No, it's the principal of the thing. Why does/. not allow posting of articles from sites that require registrations to view the articles EXCEPT New York Times? THey say they are protesting the need for registrations, yet they make an exception for them why? It is so hypocritcal. Just like most of the other stuff that goes on around here.
. 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
Why are you using re-writes at all? You can get a spindle of CDR's nowadays for $16.00 CDN on sale. (Must be $10 US?) That's 10 cents a disc, and you get to *keep* them. You are meanwhile spending 2.50 on a CDRW that you say can only be burnt 30 times, or 8.3 cents a burn. Seems to be it just isn't economical at all, when you could be spending pretty much the exact same amount and archiving all yoru movies instead of wiping them.
You mean like how I can browse the SMB and NFS shares in my Konqueror sidebar (along with sft, ftp, CDaudio, by the way), and how a Zip drive or CDROM icon pops up on my desktop and in my Konqueror window when I pop in a disk? Yeah, kinda like that. This may not be Konqueror, but there is nothing new or usefull here that is not in KDE 3.0 already.
Er, no. OK lets forget the fact for a moment that Internet Explorer is rooted deeply inton the WindowsOS and needs umpteen DLL's to run. Xandros is not allwoed to distribute the iexplore.exe executable, or any of these DLLs, apart from Windows (this MS would allow that? HA!). This setup DOES require a seperate Windows install, just like Wine. I can guarentee it.
...what it means is they have wine installed. As long as you have a Windows install elsewhere, IE5 has run fine under regular wine for a long time now (at least a year ago I remember trying it, worked great).
You do realize their "revolutionary" file manager is just Konqueror with a sidebar plugin that rearranges the items to the way windows explorer looks, right? And that it'd probably take all of two days to write.
You have been able to have multiple video cards working torgether forever and a day now... every windows OS since Win98 supported it, and XFree has supported it since 4.0. Multiple monitors allows you to have an ultra wide desktop. It is one of those things that, onc eyou use it for a week, you can't live without. The problem is there is only one AGP port, so your secondary and tertiary, etc cards have to be PCI (that, or get a deual head AGP card, like I have).
They aren't hard to find. I got this Geforce4 MX 460 two weeks ago.... it has dual SVGA out, and COmposite and Svidoe out, AND composite and svideo in. Only 130 dollars, and it runs Ut2k3 like a charm:)
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If you think that the rockridge / etc extentions are flakey, then why did you build them into the kernel in the first place? Oh, and if you don't want to use rockridge / etc, then all you have to do is put the override options in your FSTab and the automounter wouldn't use them.
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What are you going off about? How can having a CD automount give way to having "information leaks" (on a read only media?!?) or "trash the system"?? In order to do this you would have to run something on the CD, which is a totally different point of security. You're rambling about nothing.
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Point taken on the blue screen, but how about in Linux when a process running off the CD freezes your console, adn the only way to get around it is to reboot (since you can't just open the CD and have the process die like in windows)? This has happened to me several times in the past. Nont to mention the number of time sI was in windows and wanted to read a serial # off of the cd, so I just open it, blue screen appears, write it down, put it back in, hit enter. No harm done. I construe the opening of cd == death to be a feature, not a detriment.
There are still 7 days till the end of Linus's cruise, but that's not much time to get guinea pigs to publicly pipe up with a hearty "AOL!" of support for your work...
I didn't think a hearty endorsement by AOL would be good news for anything!
I think you fial to grasp how laptops are use din the workforce. Everyone I have eveer worked with who used a laptop used it both as their travel AND primary PC. Get back to the office, popup a mouse, plug in to monitor, plug in ot network, and you're good to go. All your files are always there, ready for use. Most people do not have both a workplace desktop and a laptop, they just use the laptop for both. saves them time and hassle and the company money.
Now with that out of the way, how "useless" is your CDROM, floppy drive, x86, and video hardware now? SUre, the smaller screen arguement is valid, but totally ditching the CDROM or floppy isn't. Most laptop manufacturers allow you to swap out your CDROM or floppy for an extra battery when on the road already anyways.
Do you really want me to back it up? If you do I could easily make a keystroke log vs a mouse odometer log for an hour of web surfing time for random users. If anything it will be much higher than 1000 to 1.
I'll tell you why page down is much slower. If I am using my scrollwheel or scrollbar, I scroll the page while I am reading it. Effectivly wasting 0 time at all since the page is moving as I read it. With page up / down, you have to stop reading, hit the hey, the page moves, wait for eyes to refocus, and start reading again. All this takes at least two seconds. Multiply that by the number of page downs it takes to read a page and you're up to several minutes by the time you hit the bottom. Even if you aren't reading a whole page, any pae that is unfamiliar is more difficult to navigate with page up / page down because of the fact that you don't know what is on the next page, and this refocus time.
Ever heard of a scroll wheel? Or a scroll bar? Who in gods name takes their hands off a mouse to page down? And pray tell, how do you search for text "around" a link when you don't even know what that text is going to be? Also, the ratio of text entering to read only data while web browsing is probbaly like 1000 to 1, or higher.
See how well your search mechanism works when you do a google search and up pops some 50 links with all the same words on them, whereupon you have to tab to each link to follow it.
...who "doesnt need a mouse" use Mozilla (or any other graphical web browser) for any length of time without the mouse, and be faster than anyone with one. While the keyboard certainly has its places, browsing the web certainly isn't one of them. There is a reason for all these insane web accessability standards everyone talks about yet no one follows, because navigating the web without a mouse is slow.
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You are correct, it is called the Inventors. Some of these inventions don't look that crazy when compared to things like Onc Click SHopping though :)
What about the Washington Post or ABC news, these didn't have registration required when /. started and they weren't grandfathered in.
No, it's the principal of the thing. Why does /. not allow posting of articles from sites that require registrations to view the articles EXCEPT New York Times? THey say they are protesting the need for registrations, yet they make an exception for them why? It is so hypocritcal. Just like most of the other stuff that goes on around here.
Why these people dont post the no registration required links provided by Google news I don't know
http://usability.kde.org/
Ever hear of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
. 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
I can publish / say anything I damn well want.
Why are you using re-writes at all? You can get a spindle of CDR's nowadays for $16.00 CDN on sale. (Must be $10 US?) That's 10 cents a disc, and you get to *keep* them. You are meanwhile spending 2.50 on a CDRW that you say can only be burnt 30 times, or 8.3 cents a burn. Seems to be it just isn't economical at all, when you could be spending pretty much the exact same amount and archiving all yoru movies instead of wiping them.
You mean like how I can browse the SMB and NFS shares in my Konqueror sidebar (along with sft, ftp, CDaudio, by the way), and how a Zip drive or CDROM icon pops up on my desktop and in my Konqueror window when I pop in a disk? Yeah, kinda like that. This may not be Konqueror, but there is nothing new or usefull here that is not in KDE 3.0 already.
Er, no. OK lets forget the fact for a moment that Internet Explorer is rooted deeply inton the WindowsOS and needs umpteen DLL's to run. Xandros is not allwoed to distribute the iexplore.exe executable, or any of these DLLs, apart from Windows (this MS would allow that? HA!). This setup DOES require a seperate Windows install, just like Wine. I can guarentee it.
...what it means is they have wine installed. As long as you have a Windows install elsewhere, IE5 has run fine under regular wine for a long time now (at least a year ago I remember trying it, worked great).
You do realize their "revolutionary" file manager is just Konqueror with a sidebar plugin that rearranges the items to the way windows explorer looks, right? And that it'd probably take all of two days to write.
You have been able to have multiple video cards working torgether forever and a day now... every windows OS since Win98 supported it, and XFree has supported it since 4.0. Multiple monitors allows you to have an ultra wide desktop. It is one of those things that, onc eyou use it for a week, you can't live without. The problem is there is only one AGP port, so your secondary and tertiary, etc cards have to be PCI (that, or get a deual head AGP card, like I have).
They aren't hard to find. I got this Geforce4 MX 460 two weeks ago.... it has dual SVGA out, and COmposite and Svidoe out, AND composite and svideo in. Only 130 dollars, and it runs Ut2k3 like a charm :)
If you think that the rockridge / etc extentions are flakey, then why did you build them into the kernel in the first place? Oh, and if you don't want to use rockridge / etc, then all you have to do is put the override options in your FSTab and the automounter wouldn't use them.
What are you going off about? How can having a CD automount give way to having "information leaks" (on a read only media?!?) or "trash the system"?? In order to do this you would have to run something on the CD, which is a totally different point of security. You're rambling about nothing.
Point taken on the blue screen, but how about in Linux when a process running off the CD freezes your console, adn the only way to get around it is to reboot (since you can't just open the CD and have the process die like in windows)? This has happened to me several times in the past. Nont to mention the number of time sI was in windows and wanted to read a serial # off of the cd, so I just open it, blue screen appears, write it down, put it back in, hit enter. No harm done. I construe the opening of cd == death to be a feature, not a detriment.
There are still 7 days till the end of Linus's cruise, but that's not much time to get guinea pigs to publicly pipe up with a hearty "AOL!" of support for your work...
I didn't think a hearty endorsement by AOL would be good news for anything!
This sounds interesting, know a link to point to for more info?
... youll see that the messager service uses port 135, not 137 or 139.
I think you fial to grasp how laptops are use din the workforce. Everyone I have eveer worked with who used a laptop used it both as their travel AND primary PC. Get back to the office, popup a mouse, plug in to monitor, plug in ot network, and you're good to go. All your files are always there, ready for use. Most people do not have both a workplace desktop and a laptop, they just use the laptop for both. saves them time and hassle and the company money.
Now with that out of the way, how "useless" is your CDROM, floppy drive, x86, and video hardware now? SUre, the smaller screen arguement is valid, but totally ditching the CDROM or floppy isn't. Most laptop manufacturers allow you to swap out your CDROM or floppy for an extra battery when on the road already anyways.
Do you really want me to back it up? If you do I could easily make a keystroke log vs a mouse odometer log for an hour of web surfing time for random users. If anything it will be much higher than 1000 to 1.
I'll tell you why page down is much slower. If I am using my scrollwheel or scrollbar, I scroll the page while I am reading it. Effectivly wasting 0 time at all since the page is moving as I read it. With page up / down, you have to stop reading, hit the hey, the page moves, wait for eyes to refocus, and start reading again. All this takes at least two seconds. Multiply that by the number of page downs it takes to read a page and you're up to several minutes by the time you hit the bottom. Even if you aren't reading a whole page, any pae that is unfamiliar is more difficult to navigate with page up / page down because of the fact that you don't know what is on the next page, and this refocus time.
Ever heard of a scroll wheel? Or a scroll bar? Who in gods name takes their hands off a mouse to page down? And pray tell, how do you search for text "around" a link when you don't even know what that text is going to be? Also, the ratio of text entering to read only data while web browsing is probbaly like 1000 to 1, or higher.
See how well your search mechanism works when you do a google search and up pops some 50 links with all the same words on them, whereupon you have to tab to each link to follow it.
...who "doesnt need a mouse" use Mozilla (or any other graphical web browser) for any length of time without the mouse, and be faster than anyone with one. While the keyboard certainly has its places, browsing the web certainly isn't one of them. There is a reason for all these insane web accessability standards everyone talks about yet no one follows, because navigating the web without a mouse is slow.