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Gnome 2.14

The Gnome desktop I have installed is quite fast now since I have tweaked the settings of the desktop to use less memory and now it is a lot faster than the previous desktop I had. I might put up a page about tweaking Gnome since it is my favorite desktop and I do not care what people say about it, it is still well worth using. I just downloaded the embedded IE extension for Mozilla Firefox and now I can view pages within FireFox with the IE engine. But with a more modern and secure browser. And this way you can test your website with Firefox and see how it will look in IE. But if you have disabled ActiveX scripting, which is recommended, then the websites such as http://www.windowsupdate.com/ will not work in the Embedded IE feature. But this is cool though, ActiveX is pretty insecure and there are better ways of deploying web scripting that do not rely on such insecure scripting code. But that means you could not visit this website on Linux, unless you had crossover office installed and Internet Explorer. That works apparently. But it is better to use FireFox since that works with the large majority of websites. And IE 7 is not in wide circulation yet. But it will be interesting to see how it renders websites compared to Firefox when it is released. And the extension shows the IE icon in the address bar and this is how you know is active.

By the time IE 7 is in wide circulation, Firefox would be past version 2.0 surely and then it would have the finalised SVG support. I have already seen the cool sunbird program where they have built a calendar application using Firefox technology. I cannot wait to see what the future holds. China are harvesting the organs of executed prisoners in China. They do not need the organs after death, but it is without consent. Iran is threatening to attack it's enemies with the might of it's military. They still deny having nuclear programs intended to develop nuclear weapons. But they are threatening to cut off the hand of any aggressor which sounds like they may attack with all force if they are attacked. Which could mean it would be a bad idea for America to attack their nuclear facilities. But those Camel fucking, Prophet Mohammad worshiping terrorists are said to be planning a new attack(s) on Indonesia. They are absolute dog blowing scum and should be captured and used for horrific medical experiments. They should be pushed into ovens and burned alive, or impaled on red hot stakes and left to twitch in horrific agony. They deserve no mercy, only horrific agony and suffering. They should be tied down to an operating table and dissected alive, there should be no end to their suffering.

I am building the components of Gnome 2.14 and I am already seeing an improvement over the Gnome 2.12 desktop. I have built Gtk 2.8.9, gnome-session-2.14 and gnome-themes-2.14 from source and the metacity desktop. It is about time that Gnome had a speed boost. I just want to build the version 2.14 release of Nautilus and maybe Gedit and then I will have a good desktop. The nautilus Filemanager and the metacity desktop are the main sections of this desktop to target for improvement. Once I have a faster version of Nautilus, the desktop would speed up. Although, if you turn off icons on the desktop, that gives a huge speed boost. But I really want to test this out, The version 2.0.1 release of OpenOffice.org is a little faster than previous versions and integrates well into the Gnome desktop.

I also have a copy of the Sydney Morning Herald target puzzle solver for you. This program was up and running on the web some time ago and was taken down. I cannot find it anymore. Anyway, here it is: http://www.geocities.com/hungry_mancubus/target.gz. This program is written in standard C and compiles with no problems with gcc 4.0.2. It was originally written by Rod Johnson and is well worth having. For usage on Linux you will need the /usr/share/dict/words file, but you can edit the source file to point to the location of your words file. I have hacked on the program to use strncpy() instead of the dangerous strcpy(). It works perfectly well on Linux, I just type export QUERY_STRING='a=words' to give it a random word to work on and it will output the answer.
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