First, please realize that the DVD menus are simply MPEG files. You can create a static menu with the gimp, or if you're into motion, use Cinelerra or another video editing program like MainActor, Final Cut Pro, or Adobe Premier.
Finally, you can add buttons to the menu with dvdauthor. There aren't many frontends for dvdauthor, but it is easy to use manually or you can kludge together your use of a video editor and qdvdauthor.
The truth is that a worm can propagate easily from any existing Linux distribution. Users do not need to be root to cause damage.
Firstly, if you're using a "single user" Linux distribution the only files that need protection are the user's files, not the operating system files. If you're running as that user and you get a virus, it can delete or steal those files - the files which actually have importance.
Secondly (and finally), the danger of worms exists not in accessing local files but in the ability to contact remote machines. Without a strong ACLs on accessing sockets, an operating system cannot be secure. No linux distribution, to my knowledge, has such ACLs on sockets by default.
The truth is that very few operating systems - and none of the current popular operating systems (MacOS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Irix, and HP-UX) provide any security against worms.
Actually, you can drag your mp3 or ogg files directly into the bottom (when there is no existing project) and it will create a new audio cd project automatically.
My 16 and 18 year old sisters use K3B for making audio cds without a problem.. I showed them how to use it and they were shocked with the ease at which it could be done.
Of course, there is always the real Acrobat Reader for Linux. Of course, that won't help you on FreeBSD (without Linux compat) or with getting on RMS's good side.
I personally think that GGV is great, but I'm excited to see what gpdf might bring.
You can dock the toolboxes onto each other, and you can optionally have a menubar added to the top of each image window.
As far as the multi-window thing, you can make it work for you by using a virtual desktop/pager. Unix machines usually have this by default (for which the Gimp was originally designed), but you can install a virtual desktop/pager for MS Windows too.
One problem with Photoshop's interface is that it is only really sufficient for a single-headed computer. It is true that most users only have single-headed computers, many (if not most) serious graphic artists use multiple displays. The Gimp resolve this by not limiting you to one window, plus with virtual desktops adding an artificial, broken, technical limitiation wasn't necessary. Once you try using virtual desktops you will realize why the Gimp development team thought it would be redundant to implement it themselves.
Yes, it does do CYMK. This seems to be lacking from the debian-provided binary for some reason, but it is supposedly there and working. There is also a CYMK plugin for the Gimp 1.2, FYI.
I'm curious, have you tried the Gimp 2.0-pre? It is a much different beast than the 1.2 and older versions, and may surprise you if you haven't used it already.
That may be so but instead of buying an Alpha, you can run Solaris on x86 hardware. You're also right about UML, but that is probably not as easily configured and certainly not shipped in a ready-made form with a distribution, compared to Sun's solution. Of course, for all the people already commited to Sun, this is a great thing.
Corel already tried going after the Linux market. WordPerfect versions 8 and 9 were released for Linux, but were not too successful and was dropped by Corel.
The WordPerfect for Linux FAQ: http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/
This is one the the reasons I bought a powerbook. The two most important things for me when buying a laptop were the trackpad and the keyboard.
Having had a Dell Inspiron 3500 in the past, I remembered how much I hated the 2 button trackpad. In Linux I couldn't paste without XFree86's 2->3-button emu (yuck). I couldn't find any decent 3-button trackpad - plus I'm left-handed so I needed the "right" button to be as big or bigger than the "left" button. This alone proved to be nearly impossible.
I finally decided on a Powerbook G3/w firewire (pismo). It only had one button so I no longer had the problem of accidently hitting the wrong mouse button (a problem I had with the Dell), and the keyboard was awesome.
Linux/PPC has a sysctl for mapping keyboard codes to the mouse buttons. I've used this to map fn-ctrl and fn-alt to the middle and "right" buttons. I love it, I couldn't be happier and I'll probably never buy an x86 laptop again for the simple reason that they are completely incompatable with left-handed people (those that are not comfortable with using the trackpad with their right-hand, anyway).
In regard to instant coffee, I drink Jacobs - the one with the green lid, I have it imported from Poland. I just boil water and pour it over the coffee, add sugar.
Interestingly, I get more spam to my business account (unpublished, but guessable address sales@, support@, etc..) - than I do to any of my other email addresses, even my "throw away" ones.
I bought a playstation / n64 usb adapter that is awesome. I use an n64 controller with mine, but plan to pickup a playstation controller eventually.
I'm extremely happy with the purchase and it is much better than any of my old gravis controllers were (Gravis Gamepad and Gravis Gamepad Pro). As other have said, the Gravis directional pads are horrible - sadly, they still haven't fixed this within the past 8 years.
Case in point, the reason I was in Toys R' Us was because I was looking for a toy for my 5 year old brother in-law. I got him the PlayDoh set I had as a kid. It was that or the Legos - toys I had as a child.
First, remember the Gimp is still an X11 program.. and most X11 users do not want such a horrible thing as a huge toplevel window containing smaller windows. Infact, this is one of the few things I hate about OpenOffice.org.
There is a reason that the Gimp designers never thought of doing this and should probably never think of doing this, except as a favor to the MS Windows users - in X11 you can create a new workspace for the Gimp. The window manager already contains the capability of separating the Gimp from all the other applications, so why would they work to poorly immitate something that the user's OS can do considerably better without horrible drawbacks like disabling multihead (which is of huge importance to graphic designers)?
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First, please realize that the DVD menus are simply MPEG files. You can create a static menu with the gimp, or if you're into motion, use Cinelerra or another video editing program like MainActor, Final Cut Pro, or Adobe Premier.
Finally, you can add buttons to the menu with dvdauthor. There aren't many frontends for dvdauthor, but it is easy to use manually or you can kludge together your use of a video editor and qdvdauthor.
Yeah, it is really hard to run /usr/local/RealPlayer*
rm -rf
Checkout MCA, it seems to do much of what you're asking for. Of course, nobody uses MCA these days - the parts are old, slow, and expensive,
The truth is that a worm can propagate easily from any existing Linux distribution. Users do not need to be root to cause damage.
Firstly, if you're using a "single user" Linux distribution the only files that need protection are the user's files, not the operating system files. If you're running as that user and you get a virus, it can delete or steal those files - the files which actually have importance.
Secondly (and finally), the danger of worms exists not in accessing local files but in the ability to contact remote machines. Without a strong ACLs on accessing sockets, an operating system cannot be secure. No linux distribution, to my knowledge, has such ACLs on sockets by default.
The truth is that very few operating systems - and none of the current popular operating systems (MacOS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Irix, and HP-UX) provide any security against worms.
Actually, you can drag your mp3 or ogg files directly into the bottom (when there is no existing project) and it will create a new audio cd project automatically.
My 16 and 18 year old sisters use K3B for making audio cds without a problem.. I showed them how to use it and they were shocked with the ease at which it could be done.
Of course, there is always the real Acrobat Reader for Linux. Of course, that won't help you on FreeBSD (without Linux compat) or with getting on RMS's good side.
I personally think that GGV is great, but I'm excited to see what gpdf might bring.
I use XFCE 4 on my machines, even my dual 1ghz Athlon. I like Gnome, but find it (at least debian's builds) to be too sluggish.
You can dock the toolboxes onto each other, and you can optionally have a menubar added to the top of each image window.
As far as the multi-window thing, you can make it work for you by using a virtual desktop/pager. Unix machines usually have this by default (for which the Gimp was originally designed), but you can install a virtual desktop/pager for MS Windows too.
Grab one of the many virtual desktop manages / pagers designed for MS Windows.
One problem with Photoshop's interface is that it is only really sufficient for a single-headed computer. It is true that most users only have single-headed computers, many (if not most) serious graphic artists use multiple displays. The Gimp resolve this by not limiting you to one window, plus with virtual desktops adding an artificial, broken, technical limitiation wasn't necessary. Once you try using virtual desktops you will realize why the Gimp development team thought it would be redundant to implement it themselves.
Yes, it does do CYMK. This seems to be lacking from the debian-provided binary for some reason, but it is supposedly there and working. There is also a CYMK plugin for the Gimp 1.2, FYI.
Yes, it does support ICC profiles.
I'm curious, have you tried the Gimp 2.0-pre? It is a much different beast than the 1.2 and older versions, and may surprise you if you haven't used it already.
User Mode Linux provides a hostfs driver for accessing the host's filesystem.
/etc/security/limits.conf. This is a per-user setting, unfortunately.
You're right about not being as easy to setup, I suspect that Solaris has made it very easy to do - but this is speculation at this point.
Linux has such resource allocations. Checkout
That may be so but instead of buying an Alpha, you can run Solaris on x86 hardware. You're also right about UML, but that is probably not as easily configured and certainly not shipped in a ready-made form with a distribution, compared to Sun's solution. Of course, for all the people already commited to Sun, this is a great thing.
Corel already tried going after the Linux market. WordPerfect versions 8 and 9 were released for Linux, but were not too successful and was dropped by Corel.
The WordPerfect for Linux FAQ:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/
This is one the the reasons I bought a powerbook. The two most important things for me when buying a laptop were the trackpad and the keyboard.
/w firewire (pismo). It only had one button so I no longer had the problem of accidently hitting the wrong mouse button (a problem I had with the Dell), and the keyboard was awesome.
Having had a Dell Inspiron 3500 in the past, I remembered how much I hated the 2 button trackpad. In Linux I couldn't paste without XFree86's 2->3-button emu (yuck). I couldn't find any decent 3-button trackpad - plus I'm left-handed so I needed the "right" button to be as big or bigger than the "left" button. This alone proved to be nearly impossible.
I finally decided on a Powerbook G3
Linux/PPC has a sysctl for mapping keyboard codes to the mouse buttons. I've used this to map fn-ctrl and fn-alt to the middle and "right" buttons. I love it, I couldn't be happier and I'll probably never buy an x86 laptop again for the simple reason that they are completely incompatable with left-handed people (those that are not comfortable with using the trackpad with their right-hand, anyway).
In regard to instant coffee, I drink Jacobs - the one with the green lid, I have it imported from Poland. I just boil water and pour it over the coffee, add sugar.
Yummy.
Get Win4Lin and/or Vmware and join the 21st century. Grab usermodelinux if you're only gonna be running other linux distributons.
Except all communications go through AOL, unencrypted.
Interestingly, I get more spam to my business account (unpublished, but guessable address sales@, support@, etc..) - than I do to any of my other email addresses, even my "throw away" ones.
I bought a playstation / n64 usb adapter that is awesome. I use an n64 controller with mine, but plan to pickup a playstation controller eventually.
I'm extremely happy with the purchase and it is much better than any of my old gravis controllers were (Gravis Gamepad and Gravis Gamepad Pro). As other have said, the Gravis directional pads are horrible - sadly, they still haven't fixed this within the past 8 years.
Case in point, the reason I was in Toys R' Us was because I was looking for a toy for my 5 year old brother in-law. I got him the PlayDoh set I had as a kid. It was that or the Legos - toys I had as a child.
A few months ago, I saw the exact same lego set I had as a child (in the 80's) at Toys R' Us. It was one of those thick, red lego cases.
They also had a PlayDoh set identical to that I had in the 80's as well.
You read it on slashdot less than a whole month ago. On December 13th, "Pigeons Faster than Internet"
This is why most companies bill on the 95th percentile - assuming that the top 5% of your traffic is an attack or other peaks.
I don't have a DVD drive in my computer, it is attached via firewire :)
First, remember the Gimp is still an X11 program.. and most X11 users do not want such a horrible thing as a huge toplevel window containing smaller windows. Infact, this is one of the few things I hate about OpenOffice.org.
There is a reason that the Gimp designers never thought of doing this and should probably never think of doing this, except as a favor to the MS Windows users - in X11 you can create a new workspace for the Gimp. The window manager already contains the capability of separating the Gimp from all the other applications, so why would they work to poorly immitate something that the user's OS can do considerably better without horrible drawbacks like disabling multihead (which is of huge importance to graphic designers)?