It is a difficult question to answer wether we ever will switch to MAS or not. I mean while we clearly want to get away from ESD, it has also become clear to us that we don't want to ditch ESD for another solution which in its own way is just as flawed.
So could MAS be the 'flawless' version we have been looking for? Maybe...problem now is that it seems development stopped and it has yet to have a release that made it somewhat usefull to us. For instance we tried making a MAS plugin for GStreamer right after their first public release, but that effort grinded to a halt when we discovered that there was missing pieces. We where told that these pieces would be in place in the next release of MAS, but that release has never happened.
Of course this being free software it could be that we eventually come around to picking up MAS and continue it, but for the time being the current developers already have our hands full of other stuff like maturing GStreamer. New hands onboard to tackle the sound server issue if of course always welcome
Having the graphics of the windowmanager being definable in XML is not new. Metacity has been doing this for a long time now (it always worked this way). A Metacity theme is just a XML file which either can define gradients etc in XML or you can use pixmaps. The main advantage of using XML defined gradients and graphics is that you are allowed to use gtk colours instead of hardcoding color values. This means that metacity themes done right will follow the colour scheme of your GTK+ themes.
I think the XFCE4 windowmanager works the exact same way.
So no slight to the AfterStep developers, but they where beaten to the punchline with almost a year on this one:)
Ok, so gDesklets is a clone of Karamba that is a clone of Konfabulator that is a clone of the old hack Andy Hertzfeldt and Arlo worked on in Nautilus. Nice so see how things work in circles;)
Hi, The latest releases of 11i ERP do support running Oracle applications clients out of the box with the standard Sun java plugin under Linux. The certification process isn't done yet however, but we are working on it, so hopefully support for Linux and Solaris clients can be officially announced soon.
I don't know if the quote from Larry is taken from a larger set, but as it stands the article misrepresents the statement rather wildly. I mean what he says is that the boom days are over and will probably never return. He do NOT say that growth will never return, just that it will no return in general with mega growth rates like the three digit growth rates that for a while seemed to be the norm.
I mean if the software industry manages to get back to an average of 5%-8% annual growth that is still growth, but it is not enough to make Sillicon Valley 'what it once was' to use Larry's words.
Well there is the IBM mouse mentioned with a trackpoint thing, and I have also seen mouse with both a horizontal and a vertical scroll wheel.
Think I even saw a mouse using a small trackball ball instead of a wheel once.
I was just curios to what kind of rules the patent office (in theory) follow to judge wether somehing is truly a new idea or just a variation of an old one
Well I would think there are some rules for significant difference for a new patent for it to be considered a new invention. If not I guess someone can patent 'pink rotary disk' as a separate patent again from the original apple patent.
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I have read a lot of your stuff ever since you started doing Hellstorm many years ago. I really loved what you did with Hellstorm, and was impressed what you manage to do even within the gagging limitations of the comics code. I read much of your Marvel stuff and was very pleased when Transmetropolitan came out under the Helix/Vertigo imprint.
And while I have always enjoyed Transmet I do miss the even darker strain that was evident in Hellstorm. Any plans to do something more along the lines of Hellstorm again? Something more dark and occult in the lack of a better description. (but of course this time maybe something of your own without the restraints of suffered doing Hellstorm.)
I think Slashdot gets to close to freshmeat.net when the editors feel that the BETA of a small and trivial linux distro is a good news story. Consider that the betas of Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse are not considered news I can't see why the beta of obscuris is considering headline news.
Your lawsuit says that if IBM hadn't used Unix intelectual property to improve Linux, Linux wouldn't have gotten beyond being a hobbyist system. I do not agree with this view, but lets accept that idea as the basis for this question.
If this is true then it means the only reason Caldera managed to build a business, and do a hugely successfull IPO, the same IPO that gave Caldera the financial muscle to buy SCO, is because of IBM's actions.
In other words you are making a lawsuit against IBM for making it possible for your business to become successful enough to buy SCO?
Or in other words, you are taking IBM to court for dilluting the value of property you would never have owned in the first place if it where not for IBM's actions?
no, librsvg supports.svgz files by using the libgsf library. This library is not part of the GNOME 2.2 release however (will be included for 2.4) so the.svgz support is not being used for the current themes.
Yes and no. There will probably be made a Mozilla plugin using librsvg for displaying SVG images in Mozilla. But long term Mozilla needs an integrated SVG viewer which use their rendering model to be able to have advanced SVG manipulation functionality beyong just viewing images.
Well new improved fonts are on the way from Bitstream after their recent agreement with the GNOME Foundation. As for the graphics in the theme, I assume you refer to the gtk theme used. I am aware that there are some issues with it (and I have already received some fixes for it), but I did not want to put to much effort into it as it is meant to be replaced in a later version with a SVG based GTK theme (with the same general look however).
Also the theme is mostly meant as a proof of concept, if you do not like it then feel free to create your own SVG icons:)
This was made in reference to the free SVG icons out there which is also availabe in png format. What the rendering speeds are for the extreme cases it not really interesting.
Um, first of all librsvg has been in GNOME since GNOME 1.4, but this latest release of librsvg increases the amount of SVG it renders well immensly. In fact as you can see from the shot it render the SVG icons from the Crystal theme used in KDE perfectly. It does this using the actual SVG file.
KDE on the other hand do not support rendering SVG icons, instead they have converted them to PNG and use that. Due to earlier releases of librsvg not being nearly as fast as the current one GNOME used to do this to with the SVG Gorilla theme, which is why you might have heard of the PNG variant called unscaleable Gorilla. With latest advances in librsvg however this is no longer needed nor desirable.
I would be more inclined to spend some cash on this if they offered news shares to raise cash instead of
asking for club memberships. I have no idea how their current stock structure/value looks, but as an example if they need 2 Million USD they should just produce 200 000 new shares and offer them to the community at 10 USD per share. That is something I would consider spending say 1000 USD on, not some club membership.
I know their page lists investor information too, but to me that looked as if they where only interested in people with much bigger pockets than mine or most other linux community members.
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Making A Videowall
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Actually part of the plan as I understood it is actually just to use the normal computers of the school computer lab and just quickly assemble the videowall from those when needed.
There is 1 GNOME application that has been set up as the default application in RH KDE and that is Evolution for mail. The other two major defaults are OpenOffice and Mozilla which unfortunatly isn't GNOME apps.
HP is probably a very important advertiser for Infoworld which would probably make them want to not publish to controversial articles against HP. Also the level of journalistic independence and tradition is probably much much lower in something like Infoworld compared to NYT.
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So could MAS be the 'flawless' version we have been looking for? Maybe...problem now is that it seems development stopped and it has yet to have a release that made it somewhat usefull to us. For instance we tried making a MAS plugin for GStreamer right after their first public release, but that effort grinded to a halt when we discovered that there was missing pieces. We where told that these pieces would be in place in the next release of MAS, but that release has never happened.
Of course this being free software it could be that we eventually come around to picking up MAS and continue it, but for the time being the current developers already have our hands full of other stuff like maturing GStreamer. New hands onboard to tackle the sound server issue if of course always welcome
I think the XFCE4 windowmanager works the exact same way.
So no slight to the AfterStep developers, but they where beaten to the punchline with almost a year on this one
Ok, so gDesklets is a clone of Karamba that is a clone of Konfabulator that is a clone of the old hack Andy Hertzfeldt and Arlo worked on in Nautilus. Nice so see how things work in circles ;)
Hi,
The latest releases of 11i ERP do support running Oracle applications clients out of the box with the standard Sun java plugin under Linux. The certification process isn't done yet however, but we are working on it, so hopefully support for Linux and Solaris clients can be officially announced soon.
I don't know if the quote from Larry is taken from
a larger set, but as it stands the article misrepresents the statement rather wildly. I mean what he says is that the boom days are over and will probably never return. He do NOT say that growth will never return, just that it will no return in general with mega growth rates like the three digit growth rates that for a while seemed to be the norm.
I mean if the software industry manages to get back to an average of 5%-8% annual growth that is still growth, but it is not enough to make Sillicon Valley 'what it once was' to use Larry's words.
Well there is the IBM mouse mentioned with a trackpoint thing, and I have also seen mouse with both a horizontal and a vertical scroll wheel.
Think I even saw a mouse using a small trackball ball instead of a wheel once.
I was just curios to what kind of rules the patent office (in theory) follow to judge wether somehing is truly a new idea or just a variation of an old one
Well I would think there are some rules for significant difference for a new patent for it to be considered a new invention. If not I guess someone can patent 'pink rotary disk' as a separate patent again from the original apple patent.
And while I have always enjoyed Transmet I do miss the even darker strain that was evident in Hellstorm. Any plans to do something more along the lines of Hellstorm again? Something more dark and occult in the lack of a better description. (but of course this time maybe something of your own without the restraints of suffered doing Hellstorm.)
I think Slashdot gets to close to freshmeat.net when
the editors feel that the BETA of a small and trivial linux distro is a good news story. Consider that the betas of Red Hat, Mandrake and Suse are not considered news I can't see why the beta of obscuris
is considering headline news.
Your lawsuit says that if IBM hadn't used Unix intelectual property to improve Linux, Linux wouldn't have gotten beyond being a hobbyist system. I do not agree with this view, but lets accept that idea as the basis for this question.
If this is true then it means the only reason Caldera managed to build a business, and do a hugely successfull IPO, the same IPO that gave Caldera the financial muscle to buy SCO, is because of IBM's actions.
In other words you are making a lawsuit against IBM for making it possible for your business to become successful enough to buy SCO?
Or in other words, you are taking IBM to court for dilluting the value of property you would never have owned in the first place if it where not for IBM's actions?
You don't find this a tad weird?
If you are refering to using SVG icons all over the environment converted to png files, GNOME did that with the Gorilla theme.
no, librsvg supports .svgz files by using the libgsf .svgz support is not being used for the current themes.
library. This library is not part of the GNOME 2.2 release however (will be included for 2.4) so the
Yes and no. There will probably be made a Mozilla plugin using librsvg for displaying SVG images in Mozilla. But long term Mozilla needs an integrated SVG viewer which use their rendering model to be able to have advanced SVG manipulation functionality beyong just viewing images.
Well new improved fonts are on the way from Bitstream after their recent agreement with the GNOME Foundation. As for the graphics in the theme, I assume you refer to the gtk theme used. I am aware that there are some issues with it (and I have already received some fixes for it), but I did not want to put to much effort into it as it is meant to be replaced in a later version with a SVG based GTK theme (with the same general look however).
:)
Also the theme is mostly meant as a proof of concept, if you do not like it then feel free to create your own SVG icons
I suggest you try out Sodipodi while it would be crazy to claim that it can do everything Illustrator can it is getting nice and usefull.
This was made in reference to the free SVG icons out there which is also availabe in png format. What the rendering speeds are for the extreme cases it not really interesting.
Um, first of all librsvg has been in GNOME since GNOME 1.4, but this latest release of librsvg increases the amount of SVG it renders well immensly. In fact as you can see from the shot it render the SVG icons from the Crystal theme used in KDE perfectly. It does this using the actual SVG file.
KDE on the other hand do not support rendering SVG icons, instead they have converted them to PNG and use that. Due to earlier releases of librsvg not being nearly as fast as the current one GNOME used to do this to with the SVG Gorilla theme, which is why you might have heard of the PNG variant called unscaleable Gorilla. With latest advances in librsvg however this is no longer needed nor desirable.
I know their page lists investor information too, but to me that looked as if they where only interested in people with much bigger pockets than mine or most other linux community members.
Actually part of the plan as I understood it is actually just to use the normal computers of the school computer lab and just quickly assemble the videowall from those when needed.
There is 1 GNOME application that has been set up as the default
application in RH KDE and that is Evolution for mail. The other two major defaults are OpenOffice and Mozilla which unfortunatly isn't GNOME apps.
It resides in Mono CVS not in SF CVS.
For people interested in Logo there is also a Logo project called MonoLogo .net version of Logo on top of Mono.
that creates a
HP is probably a very important advertiser for Infoworld which would probably make them want to not publish to controversial articles against HP. Also the level of journalistic independence and tradition is probably much much lower in something like Infoworld compared to NYT.
Open Office will of course remain free.
> Is this why Bonobo is being replaced by .NET?
It is not.