like - "a lot" ? correct usage of styles, correctly setting indents, margins, automatic indexes, outline numbering... from my experience, basically nobody knows how to use all of these. they manually format everything (which bites them HEAVY at any large document), space pages using linebreaks, some even indent lines using spaces. some know how to insert automatic index, but most of those still manage to break it and instead of fixing their headings or whatever is the source of the problem, they edit the index manually. which, of course, breaks down the road.
and i've just touched some basic things which are required for successful document editing and collaborating. no, people don't know how to use word processors, not to mention other applications. and i'll admit that even though i more or less know my way around word processing, i'm bad at spreadsheets and very bad at presentations. which still is better than most...
Anything you don't understand, you have to zero-out.
now this doesn't seem to fall into "inspection". inspecting/messing with personal belongings seems to be one and accepted case, but modifying them... "hey, i have never seen anything before that looks like this weird thing with letters SD on it. i'd better hammer it. twice."
why ? i do question that. it is unsovably complex question for today, but so was once lightning. i don't believe we will be seeing answer or anything close to it in next years or in next thousand years. but, if humanity does not obliterate itself, there might come some quite suprising findings, as has been in all fields during the last few thousand years... so, really, i "believe" in explainable things. unexplainable things i place in the drawer marked 'unexplainable but damn intriguing' - and every now and then i move something out of that drawer only to replace by few other findings by scientists:)
actually, you don't want to change the rpm, you want to have better tools around it - which is exactly the direction that is taking place. suse broke things some time ago heavily, then somewhat fixed it with their new zypper libs. redhat is improving things with yum. and then there are other package managers that do quite a good job - for example, smart.
irivers were nice at some point - they offered very small form factor cd player with radio built-in, firmware upgrades and ogg support. for several years now i've been disappointed now - most the devices are mtp only, they don't answer to queries about products, website is flash only...
so i'm for a while looking for a viable device, ideally with a community around an open firmware, officially supported by the vendor. who knows, maybe openmoko/neo will be the new best portable music player:)
this has always puzzled me. i can't see believing in god as something that can withstand simple questions. i mean, if the life on earth is too complex to have originated on itself and somebody created it, then that how did that somebody come to be ? did somebody else create him (and why not her;) ) ? if somebody else, we get into a loop, where we still have to break out at some point. if not, then there can be no scientific, critical thinking that could accept the "he just exists, you may not question that". so how could a chain of logical arguments convince a person of gods existence ?
well, regarding 3d games, a pretty nice one is UFO: Alien Invasion http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/. based on quake 2 engine, but created for old xcom fans:)
non-3d, there are some other nice games - liquidwar and koules are two simplistic, but quite innovative and addictive games. too bad koules has not been updated in a while and its network support is very, very limited. openttd is very great and replayable, though i never managed to fully understand semaphores;)
there are also some commercial games, notably dominions (at 3rd version now). some other are tribal trouble and gish.
i probably forgot a bunch of other cool games, but hey, that's what other readers are for:)
actually, i've had some experience with both sles and rhel. i started with sles, so i might be slightly biased here, but there are several areas where i feel sles is better than rhel.
from usability viewpoint, yast, with all its problems, seems to be much better than rhel offerings. first, yast is a pretty centralised system for configuring things, which feel much better than system-config-something modules that can't even be launched from a single location, as far as i know. second, yast offers more modules. third, a LOT of modules in rhel are unusable in console - which is the thing one should be interested in servers.
from functionality viewpoint, i've seen the biggest difference in autoinstallation systems. autoyast is so much better than kickstart, it is a bit surprising. for example, generating an autoinstallation profile from an already installed system in sles can be nicely done (even taking into account a bug here and there;) ), but doesn't seem to be possible for rhel.
package management - yum in rhel5 is quite nice, but darn things suck in rhel4. and rhel4 is still required by quite some software packages...
oh, and then there's the thing that as a kde user i feel rhel being gnome-centric is a drawback;)
regarding mono usage, that abomination should be given back to miguel. one thing is gnome contaminations, but sles has several things developed on it (yuck), like enterprise novel stuff - so there are some disturbing trends in sles development as well.
All software written for the government will be the intellectual property of the gouvernment and the plan is to release it as open source. But this will probably be more difficult because of vendors using closed source components in the software.
could you expand on this ? like, does "releasing as open source" include complying with existing license of established project ? which particular vendors and products are exposing the problem of using closed source components ?
the general direction seems to be in very good shape, and that makes the encountered problems even more interesting.
right. legacy should be documented. but not in the friggin new format ! there is no reason to include that. format specification is not a history book.
if microsoft would want to document old formats (haha), great. but do that in their own specs.
i previously had a theory that miguel is working like a vaccine, spitting shit in smaller dosages than larger wrongdoers could and doing that earlier, so that opensource community can react to those problems, working like the immune system.
now it seems more likely that he really, really wants to work at microsoft, bet wants to get high post there from early on. so, simply applying didn't give him that. now he is building/shaping some companies that are4 ms friendly and paving a road for ms takeover, in which he could get some executive post at microsoft.
this would kinda suck, as i more or less like what novell is doing with opensuse:)
it's not a problem with the computer. it was clearly stated that the problem is with the closed source flash plugin. that plugin has been and still is crappy. i've seen a lot of problems with it - grey plugin areas if i switch tabs a lot, memleaks (some only evident after having browser open for a week, some appearing soon after loading the plugin)... also, alsa support was added way too late, thus making life much harder that it should be.
start by explaining very clearly the problem in technical terms, proceed to doing that louder and then proceed to shouting out few techincal terms and overall loud expression of them selling crap and then not accepting returns. works better if there are other customers nearby.
actually, it appeared several years ago. at that point k3b already was in a pretty good shape, but i decided to try nero anyway (i used it before on windows).
i installed it. installation was awkward. it didn't work with my cdburner. the interface was DAMN UGLY (and i'm really fine with what others call ugly - i have thunderbird and gimp on slackware kde system using some very squared widgets). it did not offer me anything i missed in k3b, was damn ugly, was proprietary and i had to pay for it. doh ?
if it had appeared before k3b and if it was decent, it might have slowed down k3b and become popular. it came too late, was too crappy.
thanks for the link, looks quite neat. i'm a bit concerned that it is web based, i'd be more comfortable with a local software - but if i won't find any, i guess i'll try those pipes:)
talking about newsfeeds... freshmeat releases feed is quite cool, but what i _really_ would like to have - an ability to mark specific projects to never be included in my feed. this might also be a generic feed reader capability - to hide certain events by applying regexes to their subjects. i wonder how feasible both of these are:)
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like - "a lot" ?
correct usage of styles, correctly setting indents, margins, automatic indexes, outline numbering...
from my experience, basically nobody knows how to use all of these.
they manually format everything (which bites them HEAVY at any large document), space pages using linebreaks, some even indent lines using spaces.
some know how to insert automatic index, but most of those still manage to break it and instead of fixing their headings or whatever is the source of the problem, they edit the index manually. which, of course, breaks down the road.
and i've just touched some basic things which are required for successful document editing and collaborating. no, people don't know how to use word processors, not to mention other applications. and i'll admit that even though i more or less know my way around word processing, i'm bad at spreadsheets and very bad at presentations. which still is better than most...
now this doesn't seem to fall into "inspection". inspecting/messing with personal belongings seems to be one and accepted case, but modifying them...
"hey, i have never seen anything before that looks like this weird thing with letters SD on it. i'd better hammer it. twice."
why ? i do question that. it is unsovably complex question for today, but so was once lightning.
i don't believe we will be seeing answer or anything close to it in next years or in next thousand years. but, if humanity does not obliterate itself, there might come some quite suprising findings, as has been in all fields during the last few thousand years...
so, really, i "believe" in explainable things. unexplainable things i place in the drawer marked 'unexplainable but damn intriguing' - and every now and then i move something out of that drawer only to replace by few other findings by scientists
would we see an increase in linux malware... after antivirus vendors create products for it ? ;)
actually, you don't want to change the rpm, you want to have better tools around it - which is exactly the direction that is taking place.
suse broke things some time ago heavily, then somewhat fixed it with their new zypper libs.
redhat is improving things with yum.
and then there are other package managers that do quite a good job - for example, smart.
irivers were nice at some point - they offered very small form factor cd player with radio built-in, firmware upgrades and ogg support. for several years now i've been disappointed now - most the devices are mtp only, they don't answer to queries about products, website is flash only...
:)
so i'm for a while looking for a viable device, ideally with a community around an open firmware, officially supported by the vendor. who knows, maybe openmoko/neo will be the new best portable music player
this has always puzzled me. ;) ) ?
i can't see believing in god as something that can withstand simple questions.
i mean, if the life on earth is too complex to have originated on itself and somebody created it, then that how did that somebody come to be ? did somebody else create him (and why not her
if somebody else, we get into a loop, where we still have to break out at some point.
if not, then there can be no scientific, critical thinking that could accept the "he just exists, you may not question that".
so how could a chain of logical arguments convince a person of gods existence ?
well, regarding 3d games, a pretty nice one is UFO: Alien Invasion http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/. :)
;)
:)
based on quake 2 engine, but created for old xcom fans
non-3d, there are some other nice games - liquidwar and koules are two simplistic, but quite innovative and addictive games. too bad koules has not been updated in a while and its network support is very, very limited.
openttd is very great and replayable, though i never managed to fully understand semaphores
there are also some commercial games, notably dominions (at 3rd version now). some other are tribal trouble and gish.
i probably forgot a bunch of other cool games, but hey, that's what other readers are for
actually, i've had some experience with both sles and rhel.
;) ), but doesn't seem to be possible for rhel.
;)
i started with sles, so i might be slightly biased here, but there are several areas where i feel sles is better than rhel.
from usability viewpoint, yast, with all its problems, seems to be much better than rhel offerings.
first, yast is a pretty centralised system for configuring things, which feel much better than system-config-something modules that can't even be launched from a single location, as far as i know.
second, yast offers more modules.
third, a LOT of modules in rhel are unusable in console - which is the thing one should be interested in servers.
from functionality viewpoint, i've seen the biggest difference in autoinstallation systems. autoyast is so much better than kickstart, it is a bit surprising. for example, generating an autoinstallation profile from an already installed system in sles can be nicely done (even taking into account a bug here and there
package management - yum in rhel5 is quite nice, but darn things suck in rhel4. and rhel4 is still required by quite some software packages...
oh, and then there's the thing that as a kde user i feel rhel being gnome-centric is a drawback
regarding mono usage, that abomination should be given back to miguel. one thing is gnome contaminations, but sles has several things developed on it (yuck), like enterprise novel stuff - so there are some disturbing trends in sles development as well.
there's an evidence cats don't like citruses
actually, the taboo and hysteria connected to human body nakedness (probably mostly from christian religion) is somewhat disturbing, yes.
could you expand on this ?
like, does "releasing as open source" include complying with existing license of established project ?
which particular vendors and products are exposing the problem of using closed source components ?
the general direction seems to be in very good shape, and that makes the encountered problems even more interesting.
ms makes life miserable for web developers who use flash ? cheers to ms !
this made me wondering. would it be possible to include code from one into another or are they too different conceptually ?
i try to avoid paying fopr software as such, but i pay for feature development and support. am i part of the market ?
right. legacy should be documented. but not in the friggin new format !
there is no reason to include that. format specification is not a history book.
if microsoft would want to document old formats (haha), great. but do that in their own specs.
why the hell is it in the specification at all ?
no, really why is it there ?
i previously had a theory that miguel is working like a vaccine, spitting shit in smaller dosages than larger wrongdoers could and doing that earlier, so that opensource community can react to those problems, working like the immune system.
:)
now it seems more likely that he really, really wants to work at microsoft, bet wants to get high post there from early on.
so, simply applying didn't give him that.
now he is building/shaping some companies that are4 ms friendly and paving a road for ms takeover, in which he could get some executive post at microsoft.
this would kinda suck, as i more or less like what novell is doing with opensuse
it's not a problem with the computer. it was clearly stated that the problem is with the closed source flash plugin.
:)
that plugin has been and still is crappy.
i've seen a lot of problems with it - grey plugin areas if i switch tabs a lot, memleaks (some only evident after having browser open for a week, some appearing soon after loading the plugin)...
also, alsa support was added way too late, thus making life much harder that it should be.
flash sucks. heya, adobe
have you run memtest86+ on it ? if not, do that. allow for a full cycle, use latest version.
if it finds any problems, go to them and tell them in simple steps how to verify that there is an error.
i had to do this 3 times with fujitsu-siemens laptop, but eventually they gave in and replaced the motherboard - the problem was solved.
start by explaining very clearly the problem in technical terms, proceed to doing that louder and then proceed to shouting out few techincal terms and overall loud expression of them selling crap and then not accepting returns. works better if there are other customers nearby.
actually, it appeared several years ago.
at that point k3b already was in a pretty good shape, but i decided to try nero anyway (i used it before on windows).
i installed it. installation was awkward. it didn't work with my cdburner. the interface was DAMN UGLY (and i'm really fine with what others call ugly - i have thunderbird and gimp on slackware kde system using some very squared widgets).
it did not offer me anything i missed in k3b, was damn ugly, was proprietary and i had to pay for it. doh ?
if it had appeared before k3b and if it was decent, it might have slowed down k3b and become popular. it came too late, was too crappy.
thanks for the link, looks quite neat. i'm a bit concerned that it is web based, i'd be more comfortable with a local software - but if i won't find any, i guess i'll try those pipes :)
talking about newsfeeds... freshmeat releases feed is quite cool, but what i _really_ would like to have - an ability to mark specific projects to never be included in my feed. this might also be a generic feed reader capability - to hide certain events by applying regexes to their subjects. :)
i wonder how feasible both of these are