I really hope this one will go through a pretty secure firewall. Most people have tcp access to port 80/21, unless they are hooked to a proxy. If they can pipe realaudio through port80, then this should be easy.
Ok linux people. Here's one that X still can't touch. What's with the bass ackwards fonts support in X? Who the hell is going to load a daemon/server/app whatever just so you can make the ttf's work? Fonts are one of those things that should be system wide, build in, not to mention beautiful. X has pisspoor font support. Even if you can find a font, they are a jaggy as hell.
I'd say Mac's for people who want to get media done. Yes, linux is a great OS and I tell people about it every day. But it still isn't there in media. I'm not talking about X11Amp and xanim. Linux is getting there, Blender is GOOD. Gimp is aproaching photoshop, but is never planned on having CMYK, so it won't make it in the DTP world. Linux has nothing like Illustrator. Now video editing in Linux. Don't bash the Mac, cause it's good at what it's made for. And because of ease of use, my parents can surf on a Mac all day. They aren't interested in upgrading lib's and uptime. They just want it to work.
Linux is great for behind the scenes, but it has a way to go before it's on the stage.
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I really hope this one will go through a pretty secure firewall. Most people have tcp access to port 80/21, unless they are hooked to a proxy. If they can pipe realaudio through port80, then this should be easy.
Ok linux people. Here's one that X still can't touch. What's with the bass ackwards fonts support in X? Who the hell is going to load a daemon/server/app whatever just so you can make the ttf's work? Fonts are one of those things that should be system wide, build in, not to mention beautiful. X has pisspoor font support. Even if you can find a font, they are a jaggy as hell.
I'd say Mac's for people who want to get media done. Yes, linux is a great OS and I tell people about it every day. But it still isn't there in media. I'm not talking about X11Amp and xanim. Linux is getting there, Blender is GOOD. Gimp is aproaching photoshop, but is never planned on having CMYK, so it won't make it in the DTP world. Linux has nothing like Illustrator. Now video editing in Linux. Don't bash the Mac, cause it's good at what it's made for. And because of ease of use, my parents can surf on a Mac all day. They aren't interested in upgrading lib's and uptime. They just want it to work.
Linux is great for behind the scenes, but it has a way to go before it's on the stage.
Anyone else having probelms getting to the site?
Don't tell me you people have /.'ed already! 900bytes/sec isn't that good even for my 56k.