I think you might mean windows 2000 instead of OSX.
a google search of OSX and opengl doesn't produce anything interesting. And Apple is fairly good about issueing press releases if they do something new. I've heard that the new interface for apple is pretty and that it's slick but I haven't heard too much about it being fast.
Anyways, your logic is a little bit screwy about using 3d acceleration to speed up 2d. Because if you could do that then 3d acceleration would be called 3d and 2d acceleration. Perhaps you are associating OpenGL with 3d only instead of 2d? But OpenGL can be used to accelerate 2d also if you add the following line (and one or two others) to your code.
I think it's a good thing to be help people out if you can. Last year I worked for a photo shop where the person who trained me left and I was the only person who could run the lab. I was honestly only person in our town who knew run the equipment.
In some ways, I wanted to quit that job but I knew my boss would be totally screwed if I did. So I stuck around and trained in two people to replace me. Then I left.
I created an account that had numbers and letters and an underscore. I never gave it out to anyone and I never used it for email. I did use it to sign up for MSN though to see if i could communicate with it and my jabber im.
I started recieving a couple spams everyday from within a week of creating it.
It's easy to turn a vulnerability into virus. Linux has vulnerabilities. All the vulnerabilities used to create this worm were fixed last October but people still need to install the new RPM before the fixes do any good.
Personally, I just type apt-get update && apt-get upgrade every couple days... That way all my programs stay fresh.:)
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I don't disagree with you. I mean what kind of dummy would think of looking for pornography on the web?
But you're posting to the wrong article bud.
You meant to post to the article about the worst jobs on the net and this about cooling your body to within 1 degree of absolute zero to create a self assembling super computer. In fact you and some linuxchix could get together and create a beowulf cluster out of yourselves.
The mozilla renderring engine is quite a bit faster in my experience. Also it takes less ram.
It's XUL stuff that takes the ram, slows down start up time, and takes so long to render.
Most web pages do not have very complex html. A couple nested tables but that's about it most of the time. With mozilla renderring the UI is far more complicated than renderring the web page.
Try a XUL free browser that uses the mozilla renderrer. The debian gtkembed package is really old so I wasn't too impressed with galeon and skipstone. But kmeleon ( http://kmeleon.org ) for windows is really fast.
XUL is really cool. I understand why they made the choices that they did to use it. Someday we will all want themeable browsers. But it's really slow.
It's ironic that you don't like linux for the very reasons that it has succeeded so well.
Security is important but it's not the only thing. Linux for me has a nice blend of security, stability and feature richness. For a coporate firewall, I might run OpenBSD. But not for a desktop.
The BSD's suffer from too centralized developement style. In BSD the kernel seems tied to the rest of the distribution. In Linux every piece of software is autonomous. This Linux encourages new distributions and different ways of doing things. At one point the BSD kernels were technically superior to the Linux kernel but Linux use grew more rapidly. I think that this decentralised developement was one of the key reasons.
Free software was always about Freedom as in speech not about Free beer. And anyways Suse is Comercial but you group it with Debian which is non-comercial? I'm confused.
If you don't use Linux that's fine. I don't care one way or the other. But I would say that judging from your wishlist, any operating system you like is going to be fairly obscure.
What I want is that Linux will be the most popular operating system for the desktop. That millions of people find out what it's like to be able to rely on their computer not crashing. That the GPL will infect every peice of software until it's an open source world.
>Then you have the fact (that unless you use RedHat or Mandrake, which bring their own set of problems) you cannot upgrade the kernel (realistically) without recompiling!
You forgot Debian.
Debian doesn't require you to recompile to upgrade. ( But of course Debian has it's own set of problems )
But in general, I would say upgrading the kernel in Debian is much easier than when I had to do it in Windows 2000.
Even tiny problems like the red hat 7.0 gcc would be enormous if the kernel was written in C++. C compilers are relatively simple to implement and this makes them more reliable.
(gcc 3.0 will cure cancer of course. But it's not finished yet.)
X isn't going to be replaced anytime soon. It doesn't really need to be either... Xprotocol was designed to be added to and updated, it's just that people haven't had the motivation to do it until recently.
I must first state that I am not a native Zambian. I was born there and have lived there for most of my life and in many ways consider it my home. But I have an American passport.
As an American in Zambia I was raised never to state any political views whether negative or positive about Zambian affairs. I still feel this is a wise rule to live by.
However, if there is one thing that I wish America would do to help Zambia it would be to forgive all the debt that Zambia accumulated in the 1980's. They already have forgiven around 2 billion but there is still 6.5 billion that Zambia owes. About half to the IMF. 6.5 billion dollars is not a lot of money for the United States but for a country of 9 million people where the average person makes $300 a year it is an impossible amount.
The average zambian should not be held responsible for this because they only recieved a tiny fraction of this money.
One thing I'm gratefull for is that when Zambia had a terrible drought in the mid 1990's America sent a lot of food to us. Otherwise many people would have starved.
I just found that out 2 days ago. I tried to reconfigure it but it wasn't able to write the file to:
etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf
because I wasn't in the root directory. (It should have tried to write the file to
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf
instead I think. I took me 15-20 mins to figure it out.:P
After college I plan to go back and teach computer science. And here's why.
People in American businesses don't use computers because it's fun or because they like the pretty graphics. People use computers because at a very fundamental level they allow you to do business more efficiently. Cheaper, faster, better...
In Africa we don't just need food and medicine for the needs of today. We need to plan ahead. To create a sustainable business infrastructure so we can compete on a global market place.
The things you mentioned are a part of this. Computers are another part.
Think about this for a second. In 1995 you couldn't assume by default that people had email addresses. But email has become necesary for business today.
Today there are still people who can't type faster than they can write by hand. Tomorrow we will assume by default that any educated person can type faster than they can write and at least do some basic programming.
Computers aren't caviar, they're water... You just can't do business with out them.
It's not a choice to use MAPS because a back bone site uses it so it's forced onto users.
If they just block people with misconfigured routers or people who spam that's not censorship.
But when people want to get spamming programs or email addresses and they can't because MAPS is blocking it that's censorship. Email addresses are private information and I don't mind them trying to censor that. I think it's pointless but I don't mind. I mind that they are trying to block people from getting to software though. And I mind that they are hurting inocent web site at the same time.
Basically censorship is when you block two people who want to communicate from doing so based on the content of what they are talking about. Sometimes that's not a bad thing to try do. But mostly the internet routes around censorship.
I don't agree with the fact that the people are trying to sell email addresses. But even here I'm not sure that what maps is trying to do is worthwhile. Or the right thing. The internet interprets cencorships as damage and routes around it.
However I can not fault them for selling spamming software. The right to create and distribute software is a sacred right. I get so frustrated at the people who don't treasure this right.
I believe that no one has the right to tell someone not to create a piece of software. Patents that stop people writing software are evil. Laws that stop people writing software are wrong. People that stop people from writing software are wrong.
I get frustrated by reading the comments about software sometimes. A month ago someone created a visual basic clone for Linux and people complained about it. Not that it was poorly written but just that they didn't want a visual basic clone. People complain that Mozilla have been goofing off adding features instead of just working on gecko. Someone today said that Open Source was making software suck more because now 20 year olds were writing software and his post got moderated to a +4 interesting?!?
The truth is that behind all the laws stopping people from writing software there is a person writing the law. In the end it's always a matter of PEOPLE stopping people from writting software.
On the other hand, I have to laugh everytime I read somewhere that open source software will never be able to do this thing or that thing. People didn't think Linux would scale. People didn't Mozilla would ever get finished. People don't think that Linux will succeed on the Desktop. I have to laugh because I know that someone is going to go out and do the things that were thought imposible. The fact is it is so much easier for some one to program something than to stop every other person from programming something. This means that when I say Linux can never run on a Ti93 I'm almost certain to be wrong because it's easier for someone to make linux run on a ti93 than it is for me to stop them.
For a technical problem there is a technical solution. There are more effective ways to block email than MAPS. If you think visual basic is not good then write your own better replacement. If you don't like the features in mozilla then use kmeleon (http://kmeleon.org). If you don't like open source programs because they were written by 20 year olds then write your own. Gnome wouldn't be better off if people stopped writing KDE apps and KDE wouldn't be better if people stopped writing gnome apps.
The solution is not to try stop software from being written. That's just playing hit the mole. The solution is to write MORE software that fixes the problem. More KDE apps. More Gnome apps. And if you agree with the +4 guy then you want more software written by old people.
Writing software is sacred right and an excersize in free speech.
Sometimes I feel that whole judicial system is screwed up. Prison is for violent people. The rest should have to do community service. Putting a non-violent person in jail is a waste of taxes.
America has the highest per capita incarcerated people of anywhere. And it's crackhead stuff like this mostly.
I wish some of the canidates had brought up prison reform during the election.
The one interesting thing about this though is that mostly it's just poor people who go to jail. And this guy doesn't seem like he should be poor...
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I think you might mean windows 2000 instead of OSX.
a google search of OSX and opengl doesn't produce anything interesting. And Apple is fairly good about issueing press releases if they do something new. I've heard that the new interface for apple is pretty and that it's slick but I haven't heard too much about it being fast.
Anyways, your logic is a little bit screwy about using 3d acceleration to speed up 2d. Because if you could do that then 3d acceleration would be called 3d and 2d acceleration. Perhaps you are associating OpenGL with 3d only instead of 2d? But OpenGL can be used to accelerate 2d also if you add the following line (and one or two others) to your code.
gluOrtho2D(0, EzWinWidth , 0, EzWinHieght);
Or conversely, why does gnome replicate E's capabilities.
Personally I don't like/use gnome and so I like having a graphical way to change my background.
(Well actually, I like bonobo and gnome apps. I just don't like the huge tool bar and the way gnome thinks it is a window manager when it's not)
I don't know...
I think it's a good thing to be help people out if you can. Last year I worked for a photo shop where the person who trained me left and I was the only person who could run the lab. I was honestly only person in our town who knew run the equipment.
In some ways, I wanted to quit that job but I knew my boss would be totally screwed if I did. So I stuck around and trained in two people to replace me. Then I left.
I don't regret staying around for that extra bit.
Someone I knew on linuxnewbie.org last year got a job offer because people saw their responces to questions about programming.
They weren't able to take the job sadly because at the time they were only 15.
:P
I have had the problem.
I created an account that had numbers and letters and an underscore. I never gave it out to anyone and I never used it for email. I did use it to sign up for MSN though to see if i could communicate with it and my jabber im.
I started recieving a couple spams everyday from within a week of creating it.
if you believe what this guy says on his summary of the worm.
here
I think the key part was "and such".
:)
It's easy to turn a vulnerability into virus. Linux has vulnerabilities. All the vulnerabilities used to create this worm were fixed last October but people still need to install the new RPM before the fixes do any good.
Personally, I just type apt-get update && apt-get upgrade every couple days... That way all my programs stay fresh.
I don't disagree with you. I mean what kind of dummy would think of looking for pornography on the web?
But you're posting to the wrong article bud.
You meant to post to the article about the worst jobs on the net and this about cooling your body to within 1 degree of absolute zero to create a self assembling super computer. In fact you and some linuxchix could get together and create a beowulf cluster out of yourselves.
Science is great huh?
5. VA uses Slashdot to bolster that perception by the public
8. Slashdot founders get millions.
Except that VA bought Andover (Slashdot's parent company) _after_ the ipo.
also it's worthwhile to point out that none of what you said had anything to do with the lawsuit except:
12. The shareholders get pissed off
If you want the real reason for the lawsuit read the article.
I'm not sure I agree with you.
The mozilla renderring engine is quite a bit faster in my experience. Also it takes less ram.
It's XUL stuff that takes the ram, slows down start up time, and takes so long to render.
Most web pages do not have very complex html. A couple nested tables but that's about it most of the time. With mozilla renderring the UI is far more complicated than renderring the web page.
Try a XUL free browser that uses the mozilla renderrer. The debian gtkembed package is really old so I wasn't too impressed with galeon and skipstone. But kmeleon ( http://kmeleon.org ) for windows is really fast.
XUL is really cool. I understand why they made the choices that they did to use it. Someday we will all want themeable browsers. But it's really slow.
It's ironic that you don't like linux for the very reasons that it has succeeded so well.
Security is important but it's not the only thing. Linux for me has a nice blend of security, stability and feature richness. For a coporate firewall, I might run OpenBSD. But not for a desktop.
The BSD's suffer from too centralized developement style. In BSD the kernel seems tied to the rest of the distribution. In Linux every piece of software is autonomous. This Linux encourages new distributions and different ways of doing things. At one point the BSD kernels were technically superior to the Linux kernel but Linux use grew more rapidly. I think that this decentralised developement was one of the key reasons.
Free software was always about Freedom as in speech not about Free beer. And anyways Suse is Comercial but you group it with Debian which is non-comercial? I'm confused.
If you don't use Linux that's fine. I don't care one way or the other. But I would say that judging from your wishlist, any operating system you like is going to be fairly obscure.
What I want is that Linux will be the most popular operating system for the desktop. That millions of people find out what it's like to be able to rely on their computer not crashing. That the GPL will infect every peice of software until it's an open source world.
um...
LGPL can be used in proprietary software.
So no. You are wrong. Just the EveryBuddy programmers should be ticked off.
>Then you have the fact (that unless you use RedHat or Mandrake, which bring their own set of problems) you cannot upgrade the kernel (realistically) without recompiling!
You forgot Debian.
Debian doesn't require you to recompile to upgrade. ( But of course Debian has it's own set of problems )
But in general, I would say upgrading the kernel in Debian is much easier than when I had to do it in Windows 2000.
C++ is great ...
but C++ compilers are crap.
Even tiny problems like the red hat 7.0 gcc would be enormous if the kernel was written in C++. C compilers are relatively simple to implement and this makes them more reliable.
(gcc 3.0 will cure cancer of course. But it's not finished yet.)
There is actually already a windowing system called Y windows.
find it here
X isn't going to be replaced anytime soon. It doesn't really need to be either... Xprotocol was designed to be added to and updated, it's just that people haven't had the motivation to do it until recently.
What you're saying is good enough but your example is flawed.
The piranha security hole was "found" and delt with in just two or three weeks after the initial release.
I use quotes around "found" because there were people who knew about it before but didn't think it was a big deal. (Which it was).
I must first state that I am not a native Zambian. I was born there and have lived there for most of my life and in many ways consider it my home. But I have an American passport.
As an American in Zambia I was raised never to state any political views whether negative or positive about Zambian affairs. I still feel this is a wise rule to live by.
However, if there is one thing that I wish America would do to help Zambia it would be to forgive all the debt that Zambia accumulated in the 1980's. They already have forgiven around 2 billion but there is still 6.5 billion that Zambia owes. About half to the IMF. 6.5 billion dollars is not a lot of money for the United States but for a country of 9 million people where the average person makes $300 a year it is an impossible amount.
The average zambian should not be held responsible for this because they only recieved a tiny fraction of this money.
One thing I'm gratefull for is that when Zambia had a terrible drought in the mid 1990's America sent a lot of food to us. Otherwise many people would have starved.
I just found that out 2 days ago. I tried to reconfigure it but it wasn't able to write the file to: :P
etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf
because I wasn't in the root directory. (It should have tried to write the file to
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf
instead I think. I took me 15-20 mins to figure it out.
I was born and grew up in Zambia...
After college I plan to go back and teach computer science. And here's why.
People in American businesses don't use computers because it's fun or because they like the pretty graphics. People use computers because at a very fundamental level they allow you to do business more efficiently. Cheaper, faster, better...
In Africa we don't just need food and medicine for the needs of today. We need to plan ahead. To create a sustainable business infrastructure so we can compete on a global market place.
The things you mentioned are a part of this. Computers are another part.
Think about this for a second. In 1995 you couldn't assume by default that people had email addresses. But email has become necesary for business today.
Today there are still people who can't type faster than they can write by hand. Tomorrow we will assume by default that any educated person can type faster than they can write and at least do some basic programming.
Computers aren't caviar, they're water... You just can't do business with out them.
eeyes ~/.netscape/cache/*/*.[Jj]pg
is that the command you were looking for?
hope that helps...
It's about admins censoring content for their users or governments censoring content for their citizens...
It's the same dang thing.
It's not a choice to use MAPS because a back bone site uses it so it's forced onto users.
If they just block people with misconfigured routers or people who spam that's not censorship.
But when people want to get spamming programs or email addresses and they can't because MAPS is blocking it that's censorship. Email addresses are private information and I don't mind them trying to censor that. I think it's pointless but I don't mind. I mind that they are trying to block people from getting to software though. And I mind that they are hurting inocent web site at the same time.
Basically censorship is when you block two people who want to communicate from doing so based on the content of what they are talking about. Sometimes that's not a bad thing to try do. But mostly the internet routes around censorship.
A lot of MAPS users don't have a choice and don't know they are using it if their ISP doesn't tell them.
I don't agree with the fact that the people are trying to sell email addresses. But even here I'm not sure that what maps is trying to do is worthwhile. Or the right thing. The internet interprets cencorships as damage and routes around it.
However I can not fault them for selling spamming software. The right to create and distribute software is a sacred right. I get so frustrated at the people who don't treasure this right.
I believe that no one has the right to tell someone not to create a piece of software. Patents that stop people writing software are evil. Laws that stop people writing software are wrong. People that stop people from writing software are wrong.
I get frustrated by reading the comments about software sometimes. A month ago someone created a visual basic clone for Linux and people complained about it. Not that it was poorly written but just that they didn't want a visual basic clone. People complain that Mozilla have been goofing off adding features instead of just working on gecko. Someone today said that Open Source was making software suck more because now 20 year olds were writing software and his post got moderated to a +4 interesting?!?
The truth is that behind all the laws stopping people from writing software there is a person writing the law. In the end it's always a matter of PEOPLE stopping people from writting software.
On the other hand, I have to laugh everytime I read somewhere that open source software will never be able to do this thing or that thing. People didn't think Linux would scale. People didn't Mozilla would ever get finished. People don't think that Linux will succeed on the Desktop. I have to laugh because I know that someone is going to go out and do the things that were thought imposible. The fact is it is so much easier for some one to program something than to stop every other person from programming something. This means that when I say Linux can never run on a Ti93 I'm almost certain to be wrong because it's easier for someone to make linux run on a ti93 than it is for me to stop them.
For a technical problem there is a technical solution. There are more effective ways to block email than MAPS. If you think visual basic is not good then write your own better replacement. If you don't like the features in mozilla then use kmeleon (http://kmeleon.org). If you don't like open source programs because they were written by 20 year olds then write your own. Gnome wouldn't be better off if people stopped writing KDE apps and KDE wouldn't be better if people stopped writing gnome apps.
The solution is not to try stop software from being written. That's just playing hit the mole. The solution is to write MORE software that fixes the problem. More KDE apps. More Gnome apps. And if you agree with the +4 guy then you want more software written by old people.
Writing software is sacred right and an excersize in free speech.
Sometimes I feel that whole judicial system is screwed up. Prison is for violent people. The rest should have to do community service. Putting a non-violent person in jail is a waste of taxes.
America has the highest per capita incarcerated people of anywhere. And it's crackhead stuff like this mostly.
I wish some of the canidates had brought up prison reform during the election.
The one interesting thing about this though is that mostly it's just poor people who go to jail. And this guy doesn't seem like he should be poor...