There'd need to an x86 IRIX first, and that would take some time and money to develop. And giving it away free simply to promote it doesn't really sound like a good strategy for SGI. If I remember correctly, SGI is facing hard times these days during the slump of the tech sector. Hollywood's growing usage of Linux clusters for rendering isn't helping either.
SGI machines are simply too expensive to be a commodity machine, and anyone who buys one already has some application or requirement that made the purchase necessary (not simply because he thought it was sort of fun to play with the free x86 version).
I dunno about you, but the default XP theme is visually asthetic to use. Easy to read, easy to distinguish icons/visual alerts and "simple".
Well, to each his own. I do think putting all the primary colors on the screen was a bad idea though (blue background, green start bar, red buttons). I prefer shades of grey (as in win98) as the main color of all the window elements. It's not as intrusive as bright blue.
I tried out Null when it was released, and it does feel XP-ish, only without the horrid default color scheme of XP;)
Ximian Evolution has been out for quite a while, and it's included in most major distros, not just RH. I use Evolution (came with Slack 8.1) for my daily email.
Other GTK+ application can't see them either, eg. gedit, while other can (eg. Gnome2 Terminal). This is an incosintency issue and, in my opinion, it should be fixed.
Looks like she is on par with CmdrTaco as far as grammer and spelling is concerned. Yup, that's a quality review alright.
Not to mention the millions of chipset names. In Windows, you choose the name of your card, and it figures out the chipset (that's in the worst case; usually it just auto-detects it in the first place)
Unless autodetect fails, and you don't know the name of the card (if you bought a pre-assembled computer), you still have to open it up and see the chipset.
In Linux, you have to figure out who made the chipset on your card, which often isn't labeled on the box or in the manual, so requires some guessing or googling
The chipset is usually labelled on the chip. Duh.
Personally I like the Linux way. The chipset is what drives the hardware, no matter who manufactured the card itself. And you have to remember, it's rare to find hardware vendors that distribute drivers for Linux.
Yawn. I'll bet there'll be lots of comments on how this is the prototypical example of good technology outdone by better marketing, and an example of a company being stupidly obstinate about wanting to own a system, and shooting themselves in the foot.
While I'm busy doing my job with Windows, Slashdot is posting minor updates to the Linux kernel. I think it's silly.
You don't have to read about Linux if you don't want to you know. There are a lot of Linux fans here who love to hear about new kernel releases and talk about it. This is slashdot. This site wasn't meant to cater to Windows fans. That's just how it is. If you want to read about Windows updates, you're looking in the wrong place.
Actually I had a friend make a little guillotine for lego people. I remember we had a real good time playing with it...:)
I like Slackware's .tgz
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Is RPM Doomed?
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No depency checking, but it also means that you don't have the problem of circular dependecies and the like. Plus you can open it with tar and gzip. Linux Packages is a great place to look for pre-built Slack packages.
I used to use RPM, but now that I've converted to Slack, I don't miss it one bit.
Meanwhile, deep in the heart of Redmond, Cheif Software Architect Gates addresses his staff.
"As my first act as Software Architect, I will create a grand army to counter the increasing threat of the Open Source seperatists"
War ensues...
Here's a better idea...
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Why not just connect everyone to a virtual environment (like the Matrix) at an early age where all the rules are controlled by the powers-that-be.... no unauthorized eating, drinking, listening to music... it's the perfect control-freak's dream. If anyone breaks the law by humming a piece of copyrighted work, agents break down your door and kill you.
A "trie" is not an algorithm, it's a data structure. It is a form of radix search tree that stores search keys in the external nodes of a tree. It was called "trie" because it's useful for re-trie-val:)
This website is gonna get slashdotted really quick
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...as thousands of geeks who didn't get a chance to go to E3 are just dying to see the babe shots^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnew games and stuff.
This is the release I've been waiting for. I've tried Redhat, I've tried Mandrake, but I fell in love with Slackware. The Sys V init on the redhat-ish distros annoy me... I really love Slack's BSD style init (and it supports Sys V style too if required!). It's much easier to edit.
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I don't which is funnier, the parent post or the fact that there are 11 replies beneath my current threshold.
Parallel parking that thing is gonna be a bitch. :)
There'd need to an x86 IRIX first, and that would take some time and money to develop. And giving it away free simply to promote it doesn't really sound like a good strategy for SGI. If I remember correctly, SGI is facing hard times these days during the slump of the tech sector. Hollywood's growing usage of Linux clusters for rendering isn't helping either.
SGI machines are simply too expensive to be a commodity machine, and anyone who buys one already has some application or requirement that made the purchase necessary (not simply because he thought it was sort of fun to play with the free x86 version).
I dunno about you, but the default XP theme is visually asthetic to use. Easy to read, easy to distinguish icons/visual alerts and "simple".
Well, to each his own. I do think putting all the primary colors on the screen was a bad idea though (blue background, green start bar, red buttons). I prefer shades of grey (as in win98) as the main color of all the window elements. It's not as intrusive as bright blue.
And it's still not done downloading the first CD.
I tried out Null when it was released, and it does feel XP-ish, only without the horrid default color scheme of XP ;)
Ximian Evolution has been out for quite a while, and it's included in most major distros, not just RH. I use Evolution (came with Slack 8.1) for my daily email.
Even funnier is that nobody knows how to use the word "too" correctly on the internet.
Then why does everyone keep bashing slashdot about it then? BTW, you missed the "too".
[X] Easy support for video files and DVD - Xine works for me like a charm :)
It wouldn't be slashdot if I spelt it correctly now would it? I do know how too spell grammar... duh :)
Other GTK+ application can't see them either, eg. gedit, while other can (eg. Gnome2 Terminal). This is an incosintency issue and, in my opinion, it should be fixed.
Looks like she is on par with CmdrTaco as far as grammer and spelling is concerned. Yup, that's a quality review alright.Not to mention the millions of chipset names. In Windows, you choose the name of your card, and it figures out the chipset (that's in the worst case; usually it just auto-detects it in the first place)
Unless autodetect fails, and you don't know the name of the card (if you bought a pre-assembled computer), you still have to open it up and see the chipset.
In Linux, you have to figure out who made the chipset on your card, which often isn't labeled on the box or in the manual, so requires some guessing or googling
The chipset is usually labelled on the chip. Duh.
Personally I like the Linux way. The chipset is what drives the hardware, no matter who manufactured the card itself. And you have to remember, it's rare to find hardware vendors that distribute drivers for Linux.
Yawn. I'll bet there'll be lots of comments on how this is the prototypical example of good technology outdone by better marketing, and an example of a company being stupidly obstinate about wanting to own a system, and shooting themselves in the foot.
Oh wait...
I've tried it just now and Galeon seems to work fine, although it does give a severe-sounding warning.
Will installing this break Galeon?
Mystique should have had a costume.
I beg to differ. I'm sure most guys here would agree with me.While I'm busy doing my job with Windows, Slashdot is posting minor updates to the Linux kernel. I think it's silly.
You don't have to read about Linux if you don't want to you know. There are a lot of Linux fans here who love to hear about new kernel releases and talk about it. This is slashdot. This site wasn't meant to cater to Windows fans. That's just how it is. If you want to read about Windows updates, you're looking in the wrong place.
What, again?
:)
How many times has Linux died this year? I've lost count
Actually I had a friend make a little guillotine for lego people. I remember we had a real good time playing with it... :)
No depency checking, but it also means that you don't have the problem of circular dependecies and the like. Plus you can open it with tar and gzip. Linux Packages is a great place to look for pre-built Slack packages.
I used to use RPM, but now that I've converted to Slack, I don't miss it one bit.
Wow, I didn't know that Mozilla had a DOS version! How many users does it have? Three?
"As my first act as Software Architect, I will create a grand army to counter the increasing threat of the Open Source seperatists"
War ensues...Why not just connect everyone to a virtual environment (like the Matrix) at an early age where all the rules are controlled by the powers-that-be.... no unauthorized eating, drinking, listening to music... it's the perfect control-freak's dream. If anyone breaks the law by humming a piece of copyrighted work, agents break down your door and kill you.
A "trie" is not an algorithm, it's a data structure. It is a form of radix search tree that stores search keys in the external nodes of a tree. It was called "trie" because it's useful for re-trie-val :)
...as thousands of geeks who didn't get a chance to go to E3 are just dying to see the babe shots^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnew games and stuff.
This is the release I've been waiting for. I've tried Redhat, I've tried Mandrake, but I fell in love with Slackware. The Sys V init on the redhat-ish distros annoy me... I really love Slack's BSD style init (and it supports Sys V style too if required!). It's much easier to edit.
Hooray for Patrick and gang! A job well done.