OPEN-XCHANGE(TM) is a collaboration platform that integrates open source and proprietary servers and clients. Accessible through a common web browser, OPEN-XCHANGE(TM) allows users to share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and documents originating from both proprietary and open source systems. For customers who need seamless integration with a Windows client, commercially available connectors will be released later in 2004.
Same problem as always, move along. Like the Bynari Insight connector, the magic bit is still closed. Interestingly SUSE have a connector called iSLOX for their OpenExchange product, which is a free download; perhaps these two added together will finally be the CAL-free-groupware-with-Outlook-as-the-client we've been looking for?
"Philip! I've got good news and bad news!" "Give it to me straight Terrence." "The good news is.. you have a clean bill of health." "Oh what a relief!" "The bad news is.. you have cancer!"
Finding the exact code fixes for bugs and applying those fixes back to the old packages, and then worrying about maintaining that 'backported' package (what Debian does with security updates, and nothing else
Pushing out a new package, which has the problem fixed, and more features, and is "better".
While we all know it's not necessarily the case, surely software should tend towards having no bugs (it works with TeX!), and programmers should tend towards being better. This means distros like Fedora are right; they give us the new version of the software, which fixes the bugs in the old one. We all do it with kernels, don't we?
I like tabs. Tabs make sense. You have one 'terminal emulator' program which holds together multiple instances of its usage. I use them in my browser, I like being able to use them in my terminal too.
Would it be fine again if they put the reset back?
If you run something like irssi in screen, and then open a second tab in the window, you will have the first window turn entirely blank-on-blue background.
Thesetwo bugs refer to this problem. Apparently setting TERM=vt102 helps, but this problem keeps g-t from being the 'perfect' terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop (it means at least one person I know uses konsole on gnome.)
Watch out too, if you get hit by extensions that cause your browser to start with "Firefox is finishing installing extensions. This could take a minute..." (esp. on Windows) - this page (Google cached) offers some suggestions and links to relevant bug reports.
"RealPlayer 10 for Linux" is the open source Helix player with the propriatary Real codecs.
Like Mac OS X is an open source layer with stuff on it. You can install Darwin if you want, but it's more interesting as the open source base for other things. In this case, hxplayer (the eight character abbreviation) as a media framework.
1. Insert CD & watch autoplay 2. Wait to be told to plug printer in
Anything harder than that is a bad printer driver (try a HP or some other name brand.) The only possible problem is if you plug the printer in before loading the software, but the printers I see come with a nice large fold out DO THINGS IN THIS ORDER sheet.
Installing a network printer on Windows:
1. Browse to remote computer 2. Double click on the printer icon -or- 1. Type in share name
I don't know how LQ's wiki will end up, but if the answers from questions posted to the forums make their way into Wiki entries and are regularly maintained, then it has potential.
Almost two years ago, a resourceful hacker at our Waikato Linux Users Group set up a Wiki, and it has been a phenomenal success. We'll be surprised how often we google looking for something, and find the Wiki as the first hit!
What did we do differently? For starters, Perry imported the man pages and howtos, meaning people could link to a man page in the Wiki just by naming it (ie fstab(5)). This encourages both reading man pages and editing them, marking them up to be more useful to everyone. Another point is that now you can see which pages (and other man pages) refer to a given page, an invaluable tool that man itself can't provide!
We're thinking of dropping the HOWTOS because it's amost impossible to get changes sent up stream, and our own locally developed content tends to be better and more up to date.
Good luck to the LQ people, but there exist a number of Wikis that have the knowledge growing nicely outside of this. If you're looking for something, come check us out.
This is why linux has flourished with developers. It was by developers for developers. This is nothing new, we know the difference, and are willing to make it work to suit our needs
Hahaha! We knew you couldn't hide on Slashdot for long, Steve Ballmer!
If you ring up a radio station and make a request, the DJ has to equate the value of a song that one person wants to hear (you) vs the song that their intelligence says that their entire listnership is most likely to want to hear next. With the exception of really good DJs and request shows, you never get requests on commercial radio.
What you do get is your soundbite recorded, because 9/10 times you're requesting something that's coming up soon (something in the top 10 perhaps?) - so when they next play the song you wanted in their schedule, they play the "Hi, can I hear this new song please?" sound bite before it and it sounds like someone requested the song, the station played it, and they are doing what their audience want. Couldn't be farther from the truth.
Everyone says that Linux can't be easy to use while people have to go out and manualy get graphics drivers, Java, Flash etc, loosely ignoring the fact you do the exact same thing on Windows.
Why is this distribution any different? The legal powers-that-be in all the other distros say that they can't ship with Java/Flash/whatever. I don't ask from a "how have they done wrong" perspective; I'm hoping that there has been some background research done that could mean other distributions can start shipping with the NVIDIA/ATI drivers and useful gratis commercial applications out of the box.
When they first bought out ATMs, the program behaviour was to give out the cash first. Humans, being task based people, would go to the machines thinking "My goal is to withdraw cash." Then, they would be given the cash, and they'd say "I've achieved my goal", take their cash and leave, totally forgetting to take their card. (Which makes stealing it even easier).
The HCI researchers picked this one up, and they changed the behaviour to "give receipt, then card, before issuing cash."
Making the NForce2 onboard ethernet card work in Linux is easier than you might think.
Either: Go to NVIDIA's websiteand get their driver wrapper, and compile it (if you are using kernel 2.5+, there is a patch for the builder to make it build a.ko module instead)
Or, help start testing the new ForcedEth clean room implementation of the driver. It's not perfect but it works, and it was included in Andrew Morton's -mm patch set in about 2.6.0-test9; so as soon as it's a bit better I'm sure it will be in the mainline kernel.
It's a bit hard to get it going compared to out of the box support, sure, but no different to the rigamarole I have to go through to get almost any network card working on Windows 98.
If you want an excellent source of notes on the NForce2 and Linux, that you are encouraged to update as you find things yourself, check the WLUG Wiki.
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OPEN-XCHANGE(TM) is a collaboration platform that integrates open source and proprietary servers and clients. Accessible through a common web browser, OPEN-XCHANGE(TM) allows users to share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and documents originating from both proprietary and open source systems. For customers who need seamless integration with a Windows client, commercially available connectors will be released later in 2004.
Same problem as always, move along. Like the Bynari Insight connector, the magic bit is still closed. Interestingly SUSE have a connector called iSLOX for their OpenExchange product, which is a free download; perhaps these two added together will finally be the CAL-free-groupware-with-Outlook-as-the-client we've been looking for?
"Philip! I've got good news and bad news!"
"Give it to me straight Terrence."
"The good news is.. you have a clean bill of health."
"Oh what a relief!"
"The bad news is.. you have cancer!"
(wav)
While we all know it's not necessarily the case, surely software should tend towards having no bugs (it works with TeX!), and programmers should tend towards being better. This means distros like Fedora are right; they give us the new version of the software, which fixes the bugs in the old one. We all do it with kernels, don't we?
Have you reported all these faults to Microsoft?
If you run pre-release software; you have the responsibility to report bugs and problems with it.
What sort of 'break in' did you achieve against your machine? Did you manage to access a service that would otherwise have been blocked?
I like tabs. Tabs make sense. You have one 'terminal emulator' program which holds together multiple instances of its usage. I use them in my browser, I like being able to use them in my terminal too.
Would it be fine again if they put the reset back?
If you run something like irssi in screen, and then open a second tab in the window, you will have the first window turn entirely blank-on-blue background.
These two bugs refer to this problem. Apparently setting TERM=vt102 helps, but this problem keeps g-t from being the 'perfect' terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop (it means at least one person I know uses konsole on gnome.)
Get the old default theme back (it's called Qute.)
Watch out too, if you get hit by extensions that cause your browser to start with "Firefox is finishing installing extensions. This could take a minute..." (esp. on Windows) - this page (Google cached) offers some suggestions and links to relevant bug reports.
This is simply a configuration setting being overlookd with the upgrade from XFree86 to XOrg.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf (or whichever file you use to configure X)
In your
replace
Option "XkbRules" "xfree"
with
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Red Hat's suggestion is you comment the line out completely and it will use the (more sensible) defaults.
"RealPlayer 10 for Linux" is the open source Helix player with the propriatary Real codecs.
Like Mac OS X is an open source layer with stuff on it. You can install Darwin if you want, but it's more interesting as the open source base for other things. In this case, hxplayer (the eight character abbreviation) as a media framework.
Because the people who make real, serious applications, don't target them.
Installing a local printer on Windows:
1. Insert CD & watch autoplay
2. Wait to be told to plug printer in
Anything harder than that is a bad printer driver (try a HP or some other name brand.) The only possible problem is if you plug the printer in before loading the software, but the printers I see come with a nice large fold out DO THINGS IN THIS ORDER sheet.
Installing a network printer on Windows:
1. Browse to remote computer
2. Double click on the printer icon
-or-
1. Type in share name
Done. And this is hard, where?
Notes, hints and tips regarding Radeon driver and Kernel 2.6
I don't know how LQ's wiki will end up, but if the answers from questions posted to the forums make their way into Wiki entries and are regularly maintained, then it has potential.
Almost two years ago, a resourceful hacker at our Waikato Linux Users Group set up a Wiki, and it has been a phenomenal success. We'll be surprised how often we google looking for something, and find the Wiki as the first hit!
What did we do differently? For starters, Perry imported the man pages and howtos, meaning people could link to a man page in the Wiki just by naming it (ie fstab(5)). This encourages both reading man pages and editing them, marking them up to be more useful to everyone. Another point is that now you can see which pages (and other man pages) refer to a given page, an invaluable tool that man itself can't provide!
We're thinking of dropping the HOWTOS because it's amost impossible to get changes sent up stream, and our own locally developed content tends to be better and more up to date.
Good luck to the LQ people, but there exist a number of Wikis that have the knowledge growing nicely outside of this. If you're looking for something, come check us out.
This is why linux has flourished with developers. It was by developers for developers. This is nothing new, we know the difference, and are willing to make it work to suit our needs
Hahaha! We knew you couldn't hide on Slashdot for long, Steve Ballmer!
Sysinternal's Blue Screen Saver
Now emulates startup screens too!
Am I the only one, when given the link to the winning vibe, worried it might be something to do with this guy? :-)
If you ring up a radio station and make a request, the DJ has to equate the value of a song that one person wants to hear (you) vs the song that their intelligence says that their entire listnership is most likely to want to hear next. With the exception of really good DJs and request shows, you never get requests on commercial radio.
What you do get is your soundbite recorded, because 9/10 times you're requesting something that's coming up soon (something in the top 10 perhaps?) - so when they next play the song you wanted in their schedule, they play the "Hi, can I hear this new song please?" sound bite before it and it sounds like someone requested the song, the station played it, and they are doing what their audience want. Couldn't be farther from the truth.
This implies that (1) Microsoft lied or (2) the deal changes substantially when you play the "OSS" card.
I'd go with a bit of both, although either stand up on their own.
Everyone says that Linux can't be easy to use while people have to go out and manualy get graphics drivers, Java, Flash etc, loosely ignoring the fact you do the exact same thing on Windows.
Why is this distribution any different? The legal powers-that-be in all the other distros say that they can't ship with Java/Flash/whatever. I don't ask from a "how have they done wrong" perspective; I'm hoping that there has been some background research done that could mean other distributions can start shipping with the NVIDIA/ATI drivers and useful gratis commercial applications out of the box.
It's a wiki - please feel free to edit it!
My Radeon driver & kernel 2.6 notes
Usability testing isn't about recording what customers want, it's about recording what they do. They are two very different things!
See Jakob Nielsen's First Rule of Usability.
When they first bought out ATMs, the program behaviour was to give out the cash first. Humans, being task based people, would go to the machines thinking "My goal is to withdraw cash." Then, they would be given the cash, and they'd say "I've achieved my goal", take their cash and leave, totally forgetting to take their card. (Which makes stealing it even easier).
The HCI researchers picked this one up, and they changed the behaviour to "give receipt, then card, before issuing cash."
Making the NForce2 onboard ethernet card work in Linux is easier than you might think.
.ko module instead)
Either: Go to NVIDIA's websiteand get their driver wrapper, and compile it (if you are using kernel 2.5+, there is a patch for the builder to make it build a
Or, help start testing the new ForcedEth clean room implementation of the driver. It's not perfect but it works, and it was included in Andrew Morton's -mm patch set in about 2.6.0-test9; so as soon as it's a bit better I'm sure it will be in the mainline kernel.
It's a bit hard to get it going compared to out of the box support, sure, but no different to the rigamarole I have to go through to get almost any network card working on Windows 98.
If you want an excellent source of notes on the NForce2 and Linux, that you are encouraged to update as you find things yourself, check the WLUG Wiki.