That would be because we do frankly insane things to keep it all working (sanity is cheaper than spending actual money). (Remember, we have no money and mostly volunteer sysadmins!) Also, MySQL employs our DBAs... we're one of the cutting-edge extreme users that Marten Mickos mentions in his comment above.
In practice, yes, it's meaningless, which is why most Linux distros don't bother. But UNIX(tm) certification is often useful to meet purchasing requirements, etc. And buying certification for Leopard on Intel means Apple have immediately become the world's #1 UNIX(tm) workstation vendor, and (as far as I know) the only laptop vendor!
. Wikimedia sites presently allow this as a last fallback option (the only existing implementation of the tag is Opera 9.5 previews, and it's too buggy to put earlier in the option list), but Firefox 3 is expected to have a usable implementation and we'd love to just be able to put Ogg Theora video out through such a tag. Saves messing about with plugins that may or may not work as expected or Java-based players. Let alone Flash.
We'll be doing whatever reaches the readership effectively (IE brokenness and all). However, Firefox 3 being released will promptly mean a huge chunk of the readership will have something that supports the VIDEO tag, and a top 10 site with a bundle of Theora and Vorbis content will we hope be quite the use case.
Don't be silly. Firefox 3 (or, rather, Gecko 1.9) is basically the available reference implementation for most of the HTML 5 proposals, and Opera 9.5 is the independent implementation of such. They're what will be dragging everyone else kicking and screaming to the party.
I'm running Minefield (Firefox 3 nightlies) on my work Windows laptop. It's very much a nightly test build - some days' builds crash like bastards - but in general it's smaller, faster and better than Firefox 2, not to mention having various little things that make it slicker and nicer to use. More of my favoured extensions are OK with it too. Firefox 3 is going to be a real winner.
(And at Wikimedia we're very much looking forward to the VIDEO element supplying Ogg Theora support right there in the browser. Then we can drag Nokia and Apple kicking and screaming to the party.)
The reason for tube amps is because their characteristics are part of the instrument - the "instrument" isn't just the guitar, it's the guitar plus amp. You can simulate analogue distortion to whatever degree you can be bothered, but it's like putting guitar samples into a keyboard and claiming that's the natural replacement for the guitar.
For OOo? A pile of old Linux boxes,/home on NFS, applications on NFS. I've administered Solaris networks set up that way for years and it's so the only way to live.
Wikipedia has somehow hit upon something popular enough to be a top-10 website, and which people actually want to use as a reference. At least in theory it's written for the readers, not the editors (though you wouldn't think so sometimes).
Citizendium is trying to do Wikipedia but better. Same model: one article per topic, designed to be *read*.
Everything2 doesn't get read a lot outside its editor base.
Despite the phrase having been poisoned by fundies^WIntelligent Design advocates... "teach the controversy" is Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy in three words.
I have occasionally had cause to run old Linux proprietary apps. And it's a goddamn pain in the arse requiring ridiculous amounts of sysadmin magic. The message I get from this is proprietary = bad.
With open source, we don't care about "binary compatible" so much as "code that will compile and work." So the question is whether./configure && make && sudo make install will give us what we want.
2007 isn't 2002;-) OpenOffice was EVEN FATTER than it is now - and it didn't actually work on FreeBSD, so I used the Linux binary under emulation - Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix was still called "mozilla/browser", and KOffice was a barely functional toy and Konqueror wasn't much better. These days OOo is slimmer and faster than it was five years ago (it's gone from "morbidly obese" to merely "grossly obese"), KOffice is actually usable and Konqueror is my file manager of choice and not at all bad as a browser.
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You want PDFedit. Ubuntu 7.10 Universe repository.
Huh. I downloaded the Safari beta for my work WinXP box and find myself using it by preference because its text rendering is so much nicer than Firefox's. I also use it by preference on my Mac G4 at home. I'd use it on Ubuntu if Wine supported VC++ 8.
I must admit this was running OpenOffice and Mozilla in 2002 in KDE 3.0 on FreeBSD 4.6, in 192MB memory on a PII-400. Everything was MUCH happier when I took the memory up to 640MB. The box in question is still the household server.
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He wants his fifty bucks back.
"a cyber-attack against the Wikipedia servers"
*cough* Rotsa ruck with that one. You realise as #9 site in the world, we could slashdot Slashdot?
The burning question, of course, is whether we get a neat gun that outlines the wormholes in orange and blue.
... cake?
And will there be
That would be because we do frankly insane things to keep it all working (sanity is cheaper than spending actual money). (Remember, we have no money and mostly volunteer sysadmins!) Also, MySQL employs our DBAs ... we're one of the cutting-edge extreme users that Marten Mickos mentions in his comment above.
Heh. I shudder to think how well Solaris supports x86 laptop hardware, given how much hard work and money goes into Linux's patchy support ...
In practice, yes, it's meaningless, which is why most Linux distros don't bother. But UNIX(tm) certification is often useful to meet purchasing requirements, etc. And buying certification for Leopard on Intel means Apple have immediately become the world's #1 UNIX(tm) workstation vendor, and (as far as I know) the only laptop vendor!
. Wikimedia sites presently allow this as a last fallback option (the only existing implementation of the tag is Opera 9.5 previews, and it's too buggy to put earlier in the option list), but Firefox 3 is expected to have a usable implementation and we'd love to just be able to put Ogg Theora video out through such a tag. Saves messing about with plugins that may or may not work as expected or Java-based players. Let alone Flash.
The lack of a certification bought from the Open Group. That's the difference between Unix-like and UNIX
We'll be doing whatever reaches the readership effectively (IE brokenness and all). However, Firefox 3 being released will promptly mean a huge chunk of the readership will have something that supports the VIDEO tag, and a top 10 site with a bundle of Theora and Vorbis content will we hope be quite the use case.
Don't be silly. Firefox 3 (or, rather, Gecko 1.9) is basically the available reference implementation for most of the HTML 5 proposals, and Opera 9.5 is the independent implementation of such. They're what will be dragging everyone else kicking and screaming to the party.
I'm running Minefield (Firefox 3 nightlies) on my work Windows laptop. It's very much a nightly test build - some days' builds crash like bastards - but in general it's smaller, faster and better than Firefox 2, not to mention having various little things that make it slicker and nicer to use. More of my favoured extensions are OK with it too. Firefox 3 is going to be a real winner.
(And at Wikimedia we're very much looking forward to the VIDEO element supplying Ogg Theora support right there in the browser. Then we can drag Nokia and Apple kicking and screaming to the party.)
The reason for tube amps is because their characteristics are part of the instrument - the "instrument" isn't just the guitar, it's the guitar plus amp. You can simulate analogue distortion to whatever degree you can be bothered, but it's like putting guitar samples into a keyboard and claiming that's the natural replacement for the guitar.
"It seems like that would be true, doesn't it. Luckily, engineers use actual science to design stuff rather than just gut feelings."
Quote of the year (already).
For OOo? A pile of old Linux boxes, /home on NFS, applications on NFS. I've administered Solaris networks set up that way for years and it's so the only way to live.
Wikipedia has somehow hit upon something popular enough to be a top-10 website, and which people actually want to use as a reference. At least in theory it's written for the readers, not the editors (though you wouldn't think so sometimes).
Citizendium is trying to do Wikipedia but better. Same model: one article per topic, designed to be *read*.
Everything2 doesn't get read a lot outside its editor base.
Despite the phrase having been poisoned by fundies^WIntelligent Design advocates ... "teach the controversy" is Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy in three words.
I have occasionally had cause to run old Linux proprietary apps. And it's a goddamn pain in the arse requiring ridiculous amounts of sysadmin magic. The message I get from this is proprietary = bad.
With open source, we don't care about "binary compatible" so much as "code that will compile and work." So the question is whether ./configure && make && sudo make install will give us what we want.
2007 isn't 2002 ;-) OpenOffice was EVEN FATTER than it is now - and it didn't actually work on FreeBSD, so I used the Linux binary under emulation - Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix was still called "mozilla/browser", and KOffice was a barely functional toy and Konqueror wasn't much better. These days OOo is slimmer and faster than it was five years ago (it's gone from "morbidly obese" to merely "grossly obese"), KOffice is actually usable and Konqueror is my file manager of choice and not at all bad as a browser.
You want PDFedit. Ubuntu 7.10 Universe repository.
Huh. I downloaded the Safari beta for my work WinXP box and find myself using it by preference because its text rendering is so much nicer than Firefox's. I also use it by preference on my Mac G4 at home. I'd use it on Ubuntu if Wine supported VC++ 8.
PDFedit already exists and is GPL. It's in the Ubuntu 7.10 Universe repository.
I must admit this was running OpenOffice and Mozilla in 2002 in KDE 3.0 on FreeBSD 4.6, in 192MB memory on a PII-400. Everything was MUCH happier when I took the memory up to 640MB. The box in question is still the household server.
KDE wants MEMORY. Pathetic CPU is fine, memory needs to be 384MB to be happy IME. As far back as 3.0.
Indeed. Wine is already a better Windows than Vista is.
In practice, Wine is already a better Windows than Vista. And better and better every two-weekly release.