sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun sudo -b gedit/etc/jvm (add "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun" before the other entries, no quotes)
Then you get a Java that isn't unusably slow. It'd sure be nice if Ubuntu did this by default, or at least provided a n00b-friendly (ie, no command line) way of doing it.
If you're using Eclipse and would like for it to not take 30 seconds to display code completion, do this:
sudo -b gedit/etc/eclipse/java_home (add "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun" before the other entries, no quotes)
This is why Linux on the Desktop is *still* a steaming hoard of AIDs-infected goat shit. I know this is a troll, but honestly, have you ever used Gnome or KDE? When using Gnome, with the exception of Firefox*, everything is very consistent. IMHO, it's far more consistent than Mac OS X Tiger (I use it daily) or Vista (was inconsistency a design goal?).
* Not to troll, but while it's my browser of choice, it annoys me to no end that it's not a truly "native" app. There are always inconsistencies with the theme so it looks out of place, the icons don't follow my theme, it doesn't follow the same font settings as the rest of my desktop, the fonts it use look ugly compared to the rest of the system, it uses hideous Win95-style form controls instead of my GTK+ theme, etc.
<user> I have Norton. My computer is now immune to all viruses. (one week later) <user> I have a virus, can you fix it?
I've seen people many times think that because they had Norton or McAfee, that they could do whatever they want without having to worry about getting a virus and act reckless. Open every attachment they get in email, downloading and running random.exes from "FREE!!!!!!!!!" sites, use Internet Explorer, etc.
You have too much faith in the American people if you think that would actually happen. Most people will be oblivious to it thanks to the corporate media, and even if they did find out about it, there's far too much apathy to actually do anything about it.
Yeah but Xen is still a royal PITA to get running. If you think that Xen is a "royal PITA" to get running, then how do you manage to work with a server? There is a slight learning curve, but after that it's extremely easy to deal with. Much like most Unix things. The massive performance benefit that Xen gives over VMWare Server (the only one I use) is well worth the hour it takes to learn the basics.
Now, if you're virtualizing a desktop system, VMWare rocks. I use it daily for this. But after using both in production, Xen clearly has a significant performance advantage. Note, the performance is VMWare ESX server is supposed to be much better that VMware Server or Workstation. I don't have access to it, though.
Here is the tutorial I used to get started. Really, it will only take about an hour to do it. From there you can begin learning the more advanced features, but that will give you enough information to be able to build VMs. I started with that, then moved to using Debian Etch as the host (it provides packages for Xen kernels and utils), and run several RHEL4/5 VMs, Debian Etch VMs, and Ubuntu Dapper VMs. It's very easy to do once you learn the basics. IMHO, it's easier to deal with than VMWare Server once you get the hang of it.
If you're using Debian Etch, or Ubuntu Edgy or Feisty kernels and tools are available. Also install the libc6-xen package so you don't have to do what the tutorials say about/lib/tls. FC6 and RHEL5/CentOS5 has everything available and can be done at install time. They also have tools for graphically creating and managing Xen.
Also, if you still fine none of this acceptable you can always pay for it. If you pay for it, you get support from XenSource and additional tools that make things easier. If you're going to be complaining about how "VMWare is so far ahead it will take some time for Xen to be considered out of the hobbyist market and in the commercial one", you should at least be comparing the commercial Xen tools to VMWare.
I haven't done any serious programming on Windows, but it seems non-sensical that patching security holes should ever break a properly-coded application to well-defined APIs. That's the problem. The vast majority of Windows software is, in terms of coding quality, utter and total shit. Especially educational apps, which I've had to suffer with for far too long. Business apps are likely as equally shitty, if not worse.
This is why I love using Debian (servers) and Ubuntu (desktops). Everything just works. Updates just work, and no reboots are necessary.
For instance, at last year's Open Source Think Tank meeting, participants were expecting open-source software to achieve greater predominance. However, licensing and support issues have slowed the adoption of open-source solutions at the enterprise level.
Licensing and Support issues with 'Closed Source' software is precisely what drove enterprises to Open Source! Enterprise care a hoot about GPL v2 and GPL v3 wars.. they aren't interested in redistribution.. just that the Damn Thing Works (TM) ! Seriously, how can anyone read this and find it more acceptable than this?
At least it sounded good in theory - Gmail is still far behind Outlook, imho. And when somebody makes GOOD web-based Outlook, I'll be sold. Scalix. It rocks.
Ubuntu on servers is a bad, bad idea. It'd be like running your hardware on Debian Sid all of the time with neither thought nor care as to the consequences. Using Ubuntu releases like Edgy and Feisty on a server is a bad idea a they're only supported for 18 months. However, Ubuntu now does LTS (Long Term Support) releases, first of which being Dapper. Support is 3 years for desktops and 5 years for servers. more info.
I've been using it on one of my servers (samba,cups,apache,java,postgresql) and it works quite well. So far, it's been significantly nicer to deal with than the CentOS 4.x install it replaced.
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You can't trust ANY of these fucking companies when it comes to open source these days. The advent of Trusted Computing hardware (Microsoft being one of the main advocates and users of the hardware), means that open source software is essentially meaningless. They used to remain in control of you by keeping their source code secret... with Trusted Computing, they can release the source... and control DECIDE WHAT BINARIES YOU RUN. These companies will control the keys, and only trust binaries made by themselves. Obviously, kernels, device drivers and media players will be first on this "trust list -- allowing them to implement what most people understand as DRM (your kernel, devices and media player are not made up of trusted code? No "premium" content you for buddy), on a supposedly "open" PC platform. While it's true that Treacherous Computing is a threat to computing freedom, it's still not very prevalent. You're forgetting the largest current threat to online freedom and innovation: patents. You can be certain that whatever parts of Silverlight Microsoft releases will be heavily infested with patents. Basically, "here's the source, but if you try to use it for anything useful we'll sue your ass".
sean_ex_machina's complaint is still valid. OpenOffice looks similar to Office 2003, but it's different enough to confuse users. The official builds do look rather ugly. Linux distros customize it and make it look closer to a native app, though it still sticks out rather badly.
If OpenOffice is going to try to copy Microsoft Office, they should at least do it right. Ideally, though, I'd prefer to see OpenOffice do better. Come up with a new interface designed to make things easier for the user rather than copy a crappy interface that everyone only thinks is good because it's what they're used to.
Though, I do have to say the OO.o 2.x interface is much better than 1.x and older StarOffice (I hated that damn desktop).
It's all anecdotal evidence. True.
Most likely the reason your discs started to fail was either you were not taking care of them AT ALL (since they failed so quickly), they were just low quality media, and/or your drive was crap. They were either in a case or in a drive. Still somehow they managed to get scratched. I'd usually have to put three or four copies of everything just make sure I'd be able to copy it off later.
cd-r's I don't have a problem. I burn cds all the time and they still play well, even with visible scratches. I usually use the memorex black ones. For dvd-rs I use various brands. No real problems. Just with rw-s. All the brands I've tried tend to start giving read errors fairly quickly.
For burners, plextor (cd) and sony (dvd).
The best example I can think of off the top of my head is if you had a bunch of high definition video you wanted to send to your friend/relative who didn't have broadband and they lived far away from you would you rather mail them a couple of discs or a few hard drives? I'm talking about read/write. HDs are faster and have been far more reliable for me. If you're mailing/giving, cds/dvd are definitely the way to go.
Harddrives are notoriously prone to failure. And cds/dvds are notoriously prone to scratches.
My external hard drive (120gb) has been good for well over two years now. Plus, I've dropped the thing several times. I never had a cd-rw work for more than a few weeks or a dvd-rw for a few days due to scratches.
Plus, you can't stash four or five in a briefcase or the average laptop bag It's fairly easy to stash a 200gb external in a bag.
Native Form Widgets scare me.... What scares me is the Mac version of Firefox will act different than the normal version, and will cause a lot of problems for my web applications By "normal version" do you mean the Windows version? Currently for non-Windows systems, Firefox gives hideous Windows 95-ish controls. Under XP it follows your theme. Even third party msstyles. It should be like that on all platforms.
I'm a Linux and OS X user, and having to look at those ugly widgets that are very out of place is very irritating. The only reason I don't switch to Camino on OS X or Konqueor on Linux (I'm a GNOME user, btw) is due to extensions. It's also quite annoying having Firefox be the only application that doesn't follow your icon theme. Those default icons look very out of place.
So I feel Native widgets on any OS is a slippery slope that will cause more harm than good for Firefox. Native widgets are a good thing.
is because there is no standard GUI layer You have three choices:
1. wxWidgets. Will work on all modern platforms. Will look and feel native on all of them. 2. QT. Will work on all modern platforms. Will look and feel native on all of them. However, it's quite expensive if your software isn't open source. 3. GTK. This will work on Linux and Windows and integrate well with a Linux/BSD desktop, whether the user is using Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or whatever else. I put this last since if you're goal is to be cross platform, you really should use a toolkit designed for that.
So, what exactly is the problem? If you develop with QT or wxWidgets, you can use the same interface on Linux/BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, etc. With wxWidgets you can just ship it linked statically as the license permits that. Also, AutoPackage is your friend.
I gave up and bought 5 copies of XP Professional and my users couldn't be happier, which in turn makes me happier. If you had Vista Business or Ultimate, you can actually "downgrade" to XP at no extra cost.
Can I downgrade my OEM version of Windows Vista Business to Windows XP Professional?
Yes. OEM downgrade rights for desktop PC operating systems apply to Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate as stated in the License Terms. Please note, OEM downgrade versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate are limited to Windows XP Professional (including Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows XP x64 Edition). End users can use the following media for their downgrade: Volume Licensing media (provided the end user has a Volume Licensing agreement), retail (FPP), or system builder hologram CD (provided the software is acquired in accordance with the Microsoft OEM System Builder License). Use of the downgraded operating system is governed by the Windows Vista Business License Terms, and the end user cannot use both the downgrade operating system and Windows Vista Business. There are no downgrade rights granted for Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium. Source (WARNING: it's a.doc)
1. A shared calender 2. An integrated Calendar Support is there, sort of. You can install the Lightning extension. For sharing calendars between users, put an iCal file on Apache and subscribe all the clients to it. Enable WebDAV to allow editing. It's still rather primitive, though. Still, it works decently. I set this up at work for a little bit before switching to Scalix (with the web client).
3. Exchange support a la evolution (even if it just supports a few features:) ) I'd like to see full Scalix or Kolab (so I can dump Scalix) support. All of the scheduling stuff is needed.
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sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
sudo -b gedit
(add "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun" before the other entries, no quotes)
Then you get a Java that isn't unusably slow. It'd sure be nice if Ubuntu did this by default, or at least provided a n00b-friendly (ie, no command line) way of doing it.
If you're using Eclipse and would like for it to not take 30 seconds to display code completion, do this:
sudo -b gedit
(add "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun" before the other entries, no quotes)
Patents are being obtained fraudulently and abused? Wow, what a shock.
* Not to troll, but while it's my browser of choice, it annoys me to no end that it's not a truly "native" app. There are always inconsistencies with the theme so it looks out of place, the icons don't follow my theme, it doesn't follow the same font settings as the rest of my desktop, the fonts it use look ugly compared to the rest of the system, it uses hideous Win95-style form controls instead of my GTK+ theme, etc.
Virus scanners create a false sense of security.
.exes from "FREE!!!!!!!!!" sites, use Internet Explorer, etc.
<user> I have Norton. My computer is now immune to all viruses.
(one week later)
<user> I have a virus, can you fix it?
I've seen people many times think that because they had Norton or McAfee, that they could do whatever they want without having to worry about getting a virus and act reckless. Open every attachment they get in email, downloading and running random
You have too much faith in the American people if you think that would actually happen. Most people will be oblivious to it thanks to the corporate media, and even if they did find out about it, there's far too much apathy to actually do anything about it.
Until Microsoft get's the "execution for violating patents" law passed.
Now, if you're virtualizing a desktop system, VMWare rocks. I use it daily for this. But after using both in production, Xen clearly has a significant performance advantage. Note, the performance is VMWare ESX server is supposed to be much better that VMware Server or Workstation. I don't have access to it, though.
Here is the tutorial I used to get started. Really, it will only take about an hour to do it. From there you can begin learning the more advanced features, but that will give you enough information to be able to build VMs. I started with that, then moved to using Debian Etch as the host (it provides packages for Xen kernels and utils), and run several RHEL4/5 VMs, Debian Etch VMs, and Ubuntu Dapper VMs. It's very easy to do once you learn the basics. IMHO, it's easier to deal with than VMWare Server once you get the hang of it.
If you're using Debian Etch, or Ubuntu Edgy or Feisty kernels and tools are available. Also install the libc6-xen package so you don't have to do what the tutorials say about
Also, if you still fine none of this acceptable you can always pay for it. If you pay for it, you get support from XenSource and additional tools that make things easier. If you're going to be complaining about how "VMWare is so far ahead it will take some time for Xen to be considered out of the hobbyist market and in the commercial one", you should at least be comparing the commercial Xen tools to VMWare.
This is why I love using Debian (servers) and Ubuntu (desktops). Everything just works. Updates just work, and no reboots are necessary.
Licensing and Support issues with 'Closed Source' software is precisely what drove enterprises to Open Source! Enterprise care a hoot about GPL v2 and GPL v3 wars.. they aren't interested in redistribution.. just that the Damn Thing Works (TM) ! Seriously, how can anyone read this and find it more acceptable than this?
I've been using it on one of my servers (samba,cups,apache,java,postgresql) and it works quite well. So far, it's been significantly nicer to deal with than the CentOS 4.x install it replaced.
Eric S. Raymond's GUN/Linux.
("Everybody Loves Eric S. Raymond" always cracks me up)
/* anyone remember the days when slashdot allow you to quote pre-formatted text? */ Umm, select "plain old text" instead of "html formatted" and then put your comment inside of <code></code>. I always keep it at "plain old text" so I don't have to bother with <p></p> and <br> tags, but I still can use the allowed html, ie, italic, bold, etc.Try gnash. It works mostly. It's much better than swfdec, though it can't handle stuff like youtube yet.
sean_ex_machina's complaint is still valid. OpenOffice looks similar to Office 2003, but it's different enough to confuse users. The official builds do look rather ugly. Linux distros customize it and make it look closer to a native app, though it still sticks out rather badly.
If OpenOffice is going to try to copy Microsoft Office, they should at least do it right. Ideally, though, I'd prefer to see OpenOffice do better. Come up with a new interface designed to make things easier for the user rather than copy a crappy interface that everyone only thinks is good because it's what they're used to.
Though, I do have to say the OO.o 2.x interface is much better than 1.x and older StarOffice (I hated that damn desktop).
cd-r's I don't have a problem. I burn cds all the time and they still play well, even with visible scratches. I usually use the memorex black ones. For dvd-rs I use various brands. No real problems. Just with rw-s. All the brands I've tried tend to start giving read errors fairly quickly.
For burners, plextor (cd) and sony (dvd). The best example I can think of off the top of my head is if you had a bunch of high definition video you wanted to send to your friend/relative who didn't have broadband and they lived far away from you would you rather mail them a couple of discs or a few hard drives? I'm talking about read/write. HDs are faster and have been far more reliable for me. If you're mailing/giving, cds/dvd are definitely the way to go.
Six months.
Feisty will likely be using a patched 2.6.20 until Gusty's released in October.
My external hard drive (120gb) has been good for well over two years now. Plus, I've dropped the thing several times. I never had a cd-rw work for more than a few weeks or a dvd-rw for a few days due to scratches. Plus, you can't stash four or five in a briefcase or the average laptop bag It's fairly easy to stash a 200gb external in a bag.
I'm a Linux and OS X user, and having to look at those ugly widgets that are very out of place is very irritating. The only reason I don't switch to Camino on OS X or Konqueor on Linux (I'm a GNOME user, btw) is due to extensions. It's also quite annoying having Firefox be the only application that doesn't follow your icon theme. Those default icons look very out of place. So I feel Native widgets on any OS is a slippery slope that will cause more harm than good for Firefox. Native widgets are a good thing.
1. wxWidgets. Will work on all modern platforms. Will look and feel native on all of them.
2. QT. Will work on all modern platforms. Will look and feel native on all of them. However, it's quite expensive if your software isn't open source.
3. GTK. This will work on Linux and Windows and integrate well with a Linux/BSD desktop, whether the user is using Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or whatever else. I put this last since if you're goal is to be cross platform, you really should use a toolkit designed for that.
So, what exactly is the problem? If you develop with QT or wxWidgets, you can use the same interface on Linux/BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, etc. With wxWidgets you can just ship it linked statically as the license permits that. Also, AutoPackage is your friend.
Yes. OEM downgrade rights for desktop PC operating systems apply to Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate as stated in the License Terms. Please note, OEM downgrade versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate are limited to Windows XP Professional (including Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows XP x64 Edition). End users can use the following media for their downgrade: Volume Licensing media (provided the end user has a Volume Licensing agreement), retail (FPP), or system builder hologram CD (provided the software is acquired in accordance with the Microsoft OEM System Builder License). Use of the downgraded operating system is governed by the Windows Vista Business License Terms, and the end user cannot use both the downgrade operating system and Windows Vista Business. There are no downgrade rights granted for Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium. Source (WARNING: it's a
Thanks for the info. The Swedish mirrors also appear to be working decently.
n ate-amd64.iso.torrentn ate-i386.iso.torrento p-amd64.iso.torrento p-i386.iso.torrentr -amd64.iso.torrentr -i386.iso.torrentr -sparc.iso.torrent
http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/
Also, here are the torrents:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-alter
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-alter
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-deskt
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-deskt
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-serve
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-serve
http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-serve
No PPC releases at the moment, though.
Use the Swedish mirror. I switched to that a while ago since the us servers always seem very slow. The Swedish one is usually very fast.
http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/
The iso's are on that site now.
2. An integrated Calendar Support is there, sort of. You can install the Lightning extension. For sharing calendars between users, put an iCal file on Apache and subscribe all the clients to it. Enable WebDAV to allow editing. It's still rather primitive, though. Still, it works decently. I set this up at work for a little bit before switching to Scalix (with the web client). 3. Exchange support a la evolution (even if it just supports a few features