Now goto http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search for anything your heart desires:) If bleeding edge is what your heart desires, Woody is your friend. If leading-edge stability is what you want, Potato is your friend. Either way, you won't find a distribution with faster updates (Security and otherwise) Or more packages than Debian. This is by no means meant to impugn Mandrake, I'm just pointing something out:) signature smigmature
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What can it do that Konqueror can not?
It can *not* look like Internet Explorer.
Netscape was slow and ugly.
I'll admit Netscape was...broken...But I wouldn't say it was slow or ugly.
Last time I checked it, they included a lot of bloated features, rather than fixes to the core of the thing.
You've been misinformed. While it's true that Mozilla/can/ do many things, it doesn't have to. signature smigmature
This is not your grandaddy's Mozilla, folks. It is leaner and meaner. Crashes are much more rare. Hanging infrequent. In short, it works.
In the past, everytime a new snapshot would come out, we would all rejoice because we just -knew- this was the release we could begin using on a fulltime basis. Unfortunately, three days later we all switched back to Nutscrape 4.75, lynx, links, or lately, for some, Konqueror.
But this release is different. It starts faster, renders faster and dies slower. Use it and abuse it, and remember to post bugs to bugzilla. 1.0 is not far away:)
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Where was this article two weeks ago, when we were upgrading all of our production servers to the 2.4.3 kernel, and couldn't figure out why we couldn't hit www.ibm.com or www.sabre.com.
After much troubleshooting, we found the problem. Perhaps the kernel help for ECN should have the warning about certain routers not supporting ECN nearer-to-the top of the help, instead of in the second paragraph:)
I disagree. You have to weigh the benefits with the risks. Not every network needs 24/7 Internet access. Can you afford 99.9% uptime instead of 99.99? Are you firewalling servers, or a corporate workstation subnet? If it's the latter, you almost certainly would want to be using the 2.4 kernel at this point.
If you need 4+ 9's uptime, then yes, I would definitely be sticking to the 2.2 series kernels. You Know It's Going To Work. But when you can afford a little downtime, the benefits of using 2.4 + IPTables certainly outweighs the risks. (I won't list the advantages here, as they are numerous, and we all know what they are.) signature smigmature
This is exactly the case. And fine by me. Who says we need any companies for the end-user? I certainly don't want any. I'm perfectly happy as it is right now, with my Debian. If I were to never see another update during my apt-get dist-upgrade, from now until the time I die, I would die a happy man. After all, it's hard to improve upon perfection.
At work however, I don't have the time to mess around with Debian. And if something doesn't work, the mailing lists aren't going to cut it. I need something that JustWorks, even if it's not the most fun, or even the best option. I need someone on the other end of the phone, that I can call whenever I want, to tell me what's wrong.
I don't see any reason why VA and RedHat wouldn't make a profit. Sadly however, I don't see how companies like Eazel, and to a lesser extent, Ximian, ever will. signature smigmature
Mandrake does what you're looking for. You can simply copy a truetype font to/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont, or use their DrakFont utility. If you have Windows installed, it will auto import all your windows fonts. signature smigmature
This neural mosaic is relatively coarse compared to the retinal image, which may introduce artifacts into the neural image and ultimately cause a kind of mis-perception called "aliasing".
I'll wait for the anti-aliasing patch, I think. And I thought I was happy about the GTK patch... signature smigmature
I agree with you to some extent. Standards are not always evil, however. When dealing with content, especially, standards are an absolute essential.
In this case however, you can think of this installer as simply a frontend to RPM/.debs. It's not a new package format, just a quick 'n' easy hack to make installing KDE that much easier.
I still think they should just wait for RedCarpet though:) signature smigmature
You needed the 'menu' package that ships with Mandrake:)
menu-2.1.5-42mdk.i586.rpm
You didn't really need it though. Menu is Mandrake's thouroughly hos3d attempt at unifying menus across all desktops:) signature smigmature
As others have pointed out at dot.kde.org, Ximian's new updated, Red Carpet, which we should all see a preview release of soon, will support KDE. And Debian. It's been designed in such a way that it can support anything:)
- James signature smigmature
I've wondered about a mini-server architecture w/ Gnutella. Could there be some way to have gnutella hosts hold mini elections, and elect clients to become mini servers? signature smigmature
Gnome already has a similar way to render high-quality anti-aliased images using a similar method. This is done via the GnomeCanvas widget, which uses Libart/GDKPixbuf I believe. Take a looksie at Nautilus for an example, which has been using this for a few months now. signature smigmature
I'm so tired of hearing this. If you live in the US anyway, there are FTC rules in place to protect consumers from credit card fraud. They've been in existence for ages. They work online just as well as they do offline. You cannot be held liable for more than fifty freaking dollars. If that amount of money frightens you, please cut up your credit card now - You shouldn't be using one.
If you use credit cards at all, you're obviously not very concerned with security (Or privacy, but that's an entirely different issue). They are inherently insecure. You're about as likely to have someone take your wallet from your pocket as your walking down the street, as you are having your credit card stolen on the Internet.
Until we all have finger-print readers built into credit card readers, you'll never be safe. The more I think about this question, the more the utter absurdity bothers me. If you're seriously frightened enough to post an Ask Slashdot question about this, JUST DON'T USE A CREDIT CARD, YOU ARE FAR TO SKITTISH. My guess is you just wanted to AskSlashdotSomething, and this was all you could come up with. signature smigmature
Mandrake had already adopted the 2.4 kernel as the default kernel for their next version about 2 weeks before it was released as final. This is in-keeping with Mandrake's bleeding-edge philosophy.
I don't see how this constitutes news at all, actually. I'm quite sure most distributions will soon adopt the 2.4 kernel for their next versions.
Sure, some distributions will stick with the tried-and-true 2.2 kernel for a while. But eventually...They'll all switch. signature smigmature
Umm. No. Your analogy does not apply. If a seller offers you a price of 10$, and the buyer says "I won't buy your product." the buyer can drop his price, or decide not to sell the product. He is not forced to sell at a lower price. What would be a proper analogy, would be every potential consumer in the world joining together, paying 50$ a month to a group of thugs, who then use their 50 billion$ war chest to make SURE you sell your product for a buck fifty. Unions are evil. They had there place in the 20's and 30's, before numerous civil reforms. Now they are nothing more than organized crime. signature smigmature
This may be true if we still only had EFnet, Undernet and Dalnet. But we don't. There are 10's of large servers, and hundreds of smaller. People find their niche, and become loyal to certain networks.
IRC as a whole can continue to grow - The individual networks cannot. It simply isn't fun anymore to see "/me whacks yourmom about with a big trout" scrolling by 10-lines a second. signature smigmature
None of what you mentioned is exciting. It's all catch-up work. KDE2 as a whole is rather exciting. So is Evolution.
But come on - HTML Preview icons, Text preview...Digital Camera supporrt. This is all catch-up work. There is no innovation here.
Windows has had everything you've mentioned for almost three years now. What's exciting is the speed of development, the Bazaar method of development, and some of the really cool projects with innovative features nearing release.
Well, I don't know about you - But I walk upright. This means that to a sattellite, I'm about 7 inches across at the head, and maybe 16-19 inches at my shoulders. So yes, It would be extremely hard to identify me w/ the 1/2 meter resolution images.
For all you non-bi-pedal f00s though, your mothers can keep tabs on you. signature smigmature
True type fonts don't work wonderfull. They sux0r. They're horrible looking. Even the Microsoft Web-core fonts, with their strong hinting, look awful under X.
X is a pig. I'm grateful for it and it use it often. But it's a pig. signature smigmature
First let me say that this article made me feel h appy all over. It was great.
I've never used the RBL...Simply because it's an inherently stupid concept. I'll block spammers on my own, thank you very much. This is what procmail is for.
I needn't have huge lists of black-holed domains. I'll simply block it as it comes.
This article points out a whole new facet to my distaste for the RBL.
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Now goto http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search for anything your heart desires:) If bleeding edge is what your heart desires, Woody is your friend. If leading-edge stability is what you want, Potato is your friend. Either way, you won't find a distribution with faster updates (Security and otherwise) Or more packages than Debian. This is by no means meant to impugn Mandrake, I'm just pointing something out:)
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What can it do that Konqueror can not?
/can/ do many things, it doesn't have to.
It can *not* look like Internet Explorer.
Netscape was slow and ugly.
I'll admit Netscape was...broken...But I wouldn't say it was slow or ugly.
Last time I checked it, they included a lot of bloated features, rather than fixes to the core of the thing.
You've been misinformed. While it's true that Mozilla
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This is not your grandaddy's Mozilla, folks. It is leaner and meaner. Crashes are much more rare. Hanging infrequent. In short, it works. In the past, everytime a new snapshot would come out, we would all rejoice because we just -knew- this was the release we could begin using on a fulltime basis. Unfortunately, three days later we all switched back to Nutscrape 4.75, lynx, links, or lately, for some, Konqueror. But this release is different. It starts faster, renders faster and dies slower. Use it and abuse it, and remember to post bugs to bugzilla. 1.0 is not far away:)
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Rest assured, it's not enabled by default. You have to explicitly choose it. The Kernel help tells you it will break major sites.
You can enable and disable it on the fly. And it's a great idea. I wouldn't knock it, lest you understand it.
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Where was this article two weeks ago, when we were upgrading all of our production servers to the 2.4.3 kernel, and couldn't figure out why we couldn't hit www.ibm.com or www.sabre.com.
After much troubleshooting, we found the problem. Perhaps the kernel help for ECN should have the warning about certain routers not supporting ECN nearer-to-the top of the help, instead of in the second paragraph:)
- James
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I disagree. You have to weigh the benefits with the risks. Not every network needs 24/7 Internet access. Can you afford 99.9% uptime instead of 99.99? Are you firewalling servers, or a corporate workstation subnet? If it's the latter, you almost certainly would want to be using the 2.4 kernel at this point.
If you need 4+ 9's uptime, then yes, I would definitely be sticking to the 2.2 series kernels. You Know It's Going To Work. But when you can afford a little downtime, the benefits of using 2.4 + IPTables certainly outweighs the risks. (I won't list the advantages here, as they are numerous, and we all know what they are.)
signature smigmature
This is exactly the case. And fine by me. Who says we need any companies for the end-user? I certainly don't want any. I'm perfectly happy as it is right now, with my Debian. If I were to never see another update during my apt-get dist-upgrade, from now until the time I die, I would die a happy man. After all, it's hard to improve upon perfection. At work however, I don't have the time to mess around with Debian. And if something doesn't work, the mailing lists aren't going to cut it. I need something that JustWorks, even if it's not the most fun, or even the best option. I need someone on the other end of the phone, that I can call whenever I want, to tell me what's wrong. I don't see any reason why VA and RedHat wouldn't make a profit. Sadly however, I don't see how companies like Eazel, and to a lesser extent, Ximian, ever will.
signature smigmature
Mandrake does what you're looking for. You can simply copy a truetype font to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont, or use their DrakFont utility. If you have Windows installed, it will auto import all your windows fonts.
signature smigmature
This neural mosaic is relatively coarse compared to the retinal image, which may introduce artifacts into the neural image and ultimately cause a kind of mis-perception called "aliasing".
I'll wait for the anti-aliasing patch, I think. And I thought I was happy about the GTK patch...
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It's alive and well. Alpha Centauri, anyone?
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What do ya think KDesktop is?:P It's konqueror you twit.
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I agree with you to some extent. Standards are not always evil, however. When dealing with content, especially, standards are an absolute essential. In this case however, you can think of this installer as simply a frontend to RPM/.debs. It's not a new package format, just a quick 'n' easy hack to make installing KDE that much easier. I still think they should just wait for RedCarpet though:)
signature smigmature
You needed the 'menu' package that ships with Mandrake:) menu-2.1.5-42mdk.i586.rpm You didn't really need it though. Menu is Mandrake's thouroughly hos3d attempt at unifying menus across all desktops:)
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As others have pointed out at dot.kde.org, Ximian's new updated, Red Carpet, which we should all see a preview release of soon, will support KDE. And Debian. It's been designed in such a way that it can support anything:) - James
signature smigmature
I've wondered about a mini-server architecture w/ Gnutella. Could there be some way to have gnutella hosts hold mini elections, and elect clients to become mini servers?
signature smigmature
Gnome already has a similar way to render high-quality anti-aliased images using a similar method. This is done via the GnomeCanvas widget, which uses Libart/GDKPixbuf I believe. Take a looksie at Nautilus for an example, which has been using this for a few months now.
signature smigmature
I'm so tired of hearing this. If you live in the US anyway, there are FTC rules in place to protect consumers from credit card fraud. They've been in existence for ages. They work online just as well as they do offline. You cannot be held liable for more than fifty freaking dollars. If that amount of money frightens you, please cut up your credit card now - You shouldn't be using one.
If you use credit cards at all, you're obviously not very concerned with security (Or privacy, but that's an entirely different issue). They are inherently insecure. You're about as likely to have someone take your wallet from your pocket as your walking down the street, as you are having your credit card stolen on the Internet.
Until we all have finger-print readers built into credit card readers, you'll never be safe. The more I think about this question, the more the utter absurdity bothers me. If you're seriously frightened enough to post an Ask Slashdot question about this, JUST DON'T USE A CREDIT CARD, YOU ARE FAR TO SKITTISH. My guess is you just wanted to AskSlashdotSomething, and this was all you could come up with.
signature smigmature
Mandrake had already adopted the 2.4 kernel as the default kernel for their next version about 2 weeks before it was released as final. This is in-keeping with Mandrake's bleeding-edge philosophy. I don't see how this constitutes news at all, actually. I'm quite sure most distributions will soon adopt the 2.4 kernel for their next versions. Sure, some distributions will stick with the tried-and-true 2.2 kernel for a while. But eventually...They'll all switch.
signature smigmature
Umm. No. Your analogy does not apply. If a seller offers you a price of 10$, and the buyer says "I won't buy your product." the buyer can drop his price, or decide not to sell the product. He is not forced to sell at a lower price. What would be a proper analogy, would be every potential consumer in the world joining together, paying 50$ a month to a group of thugs, who then use their 50 billion$ war chest to make SURE you sell your product for a buck fifty. Unions are evil. They had there place in the 20's and 30's, before numerous civil reforms. Now they are nothing more than organized crime.
signature smigmature
This may be true if we still only had EFnet, Undernet and Dalnet. But we don't. There are 10's of large servers, and hundreds of smaller. People find their niche, and become loyal to certain networks.
IRC as a whole can continue to grow - The individual networks cannot. It simply isn't fun anymore to see "/me whacks yourmom about with a big trout" scrolling by 10-lines a second.
signature smigmature
None of what you mentioned is exciting. It's all catch-up work. KDE2 as a whole is rather exciting. So is Evolution.
But come on - HTML Preview icons, Text preview...Digital Camera supporrt. This is all catch-up work. There is no innovation here.
Windows has had everything you've mentioned for almost three years now. What's exciting is the speed of development, the Bazaar method of development, and some of the really cool projects with innovative features nearing release.
signature smigmature
Well, I don't know about you - But I walk upright. This means that to a sattellite, I'm about 7 inches across at the head, and maybe 16-19 inches at my shoulders. So yes, It would be extremely hard to identify me w/ the 1/2 meter resolution images. For all you non-bi-pedal f00s though, your mothers can keep tabs on you.
signature smigmature
True type fonts don't work wonderfull. They sux0r. They're horrible looking. Even the Microsoft Web-core fonts, with their strong hinting, look awful under X.
X is a pig. I'm grateful for it and it use it often. But it's a pig.
signature smigmature
First let me say that this article made me feel h appy all over. It was great.
I've never used the RBL...Simply because it's an inherently stupid concept. I'll block spammers on my own, thank you very much. This is what procmail is for.
I needn't have huge lists of black-holed domains. I'll simply block it as it comes.
This article points out a whole new facet to my distaste for the RBL.
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Oh well. It's nicing using good software. It's a whole lot nicer using Free software.
I understand that games are not easy to develop, But I for one can live without them.
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