Directory, owner (root) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; group (admin) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; everyone else can read and list contents.
drwxrwxrwx 3 ilgaz ilgaz 102 9 Oct 15:08 Windows Media Plugin
Directory, owner (ilgaz) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; group (ilgaz) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; everyone else can read, add to, delete from and list contents.
So, basically, any old user could delete some important executable file from the Windows Media Plugin directory and replace it with one of their own. It's not even got the root:admin user stuff like a normal system file...
Hey look, I'm just reporting the incorrect information fed to me by some tour guide, and I'm too lazy to check it out for myaself until everyone piles on like now. Garbage in garbage out, ya know?
Don't take it personally - it's just one of those false bits of information that continually gets passed around as scientific fact.
Kind of like water supposedly going down plugholes in different directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.:-)
Yes, it is a liquid, and it does sag with age. In fact if you visit some of the early colonial houses that had panes of window you can see where the glass is thicker at the bottom of the pane!
Glass doesn't sag. Panes of glass in such windows are like that because that's how they were made.
A good example of glass not sagging would be in a large, modern reflecting telescope - a huge concave mirror ground from a disc of glass, with a shape accurate to perhaps a single wavelength of light. If glass was a liquid at room temperature, astronomers would be able to tell, as the mirror would quickly lose its original accuracy (in a measurable fashion, thanks to interference effects) as it sags out of shape.
People seem to reckon there's some evil conspiracy between ATI and Valve - while ATI has definitely helped Valve in various ways, it really doesn't sound like Valve has deliberately crippled performance of the Source engine if an Nvidia card is present.
I think it was just the bells-and-whistles DX9 stuff which was the major problem, and Nvidia's latest cards seem to have that sorted. I know what brand of card I'm getting next - the one with decent Linux drivers as well!
However, on Linux, OpenOffice looks like *crap*. The interface doesn't match any other apps on my system. GTK apps look tight and clean, QT apps too. But OpenOffice doesn't even look "native" like it does on Windows.
Getting fairly old, but it's probably been updated since - the OOo KDE Native Widget Framework might be what you're looking for. It's slightly slower than OpenOffice's own toolkit stuff, but draws all the widgets with the currently selected KDE theme.
A right mouse button is an evil idea thought up by Bill Gates to confuse Mac users. It causes them to go into an infinite loop... which button to push, right or left?
Nah. They're usually too busy running three-mouse-button-requiring stuff in X11 to bother.
If the absence of a scroll wheel and right mouse button bothers you, hook up any old USB mouse and it'll work straight away. All the software's completely ready for it...
(Handy feature I just found in Safari - select a phase, right-click (or control-click), 'Google Search'!)
Theft or stealing has the implication of denial of the object from the original owner as a necessary part of it's definition.
Well, you can steal a kiss or steal a glance, neither of which involve the denial of an object from an original owner - and 'he stole my ideas!' is a valid, well-understood statement in English. 'Copyright theft' is also a valid, well-understood statement, much to the chagrin of many Slashdotters it would appear.
Why are people so worked up about this issue? Are they trying to rewrite the English language so they don't feel so guilty about something?
I'm wondering if it was deliberate - the front page loaded for me, and its links are to create popup windows with addresses like 'http://adstats.vx30.com/adpopup2.php'.
'Adpopup'? Is the idea of the site to draw in many visitors, and then start displaying loads of adverts? Quite cunning if that's the case.
Of course, the pages won't load, so I've no idea. The plan may have backfired.:-)
Course not. But please, for the sake of accuracy, if you use the 'web server' one, do ensure that it's actually powered by electricity in one form or another...
Do GNOME and KDE have a completely different idea of what a theme engine can do? Where can I get informations on the QT theme engine?
Basically, a proper Qt theme is a set of C++ functions for drawing widgets using graphics primitives and the occasional pixmap. Difficult to program, and difficult to implement fully, but incredibly versatile (new, arbitrary, user-defined colour schemes and sizing are straightforward additions, for instance) and widget rendering can be extremely fast.
Contrast this with many GTK themes, which are often pixmaps chopped up and used to build widgets, lines and buttons in a piecemeal fashion. Much easier to implement (I've modified one myself with just a text editor and the Gimp), but much more restrictive in their capabilities (recolouring pixmaps in GTK is effectively impossible, as far as I know - my modifications were to Gimp.app's default theme to make it match the rest of the Graphite stuff on MacOS X). Plus, they run terribly slowly. On my PC with a recent Qt and GTK, complex Qt dialogues appear almost instantly, while GTK ones visibly draw.
or example and comparism, let's have a look at the highest rated KDE theme: Baghira And the still not highest rated, but same style GNOME theme: GnoMetal
Yes, I really want my PC to look like a cheap knock-off of a modern Mac. If I want Aqua, I use my iBook.
Compare your teenager-designed GTK themes with a properly implemented Qt theme, like Plastik - while it looks fairly plain, it's far easier to work with applications with a simple, elegant and consistent styling. If you want baroque GUI widget designs, go ahead and use GTK - but don't be surprised if everyone else regards your hyper-beautiful stylings as unusable...
How does it work out buffering and syncing? How does it avoid "ghosts" or echos in the broadcast when a radio is simulateously received broadcasts from two base stations broadcasting the same broadcast on the same frequency, one getting the source broadcast over a DSL line with some latency, the other over fibre with much less latency?
Simple - the naïve concepts of universal free speech over an inherently limited electromagnetic spectrum will overcome the physics-induced difficulties of multiple transmitters on the same frequency.
It doesn't matter if a technology is completely unsuited for a proposed mode of usage; all that matters is that it's the thought that counts. With a good heart, bandwidth shall be greater than what is physically allowed, and overlapping FM broadcasts shall not encounter the same problems discovered years ago by broadcast engineers!
I've got a radio astronomy background. The electromagnetic spectrum is an incredibly valuable resource, and is heavily regulated for a bloody good reason. Don't mess with it.
They hit every standard aspect, they own everything, you cant do anything but play the game, and you have no rights. Typical EULA.
I wonder if it a lot of it is just some legal waffle produced by some solicitors; Valve has often openly accepted (and encouraged) behaviour by mod-makers that is explicitly disallowed by the games' EULAs.
One example - as a mod-maker, I'm allowed to use any content from any Half-Life-engined game in my mod. Even if it's a separate commercial product produced by a different company, like the Opposing Force expansion pack - Valve is more than happy for, say, someone to take the new OpFor models and textures and use them in a mod for the basic Half-Life. It even extends to stuff overseen by Sony - you're allowed to borrow the high-polygon models from the Playstation 2 port, even though it's Utterly Forbidden in the game's EULA.
Valve's fairly ad-hoc approach is probably a bit risky when you bring credit cards into the equation, though, and they do need to write down some decent rules for people to accept. While they might not be inherently evil, the licence shouldn't allow overly evil behaviour on their part.
While I'm seriously considering buying HL2 over Steam (game packaging really isn't that impressive these days, and a stack of CDs in a plastic box is basically it), if it was another company with a similar EULA I'd definitely be thinking twice.
The rest of the Powerbook extras do sound as if they'd be potentially very useful for many people, but (apart from the faster processor) I think I'll stick with what I've got. It makes my iBook seem like even better value, but if anyone wants to give me a Powerbook, it'd be more than welcome!
After all, when was the last time you installed your OS and everything worked as expected on first boot?
Just the other day, when I installed Windows 98. Absolutely everything worked first time, without the need for downloading any new drivers, patches or anything.
Although admittedly it's running in QEMU on my iBook, so perhaps the Apple influence is infectious.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Quite a few things on MacOS X are directories, even though they appear as single objects in the Finder (applications are a good example of this).
It's more the Unix-style permissions you should be looking at:Directory, owner (root) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; group (admin) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; everyone else can read and list contents.Directory, owner (ilgaz) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; group (ilgaz) can read, add to, delete from and list contents; everyone else can read, add to, delete from and list contents.
So, basically, any old user could delete some important executable file from the Windows Media Plugin directory and replace it with one of their own. It's not even got the root:admin user stuff like a normal system file...
Hey look, I'm just reporting the incorrect information fed to me by some tour guide, and I'm too lazy to check it out for myaself until everyone piles on like now. Garbage in garbage out, ya know?
:-)
Don't take it personally - it's just one of those false bits of information that continually gets passed around as scientific fact.
Kind of like water supposedly going down plugholes in different directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Yes, it is a liquid, and it does sag with age. In fact if you visit some of the early colonial houses that had panes of window you can see where the glass is thicker at the bottom of the pane!
Glass doesn't sag. Panes of glass in such windows are like that because that's how they were made.
A good example of glass not sagging would be in a large, modern reflecting telescope - a huge concave mirror ground from a disc of glass, with a shape accurate to perhaps a single wavelength of light. If glass was a liquid at room temperature, astronomers would be able to tell, as the mirror would quickly lose its original accuracy (in a measurable fashion, thanks to interference effects) as it sags out of shape.
People seem to reckon there's some evil conspiracy between ATI and Valve - while ATI has definitely helped Valve in various ways, it really doesn't sound like Valve has deliberately crippled performance of the Source engine if an Nvidia card is present.
Guess what brand of video cards the map designers for Half-Life 2 used?
I think it was just the bells-and-whistles DX9 stuff which was the major problem, and Nvidia's latest cards seem to have that sorted. I know what brand of card I'm getting next - the one with decent Linux drivers as well!
However, on Linux, OpenOffice looks like *crap*. The interface doesn't match any other apps on my system. GTK apps look tight and clean, QT apps too. But OpenOffice doesn't even look "native" like it does on Windows.
Getting fairly old, but it's probably been updated since - the OOo KDE Native Widget Framework might be what you're looking for. It's slightly slower than OpenOffice's own toolkit stuff, but draws all the widgets with the currently selected KDE theme.
A right mouse button is an evil idea thought up by Bill Gates to confuse Mac users. It causes them to go into an infinite loop... which button to push, right or left?
Nah. They're usually too busy running three-mouse-button-requiring stuff in X11 to bother.
If the absence of a scroll wheel and right mouse button bothers you, hook up any old USB mouse and it'll work straight away. All the software's completely ready for it...
(Handy feature I just found in Safari - select a phase, right-click (or control-click), 'Google Search'!)
Theft or stealing has the implication of denial of the object from the original owner as a necessary part of it's definition.
Well, you can steal a kiss or steal a glance, neither of which involve the denial of an object from an original owner - and 'he stole my ideas!' is a valid, well-understood statement in English. 'Copyright theft' is also a valid, well-understood statement, much to the chagrin of many Slashdotters it would appear.
Why are people so worked up about this issue? Are they trying to rewrite the English language so they don't feel so guilty about something?
I'm wondering if it was deliberate - the front page loaded for me, and its links are to create popup windows with addresses like 'http://adstats.vx30.com/adpopup2.php'.
:-)
'Adpopup'? Is the idea of the site to draw in many visitors, and then start displaying loads of adverts? Quite cunning if that's the case.
Of course, the pages won't load, so I've no idea. The plan may have backfired.
Now where did I leave that reanimation scroll...?
Over here!
IE Mac is no longer supported.
Yes, but please tell all the people using older, non-MacOS X machines this.
It's probably the best browser available for that platform, and stuff like Safari and Firefox are highly unlikely to get ported...
Can I expect Pear to run like an 800 MHz PPC? 300 MHz maybe?
;-)
Maybe 3MHz. Ish.
Not if one out of your five computers already runs it. Yay permissive Apple licensing! :D
Yay permissive Apple licensing not allowing the running of MacOS X on a non-Apple-badged computer!
Although...
Is this why I got a bunch of Apple stickers with my own iBook?
That's because your UID is too low to understand it.
I know what it is, so expect a maximum of 8776 Slashdotters complaining...
Oh crap. If every single one of them posts a complaint, then it's Slashdot Hall of Fame territory for this article!
Hah! Brilliant:D Do you mind if I steal it?
Course not. But please, for the sake of accuracy, if you use the 'web server' one, do ensure that it's actually powered by electricity in one form or another...
The IBM System/360 featured a system that could pinpoint an error in the circuitry down to the resolution of a single module board
Sadly, the fault was almost invariably in the AE-35 unit...
(Yes, I'm sorry!)
Do GNOME and KDE have a completely different idea of what a theme engine can do? Where can I get informations on the QT theme engine?
Basically, a proper Qt theme is a set of C++ functions for drawing widgets using graphics primitives and the occasional pixmap. Difficult to program, and difficult to implement fully, but incredibly versatile (new, arbitrary, user-defined colour schemes and sizing are straightforward additions, for instance) and widget rendering can be extremely fast.
Contrast this with many GTK themes, which are often pixmaps chopped up and used to build widgets, lines and buttons in a piecemeal fashion. Much easier to implement (I've modified one myself with just a text editor and the Gimp), but much more restrictive in their capabilities (recolouring pixmaps in GTK is effectively impossible, as far as I know - my modifications were to Gimp.app's default theme to make it match the rest of the Graphite stuff on MacOS X). Plus, they run terribly slowly. On my PC with a recent Qt and GTK, complex Qt dialogues appear almost instantly, while GTK ones visibly draw.
or example and comparism, let's have a look at the highest rated KDE theme: Baghira
And the still not highest rated, but same style GNOME theme: GnoMetal
Yes, I really want my PC to look like a cheap knock-off of a modern Mac. If I want Aqua, I use my iBook.
Compare your teenager-designed GTK themes with a properly implemented Qt theme, like Plastik - while it looks fairly plain, it's far easier to work with applications with a simple, elegant and consistent styling. If you want baroque GUI widget designs, go ahead and use GTK - but don't be surprised if everyone else regards your hyper-beautiful stylings as unusable...
How does it work out buffering and syncing? How does it avoid "ghosts" or echos in the broadcast when a radio is simulateously received broadcasts from two base stations broadcasting the same broadcast on the same frequency, one getting the source broadcast over a DSL line with some latency, the other over fibre with much less latency?
Simple - the naïve concepts of universal free speech over an inherently limited electromagnetic spectrum will overcome the physics-induced difficulties of multiple transmitters on the same frequency.
It doesn't matter if a technology is completely unsuited for a proposed mode of usage; all that matters is that it's the thought that counts. With a good heart, bandwidth shall be greater than what is physically allowed, and overlapping FM broadcasts shall not encounter the same problems discovered years ago by broadcast engineers!
I've got a radio astronomy background. The electromagnetic spectrum is an incredibly valuable resource, and is heavily regulated for a bloody good reason. Don't mess with it.
A while back, Valve was seriously talking about Steam being a subscription service, allowing you to play any games that get released by Valve while you are subscribed.
I think this was laughed out by gamers, as Valve's games releases haven't exactly been particularly regular (or on time), and there's been no mention of a subscription in the final offers.
Is the EULA out of date in referring to all the subscription stuff? They really ought to update it, what with that Half-Life 2 thing imminent...
They hit every standard aspect, they own everything, you cant do anything but play the game, and you have no rights. Typical EULA.
I wonder if it a lot of it is just some legal waffle produced by some solicitors; Valve has often openly accepted (and encouraged) behaviour by mod-makers that is explicitly disallowed by the games' EULAs.
One example - as a mod-maker, I'm allowed to use any content from any Half-Life-engined game in my mod. Even if it's a separate commercial product produced by a different company, like the Opposing Force expansion pack - Valve is more than happy for, say, someone to take the new OpFor models and textures and use them in a mod for the basic Half-Life. It even extends to stuff overseen by Sony - you're allowed to borrow the high-polygon models from the Playstation 2 port, even though it's Utterly Forbidden in the game's EULA.
Valve's fairly ad-hoc approach is probably a bit risky when you bring credit cards into the equation, though, and they do need to write down some decent rules for people to accept. While they might not be inherently evil, the licence shouldn't allow overly evil behaviour on their part.
While I'm seriously considering buying HL2 over Steam (game packaging really isn't that impressive these days, and a stack of CDs in a plastic box is basically it), if it was another company with a similar EULA I'd definitely be thinking twice.
How is that proving the capabilities of anything?
A slightly more impressive version of 'Hello World', complete with real-time audio mixing and high-speed graphics?
Yes, it's hardly cutting edge, but it's significantly better than just a few bytes of text, and shows that everything actually works...
Big European familes seem to be able to cope with sub compact people carriers like these which can seat 7.
Speaking from experience, a Vauxhall Nova can also seat seven.
Eight if you push extra hard, nine or more if you include the boot...
Where exactly do you think "binary attachments" are stored
I think Mr Coward thinks Google probably converts the Base64-encoded files into their binary equivalents on reception, freeing up storage space.
I would...
Y'bastard! That's my idea!
And I've patented it, too...
Powerbooks can stretch the desktop over an external monitor; iBooks can only mirror.
:-)
Actually, iBooks can do dual-head too...
The rest of the Powerbook extras do sound as if they'd be potentially very useful for many people, but (apart from the faster processor) I think I'll stick with what I've got. It makes my iBook seem like even better value, but if anyone wants to give me a Powerbook, it'd be more than welcome!
After all, when was the last time you installed your OS and everything worked as expected on first boot?
:-)
Just the other day, when I installed Windows 98. Absolutely everything worked first time, without the need for downloading any new drivers, patches or anything.
Although admittedly it's running in QEMU on my iBook, so perhaps the Apple influence is infectious.