With all that bizarre off-topic ranting, and the coup de grace about starving children, I think you meant to submit that to Kuro5hin. This kind of politibabble is common there.
Case mods: a liberal myth
Case mods can be a good thing, and can look really cool if done right; however, many of these new "extreme" case mods are just a waste of parts that flaunts the money that these spoiled kids burn on trying to look cool to their friends, just like non-geeks do spending their money at Hot Topic or on Tommy Hilfiger.
You could never expect fragile computer parts to survive for more than a week inside a typewriter, a pumpkin, a cardboard box, etc -- it's only for show and has no practical purpose, and obviously the hundreds of dollars worth of computer parts is of no value to the spoiled kids who build these things. It's ironic that many of them are leftists -- one cheap $500 computer today that they throw into a pumpkin or a typewriter is more than what a third-worlder makes in an entire year.
"Casemodding" has gone too far, and all it shows is just putting easily-assembled PC parts in strange objects for fashion's sake.
People have hobbies. People like to talk about their hobbies and show off the resulting concoctions. People spend a portion of their income, or their parents' income, on unproductive tasks that please them. So what? Tell me one good reason this actually hurts humanity.
I wonder how Vint Cerf reconciles this action (removing all publically elected board positions) with his stated position that ICANN has been inaccurately charged with non-transparent process, lack of oversight and irresponsibly heavy big-business bias? Is ICANN still the good guy and Karl some deluded pest? Or is the risk of all whistleblowers risk just being dismissed along with him?
And how does this "cat hair entanglement" have anything to do with the difference between a software fan-nursing process and a hardware thermistor to vary fan speed according to heat? Hair would seize both, and the total absence of fan activity would have been your best diagnostic in either case.
How many software engineers does it take to screw in a thermistor?...
Why should the CPU or any other computing circuitry even be bothered with monitoring the fan? You don't need a software solution to this. Fan, thermistor, power. As the thermistor reacts to higher temperatures, it allows more power to drive the fan. No muss, no fuss, no "if the fanstepping process dies, run fans at highest speed" bullshit software.
Idea: Keep said 2-year-old away from said expensive monitor. Keep said 2-year-old away from other expensive, delicate, and/or dangerous objects as well.
(Is parenting a lost art? "No" a word from a dead language?)
Spoken like a true nonparent. Life is not easily segmented into "safe, cushy, cheap, expendable romper room" and "everything else."
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... and I agree with the basic premise. This is a great "new" look at the problem of stressing effectiveness over efficiency, especially in the design house. However, most career managers have little incentive to rock the good ship status quo, and the majority of business contexts are production-oriented, not design-oriented, so efficiency over effectiveness is the name of the game.
Slip it into your boss' carry-on luggage before a big trip. Maybe you'll luck out.
Actually, sheet music itself is a vigorously enforced area of Copyright. There are many ways to write the same essential tune, just like the Perl motto of There Is More Than One Way To Do It. Sheet music authors (and player piano roll creators before them) rabidly protect against their unauthorized reproduction.
Think of the sheet music as an image which represents the music. The older sheets may in fact be turned out to public domain by now, but anything printed since the 50s is just as locked up as Winnie the Pooh drawings and Elvis Presley recordings.
The OS is named whatever the OS-bundler wants to name it. Debian developers and RMS zealots may enjoy the name "GNU/Linux" but not everyone agrees. Those who want to call it GNU/Linux, fine, have fun but don't expect to change everyone else's perception.
To fully name a distribution by what makes it tick, the name should just as visibly represent XFree, Perl, Apache, and other non-GNU components which are key selling-points. A log cabin isn't called a log, mud, spackle, plaster, lead pipe, steel rod, ceramic tile cabin, and likewise many distributions focus on the one word which captures the typical buyer's attention.
Red Hat does not call their product GNU/Linux. They could decide to call it Swiss Cheese if they wanted. However, the word Linux has plenty of press attention and the product is built with much of the same ideals as the Linux kernel project: good technology to be put to use by anyone. So the name stuck. Red Hat Linux 8.0, for example.
2) Nevada, Arizona and British Columbia will all pass legislation legalizing marijuana, prompting Bush to name them as part of the "axis of evil" and authorize a retaliatory nuclear strike.
Nine years from now, the evil despots in the Nevadan desert will be found guilty of terrorist and inhumane actions such as smuggling drugs and drug money into and out of the region through poorly monitored borders, laundering billions of dollars through shady pseudo-financial institutions, degrading the lives of women through their regime of ritual costuming, and mocking global art icons like the pyramids, Eiffel tower, and Statue of Liberty. Americans are especially worried about Nevada's stockpiling of fissible materials in highly fortified underground bunkers.
Ten years from now, Congress will note that all of these situations, including the radioactive materials, were given to the Nevadans freely in past deals. Citizens and leftist cartoonists and pundits will wonder with great cynicism how we could have ignored those cases of propping up a new league of despotism.
Camcorders are much more sensitive to infrared light than the human eye... why not just mount some infrared strobes in the front of the theater, aimed out at the audience? The people won't notice it, but the camcorders would effectively be blinded.
That was my first thought too. Mount an infrared projector behind the screen writing various patterns and anti-piracy images. Sucks to bring home a video with "DAMN YE, PIRATE, ARRR!" written in huge letters all over the best scenes.
But the issue isn't the public recording in the public theaters, it's the employees and publicity hacks who set up a tripod in an empty theater, or better yet, rip it off the proofing screen in a projection room, or better yet, just rip the DVD press copy.
The movie industry's worst enemy is itself: it has inserted so many middlemen that it can't trust. Those middlemen have no fealty, they just want to make a buck. With every move to eliminate the middlemen, the middlemen find new ways of keeping involved.
This is a great aphorism, which truly sums up a lot of thoughts on the good and bad.
"The more the Internet becomes infrastructure for all parts of our complex, global society, the more we are likely to see all aspects of that society reflected in the Internet." --Vint Cerf
Many people seem to be of the opinion that the First Amendment (of the United States Constitution) grants people the right to anonymity. This is very much not the case. There are two separate concepts wrapped up in the term 'anonymity', and the courts have been able to keep these distinct: there is 'unsigned speech', and there is 'unaccountable speech'.
The First Amendment does not say that one has a right to speak anonymously. In fact, a person is often put into a situation where their identity is compelled, especially if they are related to a case where a felony has been committed. One can publish without choosing to sign the publication, but if a publication can otherwise be lawfully tracked to its writer, then that evidence is quite admissible and it is no longer anonymous.
The right to privacy is used somewhat interchangeably with anonymity, but that is not proven in the reading of our Constitution. The right to privacy comes from the Fourth amendment, which guarantees a security within their persons, houses, papers and effects.
There is also the right to remain silent, written into the Fifth Amendment, which protects against a situation where someone is compelled to supply information about themselves or their conduct. Metaphorically, this can be read as an extension of the Fourth Amendment into someone's thoughts: "a brain cannot be seized and searched, one is secure within their own mind."
Lastly, there is a right to face one's accuser; the Sixth Amendment speficially grants the accused all manners of due process. In such a situation, there is no right to anonymity: a witness must divulge their identity to make a credible accusation. The US has a program that tries to secure high-profile testimony without endangering the witness, by helping the witness "disappear" with a new identity, but only after that explicit testimony is rendered.
A person is always to be held accountable for their own actions in a United States court of law; there is no right to being free from accountability.
It can't play ogg unless transcoded on the pc server. It's a hardware mp3 decoder. The pc server doesn't send waveform to the terminal, it sends mp3 chunks to the terminal to be decoded.
I really like the SliMP3, a simple mp3-decoding terminal. One perl server on any machine in your LAN can serve multiple SliMP3s, either in concert or independently. Any machine in the LAN can command or browse the server, or the standard remote control can command or browse through the unit.
I didn't go back to the xmms site, I just used the Red Hat xmms RPMs which were included in the final beta called (null). These are xmms-1.2.7-14.mp3 and xmms-skins-1.2.7-14.mp3. I figure I don't need a lot of updates to a basic file player, and I prefer Red Hat authored RPMs for a Red Hat system.
Yanking MP3 support is unfortunate but not worth crying about. If you like MP3s, you probably can handle the hunt for the appropriate files to get your fix. I only use MP3s because so few hardware solutions support OGG or other formats yet. I'd love it if my SliMP3 supported OGG too, but for now it does a great job of making a household jukebox. If I adopt a similar OGG solution, I'll just re-rip the CDs.
Paraphrasing Isaac Asimov, "--force is the last refuge of the incompetent."
If you are trying to install something and you find you need to use (rpm -i --force foo.rpm), you're sure to screw something up, or something's already been screwed up.
If you build a brick wall, each row of bricks depends on all of the bricks below being installed orderly. RPM and other dependency systems attempt to manage those bricks so you don't have mixed files, duplicates, holes or half-packages below the applications you want to use. Ignoring the errors or circumventing the checks for errors... well, some of us remember Humpty Dumpty.
The best of the artists I've met love to tweak the tools, whether it's a new pencil, brush, table, welding iron, or computer. That's how new techniques are developed, how inspirations become expressions.
Who said, "The reasonable person adapts to his environment. The unreasonable person tries to make their environment adapt to themselves. Thus, all progress is made by unreasonable people."
It's interesting to consider that the Pathfinder mission cost less than a "medium sized Hollywood movie" project, but is that really a valuable measure?
I remember the same sort of comparison made about the first Jurassic Park movie, where more money went into that one movie than in all dinosaur archaeology spending... ever.
But what does that tell us? Scientists are more thrifty than Hollywood? Hollywood is the definition of excess... "larger than life" has been its motto since day one. Or maybe that the market for movies is wider than the market for scientific progress? Well, science is funded by government and philanthropy, while movie-making is funded by Joe Sixpack and his family of teenagers who frankly don't give a shit about science, except for the D- that Becky Sixpack got last semester.
Why not find suitable comparisons between opposites. To recycle an old joke, Progress versus Congress? How much money went into the last election cycle? How much money went into purchasing the DMCA which further entrenches the Hollywood regime?
Will the Gulf War II cost more money than Rambo II or Superman II or Star Wars Episode 2? Will the special effects (either in terms of the decisively televised explosions or the new cinematic masterpieces unfolding in the election-year stump speeches)?
If the AC is still reading, I'm using gkrellm in those shots. A newer one made especially for gnome2/gtk2 is in the works, I hear, but the Null beta contains the gtk1 version.
No, I agree that plug and play is and should be an important part of getting new users to adopt Linux at home. The kudzu facility is a start on that approach.
But it won't breed adoption into governmental use, which was your claim. Government users and managers should follow IT best practices, or else they're wasting taxpayer dollars. Every time Senator Frobnitz' speechwriter adds an iPod to a Linux box, it (1) risks that the computer doesn't function because that combination is unproven, and (2) risks that various laws are being broken because that combination hasn't been authorized.
Not really. Plug and Play is disruptive and undermines solid IT best practices in large pools of centrally-managed desktop boxes. The users shouldn't need to install new devices unless the user's specific task is to install new devices. Let the IT folks install devices in a consistent and managed way. Don't let the users screw up their desktop by adding their not-work-related devices without help or oversight by the IT folks.
Braille is useful to the few people who have learned it. I know some blind computer users who use braille.
Braille is NOT useful to the huge numbers of people who have not learned it. This includes those with limited vision, those who have limited sense of touch also, and those who became sight-impaired late enough in life that learning Braille is not a viable option.
I wrote a nice utility for Windows called Dragnifier. It's donate-ware. It is a taskbar applet that can be attached to any hotkey, and will show a magnifying glass that moves with the mouse. It magnifies whatever is below the lens as the user drags the mouse. Quick, convenient, natural to the user. Easier than a lot of other magnification options out there, from the letters I get. I wrote it because I like to see pixels when doing detailed artwork. I was flooded with positive response from the limited-sight communities. There's a lot of senior users out there who don't see very well.
I'd love to make Dragnifier for X Windows and Gtk2. As I learn more of the X API, I'm sure I'll develop it.
Audible monitors (text-to-speech) need to be integrated into the standard application toolkits in such a way as to have almost zero burden on application authors.
Tactile and audible mice are still being developed and experiments show there are some cool things to be done with them.
Lack of eyesight doesn't equate to lack of visualization. To limit the blind solely to Braille and Speech is to isolate them from the rest of the society which advances into new visualization methods every year. Think creatively about "visualizing" existing applications in new ways.
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With all that bizarre off-topic ranting, and the coup de grace about starving children, I think you meant to submit that to Kuro5hin. This kind of politibabble is common there.
Case mods can be a good thing, and can look really cool if done right; however, many of these new "extreme" case mods are just a waste of parts that flaunts the money that these spoiled kids burn on trying to look cool to their friends, just like non-geeks do spending their money at Hot Topic or on Tommy Hilfiger.
You could never expect fragile computer parts to survive for more than a week inside a typewriter, a pumpkin, a cardboard box, etc -- it's only for show and has no practical purpose, and obviously the hundreds of dollars worth of computer parts is of no value to the spoiled kids who build these things. It's ironic that many of them are leftists -- one cheap $500 computer today that they throw into a pumpkin or a typewriter is more than what a third-worlder makes in an entire year.
"Casemodding" has gone too far, and all it shows is just putting easily-assembled PC parts in strange objects for fashion's sake.
People have hobbies. People like to talk about their hobbies and show off the resulting concoctions. People spend a portion of their income, or their parents' income, on unproductive tasks that please them. So what? Tell me one good reason this actually hurts humanity.
I wonder how Vint Cerf reconciles this action (removing all publically elected board positions) with his stated position that ICANN has been inaccurately charged with non-transparent process, lack of oversight and irresponsibly heavy big-business bias? Is ICANN still the good guy and Karl some deluded pest? Or is the risk of all whistleblowers risk just being dismissed along with him?
And how does this "cat hair entanglement" have anything to do with the difference between a software fan-nursing process and a hardware thermistor to vary fan speed according to heat? Hair would seize both, and the total absence of fan activity would have been your best diagnostic in either case.
How many software engineers does it take to screw in a thermistor? ...
Why should the CPU or any other computing circuitry even be bothered with monitoring the fan? You don't need a software solution to this. Fan, thermistor, power. As the thermistor reacts to higher temperatures, it allows more power to drive the fan. No muss, no fuss, no "if the fanstepping process dies, run fans at highest speed" bullshit software.
A well-known filk song in certain circles. Home on Lagrange by Bill Higgins and Barry Gehm in or around 1978.
Idea: Keep said 2-year-old away from said expensive monitor. Keep said 2-year-old away from other expensive, delicate, and/or dangerous objects as well.
(Is parenting a lost art? "No" a word from a dead language?)
Spoken like a true nonparent. Life is not easily segmented into "safe, cushy, cheap, expendable romper room" and "everything else."
... and I agree with the basic premise. This is a great "new" look at the problem of stressing effectiveness over efficiency, especially in the design house. However, most career managers have little incentive to rock the good ship status quo, and the majority of business contexts are production-oriented, not design-oriented, so efficiency over effectiveness is the name of the game.
Slip it into your boss' carry-on luggage before a big trip. Maybe you'll luck out.
Actually, sheet music itself is a vigorously enforced area of Copyright. There are many ways to write the same essential tune, just like the Perl motto of There Is More Than One Way To Do It. Sheet music authors (and player piano roll creators before them) rabidly protect against their unauthorized reproduction.
Think of the sheet music as an image which represents the music. The older sheets may in fact be turned out to public domain by now, but anything printed since the 50s is just as locked up as Winnie the Pooh drawings and Elvis Presley recordings.
The kernel is named Linux.
The OS is named whatever the OS-bundler wants to name it. Debian developers and RMS zealots may enjoy the name "GNU/Linux" but not everyone agrees. Those who want to call it GNU/Linux, fine, have fun but don't expect to change everyone else's perception.
To fully name a distribution by what makes it tick, the name should just as visibly represent XFree, Perl, Apache, and other non-GNU components which are key selling-points. A log cabin isn't called a log, mud, spackle, plaster, lead pipe, steel rod, ceramic tile cabin, and likewise many distributions focus on the one word which captures the typical buyer's attention.
Red Hat does not call their product GNU/Linux. They could decide to call it Swiss Cheese if they wanted. However, the word Linux has plenty of press attention and the product is built with much of the same ideals as the Linux kernel project: good technology to be put to use by anyone. So the name stuck. Red Hat Linux 8.0, for example.
2) Nevada, Arizona and British Columbia will all pass legislation legalizing marijuana, prompting Bush to name them as part of the "axis of evil" and authorize a retaliatory nuclear strike.
Nine years from now, the evil despots in the Nevadan desert will be found guilty of terrorist and inhumane actions such as smuggling drugs and drug money into and out of the region through poorly monitored borders, laundering billions of dollars through shady pseudo-financial institutions, degrading the lives of women through their regime of ritual costuming, and mocking global art icons like the pyramids, Eiffel tower, and Statue of Liberty. Americans are especially worried about Nevada's stockpiling of fissible materials in highly fortified underground bunkers.
Ten years from now, Congress will note that all of these situations, including the radioactive materials, were given to the Nevadans freely in past deals. Citizens and leftist cartoonists and pundits will wonder with great cynicism how we could have ignored those cases of propping up a new league of despotism.
Camcorders are much more sensitive to infrared light than the human eye... why not just mount some infrared strobes in the front of the theater, aimed out at the audience? The people won't notice it, but the camcorders would effectively be blinded.
That was my first thought too. Mount an infrared projector behind the screen writing various patterns and anti-piracy images. Sucks to bring home a video with "DAMN YE, PIRATE, ARRR!" written in huge letters all over the best scenes.
But the issue isn't the public recording in the public theaters, it's the employees and publicity hacks who set up a tripod in an empty theater, or better yet, rip it off the proofing screen in a projection room, or better yet, just rip the DVD press copy.
The movie industry's worst enemy is itself: it has inserted so many middlemen that it can't trust. Those middlemen have no fealty, they just want to make a buck. With every move to eliminate the middlemen, the middlemen find new ways of keeping involved.
This is a great aphorism, which truly sums up a lot of thoughts on the good and bad.
Thanks, Dr. Cerf.
Many people seem to be of the opinion that the First Amendment (of the United States Constitution) grants people the right to anonymity. This is very much not the case. There are two separate concepts wrapped up in the term 'anonymity', and the courts have been able to keep these distinct: there is 'unsigned speech', and there is 'unaccountable speech'.
The First Amendment does not say that one has a right to speak anonymously. In fact, a person is often put into a situation where their identity is compelled, especially if they are related to a case where a felony has been committed. One can publish without choosing to sign the publication, but if a publication can otherwise be lawfully tracked to its writer, then that evidence is quite admissible and it is no longer anonymous.
The right to privacy is used somewhat interchangeably with anonymity, but that is not proven in the reading of our Constitution. The right to privacy comes from the Fourth amendment, which guarantees a security within their persons, houses, papers and effects.
There is also the right to remain silent, written into the Fifth Amendment, which protects against a situation where someone is compelled to supply information about themselves or their conduct. Metaphorically, this can be read as an extension of the Fourth Amendment into someone's thoughts: "a brain cannot be seized and searched, one is secure within their own mind."
Lastly, there is a right to face one's accuser; the Sixth Amendment speficially grants the accused all manners of due process. In such a situation, there is no right to anonymity: a witness must divulge their identity to make a credible accusation. The US has a program that tries to secure high-profile testimony without endangering the witness, by helping the witness "disappear" with a new identity, but only after that explicit testimony is rendered.
A person is always to be held accountable for their own actions in a United States court of law; there is no right to being free from accountability.
It can't play ogg unless transcoded on the pc server. It's a hardware mp3 decoder. The pc server doesn't send waveform to the terminal, it sends mp3 chunks to the terminal to be decoded.
I really like the SliMP3, a simple mp3-decoding terminal. One perl server on any machine in your LAN can serve multiple SliMP3s, either in concert or independently. Any machine in the LAN can command or browse the server, or the standard remote control can command or browse through the unit.
But... they don't do OGG. Hopefully someday.
I didn't go back to the xmms site, I just used the Red Hat xmms RPMs which were included in the final beta called (null). These are xmms-1.2.7-14.mp3 and xmms-skins-1.2.7-14.mp3. I figure I don't need a lot of updates to a basic file player, and I prefer Red Hat authored RPMs for a Red Hat system.
Yanking MP3 support is unfortunate but not worth crying about. If you like MP3s, you probably can handle the hunt for the appropriate files to get your fix. I only use MP3s because so few hardware solutions support OGG or other formats yet. I'd love it if my SliMP3 supported OGG too, but for now it does a great job of making a household jukebox. If I adopt a similar OGG solution, I'll just re-rip the CDs.
Paraphrasing Isaac Asimov, "--force is the last refuge of the incompetent."
If you are trying to install something and you find you need to use (rpm -i --force foo.rpm), you're sure to screw something up, or something's already been screwed up.
If you build a brick wall, each row of bricks depends on all of the bricks below being installed orderly. RPM and other dependency systems attempt to manage those bricks so you don't have mixed files, duplicates, holes or half-packages below the applications you want to use. Ignoring the errors or circumventing the checks for errors... well, some of us remember Humpty Dumpty.
The best of the artists I've met love to tweak the tools, whether it's a new pencil, brush, table, welding iron, or computer. That's how new techniques are developed, how inspirations become expressions.
Who said, "The reasonable person adapts to his environment. The unreasonable person tries to make their environment adapt to themselves. Thus, all progress is made by unreasonable people."
There've been thumb-reading mice for a while now. google: thumb biometric mouse This isn't news, it's another slashvertisement.
Yawn.
It's interesting to consider that the Pathfinder mission cost less than a "medium sized Hollywood movie" project, but is that really a valuable measure?
I remember the same sort of comparison made about the first Jurassic Park movie, where more money went into that one movie than in all dinosaur archaeology spending... ever.
But what does that tell us? Scientists are more thrifty than Hollywood? Hollywood is the definition of excess... "larger than life" has been its motto since day one. Or maybe that the market for movies is wider than the market for scientific progress? Well, science is funded by government and philanthropy, while movie-making is funded by Joe Sixpack and his family of teenagers who frankly don't give a shit about science, except for the D- that Becky Sixpack got last semester.
Why not find suitable comparisons between opposites. To recycle an old joke, Progress versus Congress? How much money went into the last election cycle? How much money went into purchasing the DMCA which further entrenches the Hollywood regime?
Will the Gulf War II cost more money than Rambo II or Superman II or Star Wars Episode 2? Will the special effects (either in terms of the decisively televised explosions or the new cinematic masterpieces unfolding in the election-year stump speeches)?
If the AC is still reading, I'm using gkrellm in those shots. A newer one made especially for gnome2/gtk2 is in the works, I hear, but the Null beta contains the gtk1 version.
No, I agree that plug and play is and should be an important part of getting new users to adopt Linux at home. The kudzu facility is a start on that approach.
But it won't breed adoption into governmental use, which was your claim. Government users and managers should follow IT best practices, or else they're wasting taxpayer dollars. Every time Senator Frobnitz' speechwriter adds an iPod to a Linux box, it (1) risks that the computer doesn't function because that combination is unproven, and (2) risks that various laws are being broken because that combination hasn't been authorized.
Not really. Plug and Play is disruptive and undermines solid IT best practices in large pools of centrally-managed desktop boxes. The users shouldn't need to install new devices unless the user's specific task is to install new devices. Let the IT folks install devices in a consistent and managed way. Don't let the users screw up their desktop by adding their not-work-related devices without help or oversight by the IT folks.
Braille is useful to the few people who have learned it. I know some blind computer users who use braille.
Braille is NOT useful to the huge numbers of people who have not learned it. This includes those with limited vision, those who have limited sense of touch also, and those who became sight-impaired late enough in life that learning Braille is not a viable option.
I wrote a nice utility for Windows called Dragnifier. It's donate-ware. It is a taskbar applet that can be attached to any hotkey, and will show a magnifying glass that moves with the mouse. It magnifies whatever is below the lens as the user drags the mouse. Quick, convenient, natural to the user. Easier than a lot of other magnification options out there, from the letters I get. I wrote it because I like to see pixels when doing detailed artwork. I was flooded with positive response from the limited-sight communities. There's a lot of senior users out there who don't see very well.
I'd love to make Dragnifier for X Windows and Gtk2. As I learn more of the X API, I'm sure I'll develop it.
Audible monitors (text-to-speech) need to be integrated into the standard application toolkits in such a way as to have almost zero burden on application authors.
Tactile and audible mice are still being developed and experiments show there are some cool things to be done with them.
Lack of eyesight doesn't equate to lack of visualization. To limit the blind solely to Braille and Speech is to isolate them from the rest of the society which advances into new visualization methods every year. Think creatively about "visualizing" existing applications in new ways.
More screenshots from my desk:
I've done customization of terminal window settings and wallpapers, but the rest of the stuff you see is all Red Hat Linux (null) Bluecurve on GNOME2.