When you switch the language in KDE, all newly started apps appear in the new language.
But it's probably more convenient to set up several accounts and re-login or start a new session and switch among them with Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8
I use XP for my everyday apps, because it's a better tool for those.
This is so silly, it hurts.
All an OS for "everyday apps" has to do is to launch them and provide basic functionality. KDE/Linux can do this, and much better than Windows XP by the way (yes, I do like to have 16 desktops and I do want to use my 3rd mouse button).
The reason WinXP is used more often is because a lot of applications are written for it, which has nothing to do technically with WinXP itself.
As soon as the applications are available, Linux takes over, no matter if desktop or server. Just look at the 3d-modelling workstations at moviestudios. It's just a matter of the applications.
It just takes one city (like Munich) and lots of governmental apps are ported to Linux, which makes it easier, faster and cheaper for all similar cities to move to Linux.
Linux will take the same route as WindowsNT: First on corporate/government desktops and only after a long time widely used on home desktops, but that will happen too.
I find it quite funny that Microsoft-fanboys don't see through the scheme and continue to lie to themselves.
Yes, only 2 divisions make money. Yes, those divisons have a lot of products. And yes, those money-losing products are in those divisions exactly because it's easier to cover up those losses that way.
The big advantage of a computer in the first place is it's flexibility. That's why appliances replacing real computers have failed every time and also will in the future.
Isn't it funny that nevertheless Microsoft marketing has brainwashed the masses to the point that they actually believe that WinXP has become more secure than Win9x? (Fact: There never was a worm comparable to W32.Blaster on Windows9x)
2 weeks ago I reinstalled XP for a friend and she got W32.Blaster during the installation.
Let's face it, Windows is terribly insecure and unreliable and despite all marketing the situation got much worse with WinXP. (There was never a worm comparable to W32.Blaster on Win9x, there just wasn't.)
want to ship closed source software to buy a expen$ive license for Qt
Obviously, you don't get it.
From a software maker's point of view, choosing Qt, you get:
An application that runs pretty much everywhere (Linux, Windows AND MacOSX)
A modern C++ based toolkit
Included RAD-tools
With GTK, you save a week's salary but:
You have only a tiny fraction of potential customers
You have moronic decisions that change every month (Now do we want a registry in Gnome or not? Do we want to push everything to Mono or not? Which window manager do we want to use this time?)
You have to confront the pains of GTK+ which are lack of tools, documentation and an modern API
Sorry to break your believes, but for a commercial software vendor to choose GTK over Qt is just plain stupid.
Choosing KDE for UserLinux would have been smart: You could tell corporations: "See, you can develop your in-house apps with Qt and so you can have a slow painless transition - and you can also go back if it doesn't work out."
I'd say that the main benefit of Linux 2.6 on the desktop is that latency is reduced, the GUI will no longer get "jumpy" on high loads. I hear that USB support also has been improved.
Well, OO has a crucial advantage: It's free (and now I mean the beer-type of free)
As soon as OO captures a relevant marketshare (let's say about 25%) and becomes known among the masses, it will take over FAST.
If teachers have to choose between the free OO and the expensive MSO for homework, if in doubt, they will choose OO because they can't reasonably expect their students to pay a couple of hundred $ just to be able to do the homework when an equivalent product is available.
People will start to use it and will find it *easier* to install, because just downloading it is usually much faster/easier than buying it in a store.
Then, people will start to send StarOffice documents, spreadsheets and presentations and whenever somebody can't read it, they will tell them: "Just download it".
Then the tide will turn *FAST*. It may take many years for OO to reach critical mass, but then MS Office becomes a legacy application within a very short time. Of course legacy apps are used all the time and will be used for years. But MSO will be on the way out with no possibility to ever come back.
How many of these desktops could subsequently be switched to Linux?
Give it time. First OO will go on the computers, then, when Microsoft wants to force Longhorn down everybodie's throats, the very same calculations will be made: Those desktops can do everything we need (which will be just OO and probably a browser), those other desktops (still) need Windows.
It will take years, but in the end there won't be any Microsoft software anymore.
If you invest those 60$ in RAM you could easily run KDE3.2 on those boxes. KDE got faster with each release, it should run adequately on 200MHz - but only with enough RAM (at least 256MB).
Of course that's only possible if the motherboard supports so much RAM...
Actually, the biggest Windows-worm so far (W32.Blaster) affects only WinNT/2K/XP and *not* Windows 98.
Yes, I do know that Microsoft marketing told everybody that "Windows NT is more secure" (without any proof) and even the slashdotter swallowed it. But the sad fact remains that Win9x has a better security record than the WinNT line.
Unless you're USING YOUR CELLPHONE TO RECORD THE MOVIE, there is no problem.
Oh, really?
From the article:
"The new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, allows moviegoers to make a citizen's arrest if they see someone in a theater with a recording device."
"The law, which was signed by former Gov. Gray Davis, was written to also include future technologies and could be enforced against people recording all or parts of a film with a tape recorder, handheld computer or even a cell phone."
It would be nice to see the actual law, but if the article is right, the law is outlawing all recording equipment in cinemas, no matter if it is actually used or not.
Fact is, for the law it doesn't matter if your device is able to make a useful copy. Anything that can capture "a part of the movie" is forbidden and that includes the cell-phone with camera in your pocket or the regular still-picture camera in your backpack.
It's getting harder to obey to all laws every year. And since (almost) all citizens are criminals, it's getting very easy to lock up anybody if the government feels like it.
No, you can't buy a Linux license from SCO because that would be illegal (because of the GPL) so SCO won't sell it to anybody.
They have stated that "one anonymous Fortune 1000 company" has bought a license and I deeply suspect it's either Microsoft or that holding firm (the Canopy group IIRC)
There are only 2 groups here:
Microsoft must believe SCO is doing a good job at spreading anti-Linux FUD - then they will continue to let money flow to SCO
Investors must believe that SCO has either a case or will get enough money from Microsoft to survive
Well, first FAT isn't "a valuable idea", it's just another filesystem and not a really good one either. The only positive thing about is that it can be read from all major OSes out of the box and that's exactly what Microsoft doesn't like about it.
Then, the patents just cover the workaround for long filenames. It's crazy, they actually patented a workaround.
Well, the truth is that flexibility and easiness is more important for most applications while security is of course a concern, but only a secondary one. Actually for many appliactions it isn't even necessary to care about local exploits.
Of course for those (few) who need the extra security, there is OpenBSD and it's great that it exists, however it shouldn't be copied by Linux distributors, IMO.
So you're saying that the best way for MS to fight Open Source in Malaysia would be to make sure there were no free copies of Windows available, and everyone had to pay the equivalent of $100 a shot?
Wow, I did say that?
Actually what I was really saying is that Microsoft's old tactic (let them pirate then charge) isn't working anymore. Almost every country in the region has a Linux program (Thailand already preinstalled Linux on 60% of PCs, Vietnam wants to eliminate Windows altogether, China wants to have millions of Linux-based PCs during the next years, etc.) and they will use it.
For example in Thailand Microsoft already dropped their prices to about 1/6th of what they were last year.
The sad truth is that it doesn't really matter what Microsoft does, they lose either way.
In three years the country is paying the standard MSFT rate and it cannot switch because there is no personnel trained in alternatives and there is no money for alternatives because all IT software budget money goes to MSFT.
Offtopic, but instead of old SGI's you could use VIA C3 motherboards (with integrated processor), they work fine and are silent (fanless). although not lightning fast (AFAIK the currently fastest fanless model is 1GHz and the fastest with fans 1.2GHz or so) but certainly faster than any computer older than 2-3 years. I use SuSE8.2 on one of these and it works like a charm - and they are cheap, too (I paid 140 Euros for motherboard with CPU included).
Although I don't know wether VIA is part of trusted computing or not.
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But it's probably more convenient to set up several accounts and re-login or start a new session and switch among them with Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8
This is so silly, it hurts.
All an OS for "everyday apps" has to do is to launch them and provide basic functionality. KDE/Linux can do this, and much better than Windows XP by the way (yes, I do like to have 16 desktops and I do want to use my 3rd mouse button).
The reason WinXP is used more often is because a lot of applications are written for it, which has nothing to do technically with WinXP itself.
As soon as the applications are available, Linux takes over, no matter if desktop or server. Just look at the 3d-modelling workstations at moviestudios. It's just a matter of the applications.
It just takes one city (like Munich) and lots of governmental apps are ported to Linux, which makes it easier, faster and cheaper for all similar cities to move to Linux.
Linux will take the same route as WindowsNT: First on corporate/government desktops and only after a long time widely used on home desktops, but that will happen too.
Yes, only 2 divisions make money. Yes, those divisons have a lot of products. And yes, those money-losing products are in those divisions exactly because it's easier to cover up those losses that way.
Actually I think that their new licensing sca.. ehm scheme flushed them with money in the short time and they now feel those who did not go along.
The big advantage of a computer in the first place is it's flexibility. That's why appliances replacing real computers have failed every time and also will in the future.
Isn't it funny that nevertheless Microsoft marketing has brainwashed the masses to the point that they actually believe that WinXP has become more secure than Win9x? (Fact: There never was a worm comparable to W32.Blaster on Windows9x)
Let's face it, Windows is terribly insecure and unreliable and despite all marketing the situation got much worse with WinXP. (There was never a worm comparable to W32.Blaster on Win9x, there just wasn't.)
Obviously, you don't get it.
From a software maker's point of view, choosing Qt, you get:
With GTK, you save a week's salary but:
Sorry to break your believes, but for a commercial software vendor to choose GTK over Qt is just plain stupid.
Choosing KDE for UserLinux would have been smart: You could tell corporations: "See, you can develop your in-house apps with Qt and so you can have a slow painless transition - and you can also go back if it doesn't work out."
I'd say that the main benefit of Linux 2.6 on the desktop is that latency is reduced, the GUI will no longer get "jumpy" on high loads. I hear that USB support also has been improved.
As soon as OO captures a relevant marketshare (let's say about 25%) and becomes known among the masses, it will take over FAST.
If teachers have to choose between the free OO and the expensive MSO for homework, if in doubt, they will choose OO because they can't reasonably expect their students to pay a couple of hundred $ just to be able to do the homework when an equivalent product is available.
People will start to use it and will find it *easier* to install, because just downloading it is usually much faster/easier than buying it in a store.
Then, people will start to send StarOffice documents, spreadsheets and presentations and whenever somebody can't read it, they will tell them: "Just download it".
Then the tide will turn *FAST*. It may take many years for OO to reach critical mass, but then MS Office becomes a legacy application within a very short time. Of course legacy apps are used all the time and will be used for years. But MSO will be on the way out with no possibility to ever come back.
Give it time. First OO will go on the computers, then, when Microsoft wants to force Longhorn down everybodie's throats, the very same calculations will be made: Those desktops can do everything we need (which will be just OO and probably a browser), those other desktops (still) need Windows.
It will take years, but in the end there won't be any Microsoft software anymore.
Of course that's only possible if the motherboard supports so much RAM...
Yes, I do know that Microsoft marketing told everybody that "Windows NT is more secure" (without any proof) and even the slashdotter swallowed it. But the sad fact remains that Win9x has a better security record than the WinNT line.
Oh, really?
From the article:
"The new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, allows moviegoers to make a citizen's arrest if they see someone in a theater with a recording device."
"The law, which was signed by former Gov. Gray Davis, was written to also include future technologies and could be enforced against people recording all or parts of a film with a tape recorder, handheld computer or even a cell phone."
It would be nice to see the actual law, but if the article is right, the law is outlawing all recording equipment in cinemas, no matter if it is actually used or not.
Fact is, for the law it doesn't matter if your device is able to make a useful copy. Anything that can capture "a part of the movie" is forbidden and that includes the cell-phone with camera in your pocket or the regular still-picture camera in your backpack.
It's getting harder to obey to all laws every year. And since (almost) all citizens are criminals, it's getting very easy to lock up anybody if the government feels like it.
Exactly. And SCO's "license" is an additional fee.
They have stated that "one anonymous Fortune 1000 company" has bought a license and I deeply suspect it's either Microsoft or that holding firm (the Canopy group IIRC)
There are only 2 groups here:
Then, the patents just cover the workaround for long filenames. It's crazy, they actually patented a workaround.
If you need NTFS-support you already have it on your harddrive, so no problems taking it right off the disk.
Of course for those (few) who need the extra security, there is OpenBSD and it's great that it exists, however it shouldn't be copied by Linux distributors, IMO.
Wow, I did say that?
Actually what I was really saying is that Microsoft's old tactic (let them pirate then charge) isn't working anymore. Almost every country in the region has a Linux program (Thailand already preinstalled Linux on 60% of PCs, Vietnam wants to eliminate Windows altogether, China wants to have millions of Linux-based PCs during the next years, etc.) and they will use it.
For example in Thailand Microsoft already dropped their prices to about 1/6th of what they were last year.
The sad truth is that it doesn't really matter what Microsoft does, they lose either way.
Sorry, but I don't think so:
Malaysia investing 15-30 Million $ in Open Source
Although I don't know wether VIA is part of trusted computing or not.