KDE 4.1, 4.x release dates are immaterial to me
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What To Expect In KDE 4.1
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For me, KDE 4 is ready when Amarok 2 is out.
Generally, this should be true. We'll know that KDE is really ready when the next generations of Kopete (IM), Amarok (music), K3B (CD/DVD burning), K9copy (video DVD backup/authoring), and the other end-user applications are ready and integrated. Otherwise, to use KDE apps I'd still need to have the KDE 3.x libs, and if that's the case, why rush to switch?
Eh... Not really. From the very article you linked, that wasn't any kind of "study" or experiment where they tried to match up the best players of each gender and have them play against each other. It was just some 55 year old sexist ass making a challenge to women dozens of years younger than himself.
Ok Mr. Reading comprehension, I can play the "quote one sentence from the already linked Wikipedia article" game, too.
Wikipedia sez:
Under Pope Paul VI, the Congregation for Doctrine of Faith ceased publication of the Index in 1966 following the end of the Second Vatican Council, largely for practical considerations.
With an end date like 1966, the/. poster who mentioned not having encountered any banned books in school was quite possibly going to school at a time where the list of banned books was still in effect.
Why did you tell me that? For God's sake, the man already linked the Wikipedia article! Anyone who wondered what that was (although it should have been very obvious from the name) would have just clicked the link!
Reading body language is also really hard to do over the phone. You can get voice tone though.
That's not entirely true. If you know someone well enough, you can hear facial expressions over the phone (if they're talking at the same time, of course). I can hear the difference when my friends are smiling, squinting, etc.
I would advise you to give him interesting or rewarding problems to solve. If it's programming, once he learns the basic syntax, have him tackle classic logic puzzles like Towers of Hanoi or something similar.
There was a problem I remember from my computer science class a couple of years ago (I took all of the CS courses my high school had to offer my freshman and sophomore years) where you started in one corner of a grid and had to reach the opposite corner. In between were obstacles and bonus squares of different numeric values called "cookies". The assignment was to write the code to create the grid and then navigate it (the GUI code was taken care of, thankfully). That was one of my favorite assignments.
For general technical knowledge, you could always do what my dad did to me: he offered me a broken laptop. I didn't have a laptop at the time (and I don't have one anymore since that one really broke recently), and he offered me an old ThinkPad T22 (Pentium III class, this was in 2005). What was wrong with it? The BIOS had something wrong with it that messed with the power management features. The result is that Windows locked up whenever you unplugged it from the AC adapter. So he threw Xandros at me and let me have it. After that, it wasn't long before I started downloading every distribution I could get my hands on.
Gnome and XFCE distributions almost always include gksu, and KDE comes with kdesu, either of which can be used for authentication. You don't have to 'drop to a shell level' to do system-level filemanagement. If your complaint is just that any jerk can't open up a filemanager and start mucking around with system files, then I'm sorry--can't help you then.
don't shoot the messenger! A lot of times the people in charge of software deployment and management are not the developers, and behind the scenes, they may roll their eyes at the developers' insistence on IE6 as much as you do. Whether or not they have the skills to solve the problem, they don't have the authority or free time to do it; that's the developers' turf.
If you're having connection speed issues that seem to arise especially doing name lookups or connection initiation, you might try disabling IPv6. If you have IPv6 installed, but your hardware/software doesn't support it somewhere along the line, you can waste a lot of time doing IPv6 lookups.
Oh? Because this one's pretty damn close. Judging by your statements, you've probably never dealt with deploying or managing equipment or software at all. Let's start with your crazy conspiracy theory example of why networking equipment can be difficult to set up.
in this day and age, why on earth can't you just plug the routers into the wall and they configure ?
Maybe because not all companies, organizations, departments of either, or any particular group want to use their networks the same way, to do the exact same thing?
Do you even know what a router does? A router connects two different networks. I suppose if you wanted to plug one router in between two such networks and just completely connect it that would be a functional "just configured" situation... except that if one of those networks for the internet, for example, you'd be inviting the internet onto your network.
Are you suggesting that router come with no default configurations, or that they do nothing at all until you shout mysterious phrases in made-up languages under a full Martian moon so that other people can make money "configuring" them like that?
And, just for the record, configuring a router or switch was probably the least of the pains Childs went to in hoarding the San Francisco city network.
For those of you who think this is just a troll, or are just unfamiliar with ASF:
Advanced Systems Format is a Microsoft-defined container format for audio and video streams that can also hold arbitrary content such as images or links to Web resources.
If a user plays an infected music file, it will launch Internet Explorer and load a malicious Web page which asks the user to download a codec, a well-known trick to get someone to download malware.
It's like the ActiveX of multimedia wrapper files. A security nightmare? You bet. Does it still depend on user stupidity? Well, yes.
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For me, KDE 4 is ready when Amarok 2 is out.
Generally, this should be true. We'll know that KDE is really ready when the next generations of Kopete (IM), Amarok (music), K3B (CD/DVD burning), K9copy (video DVD backup/authoring), and the other end-user applications are ready and integrated. Otherwise, to use KDE apps I'd still need to have the KDE 3.x libs, and if that's the case, why rush to switch?
Eh... Not really. From the very article you linked, that wasn't any kind of "study" or experiment where they tried to match up the best players of each gender and have them play against each other. It was just some 55 year old sexist ass making a challenge to women dozens of years younger than himself.
Ok Mr. Reading comprehension, I can play the "quote one sentence from the already linked Wikipedia article" game, too.
Wikipedia sez:
With an end date like 1966, the /. poster who mentioned not having encountered any banned books in school was quite possibly going to school at a time where the list of banned books was still in effect.
Hurr, hurr, troll. You got me!
Why did you tell me that? For God's sake, the man already linked the Wikipedia article! Anyone who wondered what that was (although it should have been very obvious from the name) would have just clicked the link!
Save the trees, plant hemp?
Christ man! He said options, and I bet he'd consider what you described as one of them.
Do you need a hug?
That's not entirely true. If you know someone well enough, you can hear facial expressions over the phone (if they're talking at the same time, of course). I can hear the difference when my friends are smiling, squinting, etc.
I would advise you to give him interesting or rewarding problems to solve. If it's programming, once he learns the basic syntax, have him tackle classic logic puzzles like Towers of Hanoi or something similar.
There was a problem I remember from my computer science class a couple of years ago (I took all of the CS courses my high school had to offer my freshman and sophomore years) where you started in one corner of a grid and had to reach the opposite corner. In between were obstacles and bonus squares of different numeric values called "cookies". The assignment was to write the code to create the grid and then navigate it (the GUI code was taken care of, thankfully). That was one of my favorite assignments.
For general technical knowledge, you could always do what my dad did to me: he offered me a broken laptop. I didn't have a laptop at the time (and I don't have one anymore since that one really broke recently), and he offered me an old ThinkPad T22 (Pentium III class, this was in 2005). What was wrong with it? The BIOS had something wrong with it that messed with the power management features. The result is that Windows locked up whenever you unplugged it from the AC adapter. So he threw Xandros at me and let me have it. After that, it wasn't long before I started downloading every distribution I could get my hands on.
Gnome and XFCE distributions almost always include gksu, and KDE comes with kdesu, either of which can be used for authentication. You don't have to 'drop to a shell level' to do system-level filemanagement. If your complaint is just that any jerk can't open up a filemanager and start mucking around with system files, then I'm sorry--can't help you then.
Futurama?
don't shoot the messenger! A lot of times the people in charge of software deployment and management are not the developers, and behind the scenes, they may roll their eyes at the developers' insistence on IE6 as much as you do. Whether or not they have the skills to solve the problem, they don't have the authority or free time to do it; that's the developers' turf.
If you're having connection speed issues that seem to arise especially doing name lookups or connection initiation, you might try disabling IPv6. If you have IPv6 installed, but your hardware/software doesn't support it somewhere along the line, you can waste a lot of time doing IPv6 lookups.
Oh? Because this one's pretty damn close. Judging by your statements, you've probably never dealt with deploying or managing equipment or software at all. Let's start with your crazy conspiracy theory example of why networking equipment can be difficult to set up.
Maybe because not all companies, organizations, departments of either, or any particular group want to use their networks the same way, to do the exact same thing?
Do you even know what a router does? A router connects two different networks. I suppose if you wanted to plug one router in between two such networks and just completely connect it that would be a functional "just configured" situation... except that if one of those networks for the internet, for example, you'd be inviting the internet onto your network.
Are you suggesting that router come with no default configurations, or that they do nothing at all until you shout mysterious phrases in made-up languages under a full Martian moon so that other people can make money "configuring" them like that?
And, just for the record, configuring a router or switch was probably the least of the pains Childs went to in hoarding the San Francisco city network.
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You can download the OSE version from your distributor, and the closed-source version is free-as-in-beer.
I don't understand why people keep making this association!
Pirates HATE torrents. I can't even tell you how many beautiful vessels we've lost to the fuckers. Ugh.
Sincerely,
The Racketeering Industry Association of America
PS: RAmen.
Puh-puh-puh-PRIVATE tracker?
OGG is the wrapper format. Vorbis is the audio format.
For those of you who think this is just a troll, or are just unfamiliar with ASF:
It's like the ActiveX of multimedia wrapper files. A security nightmare? You bet. Does it still depend on user stupidity? Well, yes.
You mean the neurons that make me care if somebody knows my name?
You could make enabling single user mode much more difficult using a GRUB password in combination with a BIOS password.
You're posting from work, too, aren't you? ;-)
My first thought was "Sweet justice."
That, too, of course. In fact, I've heard you'll also need everything nice.
That's a lot of work. If you were smart like me, you would have done what I did and saved that time by building an x86 clone in your mom's garage!