This is one of many features which makes X (and most window managers running on it) so great - folks who HATE focus shifting automatically with just movement of the mouse can disable it, and folks who want it can turn it on, all without having to install unstable hacks like some other operating environments require.
btw, under most circumstances, your software shouldn't be trying to dictate how it interacts with the other windows (such as calling raise() on all clicks). That is the domain of the window manager.
Agreed. However one thing I dislike about some X apps (Gimp in particular) is that when I click on an app, I WANT all of the associated windows/dialogs to rise to the top. I'm referring to The Gimp in particular. I find it extremely annoying that when I click on a document window, it does not raise all of the associated tool palettes - I need to go and raise each one manually. This is one of many usability flaws in that application. There is a partial fix for this in the preferences (the transient window behavior) but it does not work quite as one would expect.
Well they used to show videos (and lampoon them on Beavis and Butthead) about half the time from 1991 until 1996 or so, then they expanded their "reality" TV show lineup and dropped videos for the other half of their schedule, suggesting that folks who wanted videos check out either their sister station VH1, or their new fledgling station MTV-2 (M2?), which was to be all videos, all the time. The sad thing is, with the onset of widespread digital cable and digital satellite and MTV2 being accessible to all, they've been trashing that channel with yet more idiotic "reality" shows as well. It was "the real world's" becoming (somewhat of) a hit in the early '90s which prompted MTV to shift their format. Why they kept the name MTV is beyond me.
Then Canada's MuchMusic followed suit. When Digital Cable came into town, I was SO happy because they offered MuchMusic. I LOVED that channel - it was just like MTV of the early '80s, pretty much all music, all the time, and then they went the way of MTV around late 2000, early 2001 and I quit watching and started downloading music videos instead - there is no other way to see videos any more (unless you just want to see hair bands late at night on MTV2. I saw hair bands in the 80s, and they were just as boring then as they are now, or they're showing "bling bling" gangsta rappers, or Titney Spears. Thanks, but no thanks.
The time is ripe for a new music station. Show me some progressive rock, or just a hard-hitting rock band with GOOD musicians. Not manufactured bubble-gum please-everyone all-songs-sound-the-same crap. Real musicians with GREAT guitarists, GREAT vocalists (no filtering/processing on the vocals required!), and GREAT drummers and keyboardists. There are plenty of small time bands playing clubs and bars in Boston, New York, LA, you name it. Give those bands some airtime. You just might discover the next U2, the next Pink Floyd, the next REM, the next Garth Brooks, the next Led Zeppelin, or the next Elton John. There are all kinds of GREAT acts out there with varied sounds, strong local followings that are unsigned, are unattractive to big labels because they want their handful of 20x platinum teenybopper singles and merchandising rather than a slew of good steady-selling bands whose following grows over time. Some of the true independent labels should get together and start a new independent music station. Remain independent as far as labels go, but pool resources together and build a network which can help to launch you into the big leagues and compete on an even keel with the likes of Capitol, etc.-- some of these bands could probably fill stadiums and produce huge hits were they given the chance to gain some exposure, even though their sound may not be quite what the big labels want, or won't cooperate with the likes of Capitol and let themselves get porked over by a lousy contract.
The same as clamav for Unix. Why not halt the spread of Windows worms via file shares and emails? You can host network shares on a Mac, and receive and send email, right? If you receive a worm in an email, and your machine won't execute it but can forward to your grandma's Windows PC, wouldn't you rather not spread that worm to granny's machine?
Scientists discover that polio vaccines don't work against other diseases. Details at 11.
Seriously, this isn't news. This was obvious from the time where any signature updates were ever required, or when viruses, scumware, etc. included code to disable/corrupt/uninstall/otherwise cripple antivirus and antispyware software. They're merely admitting it now.
If I had that kind of money I wouldn't pay $15mil to boost Russia's economy. Instead, I'd invest in Scaled Composites space endeavors, and as part of the agreement for that investment I'd require several rides. By doing that, not only would I be earning a return down the road, I'd get a few joyrides, be involved in new technology rather than getting a joyride in 40+ year old technology, and helping to ensure that private space flights become commonplace and more accessible to all. Do you think Russia is going to put that money into R&D on better technology?
But then again, Russia's space tours cater to those who have more money than vision or intelligence.
Beginning package names with a k is helpful in some package manager GUIs (notably YaST) because it allows for quick searching of KDE components and dependent apps to mark them for upgrading - yes, most package managers will pick up dependencies for you but then you have to approve each change, why not search for all packages beginning with 'k' and mark the kde apps for upgrade right from the get-go?
Even from a tab completion point, it's not all that bad. So you have to type k first - it's not that bad. Just type the second letter and hit tab. It's not that hard -- really it isn't.
yes but not until the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008, and even then possibly not for a full season but somewhere between 13 and 15 episodes, and no word on the previously-announced direct-to-dvd movies. Some speculation is that the movies will be chopped up into tv episodes.
It's extremely annoying to have those farking tooltips pop up and shut off every time you hit the control key, such as copy & pasting or using keystrokes instead of the mouse to navigate. Nice troll, though!:-p
I think AC's point is the user in question resorts to personal attacks rather than discussing the issue. If I had mod points today I'd mod up AC's post.
I feel bad for the engineers who had nothing to do with this scam, but why should SCO continue to exist? Their product has stagnated and they lost their clients when they started suing customers (see Daimler-Chrysler, Autozone), they no longer have their Linux distribution, basically, nothing of value of their Unix licensing contract, which they are in breach of and will be losing when Novell gets their claws around Darl's neck. The engineers with half a clue have hopefully left the company long ago, and made it abundantly clear to prospective employers that they had nothing to do with the current racketeering scheme Darl is running.
I think this is bad for AMD because ATI has crappy support, crappy customer experience, and crappy drivers.
Either this would vastly improve ATI or it could drag AMD down into mediocrity. If the merger does happen I truly hope that it is the former (ATI cleaning up its act across the board) but all too often with these sorts of mergers its the former that happens. ATI has a lot of great technology with fast GPUs, but when the drivers suck, customer service and support are nonexistent, and they absolutely refuse to document registers for folks (third party developers) willing to develop drivers for FREE, I have absolutely, positively NO reason to buy ATI products, even if they do offer superior products (like their All in Wonder series). I used to be an ATI fanatic (most of my machines - personal and business- are STILL ATI-equipped/crippled in the hopes they'll clean up their act) but on all new machines I've been choosing NVidia, and recommend NVidia to clients whenever it's possible.
If you succeed at anything in technology, and make a good living at it, Microsoft will consider it essential to enter and attempt to dominate that market.
THe lowest ranks are the first to be held accountable if they obey illegal orders, and the first to get thrown in the brig if they refuse to obey illegal or unethical orders. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Even worse, they can get charged with treason or similar crimes if they choose to blow the whistle on such orders. Would you want to be in that situation? Would you or I make the correct moral and ethical decisions in such situations regardless of the consequences?
Now, MySpace is beginning to create its own ecosystem of third-party companies that are developing features and applications for the giant digital community. The idea is to encourage other companies to use their creativity and expertise to come up with things for MySpace users that MySpace itself hasn't.
Okay, it wasn't the simpsons. Seriously though, AOL has done exactly that, and it hasn't been working out too well for them lately. It worked well before the inception of the graphical web browser and ubiquitous internet access, but before that it was a surefire business model. Now, with so much "free" content on the web that does not even require registration, why would one want to become a MySpace member to access it?
SCO is in this so deep they cannot keep their lies straight. Here in the peanut gallery I am anxiously awaiting the moment where IBM lawyers get to dissect SCO's line of reasoning from beginning to end and put that miserable company out of existence, then watch Novell's actions when they go after SCO execs for libel and breach of contract. The whole SCO situation is far more entertaining than most of today's drivel on television (which is a sad statement of what passes for entertainment today).
SCO is very much in the red, not the black. To whom is SCO supposed to send those UNIX licensing fees? Who actually owns the Unix "IP" in question? I'll give you a hint: it's not SCO, it's a company which actively produces a very popular Linux distribution.
No, I'm sure that both IBM and Novell will be able to prove just cause to pierce the corporate veil, based on libel, securities fraud (the SEC will be all over Darl for that BTW), criminal negligence, and breach of contract.
And, if you think that CxOs are immune, may I direct you to enron? Ken Lay found himself in a mound of crap - lucky for him, his ticker gave out.
1. Buy lots of SCO stock 2. Falsely accuse IBM of giving Linux SCO code - code that SCO themselves released under the GPL in the form of Caldera Linux (later SCO OpenLinux) 3. Dump some of your stock 4. Receive practically every scrap of Linux and AIX documentation, source code, marketing literature, test reports, design docs, etc. that IBM ever produced 5. Dump some SCO stock 6. Realizing that you've been called on your bluff, accuse IBM of destroying alleged "evidence" 7. Dump more SCO stock
(months later, after IBM and Novell are eating SCO's remains)
If my impression of the..AA is right, the intent is NOT to curb "piracy" but to eliminate ALL legal exceptions to copyright (e.g., Fair Use) and eliminate ALL limitations of duration (e.g., no more limited monopoly, no more social contract under the constitution which gives useful inventions and arts to the public domain) on copyrights. They want to make it so Mickey Mouse NEVER goes into public domain, while they're allowed to re-interpret shakespeare, grimm, aesop, and so forth ad-naseum and yet have their reinterpretations of those public domain works to be protected by copyright for all of eternity.
They KNOW they cannot prevent this so-called "piracy" but they want to brainwash me, you, politicians, and of course the children to believe that fair use does not exist, and copyright should never, ever, ever expire and works should never, ever enter the public domain. We don't grant a 10-year, 20-year, 30-year, or even 70-year monopoly on works now. Thanks to DRM and the DMCA, they now have a de-facto state-authorized-yet-unconstitutional unlimited copyright, and they want to reeducate us all to believe that this is how it should be, despite what the constitution states in black and white about the limited duration monopoly.
There is a problem with that - what if you (god forbid) lose a finger or an entire hand in an accident?..AA would insist that you must buy the media again (remember: this is an organization that wants to brainwash you to believe that backups, format shifting, and timeshifting are not fair use), not their problem. Incidentally, while they DRM their DVDs, allegedly to prevent "piracy" but not block backups under fair use, they will not replace a DVD I have that went bad (a DVD I hadn't gotten around to backing up, of COURSE).
And think, the contract for the Viking went to the lowest bidder. One can only wonder what components the GP is selecting. Bill & Ted's bogus motherboard?
Can you open OO.o version 2 documents in OO.o version 1 and still use all the version 2 features? Or at all, for that matter?
No, but on the other hand, OOo does not set one back $400-$500 per seat either, and you're not forced to use OOo, you can choose koffice, wordperfect office, etc. instead.
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Agreed. However one thing I dislike about some X apps (Gimp in particular) is that when I click on an app, I WANT all of the associated windows/dialogs to rise to the top. I'm referring to The Gimp in particular. I find it extremely annoying that when I click on a document window, it does not raise all of the associated tool palettes - I need to go and raise each one manually. This is one of many usability flaws in that application. There is a partial fix for this in the preferences (the transient window behavior) but it does not work quite as one would expect.
Well they used to show videos (and lampoon them on Beavis and Butthead) about half the time from 1991 until 1996 or so, then they expanded their "reality" TV show lineup and dropped videos for the other half of their schedule, suggesting that folks who wanted videos check out either their sister station VH1, or their new fledgling station MTV-2 (M2?), which was to be all videos, all the time. The sad thing is, with the onset of widespread digital cable and digital satellite and MTV2 being accessible to all, they've been trashing that channel with yet more idiotic "reality" shows as well. It was "the real world's" becoming (somewhat of) a hit in the early '90s which prompted MTV to shift their format. Why they kept the name MTV is beyond me.
Then Canada's MuchMusic followed suit. When Digital Cable came into town, I was SO happy because they offered MuchMusic. I LOVED that channel - it was just like MTV of the early '80s, pretty much all music, all the time, and then they went the way of MTV around late 2000, early 2001 and I quit watching and started downloading music videos instead - there is no other way to see videos any more (unless you just want to see hair bands late at night on MTV2. I saw hair bands in the 80s, and they were just as boring then as they are now, or they're showing "bling bling" gangsta rappers, or Titney Spears. Thanks, but no thanks.
The time is ripe for a new music station. Show me some progressive rock, or just a hard-hitting rock band with GOOD musicians. Not manufactured bubble-gum please-everyone all-songs-sound-the-same crap. Real musicians with GREAT guitarists, GREAT vocalists (no filtering/processing on the vocals required!), and GREAT drummers and keyboardists. There are plenty of small time bands playing clubs and bars in Boston, New York, LA, you name it. Give those bands some airtime. You just might discover the next U2, the next Pink Floyd, the next REM, the next Garth Brooks, the next Led Zeppelin, or the next Elton John. There are all kinds of GREAT acts out there with varied sounds, strong local followings that are unsigned, are unattractive to big labels because they want their handful of 20x platinum teenybopper singles and merchandising rather than a slew of good steady-selling bands whose following grows over time. Some of the true independent labels should get together and start a new independent music station. Remain independent as far as labels go, but pool resources together and build a network which can help to launch you into the big leagues and compete on an even keel with the likes of Capitol, etc.-- some of these bands could probably fill stadiums and produce huge hits were they given the chance to gain some exposure, even though their sound may not be quite what the big labels want, or won't cooperate with the likes of Capitol and let themselves get porked over by a lousy contract.
The same as clamav for Unix. Why not halt the spread of Windows worms via file shares and emails? You can host network shares on a Mac, and receive and send email, right? If you receive a worm in an email, and your machine won't execute it but can forward to your grandma's Windows PC, wouldn't you rather not spread that worm to granny's machine?
:D
Please, think of the grandparents!
Scientists discover that polio vaccines don't work against other diseases. Details at 11.
Seriously, this isn't news. This was obvious from the time where any signature updates were ever required, or when viruses, scumware, etc. included code to disable/corrupt/uninstall/otherwise cripple antivirus and antispyware software. They're merely admitting it now.
If I had that kind of money I wouldn't pay $15mil to boost Russia's economy. Instead, I'd invest in Scaled Composites space endeavors, and as part of the agreement for that investment I'd require several rides. By doing that, not only would I be earning a return down the road, I'd get a few joyrides, be involved in new technology rather than getting a joyride in 40+ year old technology, and helping to ensure that private space flights become commonplace and more accessible to all. Do you think Russia is going to put that money into R&D on better technology?
But then again, Russia's space tours cater to those who have more money than vision or intelligence.
Beginning package names with a k is helpful in some package manager GUIs (notably YaST) because it allows for quick searching of KDE components and dependent apps to mark them for upgrading - yes, most package managers will pick up dependencies for you but then you have to approve each change, why not search for all packages beginning with 'k' and mark the kde apps for upgrade right from the get-go?
Even from a tab completion point, it's not all that bad. So you have to type k first - it's not that bad. Just type the second letter and hit tab. It's not that hard -- really it isn't.
yes but not until the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008, and even then possibly not for a full season but somewhere between 13 and 15 episodes, and no word on the previously-announced direct-to-dvd movies. Some speculation is that the movies will be chopped up into tv episodes.
It's extremely annoying to have those farking tooltips pop up and shut off every time you hit the control key, such as copy & pasting or using keystrokes instead of the mouse to navigate. Nice troll, though! :-p
Hello? Arrested Development? Futurama? Firefly?
Hey if it works for one show. . .
I think AC's point is the user in question resorts to personal attacks rather than discussing the issue. If I had mod points today I'd mod up AC's post.
This is a must-have for any konqueror user.
:)
Are you fed up with those "smart key" tooltips that keep popping up in konqueror?
edit ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc
add this section:
[Access Keys]
Enabled=false
Now konqueror will provide an enjoyable experience without those obnoxious tool tips.
I feel bad for the engineers who had nothing to do with this scam, but why should SCO continue to exist? Their product has stagnated and they lost their clients when they started suing customers (see Daimler-Chrysler, Autozone), they no longer have their Linux distribution, basically, nothing of value of their Unix licensing contract, which they are in breach of and will be losing when Novell gets their claws around Darl's neck. The engineers with half a clue have hopefully left the company long ago, and made it abundantly clear to prospective employers that they had nothing to do with the current racketeering scheme Darl is running.
s/crappy customer experience/service/
although, the end result is a crappy customer experience.
I think this is bad for AMD because ATI has crappy support, crappy customer experience, and crappy drivers.
Either this would vastly improve ATI or it could drag AMD down into mediocrity. If the merger does happen I truly hope that it is the former (ATI cleaning up its act across the board) but all too often with these sorts of mergers its the former that happens. ATI has a lot of great technology with fast GPUs, but when the drivers suck, customer service and support are nonexistent, and they absolutely refuse to document registers for folks (third party developers) willing to develop drivers for FREE, I have absolutely, positively NO reason to buy ATI products, even if they do offer superior products (like their All in Wonder series). I used to be an ATI fanatic (most of my machines - personal and business- are STILL ATI-equipped/crippled in the hopes they'll clean up their act) but on all new machines I've been choosing NVidia, and recommend NVidia to clients whenever it's possible.
Everything is Microsoft's house.
If you succeed at anything in technology, and make a good living at it, Microsoft will consider it essential to enter and attempt to dominate that market.
The worst part?
THe lowest ranks are the first to be held accountable if they obey illegal orders, and the first to get thrown in the brig if they refuse to obey illegal or unethical orders. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Even worse, they can get charged with treason or similar crimes if they choose to blow the whistle on such orders. Would you want to be in that situation? Would you or I make the correct moral and ethical decisions in such situations regardless of the consequences?
Okay, it wasn't the simpsons. Seriously though, AOL has done exactly that, and it hasn't been working out too well for them lately. It worked well before the inception of the graphical web browser and ubiquitous internet access, but before that it was a surefire business model. Now, with so much "free" content on the web that does not even require registration, why would one want to become a MySpace member to access it?
SCO is in this so deep they cannot keep their lies straight. Here in the peanut gallery I am anxiously awaiting the moment where IBM lawyers get to dissect SCO's line of reasoning from beginning to end and put that miserable company out of existence, then watch Novell's actions when they go after SCO execs for libel and breach of contract. The whole SCO situation is far more entertaining than most of today's drivel on television (which is a sad statement of what passes for entertainment today).
SCO is very much in the red, not the black. To whom is SCO supposed to send those UNIX licensing fees? Who actually owns the Unix "IP" in question? I'll give you a hint: it's not SCO, it's a company which actively produces a very popular Linux distribution.
No, I'm sure that both IBM and Novell will be able to prove just cause to pierce the corporate veil, based on libel, securities fraud (the SEC will be all over Darl for that BTW), criminal negligence, and breach of contract.
And, if you think that CxOs are immune, may I direct you to enron? Ken Lay found himself in a mound of crap - lucky for him, his ticker gave out.
1. Buy lots of SCO stock
2. Falsely accuse IBM of giving Linux SCO code - code that SCO themselves released under the GPL in the form of Caldera Linux (later SCO OpenLinux)
3. Dump some of your stock
4. Receive practically every scrap of Linux and AIX documentation, source code, marketing literature, test reports, design docs, etc. that IBM ever produced
5. Dump some SCO stock
6. Realizing that you've been called on your bluff, accuse IBM of destroying alleged "evidence"
7. Dump more SCO stock
(months later, after IBM and Novell are eating SCO's remains)
8. Have fun being Bubba's bitch in federal prison
If my impression of the ..AA is right, the intent is NOT to curb "piracy" but to eliminate ALL legal exceptions to copyright (e.g., Fair Use) and eliminate ALL limitations of duration (e.g., no more limited monopoly, no more social contract under the constitution which gives useful inventions and arts to the public domain) on copyrights. They want to make it so Mickey Mouse NEVER goes into public domain, while they're allowed to re-interpret shakespeare, grimm, aesop, and so forth ad-naseum and yet have their reinterpretations of those public domain works to be protected by copyright for all of eternity.
They KNOW they cannot prevent this so-called "piracy" but they want to brainwash me, you, politicians, and of course the children to believe that fair use does not exist, and copyright should never, ever, ever expire and works should never, ever enter the public domain. We don't grant a 10-year, 20-year, 30-year, or even 70-year monopoly on works now. Thanks to DRM and the DMCA, they now have a de-facto state-authorized-yet-unconstitutional unlimited copyright, and they want to reeducate us all to believe that this is how it should be, despite what the constitution states in black and white about the limited duration monopoly.
There is a problem with that - what if you (god forbid) lose a finger or an entire hand in an accident? ..AA would insist that you must buy the media again (remember: this is an organization that wants to brainwash you to believe that backups, format shifting, and timeshifting are not fair use), not their problem. Incidentally, while they DRM their DVDs, allegedly to prevent "piracy" but not block backups under fair use, they will not replace a DVD I have that went bad (a DVD I hadn't gotten around to backing up, of COURSE).
And think, the contract for the Viking went to the lowest bidder. One can only wonder what components the GP is selecting. Bill & Ted's bogus motherboard?
No, but on the other hand, OOo does not set one back $400-$500 per seat either, and you're not forced to use OOo, you can choose koffice, wordperfect office, etc. instead.