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Living Room / Re: Flash Animation - Walk in the Woods
« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 05, 2008, 11:11 PM »*Shrug* ...I laughed.
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You could set up a filter that reacts to their emails by automatically sending 101 separate support request every time it arrives. Point out that they will be unsubscribed from your replies when they cut out their emails.Now that sounds joyfully evil...-Carol Haynes (April 04, 2008, 05:30 AM)
Sick of your HD spinning and churning nonstop day after day, driving you nuts?-zridling (April 01, 2008, 01:04 PM)
Stoic Joker: remember that SATA supports hot-plug... that's why the drives are added there. Might not be the smartest thing in the world, but lots of stuff isn'tHm... I was under the impression it was more of a SCSI style hot swap-able type of affair. I hadn't realized they went the USB style hot plug route with it (Shit what a nightmare...).-f0dder (March 31, 2008, 06:34 PM)
You assume correctly. I'm running it in Virtual PC so the sound card is a SB16, pkgtool says that OSS is installed, and I've been playing with Alsa for hours... *Sigh*Actually my intent was to go with the Baptism-by-Fire concept ... Which makes Slackware an ideal choice. To that end, I've had quite a bit of fun with it (swearing included...). I just need to get the sound working and it will be completely functional.-Stoic Joker (March 27, 2008, 06:15 AM)
Stoic Joker:
Remember to add yourself to the "Audio" group (I assume you've already installed OSS and/or Alsa)
In fact, while you're at it, check to see what groups you may or may not or should be part of.
I'm a former Slackware victi... uh, user. I've still got a few tricks up my sleeve...-Edvard (March 27, 2008, 02:14 PM)
[Gothi[c]]: Like I said before, if you're relatively new to GNU/Linux, or if you're not very proficient in it, and you don't have the time to spend to learn a new system, then just stick to what you're using, instead of trying it for 2 days and then coming back to complain.
Ah, the first and most difficult hurdle of all Windows users — myself included — face. Not to give up when it doesn't work at first or doesn't behave like Windows. (The second is the general confusion between Linux, the kernel, and its various desktop environments, such as Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Enlightenment, etc.)
Stoic Joker, I applaud you trying to use Slackware again, but I hope you understand that Slackware hasn't made the progress in usability that other distros have, and you're trudging up GNU/Linux's steepest hill with that choice. I don't know anyone who recommends Slackware except for advanced or highly experienced Linux users. Consider a Debian-based distro like sidux if you want a GNU/Linux experience where many of those challenges have been resolved by other people.-zridling (March 26, 2008, 10:15 PM)
One thing MS can do, though, is to not start services most users don't need, limit most services to only listen to "localhost", and set up sensible firewall rules by default. At least XP SP2 comes with a decent firewall, but there's still people running SP1 and RTM...-f0dder (March 26, 2008, 06:56 PM)
10. Windows 7 security features must increase usability by decreasing complexity.This is the kind of absurd notion that helped to foster AOL's "Security is Simple...Just Click Here" campaign.
The Run as... command works wonders if a user has a project open that they can't close.BTW, something that I'll install soon: DropMyRights. Now this thing is useful, and it does consume zero resources.-Lashiec (January 30, 2008, 07:09 PM)
Why stop there?
I usually set my privileges to user (OK, <i>power</i>-user...) - this should stop (some?) nasties from installing/running, and
I can log in as the administrator if I need to...
Target-Target (January 30, 2008, 09:51 PM)
I still think it was a mistake moving to black-on-white as a default, there's even a noticeable difference in CRT monitor power consumption... although it's not as much as some people claim, just a few Watts on my old 19" samsung.Simple economics I suspect. In the DOS days computers were (had a) dark, ominous, and threatening interface that required cryptic commands that confused "normal" people. So MonkeySwift had to come up with a lighter (hearted looking), brighter, friendlier user interface that would lure folks out of (or into depending on you perspective...) the "shadows" to try this new, unique, and graphical ... way to play solitare... *Sigh*-f0dder (January 28, 2008, 06:38 PM)
I only know of one such application...a silly little clock. (there are probably loads of small single purpose apps that are the same story)(Also being a minimalist...) I would have to agree with your friend, the clock is indeed perfect! I'm adding it to my collection of TClock versions.
Back before I learned any programming, a friend of mine made a small desktop clock for me. When I requested it, I was unaware just how much of a stubborn minimalist he really is.
I gave him an image to use as a guide.
(see attachment in previous post)
This is what I got from him:
(see attachment in previous post)
- When I asked to be able to change the colors and the font, he said no...that would be bloat.
- When I asked for a border on the clock, same answer.
- I asked him to remove the X and put an exit option on a popup menu...nope, he wouldn't do that either.
- How about remember position? nope.
Everything I asked for, I got that same answer....no, that would add bloat.
He says the clock is perfect the way it is and there will not be any adding of features to it or any 'beautifying' ever. (If one discovers a bug, he will fix that, but it does what it does and does it well, so there is no bug fixing needed.) He says it could only be more perfect only if he can find a way to remove more 'bloat' from it and make it even smaller.
This was the application that gave me the push to learn programming. My frustrations from dealing with him lead me to learn how to create my own version with all thebloatfeatures I wanted.
We still argue about this clock, even today, with him still insisting that it is perfect.
For anybody that wants his clock, it's attached to this post. He gave me permission to distribute it. (earlier 'bloated' versions and source are available, bundled, on his site's files page)-app103 (November 07, 2007, 09:27 AM)
btw, i'm behind a secure router, so much so that i've ditched 3rd-party firewalls for the Windows firewall, even though i came to know that it does only offers inbound protection.Who cares about outbound "protection" anyway? When you get to the point where it kicks in, your PC has already been compromised... I see it as fixing the symptoms instead of curing the problem.-lanux128 (January 16, 2008, 06:42 PM)-f0dder (January 16, 2008, 06:52 PM)
Nailed It! 