This sounds a lot like the "hubs" from Windows Phone.
And I guess that this concept misses the point commercially. Yes, these scopes/hubs could be nice from a user's perspective. But how about that of the developer? Think about Facebook, would they really prefer that messages and status updates appear in a stream of updates from other websites, rather than presenting them in a branded user interface where they can place advertisements? Of course not. So whereas Apple and Google make tons of money by facilitating selling apps, Ubuntu would rather need to indemnify the content providers for the loss of ad revenue and brand visibility.
And how about university VPN's? I've once been to China as a student, and we sometimes needed to log in to our university's VPN in order to access scientific journals from our library. (Btw. using Facebook through that VPN is nearly impossible, also at home.) Of course a student is not the center of the world, but there are surely also a lot of more important foreign scientists in China.
I would find it hard to believe that the Chinese government would want to crack down on that.
Once upon a time, I learnt that one should not make setuid-root sh scripts, exactly because the shell has so many unpredictable ways to make your script unsecure and because secure input validation inside shell scripts itself is nearly impossible. So why do we have the situation now, that internet services are calling bash scripts to run as root with data input from the internet without proper validation?
In other words: It's no wonder that bash is still 'vulnerable' after two patches, because it isn't supposed to be used like this. And the remaining problems are not a bug in bash, but wrong usage of bash.
Mozilla 1.7 even renders webpages much faster than Firefox!
The C't magazine benchmarked half a dozen webbrowsers, and found that IE was the fastest browser, then Mozilla and then Firefox.
No, I don't know where the other browsers went. I think Opera above Konqueror, and those both between Mozilla and Firefox, but I'm not really sure about that. Mozilla is faster than Firefox, though!
Here is a version with a higher resolution, so that you can indeed understand the parody of the Newton's handwriting capabilities:
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/16044/
No, the original 1984 Macintosh did not have grayscale, only pure black and white. Additionally, it only had 512x384 pixels instead of the 640x480 the Longhorn boot screen has.
Actually, even my SE/30, produced in 1990, only has 1 bit color.
I would think that you would have difficulties doing that, as there exists enough prior art(*). But then, nowadays it seems to be less a problem than it used to be.
(*) Misspellings like "allein stehend" and "informatie balie", which you can probably see often enough in Europe, are as wrong as when you write "black bird" when you mean a blackbird.
To understand the 5%: it isn't just about being on time, it is about releasing something satisfactory on time. So projects that are rushed don't count!
More interesting is how one could measure open source projects. Will Debian Sarge be released "on time"? If a version of KDE needs two RC's, does that make it "too late"?
Isn't Windows Server 2003 designed to be used on important machines? If yes, what benefit do these patches have? I doubt that many system administrators don't know about firewalls, and those who do probably don't know anything about patches, updates and service packs either.
Autobahn means highway. If you hear just "Bahn", something else will be meant though, namely one of:
- ICE - is an expensive, very fast train with lots of luxury. - IC - the intercity train, which doesn't stop everywhere, costs more than normal trains, and uses Fernverkehr (long-distance) waggons. - IR - the InterRegio train. Like an IC, but cheaper. In fact, to let you pay more, the IR from Norddeich-Mole to Luxembourg was changed into an IC. - RE - the RegionalExpress train. Doesn't stop everywhere, doesn't go too far, and uses Nahverkehr (local) waggons. - RB - the RegionalBahn train. Stops at more stations than the RE - S - S-Bahn stands for Schnellbahn, also some kind of train. Stops at every tree and every stone. - U-Bahn is the underground/metro/subway. - Strassenbahn is the tram, and usually travels on special railway tracks on roads. - Schwebebahn is a "flying" metro line in Wuppertal - The H-Bahn/Hochbahn at the Dortmund university is something similar, AFAIK.
Example: Once I went to Wanne-Eickel by "Bahn". That is, with the NokiaBahn, which is another name for the RB-46 line. This trip takes about 15 minutes. I went back by "Bahn", too. That is, with the Strassenbahn 306. That takes more than 30 minutes.
The Bus does not belong to these. Therefore, going by public transportation is sometimes called going by "Bus und Bahn".
And as a gerneral rule of thumb, about all "Bahn"s regularly come too late. Only the U-Bahn is about always on time.
When our laptop still had 64 MB RAM, Windows 2000 always crashed when trying to install OpenOffice. With "crashed" I mean that not even the mouse pointer wanted to move one pixel anymore. So, are you sure you are right?
That's sooo true! Recently I found a beta version of a webserver for Windows I was developing. But then I discovered how un-userfriendly one aspect was...
"Cool! My webserver I lost! But would it work? Let's see, (Project-Run) yes. Cool! The changelog says it supports virtual hosting with both IP addresses and hostnames. But then - WTF? How does this work? How do I configure that? I only see Hostname here, but that can impossibly work in both ways. But then, where the **** is the other edit box for the IP based hosting?"
Eventually I found it on the "Ports" tab, which is logical from the development point of view, but not from the user. All in all, it can be really useful to let applications be tested by people who haven't got a clue how it works - even if it is only yourself after letting the project rest for a while.
Fact: FireFox is slow and bloated. It takes about 35 MB of main memory, so don't even think about loading it on systems with less than 64 MB of RAM. Even konqueror doesn't take more memory and renders pages at least twice as fast.
Conclusion: I think there aren't any Office-compatible apps that run at least halfway decent on a Pentium 90. You'd better try Windows 95 and Office 97, that is even usable on a 486.
*) Sorry for the table, but I incapable of convincing Slashdot to display anything table-like.
Or: endurability.
In the last few years, I have seen quite some PC's here at home and by my best friend from school.
My main computer is a Pentium 350. Its keyboard has broken once, the screen twice, the PSU was toasted once, its memory went bad, the CD-ROM drive shaked so much that the harddisk quitted. And the speakers also smellt like they were burning. Price: about $1100, new.
He had a second hand Pentium 90, which broke. Then a Pentium 200, which constantly crashed due to weird memory problems. And a second-hand Celeron 500, whose motherboard didn't last long. Now they have a Celeron 600. The bios thinks it is 333 Mhz, it constantly starts beeping without any reason, the mouse gives scroll signals even when you are tem meters away, and only one PCI slot still works.
Now they also had a Pentium 350, which worked perfectly. Okay. But our PowerMac 6400 from 1996 also still works. And after washing the mainboard a little the second-hand Mac SE/30 from 1990 also still works perfectly. And his SparcStation 20 and SGI Indy work fine too. The only negative point was my PB 145, which the previous owner dropped on the floor...
So, in the end, I can only conclude that the chance that a Dell breaks in 7 years time is more than 80%, and for Apple only about 20%.
Greetings, a happy Mac user.
I'm doing fine with Kolourpaint in KDE. I don't have heavy duty graphics-editing needs, though.
In case you think you need some more, just give MS Paintbrush a try. You'll be surprised by all it's possibilities while still being easy to use!
Seriously. KDE is great, and it is so lightweight. On this PowerMac with 180 Mhz PPC and 56 MB RAM, KDE 3.3.1 with Konqueror is usable, something I can't say from Fluxbox+Firefox. But still, Kolourpaint isn't that great.
Yes! I always turn away from firefox to Konqueror because firefox feels so awfully slow!
In fact, even on my Performa 6400 (180 Mhz, 72 MB RAM) I'd rather use KDE+Konqueror than WindowMaker and Firefox. Really. Startup takes forever, yes, but afterwards the UI isn't so dog slow...
So you are one of those persons from Korea who don't use e-mail anymore but IM instead, with the consequence of not being able anymore to write grammatical correct sentences, with comma's at the right places, and not having the physical strength to hold down the shift key long enough to write seven exclamation marks correctly?
So, even though English is not my mother language, I'd like to formulate the joke in e-mail layout:
NetBSD Confirms It: Old People Are Dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered community of old people when recently IDC confirmed that old people account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all people. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that more old people have died this year, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: old people are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by dead of Yassir Arafat.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict the future of old people. The hand writing is on the wall: old people face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for old people because old people are dying. Things are looking very bad for old people. As many of us are already aware, old people continue to die. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Old men from Dafur are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their all.
All major surveys show that steadily increasing amounts of old people die. Old people are very old and their long term survival prospects are very dim. Old people continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, old people are dead.
The reason? That's easy: the person who designed the original Apple mouse thought that with a one-button mouse, the user couldn't be confused which button he had to press.
Later, he admitted that he could also have put a text label on both buttons, but back then he thought that were ugly.
"I told him I could implement 2^n-ROT13, iff n>0."
Are you sure you don't mean 2n-ROT13? That even works for n=-2 or n=0.
Besides that, we all know that Pascal is the perfect language to write readable code.
function isLeapYear(x: integer): boolean; var c: integer; label b, c, p, q, r, x, y, x; begin goto q; x: if x mod 4 = 0 then goto p; b: if x mod 100 = 0 then goto r; y:if x mod 400 = 0 then goto c; goto z; p: c:= 29; goto b; q: c:= 28; goto x; r: c:= 28; goto y; c: c:= 29; goto z; z: result:= c=29; end;
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This sounds a lot like the "hubs" from Windows Phone.
And I guess that this concept misses the point commercially. Yes, these scopes/hubs could be nice from a user's perspective. But how about that of the developer? Think about Facebook, would they really prefer that messages and status updates appear in a stream of updates from other websites, rather than presenting them in a branded user interface where they can place advertisements? Of course not. So whereas Apple and Google make tons of money by facilitating selling apps, Ubuntu would rather need to indemnify the content providers for the loss of ad revenue and brand visibility.
And how about university VPN's? I've once been to China as a student, and we sometimes needed to log in to our university's VPN in order to access scientific journals from our library. (Btw. using Facebook through that VPN is nearly impossible, also at home.) Of course a student is not the center of the world, but there are surely also a lot of more important foreign scientists in China.
I would find it hard to believe that the Chinese government would want to crack down on that.
Once upon a time, I learnt that one should not make setuid-root sh scripts, exactly because the shell has so many unpredictable ways to make your script unsecure and because secure input validation inside shell scripts itself is nearly impossible. So why do we have the situation now, that internet services are calling bash scripts to run as root with data input from the internet without proper validation?
In other words: It's no wonder that bash is still 'vulnerable' after two patches, because it isn't supposed to be used like this. And the remaining problems are not a bug in bash, but wrong usage of bash.
Mozilla 1.7 even renders webpages much faster than Firefox!
The C't magazine benchmarked half a dozen webbrowsers, and found that IE was the fastest browser, then Mozilla and then Firefox.
No, I don't know where the other browsers went. I think Opera above Konqueror, and those both between Mozilla and Firefox, but I'm not really sure about that. Mozilla is faster than Firefox, though!
Even funnier is that you don't even need to install patches to break Windows!
For example, my NTFS disk had automatically decided to get ill and make Windows say "Stop: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" halfway starting up.
If Windows were really about TCO and uptime and the like, then why does it "recommend" a CHKDSK and not try it first by itself?
Or why wouldn't it try not to break things unnecessarily?
Eh... or in case you don't, you are probably right, that "girlfreend" mistake was recognised perfectly, as that person hand-wrote it wrong too.
Here is a version with a higher resolution, so that you can indeed understand the parody of the Newton's handwriting capabilities: http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/16044/
Or do they use wireless cables?
No, the original 1984 Macintosh did not have grayscale, only pure black and white. Additionally, it only had 512x384 pixels instead of the 640x480 the Longhorn boot screen has.
Actually, even my SE/30, produced in 1990, only has 1 bit color.
Or as the Germans would say:
iGitt
(If you don't know German, please look it up at dict.leo.org, and then read in TFA that Linus says it 'has some rough edges')
I would think that you would have difficulties doing that, as there exists enough prior art(*). But then, nowadays it seems to be less a problem than it used to be.
(*) Misspellings like "allein stehend" and "informatie balie", which you can probably see often enough in Europe, are as wrong as when you write "black bird" when you mean a blackbird.
More interesting is how one could measure open source projects. Will Debian Sarge be released "on time"? If a version of KDE needs two RC's, does that make it "too late"?
Isn't Windows Server 2003 designed to be used on important machines? If yes, what benefit do these patches have? I doubt that many system administrators don't know about firewalls, and those who do probably don't know anything about patches, updates and service packs either.
Autobahn means highway. If you hear just "Bahn", something else will be meant though, namely one of:
- ICE - is an expensive, very fast train with lots of luxury.
- IC - the intercity train, which doesn't stop everywhere, costs more than normal trains, and uses Fernverkehr (long-distance) waggons.
- IR - the InterRegio train. Like an IC, but cheaper. In fact, to let you pay more, the IR from Norddeich-Mole to Luxembourg was changed into an IC.
- RE - the RegionalExpress train. Doesn't stop everywhere, doesn't go too far, and uses Nahverkehr (local) waggons.
- RB - the RegionalBahn train. Stops at more stations than the RE
- S - S-Bahn stands for Schnellbahn, also some kind of train. Stops at every tree and every stone.
- U-Bahn is the underground/metro/subway.
- Strassenbahn is the tram, and usually travels on special railway tracks on roads.
- Schwebebahn is a "flying" metro line in Wuppertal
- The H-Bahn/Hochbahn at the Dortmund university is something similar, AFAIK.
Example: Once I went to Wanne-Eickel by "Bahn". That is, with the NokiaBahn, which is another name for the RB-46 line. This trip takes about 15 minutes. I went back by "Bahn", too. That is, with the Strassenbahn 306. That takes more than 30 minutes.
The Bus does not belong to these. Therefore, going by public transportation is sometimes called going by "Bus und Bahn".
And as a gerneral rule of thumb, about all "Bahn"s regularly come too late. Only the U-Bahn is about always on time.
Mostly when I read Slashdot
in Li^Hynx, I get the
impression that it doesn't
save me any energy...
When our laptop still had 64 MB RAM, Windows 2000 always crashed when trying to install OpenOffice. With "crashed" I mean that not even the mouse pointer wanted to move one pixel anymore. So, are you sure you are right?
"Cool! My webserver I lost! But would it work? Let's see, (Project-Run) yes. Cool! The changelog says it supports virtual hosting with both IP addresses and hostnames. But then - WTF? How does this work? How do I configure that? I only see Hostname here, but that can impossibly work in both ways. But then, where the **** is the other edit box for the IP based hosting?"
Eventually I found it on the "Ports" tab, which is logical from the development point of view, but not from the user. All in all, it can be really useful to let applications be tested by people who haven't got a clue how it works - even if it is only yourself after letting the project rest for a while.
Fact: FireFox is slow and bloated. It takes about 35 MB of main memory, so don't even think about loading it on systems with less than 64 MB of RAM. Even konqueror doesn't take more memory and renders pages at least twice as fast.
So I would suggest something like this:
Conclusion: I think there aren't any Office-compatible apps that run at least halfway decent on a Pentium 90. You'd better try Windows 95 and Office 97, that is even usable on a 486.*) Sorry for the table, but I incapable of convincing Slashdot to display anything table-like.
Or: endurability. In the last few years, I have seen quite some PC's here at home and by my best friend from school. My main computer is a Pentium 350. Its keyboard has broken once, the screen twice, the PSU was toasted once, its memory went bad, the CD-ROM drive shaked so much that the harddisk quitted. And the speakers also smellt like they were burning. Price: about $1100, new. He had a second hand Pentium 90, which broke. Then a Pentium 200, which constantly crashed due to weird memory problems. And a second-hand Celeron 500, whose motherboard didn't last long. Now they have a Celeron 600. The bios thinks it is 333 Mhz, it constantly starts beeping without any reason, the mouse gives scroll signals even when you are tem meters away, and only one PCI slot still works. Now they also had a Pentium 350, which worked perfectly. Okay. But our PowerMac 6400 from 1996 also still works. And after washing the mainboard a little the second-hand Mac SE/30 from 1990 also still works perfectly. And his SparcStation 20 and SGI Indy work fine too. The only negative point was my PB 145, which the previous owner dropped on the floor... So, in the end, I can only conclude that the chance that a Dell breaks in 7 years time is more than 80%, and for Apple only about 20%. Greetings, a happy Mac user.
In case you think you need some more, just give MS Paintbrush a try. You'll be surprised by all it's possibilities while still being easy to use!
Seriously. KDE is great, and it is so lightweight. On this PowerMac with 180 Mhz PPC and 56 MB RAM, KDE 3.3.1 with Konqueror is usable, something I can't say from Fluxbox+Firefox. But still, Kolourpaint isn't that great.
That's why I use NetBSD and not *BSD.
Yes! I always turn away from firefox to Konqueror because firefox feels so awfully slow!
In fact, even on my Performa 6400 (180 Mhz, 72 MB RAM) I'd rather use KDE+Konqueror than WindowMaker and Firefox. Really. Startup takes forever, yes, but afterwards the UI isn't so dog slow...
NetBSD Confirms It: Old People Are Dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered community of old people when recently IDC confirmed that old people account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all people. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that more old people have died this year, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: old people are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by dead of Yassir Arafat.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict the future of old people. The hand writing is on the wall: old people face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for old people because old people are dying. Things are looking very bad for old people. As many of us are already aware, old people continue to die. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Old men from Dafur are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their all.
All major surveys show that steadily increasing amounts of old people die. Old people are very old and their long term survival prospects are very dim. Old people continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, old people are dead.
Fact: Old people are dying
Later, he admitted that he could also have put a text label on both buttons, but back then he thought that were ugly.
Are you sure you don't mean 2n-ROT13? That even works for n=-2 or n=0.
Besides that, we all know that Pascal is the perfect language to write readable code.