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XEmacs best all-round toolAs several people have pointed out, static HTML is blase these days; you must be able to integrate dynamic capabilities into practically any modern web site.
For this reason, I do recommend learning HTML, and a little Perl as well, as a bare minimum.
XEmacs is a great tool for this purpose; it has color coding of HTML and Perl, and useful context-sensitive menus.
And, yes, I have worked for a web development company for years (although I mostly sysadmin these days). And I've tried many "WYSIWYG" tools, and found them all lacking. I had to spend as much time cleaning up their output as I ever could have hoped to save from not typing the tags.
I'm a bit disappointed in the "bash the geeks" nature of this thread, especially on a site that purports to be "News for Nerds." Opposing the use of "WYSIWYG" editors, and recommending that the questioner get his hands dirty and just learn the stuff is not only a legitimate answer, it is in his best interest in the long run.
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Re:kde getting on /.Question is, when will decent word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications be ready.
StarOffice, although not Free, is a decent, very full-featured, if somewhat bloated, office package, and includes presentation software.
Also, Corel has ported WordPerfect, and is porting the rest of their WordPerfect Office2000 suite, as far as I know.
Then, in the Free Software world, there is Siag Office and, of course, KOffice, which, while not finished, look promising.
So, we do have usable tools now, and great Free tools on the way.
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Re:Some articles /. didn't consider worthy:I have noticed a conspicuous absence of KDE articles lately...do you think that Rob and Co., are refraining from posting such articles because they dislike KDE, or because they tend to ignite flame-fests, or???
Anyhow, thanks for the links, Roberto; I will check out those KDE stories.
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Re:Sad state of SlashdotFurthermore, his comment was absurd; to claim that the stability of Linux is *worse* than Microsoft (Windows) just doesn't ring true to a group of people (Linux users) who know better.
Thompson *should* be criticized for making such an uninformed comment, no matter what his great accomplishments of the past.
Yes, Linux is not perfect; but it's not crap, either.
Most of the comments here have been fairly on the mark. I would ask the other poster if he is sorting by score; it makes reading Slashdot more enjoyable.
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Use of undocumented APIs well documented
Oh, come on. There was a *book* about this subject: Undocumented Windows," by Andrew Schulman (sorry, I don't have the ISBN). It's a settled issue: Microsoft, at least in the past, has used undocumented APIs.
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Re:waiting for mirrors
At the time of writing, it's at
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Re:waiting for mirrors
At the time of writing, it's at
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What lack of office applicationsFor most people, StarOffice is practially a drop-in replacement for MS Office.
About the only thing lacking now is Quicken, QuickBooks, and *games*.
I expect those will take another year or two. And then its on to World Domination.
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OFFICE APPS FOR LINUXStarOffice, being one big huge program, will allow users to do stuff like that.
Besides, people will argue against Linux using the "drag and drop between programs" argument, but, honestly: how many people really work like that? Most Windows programs like to start maximized, leaving no area with which to manipulate the desktop, or other programs' windows. The typical user doesn't alter this behavior.
As a result, most people still use their Windows programs in the traditional way: open program, open file, manipulate file, save file, close program.
For the average user, a machine set up with Linux, KDE and StarOffice would not be noticably different than a Windows machine, except that it would not crash as much.
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Carmack FUD Concrete ExamplesNo, it hasn't.
Only Mac OS X Server has been released. The client has yet to be shipped, and will differ from Server in significant ways.
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Not Q3T, but q3test...To a degree...I built a Celeron 300A machine, with an ABIT motherboard, and a Millenium II G200. No problem with hardware support, apart from 3-D.
There are probably still more Macs around than Linux machines, but probably not by all that much.
On actively used machines, Linux may already have the edge. That's not to knock the Mac; it's just that Linux is all the rage these days. Of the people I know who are active computer users (including non-geeks), probably a third to a half of them are planning to experiment with Linux in the not-too-distant future.
I think there's a fairly simple explanation for this: Linux will run on the hardware they already have. They can't try MacOS without buying a new machine, if they currently have an x86 machine.
Who knows what might have happened if Apple had turned themselves into a software company a few years back...
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Why a dragon? The answer.His name is probably:
Dragon Drop
*groan*
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It'll stay upLet's talk what a bad idea it is to allow user programs (ISAPI extensions and COM objects) to run in the same process space as the webserver.
And how.
We had an open ticket with MICROS~1 for months, regarding an NT/IIS/ASP server that simply would not stay up. Usually INETINFO.EXE did not actually crash; it would just hang. The MICROS~1 guy, helpful as he tried to be, couldn't track down the problem from the memory dumps we provided.
Finally, he tracked it down: the client's choice of (MICROS~1) FoxPro for their database was causing the whole mess, as it is "not designed for the kind of usage it gets when used with a web site."
The suggested solution? Rewrite the whole mess to use MS-SQL.
Well, at least that should make it easier to migrate to UNIX at some point in the future.
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Huh?How would more gun control have stopped them from possessing bombs?
If people are intent on killing, they will find a way to do so. The most lethal weapon of mass killing in American history was a gas can and a match: remember that.
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Guns Guns and More GunsI rather doubt that collecting over 100 million guns from law-abiding Americans is a realistic idea.
It was already illegal for the kids to possess those guns and *bombs*. How would additional laws have helped?
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Aren't you doing *exactly* the same thing?In blaming guns for the action of nutcases, aren't you scapegoating, just like the people you're complaining about?
Those kids also had *bombs* for crying out loud. The stuff they had was *already* illegal.
You can't legislate against insanity.
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Have they ported Linux to the Vax?
But I'd want to run VMS on the thing. I know...sick, but what can I tell ya?
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I want a VAX
That story made me long to log into a VAX again. Someday, when I have the room, I must get one.
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NT Excellent For Client-SideI do the opposite; I use Linux for my desktop, and administer the #$()@*# NT boxes via vnc.
What's wrong with Netscape? Works for me.
Beats having to actually use Windows.
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another media `smart`ideaWell, you see, they've been trying to sell that particular bill of goods for some time, and it's getting a bit old. So, they move on to blaming something else.
It's not the game's fault; it's not the gun's fault; it's not the Internet's fault; it's not society's fault. It's the kids' fault.
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If you value Linux' freedom, please mention GNU
Even if you don't find yourself sympatizing with the Free Software Foundation, please mention the GNU project, http://www.gnu.org/ when you talk about the whole system, not just the Linux kernel, http://www.kernel.org/.
Linus Torvalds licensed the Linux kernel under the GNU General Public License (GPL). http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl, and used free GNU tools, when he wrote it.
The C library (libc) is part of the GNU project.
Microsoft can't destroy our platform, because of the pragmatic idealistic development work, and the GPL license that is the essential effect and part of the GNU Project.
I value freedom, so I call the free system GNU/Linux, because it gives shared credit, to those whom credit is due.