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XFCE Adds Icons, Switches to Thunar in v4.4 83
b100dian points out yesterday's release of XFCE 4.4, writing "If you have already followed the release candidates, you know that XFCE is really evolving. Besides adding desktop icons, introducing Thunar (in lieu of xffm) and MousePad, applications that are as simple as they are effective, and Terminal, which has built-in support for desktop composition (supported by the window manager out-of-the-box), it also introduced (finally!) a shortcut for the pop-up menu (you can see in the tour that Ctrl-Esc is bound to this menu). Congratulations for the lightest and slickest window manager ever:)" I've been using Thunar a lot lately (mostly under Gnome) because the renaming feature is powerful but reasonably intuitive -- very handy for cleaning up digicam photo names.
IE7 Separated from Windows Explorer 434
An anonymous reader writes "Security experts warned Microsoft 10 years ago that putting IE as a component of Windows Explorer was a bad idea, looks like Microsoft finally decided to listen to the advice. According to a short write up in Business Week, Microsoft has decided that when IE7 comes out with Vista it will no longer be a component of Windows Explorer and will be able to replace IE6 even on XP machines."
Sudo vs. Root 327
lessthan0 writes "In Mac OS X, the root account is disabled by default. The first user account created is added to the admin group and that user can use the sudo command to execute other commands as root. The conventional wisdom is that sudo is the most secure way to run root commands, but a closer look reveals a picture that is not so clear." The article is about OSX but the debate is a little older ;)
Coding Communities - What Works? 90
drDugan asks: "There is a resurgence in interest lately in information-based systems and websites for data sharing, structured data, and enabling communities to work together better. I'm working a contract for a new business that is trying to build a community to support people who write software. What communities are you a part of now that help you write and develop software? I mean this question in a general way, including both online communities and offline interactions (your office, LUGs, etc.) -- where do you find connection with other people to get information, answers, and inspiration?"
Nike and Google launch Joga.com 216
hpcanswers writes "Given the increasing popularity of social-networking sites among the young and affluent, Nike has introduced a new site dedicated to the world's most popular sport: soccer. While Nike provides the content (via its army of sponsored athletes, among others), Google provides the technical expertise. Orkut has been very popular in soccer-crazed Brazil, so Google may be able to make a brand extension here. Joga.com is currently invite only, though a form at the bottom of the home page takes requests for invitations." I actually found the launch of a site like this interesting not because of the content, but because of the trend in "private label" sites. It's a Shake'n'Bake Social Network, and you helped make it.
Journal Journal: No, I don't update here too often
Try my blog instead. Yes, it's a livejournal. Yes, I have long hair. No, te tw don't necessarily have to go together. BTW, just to let you know what you're in for, a load of NeXT->Apple related nerdy stuff and some motorbiking.
Journal Journal: Many projects 2
After ages of prevarication, and of starting projects and giving up once they compile, I've actually started doing some useful stuff. Hopefully quite a lot will be finished this week and I can release.
Just a quick tasteroony: an Objective-C CGI library, an Objective-C dict accessor library and app, a few graphical apps, and an httpd and web browser. Hopefully they'll all compile anywhere that Cocoa and GNUstep can be compiled.
More as it happens...
Journal Journal: NeXTSTEP PARTY
This has been discussed over with the GNUstep people, seems to have quite a few enthusiastic supporters.
Journal Journal: Open Source + Mac
Anyone who lives in the Oxford, UK area can come along to my talk at the Oxford Mac Users' Group regarding Open Source Software for the Macintosh. It will necessarily be a bit superficial but I'll be happy to answer any questions. Bat-channel: media production unit, 37 Wellington Square; bat-time: 2004-06-08-19-30.
Anyone who lives anywhere in the world whatsoever may download my slides after the talk; I'll drop a link in here.
Journal Journal: Sycophancy
Journal Journal: W00t! Earliest ever web servage! 2
Well, not quite. But I've managed to get ye olde webbe server running on my NeXT, which is about as earliest ever as I can manage without borrowing Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT ;-). If I can get a hole in the firewall for it (tough call, given local administrivia) then I'll post an URL. But don't go slashdotting it :-).
Journal Journal: This would be the NeXT step, then </oldjoke> 2
Journal Journal: iMacs in bits - la deuxieme partie
So, what was I doing in these iMacs? Well, neither of them were booting, and I tried to sort this out. It turns out that one of them just had a dodgy disk, so reinstalling OS 9 on that one was the way forward. In fact, I wanted to install Panther, but it kept panicking (something like 'cannot find drivers for platform imac'). So I tried Jaguar, and that kept failing with the message 'the installer has unexpectedly quit (return code 0)', so eventually gave up and just stuck with Oh Ess Nei
Journal Journal: iMacs in bits
I had to poke around in a couple of fruit-flavoured G3 iMacs today, as neither was booting properly. The inside of the iMac is a pretty interesting place, so here's a quick detail of what I did should it be interesting to anyone else. Needless to say, if you're not comfortable pulling computers apart, working with mains equipment or near the potentially fatal voltages found in the Cathode Ray Tube [see below], don't try this.
