KDE without Konq, Koffice, K.* ?
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Review: KDE 3.2
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I switched from the spartan Flux/Blackbox a while ago, and I really like KDE as a WM, plus the panel. However, I much prefer Mozilla to Konq, OpenOffice to Koffice, and the same goes for any category of software I've tried (multimedia, graphics, editors,...).
What it looks like, there's no way of installing a diet version of KDE, without hundreds (ok, dozens) of programs I'll never use. Should that be necessary? I'm using Debian packages, but this doesn't seem to be much different if you compile it yourself. In this regard, KDE takes "bundling" to a new level, whipping Bill Gates' ass!
Switch to Gnome? Unfortunately I don't like that environment at all.
I ordered an Inspiron 8200 back in August '02 and still didn't get it! And I paid in advance, in cash, $2150. Dealing with this company (German branch) was the nightmare of a lifetime. They screwed up my order on every level, in every way imaginable or unimaginable. And after each screwup, the respective droid would be unattainable over the phone or email, and I would get another one.
After a mindboggling amount of my time and patience had been wasted, I finally just got my money back last January (not a dime in compensation). Surprise: they screwed up and wired me the money twice, then sent me a rude dunning letter asking for the extra amount, even before I discovered the double refund!
Then the other day, the mess lands on the desk of an escalation manager, who offers me a $100 discount if I try to order it again! That's the absolute top offer they're making! The manager told me that something like this lands on his desk about once a week! Other European countries are supposedly similar. Small wonder they don't have customer forums on the European web pages! Be forewarned!
Why is this sort of resolution available in Dell (and a few other brands) laptops, but not in stand alone displays, where pretty much every 15" unit has only 1024*768?
I have been brushed off with this question here before, when somebody replied that this isn't actually the "real" resolution of the display, but hey, take a look and you'll see that it is.
I'm looking into getting my first LCD display for my PC. One thing I find puzzling: How come every (?) 15" stand alone display out there has only 1024x768 pixels, when notebook makers seem to have no problem with giving you 1600x1200 on the same area? (I'm thinking specifically of Dell's "UXGA TFT" displays). Even budget notebooks from Dell (sub $2000 range) give 1400x1050. I would have thought the technology would be exactly the same, no?
I'm planning to build a new box, and would like to run FreeBSD on it. I've been searching for resources for hardware compatibility/recommendations on the 'net, but haven't found much. Nor do the Release Notes say much about that; nothing about MoBo/CPU, for instance. I'm considering the EPoX EP-8KHA+, but I'm not sure about a graphics card. AFAIK there are no nvidia drivers for FreeBSD. Not that I'll be playing any games, though. Any suggestions/pointers?
I removed Netscape from my system about tree weeks ago, and decided to use Opera full time. I've used 5.0, 5.05, and 6.0tp2. I like the features of the browser a lot, it beats anything I've tried in that respect. However, the annoyingly incomplete implementation of CSS2 and the W3C DOM (endless JavaScript errors) make for a frustrating browsing experience. But more importantly, my system has become so unstable that I've had to hard reboot it every day for a while now. Lockups of bbkeys are extremely common (a couple of times every hour), then Blackbox freezes and I am unable to ssh into the machine from another computer on the LAN. (Last time this happened I could ping it, however). I can only blame this on Opera, as otherwise nothing has changed on the system. This is a SuSE 7.2, kernel 2.4.16, Opera dynamically linked to Qt-2.3.0
I'm surprised that nobody seems to remember this. It was a couple of months ago, when the British government had the misfortune of commissioning MS to design their web portal. The result, a public site paid for by UK taxpayers, it denied access to non-IE browsers. The explanation was a supposed immaturity of SSL support in these browsers, IIRC. Sorry, I'm too lazy right now to dig up any links on this, but there was something about it on LT and ZDNET.
The URL is www.gateway.gov.uk, and if one clicks on "What do I need before I can register" one sees that this has been fixed; a reasonable palette of browsers is now supported.
Maybe it's just me, but isn't what they tried to pull there a bit more serious than barring people from their own corporate wesite?
My problem is that they have set a precedent. As soon as they delete posts, they are open for all time to any corporation that wishes to sue them. To keep common carrier status, you must *never* tamper with posts on your site.
So if Joe Schmoe the postman tampers with a letter he was supposed to deliver, the Postal Service is no longer a common carrier?
My old Compaq LTE 5200 has no USB port, but has 2 unusued PCMCIA slots. Would I be able to make use of the new USB capabilities using something like the Belkin "BusPort Mobile" pc card (PCMCIA -> 2 USB ports). Has anyone tried this so far?
I would imagine for this thing to be of any use, use would need a port of gcc. Does anyone know what the status of that is? From the "assortment" of screenshots, I seems it has a running bash. Other than that? The boot messages say something about a framebuffer device, I think. Does that mean it will run X?
Antonio.
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I switched from the spartan Flux/Blackbox a while ago, and I really like KDE as a WM, plus the panel. However, I much prefer Mozilla to Konq, OpenOffice to Koffice, and the same goes for any category of software I've tried (multimedia, graphics, editors,...).
What it looks like, there's no way of installing a diet version of KDE, without hundreds (ok, dozens) of programs I'll never use. Should that be necessary? I'm using Debian packages, but this doesn't seem to be much different if you compile it yourself. In this regard, KDE takes "bundling" to a new level, whipping Bill Gates' ass!
Switch to Gnome? Unfortunately I don't like that environment at all.
Why troll? Does the moderator work for Dell? I wrote nothing but the honest truth, as amazing as that may seem.
I ordered an Inspiron 8200 back in August '02 and still didn't get it! And I paid in advance, in cash, $2150. Dealing with this company (German branch) was the nightmare of a lifetime. They screwed up my order on every level, in every way imaginable or unimaginable. And after each screwup, the respective droid would be unattainable over the phone or email, and I would get another one.
After a mindboggling amount of my time and patience had been wasted, I finally just got my money back last January (not a dime in compensation). Surprise: they screwed up and wired me the money twice, then sent me a rude dunning letter asking for the extra amount, even before I discovered the double refund!
Then the other day, the mess lands on the desk of an escalation manager, who offers me a $100 discount if I try to order it again! That's the absolute top offer they're making! The manager told me that something like this lands on his desk about once a week! Other European countries are supposedly similar. Small wonder they don't have customer forums on the European web pages! Be forewarned!
Never got an answer to this one:
Why is this sort of resolution available in Dell (and a few other brands) laptops, but not in stand alone displays, where pretty much every 15" unit has only 1024*768?
I have been brushed off with this question here before, when somebody replied that this isn't actually the "real" resolution of the display, but hey, take a look and you'll see that it is.
I'm looking into getting my first LCD display for my PC. One thing I find puzzling: How come every (?) 15" stand alone display out there has only 1024x768 pixels, when notebook makers seem to have no problem with giving you 1600x1200 on the same area? (I'm thinking specifically of Dell's "UXGA TFT" displays). Even budget notebooks from Dell (sub $2000 range) give 1400x1050. I would have thought the technology would be exactly the same, no?
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I'm planning to build a new box, and would like to run FreeBSD on it. I've been searching for resources for hardware compatibility/recommendations on the 'net, but haven't found much. Nor do the Release Notes say much about that; nothing about MoBo/CPU, for instance. I'm considering the EPoX EP-8KHA+, but I'm not sure about a graphics card. AFAIK there are no nvidia drivers for FreeBSD. Not that I'll be playing any games, though. Any suggestions/pointers?
I removed Netscape from my system about tree weeks ago, and decided to use Opera full time. I've used 5.0, 5.05, and 6.0tp2. I like the features of the browser a lot, it beats anything I've tried in that respect. However, the annoyingly incomplete implementation of CSS2 and the W3C DOM (endless JavaScript errors) make for a frustrating browsing experience. But more importantly, my system has become so unstable that I've had to hard reboot it every day for a while now. Lockups of bbkeys are extremely common (a couple of times every hour), then Blackbox freezes and I am unable to ssh into the machine from another computer on the LAN. (Last time this happened I could ping it, however). I can only blame this on Opera, as otherwise nothing has changed on the system. This is a SuSE 7.2, kernel 2.4.16, Opera dynamically linked to Qt-2.3.0
I'm surprised that nobody seems to remember this. It was a couple of months ago, when the British government had the misfortune of commissioning MS to design their web portal. The result, a public site paid for by UK taxpayers, it denied access to non-IE browsers. The explanation was a supposed immaturity of SSL support in these browsers, IIRC. Sorry, I'm too lazy right now to dig up any links on this, but there was something about it on LT and ZDNET.
The URL is www.gateway.gov.uk, and if one clicks on "What do I need before I can register" one sees that this has been fixed; a reasonable palette of browsers is now supported.
Maybe it's just me, but isn't what they tried to pull there a bit more serious than barring people from their own corporate wesite?
My problem is that they have set a precedent. As soon as they delete posts, they are open for all time to any corporation that wishes to sue them. To keep common carrier status, you must *never* tamper with posts on your site.
So if Joe Schmoe the postman tampers with a letter he was supposed to deliver, the Postal Service is no longer a common carrier?
My old Compaq LTE 5200 has no USB port, but has 2 unusued PCMCIA slots. Would I be able to make use of the new USB capabilities using something like the Belkin "BusPort Mobile" pc card (PCMCIA -> 2 USB ports). Has anyone tried this so far?
I would imagine for this thing to be of any use, use would need a port of gcc. Does anyone know what the status of that is? From the "assortment" of screenshots, I seems it has a running bash. Other than that? The boot messages say something about a framebuffer device, I think. Does that mean it will run X? Antonio.