I find it interesting that in the application categories, GNOME/GTK+ apps won out (Mozilla (yes, it's GTK+ remember), Evolution, Gaim, GIMP, even XMMS (still! GStreamer/Rhythmbox has a long way to come yet)), while the favorite desktop was KDE...
Do a lot of people run KDE, yet mostly use GTK+/GNOME apps then?
Papaya really is an excellent client (and I don't just say that cos I'm involved with it - it works the other way round...), with all sorts of features you might find useful, such as using web cache servers, so you can avoid firewalls at work, and connection keep-alive facilities, so you can leave yourself on all night to improve your connect times (gawd, I'm sad...)
It has a plugin infrastructure, and comes with a large set of base plugins, and a test plugin to aid third party plugin writers is also available, the base plugins include support for the MudFTP protocol, and the Turf protocol.
And it's available for Linux (pre-built for SuSE, or source), FreeBSD (it's in ports, although apparently that version's quite old), and for Windows.
Any plugin for Ximian required that one gives the code to Ximian, lock stock and everything.
<MASH>Horse Hockey!</MASH>
Evolution is Free, you can download the source, and hack on it for free.
That means you can write a plugin for it FOR FREE, indeed often on the Evolution mailing lists when a function is requested that Ximian do not have planned for the core software, the answer is write it yourself.
It's freeware, which is different to being Free, I never said it violates GTK or GNOME licenses, but the simple fact is it ain't properly free, a fact that people have a right to know.
Ummm, it is June 9th 2003, I'm not looking for source code to non-free programs, but source to the GPL Evolution would be nice when the binaries are available...
I expect it's just an oversight, but as yet there are no source tarballs on either ftp.ximian.com or ftp.gnome.org (well, my local f.g.o mirror, can't get to the real thing at the mo...)
I think after I dread to think how many years playing MUDs, I know how much time the consume if you let them. The key with MUDs is not that you can carry on playing them for ever, and as MUDs like Asylum keep adding more and more great quests, this becomes more true, it's the fact that they can become real communities. It's slightly off-topic, but in a western society, where communities no longer really function on a geographical basis, most people don't know the people who live on their street, or in their building, MUDs are one area where actual "real" contact can happen, albeit in cyberspace.
I've recently got into FPS games as a distraction from MUDs as a result of the Linux version of Unreal Tournie 2003, does anyone know if there's a Linux version of HL2 planned (or rumoured)?
When Siege was first added to Asylum MUD, the sheer fear it induced when playing it was incredible. Far beyond anything I've ever experienced from a graphical game. Even today, 5 years or so later, running Siege gets the heart racing, sweat running, mouth drying...
The second DVD contains the sources, the first mirrors the binary contents of the 5 CDs. It's controversial, but complies with the GPL (they are distributing the sources along with the binaries).
The number of people without DVD drives is dwindling too...
Try cooking a meal yourself, nothing says "I love you" like a home-cooked meal. I know my wife would much rather have a lasagne cooked by me just the way she likes it than go out to a restaurant.
Then afterwards, we might go and run Siege on Asylum MUD together.
I sispect a large part of why a lot of people report that their primary PC runs Windows is that their primary PC (ie the one they use most) is at work, and at work they have to adhere to the company's IT policy.
Normally this involves not installing your own software on your PC, of course this extends to installing a different OS, so unless you work at a Linux house anyway, the liklihood is you'll have to run Windows at work.
I noticed that this modification by M$ also disables the fan on the nVidia graphics card in the XBox.
Now, I'm not sure which card it is, but most modern nVidia cards run pretty hot, and need cooling, so either, these cards are going to have to be underclocked, and so hit performance, or they're going to start overheating, and the machines crashing.
Won't that be unusual, Windows 'powered' machines dieing because of a hardware failure...
I've been using the beta versions of 8.1 for a bit, and I was sceptical about this new version of YaST's package tools. SuSE have dropped the Slackware-derived package series', and opted for grouping. This concerned me, as I've become very used to the series system since I started using SuSE (6.3).
However, when I actually used the new tool (gosh, soneone basing a judgement on using it? Whatever next...?) I found it really easy to use, more importantly, I was able to select the packages I wanted to install extremely quickly, and then go and make a coffee while it got on with installing them. Anything to reduces the time before I go get a coffee is a good thing!
One great thing is you can finally turn off automatic dependency checking. Sometimes you just want to force an install of something that you know full well clashes with something else, previous versions of YaST wouldn't let you do this, but now you can ust turn off the dependency checking and away you go. So, if you wanted to do that, you could leave that package till the last one to select, so everything else has it's dependencies verified, turn off the checking, add your 'extra' package, and away you go.
I've not tried it's YOU functionality, yet, I tend to use Fou4S anyway, so I'm afraid I can't comment on that.
Oh yes, the ncurses version of YaST generally (not just the package tool) is vastly improved,it's a lot faster to use, no more tabbing between sections and remembering which key to hit with ALT, it moves around the interface with the cursor keys:)
True, but I think the point of this Grand Unified Server is that you would get a single login to authenticate yourself against the calendar, IMAP and LDAP servers, at the moment with Evolution, you have to authenticate seperately for each.
It may not sounds like a big deal ot us, but to normal Joe User, they don't need the hassle, a connector-style plugin would overcome this issue.
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YOu might want to have a look here, here and here!
Actually, it's XUL.
Oh please, it's GTK+!
You can build it with GTK+ 1.2 or 2.x.
It uses native GTK+ widgets for scrollbars, buttons, etc...
It can be embedded within other GTK+ applications (Galeon, Epiphany...)
If it looks, acts and smells like it...
It's GTK+!
I find it interesting that in the application categories, GNOME/GTK+ apps won out (Mozilla (yes, it's GTK+ remember), Evolution, Gaim, GIMP, even XMMS (still! GStreamer/Rhythmbox has a long way to come yet)), while the favorite desktop was KDE...
Do a lot of people run KDE, yet mostly use GTK+/GNOME apps then?
The Siege quest is possibly the pinnacle of multi-player questing.
From it's welcome screen, it's features include:
Original Asylum Features
Fluid Immortality 'Defrob' System - April '95
Object Donations - May '95
QDone Dynamic Quest Status - April '95
Body Combat System - August '95
Quest Statistics - September '95
Spell Object Attribute System - May '95
Configuration / Login Menu - June '96
Dreams - July '96
Auto Regeneration (NoResets) - January '97
Bounty Kill System - January '97
Siege Quest - August '97
Dynamic Quest Awards - September '97
Mobile Classification Combat System - January '98
Virtual Cloning System - January '99
Characteristics - May '99
Lucre - January '00
Lodging - November '00
Bands - '00 - '02
Papaya really is an excellent client (and I don't just say that cos I'm involved with it - it works the other way round...), with all sorts of features you might find useful, such as using web cache servers, so you can avoid firewalls at work, and connection keep-alive facilities, so you can leave yourself on all night to improve your connect times (gawd, I'm sad...)
It has a plugin infrastructure, and comes with a large set of base plugins, and a test plugin to aid third party plugin writers is also available, the base plugins include support for the MudFTP protocol, and the Turf protocol.
And it's available for Linux (pre-built for SuSE, or source), FreeBSD (it's in ports, although apparently that version's quite old), and for Windows.
So, check it out!
Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Windows -> Select windows when mouse moves over them
Looking at the GNOME Office components, really old versions of both AbiWord and Gnumeric, and Agnubis, which is to all intents and purposes defunct.
Any plugin for Ximian required that one gives the code to Ximian, lock stock and everything.
<MASH>Horse Hockey!</MASH>
Evolution is Free, you can download the source, and hack on it for free.
That means you can write a plugin for it FOR FREE, indeed often on the Evolution mailing lists when a function is requested that Ximian do not have planned for the core software, the answer is write it yourself.
It's freeware, which is different to being Free, I never said it violates GTK or GNOME licenses, but the simple fact is it ain't properly free, a fact that people have a right to know.
Thing is Atlantis is non-free, unlike Galeon or Epiphany...
Ummm, it is June 9th 2003, I'm not looking for source code to non-free programs, but source to the GPL Evolution would be nice when the binaries are available...
I expect it's just an oversight, but as yet there are no source tarballs on either ftp.ximian.com or ftp.gnome.org (well, my local f.g.o mirror, can't get to the real thing at the mo...)
I think after I dread to think how many years playing MUDs, I know how much time the consume if you let them. The key with MUDs is not that you can carry on playing them for ever, and as MUDs like Asylum keep adding more and more great quests, this becomes more true, it's the fact that they can become real communities. It's slightly off-topic, but in a western society, where communities no longer really function on a geographical basis, most people don't know the people who live on their street, or in their building, MUDs are one area where actual "real" contact can happen, albeit in cyberspace.
I've recently got into FPS games as a distraction from MUDs as a result of the Linux version of Unreal Tournie 2003, does anyone know if there's a Linux version of HL2 planned (or rumoured)?
When Siege was first added to Asylum MUD, the sheer fear it induced when playing it was incredible. Far beyond anything I've ever experienced from a graphical game. Even today, 5 years or so later, running Siege gets the heart racing, sweat running, mouth drying...
I encourage my users and boss to call me God.
If they don't, I smite them with a false shell.
The second DVD contains the sources, the first mirrors the binary contents of the 5 CDs. It's controversial, but complies with the GPL (they are distributing the sources along with the binaries).
The number of people without DVD drives is dwindling too...
Try cooking a meal yourself, nothing says "I love you" like a home-cooked meal. I know my wife would much rather have a lasagne cooked by me just the way she likes it than go out to a restaurant.
Then afterwards, we might go and run Siege on Asylum MUD together.
Why... ....LCARS of course!
I sispect a large part of why a lot of people report that their primary PC runs Windows is that their primary PC (ie the one they use most) is at work, and at work they have to adhere to the company's IT policy.
Normally this involves not installing your own software on your PC, of course this extends to installing a different OS, so unless you work at a Linux house anyway, the liklihood is you'll have to run Windows at work.
Since Mozilla is a mixture of Mosaic and Godzilla
Actually, Mozilla is short for Mosaic Killer, the beast came later to fit the name.
I noticed that this modification by M$ also disables the fan on the nVidia graphics card in the XBox.
Now, I'm not sure which card it is, but most modern nVidia cards run pretty hot, and need cooling, so either, these cards are going to have to be underclocked, and so hit performance, or they're going to start overheating, and the machines crashing.
Won't that be unusual, Windows 'powered' machines dieing because of a hardware failure...
I've been using the beta versions of 8.1 for a bit, and I was sceptical about this new version of YaST's package tools. SuSE have dropped the Slackware-derived package series', and opted for grouping. This concerned me, as I've become very used to the series system since I started using SuSE (6.3).
,it's a lot faster to use, no more tabbing between sections and remembering which key to hit with ALT, it moves around the interface with the cursor keys :)
However, when I actually used the new tool (gosh, soneone basing a judgement on using it? Whatever next...?) I found it really easy to use, more importantly, I was able to select the packages I wanted to install extremely quickly, and then go and make a coffee while it got on with installing them. Anything to reduces the time before I go get a coffee is a good thing!
One great thing is you can finally turn off automatic dependency checking. Sometimes you just want to force an install of something that you know full well clashes with something else, previous versions of YaST wouldn't let you do this, but now you can ust turn off the dependency checking and away you go. So, if you wanted to do that, you could leave that package till the last one to select, so everything else has it's dependencies verified, turn off the checking, add your 'extra' package, and away you go.
I've not tried it's YOU functionality, yet, I tend to use Fou4S anyway, so I'm afraid I can't comment on that.
Oh yes, the ncurses version of YaST generally (not just the package tool) is vastly improved
True, but I think the point of this Grand Unified Server is that you would get a single login to authenticate yourself against the calendar, IMAP and LDAP servers, at the moment with Evolution, you have to authenticate seperately for each.
It may not sounds like a big deal ot us, but to normal Joe User, they don't need the hassle, a connector-style plugin would overcome this issue.
A stated aim of this (in the email) is that it will work in a heterogeneous environment.
So, do any GNOME hackers fancy writing a Connector-style plugin for Evolution to talk to Kolab?
Shouldn't be any reason it can't be done as far as I can see...