The bad thing was: I introduced an iMac in my home network, and wished to share the MP3s between the Mac and PC.
Too bad that iTunes (in both Mac and PC) cound't recognize my mp3 Tags in Big5 code.
So, wanna to looks good (see the correct song names, artist..) in the iTunes/Mac? Convert them into Unicode... one by one, and I have >3000 songs.. you imaging how pain it was.
Then.. I use the shoutcast server on my linux box to share my music to friends... and iTunes couldn't do the streaming so that I have to fall back to Winamp 2/5 to do that...
Again, all Chinese songs converted into Unicode ID Tags became rubbished....
Is there anyways to keep Winamp 5 and iTunes happy with those Chinese stuffs... I'd appreciate...
As I am considering a 12" powerbook for my next notebook purchase (my HP Omnibook still works OK after 4 years;-), but it's obvious out of time).
When browsing my usual CD stores, I started to see lots of new audio CDs are "copy-protected' that explictly DON'T PLAY ON MAC, and of course don't play on Linux or anything else than Windozs.
That make me worry that I can no longer play audio CDs on the new Macs in some point of future, if such (sucky) copy-protection schemes are prevalent.
This is really a problem to me and a very discouraging issue for me Macintosh purchasing decision.
Than, may Sony care to providing a supported Palm Desktop/Hotsync for my Clie NR70V?
It's said that most consumer companies *don't care* for Mac user anymore to march towards to a Windozs-only world. Evil! Evil!
I have get a few new NEC PCs that are having FreeDOS installed, too.
That just happened a month ago.
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And, there is another option, with special arrangement of a bank (Dai-Sun, not a major player), you can even let the bank refill the money automatically (when the balance of the card falls below a certain amount), and it's charged towards your credit card account!
Chinese 2000, based on Chinese Language Extension, packaged with Hancom Office Suite
Chinee Language Extension they patches Red Hat and Slackware! for a Chinese desktop, may be regarded as the "mother" of Chinese localization
Turbo linux, don't know what they're doing in Chinese Linux desktop recently
btw, the one reviewed in the newsforge.com is 2.4 desktop. version 3.0 is coming (sorry, no more English and Traditional Chinese installation screens, only Simplified Chinese is available) and I've tried the beta CD, quite OK for normal use but some installation gliches.
Also... a Chinese-enabled desktop is possible (just click "Chinese" during install..) by the normal Debian/Mandrake/RedHat CDs.
It's frustrating to see that my Palm Vx is (still) not official supported by Palm with Linux, even most of us can use a clone of Palm Desktop like jpilot to do the same thing.
Also, for most customer-oriented stuffs like scanners, digital cameras, portable MP3 players, most manufacturers won't ship drivers/softwares work with Linux in the box (or even a download).
When an average desktop users knows that such gadgets won't work (or have to spend lots of time in order to figure out) with Linux, and Windows supports these gadgets well... it's even harder to put Linux into user's desktops.
(yes... geeks may figure out how to get some of them work like SANE for scanners)
maybe this is a chicken-and-egg loophole:( few userbase can't justify manufacturers to support Linux that leads that few users use their stuffs with Linux then turning them back into Windows.
(To Palm/HandSpring: please ship software that works and supported in Linux, as if those for Windows, within the box... even Palm is quite Linux-friendly under developer front)
The problems you said, sadly, has been the reality.
Expect for the biggest sites, like Yahoo! or Amazon.com, smaller sites and Joe web-site-designer won't bother to test their sites other than IE.
I have tried to make my complaints (politely) to their webmasters, however, most responses (if they care to respond) are : please use IE 5! we don't support anything else.
even worst, some sites like shockwave.com simply blocks me out.
As a web developer (i download builds weekly and use them heavily), 0.8 is still having tons of problems
- Can't control language charset within an individual frame;
- hitting reload will cause all POST variables lost;
- view source / change language charset cause a reload; which also cause loss of POST variables;
- can't even open the DOM viewer;
- visiting zdnet cause all browser window freezes;
- stability becomes worse than 0.7... just tried to read documentation inside php.net, crash twice there this morning.
frankly speaking, increasing disappointing, even I still bother to sent in bug reports..
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It will be great for the Office converts like me.
To show collagues that, "hey! i can also do these complex analysis/charting stuffs without Excel."
and some users being converted into Linux+OO desktops also need it, too.
Winamp 2 was fine
Winamp 5 was still fine
The bad thing was: I introduced an iMac in my home network, and wished to share the MP3s between the Mac and PC.
Too bad that iTunes (in both Mac and PC) cound't recognize my mp3 Tags in Big5 code.
So, wanna to looks good (see the correct song names, artist..) in the iTunes/Mac? Convert them into Unicode... one by one, and I have >3000 songs.. you imaging how pain it was.
Then.. I use the shoutcast server on my linux box to share my music to friends... and iTunes couldn't do the streaming so that I have to fall back to Winamp 2/5 to do that...
Again, all Chinese songs converted into Unicode ID Tags became rubbished....
Is there anyways to keep Winamp 5 and iTunes happy with those Chinese stuffs... I'd appreciate...
if i can watch TV on it, it's kicks ass..
Around 25 users in a small shop.
But users in general don't like it. Sales and design people often shouting around "outlook, ie!"..
make (1) will actually looking in "tab", and get confused if "tab"s are replaced by whitespaces inside the makefiles.
As I am considering a 12" powerbook for my next notebook purchase (my HP Omnibook still works OK after 4 years ;-), but it's obvious out of time).
When browsing my usual CD stores, I started to see lots of new audio CDs are "copy-protected' that explictly DON'T PLAY ON MAC, and of course don't play on Linux or anything else than Windozs.
That make me worry that I can no longer play audio CDs on the new Macs in some point of future, if such (sucky) copy-protection schemes are prevalent.
This is really a problem to me and a very discouraging issue for me Macintosh purchasing decision.
Than, may Sony care to providing a supported Palm Desktop/Hotsync for my Clie NR70V?
It's said that most consumer companies *don't care* for Mac user anymore to march towards to a Windozs-only world. Evil! Evil!
don't mind paying little for getting the builds within 30 minutes instead of 24 hours.
Another question, can this kind of work (say, compile a kernel) can be distributed over the network like that?
There is lots of braindump out there for MCSE, CC**, CNE tests, so supposely they should halt the tests, aren't they?
of course, these are businesses..
They now is acknowledgeing the blocking, and start offering dynamic URLs for access starting around 20 Sept.,
http://full.mingpaonews.com/20020904/__cac1.htm
(a respectful newspaper in Hong Kong, traditional chinese)
In essential, send a mail to dynurl@google.com, and Google will give you an URL for accessing, which is valid for only 12 hours.
I have get a few new NEC PCs that are having FreeDOS installed, too.
That just happened a month ago.
And, there is another option, with special arrangement of a bank (Dai-Sun, not a major player), you can even let the bank refill the money automatically (when the balance of the card falls below a certain amount), and it's charged towards your credit card account!
oh... i even dream of letting the bookmark remember
this kind of stuffs when i add a site to bookmark.
a new feature request?
I have come up a few other players in this arena, competition is good. of course ;-)
btw, the one reviewed in the newsforge.com is 2.4 desktop. version 3.0 is coming (sorry, no more English and Traditional Chinese installation screens, only Simplified Chinese is available) and I've tried the beta CD, quite OK for normal use but some installation gliches.
Also... a Chinese-enabled desktop is possible (just click "Chinese" during install..) by the normal Debian/Mandrake/RedHat CDs.
It's frustrating to see that my Palm Vx is (still) not official supported by Palm with Linux, even most of us can use a clone of Palm Desktop like jpilot to do the same thing. Also, for most customer-oriented stuffs like scanners, digital cameras, portable MP3 players, most manufacturers won't ship drivers/softwares work with Linux in the box (or even a download). When an average desktop users knows that such gadgets won't work (or have to spend lots of time in order to figure out) with Linux, and Windows supports these gadgets well... it's even harder to put Linux into user's desktops. (yes... geeks may figure out how to get some of them work like SANE for scanners) maybe this is a chicken-and-egg loophole :( few userbase can't justify manufacturers to support Linux that leads that few users use their stuffs with Linux then turning them back into Windows.
(To Palm/HandSpring: please ship software that works and supported in Linux, as if those for Windows, within the box... even Palm is quite Linux-friendly under developer front)
Expect for the biggest sites, like Yahoo! or Amazon.com, smaller sites and Joe web-site-designer won't bother to test their sites other than IE.
I have tried to make my complaints (politely) to their webmasters, however, most responses (if they care to respond) are : please use IE 5! we don't support anything else.
even worst, some sites like shockwave.com simply blocks me out.
As a web developer (i download builds weekly and use them heavily), 0.8 is still having tons of problems - Can't control language charset within an individual frame; - hitting reload will cause all POST variables lost; - view source / change language charset cause a reload; which also cause loss of POST variables; - can't even open the DOM viewer; - visiting zdnet cause all browser window freezes; - stability becomes worse than 0.7... just tried to read documentation inside php.net, crash twice there this morning. frankly speaking, increasing disappointing, even I still bother to sent in bug reports..
Even worst, some clueness government officials are just too blind to "endorse" and "enforce" the use of Windows + ie. I'll take two examples to illustrate how the government "endorses" Windows too heavily.. 1. In government's new service, it officials support Windows (Mac, Linux? sorry), support both Netscape and IE (but wait, they have a page saying that what Netscape can't do and IE can do, so you know what thay want). They even have a page to check your OS/browser, saying "not supported" for everything else... At the end, the project is just a typical PKI stuffs, of course most modern OS and browsers can do it. 2. Letting MS stuffs flooded into primary school's computer textbooks like Word, Excel, IE, Windows 98... for most people/kids, they just relucant to learn anything else outside the official textbook and exam. syallbus. 3. As the result of 2, newer webpages created by those kids are never know that they need to support anything outside IE 5. Having a e-mail suggestion to the site operator, and guess what I received? He tell me why not to follow the "software advances"... even with the "noise" created from GNU/Open source/Linux and such, what I'm feeling is increasing locked-in...