I agree, though I still prefer Debian itself for servers which will not run any GUI at all. But then, I tend to be fairly conservative in my distributions for servers.
I tried FreeBSD but gave it up. The main problem was that it does not run the 4.x versions of VMWare, unfortunately still a requirement for me. However, I also found that Debian did a better job managing configuration files.
I'm not sure that's what he meant. Because, after all, there are multiple development environments for Windows as well. Borland, Microsoft, heck you can even get emacs, kdevelop, etc. running in Windows.
I agree with you that multiple options for development environments are good, I'm just not sure that's what he was implying.
Yeah right. Microsoft Word cannot itself open MSWord files absolutely perfectly. You can be seriously hosed if you have a different printer (or even just a different DRIVER for the same printer) than the one set up when the word document was first created. Forget trying to open the document on Word for Mac, you'll run into way more problems there. And what if the document links to an object you don't happen to have installed?
No, I can say with absolute certainty that IBM does not have a filter for OO that opens MSWord documents perfectly. There's simply no way. Microsoft cannot do it and they wrote MS Word.
Even taking this into account, we are still less populated (by area) than most areas of the U.S. This gets MUCH worse when you eliminate those unpopulated areas of the U.S.
I use Ubuntu at home. I love it. And I fully understand (and absolutely support) their decision to go with Gnome.
But what I really want is Ubuntu with KDE. This is personal preference, I just prefer the way KDE feels. I know I can use KDE applications under Gnome but that's not enough for me, I want KDE.
So, how easy is it to run Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome? The Ubuntu forums express disdain for anyone who mentions KDE, so I have no clear idea if even the necessary debs are packaged up, though obviously I could just download them from another repository.
And I'm well aware that I may simply not have found the wiki page or whatever that discusses how to run KDE on Ubuntu. But if someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
I'm willing to briefly state why I prefer KDE to Gnome but I'm not willing to argue about which is the better window manager. Use Gnome if you like, I'm happy for you.
No app in the world does.doc perfectly. Including MS Office. Apart from different versions of MS Office not being quite compatible, even the SAME VERSION and same platform have problems opening up documents saved on a different computer if, say, you don't have the same printer attached. And we can just forget it if the word document has any attached binary objects (that is, things like COM objects) included.
So, yes, OO has problems importing MS Word documents. But then, so does MS Word on the Mac and, for that matter, MS Word on Windows. At best, I'd rate MS Word's ability to import Word documents at 8 out of 10. OO probably only gets a 6 or a 7, though.
It is hard to tell from your statements, but this may stop tools like ccache from working. I use ccache in my projects and it radically cuts down the amount of recompilation required when I do a complete rebuild. Now, an obvious question is why I don't simply rely on makefiles to ensure only changed files ever get rebuilt. This often happens because compilation involves generating new cpp files that are then compiled and I don't want to be grepping through these all the time. I suppose I could move them all to a different directory, but ccache works very well.
The other problem, of course, is that separating your classes into header and implementation means that if you change the implementation, you only need to recompile that one file and relink, rather than recompiling EVERYTHING. This can be a matter of a few seconds vs. several minutes. And implementation does change, a lot... fix a bug, you fix the implementation. The headers change too, but much much less frequently.
The class-action lawsuits against Apple tend to indicate that Apple hardware is not actually significantly better than the bottom-end Dell stuff. Apple has certainly had more lawsuits launched against them. On the other hand, perhaps as a result, Apple has finally started producing decent hardware. I was very happy with my 2nd-gen iPod, for example.
That's stupid. Many people aren't interested in Quicken 2005, for example. If you are going to force someone to buy everything in one package not found in the other, how much is it going to cost to upgrade the Mac Mini to a decent-speed CPU? Say, 3.0 Ghz? Granted, clock-for-clock, the G4 is substantially more powerful than the Pentium 4 but NOT, in my tests, compared to an Athlon XP. So, let us instead ask how much to upgrade to a reasonable bottom-end CPU running at, say, 2.0 Ghz?
Of course, this misses the point. If you are the target audience for a Mac mini, you probably don't care about CPU speed; it'll already do all you want. But then, forcing people to add Quicken 2005 and the like to a low-end Dell is similarly missing the point.
Note that the Mac mini has craptastic graphics as well. It ships with a 32 meg (!) Radeon 9200. That's basically a DirectX 8 video card (yes, I know OS X doesn't support DirectX). It's what, two generations behind?
Of course, it is fine for anything none-game related, but then so is the integrated graphics shipping on low-end Dell systems.
What rate of successful deliveries do you have with UPS? To residential addresses, I get a little under a 33% success rate. UPS sometimes even claims that the address doesn't exist when the truth of the matter is that they just can't navigate the streets properly.
CSS was never meant to prevent copying of the DVD, at least not from people who really understood it. It was meant to prevent unlicensed DVD players from playing back DVD content. Basically, it was meant to enforce licensing payments for any manufacturers of DVD players.
It did that pretty well.
It was marketed as copy-protection but in reality, it was always intended as playback prevention.
I must admit, I'm with ack154 on this one. I followed those steps (obviously without prompting from you) and cannot find the tool anywhere on my computer. Checking Windows update shows that I have no more critical updates to install.
Is the program actually loaded onto my computer or not? I can't find any way to actually run the darn thing.
I'm looking for a solution as well. My situation is that I want to tunnel two LANs together. One of them is behind a firewall that I control and has a semi-static IP address. That is, the IP address is resolvable using a DNS lookup. However, the other LAN is behind a firewall I do NOT control (though I have all necessary consent, of course) and does NOT have a static IP address.
OpenVPN therefore does not seem to work for me, though perhaps I was reading the documentation incorrectly. It seems that it requires both endpoints have static IP addresses. Also, am I correct in saying that it requires UDP?
I don't know if CD burning is power-intensive but I know that the Apple laptops don't get exceptional battery life if you spend most of your time compiling software. When I was doing this, the CPU was (of course) pinned at 100% and I found, with a number of iBooks and Powerbooks, that I was getting a little less than two hours of life out of them. This is roughly similar to what I would get on Wintel laptops.
It's still quite impressive. Although the compiles naturally took considerably longer on the Apple laptops (these were G3s and G4s, around 1 Ghz, quite slow by comparison to Wintel laptop CPUs those days), I got roughly similar battery life but the Apple laptop batteries are considerably less powerful than their Wintel laptop counterparts. That's not a slam on Apple... they accomplish the same battery life which much less powerful (and much lighter) batteries.
What? They don't check very well, not at all. How else could they accidentally issue keys identifying as Microsoft to some third parties? See here for more information.
Verisign does a lousy job of verifying that you are who you say you are. They may be slightly better now than they used to be but they still do minimal checks at best and rely on information that's relatively easy to subvert.
Absolutely not! I have several other pieces of hardware that simply don't have Windows XP drivers at all, and the _vast_ majority of the hardware that I own doesn't have drivers built in to Windows XP. You instead have to download it from a slew of websites.
So no, by that guy's reasoning, Windows XP has a long way to go before it is ready for the desktop.:)
It is worth checking out Canada's copyright laws and regulations. Around the time that the U.S. introduced DMCA, Canada declared music downloads were perfectly legal. We've also gone completely the opposite way with privacy laws and legislations. Canada introduced the PIPED Act which provides real and concrete protections for personal privacy even in the commercial sector. Around the same time, the U.S. courts declared that U.S. businesses did not have to adhere to their privacy policies.
Canada is certainly not perfect, of course. But in my view, Canada's been deharmonising copyright laws and legislations compared to the U.S.
Disclaimer: I live in Canada but am not a Canadian citizen.
valgrind and associated add-ons, are absolutely amazing and quite useful for C and C++ programming.
Nobody should be caught dead writing C++ programming without at least knowing about Boost's libraries. Not really analysis tools but useful nevertheless.
This link shows that there is considerably more than 15 minutes of non-programming time per hour on American t.v., as much as 20:53 minutes per hour in some time slots.
It is bad enough that people are actually stopping watching television, choosing instead to download t.v. shows, watch it on PVRs that allow them to skip commercials, or taping the shows and ff-ing through commercials.
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I agree, though I still prefer Debian itself for servers which will not run any GUI at all. But then, I tend to be fairly conservative in my distributions for servers.
I tried FreeBSD but gave it up. The main problem was that it does not run the 4.x versions of VMWare, unfortunately still a requirement for me. However, I also found that Debian did a better job managing configuration files.
I'm not sure that's what he meant. Because, after all, there are multiple development environments for Windows as well. Borland, Microsoft, heck you can even get emacs, kdevelop, etc. running in Windows.
I agree with you that multiple options for development environments are good, I'm just not sure that's what he was implying.
Yeah right. Microsoft Word cannot itself open MSWord files absolutely perfectly. You can be seriously hosed if you have a different printer (or even just a different DRIVER for the same printer) than the one set up when the word document was first created. Forget trying to open the document on Word for Mac, you'll run into way more problems there. And what if the document links to an object you don't happen to have installed?
No, I can say with absolute certainty that IBM does not have a filter for OO that opens MSWord documents perfectly. There's simply no way. Microsoft cannot do it and they wrote MS Word.
You owe me a new keyboard, mine has cola all over it now.
Even taking this into account, we are still less populated (by area) than most areas of the U.S. This gets MUCH worse when you eliminate those unpopulated areas of the U.S.
Is it mostly a matter of changing from gdm to kdm and changing which window environment starts up?
I use Ubuntu at home. I love it. And I fully understand (and absolutely support) their decision to go with Gnome.
But what I really want is Ubuntu with KDE. This is personal preference, I just prefer the way KDE feels. I know I can use KDE applications under Gnome but that's not enough for me, I want KDE.
So, how easy is it to run Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome? The Ubuntu forums express disdain for anyone who mentions KDE, so I have no clear idea if even the necessary debs are packaged up, though obviously I could just download them from another repository.
And I'm well aware that I may simply not have found the wiki page or whatever that discusses how to run KDE on Ubuntu. But if someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
I'm willing to briefly state why I prefer KDE to Gnome but I'm not willing to argue about which is the better window manager. Use Gnome if you like, I'm happy for you.
No app in the world does .doc perfectly. Including MS Office. Apart from different versions of MS Office not being quite compatible, even the SAME VERSION and same platform have problems opening up documents saved on a different computer if, say, you don't have the same printer attached. And we can just forget it if the word document has any attached binary objects (that is, things like COM objects) included.
So, yes, OO has problems importing MS Word documents. But then, so does MS Word on the Mac and, for that matter, MS Word on Windows. At best, I'd rate MS Word's ability to import Word documents at 8 out of 10. OO probably only gets a 6 or a 7, though.
It is hard to tell from your statements, but this may stop tools like ccache from working. I use ccache in my projects and it radically cuts down the amount of recompilation required when I do a complete rebuild. Now, an obvious question is why I don't simply rely on makefiles to ensure only changed files ever get rebuilt. This often happens because compilation involves generating new cpp files that are then compiled and I don't want to be grepping through these all the time. I suppose I could move them all to a different directory, but ccache works very well.
The other problem, of course, is that separating your classes into header and implementation means that if you change the implementation, you only need to recompile that one file and relink, rather than recompiling EVERYTHING. This can be a matter of a few seconds vs. several minutes. And implementation does change, a lot... fix a bug, you fix the implementation. The headers change too, but much much less frequently.
The class-action lawsuits against Apple tend to indicate that Apple hardware is not actually significantly better than the bottom-end Dell stuff. Apple has certainly had more lawsuits launched against them. On the other hand, perhaps as a result, Apple has finally started producing decent hardware. I was very happy with my 2nd-gen iPod, for example.
That's stupid. Many people aren't interested in Quicken 2005, for example. If you are going to force someone to buy everything in one package not found in the other, how much is it going to cost to upgrade the Mac Mini to a decent-speed CPU? Say, 3.0 Ghz? Granted, clock-for-clock, the G4 is substantially more powerful than the Pentium 4 but NOT, in my tests, compared to an Athlon XP. So, let us instead ask how much to upgrade to a reasonable bottom-end CPU running at, say, 2.0 Ghz?
Of course, this misses the point. If you are the target audience for a Mac mini, you probably don't care about CPU speed; it'll already do all you want. But then, forcing people to add Quicken 2005 and the like to a low-end Dell is similarly missing the point.
Note that the Mac mini has craptastic graphics as well. It ships with a 32 meg (!) Radeon 9200. That's basically a DirectX 8 video card (yes, I know OS X doesn't support DirectX). It's what, two generations behind?
Of course, it is fine for anything none-game related, but then so is the integrated graphics shipping on low-end Dell systems.
OS X is pretty hungry for memory. It'll run with only 256 megs of RAM, but it really thirsts for more.
What rate of successful deliveries do you have with UPS? To residential addresses, I get a little under a 33% success rate. UPS sometimes even claims that the address doesn't exist when the truth of the matter is that they just can't navigate the streets properly.
CSS was never meant to prevent copying of the DVD, at least not from people who really understood it. It was meant to prevent unlicensed DVD players from playing back DVD content. Basically, it was meant to enforce licensing payments for any manufacturers of DVD players.
It did that pretty well.
It was marketed as copy-protection but in reality, it was always intended as playback prevention.
I must admit, I'm with ack154 on this one. I followed those steps (obviously without prompting from you) and cannot find the tool anywhere on my computer. Checking Windows update shows that I have no more critical updates to install.
Is the program actually loaded onto my computer or not? I can't find any way to actually run the darn thing.
I'm looking for a solution as well. My situation is that I want to tunnel two LANs together. One of them is behind a firewall that I control and has a semi-static IP address. That is, the IP address is resolvable using a DNS lookup. However, the other LAN is behind a firewall I do NOT control (though I have all necessary consent, of course) and does NOT have a static IP address.
OpenVPN therefore does not seem to work for me, though perhaps I was reading the documentation incorrectly. It seems that it requires both endpoints have static IP addresses. Also, am I correct in saying that it requires UDP?
I don't know if CD burning is power-intensive but I know that the Apple laptops don't get exceptional battery life if you spend most of your time compiling software. When I was doing this, the CPU was (of course) pinned at 100% and I found, with a number of iBooks and Powerbooks, that I was getting a little less than two hours of life out of them. This is roughly similar to what I would get on Wintel laptops.
It's still quite impressive. Although the compiles naturally took considerably longer on the Apple laptops (these were G3s and G4s, around 1 Ghz, quite slow by comparison to Wintel laptop CPUs those days), I got roughly similar battery life but the Apple laptop batteries are considerably less powerful than their Wintel laptop counterparts. That's not a slam on Apple... they accomplish the same battery life which much less powerful (and much lighter) batteries.
What? They don't check very well, not at all. How else could they accidentally issue keys identifying as Microsoft to some third parties? See here for more information.
Verisign does a lousy job of verifying that you are who you say you are. They may be slightly better now than they used to be but they still do minimal checks at best and rely on information that's relatively easy to subvert.
The levy and the amendment bill to the copyright act were logically two separate items, though they were (obviously) politically tied together.
Absolutely not! I have several other pieces of hardware that simply don't have Windows XP drivers at all, and the _vast_ majority of the hardware that I own doesn't have drivers built in to Windows XP. You instead have to download it from a slew of websites.
:)
So no, by that guy's reasoning, Windows XP has a long way to go before it is ready for the desktop.
It is worth checking out Canada's copyright laws and regulations. Around the time that the U.S. introduced DMCA, Canada declared music downloads were perfectly legal. We've also gone completely the opposite way with privacy laws and legislations. Canada introduced the PIPED Act which provides real and concrete protections for personal privacy even in the commercial sector. Around the same time, the U.S. courts declared that U.S. businesses did not have to adhere to their privacy policies.
Canada is certainly not perfect, of course. But in my view, Canada's been deharmonising copyright laws and legislations compared to the U.S.
Disclaimer: I live in Canada but am not a Canadian citizen.
A&M Records v. Napster is completely irrelevant here. That was a U.S. court decision, this guy is talking about Canada.
valgrind and associated add-ons, are absolutely amazing and quite useful for C and C++ programming.
Nobody should be caught dead writing C++ programming without at least knowing about Boost's libraries. Not really analysis tools but useful nevertheless.
This link shows that there is considerably more than 15 minutes of non-programming time per hour on American t.v., as much as 20:53 minutes per hour in some time slots.
It is bad enough that people are actually stopping watching television, choosing instead to download t.v. shows, watch it on PVRs that allow them to skip commercials, or taping the shows and ff-ing through commercials.