You do realise that sun is a generic noun, whereas the Sun is the specific sun in our solar system, also called Sol. "Our sun" (lowercase) is the Sun (capitalized), or Sol.
I was wondering if you'd been reading too much science fiction, but now I wonder if you've not read enough....
Yes, but Saturn is a planet of Sol (our sun); for another star to be at this distance is "close." Our nearest star is Proxima centauri, a mere 268 000 AU away (approximately).
I'm not really sure what you mean here. I'll assume the most likely: that you don't like the idea of running a package manager (on Linux) that downloads and installs packages. If so, I believe you must be mistaken about security. With one of these package managers, the default setup has only trusted repositories from a central server (typically the distribution vendor). It would be akin to MS providing a package manager to install Office, Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat, Paint.Net, or whichever other available apps people would install. (Of course, the analogy falls apart because most programs that would be on this type of Windows manager would not be freely available, but I think you see my point.)
You can add repositories, of course, providing much extensibility and flexibility. If you don't even trust the default repositories, well, you can always download and compile your own software. (Hell, make sure to read all the source code too, so you KNOW what your program is doing.)
And by the way, these package managers certainly do prompt you! First of all, you have to run them as the root user, so ostensibly only the system administrator can even run the manager. And once you open it (the author was using Synaptic, so that's what I have in mind here) it prompts you if anything unexpected happens: downloading from an untrusted source, confirming the installation/removal of software, etc. Certainly a hell of a lot more than you'll get when you download some 733T shareware from download.com that turns out to be [spy|mal|ad]ware that screws up your system.
At that point, this package manager has kept track of where the program has installed its files, so it's very easy to remove exactly those files that it installed. In Windows, each program provides its own uninstaller (or doesn't), making it very hard to ensure that uninstalling will actually remove what the program installed.
Sure.* Tools|Options or Edit|Preferences, Content tab, change default font, click Advanced, and change the font for the appropriate languages. I'm not sure as which one Slashdot comes up--because I have all my fonts set to the same thing--but this does work.
*- Disclaimer: This is for Firefox 1.5. Opera's configuration is similar, though may involve using a CSS.
This is definitely the best and most creative joke among the comments. While jokes about the French are overrated, why was this the one to be modded down?
The real reason I moved back to Firefox after I tried Opera (and I gave it a good month) was because one day, Gmail just stopped working. On different days, both at work and at home, I could not log back into Gmail no matter what I did (short of reinstalling Opera, because I'm just too lazy to do that). This also happened to a coworker; he switched back too.
I have an even better idea. If you like Opera, it'd probably be easier to search for your problem rather than customize a different browser. The Opera forums are a great place to find information and to report bugs.
(For what it's worth, I remember hearing about problems with GMail on the first technical preview of Opera 9.)
Wikipedia begging for money is going to put it against a lot of priorities, and Wikipedia is probably going to lose.
I got the same feeling from reading the appeal.
I'm doing this for the child in Africa who is going to use free textbooks and reference works produced by our community and find a solution to the crushing poverty that surrounds him. But for this child, a website on the Internet is not enough; we need to find ways to get our work to people in a form they can actually use.
OK, Jimmy. I'll go donate my money to help him and his family not die of AIDS. Seriously though, I do think Wikimedia is a great project, but it still seems to have a bit of disparity between the ideal and the reality. This "[insert technological buzzword here] will save the world!" mentality just doesn't fly.
While the volume of spam reaching AOL email inboxes has remained at low levels compared to it's height in late 2003, the spam that's out there is more insidious, crafty, devious, and dangerous than ever," Charles Stiles, AOL's postmaster who helps direct its spam-fighting unit, said in a statement.
With this coming from AOL's postmaster, it's no wonder AOL users get so much spam.
Kudos to a fantastic browser! I've been using Opera since early 2002 and have been pleased in every way.
However, rather akin to OpenOffice and Firefox, I've always thought that Opera was doing itself a disservice by "going its own way" with the GUI toolkits. I use Linux more than Windows (but still use both a lot) and I've felt more comfortable using other applications that use the native toolkits.* They seem to fit on the desktop much better and are not quirky.
What has motivated Opera to use its own toolkit with themes that only 'look' native? Is it the ability to theme? And now that it's free, do you think that Opera would have an edge over Firefox (and other browsers) if it used the native toolkits for the platforms on which it runs?
Alternatively, what do you think of perhaps creating a browsing engine (like Webcore or the ever-nascent Gecko engine) that can be distributed and used in various browser projects?
*- Yes, Opera on Linux uses Qt, but this doesn't fit in with any existing KDE themes. OpenOffice has made efforts to fit in with KDE and GTK+ themes, but this is too little too late; the widgets are still quirky.
I bought a Dimension back in 2001 before I really knew much about computers and it came with Rambus RDRAM. (I think it was an upgrade from the standard RAM provided, but I can't recall.) However, when I went to upgrade in 2003, I found that it was incredibly expensive (it still is), assumedly because it never caught on.
So while I support Dell making a decision based on its merits, let's hope this isn't Blu-ray's fate....
Not to jump on the "Dell lovez Linux!!! WHEE!!!!!1" bandwagon (because I'm not seeing it yet either), but who does better? In my experience with using a Dell (which I bought before I switched to Linux), I've had a very good time finding specifications for all components online (looking at what my monitor can handle when setting up X and checking the specs on the... I'm retarded) whereas I've had a bear of a time with family and friends' computers. I've also had no problems getting anything working on it; all components work right out of the box on Linux.
Again, I'm not trying to argue, but I've just not heard of any better 'support' from other manufacturers.
3) Free *nix/BSD: Which one to choose? There's so many distros out there. Most of them don't have the status quo technical support available. Instead they have mailing-lists and Wikis. Do the majority of computer users know what those things are or are able to use them (especially if X won't load for some reason!). The majority of users need the technical support over the phone that most of us dread.
Um, Ubuntu?
You make a good point about there not being support available, but Dell does their own support, so they could just hire some people to start a Linux tech center. It's just a matter of supply and demand. With a quality distribution like Ubuntu, you could offer support on the standard installation, and (analogous to Windows support now) politely turn away anyone who's really meddled with the OS. ("I'm sorry sir, I can only help you if you use the Ubuntu-provided kernel" or "You'll need to remove all packages from that repository first.":)
Being a Windows software support consultant but an avid Linux (Arch and Ubuntu) user, this would be my dream job at the moment.
You actually can already do it, at least here in Brazil. Dell offers the n-Series of Desktop computers, without any MS software. It comes with FreeDOS.
*- Honestly, I'm not sure of the difference. I see the "Desktop" menu on my Arch Linux GNOME panel, whereas the Ubuntu screenshot I linked to has a "System" menu. I wonder if Ubuntu's is modified at all, though that seems only reasonably likely.
Does everyone see that this should be considered more bloatware from Dell? I mean, the HardOCP review of Dells gaming rig (last week on/.) proves what everyone says, Dell puts too much crap on their boxes. Well, now thier putting another browser there, albeit a better one. It's technically another thing we (consumers) don't need.
Perhaps, but I don't think anyone complains when the offerings are good. The problem, in my estimation, comes when Dell offers limited-function, limited-time software that is obviously more of a way to advertise than to offer the user some quality software on their new machine. In that, they have gotten worse recently, but this seems to be a step in the right direction: delivering quality--if not a bit outdated--software that seems to be in response to what the people are using.
Re:A better title would be "Why use a toolkit"?
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Damned skimming, why do you fail me now?!
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It doesn't seem to give any information about GTK+ itself, even what the difference between GTK+ and plain GTK is (I am guessing that GTK+ is simply the C++ bindings for GTK).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp_Toolkit: "Initially created for the graphics program the GIMP, the GIMP Toolkit -- abbreviated as GTK+ -- is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System, intended for creating graphical user interfaces."
I do agree that this is a less-than-informative article. This was the kind that really frustrated me when I was figuring out which toolkit I wanted to favor when I started programming. (I chose GTK+.)
But yeah, GTK+ is the proper abbreviation, though I'm not sure why they appended the +.
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Gah, WTF?
sun: A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
You do realise that sun is a generic noun, whereas the Sun is the specific sun in our solar system, also called Sol. "Our sun" (lowercase) is the Sun (capitalized), or Sol.
I was wondering if you'd been reading too much science fiction, but now I wonder if you've not read enough....
"Sol is the name or personification of the Sun" (ours, that is). I wasn't translating from Latin. And you did mean "nitpick", right?
Yes, but Saturn is a planet of Sol (our sun); for another star to be at this distance is "close." Our nearest star is Proxima centauri, a mere 268 000 AU away (approximately).
I'm not really sure what you mean here. I'll assume the most likely: that you don't like the idea of running a package manager (on Linux) that downloads and installs packages. If so, I believe you must be mistaken about security. With one of these package managers, the default setup has only trusted repositories from a central server (typically the distribution vendor). It would be akin to MS providing a package manager to install Office, Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat, Paint.Net, or whichever other available apps people would install. (Of course, the analogy falls apart because most programs that would be on this type of Windows manager would not be freely available, but I think you see my point.)
You can add repositories, of course, providing much extensibility and flexibility. If you don't even trust the default repositories, well, you can always download and compile your own software. (Hell, make sure to read all the source code too, so you KNOW what your program is doing.)
And by the way, these package managers certainly do prompt you! First of all, you have to run them as the root user, so ostensibly only the system administrator can even run the manager. And once you open it (the author was using Synaptic, so that's what I have in mind here) it prompts you if anything unexpected happens: downloading from an untrusted source, confirming the installation/removal of software, etc. Certainly a hell of a lot more than you'll get when you download some 733T shareware from download.com that turns out to be [spy|mal|ad]ware that screws up your system.
At that point, this package manager has kept track of where the program has installed its files, so it's very easy to remove exactly those files that it installed. In Windows, each program provides its own uninstaller (or doesn't), making it very hard to ensure that uninstalling will actually remove what the program installed.
Give me a Linux package manager any day....
"Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!"
Sure.* Tools|Options or Edit|Preferences, Content tab, change default font, click Advanced, and change the font for the appropriate languages. I'm not sure as which one Slashdot comes up--because I have all my fonts set to the same thing--but this does work.
*- Disclaimer: This is for Firefox 1.5. Opera's configuration is similar, though may involve using a CSS.
Are those graphs really created in MS Excel?
This is definitely the best and most creative joke among the comments. While jokes about the French are overrated, why was this the one to be modded down?
(For what it's worth, I remember hearing about problems with GMail on the first technical preview of Opera 9.)
I got the same feeling from reading the appeal.
OK, Jimmy. I'll go donate my money to help him and his family not die of AIDS. Seriously though, I do think Wikimedia is a great project, but it still seems to have a bit of disparity between the ideal and the reality. This "[insert technological buzzword here] will save the world!" mentality just doesn't fly.
HTML tags...?
Or you could choose "Plain Old Text",
you ignorant clod.
That's almost the number of dupes on Slashdot this year...
[crunches some numbers]
And the trends from last year match, too!
I'm grabbing my tinfoil hat.
Kudos to a fantastic browser! I've been using Opera since early 2002 and have been pleased in every way.
However, rather akin to OpenOffice and Firefox, I've always thought that Opera was doing itself a disservice by "going its own way" with the GUI toolkits. I use Linux more than Windows (but still use both a lot) and I've felt more comfortable using other applications that use the native toolkits.* They seem to fit on the desktop much better and are not quirky.
What has motivated Opera to use its own toolkit with themes that only 'look' native? Is it the ability to theme? And now that it's free, do you think that Opera would have an edge over Firefox (and other browsers) if it used the native toolkits for the platforms on which it runs?
Alternatively, what do you think of perhaps creating a browsing engine (like Webcore or the ever-nascent Gecko engine) that can be distributed and used in various browser projects?
*- Yes, Opera on Linux uses Qt, but this doesn't fit in with any existing KDE themes. OpenOffice has made efforts to fit in with KDE and GTK+ themes, but this is too little too late; the widgets are still quirky.
I bought a Dimension back in 2001 before I really knew much about computers and it came with Rambus RDRAM. (I think it was an upgrade from the standard RAM provided, but I can't recall.) However, when I went to upgrade in 2003, I found that it was incredibly expensive (it still is), assumedly because it never caught on.
So while I support Dell making a decision based on its merits, let's hope this isn't Blu-ray's fate....
Not to jump on the "Dell lovez Linux!!! WHEE!!!!!1" bandwagon (because I'm not seeing it yet either), but who does better? In my experience with using a Dell (which I bought before I switched to Linux), I've had a very good time finding specifications for all components online (looking at what my monitor can handle when setting up X and checking the specs on the... I'm retarded) whereas I've had a bear of a time with family and friends' computers. I've also had no problems getting anything working on it; all components work right out of the box on Linux.
Again, I'm not trying to argue, but I've just not heard of any better 'support' from other manufacturers.
3) Free *nix/BSD: Which one to choose? There's so many distros out there. Most of them don't have the status quo technical support available. Instead they have mailing-lists and Wikis. Do the majority of computer users know what those things are or are able to use them (especially if X won't load for some reason!). The majority of users need the technical support over the phone that most of us dread.
:)
Um, Ubuntu?
You make a good point about there not being support available, but Dell does their own support, so they could just hire some people to start a Linux tech center. It's just a matter of supply and demand. With a quality distribution like Ubuntu, you could offer support on the standard installation, and (analogous to Windows support now) politely turn away anyone who's really meddled with the OS. ("I'm sorry sir, I can only help you if you use the Ubuntu-provided kernel" or "You'll need to remove all packages from that repository first."
Being a Windows software support consultant but an avid Linux (Arch and Ubuntu) user, this would be my dream job at the moment.
You actually can already do it, at least here in Brazil.
:)
Dell offers the n-Series of Desktop computers, without any MS software. It comes with FreeDOS.
This is possible in the US too, but the problem is that it doesn't actually save the 'Microsoft tax'.
Methinks the OP just forgot about this part of it.
According to this binary translator, that binary says:
"yes, yes, fuck me harder, fuck me harder! stick it in my usb port!"
Pretty funny.
Wow, where've you been? In 2.0 and later, you click Actions -> Log out. They've changed the menu in 2.12, so now you click Desktop -> Log out or System -> Log out*. In either case, one of the choices in the window that comes up is to shut down the computer: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/original.php?rel ease=469&slide=76
*- Honestly, I'm not sure of the difference. I see the "Desktop" menu on my Arch Linux GNOME panel, whereas the Ubuntu screenshot I linked to has a "System" menu. I wonder if Ubuntu's is modified at all, though that seems only reasonably likely.
Does everyone see that this should be considered more bloatware from Dell? I mean, the HardOCP review of Dells gaming rig (last week on /.) proves what everyone says, Dell puts too much crap on their boxes. Well, now thier putting another browser there, albeit a better one. It's technically another thing we (consumers) don't need.
Perhaps, but I don't think anyone complains when the offerings are good. The problem, in my estimation, comes when Dell offers limited-function, limited-time software that is obviously more of a way to advertise than to offer the user some quality software on their new machine. In that, they have gotten worse recently, but this seems to be a step in the right direction: delivering quality--if not a bit outdated--software that seems to be in response to what the people are using.
Damned skimming, why do you fail me now?!
It doesn't seem to give any information about GTK+ itself, even what the difference between GTK+ and plain GTK is (I am guessing that GTK+ is simply the C++ bindings for GTK).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp_Toolkit:
"Initially created for the graphics program the GIMP, the GIMP Toolkit -- abbreviated as GTK+ -- is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System, intended for creating graphical user interfaces."
I do agree that this is a less-than-informative article. This was the kind that really frustrated me when I was figuring out which toolkit I wanted to favor when I started programming. (I chose GTK+.)
But yeah, GTK+ is the proper abbreviation, though I'm not sure why they appended the +.