As per Apple.mac customers being able to override AOL subscribers with the same usernames, it is quite impressive. When AOL took over Netscape my netscape.net account stopped working because someone has the same login on AOL - damn.
Ex Apple user (OS X on G3 - painful! Where's my DivX:p) being tempted by Jaguar... now, if someone would kindly donate $3000 to my funds... hmm..
The trend over the past few months is of a cooling of the Apple-Microsoft relationship - when I bought my iBook in January the default web page is set to a Netscape-run portal.
Then there is Microsoft's attack on what it claims is Apple's lacklustre promotion of OS X.
Considering that the chance of MSN Messenger on Mac ever having the same level of functionality as Windows Messenger on XP - which is not even available for other versions of Windows, much like their latest Media Player, the deal with Apple makes much sense; especially considering the number of people who bought Apple to avoid Microsoft products.
Very well put. I for one will rather miss LWN, especially the times when I need a quick, but thorough, summary of what's been going on in the past week.
Alas, well-written high-brow journalism everywhere tends to occupy a niche - even in the world of newspapers. When was the last time a broadsheet outsell a tabloid?
1. All code contain bugs 2. All code can be made at least 1 line shorter... Thus one can deduce that you can have a one-line program that is still buggy!:p Michel
... or car prototypes. Surely part of the intention is also to showcase new ideas and see whether they take off?
Personally I would not say Bluetooth is useless. The reason it took such a long time to take off has more to do with working out the radio frequency spectrum than anything else.
>Anyone can use OS X, but your average day user >cannot vi XF86Config and fix their settings.
You are comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). If you buy a PC with Linux-supported hardware and Linux pre-installed, it works just as well and just as easily as OSX.
And with a recent distribution release (SuSE and the new Red Hat beta, for example), even (re)configuring X is a breeze..
... is exactly that: a port of the Atheos application server to the Linux kernel, with source compatibility planned for BeOS (partially working) and Carbon. Though I'd probably stick with the Gnome 2 as far as programming goes for now.
Just noticed today that it has been accessible for download from its website for a while now. Going to take it for a spin tonight...
Participating in the public betas of Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 was a real demoralising experience. Having betas coming off within 10 days of each other, with no Bugzilla to keep track of bugs (well they have one but nobody ever bother to use it).
The quality of discussions on mailing lists is also very different. I find SuSE and Red Hat posters to be on average much more experienced and less prone to flame wars (plus better sense of humour).
At the end of the day, Red Hat releases are predictable in timing, in binary compatibility (same compiler used until release number changed), and the software bundle is even more up-to-date sometimes (KDE 3).
I liked the Mandrake Control Center in 7.2 but Mandrake 8.x just felt completely unintegrated. The increase in number of packages is partly artificial as well - they adopted Debian's separation of packages into libx, libx-devel and x. About the only packages shipped with Mandrake that I cannot get from Ximian, FreshRPMS (freshrpms.net) or their own website are things like nethack-falconseye.
Updates are available via FTP servers for free, and through their Red Hat Network channels it's free for the end user (1 free token per user account).
So what you're paying for is to be able to manage all your computers through one interface. SuSE's YOU last time I tried it (7.3) works like Ximian's Red Carpet, or Microsoft's Windows Update, in that all the work is done on the client's side.
GARNOME has not been updated for the beta 2 release, but you can download the latest GARNOME (0.7.5) for the 20020225 snapshot and manually change the version info for the latest packages and their checksums, and then it will work just as normal:)
... instead of hitting the power button, from the console just use the TLA ctrl-alt-delete, the default setting in Linux is to trap this and perform 'shutdown -r now'; otherwise edit your/etc/inittab.
... beware, my new iBook and the new TiBook both has a USB softmodem from Conexant. Ended up having to buy a serial-to-USB adapter so I could reuse my trusty serial modem...
Screen is brilliant though:) Even mirroring works - I just have to pin down a refresh rate that can work on both my 12.1" internal and 15" external LCD.
Running Debian Woody - install's a bit dodgy on the snapshot CD I tried but after that it worked like a charm.
It's that he doesn't have time to keep maintaining this. Unless his users manage to donate £3000 a month, or however much he is going to get from a full-time job:p
Going to have a look, if it works on PPC hardware I'll give it a spin:)
I had this application form for a job sent to me in MS Word 2000 format and the person who designed the template obviously could not resist the temptation; the document crashed StarOffice beta (did not have OpenOffice on hand at that time) and only partially opened on KWord.
So I bit the bullet, used MSWordViewer under CrossOver and found out... that it could not even Copy-n-Paste the whole document. Bummer. Had to use someone else's computer to open it.
And what causes this? Oh, the document had.. believe it or not.. radio buttons, and drop-down lists. To select simple things like titles, etc. Even the columns for names are text boxes.
Quite sad that some companies seem hell-bent on using all available features just because they can. Now I understand why Office is said to be a viral software (must be why they don't like the GPL competition).
It's not true that they left ICQ alone. For a few months (starting from late September or early October 2001) it is impossible to talk reliably to official ICQ2001 users.
Only in late December with new ICQ clients such as ickle is this problem on Linux solved (on Windows and Mac you can use AOL/Mirabilis' official client).
Incidentally, running the Mac ICQ client now on my new iBook. I find it funny that Licq has already copied ICQ2000's history+message view, and Ickle as well, while MacICQ has not. Oh well, at least it has Text-to-Speech.
Those few who infiltrate will grow accustomed to the softness of the new lifestyle, and be unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to fight their cause.
That did not stop the perpetrators of September 11th, unfortunately.
(S)he is just stating the fact - the Palestinians were celebrating on the streets upon hearing the news.
Not that they are necessarily involved in the attack, but sadly the decades of conflict might have made some people desperate for any way to strike back.
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As per Apple .mac customers being able to override AOL subscribers with the same usernames, it is quite impressive. When AOL took over Netscape my netscape.net account stopped working because someone has the same login on AOL - damn.
Ex Apple user (OS X on G3 - painful! Where's my DivX :p) being tempted by Jaguar... now, if someone would kindly donate $3000 to my funds... hmm..
Then there is Microsoft's attack on what it claims is Apple's lacklustre promotion of OS X.
Considering that the chance of MSN Messenger on Mac ever having the same level of functionality as Windows Messenger on XP - which is not even available for other versions of Windows, much like their latest Media Player, the deal with Apple makes much sense; especially considering the number of people who bought Apple to avoid Microsoft products.
My twopence,
Michel
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Very well put. I for one will rather miss LWN, especially the times when I need a quick, but thorough, summary of what's been going on in the past week.
Alas, well-written high-brow journalism everywhere tends to occupy a niche - even in the world of newspapers. When was the last time a broadsheet outsell a tabloid?
In silencio,
Michel
1. All code contain bugs ... Thus one can deduce that you can have a one-line program that is still buggy! :p Michel
2. All code can be made at least 1 line shorter
But they *are* claiming to be one (Unix company), so it does make sense that they follow a similar versioning scheme?
Granted, their versioning makes sense even in the past...
Michel
... or car prototypes. Surely part of the intention is also to showcase new ideas and see whether they take off?
Personally I would not say Bluetooth is useless. The reason it took such a long time to take off has more to do with working out the radio frequency spectrum than anything else.
My twopence,
Michel
>cannot vi XF86Config and fix their settings.
You are comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). If you buy a PC with Linux-supported hardware and Linux pre-installed, it works just as well and just as easily as OSX.
And with a recent distribution release (SuSE and the new Red Hat beta, for example), even (re)configuring X is a breeze..
My twopence,
Michel
Just noticed today that it has been accessible for download from its website for a while now. Going to take it for a spin tonight...
Regards,
Michel
Participating in the public betas of Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 was a real demoralising experience. Having betas coming off within 10 days of each other, with no Bugzilla to keep track of bugs (well they have one but nobody ever bother to use it).
The quality of discussions on mailing lists is also very different. I find SuSE and Red Hat posters to be on average much more experienced and less prone to flame wars (plus better sense of humour).
At the end of the day, Red Hat releases are predictable in timing, in binary compatibility (same compiler used until release number changed), and the software bundle is even more up-to-date sometimes (KDE 3).
I liked the Mandrake Control Center in 7.2 but Mandrake 8.x just felt completely unintegrated. The increase in number of packages is partly artificial as well - they adopted Debian's separation of packages into libx, libx-devel and x. About the only packages shipped with Mandrake that I cannot get from Ximian, FreshRPMS (freshrpms.net) or their own website are things like nethack-falconseye.
My twopence,
Michel
Updates are available via FTP servers for free, and through their Red Hat Network channels it's free for the end user (1 free token per user account).
So what you're paying for is to be able to manage all your computers through one interface. SuSE's YOU last time I tried it (7.3) works like Ximian's Red Carpet, or Microsoft's Windows Update, in that all the work is done on the client's side.
Michel
Python is the scripting language for ROX apps - there's even a video player (using SDL) but ROX Filer itself is written in C.
It's real nice but ATPM if you run the development version with gtk >= 2.0.1 icons look a bit jagged, not too sure why..
Michel
err, rpm --rebuild x.src.rpm ?
*ducks*
to enable AA, just export GDK_USE_XFT=1 (or setenv GDK_USE_XFT 1).. works for me :)
Michel
ps It is still a bit slow though, but since I compiled with debugging enabled I did not thought further about it...
GARNOME has not been updated for the beta 2 release, but you can download the latest GARNOME (0.7.5) for the 20020225 snapshot and manually change the version info for the latest packages and their checksums, and then it will work just as normal :)
HTH,
Michel Salim
... instead of hitting the power button, from the console just use the TLA ctrl-alt-delete, the default setting in Linux is to trap this and perform 'shutdown -r now'; otherwise edit your /etc/inittab.
:)
HTH
Michel
... beware, my new iBook and the new TiBook both has a USB softmodem from Conexant. Ended up having to buy a serial-to-USB adapter so I could reuse my trusty serial modem...
:) Even mirroring works - I just have to pin down a refresh rate that can work on both my 12.1" internal and 15" external LCD.
Screen is brilliant though
Running Debian Woody - install's a bit dodgy on the snapshot CD I tried but after that it worked like a charm.
Michel
Going to have a look, if it works on PPC hardware I'll give it a spin :)
Michel
Interesting, thanks! Will check it out... no, I had to use Word 2000 to open it since I actually had to return the document, filled-in, to them :(
I had this application form for a job sent to me in MS Word 2000 format and the person who designed the template obviously could not resist the temptation; the document crashed StarOffice beta (did not have OpenOffice on hand at that time) and only partially opened on KWord.
So I bit the bullet, used MSWordViewer under CrossOver and found out... that it could not even Copy-n-Paste the whole document. Bummer. Had to use someone else's computer to open it.
And what causes this? Oh, the document had.. believe it or not.. radio buttons, and drop-down lists. To select simple things like titles, etc. Even the columns for names are text boxes.
Quite sad that some companies seem hell-bent on using all available features just because they can. Now I understand why Office is said to be a viral software (must be why they don't like the GPL competition).
Michel
... they include an auto-update notification. Would be handy..
Michel
It's not true that they left ICQ alone. For a few months (starting from late September or early October 2001) it is impossible to talk reliably to official ICQ2001 users.
Only in late December with new ICQ clients such as ickle is this problem on Linux solved (on Windows and Mac you can use AOL/Mirabilis' official client).
Incidentally, running the Mac ICQ client now on my new iBook. I find it funny that Licq has already copied ICQ2000's history+message view, and Ickle as well, while MacICQ has not. Oh well, at least it has Text-to-Speech.
Michel
kde.version = gnome.version * 1.5
:)
That did not stop the perpetrators of September 11th, unfortunately.
Michel
... on my Palm 3?
:p
Michel
Not that they are necessarily involved in the attack, but sadly the decades of conflict might have made some people desperate for any way to strike back.
Michel