just for all you to know, themes.org is being hosted on abovenet (one of the severely affected isps) and i can't currently reach abovenet's dns servers.
sum: themes.org probably will be down until this is fixed. please be patient.
maybe the answer would be to make the capplets just overall faster, ex: load less libraries, etc.
or resort to a different style: perhaps a windows-style or beos-style preferences interface.
the windows-style interface solves the ui problem by actually suggesting to the user that the different control panel elements _WERE_ different programs. (window with icons resembling program shortcuts) this slowed down actual use, because you had to contantly refer back to the master window, but it allowed you to have many applets open at once.
the beos-style interface goes about it in a similar manner. the menu of preferences suggests that the different prefereces dialogs were different programs. this actually is better than the windows approach because the menu is always present, and always referable. this also incorporates the ability to open more than one at once.
gnome already implements beos-style mostly, but that menu should be more organized and intuitive.
in my opinion, if _ANYONE_ is looking for intuitive, usability ideas, look at beos, it is THE most intuitive and smart interfaces i've ever seen. you don't think about what you're doing to the interface, you just do it.
my interpretation of the control-center is that is it _TOO_ modularized. everytime your click down on another tree entry, it RUNS ANOTHER *_capplet (control-center applet). these are nice for adding functionality to the control-center, but it shouldn't have to load them while people are pursusing the tree. the response time is due to the fact that it has to load it from disk and then run that program.
a nice configuration system that is designed similarily (front-end functionality, not back-end) is the x-chat configuration dialog. same tree, same feel. the difference is that it's part of the same program, it's already running, all the elements are already in memory.
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware-current/GL IBC_WARNING: "These packages are linked with glibc-2.1.1, so don't install them on Slackware 4.0 or earlier. They will not work unless you've installed glibc-2.1.1."
I'd like to be able to say... I want my text to be 12 points. I don't want my 12 point text to become 12 pixels high and darn-near-unreadable at 1600x1200 - I want them to be 12 typographic points high (that's 12/72's of an inch tall) and VERY smooth. As a visual designer, this would incredible! i would LOVE this. the only problems i forsee is that with switching from bitmappped windowing to vectorized windowing is that you would leave behind the nice thing about high resolutions: huge desktop real estate, since everything would be the same size no matter your resolution (just finer quality). great idea though
this raises the question yet again of Linux's high-end scalability. the box in the article is a lower-end model. there was no mention of linux with the higher-end (24 processor) model. we all know linux is slightly behind in this category (compared with other UNIXs), it would be nice if IBM contributed to this effort... it's a nice thought.
in the article it stated that the lyra supports the IBM microdrive, is it shipping yet? how much is a 340mb card? wow, if it's under $75, i'm getting one of these.:))) 340 is good enough for me, ~5 hours? not bad:)
Well I'd like to add to the discussion as saying that I DO have one of these drives, and I must say that they are wonderful. I bought an Internal EIDE one and it came with a "Tools" disk. It is almost full. (In win95) However, the only thing important on there is the "ORB Tools" (which is approximately 3mb). Everything else are program demos and videos. I promptly used the ORB Tools to change the status of the drive from "Removable" to "Non-removable". Then I used Partition Magic 4.0 to remove the current FAT16 partition with a ext2fs partition and rebooted into Linux. (cfdisk can be used also if you wish) I just mounted/dev/hdb1 and it worked perfectly. The only caveat that I have is that they have no support for Linux/UNIX whatso ever. However, considering the community, it's not necessary. Also, an initial (recommended) defect scan revealed only 43 bad sectors out of a couple billion (IIRC) (nice margin of error). One would expect 0 bad sectors on a traditional hard drive, however, one must remember that these are portable disks, and are much more suseptible [sic!] to damage, et cetera. I bought it because of the price/performance. The price is incredible. $180 (on Wintec) for the drive, and $30 per disk! (U.S.) These prices are incredible. Compared with a Jaz 2GB, these drive are dirt cheap. I have not benchmarked the read/write performance, but I plan on trying HD Tach to benchmark this. (I do not have a registered version, so I cannot test writing.) Performance is virtually indistinguishable from my 3.2gb hard drive. I regularly download large amounts of GNOME sources and compile them on the ORB drive, they compile at regular speeds. I also keep my MP3s and the Star Wars trailers on there. (no slow down or stuttering, also no data loss experienced). Another nice feature of the ORB drive is that the drive fits in a 3.5" drive bay. Also, the disks themselves are SLIGHTLY smaller than Zip disks. If you are really worried about unreliability, the disks are warranteed for 1 year.
All in all, I would highly recommend this drive for everyone, although I would like to see some numbers regarding percentage of failure, but beyond the initial bad 43 sectors (I bought this around the middle of March), no new bad sectors have come up.
yea i notied that too...does anyone know if gtkstep is any faster or slower than any other theme engine? i.e. the default one, redmond95, or are they all just based off the same thing?
does this mean that 3com will actually port drivers to linux for its line of USR WinModems? maybe? ohwell, this is great. now all we need is Adaptec to start porting generic drivers and Hewlett Packard getting some good WinPrinter support... sigh...
i've been using linux constantly (workstation/router/server/blah) for the past 8 months maybe, (maybe i've never checked xterm's man file (never had to, pretty simple:)) i've always been pissed off at netscape's inconsistency in copying and pasting, (i.e. the paste menu item was still greyed off when i had selected something. grr.. but finally someone mentioned X's ability to paste with the middle mouse button. ahh. thanks a bunch:) btw (made transition from slack -> debian and loving every minute of it, except for the unexplained wp8 seg faults and rvplayer's refusal to work)...
you might as well read the posts before it as well, i.e. normal pII's don't support 4-way, only single and dual. But Xeons are very nice.. mmm. i'd normally say get some AMD action, but currently the K6 line doesn't support SMP at all. (hopefull k7 will)
a href="http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl /prod/micro/170340/170spec.htm">Specs
IBM Microdrive Home
probably it should be kept spun down most of the time (and the mp3 loaded into volatile memory like the empeg). also, battery use is negligible, how much power will it take to spin this 3 cm disk and move 1 mm parts? (i wish they had better info on their pages) this is cool anyway, and it SHOULD cost around $200 for acceptance... also: the rio could support it, in a newer version, it already uses CompactFlash Type I memory, the microdrive is a CF Type II device... only 2mm width difference... (probably needs to know how much to read off of it etc.. anyway..)
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just for all you to know, themes.org is being hosted on abovenet (one of the severely affected isps) and i can't currently reach abovenet's dns servers.
sum: themes.org probably will be down until this is fixed. please be patient.
maybe the answer would be to make the capplets just overall faster,
ex: load less libraries, etc.
or resort to a different style: perhaps a windows-style or beos-style preferences interface.
the windows-style interface solves the ui problem by actually suggesting to the user that the different control panel elements _WERE_ different programs. (window with icons resembling program shortcuts) this slowed down actual use, because you had to contantly refer back to the master window, but it allowed you to have many applets open at once.
the beos-style interface goes about it in a similar manner. the menu of preferences suggests that the different prefereces dialogs were different programs. this actually is better than the windows approach because the menu is always present, and always referable. this also incorporates the ability to open more than one at once.
gnome already implements beos-style mostly, but that menu should be more organized and intuitive.
in my opinion, if _ANYONE_ is looking for intuitive, usability ideas, look at beos, it is THE most intuitive and smart interfaces i've ever seen. you don't think about what you're doing to the interface, you just do it.
my interpretation of the control-center is that is it _TOO_ modularized. everytime your click down on another tree entry, it RUNS ANOTHER *_capplet (control-center applet). these are nice for adding functionality to the control-center, but it shouldn't have to load them while people are pursusing the tree. the response time is due to the fact that it has to load it from disk and then run that program.
a nice configuration system that is designed similarily (front-end functionality, not back-end) is the x-chat configuration dialog. same tree, same feel. the difference is that it's part of the same program, it's already running, all the elements are already in memory.
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware-current/GL IBC_WARNING: "These packages are linked with glibc-2.1.1, so don't install them on Slackware 4.0 or earlier. They will not work unless you've installed glibc-2.1.1."
i would love it if it this would be glibc2.1. it's amazing how obsolete glibc2.0 is getting (mozilla).
I'd like to be able to say ... I want my text to be 12 points. I don't want my 12 point text to become 12 pixels high and darn-near-unreadable at 1600x1200 - I want them to be 12 typographic points high (that's 12/72's of an inch tall) and VERY smooth. As a visual designer, this would incredible! i would LOVE this. the only problems i forsee is that with switching from bitmappped windowing to vectorized windowing is that you would leave behind the nice thing about high resolutions: huge desktop real estate, since everything would be the same size no matter your resolution (just finer quality). great idea though
this raises the question yet again of Linux's high-end scalability. the box in the article is a lower-end model. there was no mention of linux with the higher-end (24 processor) model. we all know linux is slightly behind in this category (compared with other UNIXs), it would be nice if IBM contributed to this effort... it's a nice thought.
subject says it all, lack of causes rest of page to be displayed in italics.
vader/luke are glibc2 and qui gonn/obi wan/maul are libc5... remember, it's a prequel.
if we use 200 dpi, how many inches (width & height) should we look not to exceed?
can someone post an URL to the Caliseo font? i can't find it anywhere
strange
is there a GIMP plug-in in the works for this? this would be damned cool. if we didn't have to buy a WINDOWS program to do this
that's a hell of a lot of porn. i didn't see any repeats when i looked at it, damn. BTW, does anyone know what program does that?
in the article it stated that the lyra supports the IBM microdrive, is it shipping yet? how much is a 340mb card? wow, if it's under $75, i'm getting one of these. :))) 340 is good enough for me, ~5 hours? not bad :)
USB is limited to 12 megabits/sec.... this thing is 12 MEGABYTES/sec
All in all, I would highly recommend this drive for everyone, although I would like to see some numbers regarding percentage of failure, but beyond the initial bad 43 sectors (I bought this around the middle of March), no new bad sectors have come up.
yea i notied that too...does anyone know if gtkstep is any faster or slower than any other theme engine? i.e. the default one, redmond95, or are they all just based off the same thing?
does this mean that 3com will actually port drivers to linux for its line of USR WinModems? maybe? ohwell, this is great. now all we need is Adaptec to start porting generic drivers and Hewlett Packard getting some good WinPrinter support... sigh...
i've been using linux constantly (workstation/router/server/blah) for the past 8 months maybe, (maybe i've never checked xterm's man file (never had to, pretty simple:)) i've always been pissed off at netscape's inconsistency in copying and pasting, (i.e. the paste menu item was still greyed off when i had selected something. grr.. but finally someone mentioned X's ability to paste with the middle mouse button. ahh. thanks a bunch :) btw (made transition from slack -> debian and loving every minute of it, except for the unexplained wp8 seg faults and rvplayer's refusal to work)...
you might as well read the posts before it as well, i.e. normal pII's don't support 4-way, only single and dual. But Xeons are very nice.. mmm. i'd normally say get some AMD action, but currently the K6 line doesn't support SMP at all. (hopefull k7 will)
ACK, too many bugs!!!!(html won't work properly)/ micro/170340/170spec.htm - specs
c ro/index.htm - home of microdrive
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/prod
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/mi
a href="http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl /prod/micro/170340/170spec.htm">Specs
IBM Microdrive Home
probably it should be kept spun down most of the time (and the mp3 loaded into volatile memory like the empeg). also, battery use is negligible, how much power will it take to spin this 3 cm disk and move 1 mm parts? (i wish they had better info on their pages) this is cool anyway, and it SHOULD cost around $200 for acceptance... also: the rio could support it, in a newer version, it already uses CompactFlash Type I memory, the microdrive is a CF Type II device... only 2mm width difference... (probably needs to know how much to read off of it etc.. anyway..)
cello will be gone for a couple of days anyway... heh... damnit, people get off it, i want to try.. :P
you bet it is