If you ignore the license issues for a minute, I think maybe the real quesion is weather the code will port over to windows. Other have already pointed out the licens issues.
So the answer is yes and no. KDE is not just applications. There is kde base, kde libs, kde support, which all have to be ported over to windows. This would include the kde window manager code which may or may not work under cygwin. From my understanding and use of cygwin I had problems just getting X to work withough crashing my machine.
Further more the problem is that the way windows accesses devices and the way linux access devices is different. This means that you would have to modify significant portions of some of these libraries to port them over. In particular anything that deals with opening/dev/midi, or/dev/audio. I guess what I am saying is that porting over kde multimedia would probably be a chore. Once you have kdelibs, kde base and kde support ported over, assuimng that the application that you are porting over does not make any system calls you may be okay. I.E. kqps and kinfo would not work as they make use of Linux specific things.
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This is probably the biggest trailer that I have seen yet. This is NOT a lowband trailer. It is almost 30 megs. Good thing for workplace and highspeed lines.
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.. it should not be to long before plex86 boots windows either. Apparently much of the bochs code is going into plex86. What they are trying to do is to go from emulation or I guess virtualization. I have bochs running win 95 not to long ago, and if it runs linux I can see it running windows probably in a few months.
Maybe by the middle of next year or earlier they will have an actual 'released' beta version out.
Gee and I was just given a window box a few days ago. Oh well maybe I'll have to turn it into a solaris or freebsd box or another linux box. Or donate it;-)
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I tried upgrading the rpms for kde2rc2 final and for some reason it tried to install support for 1.2 and support 2.0. Is this necessary? I hope not I hope it was just a bad rpm. I'll wiat a few days. I am sure that this is going to be a whole lot better, but right now I am using GNOME. If it turns out to be really sweet like the screenshots have shown it to be then I may actually consider switching. I need to do something as I had to remove kde 1.2 and kde 2rc2 and reinstall 1.2 and now my icons are all missing the images that went with them and I cannot get them back. arg!!
I guess the one big thing that bothers me most about kde 1.x is that the task bar or 'start' bar never seemed to get hidden. It apeared in the top left corner of my desktop and covered my icons. The other thing I was botherd by, but not as much was the fact that the icons did not take to 'random placement'. They were to ordered and inline. GNOME's does not do that nether does windows.
It will be nice though to have 2.0 if they use gtk themes as well, then all the kde and gnome apps can finally start to look like they belong on the same desktop.
My final wish is that the two adopted API's into each other. I.E. a user could write a program in QT/kde libs and then another user could add to it in GTK/GNOME libs. Or call functions from the differnet libs more easily. It would be nice if there were interfaces into QT/kdelibs from gtk/GNOME and visaversa. It may reduce some of the overlap in software.
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I'd have to say you are more like a control freek than anything else. You want total control over all that goes on to the machines that go on YOUR network. If ISP's can handle all the computers on there networks with the various hardware system as well as the various software etc, so should a network. I have been at several companies that did not monitor there software installs. The way that they would work is if a user was repeatedly screwing up his machine or running certain program they would take away his power to install software. The only downtime we saw was when our NT servers needed a reboot because of NT server problems. I have always had full admin access on my machine as there are lots of times that I need software to do my job that is not supplied by IT. Currently my IT department wont support anything other than Windows and Office and Outlook. That does not fly when you have to test web apges in various browsers like I do. To make sure that content is viewable and looks good in IE, Netscape Opera, and other browsers. As well I have other needs to do my job. I find the need to have a web server on my own PC a necessity in my job. This allows me to test various web server settings without screwing up a dev environment that others may be using, as well as things like php and perl.
I know more about computers than most IT deparments. The last time I called the IT deparment was to ask them to set me up on the server side for VPN. The time before that was to get my static IP address. I know that most users are not like me, but if I had to call the IT department evertime I needed something installed or uninstalled or my registry edited or whatever, you'd want to assign an IT person to my desk as my personal slave.
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It is in Tcl/Tk, and soe don't like that. It works on Windows, Mac and *nux. I got several requests from people to add this or that and some even submitted patches.
The OS model works, but it is hard to find who is doing what. Also it is sometimes hard to follow others code. There really should be coding standards for OSS but some people are into writing code that is not readable.
Personally I am thinking of merging some of my code from another thing I am working on with another project at sourceforge.net.
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Yes, HURD needs quite a lot of work to become stable,
Fact is Linux is already stable. It is usable, there are device drivers for it is is already quite mature for an OS that is almost 10 years old. Hey Mac and windows are both older than Linux (including win 3.1). Maybe in a few years hurd will be a contender. It has take these developers to port to the MF and get bigger hardware support less time then it would take to get hurd in stable shape.
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Tk NotePad was something I wrote. I got a lot of suggestions and even some patches and fixes.
Suggestions for new developers:
First post your software on the web. If you don't have a place of your own ther eis always sourceforge.net.
Next make sure the name is descriptive of what it is. Sure a cool name is great, but it should also describe the software. I used Tk NotePad cause it is basically like windows notepad except in Tcl/Tk so it runs on Mac, *NIX, and Windows. Thus the name. Post a link to it at freshmeat.net. According to them I have had somewhere in the over 1000 downloads range. Make sure that if it has a GUI the GUI is intuitive. Not just to you, but to others as well. Ask friends to try it out. Since i modeled mine after windows notepad the GUI framework was already there. I also added a few necessary features to it. Next make sure people understand what type of license you have it licensed under. GPL, MPL, LGPL, or in my case, "It's on your machine you do as you wish. If you fix a bug please sent it to me". Make sure it solves a problem. At the time that I started my editor and released it to the net, kde was not at 1.0 and lesstif did not easily compile nedit. (AFAIK) Thus the choice of editors was emacs and vi. lastly you cannot 'attract' developers. They will come only if they are interested in the project. Lets face it some projects are just not as interesting as others. Luckily for me there were other people out there that realized that at that time there were not real simple and easy to use text editors, and even though I did not get other developers to work on my project, I did get bug fixes, suggestions with & without patches and the shere enjoyment of learning Tcl/Tk (which made learning perl/C/C++ and Java easier).
First let me say that it is interesting that they only show newer phones. I am using a phone that is not on the list. I wonder how mine compares.
Second, I read an article in IEEE last month and they looked at the various studies about cell phones and their usage and if it causes 'brain cancer' and what kind of side effects using cell phones may have on us. The article had went over several studies. Each study did showed that different phones had different levels of radiation. However when trying to link to brain cancer they ALL were inconclusive. However they did mention that the amount of radiation that they produce does affect your brain. Cell phone radiation heats the brain much like certain types of thinking does. One of the studies showed that people who used a cell phone were given a quiz before using the phone and they tested their score and time. After using the phone they were given a similar quiz, only this time there responses were faster. (They didn't say weather they were right or wrong just faster or slower). Apparently using a cell phone will pre heat your brain.
No I don't think it would make you smarter.
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Since you are on the topic of seperation of church and state as well as freedom of religion. I have a question for the candidates.
A big topic today is gay rights or should they have them. In some countries gays are killed just for being gay. In South Africa, they first try to 'reprogram' them and when that fails the they kill them. I know Bush && Buchannon are against including gays on a hate crimes bill, and Gore says he is for including them in such a bill.
Hey just because it is against YOUR religion does not mean it is wrong! There was a time when Christianity had crusades and KILLED anyone who was not a Chrisitan. The NAZI's killed Jews / Hebrews just because they were Jewish or Hebrew. They ALSO killed gays and lesbians.
What are your views on the freedoms of those that do not share your views about religion and YOUR moral values? Specifically the religions that DO accept gays and lesbians, and DO allow them to marry and DO give them rights. The religions that teach true LOVE and not HATE.
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I thoguht the images were really intersting, but I thought that it was really annoying that YOU HAVE to accept a cookie from this site before you can view it. It is not like this is a secure site. Even Doubleclick does not make you accept a cookie to view there ads. Hey portols don't make you accept cookies unless you want to log in and that includes slashdot!
What makes this site 'require' cookies? That really pisses me off and I don't think it is worth going back to see again. There was nothing on that site that I required a cookie being set on my system.
On another note. If you are into robotics this is probably a really neat toy for you to get.
Sure and this is where someone calls me a troll and moderates me down. Remember this thougth. Cookies are used for tracking visitors. Doubleclick has devised a way of tracking visitors and knowing where they are located in the US based on there IP address and using the cookies to see if they are a repeat visotor at another site that they are serving ads at. Or to put it more simply. You visit here site once. You get a cookie. The next time you visit a site that has ads served by doubleclick your cookie is checked. They now know what type of sites you like to visit. They know where you are by IP address and depending on the site that you are visiting and weather you have an account and the privacy policy they could have all sorts of information and they do!
Hey I am not using Mozilla M18 with the new cookie tool so that I can go to a site and have them set a cookie (like mindstorm) just because they want to access my system. I have a right to reject cookies. If you want to refuse my viewing your site because I reject your cookies you have that right too. But when there is NO benifit to me to accept your cookie then you loose page views. Your loss not mine. And yes I did delete there cookie after viewing the page.
Hmm ever wonder how much info slashdot has about you? They have every article that you ever posted against, every article you clicked on, if you have an account, whoa..... Okay I'm not parynoid, but....
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Um I hate to burst your bubble, but the Redhat kernel and SuSE kernels are 'forks'. They not only have patches applied to them, but have code that is NOT in the main kernel. Redhat & SuSE DO maintian these kernels. Just because they are not 'officially' announced as forks does not mean that they are not forks. I'll take Redhat as an example. In Redhat 6.0 (I think it was) they shipped a 2.2.5 kernel that I could not patch to 2.2.6 because it was so different. This is a fork as the code is that different from the main branch. They just don't announce it as different.
On another "official' fork. Take Mozilla. They officially anounced that Mozilla would fork. There would be netscape 6 and Mozilla. At some point they would come back together again. If you get Netscape 6 and Mozilla they are different ever so slightly. Netscape is focusing on stability and speed and targeting towards a release that AOL can ship with there software. There focus is more on the Windows / MAC side as that is where AOL software runs. Mozilla is also focusing on this but they are focusing on Linux (read there pages this is true test the software). I have both Netscape 6pre 3 and Mozilla 18. They are ever so slightly differnt with an end goal that the two will someday merge back to one.
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The nice thing about open source is that this can happen and is allowed to happen. So what! Chances are that at some point one side may realize that the other was right and they may merge again, or that adding the new functionality is a good thing and that it should be merged back into the main branch. I am sure that someone will see the benifit of adding full w2k support in samba as a good thing. While maybe it should not be the focus of the whole project it is good that they are doing this.
Hey I wrote a program, and I got so many requests by others for this and that to be added in and I added osme of the features in like reading data from a pipe into the editor. Some submitted a patch some did not. In the end some people asked me permision to start there own projects using my code to add this or that functionality and I said that it was fine. As long as there are no hard feelings between the two groups of the samba projectS.
Hey if you look at the Linux kernel there are already so many forks in it. Redhat and SuSe send out there own version of the kernel with there own special patches already applied to them. There are patches all over the place that allow you to customize the kernel and add features that are not part of the main distribution. Has that hurt Linux? NO it has actually helped as now the code gets tested more. It is a good thing. Althought there is not an announced fork in the Linux kernel they exists. Hey not to long ago there was an article about some compnay who was offering a patch that made Linux perform better for RT video and gaming.
Hey forks happen!
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I'll crash with Netscape 6 pre 3. Assuming that it starts.
On a serious note. I do like it, if it were only a little more stable. I have noticed it is pretty fast. It does have alot of features that are working rather nicey. Themses are working and I have installed a few. The install is okay. i have had a few crashes, but I find I like it better than 4.x. I have had problems with yahoo mail though, but not sure why. Cookies I think. Looks pretty sweet I am looking forward to the released verison. Oh and it does have 128 bit encryption built in.
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By that I mean you are missing alot of what OS X is. While it is true that it is based on BSD, it also has the Carbon and cocoa layers. The GUI portion would probably never be ported to Linux, but that is no big deal. The codec itself is actually a Sorenson codec, which you need a license for and apple is not letting this go. If they are not letting the codec out for QT4 wwhy would they let it out for QT5.
Under Linux you have xanim . If you go to his web site (here -> http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/) you'll see that he tried to get the codec, but they would not give it to him. What we in the Linux connumut and the UNIX community need to do is probably set up a petition to petition either the US gov (cause that is where M$ and Apple are) to open their codecs to other platforms. This is sort of a monopolistic tactic. It is currently blocking out anny and every *NIX user from watching these movies, and requiring that if they want to they own either a windows box or mac box.
Personally I am looking forward to the day when emulators are free (like dosemu) and easy to install and available for Mac. Then I only need to own one box, but can emulate the other OSes. I think that the freemware project or plex86 as I think it is called now will be a big help in this department, but it may take them a year or two to get anything worth using. I'm gonna try bochs soon though.
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With the release of Rh 7.0 I have seen more articles about RH 7.0 and how so many people are pissed off at what they have done to it.
Now about the libc5 thing. I'd recommend recompiling, especially if it is an X program. Most newer programs use libc6 anyway, maybe it is time for you to upgrade your software. Unfortuantely that is the way of the software world.
Examples: Java jdk 1.02 vs 1.1. gtk1.0 vs 1.2. libc5 vs libc6. Does anyone use jdk 1.02 anymore? Not if they are doing something new. Maybe legacy software, in which case it is time to upgrade that software. Even in windows there are incompatibilities between win 3.1 and 95, and 98, NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and win 2k. Not only between major software releases but also between service packs. This is the 'trend' in software.
Personally I think that they should and need to have compatibility in RH 7.0 though, only if they boast that you can upgrade from 2.0 or later with the install cd. Anyone who has been using RH since 2 or 4 and has upgraded there machines probably still has lots of libc5 programs. Not that they may have come with the distro, but more likely because they have installed them on there own.
Just my.02 cents............
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RPMs can have install and uninstall info too. There are places for post and pre instalation. It also can save your config files if they have changed. I find lots of.rpmsave files on my system. I've had to many problems using debains package management tool.
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This was posted yesterday and there is sht article. People called me a moron when I submitted a post that was a few days old about the release of 2.2.17. If you look on kernel notes thought 2.2.17 is not stated as being the lateste release. This was none obvious that it was the latest release at the time. This article is still on the main slashdot page. Needless to say suckdot did not post my story, nor hyave they posted any of my stories, about palm pilots. Well here is yesterdays story. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/10/201025 3&mode=thread
On another note here are some other story lines that I submitted that were rejected. Meet Prody Parrot, this was rather cool it is a talking parrot / assistant for windows and the software is supposed to come with SB live cards.
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People often want new. Usually the last point release does not include the bug fixes for that release. What I am talking about is maybe releasing a version of 6.2 and calling it 6.2.1 and having all the fixes for 6.2 already applied, and releasing this at the same time as 7.0. In essance 6.2 with its updates is stable (I'm using it), however they don't sell it this way. Then they could market any x.x.1 release as stable with fixes.
As far as a 2.4 release goes we all know that is going to be buggy. There are lots of changes from 2.2 to 2.4. netfilter instead of ipchains. Yes you can use ipchains, but then what is the sense in that. Just convert your rules. I imagine that when they do release 2.4 Redhat will have it in there distro and people will complain about problems. The thing is that from a business perspective it is not good to release unstable products. Look at M$ and how people think about them.
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RH was one of the first distros to start using glibc2 when it was considered unstable. They are just building a pattern for themselves. 5.0 through 5.2 were very buggy. 6.0 through 6.2 were moderatly buggy but pretty stable. 7.0 is buggy as probably will be 7.1 and 7.2. 8.0 should be a stable release that will have a stable 2.4 release. (later 2.4 like 2.4.6 or later).
This is redhat. They are known for being more on the edge than other distros. So what. They made a judgement call and they screwed up.
Like windows did with 95. They made a call to release a peice of software that was not ready. Get over it!
First if you did not back up your system and just blindly upgraded. Your an idiot and I would not want to work with you! This means that you do not test your software, and you'd be willing to crash a site before testing it. Rehat is releasing a distribution. x.0 and x.1 releases are almost always pretty buggy. Give them till 7.2 before you gripe.
Second you probably did not try to find out anything about what you were installing. I.E. rpm 4.0 is incompatable with rpm 3.0 which is wh y I am not upgrading. They have lots of software that is not stable in this release. gcc, gtk 1.3, gimp, shall I go on? Yeah someone here will argue that gimp is stable, but the 1.1 is not. That is what 1.1 stands for. Go to www.gimp.org and see for yourself. It is under development.
In reality if Redhat wants to do this and keep a business they are going to have to have 2 distributions. One would be bleeding edge, and the other would be stable and tried. That is what I'd personally do if I were them. Then those that need stable reliable systems could get the tried and stable, while those who wanted the bleeding edge would get the bleeding edge.
Lastly this is Linux and this is a computer. Gee you should be prepared to spend some time figuring out how the things work and what to do. I've been using it long enouth to know that if you manually change a file you are probably advised to back that file up.
Here is what I typically back up: apache conf fules, these don't change that much from 1.3.x revisions, so this is pretty safe; ipchians-save > ipchians is backed up; isapnp.conf, just in case; rc.custom from/etc/rc.d/ which is where I keep anything that I want my system to do on start up. Hey all the init scipts get replaced when you upgrade the initscr package; apcupsd.conf, and several other config files, for sane, etc. I also back up any software I install, if I have the tar I keep that and the srpm and rpm just in case, as well as the/home dirs, and my other dirs.
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Actually it just goes to show you how bad a job th eUSPTO is doing. They have a big database of all the patents since 1970, in a searchable format. They scan them in and then they can search them. The search allow you to search 2 words that are either next to each other, in the same paragraph, or you can specify how far apart they are in words (5 words apart) and also if they are in the same patent. My guess is that someone did not do a good search. What gets me is that there supervisor let it through. Hmm I'd like to see that patent again to see who the smuck(s) were that let that get patented.
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In SF here we are realizing that there is a problem with our streets. They were not designed well for the amount of traffic we have, now for the peds, or even the bycyles. They are starting refor this year.
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The patent office is going to start to go through the same thing. It is about time. 4 years ago I worked there and it was a goverment beaurocracy that was riddled with BS. Any idea was either getting rejected or allowed based on the supervisor that was reviewing the patents of his examiners. I don't blame the examiners, I blame the system. 'one click shopping' -. oh please. That is obvious. I think that next year we will be seeing many changes in the way we think about things within the USPTO and outside it.
The big appocalypse that Nostradamous predicted was vastly misinterpreted, it is not the end of the world, just the end of the world as we know it. The future holds many changes, of which we will see in the next 5 years.
HINT: There were no political fights at the olympics like there were in the past, with the russians and the us or some other countries. It was all fun and games.
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It seems these days that everything is getting into the Linux kernel. While this is great, I imagine there are going to be some newbiew that are thinking which should I choose, which is better. The answer is more of what are your needs.
I wonder how distros are going to handle this. If a distro includes only support for one, then a user will have to choose the distro based on the fs he wants, if they include all the user then has to choose which one he wants to use.
Since this is compiled into the kernel can you use more than one journaling file sytem at a time? Can I have one partition using ext3fs, one using reiser, and one using IBM's jfs, and one using XFS? Not that I'd want to though.
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So the answer is yes and no. KDE is not just applications. There is kde base, kde libs, kde support, which all have to be ported over to windows. This would include the kde window manager code which may or may not work under cygwin. From my understanding and use of cygwin I had problems just getting X to work withough crashing my machine.
Further more the problem is that the way windows accesses devices and the way linux access devices is different. This means that you would have to modify significant portions of some of these libraries to port them over. In particular anything that deals with opening /dev/midi, or /dev/audio. I guess what I am saying is that porting over kde multimedia would probably be a chore. Once you have kdelibs, kde base and kde support ported over, assuimng that the application that you are porting over does not make any system calls you may be okay. I.E. kqps and kinfo would not work as they make use of Linux specific things.
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Maybe by the middle of next year or earlier they will have an actual 'released' beta version out.
Gee and I was just given a window box a few days ago. Oh well maybe I'll have to turn it into a solaris or freebsd box or another linux box. Or donate it ;-)
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I guess the one big thing that bothers me most about kde 1.x is that the task bar or 'start' bar never seemed to get hidden. It apeared in the top left corner of my desktop and covered my icons. The other thing I was botherd by, but not as much was the fact that the icons did not take to 'random placement'. They were to ordered and inline. GNOME's does not do that nether does windows.
It will be nice though to have 2.0 if they use gtk themes as well, then all the kde and gnome apps can finally start to look like they belong on the same desktop.
My final wish is that the two adopted API's into each other. I.E. a user could write a program in QT/kde libs and then another user could add to it in GTK/GNOME libs. Or call functions from the differnet libs more easily. It would be nice if there were interfaces into QT/kdelibs from gtk/GNOME and visaversa. It may reduce some of the overlap in software.
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I know more about computers than most IT deparments. The last time I called the IT deparment was to ask them to set me up on the server side for VPN. The time before that was to get my static IP address. I know that most users are not like me, but if I had to call the IT department evertime I needed something installed or uninstalled or my registry edited or whatever, you'd want to assign an IT person to my desk as my personal slave.
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It is in Tcl/Tk, and soe don't like that. It works on Windows, Mac and *nux. I got several requests from people to add this or that and some even submitted patches.
The OS model works, but it is hard to find who is doing what. Also it is sometimes hard to follow others code. There really should be coding standards for OSS but some people are into writing code that is not readable.
Personally I am thinking of merging some of my code from another thing I am working on with another project at sourceforge.net.
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Fact is Linux is already stable. It is usable, there are device drivers for it is is already quite mature for an OS that is almost 10 years old. Hey Mac and windows are both older than Linux (including win 3.1). Maybe in a few years hurd will be a contender. It has take these developers to port to the MF and get bigger hardware support less time then it would take to get hurd in stable shape.
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This was my experience so I thought I'd share. (okay this is a shameless self plug) In case you are interested in a simple text editor check out http://www.mindspring.com /~j oeja/programs.html#Tcl-Tk
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Second, I read an article in IEEE last month and they looked at the various studies about cell phones and their usage and if it causes 'brain cancer' and what kind of side effects using cell phones may have on us. The article had went over several studies. Each study did showed that different phones had different levels of radiation. However when trying to link to brain cancer they ALL were inconclusive. However they did mention that the amount of radiation that they produce does affect your brain. Cell phone radiation heats the brain much like certain types of thinking does. One of the studies showed that people who used a cell phone were given a quiz before using the phone and they tested their score and time. After using the phone they were given a similar quiz, only this time there responses were faster. (They didn't say weather they were right or wrong just faster or slower). Apparently using a cell phone will pre heat your brain.
No I don't think it would make you smarter.
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A big topic today is gay rights or should they have them. In some countries gays are killed just for being gay. In South Africa, they first try to 'reprogram' them and when that fails the they kill them. I know Bush && Buchannon are against including gays on a hate crimes bill, and Gore says he is for including them in such a bill.
Hey just because it is against YOUR religion does not mean it is wrong! There was a time when Christianity had crusades and KILLED anyone who was not a Chrisitan. The NAZI's killed Jews / Hebrews just because they were Jewish or Hebrew. They ALSO killed gays and lesbians.
What are your views on the freedoms of those that do not share your views about religion and YOUR moral values? Specifically the religions that DO accept gays and lesbians, and DO allow them to marry and DO give them rights. The religions that teach true LOVE and not HATE.
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What makes this site 'require' cookies? That really pisses me off and I don't think it is worth going back to see again. There was nothing on that site that I required a cookie being set on my system.
On another note. If you are into robotics this is probably a really neat toy for you to get.
Sure and this is where someone calls me a troll and moderates me down. Remember this thougth. Cookies are used for tracking visitors. Doubleclick has devised a way of tracking visitors and knowing where they are located in the US based on there IP address and using the cookies to see if they are a repeat visotor at another site that they are serving ads at. Or to put it more simply. You visit here site once. You get a cookie. The next time you visit a site that has ads served by doubleclick your cookie is checked. They now know what type of sites you like to visit. They know where you are by IP address and depending on the site that you are visiting and weather you have an account and the privacy policy they could have all sorts of information and they do!
Hey I am not using Mozilla M18 with the new cookie tool so that I can go to a site and have them set a cookie (like mindstorm) just because they want to access my system. I have a right to reject cookies. If you want to refuse my viewing your site because I reject your cookies you have that right too. But when there is NO benifit to me to accept your cookie then you loose page views. Your loss not mine. And yes I did delete there cookie after viewing the page.
Hmm ever wonder how much info slashdot has about you? They have every article that you ever posted against, every article you clicked on, if you have an account, whoa..... Okay I'm not parynoid, but....
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On another "official' fork. Take Mozilla. They officially anounced that Mozilla would fork. There would be netscape 6 and Mozilla. At some point they would come back together again. If you get Netscape 6 and Mozilla they are different ever so slightly. Netscape is focusing on stability and speed and targeting towards a release that AOL can ship with there software. There focus is more on the Windows / MAC side as that is where AOL software runs. Mozilla is also focusing on this but they are focusing on Linux (read there pages this is true test the software). I have both Netscape 6pre 3 and Mozilla 18. They are ever so slightly differnt with an end goal that the two will someday merge back to one.
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Hey I wrote a program, and I got so many requests by others for this and that to be added in and I added osme of the features in like reading data from a pipe into the editor. Some submitted a patch some did not. In the end some people asked me permision to start there own projects using my code to add this or that functionality and I said that it was fine. As long as there are no hard feelings between the two groups of the samba projectS.
Hey if you look at the Linux kernel there are already so many forks in it. Redhat and SuSe send out there own version of the kernel with there own special patches already applied to them. There are patches all over the place that allow you to customize the kernel and add features that are not part of the main distribution. Has that hurt Linux? NO it has actually helped as now the code gets tested more. It is a good thing. Althought there is not an announced fork in the Linux kernel they exists. Hey not to long ago there was an article about some compnay who was offering a patch that made Linux perform better for RT video and gaming.
Hey forks happen!
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On a serious note. I do like it, if it were only a little more stable. I have noticed it is pretty fast. It does have alot of features that are working rather nicey. Themses are working and I have installed a few. The install is okay. i have had a few crashes, but I find I like it better than 4.x. I have had problems with yahoo mail though, but not sure why. Cookies I think. Looks pretty sweet I am looking forward to the released verison. Oh and it does have 128 bit encryption built in.
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By that I mean you are missing alot of what OS X is. While it is true that it is based on BSD, it also has the Carbon and cocoa layers. The GUI portion would probably never be ported to Linux, but that is no big deal. The codec itself is actually a Sorenson codec, which you need a license for and apple is not letting this go. If they are not letting the codec out for QT4 wwhy would they let it out for QT5.
Under Linux you have xanim . If you go to his web site (here -> http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/) you'll see that he tried to get the codec, but they would not give it to him. What we in the Linux connumut and the UNIX community need to do is probably set up a petition to petition either the US gov (cause that is where M$ and Apple are) to open their codecs to other platforms. This is sort of a monopolistic tactic. It is currently blocking out anny and every *NIX user from watching these movies, and requiring that if they want to they own either a windows box or mac box.
Personally I am looking forward to the day when emulators are free (like dosemu) and easy to install and available for Mac. Then I only need to own one box, but can emulate the other OSes. I think that the freemware project or plex86 as I think it is called now will be a big help in this department, but it may take them a year or two to get anything worth using. I'm gonna try bochs soon though.
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It is not my 'spelling' or use of html tags.
suckdot hates my posts it is that simple!!
If you submit an article you have to preview.
Again I say -> GFY
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Now about the libc5 thing. I'd recommend recompiling, especially if it is an X program. Most newer programs use libc6 anyway, maybe it is time for you to upgrade your software. Unfortuantely that is the way of the software world.
Examples: Java jdk 1.02 vs 1.1. gtk1.0 vs 1.2. libc5 vs libc6. Does anyone use jdk 1.02 anymore? Not if they are doing something new. Maybe legacy software, in which case it is time to upgrade that software. Even in windows there are incompatibilities between win 3.1 and 95, and 98, NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and win 2k. Not only between major software releases but also between service packs. This is the 'trend' in software.
Personally I think that they should and need to have compatibility in RH 7.0 though, only if they boast that you can upgrade from 2.0 or later with the install cd. Anyone who has been using RH since 2 or 4 and has upgraded there machines probably still has lots of libc5 programs. Not that they may have come with the distro, but more likely because they have installed them on there own.
Just my .02 cents............
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On another note here are some other story lines that I submitted that were rejected.
Meet Prody Parrot, this was rather cool it is a talking parrot / assistant for windows and the software is supposed to come with SB live cards.
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As far as a 2.4 release goes we all know that is going to be buggy. There are lots of changes from 2.2 to 2.4. netfilter instead of ipchains. Yes you can use ipchains, but then what is the sense in that. Just convert your rules. I imagine that when they do release 2.4 Redhat will have it in there distro and people will complain about problems. The thing is that from a business perspective it is not good to release unstable products. Look at M$ and how people think about them.
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This is redhat. They are known for being more on the edge than other distros. So what. They made a judgement call and they screwed up.
Like windows did with 95. They made a call to release a peice of software that was not ready. Get over it!
First if you did not back up your system and just blindly upgraded. Your an idiot and I would not want to work with you! This means that you do not test your software, and you'd be willing to crash a site before testing it. Rehat is releasing a distribution. x.0 and x.1 releases are almost always pretty buggy. Give them till 7.2 before you gripe.
Second you probably did not try to find out anything about what you were installing. I.E. rpm 4.0 is incompatable with rpm 3.0 which is wh y I am not upgrading. They have lots of software that is not stable in this release. gcc, gtk 1.3, gimp, shall I go on? Yeah someone here will argue that gimp is stable, but the 1.1 is not. That is what 1.1 stands for. Go to www.gimp.org and see for yourself. It is under development.
In reality if Redhat wants to do this and keep a business they are going to have to have 2 distributions. One would be bleeding edge, and the other would be stable and tried. That is what I'd personally do if I were them. Then those that need stable reliable systems could get the tried and stable, while those who wanted the bleeding edge would get the bleeding edge.
Lastly this is Linux and this is a computer. Gee you should be prepared to spend some time figuring out how the things work and what to do. I've been using it long enouth to know that if you manually change a file you are probably advised to back that file up.
Here is what I typically back up: apache conf fules, these don't change that much from 1.3.x revisions, so this is pretty safe; ipchians-save > ipchians is backed up; isapnp.conf, just in case; rc.custom from /etc/rc.d/ which is where I keep anything that I want my system to do on start up. Hey all the init scipts get replaced when you upgrade the initscr package; apcupsd.conf, and several other config files, for sane, etc. I also back up any software I install, if I have the tar I keep that and the srpm and rpm just in case, as well as the /home dirs, and my other dirs.
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In SF here we are realizing that there is a problem with our streets. They were not designed well for the amount of traffic we have, now for the peds, or even the bycyles. They are starting refor this year.
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The patent office is going to start to go through the same thing. It is about time. 4 years ago I worked there and it was a goverment beaurocracy that was riddled with BS. Any idea was either getting rejected or allowed based on the supervisor that was reviewing the patents of his examiners. I don't blame the examiners, I blame the system. 'one click shopping' -. oh please. That is obvious. I think that next year we will be seeing many changes in the way we think about things within the USPTO and outside it.
The big appocalypse that Nostradamous predicted was vastly misinterpreted, it is not the end of the world, just the end of the world as we know it. The future holds many changes, of which we will see in the next 5 years.
HINT: There were no political fights at the olympics like there were in the past, with the russians and the us or some other countries. It was all fun and games.
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It seems these days that everything is getting into the Linux kernel. While this is great, I imagine there are going to be some newbiew that are thinking which should I choose, which is better. The answer is more of what are your needs.
I wonder how distros are going to handle this. If a distro includes only support for one, then a user will have to choose the distro based on the fs he wants, if they include all the user then has to choose which one he wants to use.
Since this is compiled into the kernel can you use more than one journaling file sytem at a time?
Can I have one partition using ext3fs, one using reiser, and one using IBM's jfs, and one using XFS? Not that I'd want to though.
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