> Can I just close my lid and have it sleep and then wake it in a couple of seconds and resume where I left off?
works for me on t41. linux 2.6.23-rt1 with default acpi support on gentoo distribution.
> Does Linux work on *any* current laptop out of the box (Ubuntu or Fedora)?
on many laptops. but running 'out of the box' for many ppl is not what they want. they want to customize their box and adopt it to their needs. something very hard to understand for FUDers like you....
imagine i was at concert and told you what i saw? do i need to pay to someone for that? imagine i was at concert and just have sung to you what i heard at concert (just another way of telling you what i saw)? do i need to pay to someone for that? imagine i was at concert and i'm such a great singer i did it even better than the original singer? imagine i was at concert and was also able to show you dancing which i saw? imagine i was at concert and was better in both singing and dancing later on when trying to say to you how much i liked it? imagine i was so good in that that you called some of your friends to join us to see how good i am? imagine some of your friends invited even more friends? imagine i didn't know all of the people which appeared there? do i need to pay to someone for that? imagine i'm quite bad in both singing and dancing? what's the fucking difference? fuck copyright.
Public domain is the best in *spreading* the freedom. (think of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTML...) GPL is the best in *protecting* freedom. (think of SCO vs. freedom...) BSD is the best in *spreading* the freedom where author wants her *name attached* to the free work. (think of XFree86 vs. Xorg...)
ppl tend to be more sure on their POVs if they see them as part of consistent system... ppl who are familiar with computers and how they work most of the times understand the computer world as consistent complex system... then the same ppl start to *simplify* concepts of society into their own *complex* consistent analogies with computer world.. usually wrong... interesting and often seducing but as said most of the times wrong..
what i found geeks usually lack is more sensibility and knowledge on semiotics, poststructuralism and eventually psychoanalysis.. to make the long story short;)
i registered two days ago and tried online chat support... two times for several hours it just said: "there is a one person in queue before you. please wait.." or something like that.. it refreshed itself every half a minute but no luck.. that person was chatting for ages;) pitty...
http://ktouch.sourceforge.net/ is great piece of software to learn either qwerty or dvorak. it has big layout at the bottom of the screen so it'even better than regularly when your fingers hide letters on the keyboard. you type letters in automatic scrollin bar... it is fun and effective...
with info from klown's web site from http://www.dugnet.com/klown:
"IMPORTANT: Recent controversy involving Lindows/Linspire Recently Slashdot posted an article that accuses Lindows of violating creative commons license, this is an incorrect statement. I posted the CC license in response to learning that Linspire was using my graphics without permission. The reason for that was to make things clear for future problems, not Linspire.
The truth is that Linspire was using my graphics without first obtaining permission. I'm currently in talks with them to get this issue resolved. But just for the record, this is not an issue involving the newly posted creative commons license. I still hold authorship rights to the graphics.
In short, the slashdot headline was false - as well as posted prior to Linspire being notified, but Linspire was using the graphics without first requesting permission. As soon as they were notified, the graphics were removed from the promotional animation.
Although this does not clear Linspire of copyright infringment
from the early beginning this news is very tendecious... it reminds me of Transactional analysis communication's game Now I've Got You - You Son of a Bitch which most of the FLOSS community tends to play against Linspire... i don't like it... it also says something about those peole:
"NIGYSOB vindicates the "ya just can't trust nobody, nowadays" paranoia and a he's (you're, she's, they're) not-OK existential position (usually secondary). P believes in the social (Adult-Adult) level and is usually unaware of the ulterior level in which P's Parent is saying to V's Child "I've been watching you, hoping you'd slip up. You did so, now I've got you . . . " P often sets V up for a predictable fall in order to further the vicious cycle of anger/aggression/anger and to relieve internal psychic pressure from a repressed not-OK Child.
This game can be immensely destructive. Second degree can lead to litigation and prison, third degree to injury or homicide. Play can move in several directions. The relationship between P and V may end, with each moving into new games (Poor Me, SWYMD, etc.) as Victims for a well-intentioned Rescuer. If P and V continue in a love/hate relationship, then additional rounds may ensue, with P collecting righteousness and triumph stamps and V masochistically collecting humiliation. Alternately, retaliation by V can lead into a game of Uproar, or V may proceed, with hurt feelings, into other victim games such as: Kick Me, Poor Me, There I Go Again, or Wooden Leg.
Tendency is entrenched in NIGYSOB players and successful antithesis usually requires therapeutic intervention, aimed at insight, release of repressed rage, and deconfusion of the Child.
you can't get better song if all of the musicians of the world will work on just one song.
that's the reason why you can't do the relevant advantage with just buying big number of programmers.
some tunes/software is best done if you have 3 ppl in the process (drums, guitar and bass) and some needs more ppl (percussions, synths, effects, vocals, more vocals;). These days i like simple scripts done by song writers playing acoustic guitars.
having that in mind you sholdn't go and just buy everything. most of the times you can't have geniuses just because they don't want to be bought. most of them work on Free Software;)
they are better than the others in accepting rules of search engines market and recognizing user's needs but when it comes to abstracting or/and inventing/pushing the searching process to the next level (i.e. distributing searching processes to the client side making them as integral part of searching network and then moving really to the exploration of how the whole f**** thing could be handled) they play hard just like the others....
look at their policies about search requests not from the regular browsers or the limititations of "great service" GoogleAPI (1000 requests per day. yay)....
from Google Terms of Service: "You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google." or "Please do not write to Google to request permission to "meta-search" Google for a research project, as such requests will not be granted."
yes, every person should work hard to maximize the profit. we all need just dreams of having billion dollars.
google is in the same direction like yahoo or microsoft, they just have better sense for time scale. long term. that is the goal.
i'm not so happy with that till i see they go some sort of GPLing the whole thing. call me zealot, as i care.....
here is not about the code. it is about the patents. if it is about the code, no problem, your cinical bsd statement could push some people to flame, but here is about patents and even you don't care about what will happen with your elegant code, if there are patents around someone bad enough can kick your arogant ass to the court....
there are a lot of net.artists which works are hard to find in galleries, and who themselves (more or less) call net.artists and that dot makes the difference...
its work usually digs into political issues and specific issues of the media itself (net part of the net.art coin) rather then playing in the field of aesthetics and continuum of ugly and beautiful... media hacks are better thain paintings... just to start a little flamewar:)
compaq hosts and sponsors the handhelds.org site, which is a community resource center, primarily for developers, hosting Web, FTP, CVS, and mailing-list services.. the site focuses on linux under strongarm SA11xx processors, such as the ipaq and the yopy, but does not mention work on other processors such as MIPS or 68xxx...
there are few distributions running well on ipaq:
#1# familiar distribution, a lightweight package with python and XFree86 with anti-aliased fonts, using the blackbox window manager. familiar also includes a new packaging system called ipkg, which is like RPM or DEB packages for desktop Linux. compaq had at the beginning its own hh distribution but after a while it swap to familiar...
#2# an extension of familiar is initimate... its goal is to provide "full-blown" distribution including doom, konqueror, mpeg players and stuff like that... but for all of that u will need extra microdrive coz by default ipaq doesn't have enough space...
there are few others but there are not free like trolltech's Qt Palmtop Environment or transvirtual technology's pocketlinux which goal is to provide a java runtime instead of pure linux environment....
imho when u have ssh (included by default) and rxvt w/ gprs modem it is enough to go with it;) and with familiar dis u will have that and much much more...
it is possible to write open source player coz swf format is open...
there is a great project with really good mailing list which provides c library with wrappers for using the libraries for c++, python, perl, php or ruby... so you are able to generate swf (aka flash) files from and as a open source projects...
you can find everything on:
http://www.opaque.net/ming or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming/ ..i tried it and it is perfect...
there is also another project on:
http://www.the-labs.com/PerlFlash
an interface of libswf.a (which was written by Paul Haeberli) for Perl called Perl Flash (Flash.pm)... i tried that one long time ago and it worked, but prefer python to perl so i quit it;))
i almost forgot... olivier debon did GPL flash library which comes with three freely redistributable tools (just for linux):
netscape plug in
stand alone player which can play movies on root window so its suitable for screensavers
KDE screen saver tool
you can find it on:
http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/
you can still hate bad flash sites but check if there are done by open sourced tools just in case to protect you of contradictions in your mind which sometimes could trigger some real bad psychosis;)
capitalism is based and built on exploitation of poor and weaker. intelectual property is weak part of capitalism. it is under exploatation now. 100 years from now we will forget unfair exploitation of the subject and will try to keep the old (from there) or new (from now) paradigm of intelectual property.
i just tried a dvorak java example and think that its pretty hard to use when u use the keyboard in graphics tool with lots of left hand qwerty shortcuts... what is your experience about that?
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> Can I just close my lid and have it sleep and then wake it in a couple of seconds and resume where I left off?
works for me on t41. linux 2.6.23-rt1 with default acpi support on gentoo distribution.
> Does Linux work on *any* current laptop out of the box (Ubuntu or Fedora)?
on many laptops. but running 'out of the box' for many ppl is not what they want. they want to customize their box and adopt it to their needs. something very hard to understand for FUDers like you....
imagine i was at concert and told you what i saw?
do i need to pay to someone for that?
imagine i was at concert and just have sung to you what i heard at concert (just another way of telling you what i saw)?
do i need to pay to someone for that?
imagine i was at concert and i'm such a great singer i did it even better than the original singer?
imagine i was at concert and was also able to show you dancing which i saw?
imagine i was at concert and was better in both singing and dancing later on when trying to say to you how much i liked it?
imagine i was so good in that that you called some of your friends to join us to see how good i am?
imagine some of your friends invited even more friends?
imagine i didn't know all of the people which appeared there?
do i need to pay to someone for that?
imagine i'm quite bad in both singing and dancing?
what's the fucking difference?
fuck copyright.
Public domain is the best in *spreading* the freedom. (think of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTML...)
GPL is the best in *protecting* freedom. (think of SCO vs. freedom...)
BSD is the best in *spreading* the freedom where author wants her *name attached* to the free work. (think of XFree86 vs. Xorg...)
ppl tend to be more sure on their POVs if they see them as part of consistent system... ppl who are familiar with computers and how they work most of the times understand the computer world as consistent complex system... then the same ppl start to *simplify* concepts of society into their own *complex* consistent analogies with computer world.. usually wrong... interesting and often seducing but as said most of the times wrong..
what i found geeks usually lack is more sensibility and knowledge on semiotics, poststructuralism and eventually psychoanalysis.. to make the long story short ;)
i registered two days ago and tried online chat support... two times for several hours it just said: "there is a one person in queue before you. please wait.." or something like that.. it refreshed itself every half a minute but no luck.. that person was chatting for ages ;) pitty...
http://ktouch.sourceforge.net/ is great piece of software to learn either qwerty or dvorak. it has big layout at the bottom of the screen so it'even better than regularly when your fingers hide letters on the keyboard. you type letters in automatic scrollin bar... it is fun and effective...
dvorak lesson for ktouch could be find at:
http://www.lnxsys.ca/software/ktouch/
check it out & u will get all the answers...
> tail -f - Great for keeping track of logs realtime in a vtty or xterm window. Like tail -f /var/log/messages
/var/log/*/* | ccze -A
or more fancy + still cool:
# tail -f
ccze
with info from klown's web site from http://www.dugnet.com/klown :
"IMPORTANT: Recent controversy involving Lindows/Linspire Recently Slashdot posted an article that accuses Lindows of violating creative commons license, this is an incorrect statement. I posted the CC license in response to learning that Linspire was using my graphics without permission. The reason for that was to make things clear for future problems, not Linspire.
The truth is that Linspire was using my graphics without first obtaining permission. I'm currently in talks with them to get this issue resolved. But just for the record, this is not an issue involving the newly posted creative commons license. I still hold authorship rights to the graphics.
In short, the slashdot headline was false - as well as posted prior to Linspire being notified, but Linspire was using the graphics without first requesting permission. As soon as they were notified, the graphics were removed from the promotional animation.
Although this does not clear Linspire of copyright infringment
from the early beginning this news is very tendecious... it reminds me of Transactional analysis communication's game Now I've Got You - You Son of a Bitch which most of the FLOSS community tends to play against Linspire... i don't like it... it also says something about those peole:
"NIGYSOB vindicates the "ya just can't trust nobody, nowadays" paranoia and a he's (you're, she's, they're) not-OK existential position (usually secondary). P believes in the social (Adult-Adult) level and is usually unaware of the ulterior level in which P's Parent is saying to V's Child "I've been watching you, hoping you'd slip up. You did so, now I've got you . . . " P often sets V up for a predictable fall in order to further the vicious cycle of anger/aggression/anger and to relieve internal psychic pressure from a repressed not-OK Child.
This game can be immensely destructive. Second degree can lead to litigation and prison, third degree to injury or homicide. Play can move in several directions. The relationship between P and V may end, with each moving into new games (Poor Me, SWYMD, etc.) as Victims for a well-intentioned Rescuer. If P and V continue in a love/hate relationship, then additional rounds may ensue, with P collecting righteousness and triumph stamps and V masochistically collecting humiliation. Alternately, retaliation by V can lead into a game of Uproar, or V may proceed, with hurt feelings, into other victim games such as: Kick Me, Poor Me, There I Go Again, or Wooden Leg.
Tendency is entrenched in NIGYSOB players and successful antithesis usually requires therapeutic intervention, aimed at insight, release of repressed rage, and deconfusion of the Child.
you can't get better song if all of the musicians of the world will work on just one song.
;). These days i like simple scripts done by song writers playing acoustic guitars.
;)
that's the reason why you can't do the relevant advantage with just buying big number of programmers.
some tunes/software is best done if you have 3 ppl in the process (drums, guitar and bass) and some needs more ppl (percussions, synths, effects, vocals, more vocals
having that in mind you sholdn't go and just buy everything. most of the times you can't have geniuses just because they don't want to be bought. most of them work on Free Software
they are better than the others in accepting rules of search engines market and recognizing user's needs but when it comes to abstracting or/and inventing/pushing the searching process to the next level (i.e. distributing searching processes to the client side making them as integral part of searching network and then moving really to the exploration of how the whole f**** thing could be handled) they play hard just like the others....
look at their policies about search requests not from the regular browsers or the limititations of "great service" GoogleAPI (1000 requests per day. yay)....
from Google Terms of Service:
"You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google." or "Please do not write to Google to request permission to "meta-search" Google for a research project, as such requests will not be granted."
yes, every person should work hard to maximize the profit. we all need just dreams of having billion dollars.
google is in the same direction like yahoo or microsoft, they just have better sense for time scale. long term. that is the goal.
i'm not so happy with that till i see they go some sort of GPLing the whole thing. call me zealot, as i care.....
here is not about the code. it is about the patents. if it is about the code, no problem, your cinical bsd statement could push some people to flame, but here is about patents and even you don't care about what will happen with your elegant code, if there are patents around someone bad enough can kick your arogant ass to the court....
why not...
:)
even OSI certified one would pass my restrictions
whenever u answer on the question like this one, it _was_ the right place to ask :)
there are a lot of net.artists which works are hard to find in galleries, and who themselves (more or less) call net.artists and that dot makes the difference...
:)
its work usually digs into political issues and specific issues of the media itself (net part of the net.art coin) rather then playing in the field of aesthetics and continuum of ugly and beautiful... media hacks are better thain paintings... just to start a little flamewar
links sometimes worths kilowords:
http://www.calarts.edu/~line/history.html
http://rtmark.com
http://www.irational.org
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk
and few others in tribute to net.art: interview with the hacker... work in progress...
wine runs UltraEdit perfectly from my win partition... i like when such a thing happens :))))
there is a very good article on linux o'reillynet about ipaq running linux...
;) and with familiar dis u will have that and much much more...
compaq hosts and sponsors the handhelds.org site, which is a community resource center, primarily for developers, hosting Web, FTP, CVS, and mailing-list services.. the site focuses on linux under strongarm SA11xx processors, such as the ipaq and the yopy, but does not mention work on other processors such as MIPS or 68xxx...
there are few distributions running well on ipaq:
#1# familiar distribution, a lightweight package with python and XFree86 with anti-aliased fonts, using the blackbox window manager. familiar also includes a new packaging system called ipkg, which is like RPM or DEB packages for desktop Linux. compaq had at the beginning its own hh distribution but after a while it swap to familiar...
#2# an extension of familiar is initimate... its goal is to provide "full-blown" distribution including doom, konqueror, mpeg players and stuff like that... but for all of that u will need extra microdrive coz by default ipaq doesn't have enough space...
there are few others but there are not free like trolltech's Qt Palmtop Environment or transvirtual technology's pocketlinux which goal is to provide a java runtime instead of pure linux environment....
imho when u have ssh (included by default) and rxvt w/ gprs modem it is enough to go with it
it is possible to write open source player coz swf format is open...
..i tried it and it is perfect...
;))
;)
there is a great project with really good mailing list which provides c library with wrappers for using the libraries for c++, python, perl, php or ruby... so you are able to generate swf (aka flash) files from and as a open source projects...
you can find everything on:
http://www.opaque.net/ming or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming/
there is also another project on:
http://www.the-labs.com/PerlFlash
an interface of libswf.a (which was written by Paul Haeberli) for Perl called Perl Flash (Flash.pm)... i tried that one long time ago and it worked, but prefer python to perl so i quit it
i almost forgot... olivier debon did GPL flash library which comes with three freely redistributable tools (just for linux):
netscape plug in
stand alone player which can play movies on root window so its suitable for screensavers
KDE screen saver tool
you can find it on:
http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/
you can still hate bad flash sites but check if there are done by open sourced tools just in case to protect you of contradictions in your mind which sometimes could trigger some real bad psychosis
capitalism is based and built on exploitation of poor and weaker. intelectual property is weak part of capitalism. it is under exploatation now. 100 years from now we will forget unfair exploitation of the subject and will try to keep the old (from there) or new (from now) paradigm of intelectual property.
that was the first thing which cross my mind also....
i just tried a dvorak java example and think that its pretty hard to use when u use the keyboard in graphics tool with lots of left hand qwerty shortcuts... what is your experience about that?