Perhaps a bit offtopic, maybe not. We are sort of talking about gnome usability here.
Does anyone know how I can get gnome file dialogs to see dot directories, such as ".enlightenment". I upgraded to the GIMP 2.2 recently, and boy was I ever shocked to have such a useless peice of crap save/open dialog to use.
I believe I read here on/. that there was some way of editing gconf to get the dialogs to be usable again. Anyone have any clue? I'm not a clueless "noob", I can read the friendly manual, but I just cannot find anything dealing with this.
I should have liked to have been more accurate in my post, but accidentaly hit submit rather than preview. Such is the nature of accidents and fast typing over lunch.
Yeah, I know E17 is still very much alpha code. Why do I run it? For the same reason I play with the HURD sometimes, I like to play. Don't get pissy.
What I meant to ask is, where can I find one of those neato edje background thingies? I wasn't paying much attention when I typed, and was paying even less attention when I went to preview what I'd typed. Accidents happen and ambiguous questions get asked. When that happens it's always much better to either A) ignore the question and move on, or B) ask kindly for specification. You chose option C) act sort of smug and patronize a bit. ( In addition you insinuated that I used an RPM based distro. Ouch. ) C is not a particularly becoming choice, but it is yours to take.
All this stuff is beautiful, yes. I agree with you completely.
But where can I find it? I run E17. Before today I'd never even seen nor heard of edje and edje equipped thingies, specifically a neato moving desktop thingie.
Does anyone else remember the simpler days, when phones where just phones? When you didn't have to bother with your friends sending you pictures over their $400 internet phone camera thingies? When you didn't have to interupt a kernel compile just to check your voice mail?
I looked through your comment history a bit, and you don't particularly seem like a troll. Perhaps then you are just having a bad day? Or have you finally bubbled over with stress from attempting to pay your dues, which I assume to be college dues as opposed to the "dues" that everyone keeps going on about, and attempting to finish your dissertation?
Go on, let it all out. It's okay. Just go outside, get away from the computer. Enjoy the fresh air. Take a book with you, they're fantastically relaxing. Take a step back from life, calm down, and ask yourself if it wouldn't be best for you to stop waisting your life on/. attacking minors.
Being a Mathematician is a matter of disposition and passion, being 17 doesn't mean one hasn't escaped High School for University long ago, and being insipid often makes one a twit.
Perhaps it's just me, and perhaps this is offtopic, but the phrase "has too much time on their hands" has always sounded far too similar to "thinks too much" to me.
I am a mathematician, a pure mathematician to be pedantic. Pure, for lack of a better designation, means that I work completely in the abstract. When working in approximation theory ( the use of data points to approximate functions, basically ) I don't really give a hot damn how my work can be applied. It is the math, the idea, that is beautiful and interesting to me. If there were no people to come along and apply my work to something then it would be completely useless, in the practical sense. Is that a bad thing? Maybe, it depends on how Roman you like to be.
Now, since my passion can often be described as useless I have heard quite often that I either "think too much for my own good" or "have too much time on my hands." I believe these statements are synonomous.
These crazy bastards constructed a finite state machine out of a train set. It performs calculations. You say that they have too much time on their hands. Why? Because you cannot use the machine to perform calculations?
What they have done is beautiful. They have brought into the world an idea, they have been creative. Would it have been better for them to be honest hard working men in a factory, as opposed to geeks?
If there is some other way to view "too much time" please inform me.
Oh man, Wintendo! A derogitory phrase for Windows that I haven't heard before. Not only does this one degrade Microsoft ( always a good thing ) by implying that their OS is only good for games, but it also ribs Windows users by implying that the majority of them use Windows imply to play games. Holy crap is that hilarious!
Come on, seriously. Since when is childish name calling a good idea, especially when you want to promote your own idea? HINT: Being a dick doesn't inspire others to join you.
The Sims have sex. The Sims have sex. Out pops a baby. The Sims, ignoring their baby, have sex.
Seriously, is a show controlled by the masses through voting a really good idea? In this instance I am suddenly reminded why the Founding Fathers(tm) of America didn't want the majority of people to vote.
Ben Franklin didn't do his kite experiments to produce electricity. In fact he did his kite experiments in order to show that static electricity and lightening were indeed a facet of the same thing, electro-magnetism as we now know.
The article doesn't say much about how such a structure could be maintained. How in the world could kites stay up for a long enough period to be feasible as a power source? Or is all this still in the "just five more years" phase?
I'd like learn more, but the article is not very helpful.
I'm curious, the article summary ( or the webpage, I can't remember ) mentions that now all of your games will run smoothly. I don't remember any games not being very smooth, but then, I was a small child at the time.
What are some games that could stand to be played on an overclocked NES?
I'm curious, will Fluxbox be on this "light" disk? I ask because the summary says that the most 'popular desktop'. That would be KDE, but light it is not!
I didn't know that some company had developed a proprietary speech format that just happened to be good at spreading advertisements. I also didn't know that those of us that are in the OSS community developed our own speech format to be used freely by the masses.
The advance of technology does not mean that those who invented it are suddenly out of a job. Certainly candle makers don't have such a lucritive income any longer, but that doesn't mean the same fate will befall you crazy code monkies ( pure mathematician here, we've already proved we have infinite job security! ).
Someone mentioned above that the telephone industry didn't cut its work force by 98% when phone switch operators became obsolete. The former plug monkies just did different things.
It is the nature of human beings to improve their society through technology. It is also the nature of human beings to require food. As a result there are always going to be jobs dealing with that new technology. Don't fight it, go with the flow.
( How many people do you know who are upset that they don't have a job guiding a mule through a field? )
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Perhaps a bit offtopic, maybe not. We are sort of talking about gnome usability here.
/. that there was some way of editing gconf to get the dialogs to be usable again. Anyone have any clue? I'm not a clueless "noob", I can read the friendly manual, but I just cannot find anything dealing with this.
Does anyone know how I can get gnome file dialogs to see dot directories, such as ".enlightenment". I upgraded to the GIMP 2.2 recently, and boy was I ever shocked to have such a useless peice of crap save/open dialog to use.
I believe I read here on
Nope, just a Saint.
I should have liked to have been more accurate in my post, but accidentaly hit submit rather than preview. Such is the nature of accidents and fast typing over lunch.
Yeah, I know E17 is still very much alpha code. Why do I run it? For the same reason I play with the HURD sometimes, I like to play. Don't get pissy.
What I meant to ask is, where can I find one of those neato edje background thingies? I wasn't paying much attention when I typed, and was paying even less attention when I went to preview what I'd typed. Accidents happen and ambiguous questions get asked. When that happens it's always much better to either A) ignore the question and move on, or B) ask kindly for specification. You chose option C) act sort of smug and patronize a bit. ( In addition you insinuated that I used an RPM based distro. Ouch. ) C is not a particularly becoming choice, but it is yours to take.
All this stuff is beautiful, yes. I agree with you completely.
But where can I find it? I run E17. Before today I'd never even seen nor heard of edje and edje equipped thingies, specifically a neato moving desktop thingie.
Power outages suck, and a great way to protect from them is to distribute your project over a large area of electrical service.
I know the wikimedia folks are fundraising for more servers, but I wonder if this will provide more incentive to accept Google's offer?
Does anyone else remember the simpler days, when phones where just phones? When you didn't have to bother with your friends sending you pictures over their $400 internet phone camera thingies? When you didn't have to interupt a kernel compile just to check your voice mail?
I do. Good times.
What do I watch in the tub? Nothing. I read.
Wow, who shit in your breakfast cereal?
/. attacking minors.
I looked through your comment history a bit, and you don't particularly seem like a troll. Perhaps then you are just having a bad day? Or have you finally bubbled over with stress from attempting to pay your dues, which I assume to be college dues as opposed to the "dues" that everyone keeps going on about, and attempting to finish your dissertation?
Go on, let it all out. It's okay. Just go outside, get away from the computer. Enjoy the fresh air. Take a book with you, they're fantastically relaxing. Take a step back from life, calm down, and ask yourself if it wouldn't be best for you to stop waisting your life on
Being a Mathematician is a matter of disposition and passion, being 17 doesn't mean one hasn't escaped High School for University long ago, and being insipid often makes one a twit.
Perhaps it's just me, and perhaps this is offtopic, but the phrase "has too much time on their hands" has always sounded far too similar to "thinks too much" to me.
I am a mathematician, a pure mathematician to be pedantic. Pure, for lack of a better designation, means that I work completely in the abstract. When working in approximation theory ( the use of data points to approximate functions, basically ) I don't really give a hot damn how my work can be applied. It is the math, the idea, that is beautiful and interesting to me. If there were no people to come along and apply my work to something then it would be completely useless, in the practical sense. Is that a bad thing? Maybe, it depends on how Roman you like to be.
Now, since my passion can often be described as useless I have heard quite often that I either "think too much for my own good" or "have too much time on my hands." I believe these statements are synonomous.
These crazy bastards constructed a finite state machine out of a train set. It performs calculations. You say that they have too much time on their hands. Why? Because you cannot use the machine to perform calculations?
What they have done is beautiful. They have brought into the world an idea, they have been creative. Would it have been better for them to be honest hard working men in a factory, as opposed to geeks?
If there is some other way to view "too much time" please inform me.
Every coral cache link someone puts up always returns "Connection refused when connecting to..." Is there something I'm missing?
Just to save all you other OCD victims out there when asked to reply in 50 words or less Mark Gorham replies in 38, assuming OpenVMS counts as one.
Oh man, Wintendo! A derogitory phrase for Windows that I haven't heard before. Not only does this one degrade Microsoft ( always a good thing ) by implying that their OS is only good for games, but it also ribs Windows users by implying that the majority of them use Windows imply to play games. Holy crap is that hilarious!
Come on, seriously. Since when is childish name calling a good idea, especially when you want to promote your own idea? HINT: Being a dick doesn't inspire others to join you.
Grow up.
The Sims have sex.
The Sims have sex.
Out pops a baby.
The Sims, ignoring their baby, have sex.
Seriously, is a show controlled by the masses through voting a really good idea? In this instance I am suddenly reminded why the Founding Fathers(tm) of America didn't want the majority of people to vote.
Pets.com was an ill fated dotcom company that aimed to sell pet food over the internet. That's most likely what he's referencing.
Ben Franklin didn't do his kite experiments to produce electricity. In fact he did his kite experiments in order to show that static electricity and lightening were indeed a facet of the same thing, electro-magnetism as we now know.
See the Wikipedia for more details.
The article doesn't say much about how such a structure could be maintained. How in the world could kites stay up for a long enough period to be feasible as a power source? Or is all this still in the "just five more years" phase?
I'd like learn more, but the article is not very helpful.
Perhaps because ready made solutions are not fun?
There are some of us for who it is the struggle of solving a problem, rather than the solution, that is the enjoyable part.
I'm curious, the article summary ( or the webpage, I can't remember ) mentions that now all of your games will run smoothly. I don't remember any games not being very smooth, but then, I was a small child at the time.
What are some games that could stand to be played on an overclocked NES?
Oh no! They got tmbw.net! No one messes with They Might be Giants and get's away with it. No one.
I'm curious, will Fluxbox be on this "light" disk? I ask because the summary says that the most 'popular desktop'. That would be KDE, but light it is not!
I'm curious, why reimplement Ruby in Java? What is the benefit of doing so?
This is open-source how?
I didn't know that some company had developed a proprietary speech format that just happened to be good at spreading advertisements. I also didn't know that those of us that are in the OSS community developed our own speech format to be used freely by the masses.
I guess I learn something new everyday.
Do I have to?
The advance of technology does not mean that those who invented it are suddenly out of a job. Certainly candle makers don't have such a lucritive income any longer, but that doesn't mean the same fate will befall you crazy code monkies ( pure mathematician here, we've already proved we have infinite job security! ).
Someone mentioned above that the telephone industry didn't cut its work force by 98% when phone switch operators became obsolete. The former plug monkies just did different things.
It is the nature of human beings to improve their society through technology. It is also the nature of human beings to require food. As a result there are always going to be jobs dealing with that new technology. Don't fight it, go with the flow.
( How many people do you know who are upset that they don't have a job guiding a mule through a field? )
Prove the Euler-Mascheroni Constant to be irrational... or not. Either will work.