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KDE 3.0 Beta 2 is out
Subject says all - the next beta of KDE 3.0 is out, after a short delay. You can find the downloads at this announcement. Click below to read more details about this version.
One of the most important things that the Konqueror teams wants from people are test cases of your regulary visited pages, where Konqueror either fails to render or render things incorrectly, and submit it using KDE's Bug Tracking system. URL's will not be helpful as it takes lots of time to strip a page from all the HTML code in order to find the actual problematic part of the web page.
Just to save the search for some people: Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and Tru-64 binary packages are available now. Others will be available soon. Source code is of course available also.
"Prejudicatus paus bundus est."
pr0pz to all trolls!
stop modding me up, brain-dead moderators!
if someone browse above -1, he/she is not part of my intended audience.
ps: i'm in the verge of being banned again, so if it hapens some other friendly troll take the fps from now, ok?
"Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user friendly. It just happens to be selective on who it makes friendship with"
aww, I can't believe I'm doing this.
KDE, is a great project, I don't know how they get it out so often, and yet make such great progress.
Well done guys.
(Of course, I'm a gnome guy myself)
psr --History is ending.
name says it all, yeah baby yeah!!!!!
I hereby claim this first post in the name of my balls.
Cherish them as though they were war heros.
es perspective.
Neither mom nor dad ever took 2nd place in their achievements, may it be academically, finicially nor moralistic. They were successful people in what they did, well known amongst their own professional community, and they never ever had to break a rule. They were upstanding citizens, they adhere to their morals and whilst they did once in awhile break a sweat whilst being prolific professionals and incredible parents, they succeeded admirably. I admire their resourcefulness, their intellectual capabilities and most of all I want to be as good a human being as they are. They succeeded in being outstanding parents, I was the one who was a tad 'late'.
Two years ago I left school and became a drifter. I had no means to afford the next meal. My father offered me one last opt out ticket. Come home, we'll make you work and give you guidance. I didn't take the ticket, I didn't take the compounding bribes bestowed on me from mother either. I stayed, reeled back to their teachings many years ago, and started to make sense of them. Their teachings had roots in other places, not all of it was original, but their explanations to me were never over wrought with detail. It was to the point, and in hindsight made perfect sense.
1. You don't have to break rules to win. Use them to your advantage, Play by them and hold your own. People respect you for it.
2. Never win for the sake of winning alone. You don't see grand masters venturing to coffee houses playing the worst players to satisfy their ego. You shouldn't have to do that to stroke yours either. Winning should take effort, cunning and intellect, otherwise the victory is worthless. (father taught me how to play chess and basketball)
3. There are free lunches, but it is rare. Always give back whenever you can.
4. Pissing off mom will end up getting back to dad. Never will father escape the sharp end of the stick. This goes for negotiating with any couple. Piss off the woman, and you won't get what you want.
5. There is a time and a place for everything. Pick the right time, the right place and the right approach. As quoted from the person who cited Dorothy Parker as one of his heros, getting away with something outrageous involves some sort of a masquerade as to hide the true nature of said action. Pick your masquerade carefully if you are going to escape the wrath of your audience, especially if you demand them to do something for you.
6. Never step on people unless you absolutely have to, and if you do, make sure they deserve it.
7. If you are to step on someone, make damn sure they can never ever ever hurt you back.
8. There are three things that are important in life, and they go in descending order of importance. These are Family, Integrity and money. They are often at conflict and seldom do you get all three in your favor. Always strive for the first and second ideals. Money alone is never a reason enough.
9. Nobody can do the job with as much thoroughness as you want them to do it. Try and do as much on your own.
10. Broaden the horizons of your knowledge base. You can't know too much about anything. Have fun learning and try to act as humble as possible in public.
11. If someone bothers to take the time to teach you something, listen carefully, pay attention, especially if they are good at it.
12. Never depend your success on someone elses' fuck-up.
13. Keep to your rules of conduct and stand by your own opinions. If you are right, people will see why, even if they won't admit it. If you are wrong, change your mind. Be flexible.
14. Never let people's praises cloud your judgment. Humility not only comes from your peers, but from your own envisionment of perfection. Strive to be as close to your idea of perfection as possible, enjoy getting there. The blood, sweat and toil are the most satisfying.
15. Do what makes you happy
wow you are a freaking genius.
What will be even funnier will be that KDE gets slashdotted because of it!
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
And that's one reason I go to slashdot.
After 600+ posts and 20 articles, my karma has been peaked at 50 for what seems like forever now. My new campaign: Karma Suicide!! Every post from now until my karma's back at zero will be this short crapflood posted with my +1 bonus. So moderators: Do your worst! Mod me troll/flame/OT/Overrated/Whatever to get my karma back to where it began. Do this ASAP! And as for the rest of you, commit karma suicide today!
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Unless that's his plan... Sneaky...
Best Slashdot Co
Okay gonna read story now.. I Like KDE
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
(-1: Obvious)
now imagine a beowulf cluster of retards
"You have to do something with all those spare cycles and I could really care less about finding alien signals from noise, cracking the latest DES, or factoring the largest mersine (sic) primes."
Well how about finding a cure for cancer? It used to be Windows only, but I think there is a linux console version now, or if not, there at least is for some of the other worthy causes to crunch numbers for.
I run the cancer one on 3 of my boxes at home; I guarantee you will get more of a genuine "warm, fuzzy feeling" from helping cancer research than you will knowing you compiled all your own source.
graspee
Some KDE Myths.
l s. php3
o ut h-metatheme.jpeg Its a
...Gnome/GTK
..and some other I missed out, its not
KDE Myth: Koffice owns, Kspread, Kword..they own, Gnome-office sucks.
Truth:
o Gnumeric has made some huge steps in the last 6 months, with the
semi-intergration of Guppi (graphing)...its a very stable Spreadsheet
application, offers many features that kspread dreams of. More Functions,
more file filters,.. Kspread is more like a budget/cutdown version of
Gnumeric.
To put it blutantly KDE toolbars and general gui design are/have always
been a mess.
o Abiword also offers similar benefits of Gnumeric (features and File
Filters) hey does Kword have a good import/exprt RTF?! alpha-quality? wtf?
How long has Kword been in-existence? and they still cant properly render
RTF still? Even the list of known filters (export and import) available
looks very sad. http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml
Considering Abiword is also being developed for many other platforms, its
done pretty well so far. Can you say WYSIWYG?
o Kivio doesnt offer everything you would want, and if you want specific
stencils, you have to fork out for them...Is this where FreeSoftware is
going? We get cutdown versions of a product,... DIA isnt bound to a
company hard bent in making a profit. So when DIA starts employing some of
these Stencils, what happens then? you spent $$$ for nothing?
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kivio/stenci
KDE Myth: Konq ownz mozilla, netscape etc...
Truth: Mozilla is truely more standards complient, as of late 0.9.4+
series, The Mozilla engine is really starting to shine now, Konq has
always had a hard time rendering any DHTML/Javascript, even with some
webpages the fonts are screwed.
Mozilla isnt Perfect, but hey, everything renders properly. Konq trys to
hard to be "Internet Explorer" on the linux desktop, Its time to
completely drop the KHTML shit, If theres a better, more mature
engine...use it. KHTML was once needed, now its not.. And if you want to
Compare Gnome Galeon,..I dare you.
Nautalus was once critised as being a slow, dog, rah rah.. well it was,
yeah it was slow,...but it has improved, but it seems kde users still like
to think that. Well if it makes you happy. Nautalus is very themeable
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/ximian-s
welcome change away from the Windows File Manager look.
KDE Myth: GTK+ is just damn ugly
So you havent tried the abundance of GTK+ themes? cleanice? eazel?
thinice? pixmap?
Yeah, Gtk themes that have been around longer than kde2... and with the
upcoming release of GTK2, themes are getting better and faster. Themes
under KDE just dont look "pretty". Even Gnome icons are better. So
customising Gnome to look differently isnt that hard..however KDE just
looks like that, Mosfet just looks tacky.
KDE Myth: We have all the cool appz. QT/KDE rulesss!
Oh really? So lets now count Evolution, GIMP, Red Carpet, Xchat, XMMS,
Galeon, Balsa, Gnumeric, Pan, Abiword, mplayer, Glade, Anjuta
has plently of cool apps.
KDE Myth: Gnome is loosing, its dead, just use KDE.
Well considering most new distros have KDE preinstalled as default, ie,
Mandrake, Lindows, Caldera, Corel, Suse
surprising Gnome is losing *some* support, But with Ximian and Redhat
Gnome/GTK will keep on living. QT is hardly community developed, GTK+ has always been community developed...and thus we as the linux community we _should_ support it.
Some KDE Myths..
l s. php3
o ut h-metatheme.jpeg Its a
...Gnome/GTK
..and some other I missed out, its not
..
KDE Myth: Koffice owns, Kspread, Kword..they own, Gnome-office sucks.
..
Truth:
o Gnumeric has made some huge steps in the last 6 months, with the
semi-intergration of Guppi (graphing)...its a very stable Spreadsheet
application, offers many features that kspread dreams of. More Functions,
more file filters,.. Kspread is more like a budget/cutdown version of
Gnumeric.
To put it blutantly KDE toolbars and general gui design are/have always
been a mess.
o Abiword also offers similar benefits of Gnumeric (features and File
Filters) hey does Kword have a good import/exprt RTF?! alpha-quality? wtf?
How long has Kword been in-existence? and they still cant properly render
RTF still? Even the list of known filters (export and import) available
looks very sad. http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml
Considering Abiword is also being developed for many other platforms, its
done pretty well so far. Can you say WYSIWYG?
o Kivio doesnt offer everything you would want, and if you want specific
stencils, you have to fork out for them...Is this where FreeSoftware is
going? We get cutdown versions of a product,... DIA isnt bound to a
company hard bent in making a profit. So when DIA starts employing some of
these Stencils, what happens then? you spent $$$ for nothing?
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kivio/stenci
KDE Myth: Konq ownz mozilla, netscape etc...
Truth: Mozilla is truely more standards complient, as of late 0.9.4+
series, The Mozilla engine is really starting to shine now, Konq has
always had a hard time rendering any DHTML/Javascript, even with some
webpages the fonts are screwed.
Mozilla isnt Perfect, but hey, everything renders properly. Konq trys to
hard to be "Internet Explorer" on the linux desktop, Its time to
completely drop the KHTML shit, If theres a better, more mature
engine...use it. KHTML was once needed, now its not.. And if you want to
Compare Gnome Galeon,..I dare you.
Nautalus was once critised as being a slow, dog, rah rah.. well it was,
yeah it was slow,...but it has improved, but it seems kde users still like
to think that. Well if it makes you happy. Nautalus is very themeable
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/ximian-s
welcome change away from the Windows File Manager look.
KDE Myth: GTK+ is just damn ugly
So you havent tried the abundance of GTK+ themes? cleanice? eazel?
thinice? pixmap?
Yeah, Gtk themes that have been around longer than kde2... and with the
upcoming release of GTK2, themes are getting better and faster. Themes
under KDE just dont look "pretty". Even Gnome icons are better. So
customising Gnome to look differently isnt that hard..however KDE just
looks like that, Mosfet just looks tacky.
KDE Myth: We have all the cool appz. QT/KDE rulesss!
Oh really? So lets now count Evolution, GIMP, Red Carpet, Xchat, XMMS,
Galeon, Balsa, Gnumeric, Pan, Abiword, mplayer, Glade, Anjuta
has plently of cool apps.
KDE Myth: Gnome is loosing, its dead, just use KDE.
Well considering most new distros have KDE preinstalled as default, ie,
Mandrake, Lindows, Caldera, Corel, Suse
surprising Gnome is losing *some* support, But with Ximian and Redhat
Gnome/GTK will keep on living. QT is hardly community developed, GTK+ has always been community developed...and thus we as the linux community we _should_ support it.
Some KDE Myths.
l s. php3
o ut h-metatheme.jpeg Its a
...Gnome/GTK
..and some other I missed out, its not
KDE Myth: Koffice owns, Kspread, Kword..they own, Gnome-office sucks.
Truth:
o Gnumeric has made some huge steps in the last 6 months, with the
semi-intergration of Guppi (graphing)...its a very stable Spreadsheet
application, offers many features that kspread dreams of. More Functions,
more file filters,.. Kspread is more like a budget/cutdown version of
Gnumeric.
To put it blutantly KDE toolbars and general gui design are/have always
been a mess.
o Abiword also offers similar benefits of Gnumeric (features and File
Filters) hey does Kword have a good import/exprt RTF?! alpha-quality? wtf?
How long has Kword been in-existence? and they still cant properly render
RTF still? Even the list of known filters (export and import) available
looks very sad. http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml
Considering Abiword is also being developed for many other platforms, its
done pretty well so far. Can you say WYSIWYG?
o Kivio doesnt offer everything you would want, and if you want specific
stencils, you have to fork out for them...Is this where FreeSoftware is
going? We get cutdown versions of a product,... DIA isnt bound to a
company hard bent in making a profit. So when DIA starts employing some of
these Stencils, what happens then? you spent $$$ for nothing?
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kivio/stenci
KDE Myth: Konq ownz mozilla, netscape etc...
Truth: Mozilla is truely more standards complient, as of late 0.9.4+
series, The Mozilla engine is really starting to shine now, Konq has
always had a hard time rendering any DHTML/Javascript, even with some
webpages the fonts are screwed.
Mozilla isnt Perfect, but hey, everything renders properly. Konq trys to
hard to be "Internet Explorer" on the linux desktop, Its time to
completely drop the KHTML shit, If theres a better, more mature
engine...use it. KHTML was once needed, now its not.. And if you want to
Compare Gnome Galeon,..I dare you.
Nautalus was once critised as being a slow, dog, rah rah.. well it was,
yeah it was slow,...but it has improved, but it seems kde users still like
to think that. Well if it makes you happy. Nautalus is very themeable
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/ximian-s
welcome change away from the Windows File Manager look.
KDE Myth: GTK+ is just damn ugly
So you havent tried the abundance of GTK+ themes? cleanice? eazel?
thinice? pixmap?
Yeah, Gtk themes that have been around longer than kde2... and with the
upcoming release of GTK2, themes are getting better and faster. Themes
under KDE just dont look "pretty". Even Gnome icons are better. So
customising Gnome to look differently isnt that hard..however KDE just
looks like that, Mosfet just looks tacky.
KDE Myth: We have all the cool appz. QT/KDE rulesss!
Oh really? So lets now count Evolution, GIMP, Red Carpet, Xchat, XMMS,
Galeon, Balsa, Gnumeric, Pan, Abiword, mplayer, Glade, Anjuta
has plently of cool apps.
KDE Myth: Gnome is loosing, its dead, just use KDE.
Well considering most new distros have KDE preinstalled as default, ie,
Mandrake, Lindows, Caldera, Corel, Suse
surprising Gnome is losing *some* support, But with Ximian and Redhat
Gnome/GTK will keep on living. QT is hardly community developed, GTK+ has always been community developed...and thus we as the linux community we _should_ support it.
Some KDE Myths...
l s. php3
o ut h-metatheme.jpeg Its a
...Gnome/GTK
..and some other I missed out, its not
..
KDE Myth: Koffice owns, Kspread, Kword..they own, Gnome-office sucks.
Truth:
o Gnumeric has made some huge steps in the last 6 months, with the
semi-intergration of Guppi (graphing)...its a very stable Spreadsheet
application, offers many features that kspread dreams of. More Functions,
more file filters,.. Kspread is more like a budget/cutdown version of
Gnumeric.
To put it blutantly KDE toolbars and general gui design are/have always
been a mess.
o Abiword also offers similar benefits of Gnumeric (features and File
Filters) hey does Kword have a good import/exprt RTF?! alpha-quality? wtf?
How long has Kword been in-existence? and they still cant properly render
RTF still? Even the list of known filters (export and import) available
looks very sad. http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml
Considering Abiword is also being developed for many other platforms, its
done pretty well so far. Can you say WYSIWYG?
o Kivio doesnt offer everything you would want, and if you want specific
stencils, you have to fork out for them...Is this where FreeSoftware is
going? We get cutdown versions of a product,... DIA isnt bound to a
company hard bent in making a profit. So when DIA starts employing some of
these Stencils, what happens then? you spent $$$ for nothing?
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kivio/stenci
KDE Myth: Konq ownz mozilla, netscape etc...
Truth: Mozilla is truely more standards complient, as of late 0.9.4+
series, The Mozilla engine is really starting to shine now, Konq has
always had a hard time rendering any DHTML/Javascript, even with some
webpages the fonts are screwed.
Mozilla isnt Perfect, but hey, everything renders properly. Konq trys to
hard to be "Internet Explorer" on the linux desktop, Its time to
completely drop the KHTML shit, If theres a better, more mature
engine...use it. KHTML was once needed, now its not.. And if you want to
Compare Gnome Galeon,..I dare you.
Nautalus was once critised as being a slow, dog, rah rah.. well it was,
yeah it was slow,...but it has improved, but it seems kde users still like
to think that. Well if it makes you happy. Nautalus is very themeable
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/ximian-s
welcome change away from the Windows File Manager look.
KDE Myth: GTK+ is just damn ugly
So you havent tried the abundance of GTK+ themes? cleanice? eazel?
thinice? pixmap?
Yeah, Gtk themes that have been around longer than kde2... and with the
upcoming release of GTK2, themes are getting better and faster. Themes
under KDE just dont look "pretty". Even Gnome icons are better. So
customising Gnome to look differently isnt that hard..however KDE just
looks like that, Mosfet just looks tacky.
KDE Myth: We have all the cool appz. QT/KDE rulesss!
Oh really? So lets now count Evolution, GIMP, Red Carpet, Xchat, XMMS,
Galeon, Balsa, Gnumeric, Pan, Abiword, mplayer, Glade, Anjuta
has plently of cool apps.
KDE Myth: Gnome is loosing, its dead, just use KDE.
Well considering most new distros have KDE preinstalled as default, ie,
Mandrake, Lindows, Caldera, Corel, Suse
surprising Gnome is losing *some* support, But with Ximian and Redhat
Gnome/GTK will keep on living. QT is hardly community developed, GTK+ has always been community developed...and thus we as the linux community we _should_ support it.