Just to let you know, Cyric, I think it was you who finally convinced me to switch to KDE (other than the fact that Debian wasn't supporting Gnome 2.12), and I've loved it ever since I got it customised to my liking. Sometimes I've been able to randomly get something working properly (as opposed to NOT being able to get it working in Gnome), but otherwise it has become SO much better than Gnome (or at least the typical Gnome distros).
Although, I do find it somewhat annoying that you will post this at least eight times whenever a Linux-related article pops up on/.
I don't think either the package `Oregon' nor `Trail' exist. You'd probably want to `apt-cache search oregon trail' to find a package before trying the obvious when it comes to trademarked names. Example: a Warcraft II type of game is called `stratagus'.
>Is their inability to write sensibly only exhibited online, or does it also creep into their school work?
I am sad to say, but it has seeped into their school work. I'm thankful that MS Word et al. will at least auto-correct most inherant butcherings of the english language, but I've seen some of the worse piles of shit written on fellow students' papers. I noticed this a year or so ago when we did peer editting; seeing the all too common AOLer speak in persuasive essays and short stories has killed me a little inside each time.
And I think you're forgetting about GameSpot, IGN, 1up, Bungie, Penny Arcade, Steam, and nearly every video game forum in existance when it comes to godawful grammar and rapings of the english language.
Call me cynical all you wish, but the more myspace fucktards that kill themselves, the better. I'd have to commend this Tom fellow on creating a method to group all the internet's idiots onto one site in order to clean up the mass idiocy elsewhere.
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Judging by how readily they'll buy the RIAA's latest shit albums for $20 a pop and how they'll click next through their EULAs faster than an AC posting a stupid fad joke on Slashdot, I'd have to say that they definitely are used to giving away their rights. If they gave a damn about their rights, we wouldn't have nearly as much shit we deal with these days...
I think a better approach would be to setting ActiveX to only be usable on a local Intranet and *.windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Maybe even force the usage of SSL to allow ActiveX to be used outside of the Intranet for a false sense of security.
By the looks of the comments on every article ever about the UN trying to take control of the root DNS boxen, I'd have to say that/. has a quite negative opinion in regards to the UN. The EU is only less evil as they haven't completely fucked everything up yet, but everytime we see them about to make a possible fuckup, there are plenty of +5 Insightful comments regarding how the EU government has no power (like the League of Nations did) and how American companies are lobbying the EU as well. Also, ask nearly any British/.er about Tony Blair and you'll be sure to get some negative feedback. Even Australia has the inane game rating system that doesn't allow games to be rated R18+ (the highest for games is MA15+ if I remember correctly), so a few games (e.g. Manhunt) have been outright banned from sale there.
So basically, we always have something to complain about because nobody can please everyone...
Just to let you know, bookmarks are automatically backed up correctly (and in an incremental fashion in the bookmarkbackups/ directory), so losing your bookmarks is no longer an issue. Remote synchronising your bookmarks across several computers is a wonderful feature to have though...
>Yahoo is nice in that it works well with multiple people watching.
You mean when a random cam whore is stripping in front of dozens of horny teenagers? Life is more like American Pie than one would normally want to believe...
# Grouping of nicks under a single nick, so you'd only have to click on the nick and the first available (or even preferred) protocol client would be connected. This would also hold for "pounces" - Those messages saved and autosent when one of the nicks becomes available/meets criteria.
# Transparent encryption - always encrypt for a protocol, and make those protocols/clients with encryption the preferred protocol for a particular nick with multiple clients.
They've already gone over that and why it wouldn't be a built-in feature until an actual protocol supports real encryption as a feature.
Same plugin architecture (the Netscape plugin architecture that is), so it'll work in Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, etc. Just copy it to your ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory (%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins\ in windows IIRC).
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Just to let you know, Cyric, I think it was you who finally convinced me to switch to KDE (other than the fact that Debian wasn't supporting Gnome 2.12), and I've loved it ever since I got it customised to my liking. Sometimes I've been able to randomly get something working properly (as opposed to NOT being able to get it working in Gnome), but otherwise it has become SO much better than Gnome (or at least the typical Gnome distros).
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Although, I do find it somewhat annoying that you will post this at least eight times whenever a Linux-related article pops up on
I don't think either the package `Oregon' nor `Trail' exist. You'd probably want to `apt-cache search oregon trail' to find a package before trying the obvious when it comes to trademarked names. Example: a Warcraft II type of game is called `stratagus'.
>Own their Windoz boxes
Some geek you are; it's `boxen'. Check the Jargon files.
>Is their inability to write sensibly only exhibited online, or does it also creep into their school work?
I am sad to say, but it has seeped into their school work. I'm thankful that MS Word et al. will at least auto-correct most inherant butcherings of the english language, but I've seen some of the worse piles of shit written on fellow students' papers. I noticed this a year or so ago when we did peer editting; seeing the all too common AOLer speak in persuasive essays and short stories has killed me a little inside each time.
And I think you're forgetting about GameSpot, IGN, 1up, Bungie, Penny Arcade, Steam, and nearly every video game forum in existance when it comes to godawful grammar and rapings of the english language.
Call me cynical all you wish, but the more myspace fucktards that kill themselves, the better. I'd have to commend this Tom fellow on creating a method to group all the internet's idiots onto one site in order to clean up the mass idiocy elsewhere.
Judging by how readily they'll buy the RIAA's latest shit albums for $20 a pop and how they'll click next through their EULAs faster than an AC posting a stupid fad joke on Slashdot, I'd have to say that they definitely are used to giving away their rights. If they gave a damn about their rights, we wouldn't have nearly as much shit we deal with these days...
I think a better approach would be to setting ActiveX to only be usable on a local Intranet and *.windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Maybe even force the usage of SSL to allow ActiveX to be used outside of the Intranet for a false sense of security.
Thank you, George Carlin...
Dude, that female orgasm story was quite interesting. I still don't get the tone you're trying to portray in your comment though.
Sounds a lot like Bonzai Buddy (if anyone remembers that lovable purple ape whom you forced to say naughty things).
By the looks of the comments on every article ever about the UN trying to take control of the root DNS boxen, I'd have to say that /. has a quite negative opinion in regards to the UN. The EU is only less evil as they haven't completely fucked everything up yet, but everytime we see them about to make a possible fuckup, there are plenty of +5 Insightful comments regarding how the EU government has no power (like the League of Nations did) and how American companies are lobbying the EU as well. Also, ask nearly any British /.er about Tony Blair and you'll be sure to get some negative feedback. Even Australia has the inane game rating system that doesn't allow games to be rated R18+ (the highest for games is MA15+ if I remember correctly), so a few games (e.g. Manhunt) have been outright banned from sale there.
So basically, we always have something to complain about because nobody can please everyone...
I would expect Sony to be the ones filing a patent for being stupid to maximise profits...
Sounds like the common complaint about the Gnome file chooser dialog.
Just to let you know, bookmarks are automatically backed up correctly (and in an incremental fashion in the bookmarkbackups/ directory), so losing your bookmarks is no longer an issue. Remote synchronising your bookmarks across several computers is a wonderful feature to have though...
What are you saying? I'm still compiling it! (Gentoo user)
File-sharing folder? Uh, try nearly any P2P program in existance...
>Yahoo is nice in that it works well with multiple people watching.
You mean when a random cam whore is stripping in front of dozens of horny teenagers? Life is more like American Pie than one would normally want to believe...
# Grouping of nicks under a single nick, so you'd only have to click on the nick and the first available (or even preferred) protocol client would be connected. This would also hold for "pounces" - Those messages saved and autosent when one of the nicks becomes available/meets criteria.
That's already a feature...
# Transparent encryption - always encrypt for a protocol, and make those protocols/clients with encryption the preferred protocol for a particular nick with multiple clients.
They've already gone over that and why it wouldn't be a built-in feature until an actual protocol supports real encryption as a feature.
Same plugin architecture (the Netscape plugin architecture that is), so it'll work in Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, etc. Just copy it to your ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory (%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins\ in windows IIRC).
VLC's logo has been that orange cone for a while, dude.
Clear out your Acrobat plugins folder (the ones that load on startup) to dramatically improve performance.
I think it's because there were no new articles for a few hours today, so they all went to digg up some news.
I just read this on /. a few days ago...
I use Debian you insensitive clod! It's /usr/games and /usr/local/games
Firefox 1.5rc3 is quite stable. In fact, Firefox 1.6a1 (read: trunk, 3.0-pre-alpha) build 2005112704 is quite stable, so nyah.