Probably not, but there might be slight chance that they've get rid of esd requirement altogether, if so, and armed with alsa dmix, multiple concurrent users should be good to go...
Yeah, I'm sure the Spotlight-alike dropdown menu widget just came from thin air.
Of course it didn't come out from thin air, just because some random slashdot troll didn't know about it until yesterday doesn't mean it hasn't been in development for a long time. It started with the Dashboard project, somewhere in mid-2003, who, about year later started the Beagle desktop search engine as their backend.
At this time, Google, Microsoft and Apple were almost certainly developing their own things, but since they were all unannounced, it was a case of convergent evolution, you can't rip off something you don't know exists.
Now, given this background framework and existing stand-alone search apps, sticking the search into panel applet is hardly a huge leap, but if you want to make it into rip-off of something, it's admittedly google desktop and copernic desktop search, not spotlight.
I don't know about KDE, but Gnome seems very much platform dependent to me (as does much modern open-source software, sadly). It runs perfectly on Linux, but on my Mac there are lots of problems.
Every now and then, someone pops up in freenode ##gnome with OS X problems, and almost every time it turns out they are using fink, and the problems are because fink "unstable" has an awful mess of packages from plethora of different gnome versions (2.6, 2.8, 2.10 and 2.12). It shouldn't be a huge surprise that GNOME 2.6 apps don't work very well with 2.12 libraries and vice versa, but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the platform.
In my case it's not the file manager, but the file chooser. Gnome developers decided to develop the GTK file chooser. That's nice, but gnome has many other needs that gtk doesn't. Using the file chooser is PAINFUL. You just have the name, and the "modified" field and a list of favourite locations. You can't even order things by SIZE.
You don't have different "views" at all in fact. You can't get a view where all the images are show a small thumbnail instead of a meaningless icon.
I agree about the lack of columns and icon view. However, there are somebugsopen about them, and none of them has been WONTFIXed or anything like that, so the design isn't fixed in stone and good implementations would no doubt be welcome, and will probably end up there sooner or later.
And the image formats that will be previewed are the ones supported by the pixbuf GTK plugins: only the formats in in/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.x.0/loaders/*. Forget about things that have sense, for example video thumbnails, something that has a LOT of sense if you're going to open a video file in a video editing program.
This, on the other hand is pure unadulterated bullshit. You're obviously not very familiar with the preview API of GtkFileChooser, there is nothing that limits it to the pixbuf loaders. If a video editing program or player wants video thumbnails there, it can easily be done.
Compare it with the KDE file selector, where I even can watch the video.
I took ten minutes to write a small proof of concept: http://www.cc.puv.fi/~e0000274/fsvideo.png, and yes, although I didn't bother to add the controls to throw-away piece of code, it's live video, not snapshot.
You've been claiming that the publisher used wikipedia as a "defence" or "evidence" - that doesn't matter, what matters is did the court really buy that abysmally bad excuse? If they did, THERE is your real problem, everyone can see that usage of name in a factual biography, foreign to boot, is vastly different from use in libelous fiction novel, file an appeal.
You've also stated that other sites with the name are not "relevant" which is, frankly, bullshit. It may not have been presented yet, but the publisher has shown that they're willing to use that excuse, and they WILL use it again even if Wikipedia should yield, if the parents think they can censor the whole world while the publisher keeps up coming with other places that show it, one after another, they're kidding themselves, that way lies defeat, but they also end up hurting freedom of speech in the process.
Wikipedia is not the bad guy here, prosecuting an innocent third party as a workaround because you can't get at the real culprit is wrong, no matter what. The parents deserve to lose this one.
1. How well does it (or do you think it would) function as a PDA? Does it have calendaring apps and stuff? How well does it sync that sort of data with a PC? What sort of software will it sync with?
Out of the box, it sucks. GPE PIM applications have been ported. They don't currently do very strong on automagical syncing front, the folks working on them posted a progress report and updates yesterday and mentioned it's the next step being worked on.
3. From the Maemo tutorials, it looks like it uses some mix of a special API (the Hildon stuff) and GTK. How difficult is this to learn (I've done GUI programming with the Win32 APIs and have a very rudimentary knowledge of Qt, but almost no GTK knowledge) and how much knowledge is transferrable to making desktop GTK apps?
Knowledge is almost 100% transferrable to desktop GTK.
Is it possible to use something like Qt on it?
Qt as an addition isn't very likely, two heavyweight toolkits on device this small will drain way too much RAM. The only way I can see that happening is if you completely wipe out Maemo and use a hypothetical Qtopia/OPIE port instead.
How's the handwriting analysis? To compare, Windows Mobile gives you a virtual keyboard you can tap on the keys, an entry area that you use like the older Palms and special glyphs, and full screen recognition that tries to do it from your natural writing. It seems from the site that it has something like the first and last modes; is this accurate?
That's right. Haven't used Windows Mobile not a clue how good it is, but handwriting recognition is better than any open source implementation I've tried, although vastly inferior to Windows XP Tablet PC edition. Virtual keyboard is pretty good.
It says it's Linux-based... do you have command line access, or just a GUI? If you do have a CLI, is it useful?
Well, considering the text input methods CLI is pretty much a pain to use, might be useful with bluetooth keyboard or something.
Too bad there was VMWare vulnerability just a week ago that allows guest to execute abritrary code on host system.
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For small files, yes. But DVD sized flash is still quite expensive, and read/write speeds of many flash memories tend to be rather low, I wouldn't be surprised if optical drives are sometimes faster in gigabyte range.
Yes, Microsoft, who very much agree this is a new vulnerability has fixed a wmf hole before, and no this is not the same hole. Guess what? Same piece of software can have several entirely unrelated buffer overflows.
CERT: This new vulnerability may be similar to one Microsoft released patches for in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-053 (VU#433341). However, publicly available exploit code has been discovered that reportedly affects systems updated with MS05-053.
You really should get even the rudimentary grasp on how electricity works, it might be quite helpful even in everyday situations, and at least you could avoid making a fool of yourself. Hint: path of least resistance.
Other than that, electric eels? Yes, I can see it how it would work, quite well in fact. The poor soldiers would laugh themselves to death, or at least incapacitation.
Your attitude, sir, carries a message of disrespect and contempt for copyright holders. Basically you're saying "F*** you and your rights, I'm going to take your creative work and do with it what I damn well please."
You find that surprising? The copyright holders have sent a message of disrespect and contempt to their customers for decades now, and are getting more and more insane each passing second, they don't just say "F*** you and your rights", they got the power to fuck my rights themselves if they wish, and they do. Treat others how you would like to be treated, looks like they got what they wanted.
Did copyright have a fair premise, once? Maybe. BUT THEY CROSSED THE LINE, if people start disrespecting the whole mess, the content providers have nobody but themselves to blame.
The article is the first time I've actually seen any Ruby. Looks nice... but some of the examples are quickly turning into code soup on the level of perl or c++. I don't want to be the compiler and have to decipher some compact syntax.... verbosity is not necessarily a bad thing. I would argue that for code maintenance it's better to be more explicit than not.
If you think Ruby looks nice, but is too much of a "code soup", you definitely should take a look at Python. It has most of the advantages, but is IMHO, considerably more clean. Creator or Ruby likes Perl, and it shows.
Well there's that fine line between theory and practice, and in this case it looks more like a concrete wall. Do you seriously think it would be smart to hold my breath for this one?
Someone already ported Really Slick Screensavers from Windows to XScreensaver, so not only it's possible in theory, it's simple enough that someone has done it in practice.
Other way around probably isn't any harder, so the question becomes are there any windows opengl coders who want it enough?
Three words - Metacity edge flipping (or more appropriately, the lack thereof). Edge flipping is an incredibly popular feature with experienced users, and while I agree that it should be off by default because it can be confusing, that is NOT an excuse to turn the window manager into crippleware by completely removing that feature. (The only other options are to give up some UI consistency with the rest of Gnome by using xfwm4 and possibly introducing significant compatibility issues such as by using sawfish. Another option was brightside, but it was always a hack designed to work around missing functionality in Metacity that should be there.)
I find it rather peculiar when people, and often even same people, hold Firefox to be the best thing ever for not having everything and a kitchen sink out of the box, but rather having extension mechanism while at the same time flaming GNOME for the very same thing.
Brightside is not a hack. It's an extension. It uses something (libwnck) that was from the very beginning meant to let people enhance by-design simplistic metacity. I can understand why you would be upset if edge flipping was IMPOSSIBLE to do because some harebrained design decision in metacity, but when it's just one small app installation away, complaining about it is just silly.
That was before there were so many of us that moving isn't a viable alternative. And panicking cavemen couldn't fry themselves with nuclear weapons.
You're assuming modern technology has a positive effect on the outcome, but it seems far more likely that anything that causes major migration pressures, such as a little ice age, or rising oceans, or food production areas suffering drought, or... will cause us to go lobbing around the most destructive parts of that modern technology like candy. High tech nations of the north would want to move their populations to more livable climate at any cost, and the already overcrowded south definitely definitely wouln't want them in there.
Will this change with the release of Office 12? Maybe-- My guess is all your customers will continue to use DOC.
Highly unlikely that the customers will have a clue to change the default, or that they bother to change it when saving.
So if MSXML is the default in Office 12, which as far as I've heard it is, no, the customers don't keep on using DOC, because they don't know, or care, about doc or msxml or anything else for that matter.
Microsoft has made numerous statements about the Office XML schema license agreements and patents and have publicly assured people it is in their belief the license is open enough to be used within the majority of GPL projects.
Microsoft can make all the "statements" they want, but that doesn't change the fact that their actual license text says otherwise.
In other words, those statements are marketing fluff, smokescreens, and outright lies that you apparently fell for, badly.
Wow, I thought only MS products and Internet Explorer were capable of having bugs or exploits.
You thought wrong.
Were the people championing these other browser lying to me, or just ignorant
If they claimed that "these other browsers" don't have any bugs at all, then yes, they were clearly ignorant or lying. I haven't seen anyone doing that, saying it's more secure or has less bugs isn't same as saying it's perfect.
Can't say how it's set up in other distros, but Firefox in Hoary _can_ make use of shared mime, but it does so at lower priority - it reads mailcap first, but if it can't find suitable file there, it'll try gnome system.
Which is goddamn stupid, but if you don't use old apps that need mailcap, at least it can be prevented.
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Probably not, but there might be slight chance that they've get rid of esd requirement altogether, if so, and armed with alsa dmix, multiple concurrent users should be good to go...
Yeah, I'm sure the Spotlight-alike dropdown menu widget just came from thin air.
Of course it didn't come out from thin air, just because some random slashdot troll didn't know about it until yesterday doesn't mean it hasn't been in development for a long time. It started with the Dashboard project, somewhere in mid-2003, who, about year later started the Beagle desktop search engine as their backend.
At this time, Google, Microsoft and Apple were almost certainly developing their own things, but since they were all unannounced, it was a case of convergent evolution, you can't rip off something you don't know exists.
Now, given this background framework and existing stand-alone search apps, sticking the search into panel applet is hardly a huge leap, but if you want to make it into rip-off of something, it's admittedly google desktop and copernic desktop search, not spotlight.
It's implemented just as it always was - it still starts a new X server.
Just a bit of sugar coating to make the "slow and annoying switching back and forth" go away.
I don't know about KDE, but Gnome seems very much platform dependent to me (as does much modern open-source software, sadly). It runs perfectly on Linux, but on my Mac there are lots of problems.
Every now and then, someone pops up in freenode ##gnome with OS X problems, and almost every time it turns out they are using fink, and the problems are because fink "unstable" has an awful mess of packages from plethora of different gnome versions (2.6, 2.8, 2.10 and 2.12). It shouldn't be a huge surprise that GNOME 2.6 apps don't work very well with 2.12 libraries and vice versa, but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the platform.
In my case it's not the file manager, but the file chooser. Gnome developers decided to develop the GTK file chooser. That's nice, but gnome has many other needs that gtk doesn't. Using the file chooser is PAINFUL. You just have the name, and the "modified" field and a list of favourite locations. You can't even order things by SIZE.
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.x.0/loaders/*. Forget about things that have sense, for example video thumbnails, something that has a LOT of sense if you're going to open a video file in a video editing program.
You don't have different "views" at all in fact. You can't get a view where all the images are show a small thumbnail instead of a meaningless icon.
I agree about the lack of columns and icon view. However, there are some bugs open about them, and none of them has been WONTFIXed or anything like that, so the design isn't fixed in stone and good implementations would no doubt be welcome, and will probably end up there sooner or later.
And the image formats that will be previewed are the ones supported by the pixbuf GTK plugins: only the formats in in
This, on the other hand is pure unadulterated bullshit. You're obviously not very familiar with the preview API of GtkFileChooser, there is nothing that limits it to the pixbuf loaders. If a video editing program or player wants video thumbnails there, it can easily be done.
Compare it with the KDE file selector, where I even can watch the video.
I took ten minutes to write a small proof of concept: http://www.cc.puv.fi/~e0000274/fsvideo.png, and yes, although I didn't bother to add the controls to throw-away piece of code, it's live video, not snapshot.
You've been claiming that the publisher used wikipedia as a "defence" or "evidence" - that doesn't matter, what matters is did the court really buy that abysmally bad excuse? If they did, THERE is your real problem, everyone can see that usage of name in a factual biography, foreign to boot, is vastly different from use in libelous fiction novel, file an appeal.
You've also stated that other sites with the name are not "relevant" which is, frankly, bullshit. It may not have been presented yet, but the publisher has shown that they're willing to use that excuse, and they WILL use it again even if Wikipedia should yield, if the parents think they can censor the whole world while the publisher keeps up coming with other places that show it, one after another, they're kidding themselves, that way lies defeat, but they also end up hurting freedom of speech in the process.
Wikipedia is not the bad guy here, prosecuting an innocent third party as a workaround because you can't get at the real culprit is wrong, no matter what. The parents deserve to lose this one.
1. How well does it (or do you think it would) function as a PDA? Does it have calendaring apps and stuff? How well does it sync that sort of data with a PC? What sort of software will it sync with?
Out of the box, it sucks. GPE PIM applications have been ported. They don't currently do very strong on automagical syncing front, the folks working on them posted a progress report and updates yesterday and mentioned it's the next step being worked on.
3. From the Maemo tutorials, it looks like it uses some mix of a special API (the Hildon stuff) and GTK. How difficult is this to learn (I've done GUI programming with the Win32 APIs and have a very rudimentary knowledge of Qt, but almost no GTK knowledge) and how much knowledge is transferrable to making desktop GTK apps?
Knowledge is almost 100% transferrable to desktop GTK.
Is it possible to use something like Qt on it?
Qt as an addition isn't very likely, two heavyweight toolkits on device this small will drain way too much RAM. The only way I can see that happening is if you completely wipe out Maemo and use a hypothetical Qtopia/OPIE port instead.
How's the handwriting analysis? To compare, Windows Mobile gives you a virtual keyboard you can tap on the keys, an entry area that you use like the older Palms and special glyphs, and full screen recognition that tries to do it from your natural writing. It seems from the site that it has something like the first and last modes; is this accurate?
That's right. Haven't used Windows Mobile not a clue how good it is, but handwriting recognition is better than any open source implementation I've tried, although vastly inferior to Windows XP Tablet PC edition. Virtual keyboard is pretty good.
It says it's Linux-based... do you have command line access, or just a GUI? If you do have a CLI, is it useful?
Well, considering the text input methods CLI is pretty much a pain to use, might be useful with bluetooth keyboard or something.
It gets annoyingly image processing centric at later levels, but first dozen or so are nice enough.
Of python specific literature, thinkcspy is probably the best suited for absolute beginner who hasn't ever written a line of code in any language.
Too bad there was VMWare vulnerability just a week ago that allows guest to execute abritrary code on host system.
For small files, yes. But DVD sized flash is still quite expensive, and read/write speeds of many flash memories tend to be rather low, I wouldn't be surprised if optical drives are sometimes faster in gigabyte range.
Shut the fuck up and stop lying.
Yes, Microsoft, who very much agree this is a new vulnerability has fixed a wmf hole before, and no this is not the same hole. Guess what? Same piece of software can have several entirely unrelated buffer overflows.
CERT:
This new vulnerability may be similar to one Microsoft released patches for in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-053 (VU#433341). However, publicly available exploit code has been discovered that reportedly affects systems updated with MS05-053.
You really should get even the rudimentary grasp on how electricity works, it might be quite helpful even in everyday situations, and at least you could avoid making a fool of yourself. Hint: path of least resistance.
Other than that, electric eels? Yes, I can see it how it would work, quite well in fact. The poor soldiers would laugh themselves to death, or at least incapacitation.
Your attitude, sir, carries a message of disrespect and contempt for copyright holders. Basically you're saying "F*** you and your rights, I'm going to take your creative work and do with it what I damn well please."
You find that surprising? The copyright holders have sent a message of disrespect and contempt to their customers for decades now, and are getting more and more insane each passing second, they don't just say "F*** you and your rights", they got the power to fuck my rights themselves if they wish, and they do. Treat others how you would like to be treated, looks like they got what they wanted.
Did copyright have a fair premise, once? Maybe. BUT THEY CROSSED THE LINE, if people start disrespecting the whole mess, the content providers have nobody but themselves to blame.
The article is the first time I've actually seen any Ruby. Looks nice... but some of the examples are quickly turning into code soup on the level of perl or c++. I don't want to be the compiler and have to decipher some compact syntax.... verbosity is not necessarily a bad thing. I would argue that for code maintenance it's better to be more explicit than not.
If you think Ruby looks nice, but is too much of a "code soup", you definitely should take a look at Python. It has most of the advantages, but is IMHO, considerably more clean. Creator or Ruby likes Perl, and it shows.
Well there's that fine line between theory and practice, and in this case it looks more like a concrete wall. Do you seriously think it would be smart to hold my breath for this one?
Someone already ported Really Slick Screensavers from Windows to XScreensaver, so not only it's possible in theory, it's simple enough that someone has done it in practice.
Other way around probably isn't any harder, so the question becomes are there any windows opengl coders who want it enough?
Nope, it was terminal emulator.
Three words - Metacity edge flipping (or more appropriately, the lack thereof). Edge flipping is an incredibly popular feature with experienced users, and while I agree that it should be off by default because it can be confusing, that is NOT an excuse to turn the window manager into crippleware by completely removing that feature. (The only other options are to give up some UI consistency with the rest of Gnome by using xfwm4 and possibly introducing significant compatibility issues such as by using sawfish. Another option was brightside, but it was always a hack designed to work around missing functionality in Metacity that should be there.)
I find it rather peculiar when people, and often even same people, hold Firefox to be the best thing ever for not having everything and a kitchen sink out of the box, but rather having extension mechanism while at the same time flaming GNOME for the very same thing.
Brightside is not a hack. It's an extension. It uses something (libwnck) that was from the very beginning meant to let people enhance by-design simplistic metacity. I can understand why you would be upset if edge flipping was IMPOSSIBLE to do because some harebrained design decision in metacity, but when it's just one small app installation away, complaining about it is just silly.
We managed to survive in Ice Age eras before
... will cause us to go lobbing around the most destructive parts of that modern technology like candy. High tech nations of the north would want to move their populations to more livable climate at any cost, and the already overcrowded south definitely definitely wouln't want them in there.
That was before there were so many of us that moving isn't a viable alternative. And panicking cavemen couldn't fry themselves with nuclear weapons.
You're assuming modern technology has a positive effect on the outcome, but it seems far more likely that anything that causes major migration pressures, such as a little ice age, or rising oceans, or food production areas suffering drought, or
Will this change with the release of Office 12? Maybe-- My guess is all your customers will continue to use DOC.
Highly unlikely that the customers will have a clue to change the default, or that they bother to change it when saving.
So if MSXML is the default in Office 12, which as far as I've heard it is, no, the customers don't keep on using DOC, because they don't know, or care, about doc or msxml or anything else for that matter.
Microsoft has made numerous statements about the Office XML schema license agreements and patents and have publicly assured people it is in their belief the license is open enough to be used within the majority of GPL projects.
Microsoft can make all the "statements" they want, but that doesn't change the fact that their actual license text says otherwise.
In other words, those statements are marketing fluff, smokescreens, and outright lies that you apparently fell for, badly.
Now why don't you link-farming scum ask the webmasters you claim to be representing first, and then GET THE HELL OUT OF INTERNET.
Thanks.
Wow, I thought only MS products and Internet Explorer were capable of having bugs or exploits.
You thought wrong.
Were the people championing these other browser lying to me, or just ignorant
If they claimed that "these other browsers" don't have any bugs at all, then yes, they were clearly ignorant or lying. I haven't seen anyone doing that, saying it's more secure or has less bugs isn't same as saying it's perfect.
Can't say how it's set up in other distros, but Firefox in Hoary _can_ make use of shared mime, but it does so at lower priority - it reads mailcap first, but if it can't find suitable file there, it'll try gnome system.
Which is goddamn stupid, but if you don't use old apps that need mailcap, at least it can be prevented.
It doesn't.
And you can bet it won't be a high priority until composite is actually supported by more than one display driver.