The most useful part of Awesomebar is being able to type "Firefox 3.1" or "3.1 alpha" or "shire" and have this Slashdot story in the top few items. Without the Awesomebar, you'd have to look through the titles and somehow remember that this story was on 'tech.slashdot.org'. This is more useful on forums that insist on long page titles so you can't see the thread's title in the old bar's summary, or even forums that don't include the title at all.
Or use the Wii Tracker. It checks several stores online. In about a week of using the RSS feed, I found a bundle containing games that I wanted, some extra controllers that I would've wanted anyway, and didn't have any junk in it that I didn't want. You can probably find just the console, but I only saw one while watching the tracker and it sold out quickly.
I was unclear. I meant an empty referrer, which occurs when you weren't referred by a URL (such as typing the URL manually or clicking a bookmark). If you prevent the use of an empty referrer, your page cannot be bookmarked or manually typed in the address bar, which is why it is allowed.
Most "hotlinking prevention" methods (either in a.htaccess or in PHP) that I've seen allow no referrer, since no referrer usually means it was a bookmark or a URL entered by hand. Since this also allows people to copy and paste links to site, these methods are generally pointless unless there is a real problem.
Fedora 9 (released May 2008) shipped with a Firefox 3 beta, presumably so they wouldn't have to support Firefox 2 another year after Firefox 3's release. RHEL6 is likely to be based off of Fedora 9, so it makes sense that they would also want Firefox 3 instead of Firefox 2.
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I disagree that using the same engine as Safari would help too much. My Konqueror identifies as "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.0; Linux) KHTML/4.0.5 (like Gecko) Fedora/4.0.5-2.fc9", while Safari identifies as something like "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en) AppleWebKit/XX (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/ZZ Safari/YY". The sniffing I've seen identifies Safari by the presence of "Safari", and I could see them using "AppleWebKit", but not just "WebKit".
In any case, people who are aware of lesser known browsers like Opera, Safari, Elinks, and Konqueror probably won't use user agent sniffing, and good riddance.
Webkit itself is also open source. From what I understand, Konqueror and Epiphany are both evaluating the use of Webkit and have had a "proof of concept" build made with Webkit. There's also Arora, a simple Qt 4 cross platform browser built on Webkit.
In today's laptop market, it's more notable to have a non-widescreen model. You can get a Thinkpad T61 with 14.1" standard (up to 1400x1050 resolution if I remember correctly).
On a side note, I'm happy with my T61, even though it runs the (somewhat) low resolution of 1280x800. The pixels match up horizontally with my 1280x1024 LCD, which lets me run the bizarre and useful resolution of 1280x1824.
The automatic locking system is somewhat configurable in all the cars my family had with power locks. It's in the owner's manual, but it usually involves holding a button on the radio while turning it on.
They could host advertisements with somewhere that doesn't have ads that are loud, distracting, slow to load, or infested with malware. I don't block advertisement sites unless they have one of those qualities.
So, given those qualities, I'd suggest something in the newspaper.
I'm pretty sure that you can use GtkHTML, a KHTML fork, in GTK+ apps without needing Qt. But WebKit for GTK+ is better maintained, which is probably the reason it was chosen.
When I was running BOINC, it niced the processes exactly as you want. On my desktop, it did well, even when running a virtual machine at the same time. The problems that I had were created by memory use or disk activity, which occurred when I came back after not using it for a while. And yes, the settings for idle were the same as for active. (I no longer run BOINC because I'm using my new laptop as a primary computer instead of a desktop.)
Yeah, some tech decisions aren't made for good reasons, such as using Blackboard (which is hugely bloated). At least only the new subdomains are being used as illinois.edu instead of uiuc.edu, and that only matters with the login system. However, it is neat having my school mentioned on Slashdot.
I use Bluetooth on a daily basis, though it is mostly with a Nokia 6126 and a Motorola headset. I also have a cheap Bluetooth USB adapter, and I use that fairly frequently. On Kubuntu, I can push files and games to my phone, pull pictures from my phone, and even control Amarok from my phone to a degree. I had similar luck with transferring files under my previous Gentoo installation. I can also connect my headset to my computer for Skype after running a command with the address of the headset.
My friend's new RIZR phone will not work with my phone, but it accepted my headset and took files from my computer (though slowly). USB was a better option for transferring files, which worked (to my surprised, as the previously owned RAZR didn't work with USB).
However, I have began to have more disconnects and range problems since moving into college dorms. Most of the time, I can see at least two other computers (one of which I know is a Mac). I don't know how many other devices are out there, but I do think that this is the problem (since disconnects happen even putting the devices adjacent to each other). The disconnections are mostly between my phone and my headset, though. Once my computer gets connected to something, it's pretty good.
Regarding Windows (2000 in this case), I recall hearing problems from my dad about using a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard on a desktop computer. The problem was not disconnects (usually). It was causing the CPU usage to skyrocket during screensaver (which had to be set to 5 minutes for a program he used for work).
Connecting to a network is not all that easy under Vista. Twice I was asked to help with connecting a Vista computer to a network (once wireless at a hotel, once wired at University on move-in day). Both times were beyond what I could figure out. Admittedly, I have not used Vista, but in both cases, we had a Windows XP computer connected to the same network less than 10 feet away.
You mention typing in the WEP or WPA key. We never had that prompt on Vista, but had it on the XP laptop at the same time. Manually adding the connection with the key still did not work on Vista.
For the wired connection, only the Vista computers had issues with the University network. My Linux box (Kubuntu right now) worked flawlessly, as did all the other XP computers.
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They're working on Git/CPAN patching functionality. I imagine that other interesting combinations of the two will be seen in the near future.
Fedora 8's end of life doesn't occur until January 7th, so it would still get timezone updates.
The most useful part of Awesomebar is being able to type "Firefox 3.1" or "3.1 alpha" or "shire" and have this Slashdot story in the top few items. Without the Awesomebar, you'd have to look through the titles and somehow remember that this story was on 'tech.slashdot.org'. This is more useful on forums that insist on long page titles so you can't see the thread's title in the old bar's summary, or even forums that don't include the title at all.
Admittedly, Awesomebar is a horrid name.
Or use the Wii Tracker. It checks several stores online. In about a week of using the RSS feed, I found a bundle containing games that I wanted, some extra controllers that I would've wanted anyway, and didn't have any junk in it that I didn't want. You can probably find just the console, but I only saw one while watching the tracker and it sold out quickly.
I was unclear. I meant an empty referrer, which occurs when you weren't referred by a URL (such as typing the URL manually or clicking a bookmark). If you prevent the use of an empty referrer, your page cannot be bookmarked or manually typed in the address bar, which is why it is allowed.
Most "hotlinking prevention" methods (either in a .htaccess or in PHP) that I've seen allow no referrer, since no referrer usually means it was a bookmark or a URL entered by hand. Since this also allows people to copy and paste links to site, these methods are generally pointless unless there is a real problem.
Fedora 9 (released May 2008) shipped with a Firefox 3 beta, presumably so they wouldn't have to support Firefox 2 another year after Firefox 3's release. RHEL6 is likely to be based off of Fedora 9, so it makes sense that they would also want Firefox 3 instead of Firefox 2.
In any case, people who are aware of lesser known browsers like Opera, Safari, Elinks, and Konqueror probably won't use user agent sniffing, and good riddance.
Webkit itself is also open source. From what I understand, Konqueror and Epiphany are both evaluating the use of Webkit and have had a "proof of concept" build made with Webkit. There's also Arora, a simple Qt 4 cross platform browser built on Webkit.
Personally, I think this is a great feature. I can't stand different tabs having different textbox heights, and this solves the problem very nicely.
On a side note, I'm happy with my T61, even though it runs the (somewhat) low resolution of 1280x800. The pixels match up horizontally with my 1280x1024 LCD, which lets me run the bizarre and useful resolution of 1280x1824.
Yeah, you don't have a password set for grub.
The automatic locking system is somewhat configurable in all the cars my family had with power locks. It's in the owner's manual, but it usually involves holding a button on the radio while turning it on.
So, given those qualities, I'd suggest something in the newspaper.
I'm pretty sure that you can use GtkHTML, a KHTML fork, in GTK+ apps without needing Qt. But WebKit for GTK+ is better maintained, which is probably the reason it was chosen.
When I was running BOINC, it niced the processes exactly as you want. On my desktop, it did well, even when running a virtual machine at the same time. The problems that I had were created by memory use or disk activity, which occurred when I came back after not using it for a while. And yes, the settings for idle were the same as for active. (I no longer run BOINC because I'm using my new laptop as a primary computer instead of a desktop.)
Regular SD Cards are better. 16 GB SD Cards yield 162 gigabytes per cubic inch. 32 GB cards are on the way, too.
AT&T? Surely you mean Hitachi.
Maybe it's because Open Source is mentioned in their FAQ (though in a somewhat confusing manner -- are they claiming to be Open Source or not?)
Yeah, some tech decisions aren't made for good reasons, such as using Blackboard (which is hugely bloated). At least only the new subdomains are being used as illinois.edu instead of uiuc.edu, and that only matters with the login system. However, it is neat having my school mentioned on Slashdot.
It's almost like we're in the process of switching domains.
Turn your highlight threshold down to whatever you normally browse at. That is a workaround for the time being.
I use Bluetooth on a daily basis, though it is mostly with a Nokia 6126 and a Motorola headset. I also have a cheap Bluetooth USB adapter, and I use that fairly frequently. On Kubuntu, I can push files and games to my phone, pull pictures from my phone, and even control Amarok from my phone to a degree. I had similar luck with transferring files under my previous Gentoo installation. I can also connect my headset to my computer for Skype after running a command with the address of the headset.
My friend's new RIZR phone will not work with my phone, but it accepted my headset and took files from my computer (though slowly). USB was a better option for transferring files, which worked (to my surprised, as the previously owned RAZR didn't work with USB).
However, I have began to have more disconnects and range problems since moving into college dorms. Most of the time, I can see at least two other computers (one of which I know is a Mac). I don't know how many other devices are out there, but I do think that this is the problem (since disconnects happen even putting the devices adjacent to each other). The disconnections are mostly between my phone and my headset, though. Once my computer gets connected to something, it's pretty good.
Regarding Windows (2000 in this case), I recall hearing problems from my dad about using a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard on a desktop computer. The problem was not disconnects (usually). It was causing the CPU usage to skyrocket during screensaver (which had to be set to 5 minutes for a program he used for work).
Most laptops don't. (from http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=88)
Connecting to a network is not all that easy under Vista. Twice I was asked to help with connecting a Vista computer to a network (once wireless at a hotel, once wired at University on move-in day). Both times were beyond what I could figure out. Admittedly, I have not used Vista, but in both cases, we had a Windows XP computer connected to the same network less than 10 feet away.
You mention typing in the WEP or WPA key. We never had that prompt on Vista, but had it on the XP laptop at the same time. Manually adding the connection with the key still did not work on Vista.
For the wired connection, only the Vista computers had issues with the University network. My Linux box (Kubuntu right now) worked flawlessly, as did all the other XP computers.