No, I tell a lie. I have nothing but the most rudimentary knowledge of anything kernel level Any criticisms I have don't mean squat, and I should probably leave it up to people on the lkml to discuss properly
"...ship a version of Windows without any web browser. So you won't be able to download firefox either!"
that's not really what this is about Desktop machines need a browser AFAIK, the EU Commission wants an OEM version of windows without IE, so OEMs can pre-load different browsers (as per customer demand)
This is about the unfair advantage MS has in online and search markets due to IE being tied to windows IE is defaulted to MSN as it's homepage, probably (although, obviously I'm guessing) as part of OEMs contracts with MS
The EU is enforcing fair competition, and customer freedom by moving the decision of "which browser" to OEMs OEMs will provide browsers based on customer requests
"if those of us who are Linux fans are honest we know that the reason we don't have to worry as much about Linux attacks is that hackers target Windows because it is more pervasive."
More pervasive on the desktop, sure but if I was going to attack a computer system, why do I care about desktop OSs I don't really want to break into some guys windows machine (and what? steal his bookmarks and mp3 collection), I want to break into a commercial company's database and steal financial details
Yes, it can really import PDF's tested this out on the RC's (haven't tested the final release yet) and it worked OK not great, but OK
there seemed to be no problem at all loading a simple PDF'd document or spreadsheet importing took a little longer than I'd have hoped, but I got a fully editable document, formatting intact
just for kicks, I loaded the PDF of my motherboard manual into OO.o just to see and while I did get editable text, it did not do particularly well on complex formatting in particular, changes in page orientation & dimensions threw it, resulting in some pages being malformed
Just from briefly playing around with it, I've found the following: - Importing a PDF'd spreadsheet gets you a tabulated word processing document, with spreadsheet rows & columns made up of drawing lines and text in textboxes
- sometimes (haven't been able to narrow down what causes it) random spaces are inserted into words "Some text" may become "Som e te xt"
- Borders around objects (textboxes, shapes) are sometimes inconsistent
- no support for transparent PNG's (alpha channel turns to solid black)
"Trying to push people who aren't paying for their products away? God forbid any company do such a thing!"
they paid for Vista (included in OEM cost of machine) most see it as unacceptable to pay twice
"Seriously, if they don't like Vista, the best thing for them is to either a: buy XP or b: get smart, enterprising geeks like yourself to help them with this "linux thing"."
A) no can do - XP is not (apart from select machines from Dell) sold anymore
Don't act all high and mighty these are not people intentionally out to get something for nothing these are people who want to write their university coursework and are dissatisfied with the OS thrust upon them they paid money to MS, so obtain MS's prior OS
I know several people who've bought new machines in the last 6 months and been forced to have Vista pre-installed
they didn't want it so pirated XP
are they trying to push people away? cause it won't take much to annoy your userbase onto trying alternative OS's
And I'll tell you what, once your average "mere mortal" Windows user, for whatever reason, tries Linux, and likes it his testimonial goes a long way with other mere mortals in the same boat
"The library needs to be able to interoperate with current and future video hardware, so that all hardware acceleration features will be available to applications using the 3D library..."
Now, I know next to nothing about the nitty-gritty details of OpenGL or DirectX, but I really thought they were pretty much equal (in terms of being able to fully utilise the hardware)
I was under the impression that MS wrote the DirectX API, and graphics hardware was expected to provide in interface to GPU operations as per MS's API spec
On the flip side, OpenGL being less centrally controlled, instead graphics hardware provide their own API calls for new GPU operations, and provide this new API call to OpenGL via it's "extension" interface and every so often, the OpenGL spec would be updated, with new GPU functions (currently using seperate, per-vendor extensions) would be standardised into a single implementation
Are developers really saying that OpenGL cannot do things DirectX can? I thought as long as (say) Nvidia kept provided drivers, and software kept querying for the hardware's capabilities, DirectX & OpenGL were pretty much on a par with each other....
lack of security (open systems / trivial, or written down passwords) doesn't immediately mean a problem with the software. Equally possible (if not more likely) for the problem to be with the user(s) use of the software
pass rates go up - exams are getting easier. education system in decline pass rates go down - teachers not able to communicate with students. education system in decline
Slashdot Mirror
according to Boycott Novell
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/02/03/net-applications-big-lie/
Make your own mind up, though
No, I tell a lie.
I have nothing but the most rudimentary knowledge of anything kernel level
Any criticisms I have don't mean squat, and I should probably leave it up to people on the lkml to discuss properly
(which one you going to mod up now?)
...and all I got was this lousy mod rating
if you keep your machine up to date,
then you have the beta already
you don't need to reinstall or anything
"...ship a version of Windows without any web browser. So you won't be able to download firefox either!"
that's not really what this is about
Desktop machines need a browser
AFAIK, the EU Commission wants an OEM version of windows without IE, so OEMs can pre-load different browsers (as per customer demand)
This is about the unfair advantage MS has in online and search markets due to IE being tied to windows
IE is defaulted to MSN as it's homepage, probably (although, obviously I'm guessing) as part of OEMs contracts with MS
The EU is enforcing fair competition, and customer freedom by moving the decision of "which browser" to OEMs
OEMs will provide browsers based on customer requests
I wish what?...
using Jaunty alpha
Works for me under Wine
(Ubuntu 9.04)
"if those of us who are Linux fans are honest we know that the reason we don't have to worry as much about Linux attacks is that hackers target Windows because it is more pervasive."
More pervasive on the desktop, sure
but if I was going to attack a computer system, why do I care about desktop OSs
I don't really want to break into some guys windows machine (and what? steal his bookmarks and mp3 collection), I want to break into a commercial company's database and steal financial details
That means Unix / Unix-like
Those damn FOSSies can gain access to SMB shares
Quick, patch it....
Yes, it can really import PDF's
tested this out on the RC's (haven't tested the final release yet) and it worked OK
not great, but OK
there seemed to be no problem at all loading a simple PDF'd document or spreadsheet
importing took a little longer than I'd have hoped, but I got a fully editable document, formatting intact
just for kicks, I loaded the PDF of my motherboard manual into OO.o just to see
and while I did get editable text, it did not do particularly well on complex formatting
in particular, changes in page orientation & dimensions threw it, resulting in some pages being malformed
Just from briefly playing around with it, I've found the following:
- Importing a PDF'd spreadsheet gets you a tabulated word processing document, with spreadsheet rows & columns made up of drawing lines and text in textboxes
- sometimes (haven't been able to narrow down what causes it) random spaces are inserted into words
"Some text" may become "Som e te xt"
- Borders around objects (textboxes, shapes) are sometimes inconsistent
- no support for transparent PNG's (alpha channel turns to solid black)
because you're playing the DRM'd music through your soundcard and capturing the output of the soundcard back to a digital file
digital (DRM'd WMA) -> decrypt & decode -> analogue (waveform) -> digital (WAV) -> digital (mp3 / ogg / whatever)
Monetize
Money ties
I've bought the game
but in order to play it properly, I have to spend more
and more
and more
"Trying to push people who aren't paying for their products away?
God forbid any company do such a thing!"
they paid for Vista (included in OEM cost of machine)
most see it as unacceptable to pay twice
"Seriously, if they don't like Vista, the best thing for them is to either a: buy XP or b: get smart, enterprising geeks like yourself to help them with this "linux thing"."
A) no can do - XP is not (apart from select machines from Dell) sold anymore
Don't act all high and mighty
these are not people intentionally out to get something for nothing
these are people who want to write their university coursework
and are dissatisfied with the OS thrust upon them
they paid money to MS, so obtain MS's prior OS
I know several people who've bought new machines in the last 6 months
and been forced to have Vista pre-installed
they didn't want it
so pirated XP
are they trying to push people away?
cause it won't take much to annoy your userbase onto trying alternative OS's
And I'll tell you what,
once your average "mere mortal" Windows user, for whatever reason, tries Linux, and likes it
his testimonial goes a long way with other mere mortals in the same boat
Steal the F*cking Summary
it's the movement advocating article plagiarism and blog spam
"The library needs to be able to interoperate with current and future video hardware, so that all hardware acceleration features will be available to applications using the 3D library..."
Now, I know next to nothing about the nitty-gritty details of OpenGL or DirectX,
but I really thought they were pretty much equal (in terms of being able to fully utilise the hardware)
I was under the impression that MS wrote the DirectX API, and graphics hardware was expected to provide in interface to GPU operations as per MS's API spec
On the flip side, OpenGL being less centrally controlled,
instead graphics hardware provide their own API calls for new GPU operations, and provide this new API call to OpenGL via it's "extension" interface
and every so often, the OpenGL spec would be updated, with new GPU functions (currently using seperate, per-vendor extensions) would be standardised into a single implementation
Are developers really saying that OpenGL cannot do things DirectX can?
I thought as long as (say) Nvidia kept provided drivers, and software kept querying for the hardware's capabilities, DirectX & OpenGL were pretty much on a par with each other....
Can anyone provide a semi-layman's explanation?
yes, but for the last 2 quarters, their profits have fallen below expectations
resulting in an 11% (march 08) and a 6% (july 08) fall in share value
anyway...
Apache 2.4 release notes
new modules:
mod_drm
mod_ooxml
mod_reject-firefox
and 4x's gives you free beer
probably not, no
lack of security (open systems / trivial, or written down passwords) doesn't immediately mean a problem with the software.
Equally possible (if not more likely) for the problem to be with the user(s) use of the software
This is trotted out every single year
pass rates go up - exams are getting easier. education system in decline
pass rates go down - teachers not able to communicate with students. education system in decline
someone sent him a funny youtube link
Why?
if you're trying to win people over,
why restrict the "facts" site to people you've already got (requiring silverlight....)
Petition currently running at noooxml.org
http://www.noooxml.org/petition
Pirates of the Caribbean.... ;)