Comment Qutting My Job (Score 1) 397
I've been working at this fairly hard and tedious job for a while. I chose today to quit. It's my independence day, even though I'm Canadian.
Comment Fluxbox (Score 1) 432
I don't use a desktop environment. Fluxbox - it's just a window manager. Simple and unobtrusive, and the configuration of it couldn't be simpler.
Comment Re:OK, fine... (Score 1) 306
I don't know about OS X or foxit, but for Linux this is bullshit. Every Linux PDF reader I've tried does a fine job for almost everything, but NOT everything. Here are two examples:
*Large PDF files with lots of vector graphics. Adobe Reader on Linux kicks the crap out of evince/gpdf.
*Subpixel rendering. NO, evince (anything xpdf or poppler based) does NOT support subpixel rendering. Antialiasing yes, subpixel rendering NO. Same for kpdf. Don't tell me it does because it does NOT.
And what about filling forms? Adobe may be a non-free bloated program, but for large PDFs, loading time on Adobe is far superior to the Linux counterparts. Sometimes Evince takes forever with the "Loading..." message, whereas Adobe is quick all the time.
*Large PDF files with lots of vector graphics. Adobe Reader on Linux kicks the crap out of evince/gpdf.
*Subpixel rendering. NO, evince (anything xpdf or poppler based) does NOT support subpixel rendering. Antialiasing yes, subpixel rendering NO. Same for kpdf. Don't tell me it does because it does NOT.
And what about filling forms? Adobe may be a non-free bloated program, but for large PDFs, loading time on Adobe is far superior to the Linux counterparts. Sometimes Evince takes forever with the "Loading..." message, whereas Adobe is quick all the time.
Journal Journal: Adobe Reader For Linux Uses GTK 2
Adobe has released Adobe Reader for Linux, version 8.1.1. What's important is that it now fully works with GTK 2.0, so the interface is consistent with the rest of the GTK apps. It has subpixel rendering, unlike every other PDF reader out there for Linux (Poppler has an experimental patch that is very bad. Someone told me kpdf has this feature, but the one from the Feisty repository does not). Read
Submission + - Living Space Dust
jom42 writes: Does a double helix structure mean that life is afoot? This article touches upon the search for 'weird life' and how some dust out there just may be a bit more than inert particles.
Submission + - Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader (softlab.ntua.gr)
ttsiod writes: "An internet connection is not always at hand... I wanted to install Wikipedia on my laptop
to be able to carry it along with me on business trips... After trying and rejecting the normal (MySQL-based) procedure, I quickly hacked a much better one over the weekend, using open source
tools. Highlights:
(1) Very fast searching (2) Keyword (actually, title words) based searching (3) Search produces multiple possible articles, sorted by probability (you choose amongst them) (4) LaTEX based rendering for Mathematical equations (5) Harddisk usage is minimal: space for the original .bz2 file plus the index built through Xapian (6) Orders of magnitude faster to install (a matter of hours) compared to loading the "dump" into MySQL — which, if you want to enable keyword searching, takes *days*.
Enjoy!"
Submission + - Damn Vulnerable Linux
Scott Ainslie Sutton writes: "Enterprise GNU/Linux Resource Linux.com have highlighted a newly created GNU/Linux distribution named Damn Vulnerable Linux, built upon Damn Small Linux. The distribution, headed by Thorsten Schneider, aims to deliver the Operating System in such a way that it allows Security Students first hand insight and hands on experience with Security issues within GNU/Linux in order to teach them protection and mitigation techniques
The project's website describes the distribution as 'the most vulnerable, exploitable Operating System ever' and it's true, the developers have ensured that it contains outdated, ill-configured, flawed code and contains GNU/Linux 2.4 Kernel which is known to have many exploitable avenues in itself.
Damn Vulnerable Linux's website can be viewed here."
