This is accurate. Gotta love http://www.defcon.org/. I was there, man! Fortunately for everyone, the oppressors in the US permitted Dmitry's employer's in russia to stand trial on his behalf. <3 EFF too.
well... truthfully, the only part of that that's not provided in your OSX distribution is darwinports/fink. I don't see that installing more things inherently slows down a unix system. Running more things concurrently, yes.:D There's not a single app from linux I've wanted to run and can't. I run AfterStep WM alongside the normal OSX desktop... and aterm for most of my work... Reasons I'm an OSX advocate: 1. Most linux apps work fine on OSX, and Mac OS and Mac OSX programs. You might not be aware, but people used to develop games for OS's other than windows. 2. Uplink for Mac is less buggy than on win/linux.;) 3. iTunes. 4. Reason! (www.propellerheads.se) 5. Flash MX studio... for work...:| 6. BSD core. The only thing I've had crash on me was the Dock herself... though I could ssh in and fix it.:D
Is it very sensitive to errors, like most XML applications? If one XML file/tag gets corrupted, is the whole windowing system fucked until someone goes in on the command-line to fix it?
It typically just fucks up that image... and so far it's been pretty lenient to me.
Does the typical "XML bloat" become an issue?
And, is there much gained by using XML over some/any other scheme?
XML bloat as in too many tags or not streamlined data? I've not noticed this.
XML was the chosen scheme mostly because of it's strict heirarchy. There may be better schemes.
an d you've got a beautiful 1600x1200 image with a gradient that passes through the entire background , not just a single tile. It will also pull the colors for this gradient out of your current colorscheme, unless you would like to change some simple xml around.
You mean that people are now getting paid for being dreamers and inventors?
You mean I don't have end up in poverty because i gave my inventions to the masses?
This is hardly a new trend... 400 years ago, sure the inventors enjoyed helping humanity, to their own demise. George Washington Carver, Leonardo DaVinci, two name a few, died in poverty. On the other hand, great inventors like Browning, still collected a large paycheck, though they still helped out their country and the world.
"As Linux zealots are beginning to find out, it's a lot easier to masquerade as a better product than it is to go
out and be one." (last line of moody's article)
Isn't this the whole damn reason everyone stopped using windows in the first place? Because their marketing is better than their product. I think Moody got it right, even though he thought he was saying the opposite.
David Brin wrote a book set in around 2030... it was called "Earth" and was rather interesting. Some of the story takes place in orbit, and they are using these tethers... not to sound like an advertisement or anything, but it was a good read and it's nice to read a fiction novel written by someone with a PhD in Astrophysics...
Sure... If you cannot handle configureing your WM
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X Windows Must Die!
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If you're talking about the technically impared users that cannot configure anything, Gnome and KDE bloat the system to unuse. As a release to the masses system, you cannot say that the default X settings aren't slow. You could use Afterstep to cut out some of the performance loss, but you can't get rid of all of it. The article complains about trying to get a working system on a *single* floppy (with X), which i've seen easily done on 3, but the problem is not disk space and loading times. If we're trying to win over the populous that cannot program their WM, then we're competing against a 400~MB (?) default install of windows 2k. 3 floppies should be sufficient in this market.
Most of the things i've read from this thread are "I'm not going to see this movie because I'm closed minded" You'd think that this community would be a little bit against closed mindedness like this, like you guys claim to have issues with "traditional" (microsoft) business values and theories, as well as "traditional" OS's and other ideologies. my $0.02
Back When I was a boy, we didn't have Robotic lego sets. We thought we we're real geniuses when we took the little flat pieces and put them in sideways in between the little bump thingies. The only thing that moved in our toys was the wheels, which only moved if you pushed them really hard. AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY.
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... but since it touts that it doesn't use 3rd party servers for key storage... ... seems like it'd be suseptible to Ye Olde Man-In-The-Middle.
:D
3 Zimm though.
This is accurate. Gotta love http://www.defcon.org/. I was there, man!
Fortunately for everyone, the oppressors in the US permitted Dmitry's employer's in russia to stand trial on his behalf. <3 EFF too.
well... truthfully, the only part of that that's not provided in your OSX distribution is darwinports/fink. I don't see that installing more things inherently slows down a unix system. Running more things concurrently, yes. :D ;) :| :D
There's not a single app from linux I've wanted to run and can't. I run AfterStep WM alongside the normal OSX desktop... and aterm for most of my work...
Reasons I'm an OSX advocate:
1. Most linux apps work fine on OSX, and Mac OS and Mac OSX programs. You might not be aware, but people used to develop games for OS's other than windows.
2. Uplink for Mac is less buggy than on win/linux.
3. iTunes.
4. Reason! (www.propellerheads.se)
5. Flash MX studio... for work...
6. BSD core. The only thing I've had crash on me was the Dock herself... though I could ssh in and fix it.
That includes the payload for my background image, which is kept in AfterStep for manipulation, instead of cluttering up X.
Actually you're not too far off...
take a 17KB greyscale tile (defenseless elsie, in this case), and load it with this chunk of xml:
<composite op=tint>
<gradient width=$xroot.width height=$xroot.height colors="BaseDark BaseLight" angle=45/>
<img tile=1 tint="#7Fffffff" src="tiles/DefenselessElsie"/>
</composite>
an d you've got a beautiful 1600x1200 image with a gradient that passes through the entire background , not just a single tile. It will also pull the colors for this gradient out of your current colorscheme, unless you would like to change some simple xml around.
Actually, AfterStep 2.0 typically consumes less than 8mb ... slimness is one of its strong suits... still.
You mean I don't have end up in poverty because i gave my inventions to the masses?
This is hardly a new trend... 400 years ago, sure the inventors enjoyed helping humanity, to their own demise. George Washington Carver, Leonardo DaVinci, two name a few, died in poverty. On the other hand, great inventors like Browning, still collected a large paycheck, though they still helped out their country and the world.
Isn't this the whole damn reason everyone stopped using windows in the first place? Because their marketing is better than their product. I think Moody got it right, even though he thought he was saying the opposite.
David Brin wrote a book set in around 2030... it was called "Earth" and was rather interesting. Some of the story takes place in orbit, and they are using these tethers...
not to sound like an advertisement or anything, but it was a good read and it's nice to read a fiction novel written by someone with a PhD in Astrophysics...
If you're talking about the technically impared users that cannot configure anything, Gnome and KDE bloat the system to unuse. As a release to the masses system, you cannot say that the default X settings aren't slow. You could use Afterstep to cut out some of the performance loss, but you can't get rid of all of it. The article complains about trying to get a working system on a *single* floppy (with X), which i've seen easily done on 3, but the problem is not disk space and loading times. If we're trying to win over the populous that cannot program their WM, then we're competing against a 400~MB (?) default install of windows 2k. 3 floppies should be sufficient in this market.
What do you expect? it's a BOOK REVIEW .
Most of the things i've read from this thread are "I'm not going to see this movie because I'm closed minded"
You'd think that this community would be a little bit against closed mindedness like this, like you guys claim to have issues with "traditional" (microsoft) business values and theories, as well as "traditional" OS's and other ideologies. my $0.02
Back When I was a boy, we didn't have Robotic lego sets. We thought we we're real geniuses when we took the little flat pieces and put them in sideways in between the little bump thingies.
The only thing that moved in our toys was the wheels, which only moved if you pushed them really hard.
AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY.