I have approximately 20 machines using 2.6 since last fall and with the exception of one (an AMD-64 box), they have all been exemplary. That machine became stable with 2.6.6 though its BIOS seems flakey (hardware problems.. ugh)
In particular, my HT machines seem to perform very well with 2.6.3 and up.
Wrong! The thing is, QT is a more mature development environment and KDE's Kparts makes plugging in major functionality easy (want HTML?), even including RAD environments.
Well, lest we forget: Abiword started before the KDE project was really rolling, as did Staroffice (the precurser to Openoffice, in context). The Gimp was *the reason for* the GTK+ and Glib libraries that Gnome is based on, so of course it would be built in that environ!
Gaim is great, but Kopete is going to be quite good (I use Kopete myself) and quite frankly Kopete is nearing Gaim's polish level.
As for KOffice, try it some time - it will do most of what you would want to do with an office... who cares if it's "the best" if it does what you want. Frankly I find it so much faster and more convenient than OpenOffice that I rarely use OpenOffice now. YMMV.
It helps when you have a good and simple programming environment. QT is so much easier to code in than GTK/GTK+/Glib/Bonobo that it isn't funny. Not to mention KParts.
Quanta is simply bloomin' awesome right now. NO NEED for some half-baked piece of crap that has less features than it has. Which will be just about anything.
They should throw those developers at making Quanta better instead - it doesn't need much more to start making waves.
They already did with their business DSL. It was right on their pricing page, but now it's been whisked away to a less offensive place where the point of sale can't be hurt.
Go through their terms and conditions. It's there, or it was yesterday anyways.
Yeah, you have to love technicians that are basically trying to get you off the phone as fast as possible, period. But they ARE moving towards being able to track the hogs. I guarantee that.
One broadband bandwidth hog uses more in one day than a dialup user will use in a six months or more. And that's goddamned expensive.
Somone's paying for that bandwidth. The whole idea of selling Internet service is to make back what you spend and more, by selling what you have for more than you pay for it. The current model is flawed and ripe for failure.
An AWEFUL lot of people find that their web browsing is more than acceptable in speed even while they're downloading files like mad at the rate of 5GB/day or better.
I know people using 20GB/day because they have strung their own CAT5 between houses and they hide behind a NAT router. So before noon on day one, they've already used up their break even point in cash.
And what do they do with all that bandwidth? Store Simpsons/King of the Hill/Star Trek/etc. episodes, Warez like mad but never play the games more than a few minutes, and discard 1/3 or more of the MP3s they steal because they're just looking for whatever sticks to the wall. And oddly enough, they never seem to lose their appetite for any of this.
You do know that stealing intellectual property is theft, right? Imagine you were an artist that slaved for your music for years - maybe putting in more time and effort than a doctor would for his degree... and then a bunch of kids with broadband give it all away for free, and you have to go look for a new career.
Happening? Yes. I believe it is. I know that almost all the people I know are cutting CDs from MP3s now and putting up with the fidelity downplay. I know several of them that sold their CDs! And this is just the people I talk to on a regular basis.
Except that uploads are also a concern, especially if the user is sending DDOS packets. And those, sir, are a real and present danger on the Internet of today.
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I'm holding out for a version of NewtonOS that runs under version 3.0 of AmigaOS running under emulation on my Atari ST.
The way I ride my bike, I'm usually at least twice the speed limit on back roads where the corners count.
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Ugh. It'd make me have to take up... cruiser motorcycling or something.
I have approximately 20 machines using 2.6 since last fall and with the exception of one (an AMD-64 box), they have all been exemplary. That machine became stable with 2.6.6 though its BIOS seems flakey (hardware problems.. ugh)
In particular, my HT machines seem to perform very well with 2.6.3 and up.
I'm seeing things... three at a time :(
Wrong! The thing is, QT is a more mature development environment and KDE's Kparts makes plugging in major functionality easy (want HTML?), even including RAD environments.
Well, lest we forget: Abiword started before the KDE project was really rolling, as did Staroffice (the precurser to Openoffice, in context). The Gimp was *the reason for* the GTK+ and Glib libraries that Gnome is based on, so of course it would be built in that environ!
Gaim is great, but Kopete is going to be quite good (I use Kopete myself) and quite frankly Kopete is nearing Gaim's polish level.
As for KOffice, try it some time - it will do most of what you would want to do with an office... who cares if it's "the best" if it does what you want. Frankly I find it so much faster and more convenient than OpenOffice that I rarely use OpenOffice now. YMMV.
Especially since it's very true. I have nothing against Gnome as a user, but as a developer? Oof.
It helps when you have a good and simple programming environment. QT is so much easier to code in than GTK/GTK+/Glib/Bonobo that it isn't funny. Not to mention KParts.
The caps are still there. They are simply hidden now. If you go over their unstated caps, you will feel the sting.
Quanta is simply bloomin' awesome right now. NO NEED for some half-baked piece of crap that has less features than it has. Which will be just about anything.
They should throw those developers at making Quanta better instead - it doesn't need much more to start making waves.
It's funny watching the people who like the cost of IDE trying to make as if this test is totally innacurate.
Well, what if YOUR mail client was taking 7 minutes to go through your mail folder every time? Eh? Not sounding so good now, huh?
My god. Client-Server is dying? WTF drugs are they on? I'd like to be able to ignore reality to that level of depth, too.
Why would they put 2nd-rate (or in this case, third-rate) video in a machine like this?!?
Not to mention the unbelievable time-sucking vampire that is ICQ, IRC, AIM, etc.
Not much more to add to my subject.
I bet you could sell these things like hotcakes for LAN parties. Seriously.
They already did with their business DSL. It was right on their pricing page, but now it's been whisked away to a less offensive place where the point of sale can't be hurt.
Go through their terms and conditions. It's there, or it was yesterday anyways.
Yeah, you have to love technicians that are basically trying to get you off the phone as fast as possible, period. But they ARE moving towards being able to track the hogs. I guarantee that.
One broadband bandwidth hog uses more in one day than a dialup user will use in a six months or more. And that's goddamned expensive.
Somone's paying for that bandwidth. The whole idea of selling Internet service is to make back what you spend and more, by selling what you have for more than you pay for it. The current model is flawed and ripe for failure.
An AWEFUL lot of people find that their web browsing is more than acceptable in speed even while they're downloading files like mad at the rate of 5GB/day or better.
I know people using 20GB/day because they have strung their own CAT5 between houses and they hide behind a NAT router. So before noon on day one, they've already used up their break even point in cash.
And what do they do with all that bandwidth? Store Simpsons/King of the Hill/Star Trek/etc. episodes, Warez like mad but never play the games more than a few minutes, and discard 1/3 or more of the MP3s they steal because they're just looking for whatever sticks to the wall. And oddly enough, they never seem to lose their appetite for any of this.
So basically, you're an unrepentant criminal of intellectual property. I suppose you'd say "so what it's illegal, everyone is doing it!", right?
:/
What if everyone was a pedophile? Hell, according to my spam mails, everyone might be.
You do know that stealing intellectual property is theft, right? Imagine you were an artist that slaved for your music for years - maybe putting in more time and effort than a doctor would for his degree... and then a bunch of kids with broadband give it all away for free, and you have to go look for a new career.
Happening? Yes. I believe it is. I know that almost all the people I know are cutting CDs from MP3s now and putting up with the fidelity downplay. I know several of them that sold their CDs! And this is just the people I talk to on a regular basis.
So, don't cry about your Napsterizing.
Goddamned right. Well said.
Except that uploads are also a concern, especially if the user is sending DDOS packets. And those, sir, are a real and present danger on the Internet of today.
You think $80 will be "unlimited" use? Think again. Not at $3/GB or more in cost, it won't be.
I love guys like this. "Yeah, I use $1000 a month worth of bandwidth, but I should be able to because I can."
And your car will probably do at least 120mph. Most cars will this day. Try to cross the country at that speed. I dare ya.