Wow. It's not often I'm accused of operating under a socialist definition of anything.:)
I'm opposed to a bill of rights for Australia, because the rason it's propronents are propronents of it is because they want to increase te power of the judiciary in our country. As though it's not already way to policitally involved. I think we do OK looking out for our people. I argued quite passionately against the federal and South Australian regulatios to the ministers and senators backing them, and that's how I think the system should work: through a political process, not a legal one.
I do not consider such a fundamental attack on free speech as this to be 'vague and relatively minor'.
When I wrote this, I meant more that a minister had sent out a press release saying he'd investigate something (which given context of the past wlil probably end up being more symbolic than real) more than a government making a decision to do something significant.
Not directly, no. What I was trying to imply was that the government don't do nearly enough to break their monopoly which results in Aussie residents getting _3 gigabyte transfer caps_. Try defending that; enjoy paying for your broadband connection through the nose?
Oh, I despise Telstra, I just don't think they're a state endorsed monopoly.:)
This post is very flamey and quite ill-informed, but let's deal with it in parts.
Frankly, I'm surprised to see any Australian supporting their utterly SHIT government, but you're probably one of the conservative idiots that voted them in.
You can complain about governments (and conservatives) anywhere, but it's stupid to say on something as vague and relatively minor as this that the Australian government is poor.
Australia is one of the WORST places to live when it comes to internet access and freedom, certainly.
Um.. no it's not. China? Kenya? *There* are countries with poor internet access and internet freedom. I'm currently typing this on my broadband connection from my home in Aadelaide, and no site is blocked to me. Nor am I having connection problems.
What with boadband caps, a state endorsed monopoly from Telstra,
Telstra is not a state endorsed monopoly. It's currently being privatised and the competition regulator regularly hammers it for breaches of the trade practives act. That's not to say the situation is ideal, just that you don't know what you're talking about.:)
and now state BLOCKING OF WEBSITES?
Why don't you read the article - it's based on a press release from one minister. That doesn't mean it should be ignored, just that it's a bit crazy to get foamy at the mouth when you don't even really understand the scenario <prod>
I discovered screen about twelve months ago and it has completely changed the way I arrange my work, email, and private projects. I also shared your nomadic unhappiness with window managers on linux, which have never been good enough not to destroy usability.
I see decent hotkey support as being the biggest obstacle to the linux desktop. The two things that are required are:
- hot keys must work
- the must be consistent
- they must be easily configurable
The latest gnome release is almost there, but the windows keys can't be bound which means you can't do windows+r which I would like. I'm too impatient to spend a day screwing around with configuration files.
To screen: I see the biggest obstacles to it being widely liked
- stupid default hotkey in ctrl-A
- difficult to configure
The configuration file is not as simple as it could be, and most people (including me originally) are put off by the fact that ctrl+a is the emacs binding for go to start of line. I use vim, but I use that ctrl+a by habbit in the command line all the time, and until I could work out screen's stupid configuration file and how to rebind that escape character I found that all very annoying. I now have it bound to tick and it's fantastic.
Put """ escape `` """
as a line in/etc/screenrc or ~/.screenrc to use it.
Nice work on the article. Ratpoison looks excellent and I look forward to installing it at home with macforlinux et all a *lot*.
One thing that really annoys the hell out of me about Palm is just how damn difficult it is to get developer tools working. There are probably people at Palm who thing their developer platform is fantastic because they have free and commercial solutions. But the free solution is a pain to set up. I went to thie developer conference in Sydney last year (I live in Adelaide but was over there for another conference) and they gave out a CD of tools. "Great!" thought I. And it didn't have anything on it I needed.
There's this attitude that because you're working with developers, they'll wade thrugh the nasty murky stuff to get your product to work. No way. I don't have energy to screw around with that crap. When I'm trying out new products it's usually related to work, but something I do in my own time, and I'm there because I want to use the tool, not spend ages setting it up.
With Palm you have to download all sorts of things - prc tools, cygwin (if you're on Windows), the debugging kernel, and other things. This involves a hunt around the net and is a pain because they could just put together a straightforward developer package and save everyone the hassle.
Further, if cygwin is already installed you have to jump through hoops because the tool likes one sort of line ending but not another. Ugh!
When I was yonger I used to wonder whether I had the choice of losing sight or hearing which would I chose. Sight is so important to us. Yet to lose hearing would be to sacrifice music, which is my main pursuit outside of work. Also, it would be less of a step down for me to lose sight than for many people. I was born with a deformed left eye. A strip down the middle of the retina is missing, and there's a separate, more complicated problem I've never bothered to learn about as well. I used to wear plastic-, then glass-eyes to mask it. The plastic ones were made oversized and have stretched the skin around the socket, and it became painful, but that just gave me the excuse I needed to give up wearing them altogethre. I feel proud to have a problem that isn't and not cover it up, and rarely think about it, and have friends and family completely forget about it.
It's better to be born that way than to lose an eye for several reasons. Obviously, the pain and anguish of losing an eye. Also the need for people in that situation to redevelop their coordination. The only disadvantage is that if you don't develop parts of your sight while you are young - like me, you don't develop it at all. There will be a limit to which the brains of people given sight mid-life will be able to use them. Stereoscopic vision will be right out (even people with squints that come good can have problems with this, like my father), and they will never develop the coordination that somebody with childhood experience can.
Still, developments like those in this story give you a warm feeling about the positive power of our scientific endeavours, and the benefits of progress.
My former rowing coach is a dentist. Somehow years ago we got to talking about his work, and gross medical professions. Consensus among the squad was that optic surgerey was the right up there with the most squeemish of them, and he commented that in a way he wished he'd put his energy into that field rather than his own. When we asked why he responded that for the same amount of work you get to fix people's sight, and that that's one of the finest gifts you can give somebody.
I'd be entirely happy with my palm V if it had wireless networking (which you can get in later models) and decent sound. A ps2 keyboard port would be neat too. I wonder why there are several offerings of expensie proprietary keyboards and yet nobody sells an adaptor for a standard keyboard, even if it needed to be chanrged separately to the palm..
I used to be a fantaical os2 user. Reading this brought back lots of sadness, and even more at Be, because Be wasn't fucked up in all the ways the IBM was, and the BeOS wasn't as crappy as os2 (said in retrospect - it was never that stable, and the browsers were a disaster). Be did everything within their power right, and Microsoft still swallowed them.
Isn't it funny how you can instantly pick a katz article from the first line of the post, without even glancing at the author name. Only once have I been mistaken, when I picked a timothy post for a Katz, but overall it's pretty reliable.
I like books a lot. I want sturdy books that will be in my bookshelf in 5 years time. I like books that will still be useful in five years time. I don't *touch* buzz word books. I buy computer books on programming languages and platforms as a long term investment. I want something I can come back to and use for a long time.
I don't like programming books that get you to develop a single application over the course of the book (eg: C++ for dummies, which is yuck for many other reasons too. Prog. Python #1 did this a bit as well, and it feels laborious). I like little, powerful, varied, complete examples. Stuff you can type in that eloquently sums up an idea and gives you a grasp of the concept being discussed. For example: O'Reilly's Unix Systems Programming for SVR4 is packed with these! I don't even *use* SVR4ish platforms much, but bought the book because of all of its neat little programs that I had to try. It remains a useful reference for all sorts of generic C stuff too.
I don't like CDs attached to books - they're a waste of time. There is one exception to this - I'd buy a palm programming book if it could give me a CD of absolutely everything I needed to install PRC tools on my desktop and get coding. Setting up a PRC palm development environment is a pain and something I have yet to succeed at (it's possible I shouldn't be so stubborn in installing SDK4.0..)
Also nice is when they're laid out in a way that's classy, and leaves room for little helpful pencil notes (although not notes pointing out poor editing - see O'Reilley's Prog. the Be Operating System for examples of this..)
Have torvalds take lindows to court for copying the name of his intelectual property. Use many ofthe arguments that Microsoft are using, but present them poorly and deliberately throw the case. This will form precedent which would work against Microsoft.
This is a pretty straight down the line situation: gatt.org is out of line. It is not clearly a parody, and is effectively putting words into the mouth of the body it's targetting. Look at the photographs of Mike Moore next to blocks of offensive text!
Slashdot is pretty strong on freedom of speech issues, but I think presenting this as one reflects badly on legitimate free speech issues covered in other issues.
Gee that was pretty shockingly worded. What I mean is, I can get people who need the RAM in touch with a group of people who make it. (I don't have a financial interest, I don't even live in that state)
I can get in touch with people who need RAM for old 9600s/8400s/etc that they're upgrading into OS X machines. There's a workshop attached to Bond Uni in Australia who do tha sort of work. So you can use that to find them, or contact me and I'll get you in touch.
I'm inclined to ignore.net, concentrate on continuing to refine the alternatives, particularly java and connectivity tools. If we play.net, we'll get fight an impossible battle against ever-changing standards.
The goal is to provide consistency on gamlbing regulation. Now if you're opposed to gambling restrictions, then that's fine, but those objections should be voiced in that context. In Australia we have gambling laws, and the government's doing what it can to make that uniform.
I was very opposed to the internet censorship legilsation we've had through. It's stupid because it's unworkable. However, this seems like a fairly reliable way of peventing Australians from participating in online gambling. As such, I don't see it's such a bad thing.
There's a degree of hysteria towards Australia now ewhen it comes to internte regulation. While our legilsators have done a poor job on a couple of points (the federal government's Online Services Ammendment Bill thing, and the Soth Australian government's brainless follow-up to it), it's not really any worse than legislation I've seen of an equally poor standard in several othre first world countries. I think the dire commentary coming from many posters here is unjustified.
I use Napster to download choral music I sing in concerts. It's great. Particularly for rare stuff. I'd happily pay for the privilege too, although the bank won't let me get a credit, nay a debit card because I haven't been working 12 months yet (I know, I know, whose money is it, are they fith or what)
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Doesn't gnome already have vim support for text boxes? Wouldn't evolution just use the gnome widget?
Wow. It's not often I'm accused of operating under a socialist definition of anything. :)
I'm opposed to a bill of rights for Australia, because the rason it's propronents are propronents of it is because they want to increase te power of the judiciary in our country. As though it's not already way to policitally involved. I think we do OK looking out for our people. I argued quite passionately against the federal and South Australian regulatios to the ministers and senators backing them, and that's how I think the system should work: through a political process, not a legal one.
I love this new slashdot message system. :)
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I do not consider such a fundamental attack on free speech as this to be 'vague and relatively minor'.
When I wrote this, I meant more that a minister had sent out a press release saying he'd investigate something (which given context of the past wlil probably end up being more symbolic than real) more than a government making a decision to do something significant.
Not directly, no. What I was trying to imply was that the government don't do nearly enough to break their monopoly which results in Aussie residents getting _3 gigabyte transfer caps_. Try defending that; enjoy paying for your broadband connection through the nose?
Oh, I despise Telstra, I just don't think they're a state endorsed monopoly.
Australia has a much better record on rights than many nations with bills of rights.
This post is very flamey and quite ill-informed, but let's deal with it in parts.
:)
Frankly, I'm surprised to see any Australian supporting their utterly SHIT government, but you're probably one of the conservative idiots that voted them in.
You can complain about governments (and conservatives) anywhere, but it's stupid to say on something as vague and relatively minor as this that the Australian government is poor.
Australia is one of the WORST places to live when it comes to internet access and freedom, certainly.
Um.. no it's not. China? Kenya? *There* are countries with poor internet access and internet freedom. I'm currently typing this on my broadband connection from my home in Aadelaide, and no site is blocked to me. Nor am I having connection problems.
What with boadband caps, a state endorsed monopoly from Telstra,
Telstra is not a state endorsed monopoly. It's currently being privatised and the competition regulator regularly hammers it for breaches of the trade practives act. That's not to say the situation is ideal, just that you don't know what you're talking about.
and now state BLOCKING OF WEBSITES?
Why don't you read the article - it's based on a press release from one minister. That doesn't mean it should be ignored, just that it's a bit crazy to get foamy at the mouth when you don't even really understand the scenario <prod>
(also posted -> slashdot.org)
/etc/screenrc or ~/.screenrc to use it.
I discovered screen about twelve months ago and it has completely changed the way I arrange my work, email, and private projects. I also shared your nomadic unhappiness with window managers on linux, which have never been good enough not to destroy usability.
I see decent hotkey support as being the biggest obstacle to the linux desktop. The two things that are required are:
- hot keys must work
- the must be consistent
- they must be easily configurable
The latest gnome release is almost there, but the windows keys can't be bound which means you can't do windows+r which I would like. I'm too impatient to spend a day screwing around with configuration files.
To screen: I see the biggest obstacles to it being widely liked
- stupid default hotkey in ctrl-A
- difficult to configure
The configuration file is not as simple as it could be, and most people (including me originally) are put off by the fact that ctrl+a is the emacs binding for go to start of line. I use vim, but I use that ctrl+a by habbit in the command line all the time, and until I could work out screen's stupid configuration file and how to rebind that escape character I found that all very annoying. I now have it bound to tick and it's fantastic.
Put
"""
escape ``
"""
as a line in
Nice work on the article. Ratpoison looks excellent and I look forward to installing it at home with macforlinux et all a *lot*.
One thing that really annoys the hell out of me about Palm is just how damn difficult it is to get developer tools working. There are probably people at Palm who thing their developer platform is fantastic because they have free and commercial solutions. But the free solution is a pain to set up. I went to thie developer conference in Sydney last year (I live in Adelaide but was over there for another conference) and they gave out a CD of tools. "Great!" thought I. And it didn't have anything on it I needed.
There's this attitude that because you're working with developers, they'll wade thrugh the nasty murky stuff to get your product to work. No way. I don't have energy to screw around with that crap. When I'm trying out new products it's usually related to work, but something I do in my own time, and I'm there because I want to use the tool, not spend ages setting it up.
With Palm you have to download all sorts of things - prc tools, cygwin (if you're on Windows), the debugging kernel, and other things. This involves a hunt around the net and is a pain because they could just put together a straightforward developer package and save everyone the hassle.
Further, if cygwin is already installed you have to jump through hoops because the tool likes one sort of line ending but not another. Ugh!
tjhis one goes out to labf
When I was yonger I used to wonder whether I had the choice of losing sight or hearing which would I chose. Sight is so important to us. Yet to lose hearing would be to sacrifice music, which is my main pursuit outside of work. Also, it would be less of a step down for me to lose sight than for many people. I was born with a deformed left eye. A strip down the middle of the retina is missing, and there's a separate, more complicated problem I've never bothered to learn about as well. I used to wear plastic-, then glass-eyes to mask it. The plastic ones were made oversized and have stretched the skin around the socket, and it became painful, but that just gave me the excuse I needed to give up wearing them altogethre. I feel proud to have a problem that isn't and not cover it up, and rarely think about it, and have friends and family completely forget about it.
It's better to be born that way than to lose an eye for several reasons. Obviously, the pain and anguish of losing an eye. Also the need for people in that situation to redevelop their coordination. The only disadvantage is that if you don't develop parts of your sight while you are young - like me, you don't develop it at all. There will be a limit to which the brains of people given sight mid-life will be able to use them. Stereoscopic vision will be right out (even people with squints that come good can have problems with this, like my father), and they will never develop the coordination that somebody with childhood experience can.
Still, developments like those in this story give you a warm feeling about the positive power of our scientific endeavours, and the benefits of progress.
My former rowing coach is a dentist. Somehow years ago we got to talking about his work, and gross medical professions. Consensus among the squad was that optic surgerey was the right up there with the most squeemish of them, and he commented that in a way he wished he'd put his energy into that field rather than his own. When we asked why he responded that for the same amount of work you get to fix people's sight, and that that's one of the finest gifts you can give somebody.
:)
I'd be entirely happy with my palm V if it had wireless networking (which you can get in later models) and decent sound. A ps2 keyboard port would be neat too. I wonder why there are several offerings of expensie proprietary keyboards and yet nobody sells an adaptor for a standard keyboard, even if it needed to be chanrged separately to the palm..
love your work!!
There's a bowling alley in Adelaide still running on a PDP-11 :) Wonder who has the (probably lucrative) support contract for that... :)
I used to be a fantaical os2 user. Reading this brought back lots of sadness, and even more at Be, because Be wasn't fucked up in all the ways the IBM was, and the BeOS wasn't as crappy as os2 (said in retrospect - it was never that stable, and the browsers were a disaster). Be did everything within their power right, and Microsoft still swallowed them.
We should be supporting Microsoft in their defense of Windows licencing, because it's really good for linux.
Isn't it funny how you can instantly pick a katz article from the first line of the post, without even glancing at the author name. Only once have I been mistaken, when I picked a timothy post for a Katz, but overall it's pretty reliable.
I like books a lot. I want sturdy books that will be in my bookshelf in 5 years time. I like books that will still be useful in five years time. I don't *touch* buzz word books. I buy computer books on programming languages and platforms as a long term investment. I want something I can come back to and use for a long time.
I don't like programming books that get you to develop a single application over the course of the book (eg: C++ for dummies, which is yuck for many other reasons too. Prog. Python #1 did this a bit as well, and it feels laborious). I like little, powerful, varied, complete examples. Stuff you can type in that eloquently sums up an idea and gives you a grasp of the concept being discussed. For example: O'Reilly's Unix Systems Programming for SVR4 is packed with these! I don't even *use* SVR4ish platforms much, but bought the book because of all of its neat little programs that I had to try. It remains a useful reference for all sorts of generic C stuff too.
I don't like CDs attached to books - they're a waste of time. There is one exception to this - I'd buy a palm programming book if it could give me a CD of absolutely everything I needed to install PRC tools on my desktop and get coding. Setting up a PRC palm development environment is a pain and something I have yet to succeed at (it's possible I shouldn't be so stubborn in installing SDK4.0..)
Also nice is when they're laid out in a way that's classy, and leaves room for little helpful pencil notes (although not notes pointing out poor editing - see O'Reilley's Prog. the Be Operating System for examples of this..)
Have torvalds take lindows to court for copying the name of his intelectual property. Use many ofthe arguments that Microsoft are using, but present them poorly and deliberately throw the case. This will form precedent which would work against Microsoft.
This is a pretty straight down the line situation: gatt.org is out of line. It is not clearly a parody, and is effectively putting words into the mouth of the body it's targetting. Look at the photographs of Mike Moore next to blocks of offensive text!
Slashdot is pretty strong on freedom of speech issues, but I think presenting this as one reflects badly on legitimate free speech issues covered in other issues.
Gee that was pretty shockingly worded. What I mean is, I can get people who need the RAM in touch with a group of people who make it. (I don't have a financial interest, I don't even live in that state)
I can get in touch with people who need RAM for old 9600s/8400s/etc that they're upgrading into OS X machines. There's a workshop attached to Bond Uni in Australia who do tha sort of work. So you can use that to find them, or contact me and I'll get you in touch.
I'm inclined to ignore .net, concentrate on continuing to refine the alternatives, particularly java and connectivity tools. If we play .net, we'll get fight an impossible battle against ever-changing standards.
The goal is to provide consistency on gamlbing regulation. Now if you're opposed to gambling restrictions, then that's fine, but those objections should be voiced in that context. In Australia we have gambling laws, and the government's doing what it can to make that uniform.
I was very opposed to the internet censorship legilsation we've had through. It's stupid because it's unworkable. However, this seems like a fairly reliable way of peventing Australians from participating in online gambling. As such, I don't see it's such a bad thing.
There's a degree of hysteria towards Australia now ewhen it comes to internte regulation. While our legilsators have done a poor job on a couple of points (the federal government's Online Services Ammendment Bill thing, and the Soth Australian government's brainless follow-up to it), it's not really any worse than legislation I've seen of an equally poor standard in several othre first world countries. I think the dire commentary coming from many posters here is unjustified.
I'm a Coopers man myself :)
I use Napster to download choral music I sing in concerts. It's great. Particularly for rare stuff. I'd happily pay for the privilege too, although the bank won't let me get a credit, nay a debit card because I haven't been working 12 months yet (I know, I know, whose money is it, are they fith or what)
You're right, it was fisheye :) Thanks.