Well, I still like more the old PalmOS interface with smaller controls that could easily be touched with precission, either with the stylus or with the nail. I don't see capactive screens as inherently better.
Google is at fault here. How hard is to make Android be multiuser? This is technology that has been available in Linux since it exists, yet Google decided that each family member is going to have his own device. Now I can't share my tablet with my wife because maybe she can see my appointment to her surprise party.
I did some changes a few years ago to icewm that mattered to me. One of them was included in captnmark's official release. You can see the rest at my github.
It's not much, but they solved everything I needed. If you need something in particular, maybe we could get an arrangement though I don't have now the time I used to have and just have a basic comprehension of the code.
As
stenvar says, what is there to do? It's been good enough for years.
The ""WHOIS PRAETORIAN" search that shows, if I recall, several invalid IP addresses like "23.75.345.200"
C'mon, are you serious? Are you going to take value out of every film which doesn't use real IP addresses? What about all those films that use 555 phone numbers? What a simple argument.
I've been using IceWM for about 10 years now. And I maximize and minimize a lot and, guess what? I've been doing it with the keyboard for years too. People who watches me managing my windows can't follow my speed of action and are frequently amazed.
The trick is simple: alt+space activates the context menu of the current window (just as if you clicked right button on the title bar). The, you have the three most common options just a centimeter from your finger: X to maximize, N to minimize, C to close. Both X and C can be typed with the same hand that has pressed alt+space, so it's quicker than, say, alt+F4. By the way, this three options work exactly the same under Windows, so it's a pretty good habit.
If I need to move a window around, I will never click on the title bar: I will type alt+space+m in 20 miliseconds and then I can move the window just moving the mouse from where it is, without the need to go to the title bar. This also works on Windows.
If I want to send a window to another virtual desktop, it's pretty easy: alt+space+t (for move To), and then the number of the desktop. Want to make a window on top of all the others? alt+window+y (for laYer) and then A (for Above dock) or N for Norma, or maybe B for Below... and all that just with one hand at the speed of light.
When you're married, what's yours is hers, what's hers is hers, and what's our's is hers.
That sounds pretty much like a deal with the Devil, where everything you owned now belongs to Her Satanic Majesty and you don't own anything at all, neither your own life...
Meccano is remarkably the best construction game ever made. It's not only about imagination and building things but also about learning how to use the tools, mixing them when neccesary and understanding physics (for example, why does this nut gets unscrewed when the motor is on) and learning real world building, and in later years, they should be able to fix their own bikes when they need to change the brakes, because they know the tools, how to use them and why are they to be used that way.
if it's only 900Gb of data or, for the sake of the argument, suppose it really is 9000Gb of data, come on, what could be the cost of hosting 10 terabytes? How much is yahoo saving every year after removing geocities? Something like, I dunno, 100 bucks a year? You can buy 1Tb disk for less than 100$ and will last for a decade. And in a decade you'll have 1000Tb for less than 100$.
Really, I think it's been much more troublesome for yahoo to remove geocities from the net than it would have been keeping it alive.
Yes, you'll be able to do that. That is, probably, the most basic functionality of Asterisk. You can, as well, make your Asterisk server connect to another SIP provider (like voipbuster and the like) and redirect your phone calls through the trunk it provides. And that's just the beginning...
4. Discussion settled? Ask "Should there be brackets around code even if there's only one line? Like this:
If( foo == true)
a=x;
Or is it:
If( foo = true)
{
a=x;
}
Given that those sentences are not equivalent, I'd choose the first one. Sure, it's not pretty and prone to make you make mistakes. However, I think that your intention is to compare if foo is true, not to set foo to true and then test if that succeed.
The bandwith of 10 fingers is a lot higher than a mouse with just one pointer and a few buttons. You can potentially transmit a lot more instructions in a lot less time using your hands, if only we figured out a proper way to make it work.
Yes, but it already exists: it's called a keyboard.
So you mean I have to spend more money on something I wouldn't need if I could get a modern resistive touch screen phone.
That could be a solution, but I'd face one of the problems pointed before: can I use my BIC pen to use the touch screen, or do I have to keep changing pens and stylus?
Imagine trying to use photoshop on a touch screen. All the areas you want to select are automatically obscured by the very finger(s) that are doing the selecting. How stoooopid is that?
That's the very thing I really HATE about capacitive touch-screens. All this blah blah blah about how much precision it has. What the heck do I mind its precision when I don't know where I've put my finger, since I cannot see what's behind it? Not to speak of the problems using a screen of these when you're wearing gloves and such.
This things are really stupid. I can get far more accuracy in my old Palm TX since I can use a stylus as thin as I want, my fingernail or just the reverse side of the BIC pen I'm using to write down on paper.
What the fuck!
Llamazares shouldn't go ever to the US, the best thing that can happen to him is a shot in the forehead, if airport police has watched for a while this photos, he will really seem to them like a terrorist...
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Well, I still like more the old PalmOS interface with smaller controls that could easily be touched with precission, either with the stylus or with the nail. I don't see capactive screens as inherently better.
Tell that to BETA!
Google is at fault here. How hard is to make Android be multiuser? This is technology that has been available in Linux since it exists, yet Google decided that each family member is going to have his own device. Now I can't share my tablet with my wife because maybe she can see my appointment to her surprise party.
Even the OMG Ponies CSS theme was radically better than Beta.
It's not much, but they solved everything I needed. If you need something in particular, maybe we could get an arrangement though I don't have now the time I used to have and just have a basic comprehension of the code.
As stenvar says, what is there to do? It's been good enough for years.
You know static IPs can be assigned by a DHCP server, right?
Do you know what happens with practice and theory? In theory, they are both the same. In practice, they are not.
You mean like LKM, which has existed for, erm, like forever?
The ""WHOIS PRAETORIAN" search that shows, if I recall, several invalid IP addresses like "23.75.345.200"
C'mon, are you serious? Are you going to take value out of every film which doesn't use real IP addresses? What about all those films that use 555 phone numbers? What a simple argument.
I've been using IceWM for about 10 years now. And I maximize and minimize a lot and, guess what? I've been doing it with the keyboard for years too. People who watches me managing my windows can't follow my speed of action and are frequently amazed.
The trick is simple: alt+space activates the context menu of the current window (just as if you clicked right button on the title bar). The, you have the three most common options just a centimeter from your finger: X to maximize, N to minimize, C to close. Both X and C can be typed with the same hand that has pressed alt+space, so it's quicker than, say, alt+F4. By the way, this three options work exactly the same under Windows, so it's a pretty good habit.
If I need to move a window around, I will never click on the title bar: I will type alt+space+m in 20 miliseconds and then I can move the window just moving the mouse from where it is, without the need to go to the title bar. This also works on Windows.
If I want to send a window to another virtual desktop, it's pretty easy: alt+space+t (for move To), and then the number of the desktop. Want to make a window on top of all the others? alt+window+y (for laYer) and then A (for Above dock) or N for Norma, or maybe B for Below... and all that just with one hand at the speed of light.
Long live to IceWM!
example statistics (HP Proliant ML350 quad-core Xeon CPU 1.86GHz)
* n.directories: ~4800.
* initial scan: ~ 14sec.
* initial notebook upgrade (only once): ~ 13min.
* zim folder total dimension: 37MB.
* maintenance scans: ~ 25sec.
So it seems to me that you wouldn't wait more than a few minutes to get the new structure written on the wiki. Sounds pretty good.
When you're married, what's yours is hers, what's hers is hers, and what's our's is hers.
That sounds pretty much like a deal with the Devil, where everything you owned now belongs to Her Satanic Majesty and you don't own anything at all, neither your own life...
Meccano is remarkably the best construction game ever made. It's not only about imagination and building things but also about learning how to use the tools, mixing them when neccesary and understanding physics (for example, why does this nut gets unscrewed when the motor is on) and learning real world building, and in later years, they should be able to fix their own bikes when they need to change the brakes, because they know the tools, how to use them and why are they to be used that way.
OK, I found it: It was Triangle.
Which X-Files episode was that?
What I don't really understand is:
if it's only 900Gb of data or, for the sake of the argument, suppose it really is 9000Gb of data, come on, what could be the cost of hosting 10 terabytes? How much is yahoo saving every year after removing geocities? Something like, I dunno, 100 bucks a year? You can buy 1Tb disk for less than 100$ and will last for a decade. And in a decade you'll have 1000Tb for less than 100$.
Really, I think it's been much more troublesome for yahoo to remove geocities from the net than it would have been keeping it alive.
$ tac --help Usage: tac [OPTION]... [FILE]... Write each FILE to standard output, last line first.
Yes, you'll be able to do that. That is, probably, the most basic functionality of Asterisk. You can, as well, make your Asterisk server connect to another SIP provider (like voipbuster and the like) and redirect your phone calls through the trunk it provides. And that's just the beginning...
4. Discussion settled? Ask "Should there be brackets around code even if there's only one line? Like this:
If( foo == true) a=x;
Or is it: If( foo = true) { a=x; }
Given that those sentences are not equivalent, I'd choose the first one. Sure, it's not pretty and prone to make you make mistakes. However, I think that your intention is to compare if foo is true, not to set foo to true and then test if that succeed.
Why don't you try something about cars? Maybe it could do better!
The bandwith of 10 fingers is a lot higher than a mouse with just one pointer and a few buttons. You can potentially transmit a lot more instructions in a lot less time using your hands, if only we figured out a proper way to make it work.
Yes, but it already exists: it's called a keyboard.
How come this comment's got modded Informative? Can I metamoderate that as funny?
So you mean I have to spend more money on something I wouldn't need if I could get a modern resistive touch screen phone.
That could be a solution, but I'd face one of the problems pointed before: can I use my BIC pen to use the touch screen, or do I have to keep changing pens and stylus?
Imagine trying to use photoshop on a touch screen. All the areas you want to select are automatically obscured by the very finger(s) that are doing the selecting. How stoooopid is that?
That's the very thing I really HATE about capacitive touch-screens. All this blah blah blah about how much precision it has. What the heck do I mind its precision when I don't know where I've put my finger, since I cannot see what's behind it? Not to speak of the problems using a screen of these when you're wearing gloves and such.
This things are really stupid. I can get far more accuracy in my old Palm TX since I can use a stylus as thin as I want, my fingernail or just the reverse side of the BIC pen I'm using to write down on paper.
What the fuck! Llamazares shouldn't go ever to the US, the best thing that can happen to him is a shot in the forehead, if airport police has watched for a while this photos, he will really seem to them like a terrorist...