I have installed many linux boxes in my life and i must say, drivers are the single biggest pain in the butt. From SCSI/SATA RAID cards to Videocards to new motherboard chipsets, it takes me huges amounts of time to configure or tweak a source driver into actually working. The Linux community somehow fails to make a standard API (like microsofts WDM) for drivers. Somehow they manage to break support for every module and driver every few minor kernel revisions. What they need is a Linux Driver Model (LDM) and open up a nice clean binary interface for drivers. Then every small Taiwanese webcam or USB device manufacturer can release a proper driver for this OS actually giving desktop linux a real chance. ATI and nVidia are in a tight race. I'm sure they continously disassemble eachothers driver to check the latest optimizations. Not giving up the source gives can give the edge for a few months more and thats what matters here. Just like many other hardware vendors in this scene the sofware is becoming a more and more important part to competing. Demanding opensource drivers for everyting will continu to cripple linux and make it an inferior desktop OS (and even hinder the server-OS adoption) to the end of time. WAKE UP PEOPLE. GET OF DOWN FROM THE IVORY TOWER! FIX THE DRIVER MODEL!
I know of an AJAX RAD framework (http://www.javeline.org/ that has implicit error handling through 'SmartBindings' it works by automatically keeping the client side data consistent using a transaction manager, independant of server architecture. Transactions can fail at a higher level than plain communication also (serverside validation failed or user logged out or things like that). Its works a bit like an 'undo stack' on the client, purely XML based. Its written by the developer of the vcXMLRPC library, one of first opensource ajax libraries.
It is the most exciting thing you can do, the feelings you have the week before you finally meet are indescribebly. I met Layla on ICQ and she only lived 4 hours away(Holland). So after 2 weeks of continues chatting we decided to meet. Having never seen her and having developed feelings for this special girl, I almost couldn't wait. The tension build by the second. Finally it was the time to step in the train and wait 4hrs. It were both the best and the worst hours of my life. Like you are about to jump out of an airplain but something is holding you for 4hrs until you can finally jump. I saw her for the first time and I was shocked. I didn't know if I liked her. My feelings were all messed up. She wasn't the most beautifull girl in the world, but I fell for her anyway. Met her parents that day, and stayed overnight. We were had a relationship for 3 months, but were both too different to continue our relationship. This is about 6 months ago.
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I have installed many linux boxes in my life and i must say, drivers are the single biggest pain in the butt. From SCSI/SATA RAID cards to Videocards to new motherboard chipsets, it takes me huges amounts of time to configure or tweak a source driver into actually working. The Linux community somehow fails to make a standard API (like microsofts WDM) for drivers. Somehow they manage to break support for every module and driver every few minor kernel revisions.
What they need is a Linux Driver Model (LDM) and open up a nice clean binary interface for drivers. Then every small Taiwanese webcam or USB device manufacturer can release a proper driver for this OS actually giving desktop linux a real chance.
ATI and nVidia are in a tight race. I'm sure they continously disassemble eachothers driver to check the latest optimizations. Not giving up the source gives can give the edge for a few months more and thats what matters here. Just like many other hardware vendors in this scene the sofware is becoming a more and more important part to competing. Demanding opensource drivers for everyting will continu to cripple linux and make it an inferior desktop OS (and even hinder the server-OS adoption) to the end of time. WAKE UP PEOPLE. GET OF DOWN FROM THE IVORY TOWER! FIX THE DRIVER MODEL!
I know of an AJAX RAD framework (http://www.javeline.org/ that has implicit error handling through 'SmartBindings' it works by automatically keeping the client side data consistent using a transaction manager, independant of server architecture. Transactions can fail at a higher level than plain communication also (serverside validation failed or user logged out or things like that). Its works a bit like an 'undo stack' on the client, purely XML based. Its written by the developer of the vcXMLRPC library, one of first opensource ajax libraries.
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It is the most exciting thing you can do, the feelings you have the week before you finally meet are indescribebly. I met Layla on ICQ and she only lived 4 hours away(Holland). So after 2 weeks of continues chatting we decided to meet. Having never seen her and having developed feelings for this special girl, I almost couldn't wait. The tension build by the second. Finally it was the time to step in the train and wait 4hrs. It were both the best and the worst hours of my life. Like you are about to jump out of an airplain but something is holding you for 4hrs until you can finally jump. I saw her for the first time and I was shocked. I didn't know if I liked her. My feelings were all messed up. She wasn't the most beautifull girl in the world, but I fell for her anyway. Met her parents that day, and stayed overnight. We were had a relationship for 3 months, but were both too different to continue our relationship. This is about 6 months ago.