... Apart from that, ogg vorbis stream of the radio France Culture is, one more time, broken. A pity. Fortunately, I can get the radio over the TV, which is over the cable. But switching on the TV to listen to the radio is, somehow, strange.
You have the right to have such a bias, I'm not critizing you, I'm just wondering about gnumeric possibilities. Because nobody I knows was satisfied by gnumeric to do "Real Work".
Apart from that, if you have problem to run a mailer, a web browser and a spreadsheet at the same time, maybe the problem is not your computer but the softwares you do use. Ok, GNU/Linux is memory consuming, but it is a pity that you do need 512 MB RAM to do what you actually can do with 32 MB RAM on MS Windows 9xx. I'm not saying that current desktop environment are limited like MS Windows 9xx desktop was. But, man, I'm actually running on my work computer KDE + mozilla + apache well loaded + mysql well loaded, and I have no trouble, no specific need for more RAM while this computer "only" got 256 MB. I have only 300 MB on my labtop but I never reached the swap, even when running OpenOffice. My girlfriend usually KDE on a Pentium II with 400 MB, and, one more time, a vmstat shows that this computer almost never swap... and KDE is not known to be very slight.
So I think you definitely spotted the problem right, when you proposed to run memprof for week :)
While I was cleaning my labtop by removing useless packages, I found out a software called "dfm". It is a desktop/file manager that perfectly fits with WindowMaker, a really fast program, which is something I was looking for.
It is not powerful: I do not care, I do not really really need a powerful desktop/file manager, I'm fine with my aterms. It is not really pretty, the icons are ugly: it is easy to use others icons (they must be xpm).
A pity that this software seems no longer developer, or badly maintained on Debian (no bugfix release while patches are provided!). I should be very easy to add an improved package with better icons by default.
I was with my girlfriend at the RMLL2003 and it was great. My pics are at http://sv.gnu.org/team/2003/yeupou/
You said that "robbins was right in telling zach that the people working on Gentoo are volunteers. Zach was a volunteer, and did not deserve any special treatment above and beyond what the other volunteers contributing in non-trivial ways deserved (I am not saying that he deserved nothing, but to imply that you deserve to be financially compensated for your work as a volunteer is ludacris.)" but in fact, Zach was only interesting in building a business with gentoo. And there no valid reason brought to ignore that interest. No valid reason to register domain names he was planning to register... The only reason was to break Zach's plans, and I do not see any valuable reason for that.
And so technocracy is some kind of aristocracy. So your equation is in fact aristocracy > democracy.
You said that kuroshin is a democracy. As someone that really studied democracy, I can tell that no community website on internet is near from democracy. Many people that runs website likes meritocracy. And meritocracy is still an aristocracy (where merits is what matter to be considered as the better).
Finally, I'm a democrat (I'm not speaking of democrat/republican American political wings). Advogato is in some way democratic because anybody can contribute, anybody got the power, if he wants. It does not means that everybody can do what he wants - that would be anarchy. But advogato is not a political system in itself. This is not a community living together that have to make choices together. So comparing that to a political system is just wrong. It's just a forum, not a city.
Yesterday, with my girlfriend, we've seen Matrix Reloaded. My brother told me previously that he disliked it, by comparison to Matrix. So I was not completely disappointed to see this advertisement for their game. Because the film in itself is crappy (IMHO, obviously).
Who believes that a man that can fly beyond the sky will spend 30 hours to kick 10 bad guys asses (lead me to ask why if someone is fast enough to avoid bullets he cannot avoid kicks and punches the same way)? The author was probably very happy with his fight sequences to make them that long. But apart for the part on the freeway...
And the story... well, what story?
Very crappy. It's nice, pretty, but it's "creux" like I would say in French, because, according to the film, it's the better language. As French, I find this idea of languages better than others ones particulary stupid. Every languages I know are interesting and fascinating. While I like my own tongue, this kind of comparison seems to me "creuse" (one more time). And wrong (no French will talk that long just to say "bloody shit" - he will only say "bordel de merde" and will not speak for an hour).
Finalement, ce film est joli mais creux.
Update for Dobey about Matrix Reloaded: please give me one good reason to "lower my standards". Do I have to learn to like what I consider as shit to enjoy that shit? Please, respect my right to love/like and hate/dislike. If you like it, good for you - but do not consider that we should all be expecting what you expect when watching a film. I was not expecting a film like this to follow Matrix 1, which was good.
First, note that I provide at least two emails addresses on my advogato page :) And currently it's the first google answer for my name.
The HIG, in fact, is almost a separate topic. GNOME features, look, style, reminds me Windows 98 - missing features. The fact that shortcuts editing on the fly was removed (hidden in gconf) makes me think that the goal is to reach the poor level of usability of Windows 98 (in an attempt to attrack people, I suppose). And no, I do not find Windows 98 pretty. It was, maybe, true in 1999, but by comparison to GNOME 1.2 and KDE 3, it's a crap. I must admit that I never ran Windows XP by myself, I only seen it running several times. The colors are not exactly what I would prefer but the widgets seem nice (transparencies, 3d effects), like KDE ones or like gtk+ 1.2 default ones. Because, yes, gtk+1.2 (so GNOME 1.2) default themes was nice, nice enough.
About the HIG, I wonder why they chose it. They like MacOS? That does not make that HIG so good. But it's partly a issue of habits. I find that inconvenient but they may have some good reasons.
But ggv, please, was a GOOD software. It used to print (on the screen) nicely postscripts files, which every LaTeX users use frequently. And ggv render pdf much better than xpdf. There was a lot of good ideas in ggv, coming from gv. Now, it seems lost... and I started using kghostview (with prints pdf nicely too). ggv was a good tool for postscripts files. Now, it seems to be regressing. Like GNOME itself... Never perfect, but going at the opposite of what I expect. I hope for GNOME people that they'll find people happy with what they do.
About recommending GNOME - I recommend it only to people that does not have enough RAM to run KDE, and I recommend GNOME < 2... But these recommendetions iare only for people that would not be happy with wmaker :P
Finally, I'm not sure that I can "help make GNOME suck less". It seems mostly a matter of approach.
GNOME2 is crap. It sounds harsh but I mean it. Current GNOME people are detroying everything original in GNOME. They removed the minimap (that used to show the page in a little box, on the top left, under the menu) from ggv - now you must use the mousewheel or click on the text to scroll up/down. You cannot (de)select a page from printing list with a simple right click on it page number, while it used to work. You cannot change menus on the fly - I do not give a toss about gconf, people will not search in gconf features like these one that do not even know about. GTK2 is ugly by default. With GTK1, on mouse hover, we had something more than just a background color change (simili-3d effects).
GNOME2 will just look like Windows 98. Not even MS Office 97. Ugly, will all good and uniques features removed or hidden.
I do not even want to talk about these buttons order (no on the left, ok on the right - no "reset to default" in prefs, no "cancel").
They apparently plan to clone Windows 95/98. And they do it good. But who want Windows 95/98. I think I'm not going to recommend GNOME2 soon...
I hope that Gimp 1.3 follow Gimp 1.2, and is not to be a rbpaint... Because KDE still cannot replace the Gimp.
I did post here since a long time. Nothing really new in the computing area for me since. I released a new version of pdbv.
Apart from computing, everything is going well. :)
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