I personally find xorg.conf easier to configure. However, it is being replaced by HAL.
Frankly, I don't need to be able to connect remotely to my xorg server, and most people don't need to either
So you want to remove the server from the server? I wonder how much code you would lose by telling X to ignore the network. Personally, I use this functionality all the time. However, if you only have a single computer that you never need to access remotely, at least at the GUI level, I can see the desire to remove the feature.
Xorg should auto-failback to a VGA/VESA mode like Windows.
Xorg needs to step into the 21st century when it comes to multi-monitors and multi-GPUs
I admit that I haven't used X in a multi-GPU setup. However, xrandr seems to work fine with multiple monitors. I use KDE's KRandRTray all the time with dual-monitor setups, projectors, and televisions.
A real basic X windowing environment would benefit most users
That's why I wont install kde; it wont let me choose what I want or don't want.
Someone complaining about a lack of options in KDE? I think this is the first I've seen this in the Gnome/KDE argument.
As for your complaint, it must be distribution dependent. Gentoo allows me to completely pick-and-choose which KDE applications are installed. I can even install everything except kwin (window manager) if I choose.
Gnome, under Gentoo, doesn't allow me that flexibility. If I want to install glchess, I also have to install several unrelated games that I don't want.
Reading the bit you quoted, I'd say that Mr Reynolds has only recently discovered that Outlook isn't a Web browser. The next step is the realization that you don't have to open the message as soon as it arrives.
I especially liked:
which tracks people's travel, to find out if they are away before he contacts them, and status alerts from instant messenger or Twitter to help him decide if now is a good time to interrupt them
My IM client is almost always set to busy. However, if you need to contact me, please send me an e-mail and I will respond as soon as I am able.
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No worries. I'm sure someone will simply send a message back in time to prevent disaster. Unfortunately, the act of sending the message will destroy that reality and everyone in it.
Not only is k9copy brain-dead easy to use, it makes it easy to customize your copy.
Whole-disk copy is a single button click. You can also pick-and-choose titles, languages, and subtitles. It then automatically modifies the original menus, lets you create your own, or sets the main title to auto-play.
I've never found a more simple to use / powerful DVD copier.
It is the myth of amateur sport the modern (but not ancient) Olymics are built around.... Yet the atheletes themselves can't earn a single dollar for themselves, they are indentured servants of the US Olympic committee.
Um, they changed that rule a long time ago.
The first Olympics to officially accept professional athletes was 1988 in selected sports and 1992 in the remainder.
Traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players. The "Dream Team" won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
If the IOC was truly the custodian of the spirit of peaceful international competition, it would not have awarded the games to China until its human rights record was much improved.
While my personal opinion of the IOC is quite low (They are nothing more than a combination of WWF-style profitable sports organisation and Hello-Kitty-style trademark without a product), I do think that China hosting the Olympics was a good thing.
First, the Olympics should be an avenue for athletes to compete without politicians and political ideals getting in the way. The Olympics should primarily be about the athletes, not the politics of the host country.
Second, as a side effect of hosting a popular international event, the culture, and thus the politics, of the host country are showcased to the world. This is a good thing. If the country has problems, suddenly everyone is talking about them. If there are issues with the country, everyone is debating them. In China's case, the country stops being that place over in Asia with cheap labour and bad government. Instead, it becomes China, with real problems and real people, and tried solutions that the world plainly sees now despite China wanting to keep their mistakes and problems hidden. Personally, I've learned a great deal about China since the Olympics were awarded, and so have a lot of other people.
Did this to my sister's Barbie. Electrical tape, drinking straw, launch pad, and Barbie.
Taped the motor to Barbie's back, cut the straw to a half an inch, taped the straw between Barbie's back and the motor and set her on the launch pad. The straw was for the launch rod.
She made it up about 25' and started spinning, head over heals.
Look - in many cities "evading the fare" is as simple as getting on the bus and choosing not to pay. These systems depend on users for the most part obeying an honor system with periodic random enforcement by transit personnel checking for passes / ticket validation. This is done across Europe and in a number of cities in Canada (not sure about the USA).
The Trax system in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA also uses this honour system. It seems to work well for them.
I've started seeing devices that connect to the OBD-II Diagnostic connector. They combine GPS with cell phone technology to keep track of speeding, hard braking, etc. They are being marketed to parents of teens. If the teen is driving poorly, the unit phones home. It also provides the location of the car.
Personally, I'd just like to reconfigure the car a bit to get rid of that annoying Ding-Ding that goes off if your keys are in the ignition with the doors open. I have electric locks, it would be much nicer if the car just prevented the doors from locking if the keys are inside. It would also be nice if I could turn the headlights off without applying the parking brake. I tend to come home late and the neighbors don't appreciate lights in their windows.
Thinking of the OBD-II Diagnostic connector, something more meaningful than the Check Engine Light would also be nice.
I was thinking the same thing. Using WmWiFi, I can see the link (signal) strength (as a percentage), current rate/speed in megabits, noise (in dBm), level (in dBm), and the actual link amount.
Perhaps the author simply needs better software? WmWiFi is available from: wmwifi.digitalssg.net
We don't have any space elevators yet, but even if we had several, ran them at full capacity, and had somewhere to send people once they got to the top, we still wouldn't dent the population growth rate, let alone the population.... Colonies in space...don't do anything about overpopulation down here.
Down here? Who cares about Down here? I'm ridding Up to get away from Down here.
Talk to the Customer Service department of any on-line retailer. Almost all customers want their packages yesterday. All too often, I've heard about the customer ordering their party dress on Wednesday for the party on Friday. You'd be surprised at how many customers pay for expedited shipping.
As for shipping via ships, I suppose it depends on the source and destination. However, most of that kind of shipping isn't going to end customers. It's going to assembly plants and resellers.
It is like saying I if you don't shoplift then you loose because you need to pay for the product, and if you do shop lift then you get it for free, so it is better to shop lift.
Not quite like shoplifting. If it was a matter of free vs. paying for a product, I'd agree. However, with DRM, it is a question of being able to use a product you paid for.
I remember back when the phone company wanted to charge people business rates if they owned a modem. It didn't matter that the modem wasn't being used for business purposes. Very few individuals paid the business rate for phone service. Not just to be able to talk to their friends via modem. Most simply didn't report owning a modem.
I see DRM the same way. I have no problem paying for media. However, I'm not going to pay for restricted media. Luckily, media companies are starting to offer DRM-free media. Just like the phone company eventually gave up on requiring a business line for personal modem use.
engages in the business of obtaining or furnishing... the identity, habits, business, occupation, knowledge, efficiency, loyalty, movement, location, affiliations, associations, transactions, acts, reputation, or character of a person
So, the next kid who attempts to use Social Engineering to gain access to some girl's nude pictures will be required to have a PI license? I know this isn't the purpose of this law. However, I can definitely see this being tacked on to a list of charges.
Why does email need all of the insecurity that comes with including a HTML rendering engine in the bloody mail client? I have enough trouble with virus and spam emails. I don't need the further risk to my health with the client actually being vulnerable to all that shit!
I'm curious. How does HTML e-mail spread virus and spam? Are you confusing HTML and Javascript? Are you talking about loading external images? That's easy to filter out. Are you talking about including links? Links only do something if you click on them. In addition, links can be attached to text-only messages.
And the 'standard' way to do that (and is supported by Gmail at least) is:
*bold*/italics/ _underline_... No, because HTML email uses a lot more bandwidth, doesn't render the same in any two places, etc.
And your ASCII art e-mails take up less bandwidth and render better than HTML?
I do send both, as I realize there are people that rely on older technologies that can't render anything other than ASCII. However, I have never heard a good argument against HTML e-mail.
This was one of the reasons I dropped Comcast. The other major reason was the draconian terms of use concerning Server software. I switched to QWest. It didn't help much with NNTP, no cap, no content. Binaries are almost guaranteed to be broken. However, QWest doesn't care what software I run on my computer.
I think I must be the only person in the world who often daydreams (when I have the time and inclination to daydream) that I've gone back in time and taken some piece of modern computer equipment to shock and amaze people from the early days of computing.
Not a chance. My favorite daydream, along these lines, is to load the atari800 emulator on my Eee PC and take that back to about 1985. I was big into Atari back then. It was always fun to get together with friends and talk about some strange new prototype someone had seen from Atari. Imagine what they would have made of such a tiny, portable, Atari. It would even have a full 80 character display!
I do not know Ari Jaaksi's open source background. However, in reading through his blog, it sounds like he just discovered it this year. I particularly found this quote, from May 28th, revealing:
I've always liked Ubuntu but was kinda ashamed of using it. It's brown, it doesn't have an apple on it, and it doesn't come with Internet Messenger.... First, I bought a new smart card reader. I connected it with the laptop (!) running Ubuntu, pushed in an SD card - and it just worked! Ubuntu - laptop - smart card reader. Plug-n-play.
Clearly, this is a quote from someone who has not been using Linux on the desktop for long. Card readers and IM have worked well on the Linux desktop for years.
As to the article, Ari says, in his blog, that the article writer "emphasized things his way". I've dealt a bit with "Journalists". It's easy to believe that the writer spun Ari's words a bit. Especially if Ari doesn't have much experience.
Ari ends his latest post with " I'm not a teacher, I'm a learner." I wonder what he learned from Slashdot today.:)
Most of the roads in my area have a speed limit set at 45 MPH. I'd argue that most roads are not designed for vehicles that can travel 15-25 miles/hr. On the other hand, most bikes can easily handle 5 to 10 MPH. That is perfect for sidewalks.
Who do I have to blow to get plain text mail made the default?
Most of the world. In business e-mail, I see colored text used a lot to denote inline comments. Personal e-mail, on the other hand, tends to make use of inline pictures.
The argument against HTML is fairly weak. Loading inline images from an external site could verify that you received the email, and the IP address it was received at. The solution to that is to block external images. E-mail programs that support HTML also support pictures as attachments.
Certain e-mail programs can't render HTML. Luckily, most HTML capable e-mail programs allow you to set defaults based on the recipient.
Phishing isn't an argument. It's a social engineering technique used to trick people into providing user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal information. You don't need fancy graphics, or HTML, to trick people.
any time we are prepared to value life over profit. Humans have valued profit over life since prehistory. It's how we evolved. "Do I hide in the safe cave and eat worms or go out in the dangerous world and eat other predators?" It takes an evolutionary event to change that. My personal hope is that we get over short-term gains. That we start looking at long-term gains.
...destroying my car... Are you aware of how much CO2 that would produce?
We can even swear off of technology and live like primitives How would forcing 6 billion people to cook over open fires and poop in their neighbors water supply help the environment?
airline industry should REALLY consider using their enormous profits to evolve into massive rail projects Now, there is an idea I like. I'd love to be able to take the train to visit friends in Wyoming. Unfortunately, there is no passenger train service in most of Wyoming. I think the same can be said of most western states.
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xorg.conf needs to go away
I personally find xorg.conf easier to configure. However, it is being replaced by HAL.
Frankly, I don't need to be able to connect remotely to my xorg server, and most people don't need to either
So you want to remove the server from the server? I wonder how much code you would lose by telling X to ignore the network. Personally, I use this functionality all the time. However, if you only have a single computer that you never need to access remotely, at least at the GUI level, I can see the desire to remove the feature.
Xorg should auto-failback to a VGA/VESA mode like Windows.
I found this approach interesting: http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/Sep-2007/msg00180.html If X fails on the first server layout, have it fall back to the second.
Xorg needs to step into the 21st century when it comes to multi-monitors and multi-GPUs
I admit that I haven't used X in a multi-GPU setup. However, xrandr seems to work fine with multiple monitors. I use KDE's KRandRTray all the time with dual-monitor setups, projectors, and televisions.
A real basic X windowing environment would benefit most users
Have you considered KDrive or XDirectFB?
That's why I wont install kde; it wont let me choose what I want or don't want.
Someone complaining about a lack of options in KDE? I think this is the first I've seen this in the Gnome/KDE argument.
As for your complaint, it must be distribution dependent. Gentoo allows me to completely pick-and-choose which KDE applications are installed. I can even install everything except kwin (window manager) if I choose.
Gnome, under Gentoo, doesn't allow me that flexibility. If I want to install glchess, I also have to install several unrelated games that I don't want.
Reading the bit you quoted, I'd say that Mr Reynolds has only recently discovered that Outlook isn't a Web browser. The next step is the realization that you don't have to open the message as soon as it arrives.
I especially liked:
which tracks people's travel, to find out if they are away before he contacts them, and status alerts from instant messenger or Twitter to help him decide if now is a good time to interrupt them
My IM client is almost always set to busy. However, if you need to contact me, please send me an e-mail and I will respond as soon as I am able.
No worries. I'm sure someone will simply send a message back in time to prevent disaster. Unfortunately, the act of sending the message will destroy that reality and everyone in it.
Not only is k9copy brain-dead easy to use, it makes it easy to customize your copy.
Whole-disk copy is a single button click. You can also pick-and-choose titles, languages, and subtitles. It then automatically modifies the original menus, lets you create your own, or sets the main title to auto-play.
I've never found a more simple to use / powerful DVD copier.
It is the myth of amateur sport the modern (but not ancient) Olymics are built around. ... Yet the atheletes themselves can't earn a single dollar for themselves, they are indentured servants of the US Olympic committee.
Um, they changed that rule a long time ago.
The first Olympics to officially accept professional athletes was 1988 in selected sports and 1992 in the remainder.
Professional sports Olympic Games
Traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players. The "Dream Team" won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
United States men's national basketball team
If the IOC was truly the custodian of the spirit of peaceful international competition, it would not have awarded the games to China until its human rights record was much improved.
While my personal opinion of the IOC is quite low (They are nothing more than a combination of WWF-style profitable sports organisation and Hello-Kitty-style trademark without a product), I do think that China hosting the Olympics was a good thing.
First, the Olympics should be an avenue for athletes to compete without politicians and political ideals getting in the way. The Olympics should primarily be about the athletes, not the politics of the host country.
Second, as a side effect of hosting a popular international event, the culture, and thus the politics, of the host country are showcased to the world. This is a good thing. If the country has problems, suddenly everyone is talking about them. If there are issues with the country, everyone is debating them. In China's case, the country stops being that place over in Asia with cheap labour and bad government. Instead, it becomes China, with real problems and real people, and tried solutions that the world plainly sees now despite China wanting to keep their mistakes and problems hidden. Personally, I've learned a great deal about China since the Olympics were awarded, and so have a lot of other people.
Did this to my sister's Barbie. Electrical tape, drinking straw, launch pad, and Barbie.
Taped the motor to Barbie's back, cut the straw to a half an inch, taped the straw between Barbie's back and the motor and set her on the launch pad. The straw was for the launch rod.
She made it up about 25' and started spinning, head over heals.
Great fun! My sister wasn't happy.
Look - in many cities "evading the fare" is as simple as getting on the bus and choosing not to pay. These systems depend on users for the most part obeying an honor system with periodic random enforcement by transit personnel checking for passes / ticket validation. This is done across Europe and in a number of cities in Canada (not sure about the USA).
The Trax system in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA also uses this honour system. It seems to work well for them.
Jus' picture someone trying to reply to a flamewar... in rush hour...
In my experience, rush hour means parking on the freeway for three hours. So, not so hard to picture.
Rush hour, an oxymoron if ever there was one.
I've started seeing devices that connect to the OBD-II Diagnostic connector. They combine GPS with cell phone technology to keep track of speeding, hard braking, etc. They are being marketed to parents of teens. If the teen is driving poorly, the unit phones home. It also provides the location of the car.
Personally, I'd just like to reconfigure the car a bit to get rid of that annoying Ding-Ding that goes off if your keys are in the ignition with the doors open. I have electric locks, it would be much nicer if the car just prevented the doors from locking if the keys are inside. It would also be nice if I could turn the headlights off without applying the parking brake. I tend to come home late and the neighbors don't appreciate lights in their windows.
Thinking of the OBD-II Diagnostic connector, something more meaningful than the Check Engine Light would also be nice.
I was thinking the same thing. Using WmWiFi, I can see the link (signal) strength (as a percentage), current rate/speed in megabits, noise (in dBm), level (in dBm), and the actual link amount.
Perhaps the author simply needs better software? WmWiFi is available from: wmwifi.digitalssg.net
We don't have any space elevators yet, but even if we had several, ran them at full capacity, and had somewhere to send people once they got to the top, we still wouldn't dent the population growth rate, let alone the population. ... Colonies in space...don't do anything about overpopulation down here.
Down here? Who cares about Down here? I'm ridding Up to get away from Down here.
Talk to the Customer Service department of any on-line retailer. Almost all customers want their packages yesterday. All too often, I've heard about the customer ordering their party dress on Wednesday for the party on Friday. You'd be surprised at how many customers pay for expedited shipping.
As for shipping via ships, I suppose it depends on the source and destination. However, most of that kind of shipping isn't going to end customers. It's going to assembly plants and resellers.
It is like saying I if you don't shoplift then you loose because you need to pay for the product, and if you do shop lift then you get it for free, so it is better to shop lift.
Not quite like shoplifting. If it was a matter of free vs. paying for a product, I'd agree. However, with DRM, it is a question of being able to use a product you paid for.
I remember back when the phone company wanted to charge people business rates if they owned a modem. It didn't matter that the modem wasn't being used for business purposes. Very few individuals paid the business rate for phone service. Not just to be able to talk to their friends via modem. Most simply didn't report owning a modem.
I see DRM the same way. I have no problem paying for media. However, I'm not going to pay for restricted media. Luckily, media companies are starting to offer DRM-free media. Just like the phone company eventually gave up on requiring a business line for personal modem use.
It was slow. It was clunky. The interface was pretty disappointing.
You must have gotten it to work better than me. I gave up when the download page said it requires Windows Vista/XP.
It seems to be a half-baked beta indeed.
You give it too much credit. I'd call it an Alpha release until they add multi-platform support.
engages in the business of obtaining or furnishing ... the identity, habits, business, occupation, knowledge, efficiency, loyalty, movement, location, affiliations, associations, transactions, acts, reputation, or character of a person
So, the next kid who attempts to use Social Engineering to gain access to some girl's nude pictures will be required to have a PI license? I know this isn't the purpose of this law. However, I can definitely see this being tacked on to a list of charges.
Yep. Next up, the fire age. Hope you like it warm.
I'm curious. How does HTML e-mail spread virus and spam? Are you confusing HTML and Javascript? Are you talking about loading external images? That's easy to filter out. Are you talking about including links? Links only do something if you click on them. In addition, links can be attached to text-only messages.
And the 'standard' way to do that (and is supported by Gmail at least) is: *bold*And your ASCII art e-mails take up less bandwidth and render better than HTML?
I do send both, as I realize there are people that rely on older technologies that can't render anything other than ASCII. However, I have never heard a good argument against HTML e-mail.
This was one of the reasons I dropped Comcast. The other major reason was the draconian terms of use concerning Server software. I switched to QWest. It didn't help much with NNTP, no cap, no content. Binaries are almost guaranteed to be broken. However, QWest doesn't care what software I run on my computer.
Not a chance. My favorite daydream, along these lines, is to load the atari800 emulator on my Eee PC and take that back to about 1985. I was big into Atari back then. It was always fun to get together with friends and talk about some strange new prototype someone had seen from Atari. Imagine what they would have made of such a tiny, portable, Atari. It would even have a full 80 character display!
It's fun to dream sometimes...
I do not know Ari Jaaksi's open source background. However, in reading through his blog, it sounds like he just discovered it this year. I particularly found this quote, from May 28th, revealing:
I've always liked Ubuntu but was kinda ashamed of using it. It's brown, it doesn't have an apple on it, and it doesn't come with Internet Messenger.Clearly, this is a quote from someone who has not been using Linux on the desktop for long. Card readers and IM have worked well on the Linux desktop for years.
As to the article, Ari says, in his blog, that the article writer "emphasized things his way". I've dealt a bit with "Journalists". It's easy to believe that the writer spun Ari's words a bit. Especially if Ari doesn't have much experience.
Ari ends his latest post with " I'm not a teacher, I'm a learner." I wonder what he learned from Slashdot today. :)
Most of the roads in my area have a speed limit set at 45 MPH. I'd argue that most roads are not designed for vehicles that can travel 15-25 miles/hr. On the other hand, most bikes can easily handle 5 to 10 MPH. That is perfect for sidewalks.
Most of the world. In business e-mail, I see colored text used a lot to denote inline comments. Personal e-mail, on the other hand, tends to make use of inline pictures.
The argument against HTML is fairly weak. Loading inline images from an external site could verify that you received the email, and the IP address it was received at. The solution to that is to block external images. E-mail programs that support HTML also support pictures as attachments.
Certain e-mail programs can't render HTML. Luckily, most HTML capable e-mail programs allow you to set defaults based on the recipient.
Phishing isn't an argument. It's a social engineering technique used to trick people into providing user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal information. You don't need fancy graphics, or HTML, to trick people.
...destroying my car... Are you aware of how much CO2 that would produce? We can even swear off of technology and live like primitives How would forcing 6 billion people to cook over open fires and poop in their neighbors water supply help the environment? airline industry should REALLY consider using their enormous profits to evolve into massive rail projects Now, there is an idea I like. I'd love to be able to take the train to visit friends in Wyoming. Unfortunately, there is no passenger train service in most of Wyoming. I think the same can be said of most western states.