Yeah, there is a larger chance of dieing in a auto accident rather than in a terror attack. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to prevent attacks, though. Just not at the expense of liberty.
While amaroK rocks (it's the first of it's kind that got me to switch from xmms/beep-media-player), I'd highly recommend Exaile. It's very similar and incorporates much of the functionality, but it's designed for Gnome. It fits in much better with the desktop. I've been using it for a few months now and have been very satisfied. They provide many packages for different distributions as well.
If you're using Gnome, give it a try. If you using KDE, stick with amaroK.
I live in Florida and voted for Nader in 2000. If I did not vote for him, I would have voted for Harry Browne (Libertarian candidate for 2000). In 2004 I voted for David Cobb. Gore was very unappealing, as was Kerry. Please, Democrats, stop claiming everyone who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore.
If I'm talking to someone of the phone, I have a difficult time telling someone to do something simple like "ipconfig/renew". Even doing a "ivan peter charlie onion night frank ivan gun -space- forward slash reno ewok night ewok war -enter-" the person I talk to still types it wrong. Working through a clicking through the control panel ends up being far easier.
If you think menus are bad in IE7, you should try WMP11 (under vista, at least). With as much as they ripped of OS X in, they could of at least copied the way it does menus. So much more sane...
If the Firefox team and Opera and Apple and Konquerer, and everyone else I tried can manage to write to the spec... why can't MS with all their resources?
For the same reason that OpenDocument isn't a part of Office 2007. There isn't a benefit for them to do so. Why support an open standard when you can continue to lock someone into your products?
Wine isn't a "virtual environment", it's an alternative implementation. They could pull an Apple, though, and make the EULA say it can only be used under "genuine" Windows.
Still, the EULA isn't going to stop anyone. Just like the w32codecs packages break several EULAs.
If you're the kind of user that maximizes all the windows, I can see how GIMP would be irritating. However, I usually have a few dozen windows scattered across 4 virtual desktops. In my "web designer" desktop, I usually have GIMP and Firefox open. Bluefish, CSSed, and Firefox are open in a second desktop. The GIMP ui is extremely helpful, as I can drag the main window off to the right of the screen, have the layers window to the right, have Firefox in the center back, and a canvas in the center. I can work on a graphic and see the page in the background. Everything is clearly in view. In apps that try to make their own poor imitation of a desktop (ie, Windows Photoshop (the Mac version rocks in terms of a UI and GIMP is similar to it)) I would either have to either run a second head, alt-tab constantly, or control-alt-arrow (switch virtual desktops) constantly.
Please, before complaining about GIMP's UI give Photoshop on OS X a try. Or even the OS X version of Microsoft Office (toolbars float on the desktop, which is very nice).
You live somewhere that has Walmarts that actually close? Where are you? Here (Florida) there's about five Walmarts within 35 miles and they're all 24/7.
The newer versions of Winamp suck, but at least it still sucks less than the alternatives. However, when I use Windows I usually use iTunes.
XMMS is pretty much deprecated. I mean, it still uses GTK1. If you want something XMMS/Winamp like, give Beep Media Player or Audacious a try. Both of those support XMMS and Winamp skins, have a good amount of plugins, and are modern.
Personally, though, I think the current best two are amaroK (KDE) and Exaile (Gnome).
It actually was possible to remove the cap. You just had to get a special bottle opener. The downside, though, was that contact with air caused to beer to turn blue and a special ingredient in the beer would turn into cyanide.
At least Apple uses open standards now, though. MPEG4 for video, AAC for audio. You only get the DRM if you make the mistake of purchasing something through their store. WMA and WMV are closed and have to be reverse engineered to get compatibility on other platforms.
Correct. Gnome has made significant progress in creating an easy to use desktop. Pre-2.12 I could not tolerate using it more than a few days (I was a KDE user since early '99). 2.12 is what made me consider switching from KDE. 2.14 convinced me to do it. With 2.16, I now have no desire to use KDE at all. I've even dropped the few KDE apps I used for Gnome ones (amaroK->Exaile, Quanta->Bluefish+CSSED, K3B->GnomeBaker, etc) I'll give 4 a try, but it will have to be really good to get me to switch back.
well I use KDE
So did I, but IMHO, Gnome has finally surpassed it.
they will cut the distro down to 2-3 Major distros (and one really customizable desktop).
Isn't that pretty much what's happening? Who are the majors? Red Hat? Gnome. SUSE? A choice, but every screen shot I see anymore use Gnome. Ubuntu's getting popular and it's also Gnome.
Under Gnome, click on "Places" and then on "Connect to server". A dialog will now open. Set the service type to "Windows Share" and fill in the "server", "share", and "user name" fields. If there is a domain, fill in the "domain" field too. Hit "connect". You now have an icon on both the desktop and in the Places menu named after the folder. Click on it. It will ask you for a password and it will give you the option to save it in your keyring (it's encrypted, btw). All Gnome applications (including OpenOffice) will show it on the left of file dialogs. It will be there whenever you start the computer.
KDE provides similar functionality, but it's not as easy to find. The tool to set it up do it is in one of the menus but every distro seems to try to hide it. Here is documentation on how to use it.
No editing text files. No plain text passwords. No root privileges required.
The only valid recourse for anybody who doesn't like the bugs is to either fix them, write a better browser altogether, or switch browsers, but good luck finding a better browser.
Have you heard of VMware? VMWare Server is free and works much like VMWare Workstation. I use it on my development box and have a few Windows images for testing. It works great, as long as you have RAM (1g+) and a real processor (no cripple-ons). No more rebooting. Plus the snapshot feature is great for testing things out.
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Yeah, there is a larger chance of dieing in a auto accident rather than in a terror attack. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to prevent attacks, though. Just not at the expense of liberty.
While amaroK rocks (it's the first of it's kind that got me to switch from xmms/beep-media-player), I'd highly recommend Exaile. It's very similar and incorporates much of the functionality, but it's designed for Gnome. It fits in much better with the desktop. I've been using it for a few months now and have been very satisfied. They provide many packages for different distributions as well.
If you're using Gnome, give it a try. If you using KDE, stick with amaroK.
Then go to Canada and cross the border.
I live in Florida and voted for Nader in 2000. If I did not vote for him, I would have voted for Harry Browne (Libertarian candidate for 2000). In 2004 I voted for David Cobb. Gore was very unappealing, as was Kerry. Please, Democrats, stop claiming everyone who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore.
If I'm talking to someone of the phone, I have a difficult time telling someone to do something simple like "ipconfig /renew". Even doing a "ivan peter charlie onion night frank ivan gun -space- forward slash reno ewok night ewok war -enter-" the person I talk to still types it wrong. Working through a clicking through the control panel ends up being far easier.
If you think menus are bad in IE7, you should try WMP11 (under vista, at least). With as much as they ripped of OS X in, they could of at least copied the way it does menus. So much more sane...
For the same reason that OpenDocument isn't a part of Office 2007. There isn't a benefit for them to do so. Why support an open standard when you can continue to lock someone into your products?
Wine isn't a "virtual environment", it's an alternative implementation. They could pull an Apple, though, and make the EULA say it can only be used under "genuine" Windows.
Still, the EULA isn't going to stop anyone. Just like the w32codecs packages break several EULAs.
If you're the kind of user that maximizes all the windows, I can see how GIMP would be irritating. However, I usually have a few dozen windows scattered across 4 virtual desktops. In my "web designer" desktop, I usually have GIMP and Firefox open. Bluefish, CSSed, and Firefox are open in a second desktop. The GIMP ui is extremely helpful, as I can drag the main window off to the right of the screen, have the layers window to the right, have Firefox in the center back, and a canvas in the center. I can work on a graphic and see the page in the background. Everything is clearly in view. In apps that try to make their own poor imitation of a desktop (ie, Windows Photoshop (the Mac version rocks in terms of a UI and GIMP is similar to it)) I would either have to either run a second head, alt-tab constantly, or control-alt-arrow (switch virtual desktops) constantly.
Please, before complaining about GIMP's UI give Photoshop on OS X a try. Or even the OS X version of Microsoft Office (toolbars float on the desktop, which is very nice).
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At least that's what the WHOIS record says. It's also buried in different places around the site.
You live somewhere that has Walmarts that actually close? Where are you? Here (Florida) there's about five Walmarts within 35 miles and they're all 24/7.
The newer versions of Winamp suck, but at least it still sucks less than the alternatives. However, when I use Windows I usually use iTunes.
XMMS is pretty much deprecated. I mean, it still uses GTK1 . If you want something XMMS/Winamp like, give Beep Media Player or Audacious a try. Both of those support XMMS and Winamp skins, have a good amount of plugins, and are modern.
Personally, though, I think the current best two are amaroK (KDE) and Exaile (Gnome).
Personally, I like my interfaces to be fairly consistent. This is my current choice.
It actually was possible to remove the cap. You just had to get a special bottle opener. The downside, though, was that contact with air caused to beer to turn blue and a special ingredient in the beer would turn into cyanide.
At least Apple uses open standards now, though. MPEG4 for video, AAC for audio. You only get the DRM if you make the mistake of purchasing something through their store. WMA and WMV are closed and have to be reverse engineered to get compatibility on other platforms.
There is an excellent IDE for PHP. It's called PHP Eclipse, which is a plug in for Eclipse.
Agreed. This always annoys me when using Firefox on Linux or OS X. It only looks native under Windows.
Is there any chance of getting native-looking controls in forms? Even as of 2.0 forms under Linux still have the Windows 98-ish look to them.
Correct. Gnome has made significant progress in creating an easy to use desktop. Pre-2.12 I could not tolerate using it more than a few days (I was a KDE user since early '99). 2.12 is what made me consider switching from KDE. 2.14 convinced me to do it. With 2.16, I now have no desire to use KDE at all. I've even dropped the few KDE apps I used for Gnome ones (amaroK->Exaile, Quanta->Bluefish+CSSED, K3B->GnomeBaker, etc) I'll give 4 a try, but it will have to be really good to get me to switch back.
So did I, but IMHO, Gnome has finally surpassed it.
Isn't that pretty much what's happening? Who are the majors? Red Hat? Gnome. SUSE? A choice, but every screen shot I see anymore use Gnome. Ubuntu's getting popular and it's also Gnome.
Under Gnome, click on "Places" and then on "Connect to server". A dialog will now open. Set the service type to "Windows Share" and fill in the "server", "share", and "user name" fields. If there is a domain, fill in the "domain" field too. Hit "connect". You now have an icon on both the desktop and in the Places menu named after the folder. Click on it. It will ask you for a password and it will give you the option to save it in your keyring (it's encrypted, btw). All Gnome applications (including OpenOffice) will show it on the left of file dialogs. It will be there whenever you start the computer.
KDE provides similar functionality, but it's not as easy to find. The tool to set it up do it is in one of the menus but every distro seems to try to hide it. Here is documentation on how to use it.
No editing text files. No plain text passwords. No root privileges required.
Thanks for the nomination.
No luck is required.
What happened on November 9th 2001?
Have you heard of VMware? VMWare Server is free and works much like VMWare Workstation. I use it on my development box and have a few Windows images for testing. It works great, as long as you have RAM (1g+) and a real processor (no cripple-ons). No more rebooting. Plus the snapshot feature is great for testing things out.
No, but you'll be able to get 0wn3d during the install...