If you want to use Linux, don't plan to develop for it in a Windows-bound way, and don't expect Linux developers to support Windows infrastructure on their system. Mono is Miguel's pet project, and no one outside Novell and Microsoft cares about it.
Mono has little to do with a "Windows infrastructure". Standard Mono installs on Linux contain the ECMA C# runtime and libraries, plus Gtk# and a lot of other FOSS libraries..NET applications don't run on Mono out of the box.
If you want to run.NET apps, you need to install the.NET libraries for Mono. I can't think of any Mono desktop app on Linux that actually uses those.
"I am a computer software engineer, focused mainly on the Windows platform -- but most of my development time is spent in.NET. I would like to move my.NET development to Linux in the form of Mono, in an attempt at building a media-center type of device. All I require, is a base operating system with simple hardware support, Mono, and a window manager that (preferably) does nothing but act as a host for mono applications. Is this available?
Mono is not.NET. Mono is C# with a large number of bindings to FOSS, including Gtk+ and Gnome. So, that means you need a fairly complete complement of all the C libraries. If you want.NET on Linux, you need all of that, plus the.NET compatibility libraries; those are not usually installed. In addition to that, Linux needs its package management, installation, upgrade, system maintenance, indexing, and other tools. Those mean that you have to have a POSIX environment and a reasonable complement of C and C++ libraries.
So, basically, what you want is one of the basic Gnome or XFCE distributions, with the additional.NET compatibility packages installed. Ubuntu and Xubuntu are good choices.
Everybody occasionally dreams of getting rid of all the "old stuff" and just replacing it with something "modern" written entirely in the language-du-jour. But there are several reasons against that: (1) the old stuff works well enough, (2) it's not clear that you can do better, and (3) the old stuff has proven that it has staying power; C# may be gone in three years and you have to start from scratch.
I would also recommend against programming in.NET on Linux; use Gtk# and C# bindings of the Linux native libraries instead. Monodevelop should make it pretty easy to get started, and Gtk# is a reasonable and easy-to-learn toolkit.
There are already plenty of small, low-cost motherboards around. But who wants to bother with them? And other companies just aren't picking them up enough.
...It'll come in windows and linux flavours, but the linux one will have half the ram and hdd capacity as the windows version and cost a twice as much due to 'lesser availability'.
Actually, for the announced configurations, the Eee 900 with Linux will have 20G flash (instead of 12G) and be slightly more expensive as a result. A fair tradeoff.
For the HP 2133, the Linux versions are consistently cheaper than the equivalent Windows versions.
So, direct your anger elsewhere. These mini laptops have been good for Linux.
Just wanted to clarify why he's being deported. The brits' reaction to the downloading of the document was a bit extreme, but if ya want to live in a country then ya gotta play by their(sometimes idiotic) rules
But there is something fundamentally wrong with the government if you're an academic and visiting a web site brings you to the attention of the immigration departmnet in the first place.
Yes, you can put cameras and sensors on buses. You can put them on taxis. On cars. On cell phones. On carrier pigeons. On dogs. On ferrets. On snails. Up your nose even.
Do we really need a story every time someone sticks a sensor in yet another place?
But if the fact that she's a dog is what prevents her from doing either of those two, doesn't that mean that those are discriminating against her genetically?
In short, no.
Non-discrimination means you don't discriminate based on membership in a group.
It's affirmative action that means you disregard other factors associated with membership in that group.
This is so typical: Bush is only looking out for his own best interests and the best interests of his cronies.
He just doesn't give a damn about the public's compelling interest to be protected from genetic outliers like him in positions like the commander in chief.
Instead of playing on the Xbox with his son, he should perhaps read him some fairy tales.
Many fairy tales emphasize the importance of not messing with things you don't understand and not taking other people's possessions.
(Here's another hint from the fairy tales: if the Xbox doesn't turn into a beautiful princess after the first kiss, stop kissing it. I don't know what it means, but it seemed relevant.)
Nolan Bushnell said that a new stealth encryption chip called TPM
Next thing you know, Bushnell will tell us that there is an evil conspiracy afoot to ship PCs without floppy disk drives! The man must surely have some highly placed sources!
The chip is apparently being embedded on most of the new computer motherboards and is said to be 'uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords'
That's the same sense of "uncrackable" in which the Titanic was "unsinkable" and in which Vista is "secure". And "Titanic" and "Vista" aptly summarizes what any company that's going to try to use TPM for software protection is going to create.
Vector coprocessors, array processors, and all that have been around for ages. Maybe they'll finally catch on. If they do, you can bet that the manufacturer making them will not be a graphics card manufacturer. In fact, by definition, they won't be a graphics card manufacturer, since they will be making co-processors for non-graphics applications.
But I don't think they will catch on. It makes little sense for people to stick extra cards into their machines for computation. Instead, you'll probably see something more like Cell, a combination of CPU plus vectorized coprocessors on a single chip, and if you plug multiple of them into the motherboard, you get the right mix of CPU and coprocessor performance.
How could I have been so stupid? I just forgot about enabling the "get multi-million dollar revenue stream for my open source project" option on Sourceforge.
Don't get me wrong, I use the Mozilla and Firefox products, but given the amount of money that has gone into Mozilla (and Apache), I think the results are actually not all that great.
So, you're saying that major religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, do not promote charity? Seriously, you need to do some minimal research, as it is a central theme throughout them.
Well, like many big organizations, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism like to talk about positive human traits, and like to create the impression that they promote it. But Christianity makes you more altruistic in the same sense that Coca Cola makes you slim and beautiful relative to your fellow men. In fact, the central theme of many people preaching Christianity and Islam is how you yourself will benefit.
Just the fact that the E90 can show you an 800 pixel wide web browser (basically the same browser as on the iPhone) makes the web browsing experience so much better, whereas with the iPhone you have to rely on gimmicks. The keyboard is great not just for ssh, but for all the other things people do with phones.
The E90 has GPS, 3.5G, and a 3 Mpixel camera. Google Maps on it uses the GPS, in addition to Nokia's own mapping and navigation application. It can record 640x480 MPEG4 video. It synchronizes over the air and isn't tied to any desktop (unless you want it to). You can run ShoZu, photoblogging, and talk/chat software for any service you like. It does geotagging for your photos. It supports stereo headphones. You can use the E90 as a high speed modem, or even configure it as a WiFi access point to share the 3.5G connection. It has an excellent audio and video player that supports many more formats than Apple. And there is tons more third party software.
Nokia's user interface is dull and ugly, but as a smart phone, the iPhone isn't even in the same league.
The fact that it was a cross has nothing to do with religion (at least, not directly) and everything to do with Switzerland.
Are you joking? Of course, it does. The cross in the Swiss flag represents the Christian cross, and the people who picked it in 1863 were fully aware of that. The fact that the Red Cross not only added the Red Crescent as a symbol, but also in 2007 added the non-religions Red Crystal, shows that this is widely recognized to this day.
Personally, I wish they would make the Red Crystal standard and get rid of the two other symbols; retaining religious symbols in aid organizations perpetuates the misconception that religions have something to do with altruism.
It has a full QWERTY keyboard and an 800x352 screen, plus WiFi and (if you're in Europe) 3G. It still folds up into a reasonably small size and looks like a normal phone. It also has tons of other software and features.
This is not so much an "advance", and more a demonstration that some image recognition problems can be solved with fairly simple, well known methods and a lot of data.
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If you want to use Linux, don't plan to develop for it in a Windows-bound way, and don't expect Linux developers to support Windows infrastructure on their system. Mono is Miguel's pet project, and no one outside Novell and Microsoft cares about it.
.NET applications don't run on Mono out of the box.
.NET apps, you need to install the .NET libraries for Mono. I can't think of any Mono desktop app on Linux that actually uses those.
Mono has little to do with a "Windows infrastructure". Standard Mono installs on Linux contain the ECMA C# runtime and libraries, plus Gtk# and a lot of other FOSS libraries.
If you want to run
"I am a computer software engineer, focused mainly on the Windows platform -- but most of my development time is spent in .NET. I would like to move my .NET development to Linux in the form of Mono, in an attempt at building a media-center type of device. All I require, is a base operating system with simple hardware support, Mono, and a window manager that (preferably) does nothing but act as a host for mono applications. Is this available?
.NET. Mono is C# with a large number of bindings to FOSS, including Gtk+ and Gnome. So, that means you need a fairly complete complement of all the C libraries. If you want .NET on Linux, you need all of that, plus the .NET compatibility libraries; those are not usually installed. In addition to that, Linux needs its package management, installation, upgrade, system maintenance, indexing, and other tools. Those mean that you have to have a POSIX environment and a reasonable complement of C and C++ libraries.
.NET compatibility packages installed. Ubuntu and Xubuntu are good choices.
.NET on Linux; use Gtk# and C# bindings of the Linux native libraries instead. Monodevelop should make it pretty easy to get started, and Gtk# is a reasonable and easy-to-learn toolkit.
Mono is not
So, basically, what you want is one of the basic Gnome or XFCE distributions, with the additional
Everybody occasionally dreams of getting rid of all the "old stuff" and just replacing it with something "modern" written entirely in the language-du-jour. But there are several reasons against that: (1) the old stuff works well enough, (2) it's not clear that you can do better, and (3) the old stuff has proven that it has staying power; C# may be gone in three years and you have to start from scratch.
I would also recommend against programming in
There are already plenty of small, low-cost motherboards around. But who wants to bother with them? And other companies just aren't picking them up enough.
...It'll come in windows and linux flavours, but the linux one will have half the ram and hdd capacity as the windows version and cost a twice as much due to 'lesser availability'.
Actually, for the announced configurations, the Eee 900 with Linux will have 20G flash (instead of 12G) and be slightly more expensive as a result. A fair tradeoff.
For the HP 2133, the Linux versions are consistently cheaper than the equivalent Windows versions.
So, direct your anger elsewhere. These mini laptops have been good for Linux.
It's a white plastic box on a stalk. The desktop stand is the first thing to go into the trash. What's stylish about it?
Until you know EXACTLY what he was downloading I don't think you are in a position to say that.
Bullshit. If it's on a US government web site, it should be legal to download.
Just wanted to clarify why he's being deported. The brits' reaction to the downloading of the document was a bit extreme, but if ya want to live in a country then ya gotta play by their(sometimes idiotic) rules
But there is something fundamentally wrong with the government if you're an academic and visiting a web site brings you to the attention of the immigration departmnet in the first place.
Yes, you can put cameras and sensors on buses. You can put them on taxis. On cars. On cell phones. On carrier pigeons. On dogs. On ferrets. On snails. Up your nose even.
Do we really need a story every time someone sticks a sensor in yet another place?
But if the fact that she's a dog is what prevents her from doing either of those two, doesn't that mean that those are discriminating against her genetically?
In short, no.
Non-discrimination means you don't discriminate based on membership in a group.
It's affirmative action that means you disregard other factors associated with membership in that group.
If your dog can fill in the application form and pass the application interview, we'll be glad to hire her.
This is so typical: Bush is only looking out for his own best interests and the best interests of his cronies.
He just doesn't give a damn about the public's compelling interest to be protected from genetic outliers like him in positions like the commander in chief.
Instead of playing on the Xbox with his son, he should perhaps read him some fairy tales.
Many fairy tales emphasize the importance of not messing with things you don't understand and not taking other people's possessions.
(Here's another hint from the fairy tales: if the Xbox doesn't turn into a beautiful princess after the first kiss, stop kissing it. I don't know what it means, but it seemed relevant.)
Nolan Bushnell said that a new stealth encryption chip called TPM
Next thing you know, Bushnell will tell us that there is an evil conspiracy afoot to ship PCs without floppy disk drives! The man must surely have some highly placed sources!
The chip is apparently being embedded on most of the new computer motherboards and is said to be 'uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords'
That's the same sense of "uncrackable" in which the Titanic was "unsinkable" and in which Vista is "secure". And "Titanic" and "Vista" aptly summarizes what any company that's going to try to use TPM for software protection is going to create.
Bring it on guys.
Vector coprocessors, array processors, and all that have been around for ages. Maybe they'll finally catch on. If they do, you can bet that the manufacturer making them will not be a graphics card manufacturer. In fact, by definition, they won't be a graphics card manufacturer, since they will be making co-processors for non-graphics applications.
But I don't think they will catch on. It makes little sense for people to stick extra cards into their machines for computation. Instead, you'll probably see something more like Cell, a combination of CPU plus vectorized coprocessors on a single chip, and if you plug multiple of them into the motherboard, you get the right mix of CPU and coprocessor performance.
As opposed to the results from Microsoft or SAP or Oracle, etc. with the multi-billion dollar revenue streams?
No; as opposed to projects with no or little revenue streams.
In fact, above some threshold, software quality seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of money available for developing the software.
How could I have been so stupid? I just forgot about enabling the "get multi-million dollar revenue stream for my open source project" option on Sourceforge.
Don't get me wrong, I use the Mozilla and Firefox products, but given the amount of money that has gone into Mozilla (and Apache), I think the results are actually not all that great.
So, you're saying that major religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, do not promote charity? Seriously, you need to do some minimal research, as it is a central theme throughout them.
Well, like many big organizations, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism like to talk about positive human traits, and like to create the impression that they promote it. But Christianity makes you more altruistic in the same sense that Coca Cola makes you slim and beautiful relative to your fellow men. In fact, the central theme of many people preaching Christianity and Islam is how you yourself will benefit.
So do agnostics, humanists, atheists, and others. To want to help other people is a human trait. There is nothing specifically religious about it.
Well, just about the only thing that the Web did differently from previous hypertext systems was that it was open and networked.
So, if only hypercard hadn't been closed and proprietary, and if only Apple networking hadn't sucked badly back then, then it might have succeeded.
Of course, let's not forget that there was very little that was actually new in Hypercard to begin with.
iPhone is superior to E90 in most respects
I have to disagree with that.
Just the fact that the E90 can show you an 800 pixel wide web browser (basically the same browser as on the iPhone) makes the web browsing experience so much better, whereas with the iPhone you have to rely on gimmicks. The keyboard is great not just for ssh, but for all the other things people do with phones.
The E90 has GPS, 3.5G, and a 3 Mpixel camera. Google Maps on it uses the GPS, in addition to Nokia's own mapping and navigation application. It can record 640x480 MPEG4 video. It synchronizes over the air and isn't tied to any desktop (unless you want it to). You can run ShoZu, photoblogging, and talk/chat software for any service you like. It does geotagging for your photos. It supports stereo headphones. You can use the E90 as a high speed modem, or even configure it as a WiFi access point to share the 3.5G connection. It has an excellent audio and video player that supports many more formats than Apple. And there is tons more third party software.
Nokia's user interface is dull and ugly, but as a smart phone, the iPhone isn't even in the same league.
The fact that it was a cross has nothing to do with religion (at least, not directly) and everything to do with Switzerland.
Are you joking? Of course, it does. The cross in the Swiss flag represents the Christian cross, and the people who picked it in 1863 were fully aware of that. The fact that the Red Cross not only added the Red Crescent as a symbol, but also in 2007 added the non-religions Red Crystal, shows that this is widely recognized to this day.
Personally, I wish they would make the Red Crystal standard and get rid of the two other symbols; retaining religious symbols in aid organizations perpetuates the misconception that religions have something to do with altruism.
It has a full QWERTY keyboard and an 800x352 screen, plus WiFi and (if you're in Europe) 3G. It still folds up into a reasonably small size and looks like a normal phone. It also has tons of other software and features.
This is not so much an "advance", and more a demonstration that some image recognition problems can be solved with fairly simple, well known methods and a lot of data.
Just sign up with Comcast :-)
Hey APPLE, please do not make it dependent on damn ITUNES.
That's where they make their money. And making money by locking in users matters to Apple just as much as to Microsoft.