)
it's a dilution of brand, and that sc is hard to understand unless one follows really closely and constantly. it still confuses me for a second every time i see it.
as a longtime kde user, i don't really know what "software compilation" is. and i don't want to know. that brand-splitting was a bad decision - imho, of course.
they actually ended up finding lots of stuff that was banned, including a couple knives.
...and nothing has happened in approximately a million flights where people accidentally have brought through the "security" knives, water bottles and other items that are prohibited.
when you (general public) see that big part of the measures is useless and a waste of time & money, you assume that _everything_ in the security are is like that. same as me seeing how passengers get 0.5 water bottles confiscated, only to have some airport shop employee go through the security checkpoint with a palette full of 1.5l water bottles.
those who selectively enforce ridiculous measures are doing much, much more to undermine any legitimate security efforts.
AAAAAAAAA. carmageddon. my favourite game, ever. played both 1st & second multiplayer, up to 12 players (one of them had a limit of 8 i believe, other of 12 - don't recall the details anymore...)
now if only this was not for a platform i stopped using many years ago, i'd try to devote some time for that project...
do you work for apple marketing campaign ?:) because this sounded way, way over the top, as if written by a professional pr person who doesn't know when to stop. i'd guess you are either from apple marketing team, or from some pr agency hired by them;)
hehe, seeing the name i thought "i've seen it before... wasn't it that repository visualisation stuff, codeswarm ?"
that one was quite nice - unfortunately, abandoned soon so for non-coding users some customisation was missing. so these are very nice concepts that can be sometimes used, but so far they don't seem to attract developer attention to get them going.
ok, usa americans probably won't get it... but you should stop being stupid with your "capitalism or death". because the second option might arrive too soon. there are basic services in europe that are paid for from taxes, and everybody pretty much expects them to organise in the best way to help _everybody_. sure, there are asshole firefighters, but in general they do a mighty great job and moving out to another region if there's a problem and local team can't deal with it (or there's no local team to begin with) is not only considered a norm - if somebody ordered to let a house burn down because it was out of their jurisdiction... well, there probably would be no lynching, but most likely that person would be prosecuted, and i would also expect everybody who obeyed such an order to lose their job immediately as the minimum reaction, and possibly more than that.
right. city dweller there, correct ? first, everybody outside of cities burn stuff every now and then - be it some leaves, branches that are too small for firewood or something else. this is part of the approach to throw out in collected trash only stuff that you can't deal with yourself - it always makes me sick thinking about how people throw food stuff in trash.
second, are you just an ass or did you miss your childhood ? you really never played with fire ? we did it... well, not constantly, but often enough. either it was burning small "fireplaces", creating plastic toy car "accidents" or just putting compressed cans in fire - many, many of those things were mighty dangerous, now that i look back on it. but i would not expect nobody ever to do that again. quite the contrary, i would expect that to happen a lot. unless you lock up the children, fire and other dangerous things will be fascinating, interesting - and best learned about as early and as safe as possible. not this time, unfortunately.
you mention a very important point - summary left out one of the most crucial parts, that it is using openstreetmap data (which is great, because, as summary correctly points out, you can easily correct any mistakes or outdated information you find).
of course, another benefit is that you can do with the data almost everything you want - one of those possibilities being taking it offline with you on a phone, laptop or any other device.
we do have building standards that mandate certain minimum levels of insulation (i believe 20cm is absolute minimum for roof, many people opt for 30), all windows are required to have some rate of heat dissipation outwards to be less than inwards (whatever it is called officially:) ) and so on.
now, of course, that only covers new housing being built. majority of the houses are way older than those standards, so they are at the state whatever their owners can afford (or bother) to get them to.
while your snarky comment might be funny, it's not really useful. when we moved in a new house (well, actually a quite old one, 70 or so years), it had poor insulation and we had little firewood. so for the first winter we arrived home from work to find it at 0 degrees, warm it up a bit to 2 and then go to sleep.
next winter was a bit better - we had saved some money and replaced doors, windows & furnace. so that one was on average 5 degrees.
third one came with 2 seasons-dry firewood (as well as lots more of it), so temperature went up to some 16-18 avg.
now, granted, this could have been changed by some/. poster just giving some large sum of money as a gift. and i'm sure there are enough houses like that in this region still, not to mention in the world as a whole.
then, i know several recently renovated houses with insulation and everything that don't have heating in the stairwell (and have separate insulation from it to the living space), so in some harsh winters i would not be surprised to see +5 temperatures in there at all (harsher being -30 to -35)
hmm. that actually seems to work. not extremely nice, as has to be done everywhere, and not easily possible with all browsers, but still nice enough - thanks:)
i use your search engine a lot. quite often i also use it over slow and low latency links. i also like to right click damn urls and save/reuse them.
oh, so, the main message.
these redirect urls on the search result page suck, blow and fucking annoy me. not always, but some good 80% of the time i use your search engine. so, please, get rid of that crap. i don't feel like using bing or whatever, but you are just making it easier for somebody else to provide a better product/service.
kubuntu... not really. whenever i tried it, kubuntu did not really live up to the promise of being a usable kde distro.
slackware is quite a different thing (and i'm saying that as a slackware user). while things are much more automated than in the early days, that's still quite different from what other distributions on your list deliver (or promise to deliver).
opensuse would probably be the closest, especially given them both being based on rpm. one thing where mandriva/drake/mageuiaieuia might be more sensible - not breaking things "just because" - i already mentioned before problems with zenworks daemon, beagle and the recent "interesting" decision to disable touchpad tapping. not that m people could force reason on suse, although maybe they could have some fork-merge between them with sane defaults;)
...and enabling by default that zenworks or whatever management daemon that broke things to the left and right, and installing beagle by default that resulted in seriously shitty performance. luckily, both of those things are gone in latest versions:)
ok, they still managed to fuckup things recently - they disabled touchpad tapping in installation environment, and desktop environments by default (from what i read, initially because gnome defaulted to it disabled).
why such imho braindead decisions get through is a bit of a puzzle to me...
zimbra isn't really an opensource product, though. they have opensource version, but, from what i gather, it lacks quite a lot of features, including all this outlook/blackberry synchronisation
ahh, as an opera user on linux i can mostly agree on it being a great browser. too bad latest versions seem to have broken kde/qt3 support... wondering whether that would be any better with 10.70 test builds. nope, kde4 still has a bit to wait for my primary desktop;)
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arrgh. opensuse initially disabled touchpad tapping in kde because it was disabled in gnome, then disabled it in xorg (which includes installer). i almost reported it as a bug, only to discover somebody broke it on purpose.
the thinking behind that just is not understandable to me.
sorry about the delay, gmail decided to filter this notification as spam...
anyway - it doesn't matter. users DON'T CARE. even if they are longtime more or less advanced users :)
it's a dilution of brand, and that sc is hard to understand unless one follows really closely and constantly. it still confuses me for a second every time i see it.
as a longtime kde user, i don't really know what "software compilation" is. and i don't want to know. that brand-splitting was a bad decision - imho, of course.
legal issues is one thing... but when i last tried to use drop.io, it required flash to upload anything.
slashdot, where's your normal flash-rage ? :)
they actually ended up finding lots of stuff that was banned, including a couple knives.
...and nothing has happened in approximately a million flights where people accidentally have brought through the "security" knives, water bottles and other items that are prohibited.
when you (general public) see that big part of the measures is useless and a waste of time & money, you assume that _everything_ in the security are is like that. same as me seeing how passengers get 0.5 water bottles confiscated, only to have some airport shop employee go through the security checkpoint with a palette full of 1.5l water bottles.
those who selectively enforce ridiculous measures are doing much, much more to undermine any legitimate security efforts.
supposedly that was requested by the reporter (although who knows with the ac post :) )
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1833084&cid=33978900
AAAAAAAAA. carmageddon. my favourite game, ever. played both 1st & second multiplayer, up to 12 players (one of them had a limit of 8 i believe, other of 12 - don't recall the details anymore...)
now if only this was not for a platform i stopped using many years ago, i'd try to devote some time for that project...
do you work for apple marketing campaign ? :) ;)
because this sounded way, way over the top, as if written by a professional pr person who doesn't know when to stop. i'd guess you are either from apple marketing team, or from some pr agency hired by them
hehe, seeing the name i thought "i've seen it before... wasn't it that repository visualisation stuff, codeswarm ?"
that one was quite nice - unfortunately, abandoned soon so for non-coding users some customisation was missing. so these are very nice concepts that can be sometimes used, but so far they don't seem to attract developer attention to get them going.
ok, usa americans probably won't get it... but you should stop being stupid with your "capitalism or death". because the second option might arrive too soon. there are basic services in europe that are paid for from taxes, and everybody pretty much expects them to organise in the best way to help _everybody_. sure, there are asshole firefighters, but in general they do a mighty great job and moving out to another region if there's a problem and local team can't deal with it (or there's no local team to begin with) is not only considered a norm - if somebody ordered to let a house burn down because it was out of their jurisdiction... well, there probably would be no lynching, but most likely that person would be prosecuted, and i would also expect everybody who obeyed such an order to lose their job immediately as the minimum reaction, and possibly more than that.
right. city dweller there, correct ?
first, everybody outside of cities burn stuff every now and then - be it some leaves, branches that are too small for firewood or something else. this is part of the approach to throw out in collected trash only stuff that you can't deal with yourself - it always makes me sick thinking about how people throw food stuff in trash.
second, are you just an ass or did you miss your childhood ? you really never played with fire ? we did it... well, not constantly, but often enough. either it was burning small "fireplaces", creating plastic toy car "accidents" or just putting compressed cans in fire - many, many of those things were mighty dangerous, now that i look back on it. but i would not expect nobody ever to do that again. quite the contrary, i would expect that to happen a lot. unless you lock up the children, fire and other dangerous things will be fascinating, interesting - and best learned about as early and as safe as possible. not this time, unfortunately.
it's much, much worse than that. it will get overrun by dead, frozen zombie mice.
you mention a very important point - summary left out one of the most crucial parts, that it is using openstreetmap data (which is great, because, as summary correctly points out, you can easily correct any mistakes or outdated information you find).
of course, another benefit is that you can do with the data almost everything you want - one of those possibilities being taking it offline with you on a phone, laptop or any other device.
hmm. could there really be any doubt about it ? :)
we do have building standards that mandate certain minimum levels of insulation (i believe 20cm is absolute minimum for roof, many people opt for 30), all windows are required to have some rate of heat dissipation outwards to be less than inwards (whatever it is called officially :) ) and so on.
now, of course, that only covers new housing being built. majority of the houses are way older than those standards, so they are at the state whatever their owners can afford (or bother) to get them to.
while your snarky comment might be funny, it's not really useful. when we moved in a new house (well, actually a quite old one, 70 or so years), it had poor insulation and we had little firewood. so for the first winter we arrived home from work to find it at 0 degrees, warm it up a bit to 2 and then go to sleep.
next winter was a bit better - we had saved some money and replaced doors, windows & furnace. so that one was on average 5 degrees.
third one came with 2 seasons-dry firewood (as well as lots more of it), so temperature went up to some 16-18 avg.
now, granted, this could have been changed by some /. poster just giving some large sum of money as a gift. and i'm sure there are enough houses like that in this region still, not to mention in the world as a whole.
then, i know several recently renovated houses with insulation and everything that don't have heating in the stairwell (and have separate insulation from it to the living space), so in some harsh winters i would not be surprised to see +5 temperatures in there at all (harsher being -30 to -35)
you keep posting link to that question, but it's quite... suboptimal, as some person already responded to your first posting of that link : http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1799844&cid=33704576
hmm. that actually seems to work. :)
not extremely nice, as has to be done everywhere, and not easily possible with all browsers, but still nice enough - thanks
message to google.
i use your search engine a lot. quite often i also use it over slow and low latency links. i also like to right click damn urls and save/reuse them.
oh, so, the main message.
these redirect urls on the search result page suck, blow and fucking annoy me. not always, but some good 80% of the time i use your search engine. so, please, get rid of that crap. i don't feel like using bing or whatever, but you are just making it easier for somebody else to provide a better product/service.
kubuntu... not really. whenever i tried it, kubuntu did not really live up to the promise of being a usable kde distro.
slackware is quite a different thing (and i'm saying that as a slackware user). while things are much more automated than in the early days, that's still quite different from what other distributions on your list deliver (or promise to deliver).
opensuse would probably be the closest, especially given them both being based on rpm. one thing where mandriva/drake/mageuiaieuia might be more sensible - not breaking things "just because" - i already mentioned before problems with zenworks daemon, beagle and the recent "interesting" decision to disable touchpad tapping. not that m people could force reason on suse, although maybe they could have some fork-merge between them with sane defaults ;)
...and enabling by default that zenworks or whatever management daemon that broke things to the left and right, and installing beagle by default that resulted in seriously shitty performance. luckily, both of those things are gone in latest versions :)
ok, they still managed to fuckup things recently - they disabled touchpad tapping in installation environment, and desktop environments by default (from what i read, initially because gnome defaulted to it disabled).
why such imho braindead decisions get through is a bit of a puzzle to me...
you forgot russian in ussr, german in parts of europe, i'd suspect french at the time of one small man and probably lots and lots of other examples :)
zimbra isn't really an opensource product, though. they have opensource version, but, from what i gather, it lacks quite a lot of features, including all this outlook/blackberry synchronisation
ahh, as an opera user on linux i can mostly agree on it being a great browser. too bad latest versions seem to have broken kde/qt3 support... wondering whether that would be any better with 10.70 test builds. nope, kde4 still has a bit to wait for my primary desktop ;)
heh. wondering whether the map data will be publicly available, and thus usable for projects like openstreetmap :)