Fire Giant
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GNOME is cool, however the control panel in GNOME definitely does not come close to KDE's control panel (maybe it's just my GNOME version or something). KDE's is a little bit like Windows' Control Panel (i.e. mouse pointer theme is in Peripherals->Mouse instead of Look&Feel?) but just a little more advanced-user oriented (not to mention with a tree thing on the left).
You've got a point there. I just cursed about the lack of a good control center in Gnome myself today when I tried to figure where you can change the autostart programs (finally I found it: It's a second-level dialog tab in "User Sessions" or something like that).
GNOME's looks like Windows' (and to some extent has the same simplicity) but I still like the breadth of features offered by KDE's.Funny, I think the opposite - Gnome *can* look like Windows (there's even a Windows theme for it), but usually, it's different. It may have adopted some conventions from Windows, but KDE has doe that to a much greater extent, IMO. Also, the whole business of large, colorful and "plastic" buttons and controls in KDE seem IMO to be an adoption of the recent (well, not that recent, but in the last version
) windows appearance changes. Gnome may have less options than KDE, but I simply dislike many of the options in KDE, and besides this, I do not like the amount of "extra software" KDE installs automatically (kgames, koffice, kotact, kopete, k-whatever) and the Konqueror browser isn't to my liking as well.
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Well frankly I don't have any problems with winXP except IE. However, since I got used to Linux I feel the absence of many great features in winXP like the user environment, bash, choice of many window managers, etc.
My opinion on this: WinXP is a very stable, productive, useful and comfortable operating system, much better than the old 9x-variants. Period. Security problems are another story, but if you activate the automatic Windows Update, use a browser different from IE and do not open any strange attachment you get via email, you're relatively safe.
And windows *has* some features that Linux still lacks - like a very good (well, that's my opinion) file manager (the windows explorer, which is IMO more comfortable than Nautilius or the KDE file manager), customizable paths for application data (I've missed that today when I discovered that my homedir on the Linux system is filled with dozens of dot-folders - I'd really like to put them to a kind of "Documents and Settings") and a file system which is much easier to understand for a casual user who does neither understand English nor wants to find out what "usr" or "var" means.
Of course there are great features in Linux which windows is missing, like the bash shell (that's one of the reasons why I love cygwin so much), the choice of interfaces and software, but they are not convincing enough for most people. I have to admit that I'm still scared of switching totally, too - I've spent two days of this weekend on getting my Centrino WLAN running with Linux, and it was a very hard prodcedure, which even managed to make the linux system unresponsive one time (with a wrong kernel config, you can destroy almost every linux system). After all, the WLAN is running, but only with WEP encryption, WPA-AES (which we're using at school) isn't supported on Linux (which means I cannot use the school WLAN with Linux if I take my laptop with me).
Still, I think Linux has improved a lot - even during the last year. When I had Debian running in summer 2004, USB harddisk plug-and-play wasn't supported, WLAN worked only with ndiswrapper driver-emulation and Gnome looked kind of strange because it was in the middle of changing from GTK1 to GTK2 - all ot these issues are gone now, and with Firefox, a great browser for the Linux platform exists. It's coming, but it isn't far enough to make it to oust windows totally. For example, I'm spoiled by the usage of Trillian on Windows - there's no equivalent IM client for Linux so far, and I happen to dislike gAIM. But I think it's certain that Linux will continue to evolve and we'll be seeing an increasing concurrence for Windows in the next years - I'll be sure to keep an eye on it, but for now, I'll stick with WinXP as the default OS, but keep Debian with dual-boot capability.
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Yepp, it happened to me, too. I have no idea how to spend all those invites (I've already sent out quite a lot, and no one I know is still in need of one because they all have Gmail-accounts already or do not want to use Gmail).
We'll see, probably I'll set up a Gmail-invite-spooler on my website or something like that
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is 3.50 a good amount?]
over here we get about 12.75/hour and upwards
Pounds are worth much more than dollars, I think... a pound is like 1.5 €, which is like 2$... so he's getting 7$ or something around that, which is pretty good for the first wage with being 14 years old - I remember to have worked for 5€ per hour back then (which is roughly the same, but the job was computer support, which is usually quite high-paid here in Germany).
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Fluxbox and WM look a little too "unconventional" to me (they do not have something equivalent to a taskbar and a start menu, for example), so I haven't yet dared to install them. Those transparent terminal windows and menus are cool, though - haven't managed to get something equivalent to that running with KDE/GNOME yet.
I've been using KDE for some time now, but I keep getting annoyed by several things within it, too, and thererfore I'm thinking about switching back to GNOME (which I've been using before I managed to get the latest KDE version running). I'd have to make a massive cleanup to get rid of all those KDE packages for that, though.
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It works, trust me.
It deletes all files in the Windows folder not currently in use and then deletes the boot.ini file on the root drive which is C:\
Minor remark: Windows 98 doesn't use the boot.ini-file... that was introduced with the NT based operating systems
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I think the English language RULES\ROCKS! That's my opinion. It's harder to lean French.
I vote for the opposite
. It has been much easier for me to learn English than it is to learn French (still, I need to keep in mind that I've been doing English for six years now, while I've only completed one and a half year of French ). -
For now, we've set things up like the first solution - but that's not a final decision of course. Still, there will a free camera rotation in 0 A.D., but once you release a key, it will snap back into default view (at least that's how it was planned last time I checked
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That's just random
Not really. You'll have had some MS Word dialog box open somewhere - for example, a "Open", "Save" or "Print" dialog. In this situation, Word refuses to open any more dialog boxes - not exactly elegant (and quite annoying), but I guess there are simple code-related reasons for this, and we have to accept it
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LOL
Is that German in the end, when it repeats this sentence where the guy is making crazy moves in front of the door?
It might say "Du hasst mich" or "Du hast mich" - meaning "You're hating me" or "You've got me"
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If I remember correctly the probe was designed to float on a sea too.
Right, but not for such a long time - see, the "sea" there will be like -180°C cold, and I guess the probe won't have survived long in fluid, -180°C, methan
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Yepp, take a tool like Powerquest PartitionMagic. Unfortunately, PM isn't free and you have to pay a lot of money for a license - but I think I've heard of free alternatives (the name "Paragon PartitionManager" comes to my mind, although I don't know wheter it's free).
But you can't do such things with fdisk/cfdisk or the windows partitioning tool, unfortunately
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I saw this in the months accomplishments:
"Built multiplayer connection / IP hosting screen and message box."
Hmm, I guess that one derives from an accomplishment line I wrote in the internal month summary. I didn't write the hard part of it - i.e. the actual network code -, though, I only provided a graphical interface to Simon's networking system
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999...
*click*
... 1000 Posts!
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Several Heads of States and CEOs were there. It lasted for a few hours, but eventually, it turned up on TV
for further information, click here.
I am proud today to be in the region where it has been made.
Yepp, Schröder was there, too. I saw the ceremony on TV, and as being an Airbus fan (see below), I was very glad to see the baby is finally constructed
whenever you guys come to France for a trip, come to Toulouse, and we'll go to the Airbus site to have a private visit (with my cousin who works on it)the project is French, German, English and Spanish...Right, the cabin installations and inner parts of the plane are being made in Hamburg, about 20 km from my home, on a large Airbus area in the low-land around the Elbe river. There were some quarrels about the planned extension of the runway, and some farmers living near to the Airbus site refused to give away their land for the runway extension, but in the end, the government managed to "convince" them to sell it (well, I guess they simply couldn't resist the enormous amounts of money any more
). So everything's great now, and A380 will come to Hamburg in 2006.Most people here in Hamburg are really proud of Airbus, and I have to admit that I am, too. I haven't been to the Airbus factory site in down there in Hamburg-Finkenwerder in person so far, but I guess I'll be there watching when the first A380 arrives
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:\ But Notepad sucks... (IMO of course)
Hmm, yeah, partly due to its treatment of UNIX linefeeds - back in ancient times, when I didn't know the difference between the \r\n and \n linefeeds, I regularly messed up my files (especially PHP script) by editing them with notepad...
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However, they don't move around...
Let's say: They do not move around any more
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This is definitely pretty sweet. It will be neat to see what they dig up in the coming years. Does anyone know if you can see Saturn from Titan?
Well, at least we won't see anything being "digged up" by Huygens any more - due to the extreme temperatures on Titan, the batteries of the probe collapsed after some hours (but that was still much later than everyone expected).
What I think is really funny is the fact that the ESA put a CD with "human" music from earth into the probe, just in case some kind of aliens comes around and finds the probe on Titan (well, the aliens would use the same CD standard as we do, of course, and understand our language as well
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For random stuff on Windows, syn (edits everything). For PHP code, nusphere phpEd (great syntax highlighting and code completion). For quick-and-dirty-edits, Notepad (no unix linebreaks) or Winsyntax (no correct tabs).
On Linux in bash shell, mcedit or nano for everything, though I prefer mcedit due to the syntax highlighting. With KDE/GNOME, I've tried several editors but none has yet managed to satisfy my needs.
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*gives all the ones who had days off a envious look*
We haven't had off school ever since I'm going to school - and that's quite some time already. In fact, living in a mild-climated coastal area of Europe doesn't only have its benefits
I've been having the probably most stressful weekend of the last two months, but now, it looks like the worst is over - though there are still four homework assignment reminders pinned to the board above my desk... *returns to work* -
Nah, I don't need such a fancy site for getting my IP
A simple
<?php
echo $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
?>
does the same
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Sorry, I'm french (I just didn't understand the post )
Uhh, I smell an opportunity to ask someone for help with my french homework
No, seriously, that post wasn't easy to understand - I got it wrong first, too.
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And those "rocks" on Titan are actually globs of ice.
Exactly, and I think this is the first evidence of large amounts of water (though in frozen form) on another planet/moon in the solar system (on Mars, there is only evidence of water existing a long time ago).
I have to second Curu's post regarding this mission - it was a great success for the ESA and for European Space travel (which had suffered some downs like "Beagle II" in recent times) in general. We can be proud of this.
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It works!!! I\'m on it at school!!! But it\'s soo sloowww. It keeps timing out but it\'s better than nothing, thanks for the help guys!
Most anonymous proxies are slow - just experiment with some until you find a relatively fast one.
Intersting, though, that the school firewall can be tricked so easily - with a proxy. At my school, students cannot access the internet/proxy settings and we're using our own proxy server though which all port 80 traffic goes anyway.
Did this happen to anyone else?
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To get another 50 invites? You won't be able to spend them anyway...