Well I've already bypassed this new fanlged "PIE" crap by not installing Macromedias bloody Flash in the first place.
Seriously what good at all is Flash ? All it's used for is yet more marketroid spam. Having a flash enabled browser is like inviting an obnoxious teenager to come in your house and yell at you.
So what do I miss not having it ? About 3 mildly entertaining "cartoon" like things (I've seen these on a co workers box and whilst they're quite amusing I don't see my life as being any poorer by not seeing them more often) It utterly amazes me that people will willingly run this crap.
Sorry but I'm old fashioned. The only thing I want from a website is some well crafted HTML/CSS, with some supporting plain "non animated" images, and at the most, some simple client side javascript for stuff like menus (and don't worry I'll be looking at your script first. If I can't see it, it ain't running) You can do what you want on your server but not in my broser.
History has told me that allowing anything else is a disaster waiting to happen (Active-X anyone ?)
But ultimately my message to advertisers etc. is simple. You're not using my resources to advertise at me, to track me, in fact to do anything. You're not welcome to phone me, send me junk mail, knock on my door or stop me in the street. Bother me with your crap and you'll get a simple reply "Fuck off and die".
Ah well spotted... I actually meant the Oestre & Hares stuff.
At least this proves I was drunk:)
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In related news commander Fang Fang today spoke of his conversion to GNAA.
"I just couldn't take it no more" spoke the mild mannered reporter "there was no other news on April 1st so the thought of all those gigantic dongs pushing into my face whilst I tried to read Slashdot sent me over the edge".
Fang Fang was found bored this afternoon floating in a giant sea of semen.
Well I can't claim to speak for the Slashdot community as most of them are currently busy in their basment fortresses constructing weapons of mass destruction to aim at the editors for todays piss poor "April Fools" edition. So I guess I'll have to speak for myself.
"Fuck off Wolfowitz you cunt"
After all you're an old man and Thoth will shortly be weighing your heart against a certain feather. It will be found wanting.
Firstly if Jesus was supposed to have been born in the middle east how come he has a Mexican name ?
And secondly if he's pissed that I haven't been to his church for a while then all I can say is that I'm equally pissed that he hasn't been to My Church for a while.
No wait a minute.. the second part's wrong... he's actually working there at the moment. Sorry Lord I take it all back.
I'll also not mention that his followers have stolen Oestres festival for themselves and replaced her sacred Hare with some "Bob" damned "cutesy wabbit" crap 'cause that'd be too complicated for me to type (yes I'm full of booze, look it all up if you doubt me)
1 Don't bother looking at Slashdot on April 1st again - EVER.
2 Probably best to skip April 2nd too (that's when the dupes will appear)
Honestly one well written, slightly believable, story would have been great (maybe two at a push) but today Slashdot smelled worse than a dead Tramps feet dipped in dogshit.
"Great, a quick way to find hot chicks in my neighbourhood" thinks I.
And then I find it's for taxis.
Bugger. Guess I'll just have to keep cruising the bars. At least that way I have an excuse for being drunk ("No honestly, I was only out looking for girls")
All societies that have stumbled upon something they really, really want to tell you carve it into stone. It's one of the few mediums that can survive serious climactic upheaval (not to mention a tremendously severe slashdotting)
Either that or they do something like transcribe it into the DNA sequence of the humble fruit fly in such a way that the answer will be obvious to any other beings on their wavelength. Sorry but I can't tell you anything more about th... (bzzzttt... signal lost)
If the technology's not ready for the marketplace don't market it.
I too am not going to buy a flat panel display until it's guranteed not to have a dead pixel. I wouldn't pay hard earned money for a CRT display that might have a small crack in it or a RAM module that may have a few dead chips on it would I ?
Mind you this should hopefully be the case by the time my lovely Iiyama 19" dies (my last 17" lasted 7 years until I dropped the fecker... bugger...)
Well on a grammatical note we're having a bit of a discussion in the office this morning as to the correct past tense of "ping".
So far based on the word "ring" (used in its telephonic sense) we've come down pretty evenly with about 50% on each side rooting for "pung" and "pang" (apart from one idiot who wants to use "pong" but that really is silly)
Personally I think "pung" is superior as "I pang it at 11" sounds much sillier than "I pung it at 11". But then again I'm a well known idiot so I may well be wrong.
So what do y'all think ? Whom have the most bestest solution ?
As a Slackware user with about 2 years experience of Linux I can only say I'm not suprised. Now before I begin what will be something of a rant let me start by saying that I like the idea of Gnome. It does after all look clean and polished and, with a bit of work, would make an excellent desktop.
However in its current state I simply cannot use it to get anything done because of its severe shortcomings (mainly of Nautilus). My main bones of contention being:
1 Spatial browsing - The worst view of a file system I have ever seen. Having it set as the default is brain dead. And there's no way to change between spatial and browser mode from within Nautilus itself.
Why ? Are they scared that no one will use it ? And yes I do know how to unset it using the gconf preferences editor the point is that this should be available from within the app.
2 Awful, awful keyboard navigation in Nautilus. Press the "f" key and it takes you to the first file beginning with "f". Press it again and it does precisely nothing. For fucking hells sake it's 2005. Even Windows 3.1 behaved properly (i.e. cycling round the list of files that started with "f")
Clue for developers: Not everyone wants to use the mouse for everything, some of us want to use it as little as possible.
3 No case insensitive sort option. This can make finding things confusing, especially if you also use Windows a lot (i.e. like I have to at work). Either that or the ability to make Windows Explorer use case sensitive sorting (fat chance of that happening)
4 The entire "one thing at a time" philosophy. e.g. When changing directory permissions there's no recursive option on the menu. How annoying is this when you've just copied in a nested directory structure from CD ? Ho hum, lets break out the terminal and use "chmod" and "chown". But then I forget Gnome doesn't want you to use nested directories, they seem to want you to have everything in a big lump in your home folder.
Need to add a list of files into an app ? No problem... But the Gnome app will probably require you to add each file individually and make you go through three forms and three button clicks FOR EACH FILE.
Computers are really good at operating on many things at once. Why can't the Gnome developers make use of this feature ?
5 The "new and improved" file open dialogue. Always starts in ~/home, doesn't remember the last directory browsed, no option to limit the list of filenames being displayed. Personally I've given up trying to understand the point of it. As soon as it appears I just press "Ctrl & L" and type the bloody filename in manually. It makes me realise how good the Windows common dialogue is and why KDE have largely copied it.
6 A general all round lack of control/options in programs. e.g. Sound Juicer STILL has no way to specify the settings for MP3 ripping. I gave up and just use CDEX on my Windows box.
Now like I say I do actually like Gnome. Every time there's a new release I eagerly install it and give it a go - only to suffer a terrible bout of swearing followed by a return to KDE, or even worse, Windows when I just want to get something done. I'd love to use it as my main day to day desktop but I simply can't.
I just wish they'd stop dumbing it down and would make the bloody thing usable. If they want to make a "newbie friendly" desktop why don't they just release a severly limited version and call it "Beginners Gnome" ? (which would just lead to more clueless computer users in the years to come)
But at least they could then also release an "adult version" which would give those of us who understand computers an interface that allows us to get some bloody work done.
And before anyone says it yes I know the Gnome developers will do what they please, I realise I'm getting someone elses work for free, "if I don't like it I'm a faggot luser and can go back to Winbloze" etc. etc.
This doesn't alter the fact that Gnome needs some serious, serious attention.
Well I for one believe that Governments should develop nothing but Open Source products. As a taxpayer I'm paying the wages of the coders so I should be able to utilise the fruits of their labour.
Not to mention the fact that once one government has developed something all governments can benefit from the work too. Maybe this will lead to lower taxes worldwide;) ?
My personal view is that all Govermnets activities should be fully accountable and a citizen should have access to all information held by the Government. The only exceptions being data relating to current military activities, ongoing criminal investigations, and the identities of witnesses in past criminal cases. If someone is hiding something it's because it's dodgy. Full stop.
Being a UK citizen I view this in the same way that I view programming created by the BBC. I've paid for the work to be performd (via the licence fee) so I should be free to download them when I like, reencode them to new formats etc. etc.
If I'm paying for something I have the right to use it. If not don't ask me to pay for it.
And speaking of the BBC the first episode of the new Dr Who is on tonight. Fantastic !!!
In other news Conrad F'Tang (little known King of Uj-bal-dabistan) has created a new law stating that when he closes his eyes the universe ceases to exist.
Heroes of the King include Englands King Canute who valiantly commanded the tide not to change (which has to this day left large swathes of southern England without tidal motion)
Biblical scholars however poured scorn on the Utah Puritans and reminded them to remember biblical teachings as "If thine eye offends thee pluck it out".
Leading Biblician Cardinal Fang even went on record as saying "The Lord is after all responsible for ALL aspects of the creation. Yes even the bits that puny humans find unpleasant like maggots, those wasps that paralyse spiders and lay their eggs in them, death rays, AIDS and Microsoft".
When I was young and foolish I had Norton Anti Virus on a Windows machine (got it bundled with a motherboard) and then after a year it required me to update my subscription. So I tried doing this (as I said I was young and foolish at the time) but something went wrong and it didn't work.
So could I get any help from Norton ? No. They had the usual "dig 50 pages into our web site by answering a series of increasingly lame questions to eventually get to a form that doesn't answer your question and then adds insult to injury by sending you back to the beginning again" model of tech support. What a set of wankers.
So I duly got my credit card company to claw the money back and installed some freeware antit virus (sorry long ago, so I don't remember which one) which immediately found 4 viruses - in files that had been on the system for several months being scanned nightly by Norton AV.
So from this day I have cursed Norton/Symantec and now anyone coming to me for PC help who has their shitty anti virus on it gets AVG installed instead. As you say it's free (for personal use) and is infinitely superior.
> Is Napster to Go the future of digital music distribution ?
No it isn't. It's an absolutely crap idea.
The idea that I would buy a licence to listen to a piece of music is completely insane. What happens when Napster goes tits up ? Your expensively acquired music collection is lost forever. When "The Alternative Record Company" go bust my back collection of "The Alternative Record Company" CDs don't suddenly evaporate nor do they become unplayable. I can also rip any CDs I buy to any new formats that are invented so the music pretty much stays with me for life.
Sorry but my view on consuming is very simple. If I buy something it's mine to do with as I please. In other words I can pull it apart to see how it works, I can recombine it to make other things, I can use it in ways it was never intended to be used, I can even smash it to bits, shoot it or put it on a bonfire and burn it. It's none of your bsiness what I do with because I bought it. It's mine now.
Honestly anyone falling for this sort of crud deserves what they get. They deserve to get nothing for their money. They're idiots plain and simple.
Boy that's hard, I'd rather write a kernel driver using my feet to operate the keyboard anyday of the week. Damned unusable Slackware making me both think & type. It'll never catch on. Never I tells ya.
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Well I've already bypassed this new fanlged "PIE" crap by not installing Macromedias bloody Flash in the first place.
;)
Seriously what good at all is Flash ? All it's used for is yet more marketroid spam. Having a flash enabled browser is like inviting an obnoxious teenager to come in your house and yell at you.
So what do I miss not having it ? About 3 mildly entertaining "cartoon" like things (I've seen these on a co workers box and whilst they're quite amusing I don't see my life as being any poorer by not seeing them more often) It utterly amazes me that people will willingly run this crap.
Sorry but I'm old fashioned. The only thing I want from a website is some well crafted HTML/CSS, with some supporting plain "non animated" images, and at the most, some simple client side javascript for stuff like menus (and don't worry I'll be looking at your script first. If I can't see it, it ain't running) You can do what you want on your server but not in my broser.
History has told me that allowing anything else is a disaster waiting to happen (Active-X anyone ?)
But ultimately my message to advertisers etc. is simple. You're not using my resources to advertise at me, to track me, in fact to do anything. You're not welcome to phone me, send me junk mail, knock on my door or stop me in the street. Bother me with your crap and you'll get a simple reply "Fuck off and die".
There that told 'em
Well when it was only in your head it didn't bother me. But now it's in mine you swine ! All I can say in return is:
"Grandad, Grandad, you're lovely... that's what we all think of you"
See how you like that then eh ? eh ?
Ah well spotted... I actually meant the Oestre & Hares stuff.
:)
At least this proves I was drunk
In related news commander Fang Fang today spoke of his conversion to GNAA.
"I just couldn't take it no more" spoke the mild mannered reporter "there was no other news on April 1st so the thought of all those gigantic dongs pushing into my face whilst I tried to read Slashdot sent me over the edge".
Fang Fang was found bored this afternoon floating in a giant sea of semen.
> Go outside! Get a job/start doing some actual work at your job! Meet people
You heartless bastard...
> What does the Slashdot community think?
Well I can't claim to speak for the Slashdot community as most of them are currently busy in their basment fortresses constructing weapons of mass destruction to aim at the editors for todays piss poor "April Fools" edition. So I guess I'll have to speak for myself.
"Fuck off Wolfowitz you cunt"
After all you're an old man and Thoth will shortly be weighing your heart against a certain feather. It will be found wanting.
Firstly if Jesus was supposed to have been born in the middle east how come he has a Mexican name ?
And secondly if he's pissed that I haven't been to his church for a while then all I can say is that I'm equally pissed that he hasn't been to My Church for a while.
No wait a minute.. the second part's wrong... he's actually working there at the moment. Sorry Lord I take it all back.
I'll also not mention that his followers have stolen Oestres festival for themselves and replaced her sacred Hare with some "Bob" damned "cutesy wabbit" crap 'cause that'd be too complicated for me to type (yes I'm full of booze, look it all up if you doubt me)
Ah Berlusconi...
Or as we in the UK refer to him the "Happy Shopper Mussolini" (sorry this joke doesn't cross borders very well)
1 Don't bother looking at Slashdot on April 1st again - EVER.
2 Probably best to skip April 2nd too (that's when the dupes will appear)
Honestly one well written, slightly believable, story would have been great (maybe two at a push) but today Slashdot smelled worse than a dead Tramps feet dipped in dogshit.
Stuff like this makes baby Jebus cry...
Well to me the latest pictures conclusively prove that the Pope is in fact Davros (of Dr Who fame)
I can hear it now "Excommunicate... Excommunicate..."
Google to offer a new "ride finder" service...
"Great, a quick way to find hot chicks in my neighbourhood" thinks I.
And then I find it's for taxis.
Bugger. Guess I'll just have to keep cruising the bars. At least that way I have an excuse for being drunk ("No honestly, I was only out looking for girls")
All societies that have stumbled upon something they really, really want to tell you carve it into stone. It's one of the few mediums that can survive serious climactic upheaval (not to mention a tremendously severe slashdotting)
Either that or they do something like transcribe it into the DNA sequence of the humble fruit fly in such a way that the answer will be obvious to any other beings on their wavelength. Sorry but I can't tell you anything more about th... (bzzzttt... signal lost)
Hear hear.
If the technology's not ready for the marketplace don't market it.
I too am not going to buy a flat panel display until it's guranteed not to have a dead pixel. I wouldn't pay hard earned money for a CRT display that might have a small crack in it or a RAM module that may have a few dead chips on it would I ?
Mind you this should hopefully be the case by the time my lovely Iiyama 19" dies (my last 17" lasted 7 years until I dropped the fecker... bugger...)
(goofy tech looking at LAN Monitor) What's that on the LAN ?
Is it a torrent packet ?
Is it a ping ?
No... it's ISP man !!!!
I just hope they wear good tights. Superheros need good tights.
And don't forget framing yourself for crimes.
No wait... bugger...
Well on a grammatical note we're having a bit of a discussion in the office this morning as to the correct past tense of "ping".
So far based on the word "ring" (used in its telephonic sense) we've come down pretty evenly with about 50% on each side rooting for "pung" and "pang" (apart from one idiot who wants to use "pong" but that really is silly)
Personally I think "pung" is superior as "I pang it at 11" sounds much sillier than "I pung it at 11". But then again I'm a well known idiot so I may well be wrong.
So what do y'all think ? Whom have the most bestest solution ?
As a Slackware user with about 2 years experience of Linux I can only say I'm not suprised. Now before I begin what will be something of a rant let me start by saying that I like the idea of Gnome. It does after all look clean and polished and, with a bit of work, would make an excellent desktop.
However in its current state I simply cannot use it to get anything done because of its severe shortcomings (mainly of Nautilus). My main bones of contention being:
1 Spatial browsing - The worst view of a file system I have ever seen. Having it set as the default is brain dead. And there's no way to change between spatial and browser mode from within Nautilus itself.
Why ? Are they scared that no one will use it ? And yes I do know how to unset it using the gconf preferences editor the point is that this should be available from within the app.
2 Awful, awful keyboard navigation in Nautilus. Press the "f" key and it takes you to the first file beginning with "f". Press it again and it does precisely nothing. For fucking hells sake it's 2005. Even Windows 3.1 behaved properly (i.e. cycling round the list of files that started with "f")
Clue for developers: Not everyone wants to use the mouse for everything, some of us want to use it as little as possible.
3 No case insensitive sort option. This can make finding things confusing, especially if you also use Windows a lot (i.e. like I have to at work). Either that or the ability to make Windows Explorer use case sensitive sorting (fat chance of that happening)
4 The entire "one thing at a time" philosophy. e.g. When changing directory permissions there's no recursive option on the menu. How annoying is this when you've just copied in a nested directory structure from CD ? Ho hum, lets break out the terminal and use "chmod" and "chown". But then I forget Gnome doesn't want you to use nested directories, they seem to want you to have everything in a big lump in your home folder.
Need to add a list of files into an app ? No problem... But the Gnome app will probably require you to add each file individually and make you go through three forms and three button clicks FOR EACH FILE.
Computers are really good at operating on many things at once. Why can't the Gnome developers make use of this feature ?
5 The "new and improved" file open dialogue. Always starts in ~/home, doesn't remember the last directory browsed, no option to limit the list of filenames being displayed. Personally I've given up trying to understand the point of it. As soon as it appears I just press "Ctrl & L" and type the bloody filename in manually. It makes me realise how good the Windows common dialogue is and why KDE have largely copied it.
6 A general all round lack of control/options in programs. e.g. Sound Juicer STILL has no way to specify the settings for MP3 ripping. I gave up and just use CDEX on my Windows box.
Now like I say I do actually like Gnome. Every time there's a new release I eagerly install it and give it a go - only to suffer a terrible bout of swearing followed by a return to KDE, or even worse, Windows when I just want to get something done. I'd love to use it as my main day to day desktop but I simply can't.
I just wish they'd stop dumbing it down and would make the bloody thing usable. If they want to make a "newbie friendly" desktop why don't they just release a severly limited version and call it "Beginners Gnome" ? (which would just lead to more clueless computer users in the years to come)
But at least they could then also release an "adult version" which would give those of us who understand computers an interface that allows us to get some bloody work done.
And before anyone says it yes I know the Gnome developers will do what they please, I realise I'm getting someone elses work for free, "if I don't like it I'm a faggot luser and can go back to Winbloze" etc. etc.
This doesn't alter the fact that Gnome needs some serious, serious attention.
Well I for one believe that Governments should develop nothing but Open Source products. As a taxpayer I'm paying the wages of the coders so I should be able to utilise the fruits of their labour.
;) ?
Not to mention the fact that once one government has developed something all governments can benefit from the work too. Maybe this will lead to lower taxes worldwide
My personal view is that all Govermnets activities should be fully accountable and a citizen should have access to all information held by the Government. The only exceptions being data relating to current military activities, ongoing criminal investigations, and the identities of witnesses in past criminal cases. If someone is hiding something it's because it's dodgy. Full stop.
Being a UK citizen I view this in the same way that I view programming created by the BBC. I've paid for the work to be performd (via the licence fee) so I should be free to download them when I like, reencode them to new formats etc. etc.
If I'm paying for something I have the right to use it. If not don't ask me to pay for it.
And speaking of the BBC the first episode of the new Dr Who is on tonight. Fantastic !!!
Why bother ? Real Alternative does the job and is not made by Real.
As others have said because of their past record I for one will not install anything from Real no matter what deal they've done.
On this note I've also complained to the BBC several times about their practice of using Real Audio when there are many alternatives available.
Shame on the BBC for dealing with such scum.
Fuck Real.
Never.
Although as I've said before the point is moot as any human created technology can be reverse engineered/cracked/bypassed by other humans.
Always has been... always will...
In other news Conrad F'Tang (little known King of Uj-bal-dabistan) has created a new law stating that when he closes his eyes the universe ceases to exist.
Heroes of the King include Englands King Canute who valiantly commanded the tide not to change (which has to this day left large swathes of southern England without tidal motion)
Biblical scholars however poured scorn on the Utah Puritans and reminded them to remember biblical teachings as "If thine eye offends thee pluck it out".
Leading Biblician Cardinal Fang even went on record as saying "The Lord is after all responsible for ALL aspects of the creation. Yes even the bits that puny humans find unpleasant like maggots, those wasps that paralyse spiders and lay their eggs in them, death rays, AIDS and Microsoft".
More news after the late film.
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
When I was young and foolish I had Norton Anti Virus on a Windows machine (got it bundled with a motherboard) and then after a year it required me to update my subscription. So I tried doing this (as I said I was young and foolish at the time) but something went wrong and it didn't work.
So could I get any help from Norton ? No. They had the usual "dig 50 pages into our web site by answering a series of increasingly lame questions to eventually get to a form that doesn't answer your question and then adds insult to injury by sending you back to the beginning again" model of tech support. What a set of wankers.
So I duly got my credit card company to claw the money back and installed some freeware antit virus (sorry long ago, so I don't remember which one) which immediately found 4 viruses - in files that had been on the system for several months being scanned nightly by Norton AV.
So from this day I have cursed Norton/Symantec and now anyone coming to me for PC help who has their shitty anti virus on it gets AVG installed instead. As you say it's free (for personal use) and is infinitely superior.
Symantec anti virus ? Bag of shite.
> Is Napster to Go the future of digital music distribution ?
No it isn't. It's an absolutely crap idea.
The idea that I would buy a licence to listen to a piece of music is completely insane. What happens when Napster goes tits up ? Your expensively acquired music collection is lost forever. When "The Alternative Record Company" go bust my back collection of "The Alternative Record Company" CDs don't suddenly evaporate nor do they become unplayable. I can also rip any CDs I buy to any new formats that are invented so the music pretty much stays with me for life.
Sorry but my view on consuming is very simple. If I buy something it's mine to do with as I please. In other words I can pull it apart to see how it works, I can recombine it to make other things, I can use it in ways it was never intended to be used, I can even smash it to bits, shoot it or put it on a bonfire and burn it. It's none of your bsiness what I do with because I bought it. It's mine now.
Honestly anyone falling for this sort of crud deserves what they get. They deserve to get nothing for their money. They're idiots plain and simple.
Speaking from experience I know how hard it is to compile OO.o on Slackware :)
/opt/OO_directory_name
First download the tarball.
Now su to root and perform a network install:
tar -zxvf OO_tarball_name
cd OO_source_directory_name
./setup -net
Now return to your user and:
cd
setup
Or see The instructions for full details.
Boy that's hard, I'd rather write a kernel driver using my feet to operate the keyboard anyday of the week. Damned unusable Slackware making me both think & type. It'll never catch on. Never I tells ya.
Of course it confoms to a standard... it's own.
:)
That's the true beauty of standards - there are so many to choose from