True, but there's a point where the nose begins to swamp the signal. Past that point, everything is noise, as the customer will want only a couple of the big group photos and the extra good ones just get thrown away with the bad ones. Now, as with most things, where that optimumpoint lies is dictated by a combination of skill and luck - but unless you rely purely on luck, it should be well below 100.
What use is having photo display on a postmark-sized screen? Bragging rights? phones have larger screens for photo display these days. And for plain music playing color is inefficient (waste of power)
All the nano has for itself, AFAICT, is the size - chicks will find interesting places to carry it in. Perhaps battery life, too, but I'll wait for real-use tests before counting that one in.
It canceled out any expected gains from the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.
Of course - bloody planet noticed humans meant to stop it from getting too warm and fuzzy and it decided (just a few years ago) to start releasing CO2 from decaying biomass. Ha! take that, puny humans!
Those who understand that what these measurements do is shift the *known* baseline for the emission part of the CO2 cycle (as in "there was this effect that we weren't aware of that has been going on since before mankind existed and obviously all those millenia when the overall CO2 concentration was stable in the atmosphere something else that we're probably not aware of balanced it out") should keep quiet to not disturb the "the planet did it!" crowd. Oops!
Is that default paragraph formatting? Charcter formatting? Frame formatting? There needs to be one option for each type of formatting data that can be styled.
I would disagree, but I guess it depends on what you are used with. Personally, I don't find it ambiguous - when something is selected, the default is for that; otherwise, the smallest element that would make sense (a word, typically, if you are inside a paragraph). Maybe I misunderstood you though.
That's why there's a hierarchical display of styles in the Stylist window, and an entry to specify the effective parent on the dialog when you define a style. You're right that it doesn't work properly as a hierarchy, but it seems pretty clear that it was meant to.
It's a list, not a hierarchical tree display. And "Linked with" has a "None" option, too - sometimes, within the same document it makes sense to have linked styles . That does not mean all styles have to have interdependencies. Not everything has to be derived from Object./ducks
I agree that perhaps I just didn't encounter the bugs you did. OOo is quite far from perfect (everybody probably has gripes with some part of it or another) I trust you filed a bug report so that maybe I can get luckier and never stumble upon those problems in a later version?:-)
Wait a moment, you lost me. Linux binary-only drivers are bad, but somehow OSX binary-only drivers are ok? Is Darwin a little open or a little closed now?
One could put up an argument against treating public key authentication as a final answer. You can't enforce passphrase length - and one user with an empty passphrase private key on a compromised machine is worse than a weak password - the attacker will just get the proper account and key from.ssh/config, no need for a keylogger. Add to that agent forwarding and it can quickly become a nice mess; that's not to mention security implications for ssh-agent itself - even a good passphrase won't help if a compromised root can just get/use the key from the agent. Also, depending on your network setup, removing compromised public keys can be tedious for sysadmins (relying on users to realize the compromise and handle it might be... dangerous under some circumstances). Finally, the reasoning framework that assumes 'stupid' keyloggers that will log the passphrase but never figure out the key that goes with it is bound to come and bite you from an unexpected direction at some point in the future. [*]
That said, I do like the per-key restrictions in.ssh/authorized_keys (especially the "from" option)
All in all, PKA is certainly a good tool - but not to be applied blindly. And as always educating the users is the weak link. Meanwhile, if you're stuck with passwords, enforcing a good long password should make the brute-force scripts more like a huge-log nuissance to be handled with the likes of DenyHosts.
[*] yeah, I know I'm kind of paranoid. On the flip side, according to Lacan human knowledge is paranoiac (being built on deception) so I should be in good company;-)
That's ok... as long as you're not afraid of being locked out of connecting by a script DOS-ing your server through the limit module. Plus, it does not help a lot unless you set a small number of retries on failed passwords until sshd drops the connection (by default, MaxAuthTries is 6) You might want to also look into MaxStartups and LoginGraceTime for extra tweaking.
Apparently, the Reuters quote is inaccurate - see here for a post-interview comment:
Greve says this is not quite what he was getting at:
"The basic idea is that if someone uses software patents against a Free Software program under the GPL, he might lose the right to distribute that particular software, to use it for their products. We have no interest in restricting the way people can use and develop software."
So I guess IBM would be safe, while SCO would be forbidden to distribute derivative code of the Linux kernel (but not other GPL-ed products). That sounds reasonable, at least in project form.
Do you mean it will be unsafe when disaster killings will flatten out the population growth curve? (either directly or through people's fear of disasters) I truly hope we're never going to reach that point - that would pretty much be the way out for humanity as we know it.
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OpenSSH 4.2 released
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Hint: use aliases in.ssh/config to make your life easier. Something like:
Host alias1
Hostname hostname
User username
[add extra options like authentication method, X11 forwarding, agent forwarding, private key to use and so on]
then you do scp file.tar.bz2 alias1/path or fish://alias1/some/path (and get a password prompt). Less typing - and works with bash completion too.
Speaking of Intel's roadmap, I have to wonder at the future of their plans to push Itanium by merging the chipset support with Xeon, now that the "Itanium ecosystem" looks to be going the way of the dodo ecosystem. With MS less and less interested in their platform and HP having second thoughts, even economy of scale might be too late to save it. Especially since the industry learned that there's no need to instantly bow when Intel flexes its muscle (how many computers with BTX form factor are sold these days?)
Who foots the bill? easy - the consumers, as always. Sony gets license money from the vendors that sell Blu-Ray content, who pass the costs onto the buyers. The only hope is that the economy of scale will eventually bring these costs down.
The point is (unless I missed it completely, in which case please correct me) Lexmark is saying "you get $30 off when you buy this cartridge if you send it back to us when it's empty." Now, if you buy it and claim the $30 rebate, you pretty much agree to ship back the empty cartridge to Lexmark - and not doing so (by refilling somewhere else) is the contract breach here.
That does not make everything good, but at least it's not the same thing as the inflamatory/. article. Let's bash Lexmark for the actual evil things they're doing, as there are plenty of those alread.
I still don't see how this guarantees anything. It's not like you can't play with DNS resolution to simply redirect the MPAA addresses to 127.0.0.1 so as long as there's no trusted path to the server the whole exercise is moot.
The most I can see them doing about this is forcing the DVD key to be downloaded for each disk - and the wrong server won't have the right key. Even then, it won't work for stand-alone, so I doubt this will happen. Otherwise, unless they somehow enforce the whole shebang - secure firmware, secure player software, secure network access to a secure server, it's all just FUD - either that, or a money losing exercise for the hardware companies.
How is grammar checking a function of the document format?
The issue here is not "OOo sucks", but "MSOffice will NOT implement OASIS document formats because they are less functional" - and AFAIK MSOffice has grammar checking, poor as it is. And btw, OpenDocument has language tagging, so that's not an issue - the front-end WP can determine the language and do spell-checking.
"force a single, less functional document format on all state agencies."
OK, so assuming they DO know what they were saying, that would mean something like...
"instead of using several, more functional but not compatible[*] document formats"
[*] as in: every new MSOffice version adds new "functionality", but unless you upgrade you won't be able to use it - so backwards interoperability will suck by default.
or am I missing something? Did MS change its stance from "the de-facto industry standard is the document format of our latest Office suite - so please upgrade NOW"?
Speaking of which - what's with VOIP functionality in documents? Leaving aside the apparent idiocy of the statement, what does he *mean* by that? Using an embedded OLE reference that happens to be to a MS object and won't work with other software, let alone other platforms? Otherwise, if they just do something like "sip://", "h323://" or whatever in the link href, what is the problem again?
I suspect you never meant any of these to be answered; however, let me add my 2 cents worth of solutions.
Styles shortcuts: exists in 2.0 beta. Valid complaint for 1.x.
Revert to default formatting: select, Alt+O (Format) Alt+D (Default)
Update table of contents... try shortcuts instead of mouse (I thought you claimed to be a keyboard person?) Alt+T Alt+U Alt+U (Tools->Update->Update All)
Try doing a typical book thing of having an abbreviated table of contents with just the chapter titles, followed by a more detailed one with the sections as well. Writer can't, at least not without getting all the page numbering and title information seriously wrong.
I have to concur with a previous post - WTF are you talking about???
Try specifying useful things like relative sizes in a supposedly hierarchical system..
Erm... you're missing the point here. It's NOT hierarchical. IMHO that's one of the more idiotic feature in Word - at least, for someone coming from to LaTeX. I know, you're probably tired of people saying how Word sucks compared to *TeX. Different thinking framework I guess - as in "a document style should be tweaked in the beginning and then touched again". Also, to explain the above statement, I see no reason to have a style hierarchy as some dumb VB macro may modify a parent stle in Normal.dot and propagate all the changes where I don't want them. But that's just my quirks, so YMMV.
You don't seem to be able to place a text frame of an exact size, and then insert a table into it to fill the frame, for example. You have to have a blank line outside the table afterwards, whether you want it or not.
Huh??? you want me to post a picture of it? When the table does not reach the bottom of the frame you have an empty line; when it does, there's only the table. You must have left AutoSize on for the frame.
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I am sure we'll have it the moment we are out of beta.
Famous last words?
heh, had to try. Google fans, lighten up, it loks like your favorite corporation redefined "beta" - and it's OK, it just confuses the heck out of some people. They'll have the features when in whatever beta release they'll want them (if they do want them) Just don't hold your breath for "out of beta."
So somehow it being a perpetual beta (if any of the *other* Gogle services outside searches are any indication) makes it OK to have feature-free software? Beta software is supposed to be feature-complete and out to fix bugs, not test for feature requests. That's what pre-alpha is for, technically. Adding more features would make it a version bump, you know, as in GTalk 1.1
It's dumb to trash a beta for bugs, as finding those it the purpose of the exercise. Missing features are a different issue.
IIRC, they said they expected to come close to saturating their connection while mirroring a new Fedora Core release - and it didn't happen. That's significantly more than 40MB. I think kernel.org doesn't really have to worry about slashdotting.
Sorry to have to break it to you, but there are people out there whose primary language is NOT English, so mis-spelling happens.
"Rome simply produced the largest empire in human history, ever"
Ha-ha-ha! Largest... what? Size? puny compared to the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. Timeline? Even if you inclde the Eastern Roman empire (aka Byzantine) - which typically one would not - the dynastic period of Egypt was longer. So in which was was it largest, "genius"?
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True, but there's a point where the nose begins to swamp the signal. Past that point, everything is noise, as the customer will want only a couple of the big group photos and the extra good ones just get thrown away with the bad ones. Now, as with most things, where that optimumpoint lies is dictated by a combination of skill and luck - but unless you rely purely on luck, it should be well below 100.
What use is having photo display on a postmark-sized screen? Bragging rights? phones have larger screens for photo display these days. And for plain music playing color is inefficient (waste of power)
All the nano has for itself, AFAICT, is the size - chicks will find interesting places to carry it in. Perhaps battery life, too, but I'll wait for real-use tests before counting that one in.
good luck finding a compiler built into the kernel
... nevermind then
what, you mean GNU/Emacs does not come with a built-in compiler??? Someone'd better warn RMS soon.
oh, you meant Linux
It canceled out any expected gains from the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.
Of course - bloody planet noticed humans meant to stop it from getting too warm and fuzzy and it decided (just a few years ago) to start releasing CO2 from decaying biomass. Ha! take that, puny humans!
Those who understand that what these measurements do is shift the *known* baseline for the emission part of the CO2 cycle (as in "there was this effect that we weren't aware of that has been going on since before mankind existed and obviously all those millenia when the overall CO2 concentration was stable in the atmosphere something else that we're probably not aware of balanced it out") should keep quiet to not disturb the "the planet did it!" crowd. Oops!
Is that default paragraph formatting? Charcter formatting? Frame formatting? There needs to be one option for each type of formatting data that can be styled.
/ducks
:-)
I would disagree, but I guess it depends on what you are used with. Personally, I don't find it ambiguous - when something is selected, the default is for that; otherwise, the smallest element that would make sense (a word, typically, if you are inside a paragraph). Maybe I misunderstood you though.
That's why there's a hierarchical display of styles in the Stylist window, and an entry to specify the effective parent on the dialog when you define a style. You're right that it doesn't work properly as a hierarchy, but it seems pretty clear that it was meant to.
It's a list, not a hierarchical tree display. And "Linked with" has a "None" option, too - sometimes, within the same document it makes sense to have linked styles . That does not mean all styles have to have interdependencies. Not everything has to be derived from Object.
I agree that perhaps I just didn't encounter the bugs you did. OOo is quite far from perfect (everybody probably has gripes with some part of it or another) I trust you filed a bug report so that maybe I can get luckier and never stumble upon those problems in a later version?
Wait a moment, you lost me. Linux binary-only drivers are bad, but somehow OSX binary-only drivers are ok? Is Darwin a little open or a little closed now?
One could put up an argument against treating public key authentication as a final answer. You can't enforce passphrase length - and one user with an empty passphrase private key on a compromised machine is worse than a weak password - the attacker will just get the proper account and key from .ssh/config, no need for a keylogger. Add to that agent forwarding and it can quickly become a nice mess; that's not to mention security implications for ssh-agent itself - even a good passphrase won't help if a compromised root can just get/use the key from the agent. Also, depending on your network setup, removing compromised public keys can be tedious for sysadmins (relying on users to realize the compromise and handle it might be ... dangerous under some circumstances). Finally, the reasoning framework that assumes 'stupid' keyloggers that will log the passphrase but never figure out the key that goes with it is bound to come and bite you from an unexpected direction at some point in the future. [*]
.ssh/authorized_keys (especially the "from" option)
;-)
That said, I do like the per-key restrictions in
All in all, PKA is certainly a good tool - but not to be applied blindly. And as always educating the users is the weak link. Meanwhile, if you're stuck with passwords, enforcing a good long password should make the brute-force scripts more like a huge-log nuissance to be handled with the likes of DenyHosts.
[*] yeah, I know I'm kind of paranoid. On the flip side, according to Lacan human knowledge is paranoiac (being built on deception) so I should be in good company
That's ok ... as long as you're not afraid of being locked out of connecting by a script DOS-ing your server through the limit module. Plus, it does not help a lot unless you set a small number of retries on failed passwords until sshd drops the connection (by default, MaxAuthTries is 6) You might want to also look into MaxStartups and LoginGraceTime for extra tweaking.
So I guess IBM would be safe, while SCO would be forbidden to distribute derivative code of the Linux kernel (but not other GPL-ed products). That sounds reasonable, at least in project form.
come on first post isn't That important, is it?
/. on a daily basis?
no, but how long would you stand having to read only last year's
Do you mean it will be unsafe when disaster killings will flatten out the population growth curve? (either directly or through people's fear of disasters) I truly hope we're never going to reach that point - that would pretty much be the way out for humanity as we know it.
Hint: use aliases in .ssh/config to make your life easier. Something like:
Host alias1
Hostname hostname
User username
[add extra options like authentication method, X11 forwarding, agent forwarding, private key to use and so on]
then you do scp file.tar.bz2 alias1/path or fish://alias1/some/path (and get a password prompt). Less typing - and works with bash completion too.
Speaking of Intel's roadmap, I have to wonder at the future of their plans to push Itanium by merging the chipset support with Xeon, now that the "Itanium ecosystem" looks to be going the way of the dodo ecosystem. With MS less and less interested in their platform and HP having second thoughts, even economy of scale might be too late to save it. Especially since the industry learned that there's no need to instantly bow when Intel flexes its muscle (how many computers with BTX form factor are sold these days?)
Who foots the bill? easy - the consumers, as always. Sony gets license money from the vendors that sell Blu-Ray content, who pass the costs onto the buyers. The only hope is that the economy of scale will eventually bring these costs down.
Whew, that was an easy one. Next question?
The point is (unless I missed it completely, in which case please correct me) Lexmark is saying "you get $30 off when you buy this cartridge if you send it back to us when it's empty." Now, if you buy it and claim the $30 rebate, you pretty much agree to ship back the empty cartridge to Lexmark - and not doing so (by refilling somewhere else) is the contract breach here.
/. article. Let's bash Lexmark for the actual evil things they're doing, as there are plenty of those alread.
That does not make everything good, but at least it's not the same thing as the inflamatory
I still don't see how this guarantees anything. It's not like you can't play with DNS resolution to simply redirect the MPAA addresses to 127.0.0.1 so as long as there's no trusted path to the server the whole exercise is moot.
The most I can see them doing about this is forcing the DVD key to be downloaded for each disk - and the wrong server won't have the right key. Even then, it won't work for stand-alone, so I doubt this will happen. Otherwise, unless they somehow enforce the whole shebang - secure firmware, secure player software, secure network access to a secure server, it's all just FUD - either that, or a money losing exercise for the hardware companies.
How is grammar checking a function of the document format?
The issue here is not "OOo sucks", but "MSOffice will NOT implement OASIS document formats because they are less functional" - and AFAIK MSOffice has grammar checking, poor as it is. And btw, OpenDocument has language tagging, so that's not an issue - the front-end WP can determine the language and do spell-checking.
"force a single, less functional document format on all state agencies."
...
OK, so assuming they DO know what they were saying, that would mean something like
"instead of using several, more functional but not compatible[*] document formats"
[*] as in: every new MSOffice version adds new "functionality", but unless you upgrade you won't be able to use it - so backwards interoperability will suck by default.
or am I missing something? Did MS change its stance from "the de-facto industry standard is the document format of our latest Office suite - so please upgrade NOW"?
Speaking of which - what's with VOIP functionality in documents? Leaving aside the apparent idiocy of the statement, what does he *mean* by that? Using an embedded OLE reference that happens to be to a MS object and won't work with other software, let alone other platforms? Otherwise, if they just do something like "sip://", "h323://" or whatever in the link href, what is the problem again?
I suspect you never meant any of these to be answered; however, let me add my 2 cents worth of solutions.
... try shortcuts instead of mouse (I thought you claimed to be a keyboard person?) Alt+T Alt+U Alt+U (Tools->Update->Update All)
... you're missing the point here. It's NOT hierarchical. IMHO that's one of the more idiotic feature in Word - at least, for someone coming from to LaTeX. I know, you're probably tired of people saying how Word sucks compared to *TeX. Different thinking framework I guess - as in "a document style should be tweaked in the beginning and then touched again". Also, to explain the above statement, I see no reason to have a style hierarchy as some dumb VB macro may modify a parent stle in Normal.dot and propagate all the changes where I don't want them. But that's just my quirks, so YMMV.
Styles shortcuts: exists in 2.0 beta. Valid complaint for 1.x.
Revert to default formatting: select, Alt+O (Format) Alt+D (Default)
Update table of contents
Try doing a typical book thing of having an abbreviated table of contents with just the chapter titles, followed by a more detailed one with the sections as well. Writer can't, at least not without getting all the page numbering and title information seriously wrong.
I have to concur with a previous post - WTF are you talking about???
Try specifying useful things like relative sizes in a supposedly hierarchical system..
Erm
You don't seem to be able to place a text frame of an exact size, and then insert a table into it to fill the frame, for example. You have to have a blank line outside the table afterwards, whether you want it or not.
Huh??? you want me to post a picture of it? When the table does not reach the bottom of the frame you have an empty line; when it does, there's only the table. You must have left AutoSize on for the frame.
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I am sure we'll have it the moment we are out of beta.
Famous last words?
heh, had to try. Google fans, lighten up, it loks like your favorite corporation redefined "beta" - and it's OK, it just confuses the heck out of some people. They'll have the features when in whatever beta release they'll want them (if they do want them) Just don't hold your breath for "out of beta."
So somehow it being a perpetual beta (if any of the *other* Gogle services outside searches are any indication) makes it OK to have feature-free software? Beta software is supposed to be feature-complete and out to fix bugs, not test for feature requests. That's what pre-alpha is for, technically. Adding more features would make it a version bump, you know, as in GTalk 1.1
It's dumb to trash a beta for bugs, as finding those it the purpose of the exercise. Missing features are a different issue.
IIRC, they said they expected to come close to saturating their connection while mirroring a new Fedora Core release - and it didn't happen. That's significantly more than 40MB. I think kernel.org doesn't really have to worry about slashdotting.
By contrast, there's only one thing that I think makes more sense in OpenOffice, which is page layout in the format menu instead of the file menu.
One word for you: Styles. Once you get to really use them in OO, you'll never see MSWord's formatting "abilities" in the same light again.
Sorry to have to break it to you, but there are people out there whose primary language is NOT English, so mis-spelling happens.
... what? Size? puny compared to the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. Timeline? Even if you inclde the Eastern Roman empire (aka Byzantine) - which typically one would not - the dynastic period of Egypt was longer. So in which was was it largest, "genius"?
"Rome simply produced the largest empire in human history, ever"
Ha-ha-ha! Largest