You can lose your open tabs for example. And I sure use tabs alot more than I ever used windows before I discovered them. It usually means having to rediscover alot of information.
But it rarely happens, and if it really bothered me that much I wouldn't be running firefox betas.:p
I'm not sure I understand why you say that gzip can only compress one file.
From the manual:
gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension `.gz', while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times.
Or from Wikipedia:
The gzip file format holds a single compressed file. On Unix systems, compressed archives are typically created by rolling collections of files into a tar archive, and then compressing that archive with gzip. The final.tar.gz or.tgz file is usually called a "compressed tarball."
Giving gzip multiple files will simply compress each of those files, instead of compressing them together inside a single archive.
The main diff is that Linux doesn't really have a self executing compression. (and if it does exists, face it... tar is much more common).
Makeself. It's used in the Loki installer, and thus in lots of commercial software.
Besides that, grandparents point was that a.tar is a non-compressed archive, and the actual compression happens in.gz. Gzip can only compress one file, meaning that if you want to compress multiple files, you'll have to compress a tar archive of those files. But in this case, there is only one file. So they could've (should've?) skipped the tar step and just gzip it.
I usually try to stay away from KDE vs. GNOME discussions, but I always fail.:)
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Without KDE, I'm sure myself, my friends, and my company would be using Windows.
Gnome doesn't do enough for the end user. Too many settings required mucking around in either the registry-like editor, or just plain command line things.
I have the same feeling with KDE. In KDE, the configuration feels, to me, like one giant registry. Everything is simply thrown into the configuration dialogs, which makes it just as much a mess to me as GConf. The couple of settings GNOME exposes in it's configuration are all I ever needed.
I remember trying to use Gnome is SuSE 9.0, and not being able to figure out how to specify which app to use for which mime type. Someone politely informed me that this was the procedure to set default apps for various mime-types.
Yeah, that's noob friendly. Apparently, wasn't 'fixed' in 2.10, either. Is it fixed now?
That's a valid point. This has started to annoy me aswell lately. It's funny how there used to be no menu editor either for a while, but I didn't care about that as much. I'm always opening files with the context menu now though, which is a bit of a hassle.
Either way, lack of simple things like that, plus KDE's KIOslaves (which are beautiful, come on, who doesn't love fish:// or klik://), plus a far superior file browser (I've seen the gnome when I'm forced to load up a GTK app, which is rare).
How do I open from a network location in gnome? Can it be done? (In the file browser?)
(Note that I don't know the exact wording in the English locale.)
In the places menu, you can open a virtual-folder network locations, sortof like windows does it. Except here, from the file menu, you can connect to several kinds of servers, including SSH, FTP, WebDAV, Windows shares, and a couple of others. (Anything GNOME-VFS supports)
Entries you add there will stay in the network locations virtual folder, and also appear in the places menu and file choosers from within applications that support GNOME-VFS.
You can also press Ctrl+L anywhere on the desktop or in the file browser, and type an address (ssh://blabla.com/etc..)
Why don't I 'contribute' to the gnome project to make these things better? Simple: KDE already does them correctly for me.
Do I mind that other people are happy with gnome, or prefer gnome? No. But all you gnome-heads should stop stomping on other people's Desktop Environments. Seriously; Gnome doesn't work for some of us.
KDE-heads stomp on GNOME just as much, that's kind of the problem. I try out KDE occasionally, mess about with it. I probably won't use it as my primary desktop anytime soon, I prefer GNOME. But they're both powerful environments, and to each his own.
I don't think either of us is really trying to fuel a flamewar here, and the majority of the sane Slashdot population (if such a thing exists) is probably staying out of this discussion on purpose. It's what I should've done aswell.:B
Easy utility to pick up when you're coming from a DOS/Windows background. It's how I started off, and I stuck with it. It's embedded editor is also my favorite source editor, though I still haven't gotten around to changing the syntax highlighting colors. (dark red comments on a blue background? yech..)
I forgot to mention, the date/time there is ofcourse the last time the feed was checked, so the feed can be a regular RSS or Atom feed generated with just the articles published or modified since then.
I don't think you need a list of links or even a separate file. An easier solution might be to just pass a format string in a separate link-tag on the html page announcing the feed. For example, right now we have: (taken straight form the linked article)
Ofcourse, that'd require the blog feed to be a dynamic page of some sort (PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, whatever..), but that shouldn't be a problem; I can't think of a single blog with a bandwidth problem that is using static pages.
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Am I the only one who actually likes the one-button mouse? I don't actually use it, but having to explain to my mom when she should use what button countless times gets slightly irritating after a while.
The next version of Gator will be the first in the market to sport compatibility with all the new Internet Explorer 7 features, for even more desktop interoperability!
Either way, one of the goals of bittorrent was to make downloading as natural as possible to the user. You click a.torrent link, bittorrent reads the.torrent metafile and connects to the tracker and peers to start downloading. But to the user, it looks almost like a regular download dialog.
Opera goes one step further by integrating a bittorrent into the browser, eliminating the need for a client, and simply bringing bittorrent one step closer to being a regular download method. Or something like that.
Even though I'm really all for the projects you mentioned, if I had any modpoints left, I'd mod you down.
He's managing systems across a WAN, it should be obvious that that's even less a solution than Synaptic suggested.
I do like to get one point across, though: all those virus scanners, malware removers, and lots of other Windows 'toys' have all this unnecessary cruft around them. They all have a different look and feel, or even a theming system people really don't care about when they use them. There's only a handful of applications I'd apply a theming system too; I even consider Winamp a questionable case.
This just seems like waste, the money invested in the programming and design for such an interface could probably have been spend on reaching the goals the application was actually made for, or fixing stupid bugs. You can have a friendly interface using Windows' native look. If the user wants eyecandy, get him to use WindowBlinds or something.
I hope I don't get to see any of this on my favourite OS anytime soon..
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You can still crash it annoyingly.
You can lose your open tabs for example. And I sure use tabs alot more than I ever used windows before I discovered them. It usually means having to rediscover alot of information.
But it rarely happens, and if it really bothered me that much I wouldn't be running firefox betas. :p
From the manual:
Or from Wikipedia:
Giving gzip multiple files will simply compress each of those files, instead of compressing them together inside a single archive.
Makeself. It's used in the Loki installer, and thus in lots of commercial software.
Besides that, grandparents point was that a .tar is a non-compressed archive, and the actual compression happens in .gz. Gzip can only compress one file, meaning that if you want to compress multiple files, you'll have to compress a tar archive of those files. But in this case, there is only one file. So they could've (should've?) skipped the tar step and just gzip it.
Yeah, it would've been much better if it was a dragon!
But that wouldn't really fit GNOME, I guess.
Well hey, it's OSDir!
I wouldn't be surprised if they gave us daily screenshots of every daily Ubuntu Dapper build.
I usually try to stay away from KDE vs. GNOME discussions, but I always fail. :)
A couple of answers and some opinions thrown together..
I have the same feeling with KDE. In KDE, the configuration feels, to me, like one giant registry. Everything is simply thrown into the configuration dialogs, which makes it just as much a mess to me as GConf. The couple of settings GNOME exposes in it's configuration are all I ever needed.
That's a valid point. This has started to annoy me aswell lately. It's funny how there used to be no menu editor either for a while, but I didn't care about that as much. I'm always opening files with the context menu now though, which is a bit of a hassle.
(Note that I don't know the exact wording in the English locale.)
In the places menu, you can open a virtual-folder network locations, sortof like windows does it. Except here, from the file menu, you can connect to several kinds of servers, including SSH, FTP, WebDAV, Windows shares, and a couple of others. (Anything GNOME-VFS supports)
Entries you add there will stay in the network locations virtual folder, and also appear in the places menu and file choosers from within applications that support GNOME-VFS.
You can also press Ctrl+L anywhere on the desktop or in the file browser, and type an address (ssh://blabla.com/etc..)
KDE-heads stomp on GNOME just as much, that's kind of the problem. I try out KDE occasionally, mess about with it. I probably won't use it as my primary desktop anytime soon, I prefer GNOME. But they're both powerful environments, and to each his own.
I don't think either of us is really trying to fuel a flamewar here, and the majority of the sane Slashdot population (if such a thing exists) is probably staying out of this discussion on purpose. It's what I should've done aswell. :B
mc, anyone?
Easy utility to pick up when you're coming from a DOS/Windows background. It's how I started off, and I stuck with it. It's embedded editor is also my favorite source editor, though I still haven't gotten around to changing the syntax highlighting colors. (dark red comments on a blue background? yech..)
I must investigate this further.
If you're browsing torrent sites with IE, I'm surprised it hasn't already.
Next up: Bullshit powered battery. John Dvorak would probably be able to fuel a small planet from the stuff he spews!
Fixed.
I forgot to mention, the date/time there is ofcourse the last time the feed was checked, so the feed can be a regular RSS or Atom feed generated with just the articles published or modified since then.
I don't think you need a list of links or even a separate file. An easier solution might be to just pass a format string in a separate link-tag on the html page announcing the feed. For example, right now we have: (taken straight form the linked article)
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="http://www.feedblog.org/atom.xml" /> />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.feedblog.org/index.rdf"
And we could introduce a new relationship type, say "recent-feed", with a strftime-like format string:
<link rel="recent-feed" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="http://www.feedblog.org/atom.xml?date=%Y-%m- %d&time=%H:%M:%S" />M :%S" title="RSS" href="http://www.feedblog.org/index.rdf" />
<link rel="recent-feed" type="application/rss+xml?date=%Y-%m-%d&time=%H:%
Ofcourse, that'd require the blog feed to be a dynamic page of some sort (PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, whatever..), but that shouldn't be a problem; I can't think of a single blog with a bandwidth problem that is using static pages.
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Especially the persistent developers. :)
All the alternatives were taken by search engines.
Am I the only one who actually likes the one-button mouse? I don't actually use it, but having to explain to my mom when she should use what button countless times gets slightly irritating after a while.
Speaking of Python, make that room for three.
(Perhaps even 4 with Zope, I guess)
The next version of Gator will be the first in the market to sport compatibility with all the new Internet Explorer 7 features, for even more desktop interoperability!
Will it run on Linux?
Some people wonder why anyone would use Azureus.
Either way, one of the goals of bittorrent was to make downloading as natural as possible to the user. You click a .torrent link, bittorrent reads the .torrent metafile and connects to the tracker and peers to start downloading. But to the user, it looks almost like a regular download dialog.
Opera goes one step further by integrating a bittorrent into the browser, eliminating the need for a client, and simply bringing bittorrent one step closer to being a regular download method. Or something like that.
Heck if I know anything about this, but I thought most providers were using VoIP internally these days, which would suggest no DECnet.
Huh? I thought ogg/vorbis was supposed to consume less CPU than, say, decoding MP3s?
Whoops... Synaptic = Symantec.
Guess which 'favourite OS' I meant there.
Even though I'm really all for the projects you mentioned, if I had any modpoints left, I'd mod you down.
He's managing systems across a WAN, it should be obvious that that's even less a solution than Synaptic suggested.
I do like to get one point across, though: all those virus scanners, malware removers, and lots of other Windows 'toys' have all this unnecessary cruft around them. They all have a different look and feel, or even a theming system people really don't care about when they use them. There's only a handful of applications I'd apply a theming system too; I even consider Winamp a questionable case.
This just seems like waste, the money invested in the programming and design for such an interface could probably have been spend on reaching the goals the application was actually made for, or fixing stupid bugs. You can have a friendly interface using Windows' native look. If the user wants eyecandy, get him to use WindowBlinds or something.
I hope I don't get to see any of this on my favourite OS anytime soon..