[offtopic] I can't see the problem with Osama using Linux. First day I see him using Debian, i'll say "way to go, man"... BTW, China sure has a repressive, dictatorial government, but they've come a long way in the last couple of (perhaps ten) years. I'm pretty convinved that eventually (with more bills like the DMCA or the Patriot Act) China might be a lot more free nation than the United States. (Hell, the time will come when we'll all migrate to China and ask for political asylum. Imagine the irony in that.) [/offtopic]
Yeah, Enlightenment and Windowmaker are there. But there are other alternatives; a shocking amount of them - that's what Linux (in the OS sense) is about. FVWM, AfterStep, Blackbox & derivatives (I use a heavily customized Openbox environment myself), IceWM, etc.. Actually, this is why I don't agree with calling the web browser in the Gnome/KDE menus a 'Web Browser'. We have to put the name of the individual programs there, as there is an abundance of them. Choice is very important.
If you want a x86 based laptop, getting a decent one without Windows is a chore, especially if you're like me and equate "a decent one" as "it has the Thinkpad logo on it".
I recently bought an Asus L3800Cx - it surely doesn't have a Thinkpad logo on it, but I like to think of it as a pretty decent one. It's quite powerful, it doesn't get too hot, it wasn't too expensive either; and there was no form of MS Windows in the package. (I was pretty surprised - and pleased.)
Sorry, but Mozilla's interface isn't GTK2 based. It's Gecko based. The interfaces of Galeon and Epiphany are GTK2 based, but otherwise the code is mostly different.
Heh. Don't flame me either, it's not a joke though: Debian -is- the obviously superior Linux Distribution, and one of the most important of the causes is the lack of the graphical installer and automatic hardware detection. I hope they will never get build in - they would make my work much harder and slower.
Yes, there's a tendency of linux distros moving towards the 'usability' and 'comfort' of Windows, but to me, that seems like a horrifyingly wrong thing to do. I don't use Windows because it is too unusable and uncomfortable for my needs. Windows gets in my way - Debian doesn't. And that's about it.
Hm, CD prices. I'm Hungarian; my father is the editor and the founder of the country's first classical music internet magazine. These days, they organize 'meetings' quite frequently, which have a central theme and where to they invite some famous people who have to do something with that theme. The theme of the last meeting happened to be copyrights, and some interesting guys were invited: the leader of the Hungarian counterpart of the RIAA, called Artisjus (the same person is the CEO of a large record label, Hungaroton, and a composer as well); a journalist, who recently published a really bad-mannered but insightful article on why the music industry is dying in Hungary (and pretty much everywhere); the CEO of a quite big CD store and so on.
Anyway, among other things, it was asked from the Artisjus man to explain the current prices of CDs, and he said (claimed) that a CD is much more expensive to manufacture than it is commonly believed - because of recording costs, copyright levies, marketing and such. The journalist's very point has been that the industry is in a decline because they have to counter the dramatic drop in quality with advertising - with the consequence that if an album isn't sold in about one month, it will never be sold. The record label guy couldn't refute this.
Well, i've been burning DVDs under linux since a while. Admittedly, it wasn't exactly trivial to set up, but you can get it to work by using a program called cdrecord-prodvd (a fork of cdrecord with dvd support built in). You can download it from here: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
Yes, definitely the immortal DOOM. I played the shareware episode when I was quite young.. I've been having dreams of playing the game, even of being inside the game ever since. There are few games that measure up to this old original (in terms of gameplay and even storyline, I'd say) - perhaps Quake I (the single player mode of which I greatly respect, contrary to no few people).
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I agree. Also I wonder when people start complaining about all the headaches, experiencing random nausea and such after a movie screening, will the MPAA blame this on the pirates too in some roundabout way? (The video cameras emit RF radiation etc. etc.) Or will they just try to pay the susceptible people silence money?
Actually, I wouldn't like Linux to standardize anything. IMHO, the greatest advantage of our favorite os is the wide range of choices available. We should have more web servers, more desktops, more of everything to choose from..
One small correction: Lem is totally and absolutely not French. He's Polish. (He's first name is Stanislaw btw, with a cute little line through the L. Doesn't sound like French to me.) He wrote a number of really excellent books, including the nowadays hauntingly relevant Eden, thoughtful Solaris and a collection of apparent fairy tales, Cyberiad.
imho, you have exactly the right attitude to gui desktops. gnome and windows share their problems because they are the same: "intuitive" interfaces that "everyone" can use. i say, screw that: i want a less than intuitive interface, which i will invest time in to master; which then will do everything i want the way i want, about three thousand times faster and more efficient. (compare gnome/windows with blackbox & appropriate key bindings, for example.) i think oss projects (at least, most of them) should try to build powerful interfaces instead of intuitive ones.
If anyone's even marginally interested, here's a quick'n'dirty C program to seek these 'magic numbers' - of the hexadecimal sort. Should compile on practically anything - just type 'make'...
I has actually crimped before - but the interesting thing is the actual word. I mean, afaik there is such a verb 'to crimp' in English: but nowadays it exists in Hungarian in the same form 'krimpelni' which means only the act you do with the cable, nothing else.
AFAIK, a p2p solution called 'Direct Connect' (homepage: here) supports 'private hubs': I think this is just what you wanted. A problem is that the original software package is windows-only; but of course, there are some linux ports available. The system itself is quite elegant, works nicely and has everything you would expect from a good p2p package, however I recall hearing that some windows implementations use Visual Basic, which is just plain wrong.
Well, actually I think one of the many advantages of linux that the target of it is not World Dominance (like the target of Windoze). Many of the cartoons out there make jokes of this. (I enjoy those very much.) K-Zed of D.O.P. P.S. Sorry of my English - I am Hungarian.
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[offtopic] I can't see the problem with Osama using Linux. First day I see him using Debian, i'll say "way to go, man"... BTW, China sure has a repressive, dictatorial government, but they've come a long way in the last couple of (perhaps ten) years. I'm pretty convinved that eventually (with more bills like the DMCA or the Patriot Act) China might be a lot more free nation than the United States. (Hell, the time will come when we'll all migrate to China and ask for political asylum. Imagine the irony in that.) [/offtopic]
AFAIK, with the curent X11 architecture, it is impossible to switch color depth on the fly (without restarting the X server, that is).
Yeah, Enlightenment and Windowmaker are there. But there are other alternatives; a shocking amount of them - that's what Linux (in the OS sense) is about. FVWM, AfterStep, Blackbox & derivatives (I use a heavily customized Openbox environment myself), IceWM, etc.. Actually, this is why I don't agree with calling the web browser in the Gnome/KDE menus a 'Web Browser'. We have to put the name of the individual programs there, as there is an abundance of them. Choice is very important.
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If you want a x86 based laptop, getting a decent one without Windows is a chore, especially if you're like me and equate "a decent one" as "it has the Thinkpad logo on it".
I recently bought an Asus L3800Cx - it surely doesn't have a Thinkpad logo on it, but I like to think of it as a pretty decent one. It's quite powerful, it doesn't get too hot, it wasn't too expensive either; and there was no form of MS Windows in the package. (I was pretty surprised - and pleased.)
Sorry, but Mozilla's interface isn't GTK2 based. It's Gecko based. The interfaces of Galeon and Epiphany are GTK2 based, but otherwise the code is mostly different.
Yes, there's a tendency of linux distros moving towards the 'usability' and 'comfort' of Windows, but to me, that seems like a horrifyingly wrong thing to do. I don't use Windows because it is too unusable and uncomfortable for my needs. Windows gets in my way - Debian doesn't. And that's about it.
Anyway, among other things, it was asked from the Artisjus man to explain the current prices of CDs, and he said (claimed) that a CD is much more expensive to manufacture than it is commonly believed - because of recording costs, copyright levies, marketing and such. The journalist's very point has been that the industry is in a decline because they have to counter the dramatic drop in quality with advertising - with the consequence that if an album isn't sold in about one month, it will never be sold. The record label guy couldn't refute this.
Well, i've been burning DVDs under linux since a while. Admittedly, it wasn't exactly trivial to set up, but you can get it to work by using a program called cdrecord-prodvd (a fork of cdrecord with dvd support built in). You can download it from here: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
There's only one thing i wanna know: Why... Oh why, for god's sake.
Yes, definitely the immortal DOOM. I played the shareware episode when I was quite young.. I've been having dreams of playing the game, even of being inside the game ever since. There are few games that measure up to this old original (in terms of gameplay and even storyline, I'd say) - perhaps Quake I (the single player mode of which I greatly respect, contrary to no few people).
I agree. Also I wonder when people start complaining about all the headaches, experiencing random nausea and such after a movie screening, will the MPAA blame this on the pirates too in some roundabout way? (The video cameras emit RF radiation etc. etc.) Or will they just try to pay the susceptible people silence money?
Actually, I wouldn't like Linux to standardize anything. IMHO, the greatest advantage of our favorite os is the wide range of choices available. We should have more web servers, more desktops, more of everything to choose from..
One small correction: Lem is totally and absolutely not French. He's Polish. (He's first name is Stanislaw btw, with a cute little line through the L. Doesn't sound like French to me.) He wrote a number of really excellent books, including the nowadays hauntingly relevant Eden, thoughtful Solaris and a collection of apparent fairy tales, Cyberiad.
imho, you have exactly the right attitude to gui desktops. gnome and windows share their problems because they are the same: "intuitive" interfaces that "everyone" can use. i say, screw that: i want a less than intuitive interface, which i will invest time in to master; which then will do everything i want the way i want, about three thousand times faster and more efficient. (compare gnome/windows with blackbox & appropriate key bindings, for example.) i think oss projects (at least, most of them) should try to build powerful interfaces instead of intuitive ones.
Apparently, you can find... highly handy things on SearchKing too: check out their weed search service.
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I has actually crimped before - but the interesting thing is the actual word. I mean, afaik there is such a verb 'to crimp' in English: but nowadays it exists in Hungarian in the same form 'krimpelni' which means only the act you do with the cable, nothing else.
AFAIK, a p2p solution called 'Direct Connect' (homepage: here) supports 'private hubs': I think this is just what you wanted. A problem is that the original software package is windows-only; but of course, there are some linux ports available. The system itself is quite elegant, works nicely and has everything you would expect from a good p2p package, however I recall hearing that some windows implementations use Visual Basic, which is just plain wrong.
Don't you think, the cause was that Putin said if Yeltsin doesn't resign, he won't get more vodka?
Well, actually I think one of the many advantages of linux that the target of it is not World Dominance (like the target of Windoze). Many of the cartoons out there make jokes of this. (I enjoy those very much.) K-Zed of D.O.P. P.S. Sorry of my English - I am Hungarian.