Their bittorrent to Canada was slow as molasses in Winnipeg in January (as opposed to KUbuntu whose bittorrent was almost 100 times faster. The gui find did not work on two different machines on 10. 0 and 10.1 regular and official. I see you posted the same comment about the speed of bittorrent some months ago. Did you get the same speed with this release?
Change all problematic art and release it.
And dont forget to change the script to include some kind of parody of vivendi, like in shrek. You know, you need to hit them at the heart of their soul.
But with retractable batons inside.
Well, I saw the pictures on your site and was very glad to see that everything is turning all right for you. Do you go back to the club sometime? I'm sure there are a lot of people over there who have a nice memory of you, like me.
kat is not really ready for primetime. It has been included already as a gesture of faith toward the developper and his solution. The mandriva KDE guy is working a lot on this, and they are hosting the site of the developper. I expect it will improve and get updated frequently, but tight now, the best solution is to disable it: Before login do this in your home directory touch ~/.mdv-no_kat or for all new users: touch/etc/skel/.mdv-no_kat
Simpler, remove it: urpme kat
Now, that I said that, I think they did the wise thing in choosing kat. Kat is the first brick in what will be tenor, the underlying search engine of KDE4. They have to make a move in this direction because google and others are already moving toward it. And if linux is not to be left behind once more, distros need to move now. By not choosing beagle, they imply they don't want to go the (patented) mono road. (beagle will still work on a mandriva, one dev wants to have it soon because he doesnt like kat:) ). All this is pure speculation on my part.
Well, there is a lot done by via toward linux and open source. More than other at least.
There are drivers that are released, some are even free and concern their graphic adapters. I think this is part of one of their strategy which is to take a big part of the asian market where there is a demand for low cost low end solutions. They are also very interrested in low energy solutions for the same reasons.
I kinda think they are wiser than some other who rely on selling high end more power hungry closed solutions in a world where oil price and therefore electricity prices are going to rise.
I go weekly there: http://www.viaarena.com/ to find infos about this very interresting company. They even have tutorials for installing their new drivers on Mandriva and Fedora over there.
The CDs available to standard club membres now countains the proprietary drivers. It's not equivalent to the download edition that should hit the mirrors in 2 weeks. The standard members complained that they didnt get much for their 60$/ and have been listened to.
There was a fight years ago between TV channels and Record compagnies about Videos. The TVs didnt want to pay because they were doing free advertisements for the records, the Record companies wanted money because the TVs were doing money showing the videos. And yes the sales of records were going up thanks to the music videos. Well, TV channels had to pay anyway. End of the story. As long as you give money to pay the records or whatever is coming from those record companies, they are controling the market, they are controlling the music, they are controlling the medias.
Give your money to alternative music channels that respect your rights and the music and the artists.
What is called tenor here is already existing albeit in a very rough state as kate. It isnt really very functionnal yet, but it will be included in Mandriva 2006, which you can think of as a mistake from mandriva or as a gesture of trust and commitment toward that application and what it will become: http://kat.mandriva.com/
Personnally, I removed it, but I'm also glad my favorite distribution is doing this kind of choices. After all, they included KDE by default when it wasnt very popular to do so, and it was quite a good choice in the long run. When I see the kind of interactions that will be done later with a good data miner engine behind the desktop, i understand why they did that.
The reason they do not trust him might be that he prefered to cash out the company instead of remaining independant.
id's success and identity is based on being independant. They are financially independant, they are neutral on the graphic cards issue giving good and bad points whenever it's due, they are vocal on the patent issue whenever it prevents them from working, even their code is portable and proprietary vendor independant. And they do the game they want, good or bad.
So i understand perfectly that there is a problem when you have such a strong commitment to independance and a 41% shareholder don't care anymore and want to get the money instead.
Also, he had every rights to try to sell the company, as you said, and they had every rights, being 59% of the remaining shares, to refuse. And then, they offered him 20 millions which he turned down, so he will have some hard times proving they are doing him some wrong when they give him 11M as the contract obliges them to.
He tried to sell out the compagny in order to get 40M$ in the process, he didnt succeed, then the others didnt trust him anymore, tried to buy his shares for 20M$, he refused, got spit out and from his contract he just can get 11M$ instead of the proposed 20M$. He now tries to get the contract broken to get more than 11M$. Sucker.
It's getting obvious that slashdot is getting a cut out of those advertising profits. Too bad, it's at the expense of the value of the news slashdot provides.
bizz model:
1/ support linux 2/ attract geeks 3/ profit supporting proprietary software ads 4/ lose geek(*) readers
(* no, being geek doesnt mean having an ipod and a few gazillions electronical gadgets. That means being a sucker)
Yes, but I want to also point out that the fact that the community is educated and security aware from the ground up, and that the both centralised/distributed nature of the paquages repositories make a terrible barreer of entry for malware.
They have to get past the source building habit, past the security aware admins that run the servers and THEN, they have to do it on every mirrors or the differences will appear, and if they manage to hit a master server somewhere, they just hit one distro. Not linux. Ironically, the same factors that make linux a difficult target for proprietary vendors, make it a very secure target against malware.
(I'm much more worried with firefox extensions as a factor of malware spread, when i see that most of them are still marked as coming from a non secure place or unsigned.)
All this on top of a community of users who do care about security, take care of each other and take time to tell the new comers to NOT run anything as root outside of the common practices.
I am helping a lot on the mandrivaclub forum (in the french part, obviously) which is a place dedicated to new comers to linux, and i can assure you that every time a new user ask about "this annoying root thing", he gets properly educated. And i know it's true for every other linux distro. I mean, root login! No respectable distro would make that a default!
Where does it says it spread? It is a 3 years old thing and it never spread, why should it now? It has been found somewhere on some server in some package. OK, then?
Distros build their version of softwares from source, they check the sources, their users get their software from their distro. End of the story.
Moral of the story: -don't download binaries from other sources than your distro. -don't install binaries from other sources than your distro as root.
Is M$ becoming a mass copy store...First Firefox (for IE7.0) then Apple OS X (for Vista) and now Apache (for IIS). Are they going out of business of innovation?
I'm sure we'll now hear that this poor kid's untapped potential for technical greatness is being stifled Actually no, he is going to receive advanced trainings in areas he wouldnt have heard of otherwise and his potential for technical evil is going to florish.
It happens more and more that i search for a few words and the first google link pages don't countain those words. More, the google cache doesn't countain them either. So my bet is that they also have problems that are related to their search engine, and NOT to outside sites. It's always the blogers fault, or the commercial sites fault, or the webmasters faults etc etc, but shouldnt google get its fair share of criticisms?
Link farms should be banned. period. If they exist, it's because google don't ban them.
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I have a caveat. I thought Ender's Game is boring.
I mean, really boring. The ending was so blatantly obvious.
Same.
Exactly.
Their bittorrent to Canada was slow as molasses in Winnipeg in January (as opposed to KUbuntu whose bittorrent was almost 100 times faster. The gui find did not work on two different machines on 10. 0 and 10.1 regular and official.
I see you posted the same comment about the speed of bittorrent some months ago.
Did you get the same speed with this release?
What is the gui find?
$ help
Hint: Follow the link, look for references to retractable batons, you will get it.
Change all problematic art and release it.
And dont forget to change the script to include some kind of parody of vivendi, like in shrek. You know, you need to hit them at the heart of their soul.
But with retractable batons inside.
Well, I saw the pictures on your site and was very glad to see that everything is turning all right for you.
Do you go back to the club sometime?
I'm sure there are a lot of people over there who have a nice memory of you, like me.
kat is not really ready for primetime. It has been included already as a gesture of faith toward the developper and his solution. /etc/skel/.mdv-no_kat
:) ).
The mandriva KDE guy is working a lot on this, and they are hosting the site of the developper.
I expect it will improve and get updated frequently, but tight now, the best solution is to disable it:
Before login do this in your home directory
touch ~/.mdv-no_kat
or for all new users:
touch
Simpler, remove it:
urpme kat
Now, that I said that, I think they did the wise thing in choosing kat. Kat is the first brick in what will be tenor, the underlying search engine of KDE4.
They have to make a move in this direction because google and others are already moving toward it. And if linux is not to be left behind once more, distros need to move now.
By not choosing beagle, they imply they don't want to go the (patented) mono road. (beagle will still work on a mandriva, one dev wants to have it soon because he doesnt like kat
All this is pure speculation on my part.
This was an inspired comment from TubeSteack.
Well, there is a lot done by via toward linux and open source.
More than other at least.
There are drivers that are released, some are even free and concern their graphic adapters.
I think this is part of one of their strategy which is to take a big part of the asian market where there is a demand for low cost low end solutions.
They are also very interrested in low energy solutions for the same reasons.
I kinda think they are wiser than some other who rely on selling high end more power hungry closed solutions in a world where oil price and therefore electricity prices are going to rise.
I go weekly there:
http://www.viaarena.com/
to find infos about this very interresting company. They even have tutorials for installing their new drivers on Mandriva and Fedora over there.
Nope, I don't have shares or anything.
Are you THE deno from mandrake's club of old days?
The CDs available to standard club membres now countains the proprietary drivers. It's not equivalent to the download edition that should hit the mirrors in 2 weeks.
The standard members complained that they didnt get much for their 60$/ and have been listened to.
There was a fight years ago between TV channels and Record compagnies about Videos.
The TVs didnt want to pay because they were doing free advertisements for the records, the Record companies wanted money because the TVs were doing money showing the videos.
And yes the sales of records were going up thanks to the music videos. Well, TV channels had to pay anyway. End of the story.
As long as you give money to pay the records or whatever is coming from those record companies, they are controling the market, they are controlling the music, they are controlling the medias.
Give your money to alternative music channels that respect your rights and the music and the artists.
Yes, and it's a great card, with a much less weird looking and probably more practical cooler.
existing as kat, not kate, sorry.
What is called tenor here is already existing albeit in a very rough state as kate.
It isnt really very functionnal yet, but it will be included in Mandriva 2006, which you can think of as a mistake from mandriva or as a gesture of trust and commitment toward that application and what it will become:
http://kat.mandriva.com/
Personnally, I removed it, but I'm also glad my favorite distribution is doing this kind of choices. After all, they included KDE by default when it wasnt very popular to do so, and it was quite a good choice in the long run.
When I see the kind of interactions that will be done later with a good data miner engine behind the desktop, i understand why they did that.
The reason they do not trust him might be that he prefered to cash out the company instead of remaining independant.
id's success and identity is based on being independant.
They are financially independant, they are neutral on the graphic cards issue giving good and bad points whenever it's due, they are vocal on the patent issue whenever it prevents them from working, even their code is portable and proprietary vendor independant. And they do the game they want, good or bad.
So i understand perfectly that there is a problem when you have such a strong commitment to independance and a 41% shareholder don't care anymore and want to get the money instead.
Also, he had every rights to try to sell the company, as you said, and they had every rights, being 59% of the remaining shares, to refuse.
And then, they offered him 20 millions which he turned down, so he will have some hard times proving they are doing him some wrong when they give him 11M as the contract obliges them to.
He tried to sell out the compagny in order to get 40M$ in the process, he didnt succeed, then the others didnt trust him anymore, tried to buy his shares for 20M$, he refused, got spit out and from his contract he just can get 11M$ instead of the proposed 20M$.
He now tries to get the contract broken to get more than 11M$.
Sucker.
This bandwidth is then payed by the isp.
It won't last either.
Slashdot
not for geeks, don't matter anymore.
It's getting obvious that slashdot is getting a cut out of those advertising profits. Too bad, it's at the expense of the value of the news slashdot provides.
bizz model:
1/ support linux
2/ attract geeks
3/ profit supporting proprietary software ads
4/ lose geek(*) readers
(* no, being geek doesnt mean having an ipod and a few gazillions electronical gadgets. That means being a sucker)
Yes, but I want to also point out that the fact that the community is educated and security aware from the ground up, and that the both centralised/distributed nature of the paquages repositories make a terrible barreer of entry for malware.
They have to get past the source building habit, past the security aware admins that run the servers and THEN, they have to do it on every mirrors or the differences will appear, and if they manage to hit a master server somewhere, they just hit one distro. Not linux.
Ironically, the same factors that make linux a difficult target for proprietary vendors, make it a very secure target against malware.
(I'm much more worried with firefox extensions as a factor of malware spread, when i see that most of them are still marked as coming from a non secure place or unsigned.)
All this on top of a community of users who do care about security, take care of each other and take time to tell the new comers to NOT run anything as root outside of the common practices.
I am helping a lot on the mandrivaclub forum (in the french part, obviously) which is a place dedicated to new comers to linux, and i can assure you that every time a new user ask about "this annoying root thing", he gets properly educated.
And i know it's true for every other linux distro.
I mean, root login! No respectable distro would make that a default!
Where does it says it spread?
It is a 3 years old thing and it never spread, why should it now?
It has been found somewhere on some server in some package.
OK, then?
Distros build their version of softwares from source, they check the sources, their users get their software from their distro.
End of the story.
Moral of the story:
-don't download binaries from other sources than your distro.
-don't install binaries from other sources than your distro as root.
Is M$ becoming a mass copy store...First Firefox (for IE7.0) then Apple OS X (for Vista) and now Apache (for IIS). Are they going out of business of innovation?
I'm sure we'll now hear that this poor kid's untapped potential for technical greatness is being stifled
Actually no, he is going to receive advanced trainings in areas he wouldnt have heard of otherwise and his potential for technical evil is going to florish.
It happens more and more that i search for a few words and the first google link pages don't countain those words. More, the google cache doesn't countain them either.
So my bet is that they also have problems that are related to their search engine, and NOT to outside sites.
It's always the blogers fault, or the commercial sites fault, or the webmasters faults etc etc, but shouldnt google get its fair share of criticisms?
Link farms should be banned. period. If they exist, it's because google don't ban them.
Come on, they just put a news on slashdot now and then et voila! 12 billion page impressions!
You know, i wouldnt have believed you until sin city.