oh, if i had a chance, you would get funny for sure:D
if somebody ever decides to expand this analogy, this should be the one to include. though lately you can get some distros that are more automatic than windows:)
i don't think there is something to flame much about here. people differ - and so do developers;)
some are maybe too fast to copy behaviour. some are glad to use succesful and good ideas. some just want to do it "my way".
i think there's a lot floating of ideas from one side to another - which is a very good thing (though patents hinder this somewhat)i think, in most cases when you say "you should copy this" it usually either is available in one or another distribution, is not deemed top priority (remember that there are bugs to fix, cool features to implement - that might be better than that particular windows feature).
what particular fetures you feel windows has and linux distributions do not that would seriously improve your experience with linux ?
"Windows is an unmaintainable car it has a steering wheel and a go pedal. When it goes wrong you throw it away and get a new car. That makes ownership quite expensive.
Linux is a highly maintainable car it has 4 steering wheels, 84 pedals and a little knob to tweek the engine timing while you are driving along. You have to know every damn thing about it before you can drive it and your constantly tweeking it. That makes ownership quite expensive."
may i offer slightly different analogy ?:)
now, you have two 'types' of cars. one is windows. it is produced by a single company, all spare parts are manufactured by the same company. it comes in slight variety, having several models. you are not able to buy older models, though you can buy a new model, trash it and use some older model.
if something breaks down, it usually is pretty obscure that you get a flashing "service now" that can be deciphered with a specialised hardware that is sold by the same manufacturer. if some part breaks down, you usually have to change whole lot of parts as they come together and there is no way to exchange smaller parts (for example, no way to exchange wiper arm, you have to exchange whole block). as parts are manufactured by the single company only, they are pretty expensive and obscure (for example, central computer can be changed, but costs quite a lot). the cars work well on good roads, though breaking down now and then unexpectedly. don't try going offroad, unpaved roads are very, very risku. it is very easy to service these cars, as kid next doors is ready to help. quality of this kind of service is of a very low level, but readily available. well, sometimes you have to scrap the car after such a service, but it sortaworks most of the time. all gasoline, windshield fluids, coolants are compatible with this car, though some of them result in breakdown of the car. the car has some problems with isolation, so you get a lot of different bugs in the car that are annoying at low speeds and often are the cause for the crashes at high speeds. this car is very easy to obtain, almost all retailers have it. ---------------------
then there's this 'linux' type. they have in common only the engine, all other parts differ. it is offerend by a bunch of vendors, and you can choose any one you like. this might seriously impact the performance, looks and other aspects of the car. you can get constructor type of the car that you build yourself - involves welding and other obscure things. then you can get one that's pretty complete and polished. most drivers have difficulties choosing, as there are so many subtypes and vendors. there are less techies specialised in this type of cars, so their time costs more, but generally they are much better at fixing problems - much of it can be attributes to their enthuasism about these cars (they are builders, owners and drivers at the same time), but having complete information about the car helps a lot. it is also possible to get some handholding when choosing the correct subtype for your needs.
spare parts are available down to every bult&nut, though you have to wait some time for the shipment to arrive. the car itself is extremly reliable and fast, it can be kept for decades with almost no maintenance. most liquids are not compatible with it, but careful evaluation when shopping helps to find ones that work. even though gas is available in few selected tanks only, the car uses several times less of it than 'windows' type. also changing colant and other things are very rare. the car almost never breaks down, and even if it does, it is very easy for a specialised person to diagnose it without that device from the manufacturer and fix it, in most cases even without ordering any spare parts (unlike the other type, where dumping the car is the norm).
also a lot of accessories are manufactured for the 'windows' type only - air refresheners and all that stuff is hard to install in 'linux' type of cars as manufact
1.6TB discs sound great, yet I'm weary of having that much data on an easy to break/burn/steal disc. 300GB is more feasible as I can see making a few copies of the backup "just in case."
what prevents you from doing the same with 1.6tb disks ? create four copies, keep them in separate cities, maybe even countries - should be pretty safe for most uses. of course, becomes easier to steal one, too:) Nonetheless, the write speeds listed don't seem all that great, and what interfaces will let us copy data at those speeds? Moving 1.6TG of data off of a server without slowing down user access (24 hours per day with offshore employees) sounds like it will still take hours and hours to back up (if not longer).
make a snapshot, take a low priority backup. it probably will slow things down somewhat, but you don't have to worry much that it takes longer to finish. do your users really are supposed to have 1.6tb of changing data par day ?:) maybe some restructuring of data might help... of course, if keeping acceptable performance level and backing up required amount of data in 20 hours (from snapshot, of course) is not possible, whole infrastracture will have to be changed.
A recovery stage would take even longer.
that's something you have to count in downtime - but i guess most businesses can take slight downtime much better than a complete loss of data. if downtime is not acceptable at all, there are other technologies (you mentioned keeping whole server for failover, maybe even in a remote location with adequate network access), but they sure will be more expensive.
actually, what happens if we approach a point where software becomaes so complicated that it is not possible for humans to grasp a single giant project, no matter how modularized it is ? what chances do we have to keep it going ? probably writing some ai that would be specialised in... well, writing another ai, so to speak. not 10 years from now, but think about 100 years from now, 1000 years from now and more... it's a huge amount of time given current speeds of technology development.
so, if anybody would be 2000 or more years advanced there probably would be some ai (with adequate processing power) capable of deciphering anything we have created in a couple of minutes.
for saved sessions kde konsole is pretty neat - i have created a sessions where i have servers in one location in one windows as tabs, servers in another - that's another window. i log into them automatically with ssh keys, so it's just a matter of clicking on the correct icon - and i have all the servers accessible.
the problem is, when a session is run this way, konsole for some reason doesn't recognize function keys, special characters and alike correclty - even though all settings are the same as for local sessions. i haven't been able to find out what's wrong and my kde issue has had no response:)
so it's not all that great, but for simple usage it's great - and i hope that i will be able to resolve key/character problem some time soon.
lately it's even worse than that. because of the situation you describe, i have been browsing with flash disabled for some time (easy to do in opera, though it takes all other plugins with it;) ). and somewhat lately i see some nasty, annoying floating ads that are coded in javascript (i think. maybe java, but i don't think so).
for some reason that crap floats on top of the content, and doesn't go away. usually i just hit f12 and deselect java & javascript, then reload the page, i have considered disabling java[script] by default, but at least for javascript that would require pretty often pressing f12, so i leave it enabled for now.
openoffice up to 1.1.5 used a concept that some toolbars changes depending on their context (you select a picture - it changes; you put a cursor in a table - it changes).
it was changed on the road to 2.0 because people complained that it was not like mso and it was unintuitive (not all people, i kinda liked it when i got used to the concept)
so, oo.org changes to ms way, ms changes to oo.org way (but even more extensively, as far as i can tell)
such a functionality was considered not intuitive and user-friendly when oo.org did it. how much will users bend now when ms has done it ?
Which might be a problem if it caused those objects to behave any differently. It doesn't.
in some cases you get the application launched twice. if the app is slow already, launching two instances in parallel isn't any faster. also, if the aplication locks the profile, second instance might behave differently and confuse the user (for example, mozilla family products)
You're serious? no one else just finds themselves playing with the drag-select box? huh... guess that makes me a weirdo.
mhh. as i said, i have no desktop available, so in case i have no desire to do anything more productive i tend to pull out some interesting, but somewhat forgotten problem with, for example, desktop configuration or check wether some project has released a new version. or something.
... I don't know a single person who is confused by the doubleclick system.
a lot of net-too-savvy computer users i know have at least a couple of times doubleclicked on quicklaunch icons (both windows/kde), links in browser etc.
i think, i have myself done that too - i just didn't know wether particular linux system was configured for a single or doubleclick. and even though i prefer doubleclick (just used to it ? or is it really better ?), i agree that this causes some sort of cunfusion and definitely is very unconsistent.
Doesn't anyone else get kinda bored and click on random spots on the desktop, or is that just me?
it's just you. i almost never see my kde desktop. maybe with kde4 that will change...
what about electricity consumption ? isn't it possible that a difference in maintenance costs (electricity, conditioning, facilities, replacement of out-of-production parts etc) exceeds a cost a newer system ?
i'm all for complete utilization of older systems, but i don't think home users is a viable market for such solutions.
I had found the location you referred to and disabled the annoying setting. The impression I had received was that it was working dynamically based on the words I had already used.
that's exactly how it works. you can change how long must the word be to remember it and also place an upper limit on word count (as this db can get quite big and affect performance)
The notion of overloading the key in that way is terrible. It might be tolerable assigned to the key, if that's an option, though I'm still unattracted and plan no experiments.
i'm not sure i understood this one completely. you don't like setting this functionality to one of available keys ? actually i have several times accidently accepted the suggestion, so i think it's a matter or preference - choose they key you would less likely use in a normal working session.
note that i am not using this functionality (though i don't bother turning it off in latest versions as it so rarely kicks in), but there have been cases when poeple have came looking for something that would allow them to autocomplete longer words (for example, medical terms). in case you or somebody you know ever needs something like this, don't completely erase this information from your memory;)
Not sure why, but I had already started working with styles, so apparently that part was intuitive enough for me.
nnice. if more people would use them, it would be easier to work for others:)
Finally, in a case of small world syndrome, one of my grandparents was from that country.
direct formatting as in 'direct formatting vs styles';) using styles is a must and i first started using them when i moved from word to oo.org, as oo.org just stuck them in the face.
of course, if you have no idea how the feature is named it is harder to find it in help, though in that case googling may help (if you manage to think about the correct keywords) - it might allow you to use more vague terms than oo.org help.
as for using word completion - you clearly did not examine the tab where you can turn it off;)
check out options in tools->autocorrect->word completion.
interesting ones might be 'show as tip' and especially 'accept with'
by default accept key is enter/return, so pressing it while having a suggestion will accept that suggestion.
other available keys are end/space/right.
'min. word length' allows you to tune how many words on average will be collected. this parameter defaulted to 4 in 1.1 series and defaults to 10 in 2.0 - i think it's a welcome change as previously too many completions would kick in and scare users away from the feature.
this feature is mostly useful in languages where words don't change much in genders/declinations etc (for example, english:) ) - in latvian this feature usually grabs the incorrect form and you anyway have to retype half of the word.
most people that are labelled evil/bad are not announced to be schizophrenic - this cathegorisation does not require direct involment of social measures to isolate unstable persons.
of course, companies are not unified to the point where they have no chance to radically change views - so you should not apply to them everything that is applied to humans.
i think, you should try to view this more as "groups of persons".
what label have german ss units received ? how is al-quaeda labelled ? can you cathegorize actions of american government in good/bad cathegories ?
generally first two have been classified as bad/evil. third one would be in the not-so-sure cathegory, as views split on that one.
in the same light companies in it perform good and bad actions. we can see them, we are able to understand impact and evaluate wether they correspond with our moral norms. isn't this the same as with humans ?
oh, will you stop this ?:) you either assume that good/bad don't exist at all, or you apply them to everybody - you can not selectively choose entities and apply these things to only some of them.
all companies ar comprised of people. after _every_ decision is a human. so suddenly there are no ethical measurements for a human actions when they are in a company ? cool, i'll found a company and start shooting people. or will that be bad ?
also an excuse "oh, i was just given orders to kill people" isn't exactly the best thing to do, as it usually is not accepted.
companies can and are good and bad. mostly though companies can easier and faster change than individuals, but that is not an excuse to apply relaxed norms to them, exacttly the opposite. i think most of us have had close experience with a lot of companies - and generally there are some that we have declared "bad" (as they have either not been honest or done other things that we have determined to bee bad), but there also are cases when only a couple of executives change and the company's attitude changes rapidly and their actions fall into the "good" cathegory.
so, yes, anything that has conscience can be good or bad. it does not apply at this level to animals - they are labelled agressive and whatnot. but unless you insist that companies are braindead (though some of them might be...) they should be held to the same standards, if at all.
"LILO can make the system unbootable without giving an error" - i'm pretty sure that is a bug. i have never experienced something like that.
both of these approaches have good and bad things (for example, grub has to know underlying filesystem), also a big factor is knwoledge with particular loader.
slackware still comes with lilo and i am thankful about that;) i'm used to it, it works for me, so i keep using it everywhere. on servers you don't replace kernel that often, on experimental workstation i only a couple of times durign several years have forgotten to run lilo after kernel upgrade, no other problems experienced. also, because it is an experimental one, i always have handy some slackware or knoppix bootdisk - you just never know what might happen.
i don't think there is point arguing which one is "better", because they have different approaches. one might decide that one is better than the other in a particular case, but even then similarity with the one that is used is the biggest factor.
well, there is on very important change, at least for me. fuse. it basically allows you to mount anything that has a required driver - the coolest one being sshfs, also ftpfs is nice. maybe you are interested in cvsfs. see this : http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSys tems
then, this one is nice : "Suspend support for CIFS filesystem" basically, if you had an smb share mounted & suspended, after resuming it was not accessible. supposedly this works now:)
"Driver for the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS)" could be cool, unfortunately i don't have a thinkpad.
9p support seems OMG !#&#, but i probably will have no practiacal use of it for a long time (see papers on plan9, they are thoughts provoking).
well, there are other things (wireless drivers, PPTP conntrack) that will be useful to some people but not for me.
so this is a pretty feature stuffed release and some of them are rrrrrrrreally nice. though i still wish for a 2.7 fork...
"Well, unless it has recently been changed, with LILO, you have to run the program to install a new boot block after you toy around with the config file. If LILO encounters an error or something it usually installs a corrupt boot sector and you need a boot disk to get back in."
i'm not sure wether current versions of lilo reset state if an error is encountered, but hey - if bootloader installations gives you errors you _should_ check your configuration and do it again until there are no errors, right ? if you reboot after seeing errors... that's not the best way to have a running system anyway:)
actually i don't think it is a good idea to relate short form to the way date is spelled. exactly because you can say that differently in the same language, not only in different ones. for example, in latvian normal text flow would be "2005. gada 13. janvris". year-date-month. i guess you could find every possible combination in different languages, so linear sequence is a must (biggest-smallest or the other way around), as in this case it is impossible to mix them up. biggest-smallest is the best as it sorts easily, so that's what i have been trying to stick with lately.
ps. umm. does your last sentence really imply that you think most of europeans speak english as their primary language ?
there are plans to completely redo charting module, but they were somewhat set back by oo.org 2.0. maybe you can participate in creation of specs, if you know what are your needs ?
additionally, most market players see that they are being squeezed or squashed by ms.
let's see...
* hardware manufacturers. they have restrictive deals, no room to variate with software. ms can extort them by threatening to increase prices, limit access to their products; ibm is trying to break out by selling out pc division; ms is competing with console manufacturers (notably sony) with xbox. there are other areas, too, but they are not so visible.
* software manufacturers there have been _so_ many cases when ms has moved in another areas and destroyed software developers (or plans to do so)... let's see just some recent ones :
- antivirus. hintwords(avg,symantec,gcs); - bookkeeping - navision; - drawing - visio; - voip - teleo - games - not counting xbox, there are a couple of game genres they have invaded;
they have hinted at hitting pdf. there have been rumours about possible move into adobe space.
will adobe wait till ms has created 'good enough' copies to kill it ? what about other software vendors that for now provide windows-only software ? will they wait until ms expands in their territory as well ? additionally, by not providing linux alternative they risk to spur development of very good opensource alternatives.
see nero - mswindows has some limited cd burning capability (i would bet it will improve until it can kill 3rd party cd writing software), there is k3b (with underlying commandline utilities) that is much better than nero for linux (which is a joke).
see photoshop. yes, gimp is not there yet, blahblah. but it is good for some tasks, where photoshop might be considered before and it improves rapidly.
then there are cad software vendors that seem to be completely blind and deaf:) ok, they have a headstart, but it won't last forever. and my list of companies that have been taken over is just a very, very small fraction. this trend will continue, as ms profit margins will slightly decrease and they just will have to move to new markets.
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oh, if i had a chance, you would get funny for sure :D
:)
if somebody ever decides to expand this analogy, this should be the one to include.
though lately you can get some distros that are more automatic than windows
i don't think there is something to flame much about here. ;)
people differ - and so do developers
some are maybe too fast to copy behaviour. some are glad to use succesful and good ideas. some just want to do it "my way".
i think there's a lot floating of ideas from one side to another - which is a very good thing (though patents hinder this somewhat)i think, in most cases when you say "you should copy this" it usually either is available in one or another distribution, is not deemed top priority (remember that there are bugs to fix, cool features to implement - that might be better than that particular windows feature).
what particular fetures you feel windows has and linux distributions do not that would seriously improve your experience with linux ?
"Windows is an unmaintainable car it has a steering wheel and a go pedal. When it goes wrong you throw it away and get a new car. That makes ownership quite expensive.
:)
Linux is a highly maintainable car it has 4 steering wheels, 84 pedals and a little knob to tweek the engine timing while you are driving along. You have to know every damn thing about it before you can drive it and your constantly tweeking it. That makes ownership quite expensive."
may i offer slightly different analogy ?
now, you have two 'types' of cars. one is windows. it is produced by a single company, all spare parts are manufactured by the same company. it comes in slight variety, having several models. you are not able to buy older models, though you can buy a new model, trash it and use some older model.
if something breaks down, it usually is pretty obscure that you get a flashing "service now" that can be deciphered with a specialised hardware that is sold by the same manufacturer.
if some part breaks down, you usually have to change whole lot of parts as they come together and there is no way to exchange smaller parts (for example, no way to exchange wiper arm, you have to exchange whole block). as parts are manufactured by the single company only, they are pretty expensive and obscure (for example, central computer can be changed, but costs quite a lot).
the cars work well on good roads, though breaking down now and then unexpectedly. don't try going offroad, unpaved roads are very, very risku.
it is very easy to service these cars, as kid next doors is ready to help. quality of this kind of service is of a very low level, but readily available. well, sometimes you have to scrap the car after such a service, but it sortaworks most of the time.
all gasoline, windshield fluids, coolants are compatible with this car, though some of them result in breakdown of the car.
the car has some problems with isolation, so you get a lot of different bugs in the car that are annoying at low speeds and often are the cause for the crashes at high speeds.
this car is very easy to obtain, almost all retailers have it.
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then there's this 'linux' type. they have in common only the engine, all other parts differ. it is offerend by a bunch of vendors, and you can choose any one you like. this might seriously impact the performance, looks and other aspects of the car.
you can get constructor type of the car that you build yourself - involves welding and other obscure things. then you can get one that's pretty complete and polished.
most drivers have difficulties choosing, as there are so many subtypes and vendors.
there are less techies specialised in this type of cars, so their time costs more, but generally they are much better at fixing problems - much of it can be attributes to their enthuasism about these cars (they are builders, owners and drivers at the same time), but having complete information about the car helps a lot. it is also possible to get some handholding when choosing the correct subtype for your needs.
spare parts are available down to every bult&nut, though you have to wait some time for the shipment to arrive.
the car itself is extremly reliable and fast, it can be kept for decades with almost no maintenance.
most liquids are not compatible with it, but careful evaluation when shopping helps to find ones that work. even though gas is available in few selected tanks only, the car uses several times less of it than 'windows' type. also changing colant and other things are very rare.
the car almost never breaks down, and even if it does, it is very easy for a specialised person to diagnose it without that device from the manufacturer and fix it, in most cases even without ordering any spare parts (unlike the other type, where dumping the car is the norm).
also a lot of accessories are manufactured for the 'windows' type only - air refresheners and all that stuff is hard to install in 'linux' type of cars as manufact
1.6TB discs sound great, yet I'm weary of having that much data on an easy to break/burn/steal disc. 300GB is more feasible as I can see making a few copies of the backup "just in case."
:)
:)
what prevents you from doing the same with 1.6tb disks ? create four copies, keep them in separate cities, maybe even countries - should be pretty safe for most uses. of course, becomes easier to steal one, too
Nonetheless, the write speeds listed don't seem all that great, and what interfaces will let us copy data at those speeds? Moving 1.6TG of data off of a server without slowing down user access (24 hours per day with offshore employees) sounds like it will still take hours and hours to back up (if not longer).
make a snapshot, take a low priority backup. it probably will slow things down somewhat, but you don't have to worry much that it takes longer to finish.
do your users really are supposed to have 1.6tb of changing data par day ?
maybe some restructuring of data might help...
of course, if keeping acceptable performance level and backing up required amount of data in 20 hours (from snapshot, of course) is not possible, whole infrastracture will have to be changed.
A recovery stage would take even longer.
that's something you have to count in downtime - but i guess most businesses can take slight downtime much better than a complete loss of data.
if downtime is not acceptable at all, there are other technologies (you mentioned keeping whole server for failover, maybe even in a remote location with adequate network access), but they sure will be more expensive.
actually, what happens if we approach a point where software becomaes so complicated that it is not possible for humans to grasp a single giant project, no matter how modularized it is ? what chances do we have to keep it going ?
probably writing some ai that would be specialised in... well, writing another ai, so to speak. not 10 years from now, but think about 100 years from now, 1000 years from now and more... it's a huge amount of time given current speeds of technology development.
so, if anybody would be 2000 or more years advanced there probably would be some ai (with adequate processing power) capable of deciphering anything we have created in a couple of minutes.
oh crap. as has been statet here and there, vista in latvian means hen. you know, a grown up chicken. this exact form.
if you are native english speaker, imagine how it would be if it was called "windows hen". or, to be more funny - "windows chicken".
oh, maybe that is a well hidden attempt to disguis - "you see, they have a penguin, we have a chicken, we are open, too !!"
or something like :
http://www.chiken.de/bilder/chiken.jpg
for saved sessions kde konsole is pretty neat - i have created a sessions where i have servers in one location in one windows as tabs, servers in another - that's another window.
:)
i log into them automatically with ssh keys, so it's just a matter of clicking on the correct icon - and i have all the servers accessible.
the problem is, when a session is run this way, konsole for some reason doesn't recognize function keys, special characters and alike correclty - even though all settings are the same as for local sessions. i haven't been able to find out what's wrong and my kde issue has had no response
so it's not all that great, but for simple usage it's great - and i hope that i will be able to resolve key/character problem some time soon.
lately it's even worse than that. because of the situation you describe, i have been browsing with flash disabled for some time (easy to do in opera, though it takes all other plugins with it ;) ). and somewhat lately i see some nasty, annoying floating ads that are coded in javascript (i think. maybe java, but i don't think so).
for some reason that crap floats on top of the content, and doesn't go away. usually i just hit f12 and deselect java & javascript, then reload the page, i have considered disabling java[script] by default, but at least for javascript that would require pretty often pressing f12, so i leave it enabled for now.
actually, there's an interesting bit...
openoffice up to 1.1.5 used a concept that some toolbars changes depending on their context (you select a picture - it changes; you put a cursor in a table - it changes).
it was changed on the road to 2.0 because people complained that it was not like mso and it was unintuitive (not all people, i kinda liked it when i got used to the concept)
so, oo.org changes to ms way, ms changes to oo.org way (but even more extensively, as far as i can tell)
such a functionality was considered not intuitive and user-friendly when oo.org did it.
how much will users bend now when ms has done it ?
Which might be a problem if it caused those objects to behave any differently. It doesn't.
in some cases you get the application launched twice. if the app is slow already, launching two instances in parallel isn't any faster.
also, if the aplication locks the profile, second instance might behave differently and confuse the user (for example, mozilla family products)
You're serious? no one else just finds themselves playing with the drag-select box? huh... guess that makes me a weirdo.
mhh. as i said, i have no desktop available, so in case i have no desire to do anything more productive i tend to pull out some interesting, but somewhat forgotten problem with, for example, desktop configuration or check wether some project has released a new version. or something.
... I don't know a single person who is confused by the doubleclick system.
a lot of net-too-savvy computer users i know have at least a couple of times doubleclicked on quicklaunch icons (both windows/kde), links in browser etc.
i think, i have myself done that too - i just didn't know wether particular linux system was configured for a single or doubleclick. and even though i prefer doubleclick (just used to it ? or is it really better ?), i agree that this causes some sort of cunfusion and definitely is very unconsistent.
Doesn't anyone else get kinda bored and click on random spots on the desktop, or is that just me?
it's just you. i almost never see my kde desktop. maybe with kde4 that will change...
what about electricity consumption ?
isn't it possible that a difference in maintenance costs (electricity, conditioning, facilities, replacement of out-of-production parts etc) exceeds a cost a newer system ?
i'm all for complete utilization of older systems, but i don't think home users is a viable market for such solutions.
hmm. but i don't see capslock anywhere in that configuration screen =)
only end/return/space/right
I had found the location you referred to and disabled the annoying setting. The impression I had received was that it was working dynamically based on the words I had already used.
;)
:)
;)
that's exactly how it works. you can change how long must the word be to remember it and also place an upper limit on word count (as this db can get quite big and affect performance)
The notion of overloading the key in that way is terrible. It might be tolerable assigned to the key, if that's an option, though I'm still unattracted and plan no experiments.
i'm not sure i understood this one completely.
you don't like setting this functionality to one of available keys ? actually i have several times accidently accepted the suggestion, so i think it's a matter or preference - choose they key you would less likely use in a normal working session.
note that i am not using this functionality (though i don't bother turning it off in latest versions as it so rarely kicks in), but there have been cases when poeple have came looking for something that would allow them to autocomplete longer words (for example, medical terms). in case you or somebody you know ever needs something like this, don't completely erase this information from your memory
Not sure why, but I had already started working with styles, so apparently that part was intuitive enough for me.
nnice. if more people would use them, it would be easier to work for others
Finally, in a case of small world syndrome, one of my grandparents was from that country.
nice to hear, too. ever visited it ?
direct formatting as in 'direct formatting vs styles' ;)
;)
:) ) - in latvian this feature usually grabs the incorrect form and you anyway have to retype half of the word.
using styles is a must and i first started using them when i moved from word to oo.org, as oo.org just stuck them in the face.
of course, if you have no idea how the feature is named it is harder to find it in help, though in that case googling may help (if you manage to think about the correct keywords) - it might allow you to use more vague terms than oo.org help.
as for using word completion - you clearly did not examine the tab where you can turn it off
check out options in tools->autocorrect->word completion.
interesting ones might be 'show as tip' and especially 'accept with'
by default accept key is enter/return, so pressing it while having a suggestion will accept that suggestion.
other available keys are end/space/right.
'min. word length' allows you to tune how many words on average will be collected. this parameter defaulted to 4 in 1.1 series and defaults to 10 in 2.0 - i think it's a welcome change as previously too many completions would kick in and scare users away from the feature.
this feature is mostly useful in languages where words don't change much in genders/declinations etc (for example, english
number one to unlearn : using direct formatting. seriously. it will heavily increase your productivity in long term.
;)
as about word completion - i don't use it myself, but disabling it is pretty easy, also help on "word completion" says it pretty clear
most people that are labelled evil/bad are not announced to be schizophrenic - this cathegorisation does not require direct involment of social measures to isolate unstable persons.
of course, companies are not unified to the point where they have no chance to radically change views - so you should not apply to them everything that is applied to humans.
i think, you should try to view this more as "groups of persons".
what label have german ss units received ? how is al-quaeda labelled ? can you cathegorize actions of american government in good/bad cathegories ?
generally first two have been classified as bad/evil. third one would be in the not-so-sure cathegory, as views split on that one.
in the same light companies in it perform good and bad actions. we can see them, we are able to understand impact and evaluate wether they correspond with our moral norms. isn't this the same as with humans ?
oh, will you stop this ? :)
you either assume that good/bad don't exist at all, or you apply them to everybody - you can not selectively choose entities and apply these things to only some of them.
all companies ar comprised of people. after _every_ decision is a human. so suddenly there are no ethical measurements for a human actions when they are in a company ? cool, i'll found a company and start shooting people. or will that be bad ?
also an excuse "oh, i was just given orders to kill people" isn't exactly the best thing to do, as it usually is not accepted.
companies can and are good and bad. mostly though companies can easier and faster change than individuals, but that is not an excuse to apply relaxed norms to them, exacttly the opposite.
i think most of us have had close experience with a lot of companies - and generally there are some that we have declared "bad" (as they have either not been honest or done other things that we have determined to bee bad), but there also are cases when only a couple of executives change and the company's attitude changes rapidly and their actions fall into the "good" cathegory.
so, yes, anything that has conscience can be good or bad. it does not apply at this level to animals - they are labelled agressive and whatnot. but unless you insist that companies are braindead (though some of them might be...) they should be held to the same standards, if at all.
"LILO can make the system unbootable without giving an error" - i'm pretty sure that is a bug. i have never experienced something like that.
;)
both of these approaches have good and bad things (for example, grub has to know underlying filesystem), also a big factor is knwoledge with particular loader.
slackware still comes with lilo and i am thankful about that
i'm used to it, it works for me, so i keep using it everywhere.
on servers you don't replace kernel that often, on experimental workstation i only a couple of times durign several years have forgotten to run lilo after kernel upgrade, no other problems experienced. also, because it is an experimental one, i always have handy some slackware or knoppix bootdisk - you just never know what might happen.
i don't think there is point arguing which one is "better", because they have different approaches. one might decide that one is better than the other in a particular case, but even then similarity with the one that is used is the biggest factor.
well, there is on very important change, at least for me. fuse. it basically allows you to mount anything that has a required driver - the coolest one being sshfs, also ftpfs is nice. maybe you are interested in cvsfs.s tems
:)
see this : http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSy
then, this one is nice : "Suspend support for CIFS filesystem"
basically, if you had an smb share mounted & suspended, after resuming it was not accessible. supposedly this works now
"Driver for the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS)" could be cool, unfortunately i don't have a thinkpad.
9p support seems OMG !#&#, but i probably will have no practiacal use of it for a long time (see papers on plan9, they are thoughts provoking).
well, there are other things (wireless drivers, PPTP conntrack) that will be useful to some people but not for me.
so this is a pretty feature stuffed release and some of them are rrrrrrrreally nice. though i still wish for a 2.7 fork...
"Well, unless it has recently been changed, with LILO, you have to run the program to install a new boot block after you toy around with the config file. If LILO encounters an error or something it usually installs a corrupt boot sector and you need a boot disk to get back in."
:)
i'm not sure wether current versions of lilo reset state if an error is encountered, but hey - if bootloader installations gives you errors you _should_ check your configuration and do it again until there are no errors, right ? if you reboot after seeing errors... that's not the best way to have a running system anyway
sorry about my post ;)
actually i don't think it is a good idea to relate short form to the way date is spelled.
exactly because you can say that differently in the same language, not only in different ones.
for example, in latvian normal text flow would be "2005. gada 13. janvris". year-date-month.
i guess you could find every possible combination in different languages, so linear sequence is a must (biggest-smallest or the other way around), as in this case it is impossible to mix them up. biggest-smallest is the best as it sorts easily, so that's what i have been trying to stick with lately.
ps. umm. does your last sentence really imply that you think most of europeans speak english as their primary language ?
seems you think that everyone in europe speaks english. only. well, that's understandable, i guess...
http://theonlyway.net/americans_and_geo.wmv
there are plans to completely redo charting module, but they were somewhat set back by oo.org 2.0.
maybe you can participate in creation of specs, if you know what are your needs ?
see 'contributing' in www.openoffice.org
additionally, most market players see that they are being squeezed or squashed by ms.
:)
let's see...
* hardware manufacturers.
they have restrictive deals, no room to variate with software. ms can extort them by threatening to increase prices, limit access to their products;
ibm is trying to break out by selling out pc division; ms is competing with console manufacturers (notably sony) with xbox.
there are other areas, too, but they are not so visible.
* software manufacturers
there have been _so_ many cases when ms has moved in another areas and destroyed software developers (or plans to do so)... let's see just some recent ones :
- antivirus. hintwords(avg,symantec,gcs);
- bookkeeping - navision;
- drawing - visio;
- voip - teleo
- games - not counting xbox, there are a couple of game genres they have invaded;
they have hinted at hitting pdf. there have been rumours about possible move into adobe space.
will adobe wait till ms has created 'good enough' copies to kill it ? what about other software vendors that for now provide windows-only software ? will they wait until ms expands in their territory as well ?
additionally, by not providing linux alternative they risk to spur development of very good opensource alternatives.
see nero - mswindows has some limited cd burning capability (i would bet it will improve until it can kill 3rd party cd writing software), there is k3b (with underlying commandline utilities) that is much better than nero for linux (which is a joke).
see photoshop. yes, gimp is not there yet, blahblah. but it is good for some tasks, where photoshop might be considered before and it improves rapidly.
then there are cad software vendors that seem to be completely blind and deaf
ok, they have a headstart, but it won't last forever. and my list of companies that have been taken over is just a very, very small fraction. this trend will continue, as ms profit margins will slightly decrease and they just will have to move to new markets.
ps. omg. this captcha is almost completely unreadable by me.