That was my first thought. I quit using Zone Alarm before I jumped ship to Windows due to it *REALLY* borking windows until it was removed. Frankly, when the window's stock firewall kicks your ass, you're done.
So is there a GOOD debian based KDE distro then? It seems that the linux world is slowly shifting towards a Gnome/Debian and KDE/RPM dynamic.
I use Kubuntu (poor masochist I am) and I like KDE as a baseline but usually add in a lot of the big Gnome projects (Pidgin, Thunderbird) from the repos along with K3B, Amarok & Dolphin. I am comfortable with the Debian command line tools as well, hence the reason I am looking for this odd beast.
What worries me is that from the sounds of it that there is so much wrong that they will miss their deadline of the october launch if they do it right and address the show stoppers before release (Ubuntu-itis perhaps?) If they make the deadline and it sucks it will fail. If they miss the deadline by a couple months or more, the hype will be gone and Diaspora will be tossed aside.
I honestly hope they succeed. I use facebook and I like it, however the endless amount of drivel I see (and have to ignore) plus all the security changes and stuff means the clock is ticking on the site before the mass exodus begins. I have high hopes for Diaspora because it's open source and not centralized, and I hope it hits before the next awesome social networking site pops up and takes the glory.
One big problem: It will not work on Windows XP. So, forget the performance and security boost, many enterprises and netbook users.
How is this a bad thing for us enterprise users? We'll get Opera/Chrome/Firefox that much faster! (I prefer Opera, but ANY of those three are a step up from Internet Explorer.
I agree and actually use Rotten Tomatoes to find out if a movie is worth seeing or even downloading. There is a particular movie reviewer locally which has tastes almost 100% opposite of mine. if she hated a movie I loved it, and vice versa.
That being said, I was trying to make a joke with respect to the EFF's warnings in the past regarding facebook.
It is, but you have to understand King's Dark Tower series is his Magnum Opus, and half of his books are integrated into the Dark Tower mythos in some way. Buick Eight, Eye of the Dragon, The Stand, Hearts in Atlantis, Salem's Lot and a bunch more are intertwined. It's pretty incredible.
Like I said in a post further down, it's good until book six, then does a left turn at Albuquerque. Still good, and you'll want to finish it, but does not live up to the hype. I think King pushed making the key and it didn't come out right.
Stephen King has said Clint Eastwood's 'Man with No Name' was his model for Roland Deschain. Obviously unless they do some insane CGI that's not going to happen. My guess would be a little known actor would be the best pick for the role.
Excited to finally get to see it on the big screen to see my imagination come to life. Terrified they will destroy it so badly that I will sulk away in horror.
Personally I thought it started coming off the rails in book six and book seven basically threw away the build of the first four books plus how much backfill from The Stand, Salem's Lot and Eye of the Dragon.
Agreed. I myself have loved cooking for a long time and in the past few years (with owning a home which has a decent sized kitchen and enough spending money to buy some real tools) I have really upped the variety of recipies and the different techniques I use. I have really started to learn the concepts *BEHIND* the meals, instead of 'Add eggs to milk and flour' which is basically what a cookbook does. In fact, my plan this winter is to design and assemble a smoker due to my BBQ not having enough capacity when I have a gathering and need to cook both ribs/roasts/fish/etc and some quick burgers and hotdogs.
I like the concept of Clementine, however some of the stuff they've had to add to graft Amarok 1.4 onto QT4 really makes me scratch my head. As well, I found it didn't have enough stuff working to be useful for me.
That being said, Amarok 2.3.1 (I think - whichever is on Kubuntu 10.10) is an animal. It runs as fast as Pana did on Ubuntu minimal + LXDE, with the only system tweak being that I turned off Nepomuk (the desktop search).
Can't they have a iTunes "lite" that only connects your iPad/Pod, organizes your music, and that's it?
I know there are a number of music players out there that do that job pretty well. My favorite is still Pana (Amarok 1.4.x plus bug fixes and upgrades), although it looks like they have stopped development on it.
It won best picture over Avatar, although after watching them I felt the story was lacking in both. Avatar was Fern Gully set on another planet and Hurt Locker just didn't really progress characters anywhere and had a complete lack of a meaningful conclusion.
That being said, I find it hard to take many Oscar wins seriously after 'Shakespeare in Love' beat out 'Elizabeth' (as well as 'Saving Private Ryan', 'The Thin Red Line' and 'Life Is Beautiful' although I have not seen those last three movies to comment on their quality).
Honestly, I think an E-mail client with this type of functionality, an address book which works as well as Outlook's and the ability to handle POP & IMAP the same way would be the cat's ass.
Of course, I think Thunderbird 2 was the best E-mail client I ever had, so YMMV
I think this is a good thing for everyone. Hear me out, I'm not an idiot, or at least I'm trying not to be!
Solaris, unlike the other big two open source operating systems - Linux & BSD - has always had the problem of the double edged sword because it always had to serve Sun, which in turn supported it. Now with Oracle punting Solaris to the curb, the community can really see what it's made of. Whether Solaris is an also-ran or if the community can really go full tilt and go in directions that it couldn't because of it's omnipresent master is entirely up to the people who support it. The future is bright for smaller form factors, as well as servers (again) so now it's time to see if they are big time players or another name to the pile of failed OSes.
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Ubuntu Linux is NOT an OS. It is a Distribution.
So what the hell is Windows and OSX?
That was my first thought. I quit using Zone Alarm before I jumped ship to Windows due to it *REALLY* borking windows until it was removed. Frankly, when the window's stock firewall kicks your ass, you're done.
So is there a GOOD debian based KDE distro then? It seems that the linux world is slowly shifting towards a Gnome/Debian and KDE/RPM dynamic.
I use Kubuntu (poor masochist I am) and I like KDE as a baseline but usually add in a lot of the big Gnome projects (Pidgin, Thunderbird) from the repos along with K3B, Amarok & Dolphin. I am comfortable with the Debian command line tools as well, hence the reason I am looking for this odd beast.
sounds like a plan to me, burning record stores, MPAA/RIAA executives crusified or burned at the stake.. where do i sign up?
I LOVE this is modded 'Insightful'.
What worries me is that from the sounds of it that there is so much wrong that they will miss their deadline of the october launch if they do it right and address the show stoppers before release (Ubuntu-itis perhaps?) If they make the deadline and it sucks it will fail. If they miss the deadline by a couple months or more, the hype will be gone and Diaspora will be tossed aside.
I honestly hope they succeed. I use facebook and I like it, however the endless amount of drivel I see (and have to ignore) plus all the security changes and stuff means the clock is ticking on the site before the mass exodus begins. I have high hopes for Diaspora because it's open source and not centralized, and I hope it hits before the next awesome social networking site pops up and takes the glory.
Thanks for pointing out Dell & Archos - the 43 looks pretty much perfect for what I want to do with it. Guess what's going on my Xmas list!
One big problem: It will not work on Windows XP. So, forget the performance and security boost, many enterprises and netbook users.
How is this a bad thing for us enterprise users? We'll get Opera/Chrome/Firefox that much faster! (I prefer Opera, but ANY of those three are a step up from Internet Explorer.
Dude, if you ever find an iPod touch-style mp3 player which runs Android - drop me a line. I seriously want one.
I agree and actually use Rotten Tomatoes to find out if a movie is worth seeing or even downloading. There is a particular movie reviewer locally which has tastes almost 100% opposite of mine. if she hated a movie I loved it, and vice versa.
That being said, I was trying to make a joke with respect to the EFF's warnings in the past regarding facebook.
If they hate it, it means it will be loved by many and have millions of users.
Maybe not a good gunslinger but Johnny playing it straight in the role of Randall Flagg would be pretty awesome.
Clint as Cort would be awesome, but I think a better tip of the hat would be to have him as the farmer Roland meets first in the very first book.
Like I said in a post further down, it's good until book six, then does a left turn at Albuquerque. Still good, and you'll want to finish it, but does not live up to the hype. I think King pushed making the key and it didn't come out right.
Stephen King has said Clint Eastwood's 'Man with No Name' was his model for Roland Deschain. Obviously unless they do some insane CGI that's not going to happen. My guess would be a little known actor would be the best pick for the role.
Excited to finally get to see it on the big screen to see my imagination come to life. Terrified they will destroy it so badly that I will sulk away in horror.
Personally I thought it started coming off the rails in book six and book seven basically threw away the build of the first four books plus how much backfill from The Stand, Salem's Lot and Eye of the Dragon.
You sir, need mod points. It took me over a quarter century to figure that out.
Between you and my bosses discussing the pros and cons of salmon and steak in my cubicle earlier, I'm HUNGRY!
And I agree - a scant few talents makes you more appealing to the opposite sex then being able to throw down like Morimoto in the kitchen.
Agreed. I myself have loved cooking for a long time and in the past few years (with owning a home which has a decent sized kitchen and enough spending money to buy some real tools) I have really upped the variety of recipies and the different techniques I use. I have really started to learn the concepts *BEHIND* the meals, instead of 'Add eggs to milk and flour' which is basically what a cookbook does. In fact, my plan this winter is to design and assemble a smoker due to my BBQ not having enough capacity when I have a gathering and need to cook both ribs/roasts/fish/etc and some quick burgers and hotdogs.
I like the concept of Clementine, however some of the stuff they've had to add to graft Amarok 1.4 onto QT4 really makes me scratch my head. As well, I found it didn't have enough stuff working to be useful for me.
That being said, Amarok 2.3.1 (I think - whichever is on Kubuntu 10.10) is an animal. It runs as fast as Pana did on Ubuntu minimal + LXDE, with the only system tweak being that I turned off Nepomuk (the desktop search).
Can't they have a iTunes "lite" that only connects your iPad/Pod, organizes your music, and that's it?
I know there are a number of music players out there that do that job pretty well. My favorite is still Pana (Amarok 1.4.x plus bug fixes and upgrades), although it looks like they have stopped development on it.
It won best picture over Avatar, although after watching them I felt the story was lacking in both. Avatar was Fern Gully set on another planet and Hurt Locker just didn't really progress characters anywhere and had a complete lack of a meaningful conclusion.
That being said, I find it hard to take many Oscar wins seriously after 'Shakespeare in Love' beat out 'Elizabeth' (as well as 'Saving Private Ryan', 'The Thin Red Line' and 'Life Is Beautiful' although I have not seen those last three movies to comment on their quality).
Honestly, I think an E-mail client with this type of functionality, an address book which works as well as Outlook's and the ability to handle POP & IMAP the same way would be the cat's ass.
Of course, I think Thunderbird 2 was the best E-mail client I ever had, so YMMV
Bubba shot server last night .45
Said it gave him an error message and made him cry
Went to his truck and got a
Bubba shot the server last night
I switched to from Navigator to IE on IE4, then jumped ship at IE6 to Opera. Played with others since, but always came back.
I think this is a good thing for everyone. Hear me out, I'm not an idiot, or at least I'm trying not to be!
Solaris, unlike the other big two open source operating systems - Linux & BSD - has always had the problem of the double edged sword because it always had to serve Sun, which in turn supported it. Now with Oracle punting Solaris to the curb, the community can really see what it's made of. Whether Solaris is an also-ran or if the community can really go full tilt and go in directions that it couldn't because of it's omnipresent master is entirely up to the people who support it. The future is bright for smaller form factors, as well as servers (again) so now it's time to see if they are big time players or another name to the pile of failed OSes.
I wish them well.