its missing stability. its missing polish. granted there are parts that are very nice and very polished but the whole is not.
Could you be more specific? I would like to file bugs and feature requests on the problems. I don't know about polish, but KDE 4.2.3 is very stable (KDE 4.2.0 less so).
Id would say that gnome lacks the potential of kde4 but it has much more of that completeness, that cohesive environment as of right now.
I really prefered kde3.x over gnome. The switch the kde4 was poorly timed I think. Too many distros switched way before it was ready. I understand that you need to get the code out there to be tested but there was so much that obvoiusly needed/needs cleaned up before it is production ready that it was just a release of some early beta with a tag on it that said it was final.
too me, right now, production linux is one of the 3 (ubuntu, rh/fed/cent, suse) with gnome.
dont get me wrong, I would love to see kde4.x come back with a vengence. I have no hard feelings for the kde team, i just dont see kde4 as anywhere near ready for a production environment.
Does anyone know if managing the twins is still cheaper than sending a new rover?
Sending a new rover for what? There is a new rover on the way, but that does not make Spirit and Opportunity any less valuable. Even getting stuck in soft soil is doing science: the things that the scientists learn from the experience (what soft soil looks like when you approach it, what techniques to use to get out, how to built a rover that can handle it) will be useful.
And don't forget, turning up this soft soil may reveal something important. Many of Spirit's discoveries were because of soil turned over due to her stuck wheel.
I might care more about these new experimental features if they could at least get the basics down pat.
I'd love to know what KDE 4 is missing for you. I file bugs with KDE and I've filed tens of bugs and feature requests on KDE 4 on behalf of users. You can reply here or email me. My gmail username is the same as my slashdot user name.
I'd love to know what KDE 4 is missing for you. I file bugs with KDE and I've filed tens of bugs and feature requests on KDE 4 on behalf of users. You can reply here or email me. My gmail username is the same as my slashdot user name.
I'd love to know what KDE 4 is missing for you. I file bugs with KDE and I've filed tens of bugs and feature requests on KDE 4 on behalf of users. You can reply here or email me. My gmail username is the same as my slashdot user name.
This is the equivilent of poping a 600HP engine in a chevy citation. worthless.
That's called a "sleeper" and they're fun. Corvettes and Mustangs do not expect to be pawned by a Citation.
It has a middle button. It's behind the scroll wheel. Clicking the scroll wheel changes the gear behavior so they couldn't make that the middle button like normal. But there is a functioning middle button on this mouse.
You just have to tell the logitech software to use it as such is all.
The mouse is awesome.
How's that work for Linux users, is there software available for that in Linux?
The rep told me that the mouse might work, but there are no drivers. I ask him if "might work" means that I should buy the mouse or not, and he said don't buy it. I asked if Logitech has any mice that work with Ubuntu Linux, and said "unfortunately not".
So, as nice as the Logitech VX Nano is, I'll be buying a Microsoft Notebook Presenter 800 (The Microsoft rep was very helpful on the phone).
Now I got to upgrade... World of Warcraft 3.1 dropped Tuesday.. my fragile little psyche can only handle one upgrade at a time! Couldn't they have waited a week? I mean, come on.. think of the kittens.
You do in fact have another week. This is only the release candidate.
KDE 4.2.x is the best 4 so far but it's still not functionally anywhere near 3.5.
What's missing for you? I have a list of features missing in KDE 4.x that were present in KDE 3.x and I've filed bugs on everything that people have complained about. If you have something new, I'd like to know about it. If you are interested in a feature that other people are interested in, then I'll post the bug number here so that you can comment and vote on it.
Basket is not quite a OneNote clone, but it's got most of OneNote's features. I personally hate Basket, but many people love it. I have never used OneNote, though. http://basket.kde.org/
No. apt-get is more efficient. Going to a website, downloading the program, and double clicking to install isn't harder, its just time consuming.
It's also more dangerous. Let's say that you need an FTP client but you are not familiar with any brand names. In Linux, the user can search his package manager for an FTP client, install one or all of them, and decide what he likes. In windows, googling for an FTP client leads to hundreds of hits, all of them look like spyware or other malware. I don't feel safe installing any of them. The main advantage of the distro repos is that the user knows that the software is safe (yes, I know about the debian issue, thank you).
Is tons easier than going to 10 different websites, downloading at least 10 install packages, installing all of them, etc. And then there is keeping all of that up to date.
Slashdot Mirror
fingers crossed. :/
Wings crossed. I think that they finally found their bat.
its missing stability. its missing polish. granted there are parts that are very nice and very polished but the whole is not.
Could you be more specific? I would like to file bugs and feature requests on the problems. I don't know about polish, but KDE 4.2.3 is very stable (KDE 4.2.0 less so).
Id would say that gnome lacks the potential of kde4 but it has much more of that completeness, that cohesive environment as of right now.
I really prefered kde3.x over gnome. The switch the kde4 was poorly timed I think. Too many distros switched way before it was ready. I understand that you need to get the code out there to be tested but there was so much that obvoiusly needed/needs cleaned up before it is production ready that it was just a release of some early beta with a tag on it that said it was final.
too me, right now, production linux is one of the 3 (ubuntu, rh/fed/cent, suse) with gnome.
dont get me wrong, I would love to see kde4.x come back with a vengence. I have no hard feelings for the kde team, i just dont see kde4 as anywhere near ready for a production environment.
If you'd like help filing bugs and feature requests, you can contact me here:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/message.php
Or email me. My gmail username is the same as my /. username. Thanks.
I see. How well does Mail support this type of setup? I have not found anything that works well other than the Thunderbird extension.
I'm guessing that Microsoft has about 4 dozen guys that know so much about finance, they would literally make you slit your wrists should you ever...
Or make you use Vista.
(I'll leave quietly now)
Windows-like "openness"?? Are we using the same OS?
Ha, Windows user, caught your slip o' tongue! Begone from this place!
...would be the equivalent of a naked guy holding a piece of steak between his buttocks and shouting at the guard dog, "Come 'n' get it!"
That's how IE users feel on the intercords already.
Does anyone know if managing the twins is still cheaper than sending a new rover?
Sending a new rover for what? There is a new rover on the way, but that does not make Spirit and Opportunity any less valuable. Even getting stuck in soft soil is doing science: the things that the scientists learn from the experience (what soft soil looks like when you approach it, what techniques to use to get out, how to built a rover that can handle it) will be useful.
And don't forget, turning up this soft soil may reveal something important. Many of Spirit's discoveries were because of soil turned over due to her stuck wheel.
Seriously, if you're a company/whatever, then the email address to contact me is YOUR damn company/whatever name @mydomain.com
So if I get a single godamn piece of spam at that address, I know you're the ones responsible for selling/giving that address to the spammers.
I do this too. You might want to comment on these two Kmail bugs, which will make this method easier:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72926
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159251
Which email client are you currently using?
I might care more about these new experimental features if they could at least get the basics down pat.
I'd love to know what KDE 4 is missing for you. I file bugs with KDE and I've filed tens of bugs and feature requests on KDE 4 on behalf of users. You can reply here or email me. My gmail username is the same as my slashdot user name.
I'd love to know what KDE 4 is missing for you. I file bugs with KDE and I've filed tens of bugs and feature requests on KDE 4 on behalf of users. You can reply here or email me. My gmail username is the same as my slashdot user name.
I'd love to know what KDE 4 is missing for you. I file bugs with KDE and I've filed tens of bugs and feature requests on KDE 4 on behalf of users. You can reply here or email me. My gmail username is the same as my slashdot user name.
This is the equivilent of poping a 600HP engine in a chevy citation. worthless.
That's called a "sleeper" and they're fun. Corvettes and Mustangs do not expect to be pawned by a Citation.
It has a middle button. It's behind the scroll wheel. Clicking the scroll wheel changes the gear behavior so they couldn't make that the middle button like normal. But there is a functioning middle button on this mouse.
You just have to tell the logitech software to use it as such is all.
The mouse is awesome.
How's that work for Linux users, is there software available for that in Linux?
Being the jerk that I am I decided to call Logitech to ask if their VX Nano mouse works with Ubuntu Linux, as the webpage says only Windows Vista:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/3271&cl=US,EN
The rep told me that the mouse might work, but there are no drivers. I ask him if "might work" means that I should buy the mouse or not, and he said don't buy it. I asked if Logitech has any mice that work with Ubuntu Linux, and said "unfortunately not".
So, as nice as the Logitech VX Nano is, I'll be buying a Microsoft Notebook Presenter 800 (The Microsoft rep was very helpful on the phone).
Maybe, this time, we will make it to the moon!
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/94463
...especially if you follow recent guidelines and set your DHW temperature to a bacteria-friendly 38-40C instead of the old-fashioned 60C...
You guys have a Department of Hot Water? Talk about big government!
...written Hebrew doesn't actually supply any indication of what vowels should be inserted between the consonants...
Sure it does: ×(TM)Ö×"Ö×Ö×" (yes, I know that /. will break that as it does not support unicode). See here:
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/×"ש×_×"×z×××ש
Alright, /. will break that too, so go to this page then click on the Hebrew link.
Here is a good site for fixing Hebrew gibberish, like /. makes:
http://gibberish.co.il/
×-×'-×'-×"-×"-×-×--×---×-×(TM)-×s-×-×oe-×-×z-×Y-×-×-×-×£-×-×¥-צ-×-×-ש-×
Now I got to upgrade... World of Warcraft 3.1 dropped Tuesday.. my fragile little psyche can only handle one upgrade at a time! Couldn't they have waited a week? I mean, come on.. think of the kittens.
You do in fact have another week. This is only the release candidate.
KDE 4.2.x is the best 4 so far but it's still not functionally anywhere near 3.5.
What's missing for you? I have a list of features missing in KDE 4.x that were present in KDE 3.x and I've filed bugs on everything that people have complained about. If you have something new, I'd like to know about it. If you are interested in a feature that other people are interested in, then I'll post the bug number here so that you can comment and vote on it.
Thanks!
Basket is not quite a OneNote clone, but it's got most of OneNote's features. I personally hate Basket, but many people love it. I have never used OneNote, though.
http://basket.kde.org/
You can be a geek without being a computer geek. Maybe his thing is electronics and not coding.
Then why is he making webpages?
By the way, webpages were _invented_ for physicists who are not coders to have an easy-to-use markup language.
This is how you fix it real quick:
(four steps that nobody should have to take, wtf)
In Firefox just View -> Styles -> None. I use that all the time.
You can download the source code and FIX IT YOUR SELF!!!!! Or just why don't you SHUT UP if you can't!
Why should he fix it himself? All he has to do is report the problem at this address and Canonical will fix it.
Those sound like show-stoppers, especially the beeping. Please link to the bugs that you filed so that I could triage them on my equipment. Thanks.
No. apt-get is more efficient. Going to a website, downloading the program, and double clicking to install isn't harder, its just time consuming.
It's also more dangerous. Let's say that you need an FTP client but you are not familiar with any brand names. In Linux, the user can search his package manager for an FTP client, install one or all of them, and decide what he likes. In windows, googling for an FTP client leads to hundreds of hits, all of them look like spyware or other malware. I don't feel safe installing any of them. The main advantage of the distro repos is that the user knows that the software is safe (yes, I know about the debian issue, thank you).
Is tons easier than going to 10 different websites, downloading at least 10 install packages, installing all of them, etc. And then there is keeping all of that up to date.
And the rebooting. Don't forget the rebooting.
I doubt that the kids notice.