there are certainly times that something should appear in the foreground - and might even require focus.
Wrong, no matter what happens, you should never _take_ the focus. You can remove it from the current recipient and have it beep for each key pressed, but you cannot take it for yourself.
Have you seen the Skype client for Linux? (at least the version from ~1 year ago) Besides the voice functions, it does include an instant messenger that you can't disable. And, it will steal your keyboard focus every time. In other words, every time a message pops up, your interlocutor will get a half of the command you were typing at the moment, unless you type slow enough to stop that Enter key in time.
2: overbrand it against the original (ie the Y! logo on each page...)
This alone is a significant blow. And I don't mean the name "Yahoo", I mean "Yahoo!" -- having an exclamation mark as a part of a name is both awful and it confuses people a lot.
Even the header of this very/. story appears mangled. "Yahoo! Buys del.icio.us" -- it's two sentences, right?
When Quake4 came out, my bro (an avid Quake player at one point) happened to visit me on that day. Contrary to my personal rules, he persuaded me to install Flash just to take a look at the webpage (http://quake4game.com).
I admit, they put some good work in the graphical design. I hate pseudo-industrial graphics, but if you follow, that theme, everything is fitting.
But, that's just the looks. If you try to even think about usability, you'll find that: 1. the page takes more than a minute to load on a 640kbit connection 2. there is no way to click a link without going through the animations 3. you can't have subpages load in other tabs when you're reading one -- you need to actually wait to have everything load in the foreground 4. bookmarking? Hah! 5. to access subpages, you need to click "back", wait for the animations, click the topic in question, and watch the anims again. Why can't I keep the main page in the original tab? 6. what if I use a text browser or a PDA?
Hint: you don't need Flash to be installed in the first place. When I ask people what they would want Flash for, they hardly mention anything than Homestar Runner, a silly page stuffed with bad jokes. The only thing that was actually appealing to me there was 'Peasant Quest' (a parody of ancient Sierra games). Now, that was the best Flash-using site. Tell me again, if that's the best, why would anyone care about things worse than that?
Beh... I don't know for you, but that pile of FUD was the last straw that made me and a friend shell out some cash to EFF, even though we're europeans. We have a rule about never, absolutely never, donating to any kinds of charities -- but if you count the costs you're going to suffer in your lifetime, a dollar sent to EFF spares you more than a dollar in the long run.
Someone has to fight the bastards, and you choose the guys with the best record so far.
Would you want to bet that if such a thing would be even considered in Congress/Sejm/Parliament/Duma/etc, the first act you'd see would be making electronic government-certified odometers mandatory; with each one costing $250+?
It's just like the case with cash registers. We even have a law in Poland that says you're not allowed to access your fiscal cash register by network -- each computer that's capable of printing invoices has to have its separate register attached directly. Guess who lobbied for this.
This is only the case if there is no reward for trolling.
If the article is linked to from Slashdot, the editor-to-visitor ratio will drop significantly, and the number of views will encourage asshats to deface the article.
If, on the other hand, the number of eyeballs is high and steady as opposed to an one-time surge, good-willed people will have enough time to catch any vandalism before significant damage is done (damage defined as number of views of the defacement-- exactly the same thing that measures the troll's success).
Or, more likely, the person who did "reformat" it just reinstalled the OS without actually formatting anything. Most of people who work in tech support don't know the difference.
That's because you're using a worker process belonging to the old sshd.
The main process just sits there listening for connections, and it forks off a process for every login -- that process in turn will spawn your login shell. If you try 'pstree', you may get:
+-sshd[1]-+-sshd[2]---sshd[3]---bash[4]---pstree[5 ]
|.........+-sshd[6]---sshd[7]---bash[8]---bash[9]
sshd[1] is the ssh daemon you start or restart. Killing it has no effect on killing its children. It's the one which calls listen(). sshd[2,6] are the worker processes, they hold connections and do encryption. sshd[3,7] are just helpers which handle spawning pseudo-terminals bash[4,8] are login shells. pstree[5] is the command which gave us the tree of processes. bash[9] is one that replaced the 'su' process.
After "/etc/init.d/ssh restart", we get:
+-sshd[2]---sshd[3]---bash[4]---pstree[5]
+-sshd[6]---sshd[7]---bash[8]---bash[9]
+-sshd[10]
As you see, sshd[2,6] got their parent killed and got re-parented to init itself. sshd[10] is the new daemon.
Well... but considering the amount of attacks on ICANN, arguing about this issue now is a waste of flames^H^H^H^H^H^Hwisdom which can be used to troll^H^H^H^H^Hconduct a discussion elsewhere.
the gravity of Mars is to weak to sustain such an atmosphere, which will leak off over time
Yeah, it will leak of over the time, it will take only several million years for it to leak! Of course, no one stops us from terraforming it again by then.
Well... I've used to have an account on my friend's server, i.pl -- and it was really, really sweet. It was helluva easier to get to than any search engine can even attempt.
Instead of using a separate service, and using several words, you can have four characters. Why would you want more? Heck... even typing in the IP is a lot faster than doing that search for "me microwave" you mentioned.
This is Microsoft ACTIVELY accepting and PROMOTING an Open Source licensing model.
No, this is Microsoft making a sacrifice to stop the OpenDocument, which would have a good chance of ruining all of Microsoft's revenue from office products, and even worse (for them), break an important pillar of their TC campaign.
Do we really want this mess to become our standards ?
No, we don't.
As the time flies, I'm getting more and more convinced that OSI is actually harming our cause. While RMS sometimes has bad ideas as well (GFDL, GPLv3), Free Software is the way to do. Not the collestion of look-but-not-touch-and-we-reserve-all-rights-to-su e-you licenses endored by OSI and friends.
There are so many fakes because the RIAA has been happily hiring companies to pollute the search results for certain terms.
Actually, I doubt the fakes can be much worse than the originals. Call me a troll, but blocking access to Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue's songs is a step towards improving the quality of music.
In fact, the user interface differs so much that a photoshop user has a very hard time using Gimp -- and someone used to the Gimp finds Photoshop cumbersome.
Or, the local power plant does what it's expected to do. As you're not going to have enough UPS power to last for more than few hours, your server is not going to be up for that long. Even if you invested heavily in heavy-duty power supply, your ISP will go down as well so that investment is usually pointless.
In civilised countries, an uptime of 3 years may be doable with standard UPSes, but certainly not in Poland and the likes.
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his scheme is absolutely secure, fast, robust, inexpensive and maintenance-free
Haven't we heard this before?
Generally, if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is neither good nor true.
if somebody is in that situation i don't think they will give a crap how well the machine can run Doom
Actually, on a machine of that class Doom will run just fine. It started being playable on a mid-end 486, and this $100 box is a lot better than that.
there are certainly times that something should appear in the foreground - and might even require focus.
Wrong, no matter what happens, you should never _take_ the focus. You can remove it from the current recipient and have it beep for each key pressed, but you cannot take it for yourself.
Have you seen the Skype client for Linux? (at least the version from ~1 year ago)
Besides the voice functions, it does include an instant messenger that you can't disable. And, it will steal your keyboard focus every time. In other words, every time a message pops up, your interlocutor will get a half of the command you were typing at the moment, unless you type slow enough to stop that Enter key in time.
2: overbrand it against the original (ie the Y! logo on each page...)
/. story appears mangled. "Yahoo! Buys del.icio.us" -- it's two sentences, right?
This alone is a significant blow. And I don't mean the name "Yahoo", I mean "Yahoo!" -- having an exclamation mark as a part of a name is both awful and it confuses people a lot.
Even the header of this very
When Quake4 came out, my bro (an avid Quake player at one point) happened to visit me on that day. Contrary to my personal rules, he persuaded me to install Flash just to take a look at the webpage (http://quake4game.com).
I admit, they put some good work in the graphical design. I hate pseudo-industrial graphics, but if you follow, that theme, everything is fitting.
But, that's just the looks. If you try to even think about usability, you'll find that:
1. the page takes more than a minute to load on a 640kbit connection
2. there is no way to click a link without going through the animations
3. you can't have subpages load in other tabs when you're reading one -- you need to actually wait to have everything load in the foreground
4. bookmarking? Hah!
5. to access subpages, you need to click "back", wait for the animations, click the topic in question, and watch the anims again. Why can't I keep the main page in the original tab?
6. what if I use a text browser or a PDA?
Why would you even bother with flashblock?
Hint: you don't need Flash to be installed in the first place.
When I ask people what they would want Flash for, they hardly mention anything than Homestar Runner, a silly page stuffed with bad jokes. The only thing that was actually appealing to me there was 'Peasant Quest' (a parody of ancient Sierra games).
Now, that was the best Flash-using site. Tell me again, if that's the best, why would anyone care about things worse than that?
You're assuming that their priority is to get the most sales.
Their priority is to persuade everyone that there is no way to have one's songs sold without using the labels' service.
Beh... I don't know for you, but that pile of FUD was the last straw that made me and a friend shell out some cash to EFF, even though we're europeans. We have a rule about never, absolutely never, donating to any kinds of charities -- but if you count the costs you're going to suffer in your lifetime, a dollar sent to EFF spares you more than a dollar in the long run.
Someone has to fight the bastards, and you choose the guys with the best record so far.
Odometers can be run back a bit if you want.
Would you want to bet that if such a thing would be even considered in Congress/Sejm/Parliament/Duma/etc, the first act you'd see would be making electronic government-certified odometers mandatory; with each one costing $250+?
It's just like the case with cash registers. We even have a law in Poland that says you're not allowed to access your fiscal cash register by network -- each computer that's capable of printing invoices has to have its separate register attached directly. Guess who lobbied for this.
This is only the case if there is no reward for trolling.
If the article is linked to from Slashdot, the editor-to-visitor ratio will drop significantly, and the number of views will encourage asshats to deface the article.
If, on the other hand, the number of eyeballs is high and steady as opposed to an one-time surge, good-willed people will have enough time to catch any vandalism before significant damage is done (damage defined as number of views of the defacement-- exactly the same thing that measures the troll's success).
Or, more likely, the person who did "reformat" it just reinstalled the OS without actually formatting anything. Most of people who work in tech support don't know the difference.
In ten years or so, we'll see movies where the bad guy runs away with a breathtaking speed of 50kph, causing a grave hazard to everyone nearby.
That's because you're using a worker process belonging to the old sshd.
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The main process just sits there listening for connections, and it forks off a process for every login -- that process in turn will spawn your login shell. If you try 'pstree', you may get:
+-sshd[1]-+-sshd[2]---sshd[3]---bash[4]---pstree[
|.........+-sshd[6]---sshd[7]---bash[8]---bash[9]
sshd[1] is the ssh daemon you start or restart. Killing it has no effect on killing its children. It's the one which calls listen().
sshd[2,6] are the worker processes, they hold connections and do encryption.
sshd[3,7] are just helpers which handle spawning pseudo-terminals
bash[4,8] are login shells.
pstree[5] is the command which gave us the tree of processes.
bash[9] is one that replaced the 'su' process.
After "/etc/init.d/ssh restart", we get:
+-sshd[2]---sshd[3]---bash[4]---pstree[5]
+-sshd[6]---sshd[7]---bash[8]---bash[9]
+-sshd[10]
As you see, sshd[2,6] got their parent killed and got re-parented to init itself. sshd[10] is the new daemon.
Well... but considering the amount of attacks on ICANN, arguing about this issue now is a waste of flames^H^H^H^H^H^Hwisdom which can be used to troll^H^H^H^H^Hconduct a discussion elsewhere.
the gravity of Mars is to weak to sustain such an atmosphere, which will leak off over time
Yeah, it will leak of over the time, it will take only several million years for it to leak! Of course, no one stops us from terraforming it again by then.
Well... I've used to have an account on my friend's server, i.pl -- and it was really, really sweet. It was helluva easier to get to than any search engine can even attempt.
Instead of using a separate service, and using several words, you can have four characters. Why would you want more? Heck... even typing in the IP is a lot faster than doing that search for "me microwave" you mentioned.
What's that sound?
"award-winning" "the most complete, stable and integrated"
To me, it sounds like a marketroid has somehow snuck in.
Right... but somehow, I'm afraid of hippies shouting "make bzImage not war".
Here.
This is Microsoft ACTIVELY accepting and PROMOTING an Open Source licensing model.
No, this is Microsoft making a sacrifice to stop the OpenDocument, which would have a good chance of ruining all of Microsoft's revenue from office products, and even worse (for them), break an important pillar of their TC campaign.
Do we really want this mess to become our standards ?
u e-you licenses endored by OSI and friends.
No, we don't.
As the time flies, I'm getting more and more convinced that OSI is actually harming our cause. While RMS sometimes has bad ideas as well (GFDL, GPLv3), Free Software is the way to do. Not the collestion of look-but-not-touch-and-we-reserve-all-rights-to-s
There are so many fakes because the RIAA has been happily hiring companies to pollute the search results for certain terms.
Actually, I doubt the fakes can be much worse than the originals. Call me a troll, but blocking access to Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue's songs is a step towards improving the quality of music.
I did, before the gallery got removed because of slashdotting. Oh, wait... you were insulting my ingenious masterpiece, too! You bastard!
(I don't claim I can produce any usable graphics -- but considering that my thing is among two best submissions at the moment, you're really right.)
In fact, the user interface differs so much that a photoshop user has a very hard time using Gimp -- and someone used to the Gimp finds Photoshop cumbersome.
Or, the local power plant does what it's expected to do. As you're not going to have enough UPS power to last for more than few hours, your server is not going to be up for that long. Even if you invested heavily in heavy-duty power supply, your ISP will go down as well so that investment is usually pointless.
In civilised countries, an uptime of 3 years may be doable with standard UPSes, but certainly not in Poland and the likes.