Uh, earth to QuantumG: it practically is a proprietary product! Can you download the entire source code that can be built to make the exact binaries they provide? Can you redistribute your own modifications under a BSD-like or GPL-compatible license? Didn't think so.
What really pisses me (and many others) off about Cedega/WineX/whatever is that this is one of those rare examples where a decent open source program is forked into a proprietary code base, then of which the forker tries to squash the original competition by doing good things with the code, but never contributing back. I'm sure that the forker wouldn't have wanted to start from scratch if Wine was GPL'd (or similar) in the first place, so maybe he would have contributed towards Wine and provided a more professionally-supported version like Crossover Office has done. Insteadm, we get a binary-only program (except for the Wine components of which) that costs fucking money just to get the program, not even support! This isn't your typical "Microsoft takes the TCP/IP stack from NetBSD and puts it in Windows" sort of situation. Just imagine if Apple didn't contribute back to the community with Darwin, or with their improvements to KHTML, or other projects they contribute back to. You'd hate Apple too.
Down with Cedega! Open your code or be lower than MSFT when it comes to obscurity. At least MSFT started from their own closed code (DOS wasn't open source when Gates bought it).
The Kernel is a huuuuuuuge source code to manage, and Subversion as well as many other versioning systems introduce way too much overhead as the size of the code increases. That's why Linus used the proprietary BitKeeper for so long, and now why he uses his own solution (Git?) that basically serve only to track changes to files and whatnot across several developers.
I use Subversion for my own projects, but they aren't anywhere near the size of the Linux Kernel. Some of the largest projects I've ever seen on something like CVS or SVN have been Mozilla, GNOME, and KDE, and those are generally much smaller than a kernel.
NoScript is definitely one of the most useful extensions ever! Have a site that somehow gets pop-ups past you? Well, they work via javascript, so fuck 'em! New security vulnerability due to JS somehow? Fuck 'em again! Ads in general? Fuck 'em, they use JS! Badly coded tag soup websites that depend on JS? Fuck 'em and their incompetent web developers!
I doubt they're gapless as they're both based on existing MPEG-4 standards, and there is that thing about a fixed "block-size" that basically prevents a song from being gapless unless it somehow splits exactly into the blocks. Issue addressed quickly here (same issue with MPEG-1 Layer 3 carried over to MPEG-4 audio).
Oh but you obviously haven't tried out the "Woman Replacement" extension! It even services women who would otherwise never experiment with other women. For Firefox 1.5 only.:P
Kelvin is a unit like a Newton or Ohm, so unless you're speaking of "one kelvin", the word itself is also plural. Example: liquid nitrogen is at about seventy-seven kelvins.
I guess I neglected to mention that I despise KDE and Qt applications. Gnome (Glade and GTK+ specifically) applications can look good with any desktop or window manager, but the same is definitely NOT true for KDE/Qt applications. I don't need to be told why KDE is better than GNOME or Enlightenment or Xfce or WMaker or [insert other window/desktop manager here], so don't bother. Same goes for Emacs; I like Vim, and you can pry that from my cold, dead hands.
Since I'm still in this situation of being surrounded by idiots, I never thought of manipulating people for humour or my own gain, but maybe that's because I'm also a nice person. Meh...
Wow, that reminds me of how one of my physic teachers once taught his son (who was only a few years old at the time) to follow this conversational joke to entertain people:
Dad: Hey Son, what's new?
Son: The coefficient of friction!
Dad: No, not what's mu, what's new?
Son: Oh! The d'Broglie wavelength, of course!
Now that son wasn't a genius, but it was quite funny to hear that.
Black holes are usually pretty bright due to the masses near the even horizon accelerating at near-light speeds right into the deformed surface thingy (not really an actual surface, seems to be more like a super-dense cloud of a fat man's bowel movements) and releasing Hawking radiation. Yeah, black holes are more white than black, damn racism.
Well, the internal database cache speeds things up enormously, and the ability to completely customise and script how the playlists and other interfaces are shown. Sure, you can edit the.glade files for Rhythmbox, but there's only so much customisation you can achieve with that; other things have to be done at the application source level.
Seriously, it has to be the most awesome audio player I had ever used, and Linux doesn't even offer an alternative (other than running it on WINE) that comes close to the pure awesomeness of it. I like Rhythmbox and whatnot, but seriously, Foobar2000 could do it all. I mean, it even cured a cold I had once!
Well, now that you point me to their website, I must say that besides the near-illegal (or illegal) business practices, their site is also a huge mess of tag soup, and the MPAA is far from a non-profit organisation and should therefore be moved to mpaa.com or something similar.
What the hell are you smoking? The Acid2 test is one of the most duplicated bugs, and active work is being made to fix the problems related to it. Other things are more important than passing a test to see how well you degrade gracefully, but compliance with said rules is still on the list of P3 or P2 items (forget which) that is being worked on whenever possible.
I remember that bug. I first noticed it on tiava.com without the use of Redirect Remover (probably one of the most useful porn-browsing-enhancements Firefox has to offer other than Location Navigator). Annoying, but the bug can sometimes be fixed by simply reloading the page.
Also, the ability to change the status bar text should never have been available; the status bar is supposed to be useful to the user. Blind links and JS links are very unhelpful and should be avoided, especially when browsing "dirty" sites that could potentially lead to random pay sites or shitty ones.
Slashdot Mirror
It was like using a proprietary product.
Uh, earth to QuantumG: it practically is a proprietary product! Can you download the entire source code that can be built to make the exact binaries they provide? Can you redistribute your own modifications under a BSD-like or GPL-compatible license? Didn't think so.
What really pisses me (and many others) off about Cedega/WineX/whatever is that this is one of those rare examples where a decent open source program is forked into a proprietary code base, then of which the forker tries to squash the original competition by doing good things with the code, but never contributing back. I'm sure that the forker wouldn't have wanted to start from scratch if Wine was GPL'd (or similar) in the first place, so maybe he would have contributed towards Wine and provided a more professionally-supported version like Crossover Office has done. Insteadm, we get a binary-only program (except for the Wine components of which) that costs fucking money just to get the program, not even support! This isn't your typical "Microsoft takes the TCP/IP stack from NetBSD and puts it in Windows" sort of situation. Just imagine if Apple didn't contribute back to the community with Darwin, or with their improvements to KHTML, or other projects they contribute back to. You'd hate Apple too.
Down with Cedega! Open your code or be lower than MSFT when it comes to obscurity. At least MSFT started from their own closed code (DOS wasn't open source when Gates bought it).
Well, they do have some existing connections to Mozilla due to Netscape and whatnot. ;_;
The Kernel is a huuuuuuuge source code to manage, and Subversion as well as many other versioning systems introduce way too much overhead as the size of the code increases. That's why Linus used the proprietary BitKeeper for so long, and now why he uses his own solution (Git?) that basically serve only to track changes to files and whatnot across several developers.
I use Subversion for my own projects, but they aren't anywhere near the size of the Linux Kernel. Some of the largest projects I've ever seen on something like CVS or SVN have been Mozilla, GNOME, and KDE, and those are generally much smaller than a kernel.
He said "by measuring it", not observing. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. :D
NoScript is definitely one of the most useful extensions ever! Have a site that somehow gets pop-ups past you? Well, they work via javascript, so fuck 'em! New security vulnerability due to JS somehow? Fuck 'em again! Ads in general? Fuck 'em, they use JS! Badly coded tag soup websites that depend on JS? Fuck 'em and their incompetent web developers!
Enabled Extensions: [14] (astericks denote highly recommended extensions)
Adblock Plus 0.5.10.20051107*
All-in-One Gestures 0.17*
DOM Inspector 1.9a1
FoxyTunes 1.1.5.4
Linkification 1.1.6*
Location Navigator 0.6* (for porn)
Menu Editor 1.2
MR Tech Local Install 4.0
Nightly Tester Tools 0.7.9.10
NoScript 1.1.3.3*
Permit Cookies 0.5*
Redirect Remover 0.43* (for porn)
Update Channel Selector 1.0.1
WebmailCompose 0.6.1
I doubt they're gapless as they're both based on existing MPEG-4 standards, and there is that thing about a fixed "block-size" that basically prevents a song from being gapless unless it somehow splits exactly into the blocks. Issue addressed quickly here (same issue with MPEG-1 Layer 3 carried over to MPEG-4 audio).
Something tells me it was intentional. :P
Oh but you obviously haven't tried out the "Woman Replacement" extension! It even services women who would otherwise never experiment with other women. For Firefox 1.5 only. :P
Kelvin is a unit like a Newton or Ohm, so unless you're speaking of "one kelvin", the word itself is also plural. Example: liquid nitrogen is at about seventy-seven kelvins.
Have you tried Liferea? My favourite feed aggregator and viewer of them all. Fast, lightweight, and sexy.
I guess I neglected to mention that I despise KDE and Qt applications. Gnome (Glade and GTK+ specifically) applications can look good with any desktop or window manager, but the same is definitely NOT true for KDE/Qt applications. I don't need to be told why KDE is better than GNOME or Enlightenment or Xfce or WMaker or [insert other window/desktop manager here], so don't bother. Same goes for Emacs; I like Vim, and you can pry that from my cold, dead hands.
Since I'm still in this situation of being surrounded by idiots, I never thought of manipulating people for humour or my own gain, but maybe that's because I'm also a nice person. Meh...
So you're telling me those big tits are real!? Sweet!
Yeah, but the item was a date to the prom!
Nah, they're thinking of calling it OpenW32 and will be using a cute little daemon as its logo.
Black holes are usually pretty bright due to the masses near the even horizon accelerating at near-light speeds right into the deformed surface thingy (not really an actual surface, seems to be more like a super-dense cloud of a fat man's bowel movements) and releasing Hawking radiation. Yeah, black holes are more white than black, damn racism.
Well, the internal database cache speeds things up enormously, and the ability to completely customise and script how the playlists and other interfaces are shown. Sure, you can edit the .glade files for Rhythmbox, but there's only so much customisation you can achieve with that; other things have to be done at the application source level.
AIM has had a URI scheme for a while. Example: new IM window
Foobar2000
Seriously, it has to be the most awesome audio player I had ever used, and Linux doesn't even offer an alternative (other than running it on WINE) that comes close to the pure awesomeness of it. I like Rhythmbox and whatnot, but seriously, Foobar2000 could do it all. I mean, it even cured a cold I had once!
Well, now that you point me to their website, I must say that besides the near-illegal (or illegal) business practices, their site is also a huge mess of tag soup, and the MPAA is far from a non-profit organisation and should therefore be moved to mpaa.com or something similar.
What the hell are you smoking? The Acid2 test is one of the most duplicated bugs, and active work is being made to fix the problems related to it. Other things are more important than passing a test to see how well you degrade gracefully, but compliance with said rules is still on the list of P3 or P2 items (forget which) that is being worked on whenever possible.
That's how to do it. Just do a symlink of the libjavaplugin_oji.so file within your JDK/JRE files inside ~/.mozilla/plugins/
I remember that bug. I first noticed it on tiava.com without the use of Redirect Remover (probably one of the most useful porn-browsing-enhancements Firefox has to offer other than Location Navigator). Annoying, but the bug can sometimes be fixed by simply reloading the page.
Also, the ability to change the status bar text should never have been available; the status bar is supposed to be useful to the user. Blind links and JS links are very unhelpful and should be avoided, especially when browsing "dirty" sites that could potentially lead to random pay sites or shitty ones.