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2008-09-07T12:09:26Z

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Re: Shuttleworth: work with rather than exclude those on Windows

2008-09-07T07:44:53Z

This is common beahviour for at least a large minority of pupils or
students everywhere. There are actually much less friendly side
effects than 'general worthlessness of university degrees'. For
instance, you can have a lot of 'fun' when being forcibly assigned to
a team where all the other members would rather just copy an example

Re: Shuttleworth: work with rather than exclude those on Windows

2008-09-06T13:15:25Z

I've been told that over there you guys start to cheat openly if the
instructor leaves the room during an exam.

Re: How to call a function in user space from inside the kernel ?

2008-09-05T11:54:06Z

AFAIK Can't
maybe you could use a signal (perhaps SIGIO) to run the user function
and have the user function then communicate with the kernel.
Bye.
Jasen

Re: Middle-Mouse button

2008-09-05T21:04:28Z

Graeme Geldenhuys <grae...@nospam.net> wrote in
Excellent....is that the thread entitled: Xlib and mouse events ?
(I know, it's fairly obvious.)

Re: Middle-Mouse button

2008-09-05T13:19:01Z

The real beauty of fvwm is its configurability. It can be configured
to behave as you have discovered. It can also be configured to behave
differently in the case you've discovered.

Re: Middle-Mouse button

2008-09-05T09:43:10Z

DanS wrote:
I think you will get more help in the "comp.windows.x" newsgroup. There
is actually a thread going that covers this exact question. :-)
Graeme.

Re: Middle-Mouse button

2008-09-05T09:10:35Z

I've also noticed that in FVWM, if you keep the left ALT key in you can
use the left, middle and right mouse buttons (even over application
windows), and it acts as if you clicked on the root desktop window. So
it seems to ignore the location of the mouse pointer, and send the mouse
event directly to the root window. I found this feature by accident. :-)

Re: Middle-Mouse button

2008-09-05T09:27:18Z

Hi,
OK, that was an exxageration, but you know what I mean.
[...]
OK, I think I know what you mean...
I'll be off for a while,
Ciao...

FAST '09 Call For Papers Deadline Approaching

2008-09-04T20:54:57Z

The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09)
Program Committee would like to remind you that the deadline to
contribute to the refereed papers is quickly approaching. Paper
submissions are due 9:00 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2008.
FAST '09 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to

Re: Shuttleworth: work with rather than exclude those on Windows

2008-09-04T20:42:27Z

In the US, except for public TV, the tv stations are supported by
advertising, and even public tv now has something similiar to ads.
The cost to people watching is the time wasted watching the ads.
As for ad supported web sites, I'd apply the same argument. The time
wasted scolling past ads or closing pop-ups, or time wasted waiting

Re: How to call a function in user space from inside the kernel ?

2008-09-04T20:41:36Z

thank you very much to reply me
regards
claudio daffra

Re: How to call a function in user space from inside the kernel ?

2008-09-04T19:27:33Z

That would be a huge security problem if you would do so. The
user then could execute arbitrary code with all the permissions
the kernel has. And not only that: any bug in your program could
crash the whole kernel. Neither is acceptable in a multi-tasking,
multi-user system.
How do you expect this to work? The kernel and the user-land

Re: Shuttleworth: work with rather than exclude those on Windows

2008-09-04T15:06:06Z

So, they are not delivering something 'for free', because they deliver
it with advertisements attached people wouldn't want to bother with
otherwise and do so because they get paid to.

Re: Shuttleworth: work with rather than exclude those on Windows

2008-09-04T15:01:57Z

Rather bizzare point of view. There are thousands of television and radio
stations and millions of websites (including Google, Yahoo, etc.) that
deliver free content. Somehow they are able to make billions from
advertising revenue but to the user there is no cost.
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