Comment Re:Fuck you, slashdot (Score 1) 252
Just use noscript to disallow javascript on slashdot (and pretty much everything else, actually) and you'll never see that beta thing at all.
Just use noscript to disallow javascript on slashdot (and pretty much everything else, actually) and you'll never see that beta thing at all.
Good to know if I ever need a federal government job...
Sheesh.
This is either someone trying to beat the system, or perhaps the system beating itself to some degree. Why is the plain meaning of "foreign language" in an English-speaking country even up for debate?
fslint is a toolkit to find all redundant disk usage (duplicate files
for e.g.). It includes a GUI as well as a command line interface.
Is it really, though?
I prefer to program in C. Not C++. Therefore, if I want a GUI I'm pretty much stuck with either motif or GTK+ and since I'm not really a huge fan of either one I avoid the issue whenever I can and try to do most of my stuff with ncurses.
However, one advantage that motif has over GTK+ is its inertia. In most cases I can compile a motif-based program that was written ten or twenty years back on an up-to-date Linux system and it will just work without modification. GTK+, on the other hand, changes so rapidly that an application written five years ago stands a really good chance of not working without modification. "Function X has been deprecated, now use function Y. Function Y has been deprecated, now use function Z and newly-added function A to do what it used to to."
Some of my software from written in the late 80's is still in use today doing things like logging oil well drilling and counting "beats" from water meters. None of that has a GUI, but it still works in the same way that it did on the first day it was installed.
C hasn't changed in any really fundamental way since the days of K&R, either. Why can't I have a long-term, slow-moving GUI framework like that, too?
The GCC digital cinema server, used for playing digital movies in theatres, has a GTK-based front-end for its user input such as setting up playlists, scheduling, managing the content on the server and so on.
I know because I've got one and use it every day.
You don't need javascript to read that article. The text and photo are at the bottom of the page. Just scroll past all of the whitespace at the top and you'll fine it.
Actually, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain. It took a court order to shake it loose, though.
Tempest and S-Boxes? I'm wondering about se-linux, myself..
With all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about.
I live in a town of 5000 people on the prairies. We have one post office, located on Main Street. Everyone in town has a mailbox at the post office, and when you want to pick up your mail you walk or drive to the post office with your key, open your mailbox, and collect your mail. If you have a parcel to pick up, something you have to sign for, or whatever, you get a card in your mailbox which you take to the service counter and they hand you your package.
Folks around here who live on farms also have a mailbox at the post office and have to come to town to pick up their mail. Nobody around here has rural delivery.
We actually had to pay a yearly rental fee for our mailbox at the post office at one time, and if you didn't or couldn't pay you didn't get a mailbox and all of your mail would be given to you over-the-counter upon request by the clerk as "General Delivery". They discontinued charging the rental fee for mailboxes here about 20 years ago. Now you get a card in your mailbox once per year stating that you must renew your mailbox. To do that, you take the card to the counter and sign a form stating that you still live in town.
I have never lived anywhere that mail was delivered to the door. I have always had to walk to the post office to pick it up. Walking to the post office on weekdays is part of my morning routine, and always has been.
I think Eatons houses were usually delivered by rail, not by post. My grandfather bought one and I'm pretty sure he picked it up at the rail station (with his wagon).
The C128 had a GREAT keyboard! Much better than the keyboard on the C64 and any of the IBM clones that I used around then.
No idea if it was as good as or better than a "real" IBM keyboard, though, since I never had the opportunity to use one of those.
After reading the article I still don't quite get how this technique works.
From the article: âoewhen the color is the same, the mirror edge disappears."
Come again? One of the accompanying photos shows Mr. Jenison with a mirror near his eye and a paintbrush in his hand.
But I still don't understand what's happening here.
It's being "made available" but it "may not be reproduced."
How does that work, again?
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
