Well this is obviously a big release for a few reasons. First of all, it is a x.2 release so it is basically as stable as a redhat release gets. Second of all, after visiting their website I expect to see a redhat release for pda's rather soon. They seem to be pushing somekind of one code base for all apps (from pda's to big iron)- I am surprised no one is making any noise about this. If redhat pushed out a version for the ipaq or palm would you use it? What advantage would it have over something like the palm os? or maybe pocket pc (or what ever they are calling win ce now-a-days)? Does having one code base really matter?
They should of definitely waited a week because now there is a major new kernel release (emacs 21) is out now and their OS is going to look completely different. A simple errata is not enough. Just kidding I can't wait to install it- been running 6.2 for what seems like forever. Gonna ditch their GNOME stuff for ximian though and redcarpet.
Before you really start think please realize that the xbox is going to use a modified win2000 kernel. A win2000 kernel is different than win ce- very different. It is kinda funny that microsoft stuck sega with win ce but it is not good enough for microsoft's console.
Well first of all, I would like to question what makes it a threat to mozilla? It is all well and good that kde has its own filemanager/browser, things that are pretty standard these days, but will it be a great browser? I personally do not think so. Sure Konqueror will be usable but it will lack the ever important crypto in the source version. Crypto binaries are a option I suppose. But my point is that the a pure Konqueror will not allow the user to order stuff through encrypted channels or even read e-mail in some cases. Perhaps I am missing the whole point in general but why praise a browser that few people have really ever even tried? I would think that less than a tenth of the number of people who have tried a mozilla/netscape 6 release have tried this konqueror thing- it is not battle proven. Since the original post mentioned mozilla, I have to mention that the GNOME team is/has integrated mozilla into their filemanager of the future, nautilus. I know that GNOME has bonobo which is responsible for its component architecture, including the mozilla integration, but I have recently read that KDE 2.0 is suppposed to be highly componentilized also. Is KDE using something like bonobo?
"Internet Explorer is not demonstrably the current 'best of breed' Web browser"
This Garfinkel guys argues that the lack of *NIX and primarily Linux viruses are do to the booming economy. He then goes on to say that when the economy goes south that programmers will become unemployed and create viruses!!! This makes little sense if one was to think about it, just as a convincing of a arguement could be made that the free desktop are going to get better with a bad economy because it gives programmers more time to code on free projects. Even thought Garfinkel does not present a very good arguement, I can understand his concern. Sigh, anti-virus programs slow take up resources and slow down the system;(
Give the man a chance. Spielberg directed "Jurassic Park" and "E.T." which were closer to science fiction than real life drama. Spielberg's talent seems to be that he can take something that is not believable (Jurassic Park, E.T., even Jaws) and turn it into something people see as possible. You only need one kidney anyway, the other is just a spare.
In my experience, the wrong people are teaching programming and other computer related classes. At least in my school, the classes were taught by business teachers because they could teach typing, no real training except a hourly seminar here and there. Given my programming teacher did have a programming resume but that only consisted of cobol and her degree was in accounting. My physics teacher, who was the programming teacher before the current one, actually knew a extensive degree of many languages but he quit teaching programming when they hired the accountant!! Does this make any sense?? Why on earth hire a bad employee?? It would of made more sense to of hired a new physics teachers, in my experience a good science teacher is more common than a good computer teacher.
I personally believe that ideas like your are just not wrong but also the reason why such a general education system currently sucks all around.
First, let me tackle this c++/linux thing. I took all the programming classes that my high school offered. In each class, we were taught for a good two to three weeks nothing but stupid DOS commands and how to handle the computer. Then after about four weeks, we finally start doing the most simple programs. The reason for this was that it was somewhat of a general class so there were "slow" kids in there. Before you jump all over me for the use of the ever too common phrase "slow kids" please understand what I mean, there were a handful of hardcore geeks and then a bunch of kids that thought it would be an easy class. These classes offered college credits if you paid some dough and passed some pretty simple tests, so there really should of been two classes a regular class and a CP or AP class. But my point is that a.) certainly the right high school class could quickly be taught *NIX envirnment and b.) a lot of time is spent learning how to get around the OS.
Second of all, the idea have expressed is very wrong. A summary of what you said could be expressed as "It is just high school." Your way of thinking will eventually progress to something like "It is only college, I can really learn it when I get a job and can focus on it."
The unabomber was a math teacher at Berkely. Joy was a student at Berkely. Did their time at Berkely coninside at all? If so, does Joy know the Unabomber?
I would give you the points, that is right I would moderate you UP. But I am also the guy who managed to get the first post of the "Interview: Debian Project Leader Tells All" and accused him of being a Nazi. It looks like you cannot see my comment, but at the bottom of the page is a long "re: i knew it" thread that explain the guy is not a Nazi.
Of course 1Ghz is imminent, Slashdot just had a article on 1Ghz P3 yesterday- go figure!! AMD finally has a chip that can really compete with Intel and they are going to do everything they can to keep the Athlon at par or better than the Pentium 3's. Before AMD made a name for themselves with affordable cpus that performed well, those being the K6. Of cousre, the K6 did lacked good floating point stuff and was a not a real threat to the top of the line pc's (when I say pc I mean x86 instruction machines).
I finally found the link again. It is www.reactos.com. There are more than likely others, but this one is under the GPL. I think www.winehq.com has a whole list of such projects under the "other" link.
I realize this is off topic, but there are a lot of people crying for MS to release the Windows source code and that is not likely so I give you this. There is a little website at www.reactos.com that is working under the GPL to make a free windows system (kernel, api, dll's, drivers, etc). I have never tried it, but the idea is cool and I am sure that they need developers if you consider the magnitude of such a project.
I can almost promise you that you will never see the MS code, but there are a lot of people trying to implement the Win32 API. Everyone knows of about wine, which is at www.winehq.com, but there are a lot others. Go to the wine site and check out the "others" link. There are crazy people out there that are trying to write a brand new system just to implement win32 API, such as React OS at www.reactos.com
He is very much not describing the GPL. He said that they want to have all changes go through the maintainer, and the GPL allows for anyone to make alternative version/patch- the general stuff he said that he wanted to avoid. I am not much of a license guru, but I believe that Mozilla has a license like he might be after (though it is flawed).
I am guessing that you think that they are talking about making a open source clone of windows, though such project exists, it is not what they are talking about here! They are talking about open source projects on the windows platform.
Yahoo has a nice little story about Microsoft Kerberos. The article is here. Here is a really brief summary, but if suggest you read the article. Kerberos is a technology that prevents user passwords to be sent through a network, pretty standard stuff of UNIX. Anyhow, Microsoft finally decided that it was a good idea and implemented it in W2K. The only problem is that their version has undocumented changes that they made!!
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frustration boner?
Well this is obviously a big release for a few reasons. First of all, it is a x.2 release so it is basically as stable as a redhat release gets. Second of all, after visiting their website I expect to see a redhat release for pda's rather soon. They seem to be pushing somekind of one code base for all apps (from pda's to big iron)- I am surprised no one is making any noise about this. If redhat pushed out a version for the ipaq or palm would you use it? What advantage would it have over something like the palm os? or maybe pocket pc (or what ever they are calling win ce now-a-days)? Does having one code base really matter?
They should of definitely waited a week because now there is a major new kernel release (emacs 21) is out now and their OS is going to look completely different. A simple errata is not enough. Just kidding I can't wait to install it- been running 6.2 for what seems like forever. Gonna ditch their GNOME stuff for ximian though and redcarpet.
instant karma's gonna get you
we all shine on just like the moon, the stars, and the sun.
someone has to keep the world afloat
Quite simply put, you are an idiot.
Before you really start think please realize that the xbox is going to use a modified win2000 kernel. A win2000 kernel is different than win ce- very different. It is kinda funny that microsoft stuck sega with win ce but it is not good enough for microsoft's console.
Well first of all, I would like to question what makes it a threat to mozilla? It is all well and good that kde has its own filemanager/browser, things that are pretty standard these days, but will it be a great browser? I personally do not think so. Sure Konqueror will be usable but it will lack the ever important crypto in the source version. Crypto binaries are a option I suppose. But my point is that the a pure Konqueror will not allow the user to order stuff through encrypted channels or even read e-mail in some cases. Perhaps I am missing the whole point in general but why praise a browser that few people have really ever even tried? I would think that less than a tenth of the number of people who have tried a mozilla/netscape 6 release have tried this konqueror thing- it is not battle proven. Since the original post mentioned mozilla, I have to mention that the GNOME team is/has integrated mozilla into their filemanager of the future, nautilus. I know that GNOME has bonobo which is responsible for its component architecture, including the mozilla integration, but I have recently read that KDE 2.0 is suppposed to be highly componentilized also. Is KDE using something like bonobo?
"Internet Explorer is not demonstrably the current 'best of breed' Web browser"
Are you talking about the that tangy fruit juice or the cartoon show (who shoot mr. burns)? Both of them involved Simpson DNA.
"Internet Explorer is not demonstrably the current 'best of breed' Web browser"
Remember Woz?
"Internet Explorer is not demonstrably the current 'best of breed' Web browser"
This Garfinkel guys argues that the lack of *NIX and primarily Linux viruses are do to the booming economy. He then goes on to say that when the economy goes south that programmers will become unemployed and create viruses!!! This makes little sense if one was to think about it, just as a convincing of a arguement could be made that the free desktop are going to get better with a bad economy because it gives programmers more time to code on free projects. Even thought Garfinkel does not present a very good arguement, I can understand his concern. Sigh, anti-virus programs slow take up resources and slow down the system;(
Give the man a chance. Spielberg directed "Jurassic Park" and "E.T." which were closer to science fiction than real life drama. Spielberg's talent seems to be that he can take something that is not believable (Jurassic Park, E.T., even Jaws) and turn it into something people see as possible. You only need one kidney anyway, the other is just a spare.
I have checked amazon and compusa's websites and neither one of them have anything on Matrox. I hope my compusa store has it.
In my experience, the wrong people are teaching programming and other computer related classes. At least in my school, the classes were taught by business teachers because they could teach typing, no real training except a hourly seminar here and there. Given my programming teacher did have a programming resume but that only consisted of cobol and her degree was in accounting. My physics teacher, who was the programming teacher before the current one, actually knew a extensive degree of many languages but he quit teaching programming when they hired the accountant!! Does this make any sense?? Why on earth hire a bad employee?? It would of made more sense to of hired a new physics teachers, in my experience a good science teacher is more common than a good computer teacher.
First, let me tackle this c++/linux thing. I took all the programming classes that my high school offered. In each class, we were taught for a good two to three weeks nothing but stupid DOS commands and how to handle the computer. Then after about four weeks, we finally start doing the most simple programs. The reason for this was that it was somewhat of a general class so there were "slow" kids in there. Before you jump all over me for the use of the ever too common phrase "slow kids" please understand what I mean, there were a handful of hardcore geeks and then a bunch of kids that thought it would be an easy class. These classes offered college credits if you paid some dough and passed some pretty simple tests, so there really should of been two classes a regular class and a CP or AP class. But my point is that a.) certainly the right high school class could quickly be taught *NIX envirnment and b.) a lot of time is spent learning how to get around the OS.
Second of all, the idea have expressed is very wrong. A summary of what you said could be expressed as "It is just high school." Your way of thinking will eventually progress to something like "It is only college, I can really learn it when I get a job and can focus on it."The unabomber was a math teacher at Berkely. Joy was a student at Berkely. Did their time at Berkely coninside at all? If so, does Joy know the Unabomber?
Yeah!! Posix makes platform independancy possible, yeah!!
I would give you the points, that is right I would moderate you UP. But I am also the guy who managed to get the first post of the "Interview: Debian Project Leader Tells All" and accused him of being a Nazi. It looks like you cannot see my comment, but at the bottom of the page is a long "re: i knew it" thread that explain the guy is not a Nazi.
Of course 1Ghz is imminent, Slashdot just had a article on 1Ghz P3 yesterday- go figure!! AMD finally has a chip that can really compete with Intel and they are going to do everything they can to keep the Athlon at par or better than the Pentium 3's. Before AMD made a name for themselves with affordable cpus that performed well, those being the K6. Of cousre, the K6 did lacked good floating point stuff and was a not a real threat to the top of the line pc's (when I say pc I mean x86 instruction machines).
I finally found the link again. It is www.reactos.com. There are more than likely others, but this one is under the GPL. I think www.winehq.com has a whole list of such projects under the "other" link.
I realize this is off topic, but there are a lot of people crying for MS to release the Windows source code and that is not likely so I give you this. There is a little website at www.reactos.com that is working under the GPL to make a free windows system (kernel, api, dll's, drivers, etc). I have never tried it, but the idea is cool and I am sure that they need developers if you consider the magnitude of such a project.
I can almost promise you that you will never see the MS code, but there are a lot of people trying to implement the Win32 API. Everyone knows of about wine, which is at www.winehq.com, but there are a lot others. Go to the wine site and check out the "others" link. There are crazy people out there that are trying to write a brand new system just to implement win32 API, such as React OS at www.reactos.com
He is very much not describing the GPL. He said that they want to have all changes go through the maintainer, and the GPL allows for anyone to make alternative version/patch- the general stuff he said that he wanted to avoid. I am not much of a license guru, but I believe that Mozilla has a license like he might be after (though it is flawed).
I am guessing that you think that they are talking about making a open source clone of windows, though such project exists, it is not what they are talking about here! They are talking about open source projects on the windows platform.
Yahoo has a nice little story about Microsoft Kerberos. The article is here. Here is a really brief summary, but if suggest you read the article. Kerberos is a technology that prevents user passwords to be sent through a network, pretty standard stuff of UNIX. Anyhow, Microsoft finally decided that it was a good idea and implemented it in W2K. The only problem is that their version has undocumented changes that they made!!