Seriously. Warm my steak up. Burn a little bit of the outside, because I like the crispy beef flavor.
The rest of it, on the inside? Red, raw, bloody. If I want something I have to gnaw on for awhile I'll go get a carrot or something. My meat is supposed to be tender, moist, and red.
On the other hand, I'm not sure how I feel about slaughter house facilities.
Is the meat fresh enough? Are they feeding cows to cows?
I like the idea of machine grown meat; I can eat it colder. If its got the same texture and flavor of normal beef, then I'm fine with it.
Oh, and price! It better be the same, or less.
The analogy of sweetners to sugar does not apply; I'm sure if mankind could synthesize low-cost high-quality real sugar, we wouldn't bother growing it.
There's nothing wrong with natural meat. There's nothing wrong with eating it rare, or even raw.
But the farming industries practices are not always savory; you never know what chemicals have been introduced, or what natural practices have been perveted (BSE, from cows eating cow). If I can grow my own meat at home, and it tastes just like the real thing, because it *is* the real thing sans the rest of the cow, I'll do that.
That's the cover story. They can't fight MS directly yet.
Well, I'm not sure that is true, but the theory goes like this:
1. Release x86 OS X, for Apple Mac hardware only. 2. License x86 OS X, the new-clones, running Apple reference designs. Siginificant Licensing revenue. 3. Release x86 OS X, for generic x86. Sell it through the clone companies, which, incidentally, are mainstream PC OEMs. Support it through the cloners.
Apple would still make its high-end hardware. Basically, this would allow them to stop worrying about the eMac, Mac Mini, and iBook hardware, simply collecting a license fee on that category of system. They would still manufacture the high-end stuff, and would compete against clone companies producing similar stuff, but the clone companies would be restricted to selling Apple designs with profit for Apple built-in.
Not sure I believe it, but 6 months ago I'd say that Apple switching to x86 was impossible too.
It is not the USPTO's job to invalidate patents, generally; it is the courts.
The only problem might be in Microsoft's claimed date of invention.
I believe MS claims they invented one aspect of the ipod's interface before Apple released the iPod. Then it will come down to a very messy lawsuit revealing internal company documents to try and show which company developed that aspect of the interface first.
In particular, we're waiting for Will "integration" include support for important low level KDE features like the Kiosk framework sometime? First of all, the KDE NWF and KDE vclplug have to be stabilized. Then I can integrate KIO and KDE dialogs to OOo and continue with further efforts, be it KParts, Kiosk or other KDE features. I am afraid it won't happen before 2005.
Sure, its not gnome, its KDE only. But that's the beauty of KParts and KIO. Click on.odt (or.doc, or whatever OpenOffice.org supports). Load document into the same browser window. KDE-style openoffice.org widgets pop-up. Save directly to HTTP (or HTTPS or anything that KIO supports, including crazy things like FISH).
Experience full KPart integration with Kroupware, and any QT app on your desktop.
Be Happy.
KDE is doing all the network stuff you can dream off, and they are *way* ahead of MS. Just look at the KIO framework. It's fascinating.
You could open/save a document from HTTP://, FTP://, HTTPS://, FISH://, CAMERA://, or any other number of KIO protocols, and you can even easily implement your own.
I'd make you a list of which ones are avaliable on my machine, but its really too long for me to copy and paste easily. Think things like SVN+HTTPS://, SVN+SSH://, WEBDAVS://, or whatever;-)
But the free market is happily 'solving' the problem of Co2 emissions.
Anyone notice the price of oil (and other fossil fuels, which have gone up dramatically as well) today?
Back when I was a debater, in college, virtually every proposal to counter Co2 emissions was dependant upon altering the prices of fossil fuels.
Sure, the mechanisms were different; some utilized high levels of taxes, implemented globally. Some used means of artificially limiting supply; when we agree to burn only x exajoules of energy, the price per unit goes up.
In any case, none of those proposals (all of which were directly from left leaning political panels on climate change) envisioned prices as high as they are now, or as high as they are projected to be in the near future. I do not believe there is anyway that political action will be able to unite all the major Co2 emitting countries under one policy. It's simply impossible.
Significantly higher oil prices? We'll have conservation out the wazoo, now, and alternate energy technologies (yes, including Nuclear, which is probably the best way out of fossil fuels in the short run (you take what you can get, and there is the potential for a really wonderful powersource, if the only idiotic nuclear companies would step out of the way for the latest and greatest designs being used in research throughout the world)) are on the short-term horizon.
Anyone notice the hybrid trend? Or walk into a honda dealership or a saturn dealership?
See all the signs about conservation? Fuel Efficiency? Mark my words-- If oil prices collapse again, all of this green-wave will vanish. Keep oil prices high, and we'll move off the fossil fuel economy in the near future.
Quite frankly, if you are really worried about emissions-related global warming, (which I'm not, there are many other factors which I believe account for warming better than industrial era emissions. Like humanities desire to clear forests, and the resulting desertification. Or conversion of various land types to ecologically useless farmland) your best bet is to vote for policies that keep oil prices high, and drive it up through the roof.
If oil was $120-200 a barrel, electric cars would be a reality, even with their dinky 100 mile range. If oil was that high, nuclear plants would be built *right-now*, and the major auto companies would be building a hydrogen economy in conjunction with the oil companies *right-now*. Oh, and oil is projected to be at these levels if demand patterns continue to grow at their current rate.
I never believed the supply-side problems presented by the dooms-dayers of the 70. Rather, I thought we would experience demand that slowly outstripped supply, allowing the market to adjust economic allocations to account for it. That's exactly what we are experiencing. These corporations already have their plans laid; they've been waiting for economic conditions to be right, so they can get the jump on their competitors.
Basically, I'm asking for people to stop clamoring for lower gas prices. It's a blessing in disguise. If oil prices had only gone up from their high in the 70s, we'd live in a different world today. It's really too bad that the Shah's regime collapsed; as the architech of the first-wave price hikes, he would have unknowingly corrected the world dependence on fossil fuels.
The next best step for concerned individuals to take (i.e. people who are not the dictators of statist regimes who can alter prices at whim;-) ) is to be supportive of measures that fund alternative energy (yes, nuclear power, even if you hate bush, nuclear power is most likely the only short-term way out of fossil fuel dependence at almost *any* price), and to be supportive of measures that increase the price of fossil fuels (no Alaskan oil exploration. no excess U.S. refinery permits).
That's the way out of fossil fuel emissions. You'll *never*, *ever* get a pure political solution. Attack the economics of the problem, and the free market
With 3.4, you can get desktop icons, but they aren't there unless highlighted, and the redraw is particularly ugly.
Alt-F2 to run? I think that works correctly, so I'm not sure about that one. I'll try it out when I get home.
Basically, you pretend they aren't there, and draw a box around the rough areas of your icons when you need them.
This doesn't affect me that much, as I'm used to using desktops without icons. Obviously, it depends on what you like; I prefer to have all my icons avaliable in folders accessible from my panels.
IIRC, you can use crystalgl with kompmgr if you use software rendering, but I don't bother; crystal by itself is almost as nice, and far more stable.
I dunno about him, but my GUI is there. Suse 9.3, KDE 3.4, and an Nvidia graphics card.
I haven't seen a Windows user who *doesn't* drool over my keyboard.
Things blissfully fade in and out, a soothing animated xscreensaver is my desktop background, my window title bar and border are transparent (crystal theme (check out crystalgl and oceangl, they are stunning)). Too bad you can't run crystal gl or ocean gl with kompmgr; I'm sure that will be fixed in the future. (crystal GL, btw, does the Vista-like translucency of window borders. 1.5 years ago. )
Font rendering on my system blows away anything else, and I'm talking about graphics professionals running Windows and Mac OS X doing comparisons.
Not too mention the oohs and ahhs I hear about Project Looking Glass. It'll be fun when that's avaliable as a Window Manager for distributions.
KDE amazes most people. Kparts, all the nifty little protocols (like fish://, camera://, and ipod://), native output to PDF for an application (like OS X). Kaffeine, which plays any format under the sun.
My girlfriend saw the automatic downloading of lyrics and wikipedia entries in amarok, and decided she wanted this 'KDE' thing.
Not to mention non-KDE things that KDE builds on. Samba integration is beautiful. CUPS autodetection of network printers makes most Windows people drop their jaws in shock.
"What? You mean I can go back and forth between offices, and it only shows me the working printers I have avaliable? Where do I get the drivers?"
The *only* difficulty I have on my system is Windows applications. Wine just isn't all the way there yet. Other than that, everything, and I mean everything, works beautifully. I have to spend a lot of time explaining that Linux has problems with Windows applications only, and that Windows application performance is not indicative of Linux app performance.
I had a relative who refuses to uses OpenOffice.org because Present won't play a music file over the length of the presentation. It will only play sounds on each slide.
Powerpoint lets you select music for presentation.
Seems minor to me, but was enough to cause this particular idiot to fly back into the arms of his pirated MS Office.
Talk to Transgaming. They will help you accomplish one of the following, at either no or minimal expensive:
1. Make it work in Wine (cedega). Most likely free. 2. Make it work using a Wine 'shell'. Most likely free or close to free. Moderately kludgy; you end up distributing your own Wine installation with your system. 3. Use winelib to do an automatic port. Kludgy, but very workable. 4. Build a custom hand-made port.
Transgaming is very good at all of these things, and this is their only business. Obviously, which technique you will use will depend on your budget.
And for all those that say they don't do Mac -> Linux, don't believe them. Transgaming works with many platforms; their most visible work is with x86 windows->linux, but they do all kinds of interesting things going back and forth between PowerPC Mac, x86 linux, x86 windows, x86 xbox, PS2, and other random stuff.
Keeping in mind that your linux port won't be profitable, unless you wrote very, very easy to port code, so options one or two are most likely the best.
Wine performance is really good, and given that you are porting over an existing code base rather than building a new project from scratch I'd suggest just using Wine.
For your next game, use the cross platform SDL stack and OpenGL; but for now, use the Windows port and either Wine or Winelib.
If Microsoft released software when it was 'done', Microsoft would never release software. Period.
MS releases new features in updates, often features that were originally planned to ship with the product in question.
Examples of this (for Vista) include WinFS, Monad, and the full Avalon. If they were to wait for these to be finished, than Longhorn would most likely be delayed to 2008.
Also consider if MS waited to release Vista till they closed *every* internally recognized bug. They'd be waiting to 2009, at least.
MS *has* to release sofwate based upon marketers/ad-men. Their software never really reaches the point of being 'done', until it is 1/2 to end of life.
Computer code is copyrightable. In that sense, it is equivalent to speech; the government should not be able to arbitrarily repress it. However, the code for DeCSS, which does not violate either patent or copyright restrictions, is, according to the DMCA, illegal to reproduce or posses, since it is a circumvention mechanism. This is strange, since the DeCSS code is merely speech, you can reproduce it verbally, as a set of sentances describing it out loud, or on a teeshirt, in a few lines or perl code. This is odd; arguably, anything that is copyrightable *is* constitutionally protected speech.
This is stuff that according to copyright qualifies as speech; why isn't it protected by the 1st amendment? It's not copyrighted by the media cartels or by inventors; this is new, original, non-patent-encumbered code.
2. You make exceptions for 'terrorist' subjects, but how far does this extend? Should all court cases regarding terrorists have absolutely no public record? http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1030/p01s02-usju.htm l I find this appaling. We need more transparency, not secrecy. I find it *very* difficult to believe that these minor cases contained such earth shattering material regarding national security that the public can never know what happened. If anyone 'leaked' anything that occured at these hearings, you can damn well bet they'd be thrown away for good.
Even the defendant, who is unable to explain to anyone, including family members, just why they are in jail. What the heck?
The U.S., as a whole, has enough strength to give up some advantages to the 'terrorists' regarding secrecy. I'm not asking for terror-speach to be permitted. But it disturbs me when the government conducts all its operations in secrecy.
You may have to reinstall... it depends on how much damage compiling the media players from scratch did:)
I'll try and help you through this, however.... 1. Reinstall *all* the mplayer and xine packages from the original RPM. Obviously, you won't need to do this if you reinstall your whole system.
2. Go to SuSE YaST Online Update. Get the updates 'multimedia pack 1-4'. If you've already installed them, toggle down to 'All Packages', and 'Refresh (reinstall)' them.
3. Go to http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=122. There is a link to a script there that will download libdvdcss2 and compile it for your system. This will enable dvd playback in the included versions of Mplayer and Xine. Once Xine is capable of playing DVDs, Kaffeine and all the other Xine based players will be capable of it.
This support is *not* 100%. You will not be able to play all quicktimes. I haven't figured out why; however, many of the quicktimes will not play on my Mac or Windows systems either./shrug. Some people encode quicktimes in weird non-standard codecs.
5. Done. Most your media will work. If you find stuff that you cannot play, it means you need to find an RPM for that particular codec. Some are hard to chase down for *any* platform, meaning I've found quicktimes I cannot play on Linux, OS X, or Windows.
You can find a yast-source for packman.links2linux.org on their site somewhere. I recommend downloading the RPMs and installing them one by one, simply because its not always complete, and sometimes I've found packages in their yast-source that do not exist on the site (this can cause screwed up dependencies).
Now, your flash problem. I have no idea why that occurs:) I've never seen anything like it. Are you running the 64-bit version of suse, or the 32-bit one (I have flash working in both)? Did you try to upgrade your flash with the one from Macromedia's site? Have you updated your system to the latest one from YoU?
I suggest trying to reinstall Konqueror and Flash from RPM. I've installed SuSE 9.3 (from the DVD and CD) on about 15 machines, and all have properly working Flash.
Also, you can disable ARTS, as a temporary solution for Mozilla/Firefox. Arts can be disabled by typing killall artsd. Arts can be permantely disabled by using the KDE control panel under sound system. This will allow your sound to work, though, your system should have dmix enabled by default, allowing multiple programs to access the sound card. Have you altered your.asoundrc in your home directory? Keep in mind that the root user does not get an.asoundrc, so dmix is not enabled by default for root. I believe uninstalling and reinstalling your soundcard using YaST will correct this.
I've had the same exact problems as you when I've tried to install this stuff from source. You've got to get all the directory options for./configure exactly right, or everything breaks. You're much better off using RPMs if you can find them, and for SuSE, packman.links2linux.org is the place to go.
Did you think I was being sarcastic? I'm not sure I understand your post.
I *really* *really* do want KDE on a full screen XDarwin session on my Powerbook. I'm starting to prefer KDE to Aqua, thank you.
For real, no joke:) I like kioslaves, and other nifty KDE features. I feel much more at home in KDE than Aqua.
If only I could get the damn thing to compile!!!! It just keeps breaking!
And I won't run Fedora/Ubuntu/random linux on my powerbook. Builtin in Airport Extreme won't work. No OpenGL acceleration. Many other features working. But I'd be ecstatic with KDE in a fullscreen session. If only someone shipped binaries instead of roll your own source; its not like there is a big set of target platforms!
Of course its not blazing fast, but it is usable (with a bit of patience).
KDE 3.X on the same machine requires GOBS of patience. You have to wait for minutes for the GUI to preform basic tasks.
XP can run on a surprisingly crappy system if you turn everything off, don't run on-demand AV, don't run on demand spyware scanning, and only run an app or two at a time.
Don't forget that many XP machines came from the factory with 128 MBs of ram.
Not that XP doesn't suck, a lot. Check my posting history; I flame Windows more than most. But you can shoehorn it into older PCs; I couldn't get KDE 3.X to work at a reasonable speed no matter what I did.
Also, keep in mind that lots of that can be uninstalled.
Still, there definitely is *something* taking up more ram, but whether that is the system maturing, bloat, or somewhere inbetween is not entirely clear.
KDE 3.4 is really slow on a Pentium MMX class machine with 192 mb of ram.
Soemtimes, you have to make sacrifices. However, XP can run on that machine nicely. I haven't found a Window manager to make such a machine run properly (and conviently), so I bought new discount new motherboards with integrated via epia processors. (~$15)
There's a setting under 'Change OK Cancel button order'
There are a lot of KDE improvements in the pipeline (well, there *always* are), and never enough manpower, primarily because KDE-fans (like me) don't always know enough about coding to help, at least in any useful fashion.
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Hear Hear!
I'm with you!
Seriously. Warm my steak up. Burn a little bit of the outside, because I like the crispy beef flavor.
The rest of it, on the inside? Red, raw, bloody. If I want something I have to gnaw on for awhile I'll go get a carrot or something. My meat is supposed to be tender, moist, and red.
On the other hand, I'm not sure how I feel about slaughter house facilities.
Is the meat fresh enough? Are they feeding cows to cows?
I like the idea of machine grown meat; I can eat it colder. If its got the same texture and flavor of normal beef, then I'm fine with it.
Oh, and price! It better be the same, or less.
The analogy of sweetners to sugar does not apply; I'm sure if mankind could synthesize low-cost high-quality real sugar, we wouldn't bother growing it.
There's nothing wrong with natural meat. There's nothing wrong with eating it rare, or even raw.
But the farming industries practices are not always savory; you never know what chemicals have been introduced, or what natural practices have been perveted (BSE, from cows eating cow). If I can grow my own meat at home, and it tastes just like the real thing, because it *is* the real thing sans the rest of the cow, I'll do that.
That's the cover story. They can't fight MS directly yet.
Well, I'm not sure that is true, but the theory goes like this:
1. Release x86 OS X, for Apple Mac hardware only.
2. License x86 OS X, the new-clones, running Apple reference designs. Siginificant Licensing revenue.
3. Release x86 OS X, for generic x86. Sell it through the clone companies, which, incidentally, are mainstream PC OEMs. Support it through the cloners.
Apple would still make its high-end hardware. Basically, this would allow them to stop worrying about the eMac, Mac Mini, and iBook hardware, simply collecting a license fee on that category of system. They would still manufacture the high-end stuff, and would compete against clone companies producing similar stuff, but the clone companies would be restricted to selling Apple designs with profit for Apple built-in.
Not sure I believe it, but 6 months ago I'd say that Apple switching to x86 was impossible too.
Yes.
It is not the USPTO's job to invalidate patents, generally; it is the courts.
The only problem might be in Microsoft's claimed date of invention.
I believe MS claims they invented one aspect of the ipod's interface before Apple released the iPod. Then it will come down to a very messy lawsuit revealing internal company documents to try and show which company developed that aspect of the interface first.
See...the problem is, that's retarded.
Sure, GPS works outside, with a mostly unobstructed view of the sky.
Ever use GPS in a canyon (urban or in the boonies)?
How about with large overhanging objects overhead?
How about indoors?
GPS is everywhere, sorta.
But the reality is that Wi-Fi goes a lot of places GPS does not.
I went to my parents house one day, and saw my sister using my parent's Linux desktop.
She had opened up Crossover Office, installed IE in Linux, and was using that to explore the web.
I was flabbergasted. Shes not terribly computer literate.
She knew how to find Crossover Office?
She installed IE?????
She skipped over Firefox for IE.... On Linux?????
I didn't know whether to be angry or happy.
Showing the power and flexibility of Linux by using a piece of software I abhor. Oh....the conflicting zealotry.
Here's what you are looking for:
.odt (or .doc, or whatever OpenOffice.org supports). Load document into the same browser window. KDE-style openoffice.org widgets pop-up. Save directly to HTTP (or HTTPS or anything that KIO supports, including crazy things like FISH).
;-)
http://dot.kde.org/1075705744/
In particular, we're waiting for
Will "integration" include support for important low level KDE features like the Kiosk framework sometime?
First of all, the KDE NWF and KDE vclplug have to be stabilized. Then I can integrate KIO and KDE dialogs to OOo and continue with further efforts, be it KParts, Kiosk or other KDE features. I am afraid it won't happen before 2005.
Sure, its not gnome, its KDE only. But that's the beauty of KParts and KIO. Click on
Experience full KPart integration with Kroupware, and any QT app on your desktop.
Be Happy.
KDE is doing all the network stuff you can dream off, and they are *way* ahead of MS. Just look at the KIO framework. It's fascinating.
You could open/save a document from HTTP://, FTP://, HTTPS://, FISH://, CAMERA://, or any other number of KIO protocols, and you can even easily implement your own.
I'd make you a list of which ones are avaliable on my machine, but its really too long for me to copy and paste easily. Think things like SVN+HTTPS://, SVN+SSH://, WEBDAVS://, or whatever
KDE can do these kinds of tricks.
Sadly, KOffice is no where near OpenOffice.org
What we need is OpenOffice.org rewritten for QT, and the implemented using KParts.
That's like 20 years of programmer time worth of work, though.
But the free market is happily 'solving' the problem of Co2 emissions.
;-) ) is to be supportive of measures that fund alternative energy (yes, nuclear power, even if you hate bush, nuclear power is most likely the only short-term way out of fossil fuel dependence at almost *any* price), and to be supportive of measures that increase the price of fossil fuels (no Alaskan oil exploration. no excess U.S. refinery permits).
Anyone notice the price of oil (and other fossil fuels, which have gone up dramatically as well) today?
Back when I was a debater, in college, virtually every proposal to counter Co2 emissions was dependant upon altering the prices of fossil fuels.
Sure, the mechanisms were different; some utilized high levels of taxes, implemented globally. Some used means of artificially limiting supply; when we agree to burn only x exajoules of energy, the price per unit goes up.
In any case, none of those proposals (all of which were directly from left leaning political panels on climate change) envisioned prices as high as they are now, or as high as they are projected to be in the near future. I do not believe there is anyway that political action will be able to unite all the major Co2 emitting countries under one policy. It's simply impossible.
Significantly higher oil prices? We'll have conservation out the wazoo, now, and alternate energy technologies (yes, including Nuclear, which is probably the best way out of fossil fuels in the short run (you take what you can get, and there is the potential for a really wonderful powersource, if the only idiotic nuclear companies would step out of the way for the latest and greatest designs being used in research throughout the world)) are on the short-term horizon.
Anyone notice the hybrid trend? Or walk into a honda dealership or a saturn dealership?
See all the signs about conservation? Fuel Efficiency? Mark my words-- If oil prices collapse again, all of this green-wave will vanish. Keep oil prices high, and we'll move off the fossil fuel economy in the near future.
Quite frankly, if you are really worried about emissions-related global warming, (which I'm not, there are many other factors which I believe account for warming better than industrial era emissions. Like humanities desire to clear forests, and the resulting desertification. Or conversion of various land types to ecologically useless farmland) your best bet is to vote for policies that keep oil prices high, and drive it up through the roof.
If oil was $120-200 a barrel, electric cars would be a reality, even with their dinky 100 mile range. If oil was that high, nuclear plants would be built *right-now*, and the major auto companies would be building a hydrogen economy in conjunction with the oil companies *right-now*. Oh, and oil is projected to be at these levels if demand patterns continue to grow at their current rate.
I never believed the supply-side problems presented by the dooms-dayers of the 70. Rather, I thought we would experience demand that slowly outstripped supply, allowing the market to adjust economic allocations to account for it. That's exactly what we are experiencing. These corporations already have their plans laid; they've been waiting for economic conditions to be right, so they can get the jump on their competitors.
Basically, I'm asking for people to stop clamoring for lower gas prices. It's a blessing in disguise. If oil prices had only gone up from their high in the 70s, we'd live in a different world today. It's really too bad that the Shah's regime collapsed; as the architech of the first-wave price hikes, he would have unknowingly corrected the world dependence on fossil fuels.
The next best step for concerned individuals to take (i.e. people who are not the dictators of statist regimes who can alter prices at whim
That's the way out of fossil fuel emissions. You'll *never*, *ever* get a pure political solution. Attack the economics of the problem, and the free market
Yes, all these things interfere with each other :)
With 3.4, you can get desktop icons, but they aren't there unless highlighted, and the redraw is particularly ugly.
Alt-F2 to run? I think that works correctly, so I'm not sure about that one. I'll try it out when I get home.
Basically, you pretend they aren't there, and draw a box around the rough areas of your icons when you need them.
This doesn't affect me that much, as I'm used to using desktops without icons. Obviously, it depends on what you like; I prefer to have all my icons avaliable in folders accessible from my panels.
IIRC, you can use crystalgl with kompmgr if you use software rendering, but I don't bother; crystal by itself is almost as nice, and far more stable.
Oh, I agree with you.
He, however, is extremely stubborn, and will look at anything to support MS. Nothing I can do about it.
Quite frankly, if you want music to go with your presentation, you're better off making a movie than a slideshow.
Slideshows are for speaking over. Sound-effects make sense. I don't want to fight with the music for volume.
Video presentations just aren't that much harder.
But I shit you not. This is why he quit using OpenOffice.org. I still use it, everywhere.
Hmm... I'll investigate it how; I have no idea how to do this.
But at least this relative, and his family, now point at that as the "big limitation" of OpenOffice.org for the home user.
Go figure, yes, he's not bright.
I dunno about him, but my GUI is there. Suse 9.3, KDE 3.4, and an Nvidia graphics card.
I haven't seen a Windows user who *doesn't* drool over my keyboard.
Things blissfully fade in and out, a soothing animated xscreensaver is my desktop background, my window title bar and border are transparent (crystal theme (check out crystalgl and oceangl, they are stunning)). Too bad you can't run crystal gl or ocean gl with kompmgr; I'm sure that will be fixed in the future. (crystal GL, btw, does the Vista-like translucency of window borders. 1.5 years ago. )
Font rendering on my system blows away anything else, and I'm talking about graphics professionals running Windows and Mac OS X doing comparisons.
Not too mention the oohs and ahhs I hear about Project Looking Glass. It'll be fun when that's avaliable as a Window Manager for distributions.
KDE amazes most people. Kparts, all the nifty little protocols (like fish://, camera://, and ipod://), native output to PDF for an application (like OS X). Kaffeine, which plays any format under the sun.
My girlfriend saw the automatic downloading of lyrics and wikipedia entries in amarok, and decided she wanted this 'KDE' thing.
Not to mention non-KDE things that KDE builds on. Samba integration is beautiful. CUPS autodetection of network printers makes most Windows people drop their jaws in shock.
"What? You mean I can go back and forth between offices, and it only shows me the working printers I have avaliable? Where do I get the drivers?"
The *only* difficulty I have on my system is Windows applications. Wine just isn't all the way there yet. Other than that, everything, and I mean everything, works beautifully. I have to spend a lot of time explaining that Linux has problems with Windows applications only, and that Windows application performance is not indicative of Linux app performance.
Honestly?
I had a relative who refuses to uses OpenOffice.org because Present won't play a music file over the length of the presentation. It will only play sounds on each slide.
Powerpoint lets you select music for presentation.
Seems minor to me, but was enough to cause this particular idiot to fly back into the arms of his pirated MS Office.
Talk to Transgaming. They will help you accomplish one of the following, at either no or minimal expensive:
1. Make it work in Wine (cedega). Most likely free.
2. Make it work using a Wine 'shell'. Most likely free or close to free. Moderately kludgy; you end up distributing your own Wine installation with your system.
3. Use winelib to do an automatic port. Kludgy, but very workable.
4. Build a custom hand-made port.
Transgaming is very good at all of these things, and this is their only business. Obviously, which technique you will use will depend on your budget.
And for all those that say they don't do Mac -> Linux, don't believe them. Transgaming works with many platforms; their most visible work is with x86 windows->linux, but they do all kinds of interesting things going back and forth between PowerPC Mac, x86 linux, x86 windows, x86 xbox, PS2, and other random stuff.
Keeping in mind that your linux port won't be profitable, unless you wrote very, very easy to port code, so options one or two are most likely the best.
Wine performance is really good, and given that you are porting over an existing code base rather than building a new project from scratch I'd suggest just using Wine.
For your next game, use the cross platform SDL stack and OpenGL; but for now, use the Windows port and either Wine or Winelib.
Yes and no.
If Microsoft released software when it was 'done', Microsoft would never release software. Period.
MS releases new features in updates, often features that were originally planned to ship with the product in question.
Examples of this (for Vista) include WinFS, Monad, and the full Avalon. If they were to wait for these to be finished, than Longhorn would most likely be delayed to 2008.
Also consider if MS waited to release Vista till they closed *every* internally recognized bug. They'd be waiting to 2009, at least.
MS *has* to release sofwate based upon marketers/ad-men. Their software never really reaches the point of being 'done', until it is 1/2 to end of life.
Err...
Crossover office has run these apps for a long time.
There are apps that don't work properly, namely the latest and greatest adobe apps. But MS Office is easy.
I'd argue the following are provable examples of the U.S. government abridging Constitutionally protected free speech:
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1. DMCA protection of algorithims used in commercial DRM encryption code.
Information here: http://www.legal.wao.com/decss.html
Computer code is copyrightable. In that sense, it is equivalent to speech; the government should not be able to arbitrarily repress it. However, the code for DeCSS, which does not violate either patent or copyright restrictions, is, according to the DMCA, illegal to reproduce or posses, since it is a circumvention mechanism. This is strange, since the DeCSS code is merely speech, you can reproduce it verbally, as a set of sentances describing it out loud, or on a teeshirt, in a few lines or perl code. This is odd; arguably, anything that is copyrightable *is* constitutionally protected speech.
There are more examples of this kind of nonsense here: http://www.chillingeffects.org/
This is stuff that according to copyright qualifies as speech; why isn't it protected by the 1st amendment? It's not copyrighted by the media cartels or by inventors; this is new, original, non-patent-encumbered code.
2. You make exceptions for 'terrorist' subjects, but how far does this extend? Should all court cases regarding terrorists have absolutely no public record?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1030/p01s02-usju.ht
I find this appaling. We need more transparency, not secrecy. I find it *very* difficult to believe that these minor cases contained such earth shattering material regarding national security that the public can never know what happened. If anyone 'leaked' anything that occured at these hearings, you can damn well bet they'd be thrown away for good.
Even the defendant, who is unable to explain to anyone, including family members, just why they are in jail. What the heck?
The U.S., as a whole, has enough strength to give up some advantages to the 'terrorists' regarding secrecy. I'm not asking for terror-speach to be permitted. But it disturbs me when the government conducts all its operations in secrecy.
You may have to reinstall... it depends on how much damage compiling the media players from scratch did :)
a ds/script_rpm4/install_libdvdcss2
/shrug. Some people encode quicktimes in weird non-standard codecs.
:) I've never seen anything like it. Are you running the 64-bit version of suse, or the 32-bit one (I have flash working in both)? Did you try to upgrade your flash with the one from Macromedia's site? Have you updated your system to the latest one from YoU?
.asoundrc in your home directory? Keep in mind that the root user does not get an .asoundrc, so dmix is not enabled by default for root. I believe uninstalling and reinstalling your soundcard using YaST will correct this.
./configure exactly right, or everything breaks. You're much better off using RPMs if you can find them, and for SuSE, packman.links2linux.org is the place to go.
I'll try and help you through this, however....
1. Reinstall *all* the mplayer and xine packages from the original RPM. Obviously, you won't need to do this if you reinstall your whole system.
2. Go to SuSE YaST Online Update. Get the updates 'multimedia pack 1-4'. If you've already installed them, toggle down to 'All Packages', and 'Refresh (reinstall)' them.
3. Go to http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=122. There is a link to a script there that will download libdvdcss2 and compile it for your system. This will enable dvd playback in the included versions of Mplayer and Xine. Once Xine is capable of playing DVDs, Kaffeine and all the other Xine based players will be capable of it.
The direct link is here http://www.iiv.de/schwinde/buerger/tremmel/downlo
4. Go to http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=124. Grab xine-lib and w32codecs. This will enable quicktime playback, WMV playback, ASF playback, etc . . .
This support is *not* 100%. You will not be able to play all quicktimes. I haven't figured out why; however, many of the quicktimes will not play on my Mac or Windows systems either.
5. Done. Most your media will work. If you find stuff that you cannot play, it means you need to find an RPM for that particular codec. Some are hard to chase down for *any* platform, meaning I've found quicktimes I cannot play on Linux, OS X, or Windows.
You can find a yast-source for packman.links2linux.org on their site somewhere. I recommend downloading the RPMs and installing them one by one, simply because its not always complete, and sometimes I've found packages in their yast-source that do not exist on the site (this can cause screwed up dependencies).
Now, your flash problem. I have no idea why that occurs
I suggest trying to reinstall Konqueror and Flash from RPM. I've installed SuSE 9.3 (from the DVD and CD) on about 15 machines, and all have properly working Flash.
Also, you can disable ARTS, as a temporary solution for Mozilla/Firefox. Arts can be disabled by typing killall artsd. Arts can be permantely disabled by using the KDE control panel under sound system. This will allow your sound to work, though, your system should have dmix enabled by default, allowing multiple programs to access the sound card. Have you altered your
I've had the same exact problems as you when I've tried to install this stuff from source. You've got to get all the directory options for
I find gaming easier on Linux than Mac.
With cedega (www.transgaming.com), WoW just works.
Plus I get Windows-only titles like Half-Life 2.
Hmm...I'll try slack...
I'd been using SuSE 9.0-9.3. It sucked, royally.
How fast is 'usable enough'? Any multi-minute wait times? For opening apps and the like?
Did you think I was being sarcastic? I'm not sure I understand your post.
:) I like kioslaves, and other nifty KDE features. I feel much more at home in KDE than Aqua.
I *really* *really* do want KDE on a full screen XDarwin session on my Powerbook. I'm starting to prefer KDE to Aqua, thank you.
For real, no joke
If only I could get the damn thing to compile!!!! It just keeps breaking!
And I won't run Fedora/Ubuntu/random linux on my powerbook. Builtin in Airport Extreme won't work. No OpenGL acceleration. Many other features working. But I'd be ecstatic with KDE in a fullscreen session. If only someone shipped binaries instead of roll your own source; its not like there is a big set of target platforms!
No, I promise. It *really* can be done.
2 0MMX.html) that actually runs XP ok with 192 megs of ram.
I've got a pentium mmx 233 (proof of existence http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80586/TYPE-Pentium%
Of course its not blazing fast, but it is usable (with a bit of patience).
KDE 3.X on the same machine requires GOBS of patience. You have to wait for minutes for the GUI to preform basic tasks.
XP can run on a surprisingly crappy system if you turn everything off, don't run on-demand AV, don't run on demand spyware scanning, and only run an app or two at a time.
Don't forget that many XP machines came from the factory with 128 MBs of ram.
Not that XP doesn't suck, a lot. Check my posting history; I flame Windows more than most. But you can shoehorn it into older PCs; I couldn't get KDE 3.X to work at a reasonable speed no matter what I did.
Yeah, seriously!
I *really* want KDE on OS X. Why doesn't the version in Fink for 10.4 compile correctly?
BAH HUMBUG!
Also, keep in mind that lots of that can be uninstalled.
Still, there definitely is *something* taking up more ram, but whether that is the system maturing, bloat, or somewhere inbetween is not entirely clear.
KDE 3.4 is really slow on a Pentium MMX class machine with 192 mb of ram.
Soemtimes, you have to make sacrifices. However, XP can run on that machine nicely. I haven't found a Window manager to make such a machine run properly (and conviently), so I bought new discount new motherboards with integrated via epia processors. (~$15)
Someone is working on this, at least the button order.
C onfig%20Settings#id362646
Please check http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Secret%20
There's a setting under 'Change OK Cancel button order'
There are a lot of KDE improvements in the pipeline (well, there *always* are), and never enough manpower, primarily because KDE-fans (like me) don't always know enough about coding to help, at least in any useful fashion.