This story reminds me of what I have thought for quite some time now... the fact that Linux is never going to succeed on the desktop.
There are too many factions at work for it to succeed. There are too many Window Managers. Competition is a good thing, I'm all for it, but we (the people still
waiting to use Linux as a desktop OS) don't need 87 different GUI file managers. For the most part the GUI file manager competition is
irrelevant anyway, how can anyone compete with "free". Who wins in the end
anyway, the file manager with the most what?
Konqueror and GMC both work great. Why not program something worthwhile, like a good game or something? Linux games are severely lacking. Sure, I can play thousands of roms on Linux, and Loki even has some good titles out, but where's my Diablo? or Diablo II? And if you say Wine or VMWare, you lose a testicle! Emulation and virtual this-or-that sucks in the performance realm and you know it!
I'm using Photoshop 6 now, and as far as I can see, it does the same thing every other version has done, only with a few more mostly-useless bells and whistles.
If you can't see a difference between Photoshop 3 or 4 and Photoshop 6 you must be blind, or
extremely near-sighted as your post cleverly suggests. For people like me who deal with images, web page layouts, and "real designers" on a daily basis, Photoshop
6 is a basic requirement.
The AP article doesn't say which patent Adobe is supposed to be violating this time, so just pick any random thing that Photoshop does that Macromedia might have patented and express outrage about it.
Why is this news? I am supposed to pick a patent lawsuit and express
outrage about it? What?
That is no lie! I recently signed up for a new Hotmail account. It was one day last month when our company mail server was having issues. I never had any mail sent to it, I only sent a few messages outbound that day. I never posted it anywhere and I'm quite sure the folks I mailed that day didn't distribute it. Anyway, I came back a few weeks later and checked the account only to find it completely filled with spam... and 99% of the messages were smut spam. Fuckerz... M$ is so... wrong!
I called @home this past Monday because my network connection was dropping packets like hot potatoes. Once I got a human on the phone, I told them I was pinging my gateway and I was seeing a 70% packet loss. He immediately told me, "Don't you think you ought to leave those kind of things to us technicians?" What an insult! I didn't know you had to be a certified phone jockey just to know how to ping an IP?!?! So anyway, after _he_ pinged my gateway for a few minutes, he confirmed the enormous packet loss and scheduled a trouble call, and much to my surprise - for the very next day even.
The next day came and no-one showed up. I work from home and I was here all day, not to mention my very loud doorbell. No excuses, they simply didn't show up. I waited a couple of hours past the scheduled appointment time, just to be a courteous end user, and then I called back to see what happened. The technician I spoke to this time was very quick to apologize for the mishap and very hurriedly tried to see what the issue was. He said my account info never made it onto their outgoing trouble call list for that particular day. I said OK, honest mistake, and I re-scheduled a new trouble call. The new appointment time sucked though, it was 3 days away. I figured I might have to do the dial-up thing if things got really bad, as if a 70% loss wasn't bad enough.
So Friday, the new appointment day, finally arrived. The tech was supposed to be here between 4:00 and 6:00pm. Much to my disbelief no-one showed yet again. It was Friday afternoon, and my need to drink beer overcame my need for less packet loss so I decided not to call it in. But this morning I got up and immediately gave them a call. I found yet again my account was not added to the outgoing trouble call list for the day, and yet again I would have to be rescheduled. At this point I was ready to really lose my cool and start telling them all my favorite curse words, but I didn't. I rescheduled (again), but this time it was for 5 days away. Pretty sad that they have 5 days worth of trouble calls scheduled. That's a lot of people!
Of course I've been hearing about @home's recent money problems, but does lack of money make networks break? Or is it really a lack of competent @home technicians and phone jockeys? I'm totally fed up with the @home run-around.
the statute of limitations for sorrow and loss has passed
You're an inconsiderate ass. The only thing I can think of worse than calling it 'nifty' is you saying the time for sorrow has passed. I bet you wouldn't be saying that if it were your loved ones who died in there. Man, how cold-hearted can you get?!?!
You need to shut the hell up and let people get over it when they want to, in their own time... this was a great loss.
Nice article, and I agree with alot of it. But one thing that is an outright untruth is the part about Gimp...
Gimp is NOT an equal replacement for Photoshop nor Fireworks. The author must not do much image work, else he would have known this. Photoshop and Fireworks are the biggest reasons why I still have windows around. Gimp does not do vector -> bitmap translation, not does it have the multitude of plugins available for Photoshop. Fireworks makes compressed.png files way smaller than Gimp can as well.
My two cents, cause I work on images daily...
And for that matter, what do I use to make flash movies in Linux?
Linux has a long way to go before it takes over my desktop completely...
I hope they pull out and start making money again...
But in the meantime, where the hell is 7.2? The Roswell beta has been out for so long, kde 2.2.1 actually has rpms built for it. I'm guessing Ximian will probably follow suite too if they haven't plans already.
Some people (like me) love to play DiabloII alot, so we sell our best items found on the highest levels. Some people (like the buyers who lurk on ebay) don't like to play very much or don't have alot of extra time but still want cool items to use when they do play.
It's simple economics, supply and demand. What's hard to understand about that?
There was no marketing error that I could see. I recieved a free copy of Stormix in Maximum Linux magazine once, which... errr... isn't around anymore either.
I thought it had the T, but it being the first time I had ever written the phrase, I was unsure so I checked Google... At least I'm not the only one who spells it wrong... hehe.
I disabled the rhnsd about 15 minutes after the install. I suspect alot of others did as well due to privacy questions, etc... Didn't you guys turn it off as well?
Why anyone would want their system to "auto-update" is beyond me. I think you're just asking for trouble if you do that.
Did M$ buy some stock in RedHat? Seems like all these bugs and errata stem from a basic case of the dumbass, joined together with some deadlines from the marketing droids... geezz!
Hopefully it's better than the joke of a browser I downloaded a few days ago. That PR3 release was crap. It segfaulted 3 times before I could even get it to run...
Apache has been shown to be substantially faster than many other free servers. Although certain commercial servers have claimed to surpass Apache's speed (it has not been demonstrated that any of these "benchmarks" are a good way of measuring WWW server speed at any rate), we feel that it is better to have a mostly-fast free server than an extremely-fast server that costs thousands of dollars. Apache is run on sites that get millions of hits per day, and they have experienced no performance difficulties.
Sounds like Apache knows what up... Free, stable, and moderately fast or costly, unstable and very fast...
I know this isn't Ebay, but I'd probably pay $20/month to have access to any song I want. I'd pay just for the sheer ability to connect and be able to bitch at someone if I couldn't connect! I don't see Napster existing for very much longer unless it evolves into some type of "pay" service, whatever that may end up being.
On the other hand, if it's a restrictive type of service only allowing certain "allowed" songs then I might pay $5 or $10 a month. Of course I really haven't liked much of anything new since the early 90's, but that's just me... Heavy metal died the day James and Lars flew up to Canada to meet Bob Rock...
I for one was under the impression that Microsoft had turned over a new leaf, so to speak, and was embracing Linux or at least the idea, and possibly considering porting apps, etc...
This act definately reasures us other wise. Sad isn't it?
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This story reminds me of what I have thought for quite some time now... the fact that Linux is never going to succeed on the desktop. There are too many factions at work for it to succeed. There are too many Window Managers. Competition is a good thing, I'm all for it, but we (the people still waiting to use Linux as a desktop OS) don't need 87 different GUI file managers. For the most part the GUI file manager competition is irrelevant anyway, how can anyone compete with "free". Who wins in the end anyway, the file manager with the most what?
Konqueror and GMC both work great. Why not program something worthwhile, like a good game or something? Linux games are severely lacking. Sure, I can play thousands of roms on Linux, and Loki even has some good titles out, but where's my Diablo? or Diablo II? And if you say Wine or VMWare, you lose a testicle! Emulation and virtual this-or-that sucks in the performance realm and you know it!
I'm using Photoshop 6 now, and as far as I can see, it does the same thing every other version has done, only with a few more mostly-useless bells and whistles.
If you can't see a difference between Photoshop 3 or 4 and Photoshop 6 you must be blind, or extremely near-sighted as your post cleverly suggests. For people like me who deal with images, web page layouts, and "real designers" on a daily basis, Photoshop 6 is a basic requirement.
The AP article doesn't say which patent Adobe is supposed to be violating this time, so just pick any random thing that Photoshop does that Macromedia might have patented and express outrage about it.
Why is this news? I am supposed to pick a patent lawsuit and express outrage about it? What?
The quality of the news on /. sucks lately.
Who cares about a manifesto, I'd just like to see 100% CSS2 support.
I run into windoze users all the time who would be Linux users if all the available Linux browsers didn't suck.
And if you think you're gonna convince me Mozilla renders better than IE, you're nuts...
That is no lie! I recently signed up for a new Hotmail account. It was one day last month when our company mail server was having issues. I never had any mail sent to it, I only sent a few messages outbound that day. I never posted it anywhere and I'm quite sure the folks I mailed that day didn't distribute it. Anyway, I came back a few weeks later and checked the account only to find it completely filled with spam... and 99% of the messages were smut spam. Fuckerz... M$ is so... wrong!
I called @home this past Monday because my network connection was dropping packets like hot potatoes. Once I got a human on the phone, I told them I was pinging my gateway and I was seeing a 70% packet loss. He immediately told me, "Don't you think you ought to leave those kind of things to us technicians?" What an insult! I didn't know you had to be a certified phone jockey just to know how to ping an IP?!?! So anyway, after _he_ pinged my gateway for a few minutes, he confirmed the enormous packet loss and scheduled a trouble call, and much to my surprise - for the very next day even.
The next day came and no-one showed up. I work from home and I was here all day, not to mention my very loud doorbell. No excuses, they simply didn't show up. I waited a couple of hours past the scheduled appointment time, just to be a courteous end user, and then I called back to see what happened. The technician I spoke to this time was very quick to apologize for the mishap and very hurriedly tried to see what the issue was. He said my account info never made it onto their outgoing trouble call list for that particular day. I said OK, honest mistake, and I re-scheduled a new trouble call. The new appointment time sucked though, it was 3 days away. I figured I might have to do the dial-up thing if things got really bad, as if a 70% loss wasn't bad enough.
So Friday, the new appointment day, finally arrived. The tech was supposed to be here between 4:00 and 6:00pm. Much to my disbelief no-one showed yet again. It was Friday afternoon, and my need to drink beer overcame my need for less packet loss so I decided not to call it in. But this morning I got up and immediately gave them a call. I found yet again my account was not added to the outgoing trouble call list for the day, and yet again I would have to be rescheduled. At this point I was ready to really lose my cool and start telling them all my favorite curse words, but I didn't. I rescheduled (again), but this time it was for 5 days away. Pretty sad that they have 5 days worth of trouble calls scheduled. That's a lot of people!
Of course I've been hearing about @home's recent money problems, but does lack of money make networks break? Or is it really a lack of competent @home technicians and phone jockeys? I'm totally fed up with the @home run-around.
That was just a bunch of non-answers if you aksed me.
*yawn*
must be news shortage...
So then the cures for cancer and aids should be just around the corner right?
the statute of limitations for sorrow and loss has passed
You're an inconsiderate ass. The only thing I can think of worse than calling it 'nifty' is you saying the time for sorrow has passed. I bet you wouldn't be saying that if it were your loved ones who died in there. Man, how cold-hearted can you get?!?!
You need to shut the hell up and let people get over it when they want to, in their own time... this was a great loss.
JDK this, GTK that... who cares, I just wanna know why my mouse wheel doesn't work.
I can dowload 300 mp3s at once with Limewire, but my damn mouse wheel won't scroll for anything.
Nice article, and I agree with alot of it. But one thing that is an outright untruth is the part about Gimp...
.png files way smaller than Gimp can as well.
Gimp is NOT an equal replacement for Photoshop nor Fireworks. The author must not do much image work, else he would have known this. Photoshop and Fireworks are the biggest reasons why I still have windows around. Gimp does not do vector -> bitmap translation, not does it have the multitude of plugins available for Photoshop. Fireworks makes compressed
My two cents, cause I work on images daily...
And for that matter, what do I use to make flash movies in Linux?
Linux has a long way to go before it takes over my desktop completely...
I hope they pull out and start making money again...
But in the meantime, where the hell is 7.2? The Roswell beta has been out for so long, kde 2.2.1 actually has rpms built for it. I'm guessing Ximian will probably follow suite too if they haven't plans already.
Some people (like me) love to play DiabloII alot, so we sell our best items found on the highest levels. Some people (like the buyers who lurk on ebay) don't like to play very much or don't have alot of extra time but still want cool items to use when they do play.
It's simple economics, supply and demand. What's hard to understand about that?
I remember my first Debian install about a year ago. The first coupel of things I did was:
1) Go through the damn vi tutorial I had been putting off for so long.
2) Installed pine.
Rehab said to never quit more than one bad habit in the same year... Pine rulez anyway!
It WU that sucks with their licensing...
They have it all wrong, "Microsoft says site operators could insert a metatag disabling Smart Tags, so concerned publishers could avoid them."
They should have it so you can add a tag that turns them on, not be forced to add a tag so they are turned off.
By and large I'd think less people want them than more.
There was no marketing error that I could see. I recieved a free copy of Stormix in Maximum Linux magazine once, which... errr... isn't around anymore either.
Damn, this sucks.
A search on Google produced 20,200 result:
Try it: statue of limitations
I thought it had the T, but it being the first time I had ever written the phrase, I was unsure so I checked Google... At least I'm not the only one who spells it wrong... hehe.
Question... Isn't there a statue of limitations or something anyway? It was posted like 2 years ago right?
I wish I had a nickel for every useless copyright suite I've heard about the last couple of years...
For example:
A lot of the same reasons why I like PHP over Perl...
All this discussion and not a single url to the actual docs in question... Has anyone mirrored them yet? Wesley?
I already thought @home techs were reading from pre-written scripts and the like...
I disabled the rhnsd about 15 minutes after the install. I suspect alot of others did as well due to privacy questions, etc... Didn't you guys turn it off as well?
Why anyone would want their system to "auto-update" is beyond me. I think you're just asking for trouble if you do that.
Did M$ buy some stock in RedHat? Seems like all these bugs and errata stem from a basic case of the dumbass, joined together with some deadlines from the marketing droids... geezz!
Hopefully it's better than the joke of a browser I downloaded a few days ago. That PR3 release was crap. It segfaulted 3 times before I could even get it to run...
Cheers to the folks at Opera.
OK, so how does Apache compare to other servers?
Apache has been shown to be substantially faster than many other free servers. Although certain commercial servers have claimed to surpass Apache's speed (it has not been demonstrated that any of these "benchmarks" are a good way of measuring WWW server speed at any rate), we feel that it is better to have a mostly-fast free server than an extremely-fast server that costs thousands of dollars. Apache is run on sites that get millions of hits per day, and they have experienced no performance difficulties.
Sounds like Apache knows what up... Free, stable, and moderately fast or costly, unstable and very fast...
I know this isn't Ebay, but I'd probably pay $20/month to have access to any song I want. I'd pay just for the sheer ability to connect and be able to bitch at someone if I couldn't connect! I don't see Napster existing for very much longer unless it evolves into some type of "pay" service, whatever that may end up being.
On the other hand, if it's a restrictive type of service only allowing certain "allowed" songs then I might pay $5 or $10 a month. Of course I really haven't liked much of anything new since the early 90's, but that's just me... Heavy metal died the day James and Lars flew up to Canada to meet Bob Rock...
I for one was under the impression that Microsoft had turned over a new leaf, so to speak, and was embracing Linux or at least the idea, and possibly considering porting apps, etc...
This act definately reasures us other wise. Sad isn't it?